skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article says:

> When the Australian cities of Melbourne and Brisbane mandated helmet use, it actually made streets less safe for cyclists. The number of people riding bikes dropped precipitously, which reduced the “Safety in Numbers” effect.

This links to [1], but this paper doesn't seem to support the assertion at all.

> These results help explain why two of the four companies operating in Sydney decided to leave the city in July 2018: the low rate of trips-per-day per bike, a high level of vandalism, and the threat of heavy fines from councils made the system one without potential for financial profit. While dockless bikesharing appears to be successful in many cities globally, the factors leading to its success have not been replicated in Sydney to date.

There's no mention of helmets, and the paper is specifically about bike sharing programs, not biking in general.

[1] https://findingspress.org/article/7615-stationless-in-sydney...
The algorithm doesn't have any "general framework skills" though because it's an algorithm, not a person.

It can generate something that looks like what a person would have wrote based on its compressed probabilities, but that's very different from being an "an artofficial intelligence". At best it's a Chinese Room.
>And another part is politeness rules teach kids to be convenient for the parents, for example “don’t play with food, there’s kids in Africa” was never about African kids and more about cleaning up the floor.

Seriously? You don't see the problem in nurturing the (subconscious) view of African standing for the malnourished, poor, disadvatage, and so on?
So widespread, it apparently transcends borders. My grandparents used that one a few times. Hello from Germany. :)
Picture you're going down the highway not really paying attention to cars around you outside of general safety. Lifted dodge aggressively pulls infront of you; forcing you to spike breaks before it's engine revs and you're completely blind in a giant smog cloud as the truck spews all over you. It's nasty and some seem to hunt EVs to vomit on.
>Now you are assuming that "governments" and "citizens" are two disjoint groups with different agendas.

They are.
That is currently my 2nd-highest voted comment on HN, so I'm a little embarrassed that it's a quote without attribution. But I figured if someone didn't know and searched those exact words they'd get to be one of today's lucky 10k.
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Your csgo example is weird

Because they allow it

And it was great part of their cs 1.6 succesa

I bet devs are scares that too many people would play private servers
At least people are giving a disclaimer. I'm afraid we'll soon waste a lot of time reading ChatGPT generated comments without even realizing it.
Binance, Coinbase, and Kraken are among the major exchanges that have announced the submission of proof of funds in custody.
Am I missing something? I'm all for SMR when possible but the whole point of moving to something with weaker consistency is that you don't want to rely on availability of a central server (or quorum of servers in the case of SMR)?
What possible reason is there not to wear a helmet when driving a car?
Here's a link to the proper version: https://i.imgur.com/Hla7cyT_d.png?maxwidth=999999
I’m surprised at all the comments comparing this to motorcycle helmets. To me, the big difference with a bicycle and a motorcycle is that I can run as fast or faster than I ride by bicycle around my local neighbourhood.

If someone asked me to wear a helmet while running, I would find that ridiculous. Same thing when riding my (non-road) bike.
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Creating Open World Text Based Adventure Games in ChatGPT
This is why my games run in a Windows VM, which touches none of my personal info. The most they know about me is my dark mode preference, monitor size / model, CPU, and GPU. Everything else is abstracted. It can't see any of my storage space. Only the virtual disks I have for booting the VM, and games.
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Exactly, the "C" in CRDT is a little misleading. They are "conflict free" in as much as they are able to merge and resolve in the basic sense. That does not mean that the resulting state is valid or meets your internal schema.

A good example of this is using Yjs with ProseMirror, it's possible for two concurrent edits to resolve to a structure that doesn't meet your ProseMirror schema. An example I have used before is a <figure> element that can contain a single optional <caption> element. It's possible for two users to add that caption to the figure concurrently, Yjs will happily merge its XMLFragment structures and place two captions in the figure. However when this is loaded into ProseMirror it will see that the document does not match its schema and dump the second caption. Fortunately the captions are ordered and so the same state will re resolved by all parties.

This is all ok if you are doing the merging on the front end, but if you try to merge the documents on the server, not involving ProseMirror, the structure you save, and potentially index or save as html, will be incorrect.

Point is, it's still essential with CRDTs to have a schema and a validation/resolution process. That or you use completely custom CRDTs that encodes into their resolution process the validation of the schema.
This isn't the case anymore since version 1.19.1 [1], where "reported players can now be banned from online play and Realms after moderator review": https://i.redd.it/hoyh22jsh9791.png

[1]: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-1-19-1-pre...
I suspect I was looking for more info on memristors but your comment has been a jumping-off point, thanks.
What about artists that used random generators in their art? Jackson Pollock used to randomly splatter paint on canvases and when some random pattern struck his fancy he went with it. That's not all that different from picking the pictures you like from a Stable Diffusion prompt and then further honing them with inpainting, image-to-image and so on.
No, it's not weird.

At least on Stack Overflow it's a common way of sharing knowledge.

Source: been using SO quite intensely, have many reps.
I don't think I've seen any implementations of this, but the table example you listed is solvable. The insight is to stop thinking of the table as a bundle of markup and think about it as itself a primitive CRDT type that contains text in the table cells.

The columns are a CRDT set of column IDs. The rows are a CRDT map of row IDs to CRDT maps of column IDs to cell values, where the cell values are again the same type as your document text. Column headings are a specially formatted row. Rows are ordered using a sequence type.

Removing a row is a normal CRDT map deletion. Removing a column is a normal CRDT map deletion from the columns map. Rendering the table will ignore map entries that don't correspond to real columns.
true, but that's part of the reason for the life stories being told on recipe sites that the parent comment was talking about. Bounce rate is another metric that SEOs have gamed by throwing a bunch of fluff onto pages where people have to dig to find what they want
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How can a SSD click?
My recollection is that we've driven most of our cars for between 15 and 20 years. Hondas are I guess pretty generic.
Why is that special?
This conversation is good evidence that ChatGPT does have a more or less average ability to reason. We’ve got humans making similar mistakes with 1 digit numbers.

(Or… are they human after all?)
You can only say that if you also say that the creativity of human beings themselves is just a way to launder copyright.
> How does an autonomous car not need to be parked?

As in, they don't need to be parked after every ride in the current personal transport model.

> The vision that seems more realistic to me is that lucrative areas would have traffic jams full of empty self-driving taxis circling around waiting for fares.

They will be run as part of a coordinated fleet of robo taxis. Why would they be circling around waiting for customers in an area where there is no demand? Answer is they won't. They'll be directed to where people want rides much like Uber, but considerably more efficient, because they don't have constraints of a human driver they have to accommodate.
You can always encrypt your data if you don’t want Microsoft to train its models, red your emails, etccc
I use this fancy 3M “Velcro” called Dual Lock a lot. It’s expensive but awesome. I order it from 3M on Amazon. In 2020 about half of the time it was counterfeit. The adhesive was slimy, stank, and would fuck up anything you put it on. The packaging varied widely. I never tried to return it, I just kind of collected them.

Now that I think about it, the same thing happened to me with some modular dewalt storage bins. The yellow dewalt logos are a different color on two of them and they are a little off in fit spec.

What a fascinating problem.
> I really don’t understand the communities obsession with unwieldy tools like DBT.

It lets me write test first sql transforms. I never thought TDD sql would be possible. My sql is so much more readable with common logic extracted into ephmeral models. I practice same method to write clear code to write sql, eg: too many mocks = refactor into separate model ( class) .

I think DBT made this possible with refs that can be swapped out with mocks. This is the awesome library I am using https://github.com/EqualExperts/dbt-unit-testing
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Well, I'm guilty of it myself, but I try to pay attention. It's a trap that can be avoided to some extent if both the audience/interviewer and interviewee are aware of it.
Search engines like Google are probably a dying technology. The next disruptive innovation in that space will be "answer engines" that use GPT like technology to dynamically generate specific answers to questions rather than linking users to third-party sites. This will allow for controlling the entire user experience and serving ads embedded in the generated content.
Is that true? I feel like you can buy a cheap tin can like a Toyota Yaris that considers power windows to be a major selling point and an optional upgrade, yet has the drive train of a modern econobox.
This is not a fake imitation, it's steaming results live as they are being generated by the model.
I misread the thing I was looking at, it is per-capita, not absolute. Here is a graph of the number of people cycling to work, the peak is the late 80s/early 90s before the helmet laws:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Percent-cycling-to-work-...
After explaining to it the mistakes it made it seems to come around:

I think I made the mistakes in the first place because I wasn't paying close enough attention to the details of the question. I was not considering that I owed a token to my friend, and I was not thinking about the fact that seven tokens could be enough to buy a toy that costs seven tokens.

I’ve made mistakes like this too, where I get fixated on a particular pat solution, without considering the details of the new problem. In the AI case it’s probably memorized a bunch of solutions that override the details of this particular question.
Genetic modification in a laboratory is not exactly the same as selective breeding as it can easily bring in a gene from a different species causing unexpected allergic reactions to the corresponding protein. This has caused at least one death of a human. I'm not opposed to all genetic modification, in fact I think it's generally a good thing, but the business has to be carefully regulated. Industry claims that it's totally safe are clearly inaccurate when someone has already been killed by it.

There's no point in having strict rules on food ingredients and labelling if manufacturers are allowed to, in effect, include any chemical whatsoever that can be built biologically: all they have to do is genetically engineer it into wheat (say) and write "wheat" in the ingredients. And the consumer has no idea what they're getting.
>from reputable sources

What does this even mean. Reputable sources tends to fail the 'chinese room' experiment because you can never tell if your source is reputable or just faking being reputable (or later becomes corrupted).
> A lot of talk into how businesses will still need curators to trim down the content and such misses a vital assumption: that these businesses actually care.

It's less about if the businesses care and more about if the consumers care. Businesses will respond to whatever consumers are willing to tolerate.

Honestly, it'll probably be a battle around requirements to label AI-generated content so that consumers can make an informed choice about what to trust. But, given the global nature of the internet, that's probably not possible. You probably end up with private/commercial reputation rating firms, and consumers can decide who they want to trust.

If people decide they don't care about the veracity of information or don't want to put in the extra work to ensure they are consuming "true" information they you'll end up with businesses built on auto-generated garbage.
Findings from 3,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network
The thing that has tanked the quality of theatrical films on average isn't improved technology, it's the increasing commodification of art, risk aversion of business and the modern reliance on data to drive business decisions. That's why we have basically nothing but sequels, reboots and formulaic drivel coming out of the major studios.
The airline example was actually worse IMO, the cost (not opportunity cost, just flat out cost) of letting someone download a new exe is much less than that of an airplane seat
I realize that, I'm referring devboards and common use cases that use network/GPIO/etc
Yes, we should allow people to ride without helmets.

No, I'm not saying we should just leave them there to die.
I only have a TFA Dostmann CO2 monitor. It doesn't have any data connection capabilities, you just read numbers from the display. And it needs usb power, doesn't have batteries. Maybe I should buy an Aranet4.

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Dostmann-31-5009-AIRCO2NTROL-Moni...
I don't think the argument was that the cyclist passing close would endanger the car, it's that cyclist seem to sometimes have a disturbing disregard for their OWN safety when it comes to the choices THEY make.

Squeezing by cars in start/stop traffic is one of the more debatable ones. There's also rampant red light running. Driving without lights at night, wearing dark clothes, is the one where I see absolutely no upside for their behavior.
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> Google's culture has shifted.

It's sad how once a great company decided to shift towards mushroom management and coding sweatshops like Amazon in just a few years... The amazing Google of 2008 is no more.
I've done outsourced IT work for a bunch of small companies. What I've seen so often was something like "we had a very talented programming intern who built this whole thing and then (went back to college | got a new job | accidentally deleted the codebase). So this time we went with an agency, but they called all the code garbage and said we need a complete re-write so now we have two systems we're moving between".
Why would that be surprising? When people search for something, they tend to want more recent info, more recent coverage, more recently made lists, etc.
Time to buy a ‘72 travelall. Can’t hack me if there’s nothing to hack. ETA: then swap in a modern engine and use megasquirt to run it instead of all this connected bullshit
https://archive.ph/uhQdh
We have used Automerge a bunch, but found that there is a threshold where beyond a given document size, performance gets exponentially worse, until even trivial updates take many seconds' worth of CPU. That is often how it works when the document end state is exclusively the sum of all the edits that have ever happened.

Our answer was to reimplement the Automerge API with different mechanics underneath that allows for a "snapshots + recent changes" paradigm, instead of "the doc is the sum of all changes". That way performance doesn't have to degrade over time as changes accumulate.

Project is here: https://github.com/frameable/pigeon, with some benchmarks: https://github.com/frameable/pigeon/wiki/Benchmarks in the wiki...
I really enjoy these projects but it is sad that most of this basic stuff isn't already built into all new appliances. How much extra would it cost on $300 to add a small power usage sensor and a basic readout to understand how much energy is being used on different cycles?

Also, with modern detergents, you can use much cooler washes than previously but I don't really know. If I have a white shirt with a stain, will it work on 40 deg with some oxi stain-remover or will it still need 60? These kinds of things are mainly ingrained from using similar washing machines for decades so I always e.g. put colours on 40 and whites on 60. If the machine could somehow help me with this (like the Bosch which can control dosing) then maybe we could save a tonne of wasted energy and make our clothes last longer.
Several of the reasons are shown elsewhere in this thread, but here's one I haven't seen here yet:

Because I like my head not freezing when it's ten degrees below freezing? When I bring this up, sometimes people tell me about thin membrane caps that fit under the hat, but they don't work when it's actually really cold out. Helmets absolutely do not fit over warm-weather hats (or any hats, really). (Other people have said "why would you be biking if it's below freezing", which shows that they don't understand the entire conversation.)
I have no idea why a lifetime contract wouldn't be. It happens all the time (lifetime warranty is an example), just as CN Rail discovered.

In 1906, the Canadian National Railway Company signed a contract for upkeep of a bridge, in perpetuity(forever):

https://www.ontariocourts.ca/decisions/2018/2018ONCA0517.pdf

When CN refused to reopen the Bridge for vehicles, Thunder Bay brought an application for a determination of its contractual rights under the 1906 Agreement. Two provisions of this Agreement are central to this appeal: s. 3, in which Grand Trunk Pacific agreed to give Fort William “the perpetual right to cross the said bridge for street railway, vehicle and foot traffic”; and s. 5, in which CN agreed to “maintain the bridge in perpetuity”.

If a mega-corp can't weasel out of a deal to maintain a bridge forever, I don't see how a software company can weasel out either.

CN tried all sorts of arguments, too, which essentially boiled down to "things are different now!", and "how could we have known!", which of course are meaningless arguments.
I would say it's incredible how many people on here are actively supporting Hancock on this, or are at best pretending to not understand what the big deal is. But then I remembered that this site is full of the exact sort of people who lap this shit up.
I am GitHub user for 10+ years :D
It seems like the TV station company has violated the CC license, so why not copyright strike their video and save other people the pain down the line?
Right, and that throws off calculations I've seen so far on Semi's ROI because I haven't been able to find out what that charging infrastructure costs per truck in a single truck scenario, two truck scenario, five truck scenario, and so on. MWh of batteries and the accompanying high-voltage installs do not come cheap, and there is maintenance and capex replacements associated with all that.

As much as all that costs and as much electricity it gulps down, you might as well arrange with the utility providers to put in the marginal additional equipment to secure a discount for always consuming out of nuclear or similar baseload during low utilization periods, and only rarely charging batteries outside those periods, trying as much as possible to avoid tapping peaking plants' output.

The lifetime TCO calculations for the charging infrastructure for full battery replacement included is going to be interesting to peek into. On a simplistic basis, that TCO plus the electricity costs would be put up against the cost of diesel, Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF), Diesel Oxidation Catalyst (DOC) catalytic converter, maintenance on the DEF and DOC subsystems, and so on.

With my investor hat on, I still don't have the numbers I'd like to see to evaluate whether the truck is a slam-dunk ROI on short-haul routes.
I feel like an intelligence going in and messing with genetics is very different from hijacking the process of evolution. In natural evolution, genetic profiles change, not just individual genes.

Most of the dunking on people who hate GMOs always feels like reactionary garbage, basically people desperately trying to feel smarter than the "unenlightened housewives". It always has such a condescending patronizing tone, as if being queasy about multibillion dollar corporations directly meddling in natural processes using extremely new technologies to increase their own profit isn't a terrifying concept. No, science never has had unintended consequences, their feelings are just invalid.
This level of account paranoia (which is infamous at this point; it's one of the primary things mentioned every time Hetzner comes up) is one of several reasons why Hetzner is doomed to be a second-rate provider. If you have a credit card, you can get an AWS account. I've never provided any kind of ID to any American hosting provider. They wait until after you've done something bad to ban you.
This was beautiful writing.

We can also say the same thing happened when they added program settings to cameras.
How is this any more of an invasion of privacy than what they did before? They already have your picture from when you got your ID in the first place, and they already have a record that you're flying that day from your boarding pass.
The lawsuits are coming, sure, it's US. People sue each other for sports. I'd be disappointed if they didn't sue Tesla ten times a year.

I'll listen when any of those actually results in Tesla being found at fault after a final decision.
Jesus, I wouldn't feel safe driving that thing.
I wear a helmet, laws or not. But when I occasionally don't, I notice that I am way more careful, e.g. more mindful of a curb with a metal post that I ride by.

I wonder if this effect is permanent, if I would stop wearing a helmet forever.
“non” in title is “nope” in English - no idea why it made sense to inject French into an English title.
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The license terms promised all future versions, seems as much a violation of the terms to deny access to a mIRC 2
To be clear: Mindstorms the coding platform, but not the parts. You'll still be able to build Lego robots, just using Scratch.
this is great, and I never heard of Overmind until now (looks cool!) but you could also flake this config out and get a couple more perks, like possibly not having to use the nix-versions thing
But when it’s wrong, who is responsible?

Suppose I want a new water softener, and all the reviews and pros and cons are made up by AI. I guess I blame the people posting AI crap as though it was real, the same way I blame made-up crap written by those people today. But maybe I blame the original authors of such nonsense even after it’s generated by AI, because that’s the garbage in that lead to garbage out? Or maybe I blame the people developing the AI for making the internet and life measurably worse? They at least seem to be fearful of that with the few fences they’ve put up trying to prevent “harmful” output.

But what about when the code written by an AI has a critical, but easy to miss bug in it? Blame the “programmer” who