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It's not necessarily that it requires authoritarian rule, but rather that if you grew up in a rich country, you have a very different view on what is important.

Internet censorship generally ranks very low on your list of concerns if you're struggling to put food on the table. People in China have seen a complete transformation of their lives for the better, in just a few decades. They've gone from bicycles to electric cars, from not having reliable electricity to paying for everything with 5G-connected smartphones. From the point of view of how people live their everyday lives, things are better than ever.

Issues like censorship will become more important over time, but right now, they're still secondary. There are other issues at play as well, such as the legitimacy the Party still enjoys from the revolution and from its management of the economic boom of the last few decades, and people's fear of the sort of chaos that consumed China for much of its modern history.
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Chatbots are the future but your points are valid. They don't provide affordances, however chatbots provide a form of progressive disclosure and direct interaction that was previously impossible.

Toolbars and menus provide affordances but you still need to know what things are called and what order to use them. "I'd like to email this file as a PDF and I'd also like to print it." may be much easier in a chat UX than in a menu based UX. Often these things can co-exist but chatUX has access to much more nuanced UI that would otherwise be too complex to build or expose.
You are so right! I was just in Munich and had some of the most confusing experience in any public transport system I’ve ever used. And I’ve seen many! It was so shocking. The UIs of the ticket machines are horrendously slow and confusing. Stop names are always in German even when switching languages. This, of course, doesn’t align with Google Maps half the time, as my GM is set to English.
I don't understand why people seem to think that it's in societies benefit as a whole to have a perfect system. A perfect system would be to spend any amount of money so that every person accused of every crime that could not afford a lawyer had enough money to be able to hire the absolutely best legal help instead of whatever help is typically afforded. Or just the same those who help now (of let's say less skill) have less work or more resources so they can mount a better defense.

Unfortunately that is not possible. And yes if you don't have money (for any reason (ie bad luck, wrong family upbringing endless list) you often get the short end of the stick.

Noting also that I am almost certain that nobody making a comment has read much about this case other than small parts of it and assuming that in the end the right thing is not happening here. The fact that the attorney general and the Governor think it should not happen doesn't mean it should not happen (as you don't fully know their thinking or their motivations).

Bottom line: Money does not grow on trees. There are resources and not everyone will get a fair shake (when skill is involved).

I was watching something on TV other night (Dateline or 2020 or like that network) and some family was not happy because a murderer was offered a plea deal. They just did not understand why there would not be a trial they wanted to see the best possible bad outcome for the person who murdered their family member. Sure that is fine but resources unfortunately and money means that prosecutors often (again for the greater good) have to cut deals. So no it's not all about your pain and your situation 'money does not go on trees'. (And the fact that they for other reasons might fight another case doesn't change that ie 'life is not always fair').

Easy for people on the sideline reading to be idealistic about how things should work.
For that reason before tapping in, you can select the correct class and discount in the app.
How is that any different than “central planning”?
> "the problem is"

That's not actually a problem statement though right? That's just things that might be contributing to a problem. We have to first settle on what the problem is before we can start focusing on what the contribution is. I could be wrong but what I've heard communicated as the three main problems with plastics are greenhouse gas emissions in their construction, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and PFAS.

Do straws or one time use cups/plates etc contribute to global greenhouse emissions? Seems doubtful as transportation and agriculture seems like the largest contributors and straws/plates/cups etc are a tiny fraction of the contribution for plastics themselves.

Do they contribute to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? IIRC that's the motivating scenario for the plastic straw ban and yet. And yet [1].

> the patch is mostly abandoned fishing gear

That's for the larger items. The majority of the plastics themselves is microscopic. And no, AFAIK it's not from land plastics that are leeching into the ocean & certainly not straws AFAIK.

Do they contribute to PFAS? Maybe but given the prevalence of PFAS everywhere I'm going to guess that it's in the noise compared to other sources (& as I've learned in this thread, getting rid of plastic straws has converted inert ones into PFAS emitters).

[1] https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-paci...
An acquaintance liked Hokas to begin with, but found that they compressed unevenly and were not so stable then.
I think the future interface is a smart assistant for your life that gives you suggestions on what you should be doing (both for work and personal life). Sure, there may be a prompting text box, but the assistants will be so good at suggesting that you won't need it very often (besides searching for the occasional thing or giving feedback).

Driving these suggestions is all of your data as well as your goals and values that you can give to the assistant in natural language.

At work the goal might be: "I want to sell $100,000 worth of widgets this quarter" and it will break down step by step how that might be possible.

For personal life it might be "I want to get involved in the kayaking community" and it will recommend activities, clubs, etc.

Once these assistants are good enough, it will be reckless to not use one (especially at work). We will then live in a world where AI and human live together and make decisions together hand in hand. Buckle up.
Well, we don't know that he is innocent. Just that he didn't receive a fair trial.
Metz / NYT: In 2012, Dr. Hinton and two of his graduate students at the University of Toronto created technology that became the intellectual foundation for the A.I. systems that the tech industry’s biggest companies believe is a key to their future.

It's questionable to place that whole development in 2012, as much as the combination of accumulated learnings and introduction of Dropout regularization pushed benchmarks and grabbed attention and economical investment. Omitted from Ricker / the Verge, which instead discusses the foundational work without a specific timepoint and includes also at least the work by the other two Turing prize winners.

Dr. Hinton said he has quit his job at Google, where he has worked for more than a decade and became one of the most respected voices in the field, so he can freely speak out about the risks of A.I.

Hinton was 'one of the most respected voices in the field' for decades before taking employment at Google.
This excerpt also contains the first of several insinuations that would seem be the reason for Hinton's rebuttal which has been pointed out at https://twitter.com/geoffreyhinton/status/165299357072121037...
Note in particular:

Until last year, he said, Google acted as a “proper steward” for the technology, careful not to release something that might cause harm. But now that Microsoft has augmented its Bing search engine with a chatbot — challenging Google’s core business — Google is racing to deploy the same kind of technology. The tech giants are locked in a competition that might be impossible to stop, Dr. Hinton said.

But I must admit, in a rereading with some emphasis on analysis, I actually see far fewer strictly, explicitly wrong statements than I had impression of at first. I still feel it misuses loaded language and arrangement to paint a picture of accusations and degrees of angst and doom which I have bit of a hard time believing. So maybe my preference for Ricker's version is mainly due to that style difference.
It does make one of the overinterpretations I'd argue Metz invites, in

According to the NYT interview, Hinton was happy with Google’s stewardship of the technology until Microsoft launched the new OpenAI-infused Bing, challenging Google’s core business and sparking a “code red” response inside the search giant. Such fierce competition might be impossible to stop, Hinton says, resulting in a world with so much fake imagery and text that nobody will be able to tell “what is true anymore.”

But on the other hand it has been amended to include Hinton's clarifying statement right after that, which is more than could be said for the NYT piece.
Literally implies embodiment of an unintentional emergent nature. The characters only exist in the figurative way we think of humans existing as individuals with personhood.

Ideas such AI being alive are not universal among the public. Let’s not anthropomorphize plastic and metal we etched human like sentence construction into.
Japanese railway don't easily beat everything in Switzerland. If you look at rural service Swiss service is often just as good or better and more punctual.

Japanese punctuality numbers are inflated because their high punctuality of their high speed trains that run on dedicated separated infrastructure. In fact, large reason that punctuality in Switzerland suffers is because international trains that mess up the schedule (looking at you Germany).

And unlike Japan Switzerland is also world leading in using railway cargo transport, that also has to share the same infrastructure.

But in general, its not just about public and private, that a simplified vision. Its something for politicians to talk about rather then talking about the actual details of the system.

While Japan is privately operated, its certainty still under public control.

In fact in Switzerland there are quite a few railway companies for both cargo and people using the same infrastructure. Some of them are semi-private or owned by local governments or a mix of other organizations. The Semi-Private Post office runs its own trains for example.
I put my parents on Ubuntu 15 years ago and they are still chugging along.

Just make sure the browser works for them. Maybe install an adblock too.

And have a way to VNC in.

As long as they don't get frustrated too easy things should be smooth. Just be prepared to help them out.
I didn't use iCloud yet Apple Customer Support was able to directly send a "remote access request" to my iPhone, years ago, which I simply had to press "accept" and they were able to remote-control my phone and see everything on screen. There's no reason the OS can't allow that exact same comprehensive remote access, without asking my permission. There's also no reason Apple can't surreptitiously introduce new back doors with any given iOS update -- especially considering the new "urgent update" functionality they recently introduced.
> I'm going to float a theory: you live in Silicon Valley and that doesn't seem like much money?

I'm a suicidal burn out trying to drag my mind back from oblivion, I sure as shit am not on silicon valley money.

Also:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Your argument's a straw man, regardless of the fact that you're "trying to be constructive".

(And to be honest, the way you prefaced that statement had the feeling of "no offence, but...", it's a poor rhetorical practice.)

Germany has a long history of charging things at damned near administrative costs, 5% on transport just isn't a lot of money.

And also, 5% of "post-rent living costs"?

What's the percentage of overall income? Half of that? So low that your argument holds very little water.
Both Bard and Bing chat have auto-complition
One possibility I guess could be for the state to put “don’t murder innocent people” in their constitution. It just seems like an odd caveat to need.
Few years ago I moved to approach shoes for all hiking/backpacking. I prefer using ultralight approach shoes for everything (short, long, steep, multi-day), unless there is snow and then I use GTX versions with trail running gaiters to keep the show out.
Kind of a weird comment; haven't both police force sizes and budgets grown as the mass surveillance state has also come into reality?
I get why some residents want this, but won't the result be that criminals will do one of the following:

- Remove their plates before committing a crime

- Use stolen plates

- Make fake plates and put them on other vehicles and have friends drive them around far away places at the same time so they can say, "Your readers must be broken!"

- Make note of where the readers are (since they're fixed) and avoid using those streets during their crimes?

- Other stuff I'm probably not thinking of

The amount of abuse by the police that this opens the citizens up to is just ridiculous.
Do abusive people tend to have abuse quotas for the day?
No, it isn't intentional, it's generative. StableDiffusion DALL-E, MidJourney et al are quite literally by definition a generative art model. This isn't up for debate. That is quite literally how they function.
The inability to regulate one's emotions aren't bound by context. My guess would be, if you're prone to one you're prone to both.
Do you have a citation for this? The US has three separate, coequal branches. That is indisputable. But, I’ve always considered them all a part of the “state.”
Google Search got to be a pretty successful business and probably still the single most popular information retrieval tool on earth - it was done using with a single input box.
totally 100% wrong.

AI is massively net positive and extremely empowering.

It speaks VOLUMES that many very wealthy&powerful techies fear other people having access to knowledge, tutoring, conversation, the ability to generate their own media etc.

This is the most empowering technology of all time.
Hello, article author here.

I wrote the article to notify an audience a little bit broader than Hacker News. There are many people who seem to think that it's only Google or Apple or Facebook they need to worry about; or that if they get GrapheneOS they are now really-secure and really-private (which they are, from Google, but not really overall). The very idea that their cellphone carrier may have their location, even without their phone cooperating, is often a foreign idea they never thought of.

This is, of course, a very long rabbit trail that never ends. Your license plate could get scanned. You could get picked up on cameras and run through facial recognition. But it's still important to call out areas that people may not have considered. Imagine a journalist - if nobody calls this out because "everyone knows," she might have installed GrapheneOS, signed up for ProtonMail, paid with cash for a SIM card, and gone off to cover some story without realizing this blind spot.

> I think everybody knows that if it's important not to be tracked by law enforcement (e.g. attending an illegal protest), you don't take your phone in the first place.

My home state would not have almost every police department armed to the teeth with IMSI Catchers if everybody just knew they weren't supposed to do that.
I highlighted budget competition to demonstrate that improvements in the cost of health care are always useful, even in systems where patients aren’t charged directly.

As to the choice of specialties in the comparison, mental health was the subject of discussion in the thread and the other selected speciality was arbitrary because all specialties compete for resources.
Also the accuracy of GPS is quite a bit higher than that of the accidental locating functionality of triangulating cell phone towers.
> The court isn't empowered to do something just because two parties agree.

It can find executing an innocent person to be unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment, and that the statute preventing review of the case on its merits is similarly unconstitutional as a result.
UK: hold my beer while I show you our ANPR that's literally everywhere
There doesn’t seem to be much to read here from what the article says was a long and wide-ranging interview.
The US already uses self-deactivating mines when deployed (after a couple days or months they go inert on their own). The trouble is like any system the mechanism can fail to deactivate (1 in 100 was an estimate I remember from 10 years ago).
Thxs for the explanation - I'm not USAian, so I don't understand the scope of the 1st amendment
The military relies on goods and services supplied by private companies, selected through competitions based on performance and cost. This is a lot more capitalist than socialist. Even during WWII, wartime production still went through private companies, not central planning. Just because the government is the exclusive customer of a product (e.g. tanks, bombers) doesn't make an economy socialist when these products are still being built by private enterprises.
Open the windows or move. Your tap water is unaffected, you'd have to be on a well to be impacted. But activated carbon water filters work to remove it.
It’s an old problem. Keep in mind that this article is from before Floyd. There are more sources

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/12/675359781/americas-growing-co...
I've changed the title in keeping with HN's rule: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

(Submitted title was "State agrees the only witness cannot be believed, court to force execution")
The Constitution doesn't even contain the word "publisher".

Issues that come before the Supreme Court are by nature largely toss-ups with no clear right or wrong answer. Instead of taking a risk with those 9 people, lobby your members of Congress to write laws that are so clear and specific that no judicial interpretation is needed.
This entire blog post can be summarized as "21 year old discovers how cell towers work."
> It’s not like the neighboring cities (Mt View and Menlo Park) have many black people.

East Palo Alto?
More like "21 year old tells other, regular, uninformed people how cell towers work."
Yes and, the app is down none the less due to the false and defamatory statements made "under penalty of perjury" from an agent being paid by Microsoft.
'it's "governor grants clemency or pardon."'

And "legislature changes laws"
"Can anyone here name a single academic in any other subfield of computer science who had a string of groundbreaking research works where every one of those works is from 1980"

Hennessy and Patterson for their work on RISC
Patterson for RAID
Dean and Ghemawat for MapReduce

That's without thinking. There have been a lot of very important works since the 1980s.
San Francisco Whole Foods made 560 emergency calls before closing
Good they are dropping this confusing naming system.

As usual, Apple does it so much better. It’s just a MacBook Air, except in the documentation it’s “Macbook Air Late 2019” except when you ask the machine itself it uses yet another name.
I think it's worth it, but I just like watching TV. It ends with a sort-of cliffhanger (a relationship cliffhanger), but it's not a surprising one.
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Highways are also tolled in Italy and I think France, its not that exceptional.

And in Switzerland for example you just pay a really high gas tax that funds the highway, plus you have to pay a one time fee and get a sticker, otherwise you are not allowed to drive on the highway.
This is a little bit hyperbole. I-5 through LA county is mostly 4-ish lanes and even chokes down to 2 lanes wide in boyle heights by downtown LA. Its just as wide much of podunk I-75 that serves Toledo, Ohio, with a population of 270k that declines by the year. If anything given the population density, the freeways in socal are underbuilt compared to cities out east from there who seem to have just as sprawling interchanges and number of lanes despite what is sometimes an order of magnitude difference in population.
No. Police forces have had shortages since the mid 2000s. It’s gotten worse since then. It’s been a regular news feature since about 2010. It’s old news

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/07/19/us/police-staffing-shorta...
Um yeah...someone sells the government all of its weapons. Literally all of them. It would be a dramatic change for the government to in-source weapons development.
I remember realizing I could use that trick to getting around a bluecoat proxy back in 2004. I worked in a bank, and they had draconian web filtering. DNS lookups weren't blocked, but the eeb proxy blocked sites by domain
name and the ipv4 address it resolved to. However, it didn't block the ip address if you formatted it as a single 32bit integer! Of course, that would break if there was a redirect or https, but back then many sites didn't have those.
Raising interests rates doesn’t cause inflation, but it also doesn’t fix it when inflation is the result of corporate concentration and cartel like behavior around pricing.
There's been several armed robberies in Palo Alto Midtown recently - I personally don't mind increased security if it reduces those.
I don't think I'm misconstruing these two definitions, because I didn't talk about the definitions you just brought up. I also think it is quite clear that I'm talking about what the government should or shouldn't provide, not what some specific government currently is providing.
In this case the man is guilty in the eyes of the court and there is no mechanism by which they can reevaluate that decision given this new information. The problem is the law does not give them this ability and that the death penalty is a possible outcome. Neither of these are problems the court can fix. The solution here is on the legislature and executive.
It also coincided with lower birth rates, and a greater percentage of elderly population. People seem to forget that retirees account for the significant majority of healthcare costs, but a relatively small percentage of healthcare revenue. Increase the share of elderly, and you get higher effective healthcare costs.
Thank you! That is very helpful!