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> This isn't sustainable living, it's a niche luxury product.

I agree, this article is a mis-characterization of what 'off-grid' should mean: not only do these sorts of cabins have all modern utilities, they're also constantly serviced by the owners, who themselves need to drive around to each of them, probably destroying any 'ecological' benefit they might otherwise have.

In nordic countries cabins similar to this have existed for centuries - the only change here is that they've become a commodity for middle-class city-dwellers.

Also by placing them in the middle of forests instead of (mostly) near the edges or alongside some water, these cabins simply give affluent vacationers the chance to experience the illusion of 'returning to nature' or living in some idealized 'primitive' state, at the cost of someone else needing to (literally) clear up their shit afterwards, and also transport water and other essentials deep into the woods, which would otherwise be free of traffic and disturbance to the animals and flora that have been there for millennia.

As for the suggestion in the article that they could extend the season through the winter with some sort of battery top-up (because of the lack of natural light), anyone who has experienced trying to get to a place out in the countryside (and even near to a road, let alone in the middle of a forest), after a meter of wet snow has fallen would never even dream of suggesting this as a vacation option.

Not only would the experience turn into one of raw survival (which might even be doubtful if the heating failed), but living in an isolated spot with barely 3 or 4 hours daylight each day would be stretching most people's endurance.
You can have same level of control... By using a mouse from couch. Just don't think putting a mouse on your sofa will do.

The reason you can aim better on a table chair is mouse + being able to move mouse using not only your wrist, but also you arm.

When on coach, you just need to be in a position where your arms are not restricted to help guiding the mouse.

You can also try steam controller which is far better than other controllers for mouse type of games.
I get that mistakes can happen, but companies filing frivolous DMCA notices should be barred from this avenue in the future. Further, YouTube's appeals process is fundamentally broken if it can't get such obvious cases right.
I don’t think it’s solely a dev responsibility, but having worked in a UX role on a project that merged two systems with user accounts and millions of users, we (UX, dev, product) spent a lot of time thinking of scenarios exactly like this.

You’re right, this was a support failure, but it was also a failure of the team(s) that performed the merge.
OP, it sounds more like you feel threatened - threatened that someone can take a 3 month course and be able to get hired and maybe eventually challenge you for your position.

I don't feel the same way.

If someone can pass an interview, this person deserves a chance, no matter the background.

It really feels like the original post is just saying that "bootcamp grads can't compete with truly elite computer science majors" debate all over again that we've had since the early 2010s.

The truth is, like many different jobs, you don't need to be a true "expert" to be effective. Coding isn't that hard. Creating data pipelines isn't that hard. Training basic models isn't that hard. If you got a job writing code, go ahead and call yourself a "software engineer". I got no problem with it just like I got no problem with someone fresh out of college with a marketing job with the title of "Product Marketing".
These do exists e.g. Nuremberg in Germany has an autonomous subway since 2013.
This. Also I imagine, less tangibly, goodwill. Why should I bother to volunteer my time to provide a good answer that might be drowned under bot output? Doesn't even matter if that will actually happen; if people think it will then they won't write that answer.
I think this is a very specific niche of trucking. At least here in Western Europe this is not at all common.

You'd have to pay 2 drivers even though only one works at a time for a small gain in time.
> IANAL, but if incriminating shit has already been said, what's keeping law enforcement agencies and district attorney's from taking it up?

DA's can't charge someone until a grand jury hands down an indictment and the results are sealed until the prosecutor file the charges.

For all we know, a grand jury has already indicted SBF and the DOJ is just waiting for the right time to announce it.

> the more public discourse starts steering to enforcement not being able to touch supposed elites.

I think that ship has sailed.
>The promise of EVs is basically less downtime and lower cost

I’m guessing that you don’t own a Tesla.

I do. And I like mine, a lot. But it doesn’t deliver on either of those promises, and it’s hardly an outlier.
Conversely, although in Europe (mostly) we paid for local calls, we didn't pay to receive calls, so mobile phones grew faster here in the 1990s and 2000s.
> At what point to people throw in the towel and say, yup, God’s real?

When He stops acting in mysterious and cruel ways. He could, and this is just an example, have changed the poachers' socio-economic conditions so they wouldn't kill elephants anymore. Or he could have greatly devalued the price of ivory 100 years ago. But no, God's miracle is something that evolution can explain without a hitch. There's really no evidence of a deity at work here.

Did you ever consider the possibility that God's plan is to kill the elephants, and that them loosing their tusks is actually the Devil's work?
Discuss HN: Software Careers Post ChatGPT+
We've all seen it - ChatGPT genuinely solving coding puzzles. Clearly, clearly, that's a long way from building MVP products, designing new programming languages or writing "Hello World" in Haskell. But it's also a long way since even GPT-3, never mind status quo 10 years ago. It would be cool to discuss what a future looks like where "human operators" of programming are competing against a machine. I don't think it is imminent, but equally I think it's less imminent than I did a week ago.

Some threads that come to mind:

- Are these language models better than current offshore outsourced coders? These can code too, sort of, and yet they don't threaten the software industry (much).

- What would SEs do if any layperson can say "hey AI slave, write me a program that..."? What would we, literally, do? Are there other, undersaturated professions we'd go into, where analytical thinking is required? Could we, ironically, wake up in a future where thinking skills are taken over by machine, and it's other skills - visual, physical labour, fine motor skills - that remain unautomated?

- Are we even the first ones in the firing line? Clearly, for now AI progress is mostly in text-based professions; we haven't seen a GPT equivalent for video comprehension, for example. Are lawyers at risk? Writers?

- What can SEs do, realistically, to protect themselves? Putting the genie back in the bottle is not, as discussed many times in other threads, an option.

- Or is it all bogus (with justification), and we're fine?

No doubt ChatGPT will chip in...
Demand bicycle safe cities!

Helmets should be optional. Taking risks should be legal.

> Just wear a helmet.

You do you. Next up we gonna enforce pedestrians to wear air-bag suits "for their own safety", forbid roller skating, etc.

Disclaimer: living in the Netherlands.
I wonder if a retaliatory clause in CC licenses where if you issue an erroneous DMCA notice your license is immediately terminated and you can be targeted would help.
We’ve had these for decades, and they’re called trailers. But slap some shingles on it and call it sustainable, and you can charge middle class people $200 a night for the privilege of it.
FreeBSD update does work fine. This started with aarch64 being promoted to a Tier 1 architecture in FreeBSD-13.
In the Netherlands you're either a tourist or 60 year or older if you wear a helmet. But it is also not that fair to compare the Netherlands to other countries. We grew up with bicycles and our infrastructure is much better for cycling.
That's a fallacious argument. There is no activity that could not be made more safe by wearing a helmet. Yet we don't because the arguments like yours are simple and wrong.
Pepsi’s order was placed in 2017.
The prices seem cheaper than Digital Ocean and AWS Lightsail. What's the catch ?
So all drivers should be required to wear a helmet? If not, why not ?
Reinventing How We Use Computers
Almost every racefiets rider wears one. Anyone going far or fast typically does.
I wear a helmet every single time here in Germany and I don’t when I visit the Netherlands.
Not that surprising when you consider Dutch cities have (by German standards) excellent and safe biking infrastructure and, even more important, huge numbers of cyclists. You‘ll never be overlooked between cars when you’re part of a large group on the bike lane.
I doubt that. I mean, I see a very little difference. We even had a harsh anti-hijab dress code then. And we still have elections. Perhaps the oil industry made the real difference.

As Daron Acemolgu stated beautifully, in a country with an absolute economic power (a family, a corporation, a foreign country, etc) which controls the Army at the same time, there is no hope for a real change. Even a gradual one. It all starts from the moment when a king or a government starts to 'need' their people and give them some real power in return.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/jrobinson/publications/economic-...
Sarbanes-Oxley was a response to generations of deliberate malfeasance by C-level executives across all market sectors.

Corporations in general continue to show record profits, year after year, despite all this kwetching about "regulation, compliance, disclosure duties, transparency, auditing, bureaucracy etc."

The religion of capitalism seems to have chosen "whining" as its liturgical music, while still raking in the cash hand-over-fist, looting our society and our economy, and destroying our climate and our ecosystem.

How humiliating for humanity to be destroyed by a group of whingers!
Its definitely a problem if people are not testing the answers. There often are bugs or nonsense.

But it also routinely provides very useful answers, and you can ask it to fix bugs you find.

I assume that within the next two years, Stack Overflow will be overtaken by a similar site that defaults to Chat-GPT-like AI answers, and has incentives for human programmers to train it by checking or improving its answers.

Unless the Stack Overflow people decide to do something like that themselves.

But even this version of ChatGPT often has amazing code answers, and if you could put it in a loop with a compiler/JavaScript runtime that could go pretty far.

I imagine a couple more years of larger/better models (maybe with some visual understanding of UIs) etc., and the website will just be "write, test and deploy this entire program for me, here is a list of requirements" -- taking out a lot of not only Stack Overflow's business but also Upwork etc.
The abrasion is why I bought regular gore-tex over shakedry. I wear a rucksack while cycling and didn't want to rub the coating off
Totally this. The helmets sold at the bicycle store aren't gonna help much if you get in an accident with a van. Separate the roads for different uses. Cycling infrastructure is solved in many places. The culture of blaming cyclists needs to end
> Ukraine's conflict is just a symptom and distraction for the masses.

I think that's limited to Russia and Russian masses. The rest of the world didn't want Russia to start with Crimea, told Russia that was bad and to stop at the time, saw the Russian buildup to the broader invasion this year and told Russia not to start anything new, supplied arms to Ukraine to help them defend themselves, and then cut Russia off from the world as fast as possible when Russia crossed the border that Russia denied they were going to cross.

This is all on Russia.

> The real war is on the peripherals and monetary models.

That's like saying "the real Satanists are the Catholics and the Protestants".
Thanks for sharing the great news! --Katie, Hetzner
Mandatory Helmet Laws may make cyclists less safe by macroscopic effects but for the love of God wear a helmet. I would not have a father right now if he had not been wearing a helmet when he hit a pothole.

It's not just cars / other road users that are potentially dangerous to cyclists, poor road surface or debris can just as likely cause a life-changing injury, even if you're not travelling at high speed. Wear a helmet.
Explosions hit two military airfields in Russia
Are you implying to always wear a helmet? When you are in a car, in public transportation, walking down the street, going down the stairs or just always? The last time, I hit my head was in a house.

The closest I came to a concussion was when I slipped while walking on ice.

It is quite likely, I spend at least 10,000 of biking so far without a helmet. I had some small accident, but non where I got any brain damage. In most cases the accidents was the result of my own stupidity: being too hurried, not watching the traffic, or doing putting on a rain coat while biking.
Well, the argument with Diablo 3 was that the game had an in-game auction house on launch, where you could sell in-game items for real money. So the game had to be fully online to make sure items are only generated when really earned. Of course the auction house disappeared and the requirement to always be online didn't(having said that, the console versions of diablo 3 don't require being online - but from what I understand significant portion of the game was rewritten to allow the game to work online, on consoles, and with a gamepad)
The only real argument for making it less safe is the "increased interactions with the police" argument. This seems to be very US-centric as in most other places an interaction with the police will not get you shot/teased/maced/neck-kneeled as likely.
Advent of Code on the MEGA65
When you insult someone in your argument, their instinct will be to clam up and double down to defend themselves even if intellectually they’d agree with you. If you truly wish to enact change in another’s point of view, allow them the emotional safe space to explore and turn around their views. Be honest and show you’re willing to work with them against the problem. Otherwise you end up with a frustrating shouting match where the other party disagrees with you more.
I suspect people don't like comparing with the Netherlands because it doesn't support their biases in this argument
The answer is: there are rules adopted by the team, and the only accepted way to change them if they are not optimal from the point of person described in the post is by challenging the rules explicitly, not by trying to violate them.
Again, criticism without any specifics.

And people misinterpreting and doing bad things (which he would agree is bad), is that his fault?
That is why I put all my temp and cache files on my Optane Disk.
Just in case you're in dire need of the German health care system. The basics, of course:

https://www.expatica.com/de/healthcare/healthcare-basics/ger...

I worked in it for about 30 years is different rules and jobs, so please don't ask.

Now onto some interesting aspects of the USA health care system widely unknown in Germany:

https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/unknown-health-care-pr...
https://www.kff.org/uninsured/issue-brief/key-facts-about-th...
siiiigh

If this is GPT-3, what could GPT-4 do? Would GPT-n be the new 2^n MHz hype of the 90s?
> You do not want to be the only cyclist at a busy intersection between cars making a turn crossing your lane.

With well designed infrastructure this won't happen. Give cyclists separate lights with priority. The situation you're describing is extremely rare in somewhere like the Netherlands.
Rain in the UK is always cold. Don't think I've ever experienced warm rain unless travelling
almost all academic staff are on temporary contracts and many of them have visas attached to those contracts. almost all administrative staff have permanent contracts and are local people. collective action by the academic staff would result in most of them losing their jobs and being deported. The administrative staff need only wait a year for this to happen and the thorns to be sent away.
I'm saying, an AI significantly better than what humans can do today, is just as much a fantasy as anti-gravity technology.

People get injured and killed every day because they don't have anti-gravity tech and are trying to lift or move heavy objects.

You can make all the same arguments.

And most of the "people are stupid" problems with cars are better solved by other tech like driver monitoring - Volvo is already deploying this.

Self driving cars/buses is just a fairytale used by Tesla/Uber/etc. tech bros to try and defend their valuations.
I kinda agree that buses, metro, trains, could be automated for the benefit of not having to find workers.

However, I do think the handful of jobs do still make a difference. I recently visited a country which has conductors in each tram (so a driver and a separate conductor who goes around selling/checking the tickets while it drives). Everything else in the country is pretty much modern, always-online, and the majority of people pay with their phones - yet I still found it nice to see those simple, cheap jobs not be automated away. I'd much rather hold my phone to a thing and say thanks when that thing is a human, it's much nicer for me.

We lose touch to others so much already, why automate away perfectly efficient jobs? I haven't been in a bus that was late because the bus driver messed up.

TL;DR: I'd much rather have things done by humans as long as the machines replacing them aren't much better. Those are people who rely on those jobs to survive, and I don't see a point in replacing them.
It might not necessarily be about tricking Google's algorithm. It could also be to make users stick around. People might be less likely to read an article (and potentially click another link on the site and generate another ad impression) if see that the article is "old".
Of course my post is a joke.
Just wanted to make you understand the power of AI to accelerate your development and production pushes.
Hmm. I think it's a good argument. I'll think on it for a day or 2.
I went to some effort to explain the difference between str_t and strbuf_t in the readme, but if someone want's to modify some code using this library one day, it's unlikely they will have seen the readme.
In 10 years I'll probably have forgotten how this whole thing works, and that someone may be me.
They wear them because:

Their cars are custom built (e.g. F1) and don't have air bags or crumple zones and are open top.

Their cars are modified to be lighter weight, so air bags and other safety equipment is removed. Instead they are fitted with roll cages and wear a helmet.

They're also racing around at high speeds where rolling a car is a real possibility.

Yes, let's equate that to a road car with a proven safety record (NCAP) tests.

Let's see how many tests of a cyclist smashing their head into the ground shows that it's harmless...
I think it's easier to just source (used)office desktops and x86-based thin clients at this stage. There are only upsides to it e.g. no SD corruption, power adapter compatibility issues, overheating problems, etc., so long that you don't need the exact Pi form factor or Pi HAT interface compatibility.
The article doesn't seem to make any claims about reduced safety. It claims there is a reduction in cycling, worse business for bike-sharing and more harassment of minorities.

But what are the concrete numbers on injuries (either absolute or per distance traveled) that would back up the safety claim? Or is the "less safe" not actually refering to physical safety while riding?
No catch, which is why Hetzner is so popular.
Less greed. This is the catch
You can't easily increase the balance of your account! I kid you not, the advocated method of paying is clearing the invoice at the end of the month.
It's slightly more work, in my experience, to set up and administrate a Hetzner VPS, than to do the same with DO or AWS. Slightly. Trivially slightly. I use Hetzner and I have been nothing but happy with their product and service.
What possible reason is there to not wear a helmet when riding a bike?
Thanks for the feedback about our dedicated root servers. It's great to know that we have fans there that would like to also see these products in the States. Installing the infrastructure for our own dedicated root servers in the USA means a much bigger investment in terms of making sure the DC/DC parks are up to our very high standards. For now at least, we are concentrating on gradually adding a few more cloud locations, and then we may test the waters when it comes to other products. But of course, if and when we do that, we'll let you know once it goes live! We hope you have fun today generating a few servers in our new location in Hillsboro, Oregon. :) :) --Katie
Don't worry, it's plenty racist and sexist, you just have to trick it into revealing those biases: https://twitter.com/spiantado/status/1599462375887114240
This is for sure. I currently rent dedicated from for my client OVH because of strict data location requirement. Exactly the same dedicated on Hetzner is 2.5 or so times cheaper. Either beats the crap out of AWS price wise. Unfortunately we are in Canada and what are the chances of Hetzner to come here ;(
Very happy about this as a long-time Hetzner dedicated and cloud customer. The only "issue" I've had with cloud is the lack of video memory due to the virtualized environment they run in, but that's a special case because I'm running a custom Windows server install due to Adobe products, which is not officially supported. I await the day they add object storage to the mix, then my (hosting) life will be complete.
Hetzner customer for 20 (?) years.

Wish they would add managed databases to their cloud.
> You shouldn't, there is no AI capable of doing better than a human, and there does not appear to be any currently known method of creating one.

I don’t care that much if it’s better than the best driver, I care if it’s better than the driver checking their phone, blowing through stop signs, etc. As a cyclist, I reckon that it’s the most selfish 10% of drivers that represent 90% of the risk; if they’re replaced by self-driving I’d feel safer even if it also means the good drivers aren’t quite as good.
how is this wrong? A helmet protects your head and thus your brain.
It makes sense wear helmets in situations where your head is more prone to be damaged (e.g. construction work, or in this case biking).
See https://character.ai .. compare to ChatGPT and you will see how much they accomplished.
It means keeping the manager in the loop about the problem.
It seems fair to assume that actual output and manufacturing capability are closely correlated (there's a limit to how much unused capacity can get built). Here's the manufacturing output by country (data from World Bank):

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.IND.MANF.CD?most_rec...

China is at about $5 trillion, India about $450 billion. So it's not 5%, but we are still talking of an order of magnitude.
What's your grudge with helmets? Strange hill to die on.
Interesting what "off the grid" means today.

- full internet access
- a pletora of internet capable devices

Not exactly my definition.

Plus, spending 600€ + 125€ a month for internet isn't exactly something everyone can afford.
Twitter thread (https://twitter.com/autismcapital/status/1599466158893432832...) seems to show Caroline (head of Alameda) a short walk from the US attorney's office in Manhattan.

I speculate that his arrest is coming shortly if they can get her cooperation as a witness and evidence.