skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of fat Germans, Polish, Hungarians, and British. Heven't visited other European countries, so couldn't tell you about others.

As to a solution; How about recumbent trikes? Beats dissing foreign nations based on biased preconceptions of healthy lifestyles.
Go to a shopping center, or a sporting event, or any other place where people publicly gather en masse and ask yourself how many of them could realistically get around on foot.

There are a lot of very fat people, old people, disabled people, and so forth who could not walk for half a mile.

Is walking now an utopia?

>We aren't going to rebuild our cities around bikes, and even if we did, a large number of people could not use them. On the other hand, we already built our cities around cars, and self-driving cars would fit right in (if they actually worked).

And also we aren't going to magically reverse Type 1 Diabetes, but that doesn't mean everyone who doesn't have it shouldn't have a decent diet instead and instead eat like pigs and then get hooked on pills until the day they die.
I don't drive, and get around on my bike or public transport in general. However, while arguing about "how it's possible to bike in winter with proper infrastructure" my friends pointed out the important portion of cars - "comfort when it's -15C outside with wind chill". I didn't actually have any arguments against it, and that seems reasonable.

Personally, I always can fallback to public transport if I don't want to cycle, but it's not possible in most of NA. Unfortunately, retro-fitting most of the cities to have proper subway/bus system that would complement the cycling infrastructure. But hey, I hope that day comes at some point!
Fair, and we do use A LOT of macros in general.
That's a shame, I was thinking a modern Crow Road (Iain Banks) with it being an accident that only later you pieced together that a person was in fact a suspect because they'd had these skills and could've done this far out thing.
I think there's a big difference between being in the mall, and acquiring a mall and gutting it. I didn't see the shopping center it was before, but the ACC building is really nice and looks like it was completely renovated from what it was previously.
The concept of “jaywalking,” for example, is integral to the “car technology” of today. The crime of crossing a street without respecting the dominance of cars was invented by the car industry in the 1920s, who pushed hard to define streets as a place for cars, not people.

This story has been repeated in a lot of articles lately, but it doesn't seem to be true. If you read the linked article included as "evidence", it establishes that cities themselves started pushing for "jaywalking" as a concept. I haven't seen any evidence that the "car industry" played any role, even passively, in making "jaywalking" a concept.

As for the rest of the article, yes we should be biking more. I don't have a car and I bike for ~98% of my trips. When it rains, I want there to be an option to ride in a covered vehicle. Until by some miracle we build 10x more trains, I will be taking a car. Better it be self-driving and safe + electric than human-driven + gas.
The formerly open source toolkit you may not know you’re using
I'm just reloading this, it was flagged then dead 2 more times since I posted the above.
In America, you can hold an anti-anything sign in public and won't get arrested.
I mean, there is a degree of regulatory capture that goes with standards bodies. The big boys keep making the ladder taller and that ultimately makes it harder for new people to join because they don’t follow the standard.

I am still sad that xhtml-basic failed, as it was an attempt to create a legacy free spec that might be feasible on embedded devices and phones. It got some adoption and then the iPhone ran full safari and that was the end of that.
> to help them contain the Soviets.

Why would they want to contain the soviets if not to benefit from global trade? The benefits outweigh the costs very much, thats why they did it.

Surely the US stands to come out safe, it is a very safe country, but if it won't be richer anymore, it will also stop being an immigration hotspot. Immigration, globalization and empire building go hand in hand, and the past century was America's turn. But this construction seems to be dissolving.
> In some cases it was painfully obvious what it's based on

Do you have an example of this?

Ideally with a link (for DALL-E 2/Midjourney) or prompt and seed (for Stable Diffusion) to show that it was generated from an incidental prompt - as opposed to uploading the existing image and just using the AI for inpainting/fine-tuning.
> There are a lot of very fat people, old people, disabled people, and so forth who could not ride a bike half a mile.

Maybe many of them wouldn't be in that state if their normal day to day activities involved cardio?

Sure, some people health conditions have nothing to do with their exercise level. But having a lot of people who couldn't ride a bike half a mile is not the expectation. People can ride bikes until pretty advanced ages.

We can reserve cars and other transportation for people who actually can't use anything else.
Which new features are you looking forward to? I expect to be asked by family members whether to upgrade and at this point I can't really recommend it.

The new lock screen stuff will just be confusing for my parents (to whom I provide tech support), and I'm not aware of any amazing new features that would make life noticeably better for people in their (or even my) demographic. I watched the WWDC keynote several months ago, and I follow Apple news daily. But it just now occurred to me that there aren't any new features that I'm particularly looking forward to. What am I missing?
That reminds me of Cory Doctorow's theory on how geometry hates cars: https://thewaroncars.org/transcript-episode-79-the-end-of-ub...

>if you multiply, you know, all of the journeys by the space that the car occupies in the road by the amount of road that you need by the distance that that pushes people apart because you have to build more roads, you are in a red queen’s race that you cannot win.
This, but also just ordinary, perfectly healthy people too - who are just not young single people.

My litmus test is: Will this work for one parent, with two kids, and three bags of groceries. That description loosely fits a LOT of people!

Cars provide an incredible amount of liberty, flexibility and autonomy. You go where you want, when you want, you can bring whatever you want, and for the most part you don't have to answer to anybody else about it.

Clearly there are alternatives in some cases. Many people who own cars also own bikes and take trains and buses when it makes sense to do so.
I agree 100% with this. The only thing I would add is that a key property of art is that it must make the audience feel something. It seems very clear that AI-generated art is making people feel something, and I think that what it makes people feel will change over time, as these tools become more accepted in the art world.

I also think it's very interesting that these tools enable a near absence of technique. I tend to be one of those who doesn't value technique very much. For instance, I believe I've commented on this site before that while I certainly appreciate the time, effort, and technique that goes into photorealistic painting, I don't think it brings a whole lot to the table beyond what a photograph would. This is strictly a personal assessment, of course -- others are free to, and do disagree with me. I just feel as though photorealistic art leaves less room in it for the viewer than other forms. (Incidentally, I think this also applies to AI art, and may be a part of the reaction to it.)
> The Mozilla team didn’t intend Servo to be a fully functional new browser.

This is not accurate. Some parts of Mozilla thought that way, other parts didn't. And thoughts changed over time. For years Servo was officially an experiment, with many possible futures.

Had it succeeded in rendering the modern Web well enough, I think it could have become a fully functional new browser. Sadly, that didn't happen.

(source: I was at Mozilla at the time, and adjacent to the Servo people, who I talked to a lot)
It sounds like you're arguing that we can't decide to change what our priorities are as a society because previous generations already made a decision for us. In the US the decision was made around 100 years ago to focus on cars and focus less on public transit because it's easier to make money selling cars. The most important policy consideration in the US is always 'will it produce more profit for the owning class'. So we developed infrastructure that forces us to rely on cars. Different priorities prompted different decisions in other countries. In the Netherlands 27% of all trips and 25% of trips to work are made by bike. There are still fat people (though fewer), old people, and disabled people there. But they have collectively decided that bikes are a good idea. They have winters there. It rains there. The only real argument against biking in the US is we don't have as much infrastructure built for it as other countries. And that's because we have decided not to have it. We can always change our minds and build it.
Well, we’ll see how it performs, if it’s ever made public.

The 20B images don’t look that much more impressive than what SD is already doing (aside from the ability to render text), and in some cases they look worse. It’s hard to tell because the resolution is so small, but even in the 20B “astronaut riding a horse through a pond” image, it looks like his hands are still nonsensical.
Due to a massive rise in doxxing and stalking that occurred after 4chan made checking EXIF data an extremely common tactic when doxxing people - complete with "how to" guides for less tech savvy individuals - most image hosts and social media sites nowadays strip EXIF data from uploaded images. Some sites will detect/extract certain data only (eg: to include the camera/lens used for photography-focused image sharing sites) and scrub the rest. Been that way for roughly a decade if not longer now.
How many random people I see on the street could get around on a bicycle? Probably all of them. Where I live, most of them actually did. Of course: I live in the Netherlands.

Fat people: Most people aren't super-fat, though those that are ... do ride bikes.

Skinny people: Not a problem

Old people: Often use an E-bike. Although I've seen 80 year olds riding without assistance just fine. (And beating me to my destination besides)

Young People: Get kicked outside by their Moms in the morning, rain or wind or snow. "Kids are not the wicked witch of the west, you won't melt. Now get to school young man/lady/other , and don't let me get a call from the headmaster saying you were late!"

Disabled people: There are many ways to modify bikes for diverse disabilities (including pedalling with hands, having 3 or 4 wheels, etc).

Me? I actually drive a car a lot. I like driving, I need to travel long distances, and where I live the car infrastructure is pretty decent too. And most drivers are pretty good, because people who don't want to drive don't have to.
These recent developments make wonder whether in 30 years we aren't streaming movies anymore, and instead entire personalized movies will be generated for us on demand, based on a few keywords and our past history of rating movies, browser activity, search terms, or whatever else the machines will know about us.
> Pornography isn't illegal in the US

I'm sorry, but this isn't true. At the early onset of the web there were a huge number of state and local laws regulating obscene material. Many states even tried to explicitly regulate Internet pornography:

> Between 1995 and 2002, almost half of the states were considering bills to control internet pornography, and more than a quarter of states enacted such laws.[1]

Along similar lines, sex toys were prohibited or heavily regulated in a number of US states before 2000. The technological reality of e-commerce means that the vast majority of the enforcement of those laws became impossible, and sex toys are de facto legal in every jurisdiction in America.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_obscenity_law
>What programming questions can weed out people with CS/SE degrees?

Precisely this question. You don't need a programming question.
Bikes can include engines, sounds like you've described a solution.

If people can't see or think well enough to navigate on a bike... then cars etc. aren't the solution either. Sounds like they'd be passengers on bikes rather than riders.
They make the money in volume. They're really following the same business model as illicit drug dealers -- get their users hooked on an addictive substance, then become their exclusive supplier. Except this is at industrial scale.
EDI is not API. Likewise, compression is not encryption, even though the output of a compression routine sometimes appears encrypted. A noun is not a verb, despite them both being parts of speech.

EDI is an acronym for Electronic Data Interchange that uses a standardized format. In that way businesses don't need to send paper around. An EDIs standardized format is implementated with methods that are accessed through an API.
Kind of like how the only thing net neutrality did was prevent t-mobile from creating Netflix unlimited fast lanes? Or how all those bills states signed into law to encourage high speed networks not only didn't create high speed networks, but legally preventing other companies from competing?

The more this gets legislated the harder it will be for someone to enter the market later on, Apple (among other tech giants) aren't going to sit back while you write the laws, it'll be the other way around.
> "If left unchecked, it is not hard to imagine photography crowding out paintings that took days or weeks for someone to make."

The difference I see is that photographers don't try to pass off their works as bona fide paintings without telling anyone. Even if they did, it's usually easier to discern whether something is a painting or a photograph than with AI, because there's usually no need to aim for replicating the exact look of a photograph in a painting.

AI artists submit their work as digital art, and this distinction is far harder to make owing to the sheer sophistication of the former. The problem is that both use the medium of digital art, but the provenance is different, so there is still a desire to classify them differently. And as discussed, the huge output of these programs makes the need more urgent.

The interesting questions in this debate to me involve asking what happens when you take the humanity out of art creation, and how the underlying humans will react to that. Even photographers have to use their legs to go outside, train their eyes to find something interesting and press the shutter button with a fleshy finger, all while having the final output able to be visualized in the process. I'm not sure if "art" has ever been decoupled from humanity at this large of a scale in human history before, and that could signal a significant cultural shift if so.

The cultural implications of someone or something being associated with "AI" will outstrip any advancements in technology. Many artists are revered because of the culture surrounding them, not just the specific combination of paints they slathered on a canvas. It is that culture that I think will undergo turbulent changes as a result of the clashes between technologists and the larger art world.

If the culture decides that AI-generated art is plagiarism, then this debate will never end.

Also, asking "what prompt did you use" is probably going to become an insult with the implied intent of dehumanizing its target in the near future, when applied to certain art spheres.
HTML isn't the complexity driver and relatively static; CSS and its myriad of microsyntaxes, layout models, and insufficient specification is, plus JS of course.
Now you made me remember Unisys’ Micro-A. It was an A-series mainframe on an ISA board. The CPU had 8 chips in a single MCM (multi-chip module, as they called it) IIRC.
Your card issuer cares a lot about who you are. Your US citizenship status was asked about when you created an account with them. Some smaller banks won't even give non-citizens accounts because they can't handle that.
>AI is a mind for the mind.

Exactly, think of it as a symbiosis, a man is slow, but a man in a bycicle is fast. Now a man in a rocket, can go to other planets. But it is still a man, a rocket is just an inert pile of metal and fuel.

Same with AI, AI is the rocket, it propels and accelerate creativity to inhuman levels, but there is still a man controlling it. AI is just an extension of our minds like a rocket is an extension of our feet.
I damaged some traces on an AMD board which allowed the CPU to talk to the VRM (anything related to SVI2 couldn’t be read when booted) and even that didn’t kill anything, it just put the system in like a 0.8 V, 400 MHz mode. Windows 10 takes an incredible amount of time to do literally anything on a system like that btw., even with twelve cores. Patched the traces and everything was back to normal.

Modern hardware is really difficult to permanently damage as long as you don’t go full “manual OC” - in that case many protections may be disabled, and you can certainly get Ryzens to overheat and die like that.
The reason why it would happen is because there has been a massive legal push to sue Apple, or pass new laws that make their behavior illegal.

And these laws have passed, and are going to go into effect soon, and there is little Apple can do to stop it.
Bikes make sense when the ambient temperature is between 12C and 27c (53-85f ish), when the distance is less than 5 miles. When it's safe (both traffic, theft, and personal safety in the areas travelled through such as high crime neighborhoods), when you dont need to transport people who cannot bicycle themselves, when you dont care about appearance at the destination (or have access to a shower/bathroom), when social status doesnt matter (eg after marriage, lol)... Remove the disincentives and people will flock to it.
I lived for a couple of years in Amsterdam. Cycled fine in the rain, snow or sunshine. Then again, the infra was amazing and supportive. Can’t speak for the cities you mention though but in Phoenix where I live now, cycling in Summer is impossible.
Then bike in warm days and other means during winter.
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Also, in the spirit of aiding understanding (and maybe helping non-native English speakers / writers), it's
per se ("in itself", from Latin)
not
per-say (which is not a word -- though it'd be pronounced the same).
While I do enjoy taking my bike out as frequently as I can, I must confess that it can be a challenge for people where I live.

I live in a tropical country. Half the year, it's either super hot or it's raining. It's really uncomfortable riding your bike during summer here (35+ Celsius) and riding your bike in the heavy rain is out of question.

Maybe it makes more sense to focus on public transport over cycling in such cases but I do wonder what the solution for last mile connectivity should be if walking also 'walks' into the same problems.
I don't think that should be as big of a deal as it is. I'm guessing it's because it's bad for publicity/ads but the whole "people are mad at each other in the comments! Shut it down!" thing that has taken over is dumb.

Have you ever seen how mad people get at each other on the road? Yeah, people suck when they don't have a face in front of them to remind them its a person on the other side. It's disingenuous to pretend that side of people doesn't exist though.
So many smartphones are thrown away in the trash each year. How many chips can be scavenged from them?

Perhaps chip shortage will finally put an end to the planned obsolesce of the smartphone industry, and bring some kind of stability to the whole thing.
I don’t understand take that this is not possible due to disabled people, winter, hills. Climate and city planning is an incremental problem. Just 2 new bike lanes significantly change the way I am able to commute, even far into the winter, and when it’s raining or snowing I switch to car or public transport. I live in a reasonably bike friendly city for us standards, and it’s clear that some overhauls have made the road much more efficient for cars themselves, pedestrians don’t stray out nearly as much into the road, as did the consolidation of parking spots into parking lots. Just go see some European cities for how not only public transport, biking and a more modern street layout make life better for almost everyone.

For disabled people, having dedicated parking spots as well as a pedestrian friendly street layout makes life easier than having to navigate a busy street.

Make the city better for bike doesn’t mean making it hell for cars.
The Netherlands used to be car-centric in the 70s, but they cleaned up their act. Paris is banning cars in the center of the city. Policy choices and incentives drive these trends. The car industry and fossil fuel lobby have a crazy stronghold on the US and most of the world and everyone is worse off for them.

In the UK you don't drive to a football stadium because they're not surrounded by an ocean of parking lots.

How do many Americans become disabled in the first place? Many of them get injured in a motor vehicle collision. Why do so many lack physical fitness? A big part of that is they have to be in a car all day. And it's not just bikes--look at the variety of new electric mobility options that have appeared over the last decade.

It's self-destructive conservatism to wave off avoidable problems as being inevitable path dependence and pretend like there's no other choice. In fact there is much that could change.
But is it a better world? Outside of dense city centers it isn‘t. It‘s less comfortable, far less.

Today I quickly bought some things for breakfast. Got in the car in the garage, outside it was pouring. Got out 4 minutes later in the supermarket garage. I was back 15 minutes after leaving and there was absolutely no traffic at all. The car ride was nice and enjoyable.

I wouldn‘t have walked this, I would rather have stayed hungry until lunch. Even if I could it would have taken at least half an hour.

Sure, it took energy to produce that car, but that by itself doesn‘t mean it‘s worthwhile. It also takes energy to build houses. To live well. Anything takes energy.

It‘s possible to make a point that we should use the minimum possible energy in life for various reasons. Fine. But this is a very different argument then.
Many e-mail clients display the photos attached to plain text e-mail messages as "inline", you do not need a HTML message for that.
Yup. My company employees a lot of people from overseas, as well as uses consultants from India. It works generally. There are friction points but WFH has actually made some of it easier since everyone is treated the same. The TZ difference is the biggest obstacle, but that can be worked around.

A friend has a completely virtual company and has multiple employees from Czechia and Hungary. Much cheaper than US employees, but again, there's some added friction. Just need to decentralize and delegate to be most effective.

Now that sounds easy, and for some small companies and small business units, sure. But for a big corporation?