skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem started in the US as unintended consequences of trying to create cars with better MPG. In the last century the US government created a standard for how efficient vehicles need to be. At the time most people drove cars and specifically station wagons were among the most popular styles of cars. Trucks were not aspirational vehicles and were used for work only. And since work trucks often times do need a lot more power than a family hauler or at least need to be heavier/larger, the government created two different standards: one for cars and one for trucks (body on frame vehicles).

Of course manufacturers immediately saw that they could just make trucks more like cars than make cars more fuel efficient so they started putting modern interiors and such into trucks and modernizing the platforms to create SUVs. Thus the station wagon died and the SUV became the standard family vehicle for a lot of people.
Many trucks do only short hauls anyway. It is easier and less risky to develop a truck whose main usage do not already need a wide and extensive charger network.

I think it is more about opportunity than capability.
Event modelling was the one - thank you! Event storming looks a like a good alternative to review.
The developer is clearly the dog kicker in this analogy, not the dog
High demand, low supply.
That's simply an archive for web pages. That doesn't address the OPs point about your entire life being online and needing to pass this on to a spouse or children. We need a way to manage multi-generational services, identity and credentials. When I die how is my spouse going to deal with all that comes with not just physical assets but also all the digital ones that now seem to manage everything else.
Having to carry it around. People who say you can just clip it to your bike haven’t lived in any city I’ve lived in.
Why automating trucking is harder than you think
Anyone has a recommendation for a portable heat exchanger/heat pump for locations where no permanent modifications can take place and no window units are allowed? Preferably with a working range of -30c and +50c.
Have you ever tasted a wild chicken?
This article ignores the pruning that is happening. A human evaluated every output from ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion for 'things humans care about' and if it didn't make the cut deleted it. All the spam output from these models is deleted immediately.
So, while this is uhhh, off track, Legolands and such have some kind of automation, though, presumably, those are bespoke solutions and are not available to regular consumers.
Well another AI model created by Stability.ai called Dance Diffusion [0] wasn't widely reported with all the fanfare and that was deliberately trained on "public domain data", "Creative Commons-licensed data" and "data contributed by artists in the community." which is opt-in.

> A further perspective is that stable diffusion may have been trained on copyrighted images in the first place even though it may not exactly reproduce an image in it's training corpus.

Given that watermarked copyrighted images sometimes come up in the outputs, I'm sure that is the case. Had that been trained on copyrighted music, the whole company would be sued to the ground and the model would never be released without permission or no attribution.

So for StabilityAI, it is fine to break the copyright of digital artists and use their work without their permission, but not fine to do the same to copyrighted musicians and artists and instead generate music from public domain sources. I'm sure voice cloning requires permission from the person as well otherwise there would be more legal issues.

The same goes for Copilot training on AGPL code outside of GitHub including StackOverflow, etc. but IANAL.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/07/ai-music-generator-dance-d...
It's not a libertarian talking point; it is a summary of the research presented in the article that we are nominally discussing.

It may be proven that regulation can help, in general, but it has also been proven that this specific type of regulation does more harm than good.
I agree, some Cyclist do seem to have little regard for their own safety - but it’s their own safety. A car making a close pass endangers someone else’s safety.
I think this is spot-on. The models are trained from what they find on the Internet, as more of the Internet becomes AI-generated, the AI-generated content comes to dominate the training data for future AI models and we get stuck.

It's like Kessler Syndrome but instead of space debris, it's AI-generated content that makes the Internet useless for training data.
I'm pretty sure I've played VAC secured games with Wireshark open in the background many times without issue. In my experience VAC is pretty lenient on what you do outside of the game to begin with.

I did get shadowbanned from Modern Warfare (2019) for two weeks though. At first I couldn't figure out why my game suddenly would keep crashing on the main menu every time I started it. After a reboot of my PC it stopped crashing, but now the game was taking forever to find a match and when it finally did I got put in a lobby with high ping players from across the world, half of which were obviously cheating.

I managed to figure out that I had HxD (a hex editor) open in the background before I rebooted because I was messing around with the save files of another game. Simply having a process running called "hxd.exe" will cause the game to "crash" and shadowban you for a while. I verified this by renaming notepad to hxd.exe and observing the same thing.
> Mandating helmets is a failed policy if the goal is to reduce reliance on cars, and to make cities safer for everyone.

That's not the goal. The goal is to reduce head injuries. Mandatory helmet laws are effective at achieving that goal. If part of that reduction is simply discouraging people who would not ride a bike safely from riding a bike, that's not necessarily out of line with the goal.
Ironically IMO most of the users went elsewhere because it seemed like mirc wasnt being updated very much and got left behind the times whilst other platforms like slack and discord took irc and built actual useful things on top.

Now the mirc developer is claiming he updates the software so much he needs all the people who already paid him to pay him again, meanwhile slack and discord remain free (ish).

So backward.
It’s one of the biggest supermarket chains in Germany, though. Not exactly a start-up. And it was even very well reviewed.
ZFS without mirrored disks is kinda pointless.
How would you make it navigate an api? We don't even know how to make it perform basic arithmetic's correctly, it is an enormous black box model so we can't just inject code into.
F discord, like facebook its invisible to the outside world until you join the borg and register. Never crawled, never archived, unsearchable, undiscoverable proprietary garbage.
I'm more sympathetic to that model than with the business of model of some companies to "pre-sell" you some vaporware feature that you then spend the lifetime of the product waiting to actually work as advertised.
My wife and I run a tech business and can handle/have access to our mutual tech assets. But it we both die? We're setting up a casual agreement with a local tech-peer to manage the transition/sale/etc. of our business assets. I'll be making and printing (on paper) documents with access credentials. While passwords change, I'm confident this trusted advisor will be able to worm their way in even if some of my password are no longer valid. 2FA is the biggest question as some vendors don't' offer printable backup codes. I believe the solution might be giving access to my backup 2FA device to this advisor.

Personal tech assets? I have no plan, but soon my kids will be old enough to be able to manage with proper instruction.
The government already has your face on file attached to your identification and is perfectly capable of identifying you using facial recognition.

If Google can recognize different images of you based on one image on file, why do you think the government can’t?

What do you think you are accomplishing? They also have a record of every flight you take.
And we've come a really long way since then! Regarding cancer for example, 5-year-survival rates in the US have risen from 49% to 69% overall between 1977 and 2013. [0] And we are basically still in the very infancy of data-driven medical development and ai-assisted medicine. We've never output this much science and innovation before, and science output is still accelerating. Depending on a number of potential key innovations, fe. AI or fusion, there might be another explosion in productivity comparable to the industrial revolution or the advent of the information age.

I'm actually not that optimistic about the future, what I'm trying to express is that it is very hard to estimate future progress. We've a number of unprecedented bursts in innovation and productivity in the past, and we might be very close to the next one.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/five-year-cancer-survival...
When we're gone. the simulation stops, and all memory state is recycled.
Well thats for me... you are all NPC's
Really? A felony is warranted because they are sensing your presence, where anyone can see you sitting in the first place? Had they sent in a student with a clipboard it would be ok. They use a sensor, it warrants destruction of property.
shame the 'shiny things' was debunked as a myth

https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_406690_en.html
> Regardless if perpetrators are primarily men, men tend to be victims far more often than women

But not for the same things

I don’t see the point of saying “men get killed too” - the point is to stop the killing

> and now boys are walking around thinking they are the problem before they even had a chance to prove themselves while girls are told they can do everything, even get way with (sometimes literal) murder

Trying to give you the HN comment benefit of the doubt but that is a very broad generalization that can’t possibly apply to most boys or girls - sounds like BS to me
Trucks this size. Plenty of full-size semis with full trailers doing deliveries for larger businesses, especially in dense urban areas (like downtown regions) where you need that much trailer space for all the stuff you load.
Ah, megasquirt! If it wasn't for budget, and my utter inability to work with, or get to work, anything electronic (PCs are plug and play and some drivers, that doesn't count) I would have it or something similar on my '82 Rover V8 by now. Things are what they are, so dual carbs it will be until my estate figures out a way to add EFI. Good luck "hacking" something that has all of three fuses and a 15 year old JVC radio...
> As being proposed in the USA, a CBDC will only affect settlement transactions between banks. Everything else will stay exactly the way it is now except transactions will be much faster with settlements taking place in real time, 24/7/365 instead of only during "bankers hours".

We literally have just that. It is a lie that digital money is required for that

This is just side effect of them putting new system up just for that that allows that.

There would be nothing stopping them to do that for the "old" money. Hell, there are already systems for it, a bunch of banks in my country have it... of course they want extra for it (gotta pay for itself)
The set of all things that don’t go well with gravy is vacuously empty.
I hear from 1000s of internet people who are totally triggered by my occasional lack of a helmet. My ability to avoid hitting my head using reflexive skill cultivated over many years of practice never gets the credit it deserves. It has come in handy on so many occasions.

Let me assure you, if you've decided cycling safety is a binary contingent on whether or not you're wearing a helmet, you're doing it wrong. It's no better than superstition. There are so many other variables.
True, a helmet is better in all kinds of ways. It doesn't need a battery, it still works even when things hit you rather than you hitting things, and it's an order of magnitude cheaper to replace after a knock.

But if someone will wear one of these things who wouldn't otherwise wear anything at all...

Cycle routes in the Netherlands are awesome! Things are slowly improving here, but we're still a long way from that level of care placed into the design.
Delivered? They drove a demo version up on stage at a PR event. Come back when Pepsico has their fleets...
Can confirm - I use a Mac Mini with a Core2Duo as my main server to run DNS blocking, motion cameras, home automation, etc. It's great - my idle load is using less than 20W and its cool and quiet. It no longer runs new versions of MacOS, but it's been running debian for years now with ZERO problems. My only cost of ownership was replacing the ancient 5400RPM spinning disk as a preventative measure.
ChatGPT vs. Creativity (Divergent Association Task)
> A CRDT assumes that every participate has equal rights to all data.

Within a single data structure yes, so within a "room" or "document". If you need to partition right to the data (read/update) then you should use separate structures for each area.

Yjs implements this as as "sub documents".
I tie it to my bag. I've seen ones that fold to a size of a banana. If someone breaks the chain then they take my bike, the helmet is the least of my concerns.

The idea that use would be discouraged because of that is ridiculous when you consider the alternative: cars or public transport. Both are terrible options. Parking, traffic, etc.

I'm 47 and had a crash recently. How does my age have to do anything if someone suddenly jumps in my lane or a car runs into me?

If anything my healthcare bill will be higher.
Do you wear a helmet when you walk? 800k people a year get injuries from falling while walking. Would you be for a mandatory walking helmet law?
well if I don't find what I want in the store I go for Amazon. Also where I live, lately Amazon has some logistics problems like delayed delivery, lost/stolen packages, delivery to wrong address etc. last week a delivery guy was going around our neighborhood in the early morning hours in dark with a flash light. someone literally called a cop on him :-)
I agree it's a thoughtful post and it makes a good point, but at the same time, it's an issue with the way a lot of people take Scott Alexander's posts. He is clearly not putting this out there as absolute truth, just saying here is an explanation, it sounds plausible, and I can't find much evidence immediately to disprove it. But he also says there are other equally plausible explanations he can't disprove. He often, if not always, puts an "epistemic status" disclaimer at the top of his posts, and the wider web community doesn't seem to know how to deal with those. They are used to interpret bloggers and the opinion sphere as 100% believing and promoting anything they write about. But that is very much not what Scott is doing. He understands quite well that causality is way too complicated to ever conclusively answer a question like "why did history turn out the way it did?"
According to https://www.mines.edu/about/by-the-numbers/, Colorado School of Mines has "1,658 graduate students (master’s and doctoral)".

I don't doubt that they have a strong focus on teaching.
Who's talking about keeping government-issued photo ID away from the government? I was talking about the new facial recognition system being discussed in the linked article. I'd prefer not to use it, because I don't trust the people operating it.
Since even the first time it was uttered on HN, it just means you’re about to take a pet stab at something.
Does the Tesla Semi Make Any Sense? [video]
If you told me the story of NFTs was a joke on Silicon Valley I’d say you were being over the top.
Or automate the process even further; let the AI run the code, feed back the output (including errors), and ask "Does this output look correct? If not, please refine the code to fix any problems." Repeat until the AI says "LGTM".
> None of this really exists in the residential sector, but maybe it should.

The requirements exist in the IRC [1] but are frequently not enforced in many jurisdictions.

[1]: https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/2018-building-code-makes...
Because this is about French schools, mon ami.
> The extremely common scenario where you include a photo on your blog or social media post that isn't yours, is virtually never fair use.

Yep. There's a lot of case law, and there're a lot of details, so if your business relies on fair use, you need a very good lawyer (I am pretty sure the companies using AI for creative purposes have them).

P.S. I am not a lawyer
so why do golf cars not have them?

Reverse cameras are definitely helpful, if not a necessity when driving a behemoth vehicle. This is much less of a concern for a golf cart.
Being more mindful won't protect your brain if you do get in an accident without a helmet. If the effect as permanent, why wear helmets at all?
This is all galaxy freakonomics brain shit.
I'll cite SWOV.nl (Dutch institute for road safety research):

> The effect of (mandatory) bicycle helmets on bicycle use is not clear. Several international studies show that bicycle use decreases after the introduction of helmet laws, even though most studies do not find such an effect or only find a temporary effect [9] [42] [49]. [...]

> There are two international review studies of the effect of mandatory helmet use on the use of bicycles, both dating from 2018 [9] [42]. The first study [42] shows that the available research results are not unequivocal. It states that mandatory helmet use could indeed result in a decrease of the number of cyclists, but that this need not always be the case and that, if the number of cyclists initially decreases, that need not be of long duration. The second study is a mostly qualitative analysis of the available literature [9]. Based on their findings, the researchers conclude that there is little to no evidence of a substantial decrease of bicycle use due to the introduction of mandatory helmets. They have examined 23 studies/data sets and conclude that 2 of these studies support the hypothesis that mandatory helmets lead to a decrease of cycling, whereas 13 studies do not, and 8 studies show mixed results.

> The abovementioned review studies only concern research done abroad, in particular in Australia and North America.

https://swov.nl/en/fact-sheet/bicycle-helmets (Under "What is the effect of helmet use on the popularity of cycling?")
I'm a stock Xbox Series X console player in DMZ mode. I also sometimes get the random crashes and "DEV ERROR" messages after being removed from the game. I also have been removed from games several times with the "Player kicked" message. I can share my userId with any Activision employee here who's looking into the matter where you can see my K/D ratio is far too poor to be a "cheater".
You don't see the utility of pointing out that being in a position to "play with food" is not a given, paired with a real life counterexample?

Stop seeing racism in everything. If you keep holding ypur mind like that, it'll freeze that way.
Then why is anyone allowed to drink, smoke, or be fat? Why draw the line at helmets at not even more expensive choices?
> Those "artificial" creations are also uploaded on the Internet. Those artificial artefacts are now part of the statistical data.

> Do you see where it leads?

This reminds me of one of the philosophers cited as inspiration for The Matrix,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard#Simulacra_and...

This guy sums up pretty much how I felt about this since when those images started poring on social media.

This will serve, once again, capitalism and it's absurd race towards the bottom, lowest common denominator.

It's not hard to extrapolate here and imagine that AI will be able to produce a full fledged "super hero" movie, starting from a storyboard & script. What do you put in the script? Well of course you just feed it all the keywords that gave maximized returns!

I for one, am not entertained at the thought of going to the movies watching the 1000th super hero movie but that's exactly where we're going.

Here's my somewhat prediction: the big picture is we are accelerating the end of entertainment as we know it today. We are going to make entertainment so shallow, so pointless, that we will eventually lose interest with it, and with it, as has been prophesized in many spiritual teachings, there will be a return to a more animalistic/spiritual kind of being. As technology improves our lives, we will no longer need to numb ourselves down in front of a screen after coming home from work, so we won't even see the point of even doing that. We will be able to live more in the present, more with the real and less with symbols and abstractions. The type of attention you may enjoy after a long silent retreat, will become the normal way of being... of course there is also the other possibility that Ian Mc Gilchrist cautions about... that our brains will get so out of balance that we will become stupid enough to collapse as a civilization.
Sandy Munro's company, that specializes in providing the automotive industry with analysis and optimization.

https://leandesign.com/industries/automotive/
Do the car manufacturers themselves also need to abuse a vulnerability to access this data that normally only the car owner has access to? Or can we trust our benevolent corporate overlords to keep this data safe on our behalf, and not abuse it, so long as "hackers" don't get it?
Chess.com Says Hans Niemann’s $100M Lawsuit Is a ‘Public Relations Stunt’
That is what I meant yes, I am okay with paying for stupid things that people do, else we end up with an insane system where are prevented from doing anything even mildly dangerous or disrupted, as it'll cost the taxpayers money.

I'm infinitely more concerned with the insane amount of government waste that happens where that money could go to schools or infrastructure or cancer treatments. I imagine that government waste is orders of magnitude more expensive than cyclists damaging themselves because they weren't wearing helmets, for example.
Yet it is being anti helmet by trying to cite sketch studies and be too clever by half.
>as unintended consequences

I think we have plently of lessons of how badly things go when the federal government sticks its nose into anything that we can no longer call these as unintended consequences. They are very much intended

We need to stop having the government pick winners and losers, or try to influence the market in any way be favoring one thing over another
The driver won't zone out if it is only getting it correct a tiny fraction of the time.
>Western culture already has driven fertility rates well below replacement.

Yes but it's clear it's not 'western culture' but 'industrial economy'. It's happening everywhere. Eg. Iranian TFR dropped off a cliff since the 80s.

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/466445/Fertility-at-below-r...

Kids used to be income generators, now they're a luxury.
That's honestly one of the best comments in this entire thread. Instead of veering predictably into philosophy or anecdote, it provides concrete and feasible steps toward improvement. No better way to make the point that "AI generated" is not the problem and "garbage" is.
It was even more surprising if you realize that "Butlerian" is referring to the 19th century writer Samuel Butler (although, yes, Herbert later invented a character to explain the name in-universe). Samuel Butler wrote an 1863 essay "Darwin Among the Machines" which predicted that machines would improve in a way analogous to natural selection and would so so faster than humans could evolve, and therefore they might eventually surpass humanity.
This is an issue due to bad visibility in modern vehicles due to safety constraints requiring tiny windows, giant pillars, tinted windows, high position off the ground etc.
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