skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When 95% people live in flats, the density is high enough for public transport and walking to be more efficient than cars for most usages... I'm also from Slovakia, and I can clearly see here that gas cars being cheap led to public transport, biking and walking being deprioritized outside big cities... When I was a kid my family didn't have a car, it was in a town with ~40k people, we biked or walked everywhere.., 15 years later there's 3 times as much cars in that town even though its population meanwhile dropped to 35k...

Gas cars being cheap is also the reason why no-one buys electric cars here, which in turn is the reason why few charging stations exist as there's not enough demand... Also there's a huge market for used cars in Slovakia which means this won't really be that huge of a problem by 2035 as this goal is only about new cars...

It's really not that hard to build charging stations.., most public lightning lamps can accomodate a charging station for one or two cars (there are some like this in Bratislava already).., And I'm pretty sure they will be covered by some EU funding scheme sooner or later, so businesses will probably even have an incentive to build some so that they can charge for their usage...
Add to this a ban on oil and gas heating (germany 2024, other countries following) - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-22/germany-t...

I don't know the lifetime expectancy of gas and oil central heaters, but i'm guessing that many will fail and be replaced with some kind of electric powered ones between 2024 and 2035, needing even more electricity in the winter... plus reduced battery efficiency for cars in the winter, meaning even more.
25 years ago, a friend quickly learned how to answer an online MBTI so that he could consistently score neutral on all four axes. I think that was the most entertaining approach that I've seen.
>You decided that if less than 1% of your users use a certain old device, it’s no longer relevant. Which is odd, because to many businesses, 1% of users can make the difference between profit or loss.

If that 1% of customers are as stingy as you are, they are probably right on ignoring you
I mean, all the China scariness aside probably a good move, western regulators could take a look at.
Looks great, interesting to read your journey, thanks for sharing and building!
Mine told me I had the same personality type as Optimus Prime and nobody's taking that away from me.
> Starting some apps takes really long, like 10–20 seconds. I think it’s because today’s apps require more RAM than their older versions.

Also SSD wear and tear after years of use can cause a device to become sluggish.
I'm currently running KDE Neon on a MBP 2012, and I've installed linux on a few apple devices from that era. The nvidia drivers can be a struggle, and wifi drivers have to be configured manually.

But the performance is awesome!
Anecdotally people who believe horoscopes say they can guess above average. Now, if you can do it in a controlled setting, that's more meaningful.
Unpopular opinion: I'm excited so see a social media platform trying to implement a different business model than ads and user data for a change.
97% of the population lives in cites. A suburb is still a city, it just isn't very dense. However most suburbs are dense enough to support good public transit as the few cities that have tried it have proved. In Sweden there are farms that get a bus every hour (which isn't good transit, but since the rest of their network is so good people ride it anyway for their rare trips to farms, and farm kids ride it since they don't have a car - the parents of course will drive)
You can get a Shatfa or "bum gun" installed next to your toilet instead, if you can't get power for an on-seat bidet instead.

They are very common in the Middle East.

Personally I wouldn't do without one and would install one in any new home I moved to.
> I'm a citizen of a small European country. I use quite a few American services. Does this mean they are subject to my country's law?

Yes, it does, and most especially if it involves moving funds. If your country decides that the platform broke their laws, they could sue just like the CFTC or even request an arrest and extradition of the alleged perpetrators.

But, in reality, European countries don't often pursue such cases as aggressively as the US. The U.S. government has a well-oiled law enforcement and military machine that it uses to pursue its targets across the globe (sometimes with bullying involved). I'm reminded of a case where a woman was extradited from the Netherlands to the U.S. and sentenced to 3 years for sending a relatively paltry $300 to the terrorist group Al-Shabab.

https://apnews.com/article/africa-netherlands-somalia-al-sha...
Of course it was via government intervention. This whole post is about massive government intervention.
Most of the apologetics in this reply are unintentional workarounds which either don’t function in a number of cases, or else are unlikely to work in the future as Apple updates their practices. (ie, they will not preserve functionality which was never originally intended.)
I agree, but just as an optimistic counterpoint: It seems like we might be lucky enough to get quickly to a point where recycling perfectly good ICE cars to make EVs will be the smart move for the consumers pocket and the planet.

Theres not much point in talking about it while everyone is still making up lies about running out of lithium, barcoding poor people and eating bugs, but the cleaner air, demand response benefits, reduced imports of fuel, and superior experiemce seems likely to overtake the natural aging out of existing cars as it accelerates over the next decade.

At a certain point, fuelling an ICE car simply wont make sense, just as working coal plants are closing because the coal fuel costs more than building new renewables.
> And the best chat interfaces are in dedicated chat apps — not web browser tabs

The one point in the article I disagree with. IMO the best chat interfaces are in desktop web apps. So many things are easy to do in a web chat app that are a pain to do in native apps. And I'll take typing on keyboard over a touchscreen any day of the week.
Rust 1.68.2
I have written that before: They only talk about Efuels because that sounds fancy. What they really mean are probably biofuels, i.e biodiesel and ethanol (not that that would make it any better).
It’s true that I’ve never personally suffered for any of the bad deeds of the US government. There are several reasons for that, some nakedly political, but for the most part because when someone in the US government does something horrible it’s not officially approved nor is it accepted and lauded by the people.

Take Abu Ghraib, clearly wrongdoing on the part of the government. The folks involved were exposed, prosecuted, and punished. The revelations of the incident kicked off a top down investigation of how military interrogations are performed and a public report on the matter. Politicians were unseated and hands on perpetrators were imprisoned.

Contrast that with the current situation where Putin receives widespread support from Russian people for committing war crimes while invading Ukraine and the perpetrators were rewarded. I cannot think of any “worse atrocities” the US has committed in my living memory.

There are arguably several situations in US history that should have led to prosecutions that didn’t, such as how we behaved regarding Iraq as another commenter pointed out. I do bear responsibility for that with other Americans, but as you have pointed out we did not suffer the consequences, mostly for political reasons.
They might have enabled it without understanding what could (and did) happen. Victim-blaming isn't the answer here -- that was a genuine clusterfuck that hosed a lot of working installations for no good reason.
>"but the goal of functional programming is to have as little as possible."

The goal is to produce optimal software not to serve particular paradigm.
Where do you buy carbon offsets?

I don't fly nearly as much as you but I would like to buy offsets when I do fly (and in general.)
Kara Swisher Calls the Shots
I wonder if this applies to all videos / video players on macOS, or just when using the Apple "TV" app, Safari, etc.
Generally speaking, finding primitive alien life, depending how close to Earth it is, would be very bad news. It would mean the great filter is ahead of us, as Nick Bostrom likes to explain [0].

[0] (timestamped) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vD4df_63wo&t=382s
> That's something to take up with your representative, because that's legal unfortunately

Or you culd report it as spam in your email client. Because legal or not, it's still spam.
>>What I really wish we would get is stall door locks that indicate if locked or not.

Wait......that's not standard in the US????? I've never seen a bathroom with a door lock that doesn't show its state on the outside, even if it's a simple mechanical latch.
I've never understood people outside of a work context. They're just balls of emotion that to me appear to do illogical things for random reasons. In an effort to understand, about 10 years back I dove heavily into the traits of the individual "letters" and the types from MBTI.

Even if it isn't perfect, it is a framework for me to arrive at a consistent typing systems for anyone. I can now accurately predict people, what they'll do in most circumstances, and then their likes/dislikes. 16 buckets gives you a small group of permutations to start with - and then to whittle a person into for refinement.

The fallacy is to approach the test as an absolute, rather than for proclivities. Each person of a "type" will still have unique differences. Humans really aren't that unique, bell curve and all.... x of 100 groupings helped me understand that.
> Obviously there's an even much simpler solution

Can you elaborate?
You have some odd issue here... You're thinking that any technology is going to be perfect, and it's not, humans are not either. Don't put your base line as perfect, but at the rate of human failure.

Siri isn't even the latest models that have a much lower error rate.
and app markets
Assuming you live on a motorway and your local streetlight used 500W, and was converted to an LED that draws practically nothing, that frees up....about enough juice to add 20 miles of range over 12 hours. No wonder no-one bothers with this scheme.
Not sure about the other features of these Google toilets but a bidet is absolutely something everyone should have. You can buy a cheap one from Amazon that hooks on to your existing toilet. Sooooo much better actually cleaning your ass instead of smearing shit around with your tp and getting tp bits stuck in your crack.

I'll never go back to pure tp after having a bidet.
What country does have that "eco bonus"?
> It's not going to make you shoot better.

Nor do the muscles (from the point where you are strong enough so the ball can reach the basket), and yet you will not see a basketball players that is not muscular.

PEDs allow you to gain muscles faster and have greater stamina, all of which is beneficial.

> All pro golfers?

Of course I was talking mainly about sports where physical performance matters. Although PEDs exists even in e-sport (Adderall).
Because we are in fact so disconnected from our military today, modern people have forgotten that human civilization itself has been a military industrial complex forever. Not much to do with capitalism in particular.
Believe You Can Repair It
It was true (well perhaps more like 10 minutes). You had to connect your machine straight to the internet (ie. through a dialup modem), not via a router.

Also, some ISP's blocked ports which protected you somewhat.

It was certainly quick enough that there was no way to get the updates installed before the machine would bluescreen (many of these exploiters didn't care much for the stability of your machine...)
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> Or maybe we should replace individual mobility with useful public transport

I'd really like to see more monorails being built. I believe monorails would be an excellent general solution.
I watch and read everything on my own time whenever I like it, why would I ever interrupt my flow? Every distraction ruins my day.
It's perfectly legal to offer different products or different prices to different markets. What's not legal is blocking someone from accessing a market just because it's not their "home" market.

Skyscanner has come up in this discussion, and full disclosure: I'm an employee. But this is an entirely personal comment.

Skyscanner has a lot of different market-based websites, for example https://www.skyscanner.de and https://www.skyscanner.fr. We don't geo-block, though: wherever you are, you'll have full access to any Skyscanner website, and we'll happily give you whichever market, locale, and currency triple you ask for. And we pass on the underlying market-based prices that we're given. So if you want to know whether different markets get different selections of flights, or different prices for the same flight, it's relatively easy to look and find examples.

Amazon is the same: you'll get different products and prices on de and uk, but if I'm willing to pay shipping then Amazon is willing to sell me stuff from Germany even though the UK left the EU and it's legal for them to block me or give me different prices. Which was very useful when I needed radiator thermostat adapters a couple of months ago.
As a USian who uses my kettle multiple times a day I'm a bit jealous of your fast boiling kettles. It can take minutes to boil a full kettle at our measly 1.5kW limit.

Just checked. 7 minutes 30 seconds to boil 1.7L :(
IMO, if you think you need a more precise estimate than 1K/100m, then you should just get a weather forecast for the relevant area and day.
> I don't think it's unreasonable of valve to drop support for OS's that Microsoft aren't maintaining

I don't see anything reasonable in turning perfectly good hardware into e-waste. I don't expect anybody to put effort into continued support for old stuff, but I do expect them to not break stuff that used to work. With Valve/Steam specifically you also run into paradoxical situations where they sell you old games on Steam, but those old games only run on old Windows version on which Steam itself does no longer runs.

That said, Valve is among the least problematic offender here, they put a ton of effort into Linux support for Windows games, they allow developers to keep selected older versions of games available and they have forums that make it easy to find workarounds. So most of the time, there is some way to get things to work, even if it's a bit more labor intensive than it should be.

But generally speaking, the whole software industry needs to get their shit together and figure out how to keep old stuff around and working. If I buy something digital, it should be at least available for as long as the company that sold to me exists. That's really not too much to expect. It's embarrassing how billion dollar companies are unable to just move their digital goods into a permanent archive once they lost interest in actively working on it.
Maybe at highway speed. At city speeds I am constantly taken by surprise by electric cars that come from behind while I'm cycling (in the Netherlands, for context, where I'd estimate that at least 25% of the cars are already electric, in the city in question).
Yes. But when that privilege is abused then things go sideways. Given the concentration of wealth and it's getting more so, I'd say were deep into sideways.
> But where?

The GP already address that "We’re a clever group of people. The oil drilling to gas available on every fourth corner in the country system is vastly more complex than installing chargers on light poles."

On the other hand, yeah, it's time to get started for real to install plugs.

> Add some studies that electric cars are even more expensive to charge than gaspowered ones are to refill, and it's even worse - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/electric-shock-study-found-ev...

That studio shows US prices. Keep in mind prices are widely different in Europe. For example, gas is about twice as expensive where I live (about 1.9€/L currently, but it varies by country) than in the US (looking it up, it's a national average of $3.4/gal today, or $0.9/L).
MBTI is pretty much like astrology/horoscope

Also it's funny how if you see someone on Twitter or on dating site putting it up on their profile it's like 90% of a time is an INTP/J
It's nice to be able to hand wave away the problem. "A few hours" is "10 hours", and the instantaneous energy for each of those is very high. When I charge my EV it doubles my normal peak electrical usage (in KW, instantaneous) and quadruples (or more) my average KW usage.

In my new neighborhood a set of ~5 homes is connected to a 50 KVa transformer. Those five homes charging a single vehicle each at the same time is enough to overload that transformer even with zero other demand. That's a real problem.

My understanding is that we're talking about a doubling of demand. Are we ready to double all of our electrical generation and transmission infrastructure?
Wait, so not only are American toilet doors very short, but they don't indicate either if they are locked or not?

This is so simple (turning the lock reveals a patch of green or red) and useful that I can't really believe this is uncommon anywhere.
No country has banned the sale of horses though.
Hybrid cars are already a thing — and a neat thing at that, I'm glad they exist — but I'm not the one who gets to draw the line, and the people who did, have done so with (hopefully) better forecasts than I have access to.
Nope, I live in Hungary. Also Teslas aren't really the electric vehicles of choice in Europe. Volkswagens are much more practical.

I haven't been to Poland, but I'm surprised that the car sharing options there are worse than in Hungary.
I think it’s not actually testing personality, but some kind of way that people choose to present themselves. The difference is that personality is supposed to be more stable over time and across different circumstances.
You are getting it wrong buddy. Europe lost most of its significance in the world. They are not making any software, hardware and cars that are coming from Asia are now at par except for Germany. Europe has a strong dependency on fossils and these sources are becoming less certain. (ie: Russia and potentially the middle-east).

Europe could just accept that and become a third-world bunch of countries.. or try something ambitious and actually move from fossil fuels. If Europe can pull this off, they might find their standing again in the world.
Not a statistician, but just because the results of the test are predictable, I’m not sure the test is useful. Meaningful tests/models have predictive power. Is Meyers Briggs capable of predicting anything? (Repeatedly and reliably)
oh we are in a covid lockdown. you can't get on this bus!

oh it says here you have emitted a lot of co2 this year. you can't rent this car until next year!

oh you were in an anti-goverment demonstration a few months ago so we know that you are headed to another one. you can't move from your 15-minute city!

you really think these are hypotheticals?
You need more fiber in your diet if you're dumping toilet cloggers every day, my guy.
The assumption here is that humanity AND the aliens have reached similar points in the tech tree approximately simultaneously. This seems somewhat unlikely given the extreme age of the universe. We have only had tech capable of detecting aliens for less than 100 years (ish) which is peanuts compared with the age of the Earth (let alone the galaxy). A galaxy-spanning civilisation could have come and gone while our ancestors were still hiding from dinosaurs and we would have no way of knowing.
Now that is a proper "Do Not Disturb" implementation. Like unplugging the landline from the wall!
Yes, but I assume you actually clean your ass with soap when you shower? So, why then would be ok leaving your turd residue to get on your underwear all day?
this sounds so silly to people writing in s-expressions
An HTML renderer, in only 90,000,000,000 clock cycles? Verily I say, technology has come a long way.
It's not. Really large seaweed monocultures already exist, naturally. It's the nature of plants floating in an ocean: they reproduce/grow asexually as a big blob. In so far as they don't stay monocultures, because other plants and animals migrate into them: industrial scale monocultures can't actually keep that from happening.

Monocultures in plants are something entirely different from pooping, pissing fish that shed tons of parasites and get showered in food and antiparasitics. We'll have to see what the problems will actually be.
>It can do almost everything I can do a bit better

At this particular point in time, I would not worry too much about getting replaced by an AI.

To wit:

> Please write me a C++ program to compute the 1000000-th decimal of pi

GPT-4 answers:

#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std;

int main() {
int n = 1000000;
int k, j;
double pi = 0.0;
double denom;

for (k = 0; k < n; k++) {
denom = 8.0 * k + 1.0;
pi += (1.0 / pow(16.0, k)) * (
4.0 / denom -
2.0 / (denom + 2.0) -
1.0 / (denom + 3.0) -
1.0 / (denom + 4.0)
);
}

pi = pi - floor(pi);
pi *= pow(10.0, 6);

cout << fixed << setprecision(0) << pi << endl;

return 0;
}

The code is totally broken: GPT-4 entirely fails to understand that floats have limited precision.

It's cool (and very helpful) that it can regurgitate Plouffe's algorithm (although I haven't checked that the algo in the answer is correct), but to me, this example clearly proves that GPT-4 is simply a parrot with a very large memory that does not understand anything it does.

A glorified hash table with a very sophisticated compression and retrieval algorithm, but a very far cry from AGI.

It's going to allow us to build a much better search engine, a great coding assistant, it will enhance your productivity as a programmer, but it is - so far - altogether incapable of replacing you: it does not understand what it's doing.

[EDIT 1]: I checked Plouffe's formulas and GPT-4 gets it wrong: Plouffe formula's key feature is that it yields binary or decimal digits of pi directly [1] (no iteration required), so ... why does GPT-4 loop a million time to produce the answer, ... meh.

[1] http://plouffe.fr/NEW/A%20formula%20for%20the%20n%27th%20dig...

[EDIT 2]: oh, and, I just tried to same example on Bard, it fares way, way worse than GPT-4:

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std;

int main() {
// Calculate the first 1000000 decimal places of pi.
double pi = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679;

// Write the first 1000000 decimal places of pi to the console.
for (int i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) {
cout << setprecision(10) << pi << " ";
}

return 0;
}

These things are impressive, but they have a very long way to go.

Worst of all: they seem at this point incapable of verifying the consistency of their answers, correct and iterate until they at least output something vaguely coherent.
They said the same thing about ice cars in the beginning. I can feed my horse everywhere. I need dedicated fuel stations? Madness! /s This will take time and if demand rises, so will the supply.
Safari updates are not tied to OS updates on the Mac
Even initial investment in the EU is comparable to gas.
A lot of that depends on having access to relatively cheap charging at home/work. If you only have the public chargers, I really doubt the TCO is cheaper for an EV.