skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What do we want from self driving cars?

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I want public transportation infrastructure and far, far, FAR fewer cars. I think the US should strive to reduce car ownership by 75% over the next 20 years, at least in cities over a certain population size. I don't want any more money invested in self-driving cars. But I'm also a grown-up of a certain age and realize the bright-eyed 20-somethings don't understand the meaning of the word "consequences".
If they have the ability to take your computer, presumably they have the ability to search your residence. Where would you keep it out if reach while also being able to regularly use it? Or what would you do if the police showed up while using it?
I did read the thread and I understand it. The fact that they were able to narrow it down to one building with only 30 people means that it is definitely not many would consider to be anonymous.
From a news article in the thread:

“We started tracking it,” Johnson said. “So, we started from the main treatment plant of over 100,000 people, and sort of like checked all the lines. And all of them, only one of the lines had the lineage. And so we would just keep going — checking… all of the pieces of the web, figuring out– following it up, up the line until we got to a single manhole. That manhole actually only got waste from one place, which was a company (that) had about 30 employees.”

my point is valid. They are able to do quite a bit of tracking through wastewater. That removes most of the anonymity.

The twitter user you linked to seems to agree.

https://twitter.com/SolidEvidence/status/1665525245451665408
I am fairly sure by not using AI, I learn faster than I would otherwise. That's my main motivation. It helps that I have found I learn a tier faster than any peer I've run into too.
Exactly, GP comment only makes sense with zero context about existing courts and transparency.
$10B because it was neglected for a century. But that's peanuts compared to CEO compensation. So tax the rich and get it done.
I’m sure you didn’t mean it, but in the English language “Pollak” and its variations are derogatory terms for people of Polish descent. The preferred term is “Pole.”
Most subways around the world operate with a single driver and are at least as safe. The two worker rule to appease the union is one of the major drivers of cost disease in operating subways in NYC.
Maybe this is a foolish metric to track, but I’m still curious to know what a good healthy standard % should be.
We are talking about domestic usage, not corporate, and in my country nearly all domestic internet users have ipv6, hence no NAT or similar abomination. It is even bigger: major mobile internet provider provides ipv6 by default.

It has been like that for years. We are talking tens of millions of people with native IPv6, mobile and domestic.

NAT is something which should not have existed in the first place.
In the Chelsea Manning trial, the prosecution characterized `wget` as a nefarious hacking tool.[^1]

In 2009, Boston College police used a suspect's use of Linux and the command line in a warrant application on the basis that it was a sign of possible criminal activity.[^1]

I don't expect law enforcement to be experts, but can you at least ask your local IT guy to sanity check your work first?

[1]: https://slate.com/technology/2013/07/bradley-manning-and-the...
Yes, of course the licence applies even without redistribution. Without a copyright licence, the user does not have the right to use, modify or distribute the code.

But what the licence applies to is the original work. If you replace half of the original work with your own work, then the GPL applies to the remaining half of the original work, while you would own the copyright to your own half of it. GPL requires you to license modifications under the GPL only if you redistribute them. But if what you are distributing is modified to the point of being completely independent of the original, with none of the original code or any dependency on it remaining, then the GPL is no longer relevant to it.
Well, this wikipedia article mentions thin clients as lower end workstations.

I would not call a computer with a single low performance core and 256 MB RAM a workstation either, but for a 4GB/8GB RPi 4, that term seems applicable.
If you can't carry the plates all of the other stuff stops mattering..

Good writer is a qualification that could mean millions or the top 5.
I've been learning the same thing. I did a big review of my finances (downloads CSVs and crunched them) and found like
$4000 of easy money .. across a bunch of in-a-vacuum "small" expenses I wouldn't balk at. That's a new water heater and then some!
SAS is a great language—shame it’s proprietary. It is very well suited for data processing.
US confirms China has had a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019
I want tell it where I want to go and take a nap.

Unrealistic maybe, but it colors my interest or lack of interest in the middle of the road options.

Half paying attention systems strikes me as dangerous for people.
In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913)
I read Industrial Society to my parents last year. They were both quite surprised that, rather than just being the schizophrenic ramblings of a crank, it made a lot of sense and raised good points. Uncomfortable, finding yourself in agreement with some points raised by a notorious domestic terrorist and murderer.

I recommend the Manifesto to the HN audience. The section on AI is particularly timely, but a lot of it holds up well - especially the discussion of surrogate activities and the problem with hobbies.
> How does increasing free parking bring in a wealth disparity?

Increases distances between destinations, which means more energy and time to travel between them, which means higher cost.

> Or increasing capacity or lowering the price of public transit?

This would qualify as redistributing wealth.
Modern cruise control, that keeps my car a constant distance form the car in front (unless it roars off at a speed higher that what I am comfortable with) is great. Helpful, especially in city driving.

I would appreciate "automated rumble strips" that warns me gently if I veer out of my lane.

Stopping at a parking spot, push a button, and park my car for me, less useful but still worth it.

You already have all of this in a Volvo
> Another thing while I’m at it - how much does your car, insurance, gas, maintenance, tires, and other things cost? How much money per month are you paying to pay for the roads and highways?

Not to mention the driver’s costs are artificially reduced because they benefits from externalities that are distributed across everyone, particularly pollution and climate change. Driving would be a tad more expensive if you had to pay for carbon sequestration for every gallon of gas you burn.
> And don’t forget cooling! All that extra power draw generates heat.

which in turn can cause more throttling in a cramped space like a laptop if its not cooled (loudly) enough
What's preventing them from just kicking Twitter out of their buildings?
How rude:
"found himself in hot water when he chose to list “Assigned By God” as his preferred pronoun on his employee profile,"

Really if someone has a preferred pronoun, it should be used.

That paragraph above should be:
"found Assigned By God in hot water when Assigned By God chose to list “Assigned By God” as Assigned By God preferred pronoun on Assigned By God employee profile,"

Since there was only one preferred pronoun listed, I must assume that it is the same for all pronoun usages in the English language.
If you actually want to do this and are not just looking for the cute hack, you should obviously use http auth. The font method that this post is about is cute but definitely not secure in the slightest.
Disagree completely. It’s pridewashing - hey ignore our bad corporate behavior or poor product strategy - we support LGBTQ!

It’s the same schtick they use when greenwashing.
I just don't think the pricing is going to meaningfully impact the cars entering the city, nor is it going to reduce the main congestion of ride hailing vehicles on every inch of Manhattan street.

The charge is $23 peak / $17 off-peak. Existing city tunnel tolls are already $17ish.

The fact that Uber publicly supports congestion pricing tells you everything you need to know about how it's going to impact ride hail congestion of our city streets. https://www.uber.com/blog/new-york/uber-supports-congestion-...

There's already a measly $2.75 per ride fee added on for congestion, which is trivial given choosing an Uber vs subway costs $20-50 more than taking the subway.
10k+install+taxes=15k-20k
YouTube Blocks Ad Blockers Amid Declining Ad Revenue
> In this case nobody banned anything, the movement is nothing more than a request by a broad group of people

a group so broad that they then refuse to publish perfectly valid scientific research papers, if you do not comply with what is for sure not a ban, but merely a request from organisations holding institutional power.
This notion is detached from reality. A drop-in replacement of the same thing is an order of magnitude less work than switching vendors.

Even adequately researching alternatives, let alone doing some trial testing, will take far more time than a swap.
Out of interest, did you find this was a problem that using optimised numpy still didn’t perform good enough? (depending on what you call pure python, yes I agree python loops etc are extremely slow)
macOS doesn’t even come with Python..
People will go through any number of hoops to not give, "I like the feel of the language more", as a reason for using it. Clearly, the main reason you would consider using Elixir for this is just that. There may be benefits to Elixir as a language, but there is no way they are going to overcome the ecosystem deficiencies to make it worth while in any unbiased cost benefit calculation. Just say you want to work in Elixir! It's okay to have a preference on the tools you use, even if it's for aesthetic or experiential reasons.
That's not the issue. Union Square on the Park Avenue line and the old South Ferry on the 7th Avenue line both had platform "gap fillers" installed decades ago that require the train to stop at an exact location each and every time:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/14th-street-union-square...

Every station has lining boards that the conductor must check before opening the doors to ensure that the entire train is stopped along the platform:

https://www.topic.com/conduct-yourself
We need personal responsibility for government officials.

There are quite a few people in the whole process from surveillance to arresting and detaining them, that should have noticed, that they did nothing illegal (or atleast are employed there to be the ones who should be noticing stuff like this).

Engineer builds a house, uses way less material then needed to be safe, because it saves money,... then house collapses, engineer knew (or should have known) how much concrete/rebar is needed, still approved it, criminal negligence, jail. Why not the same for police, prosecutors, judges, etc.?
>Naturally I wand a car I can summon from the pub that will drive me the 20km, over country roads, to my house while I mix cocktails or have a nap.

You're kind of joking, but this is more practical/safe than it sounds.

Most people drive to eat and drink out. You know how they all get home? By driving back. That's driving after drinking however many bottles of beer and glasses of wine. Every night they go out to eat and drink.

To put it simply, everyone breaks the law any time we feel like going out. The police everywhere know this, and the only reason they don't camp out at restaurants to arrest everyone is because they themselves are also guilty of the same.
AsyncIO
Your friend’s dad’s death is also my (very trivial) connection to Kaczynski. That morning our family had gone Christmas tree shopping, and the tree was scheduled to be delivered later that day. As it turned out, the delivery driver was also a Verona volunteer firefighter and ended up responding to the explosion, delaying our tree to the next day. It’s a super trivial connection, but it has always stuck with me.
>legally relevant sense
>blatantly illegal mass surveillance

"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

It may be illegal, but this is not legally relevant at the moment.
> I am not interested in anything that lets me take my hands off the when whilst driving on any road. It seems too dangerous.

Hyundai has a lane-keeping assist that centers your car in the lane. It is _very_ good, although of course I am nearly always ready to take over if needed.

IMO, smart cruise control + lane assist gets you a great deal of convenience for both day-to-day city traffic, and long-distance trips. The automation is good enough that it is helpful and makes driving much easier, but not so good that your mind switches completely off, so that you're always ready to take over if needed.
incorrect use of the term "back end". But ok.
I could fork Linux, delete all the code, edit the README.md, and then relace it with say a nodejs CRUD app. This would be a Linux fork.

I mean Git by design, each commit is like a new .zip file. So "is technically a fork" and "is spiritually a fork" can be very different.
This is the best generated music I've ever heard. Are you blogging about your project? Where can I read more about your methods?
Some have had fun running some of the larger Llama, Vicuna & Guanaco models on their MacBooks. Mostly to experiment with local inference.

Although quantisation has now lowered the required memory, I wouldn’t be surprised if it comes in handy again in the near future.

But today that’s quite a niche use case.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/267826934/micro-sd-card-reader-...

(nsfw... if you can't open it, the url explains it all)
Do you have a citation for the MTA poaching unhappy NJT workers? I've only seen people leaving the MTA for NJT, and not a single instance of the opposite.
The only reason it wouldn't matter is that software is designed for it to not matter.

It enables software to be designed differently ie by not having to ever copy things to VRAM.
No it’s not. Considering changing vendors because a vendor did the right thing and sent out free replacements for potentially compromised hardware is not something any sane client would do.
I used to be a full time dev / R&D engineer. Now I basically do the same thing on YouTube (youtube.com/stuffmadehere). The difference now is my R&D-ing is directed at early stage prototypes that I think are interesting / instructive, rather than what is best for an actual business, useful, or profitable.

Youtube is interesting because theres a constant source of numeric feedback on how you are doing (views / subscribers / watch time). Seeing these numbers change based on what you do can be incredibly addicting and it's very easy to accidentally connect your personal happiness to those numbers. This is great if they are going up, but if they aren't.... yeah. It's also easy to get into a situation where you lean into "what works" over and over until you find yourself doing stuff that you don't enjoy.

My advice would be to find a way to keep the numbers at arms length and focus on doing stuff that you enjoy. You definitely need the feedback of stats / comments / etc to get better, but you don't wan to check it 10 times a day. Personally when I launch a video I will check a few times to ensure I didn't screw up anything major, see if there is any useful feedback in comments, then I will check maybe the stats every week or two.
The last time I drove into downtown Manhattan, just inches form the bridge, I was immediately pulled over by NYPD and given an excessive $150 ticket for the window tints on my car. I demonstrated to the officer that Range Rover made them that way from the factory *limo tint" and that it was legal in my home state, but they had shown that they apparently have always had the inclination to pull people over for bogus minor things in cities like it as an entry tax anyway as the "officer" said "He could drag me and my entire family in the car down to the precinct if he wanted to"... This way they probably don't need to pay police salaries and they just automate the unexpected tax probably. States are the new mafia... Phony "protection fees" and miscellaneous taxes are now more real than before, maybe because the old guard has now transitioned into NY GoV/council/desk jobs?
Biggest advice is don't include music. Removing all sound even better. Someone will make a copyright compliant against all of your content at some point based on matching a few notes of unrelated songs
If you would have made them separate function views, they should be separate class views.
I’m a musician and have spent over 20 years making music. It’s my biggest passion. I still love this. Music isn’t a competition to me so it doesn’t bother me that someone with little experience can create great sounding music. I can still make music that’s an expression of myself, or I can generate some AI music to see if something catches my ear as a starting point. It’s just another tool, and I’m excited to see how it evolves.
How can one get an invite to Tildes? Looks like a friendly place, reminds me of a slightly older internet :)
SF cop fumes as stalled autonomous vehicle blocks access to shooting
> Frankly Elm has more of a problem with negative fanboying: people who have decided it’s not for them yet have to constantly show up to neener neener every time Elm appears on HN instead of just moving on.

Don’t forget those of us who worked at companies that tried adopting Elm and then got burned by it. Some of the changes were show-stoppers if you were actually using it in a way they didn’t like.

I don’t understand this desire to downplay and dismiss the critics as not having valid points. This is a textbook case of an open source project making some weird decisions, then grinding to a halt. It’s so weird to see people rush in to defend everything about it rather than admitting that, yeah, it kind of fizzled out and they didn’t really listen to the community and it came back to bite them.
Yes. Especially in warm countries when it’ll add to your air con bill too
I remember awhile back the lead of the chrome dev team getting into a twitter fight with some engineer from a popular antivirus tool because, as I recall, AV tools are basically just more attack surface. I tend to agree.
people can express themselves...

Is it really an act of personal expression if you've narrowed the "vocabulary of creation" to the stable Diffusion equivalent of "hyper realistic, unreal engine, 8K, masterpiece, intricate details"?

At that point would not the act of creation feel rather hollow?
Try the starlabs starfighter.
I think we should all feel a little more guilt for gluttonously consuming everything all around us and making such consumption morally defensible under the guise of "just taking care of family"/"living a peaceful life". We should all feel a little more hatred to those aloof imbeciles smiling and pointing at animals to their children in zoos.

Though I think we would eventually reach this conclusion without needing to kill random people.
>> Why I hate it

I love async Python.

It solves an entire class of problems really nicely, and makes certain types of applications possible.

Once you've got your head around it - and that is not easy especially if you have not done much JavaScript - then it's almost magical.

For database access you can use asyncpg which is natively written as async. asyncpg is the fastest Python driver and faster than anything implemented on psycopg2.

https://magicstack.github.io/asyncpg/current/

Huzzah for async Python!
No one is asking for bridges to be torn down. But asking to maintain a 60 year old (at its youngest) 6 lane elevated highway through a city is costly (both in dollars and quality of life). So you need to examine what the end goal is.

Elevating (both literally and figuratively) car culture ain’t it.

Also, you aren’t getting rid of truck traffic on surface streets. They still need that last mile. Better traffic control designs on streets will go a longer way then shuttling all trucks to another superhighway in Brooklyn.

(Admittedly though, the situation is different in North NYC. The cross Bronx expressway needs to be re-examined, and a new, possibly larger route, for interstate trucking to CT, RI, and points North is needed.)
Am I too old, or why can't you do that with a simple .htaccess?
That didn't exist back then. Adding logging all over the application would increase costs while losing a significant amount of money.

The problem is that Google had no problem billing for a metric that they didn't expose to the user and didn't provide tools to debug properly.
If you’re not all in on the Orem I’m not sure I’d recommend django
Same. As a complete nobody account I got access to (more) large GPU instances, even before the GPT era, without even getting asked why I needed them.
What is 'Smarty'? Never heard about that company/product.
On mobile. I meant ORM
Looking forward to this. I hope it goes well.

I read through those threads a bit, but I'm wondering if you can say a bit more about why you didn't use the nostr protocol as is? I'm not trying to pull for criticism, I'm curious about the tech choices and how some of these emerging options differ from one another (I think I've read about two other nostr forum ideas now?)
The term does have a generally recognized meaning, which is something like "computer that is designed for computationally expensive tasks".

That's a relative thing, so "workstation" has continued to mean "computer that is on the upper end of the computing power spectrum".

So not writing, probably not accounting. Programming, sure, if the builds being done are computationally expensive. Video editing definitely, if you are going to be doing a lot of it, you will want the most powerful workstation your budget allows for.
Serifs are an interesting way to indicate a link. It was just enough to catch my eye but if I were reading on my phone I doubt the links would have been noticeable.

This article reminded me of the connection between the evolution of various caterpillars and brassicas as they developed glucosinolates to fight off the caterpillars.
And yet it’s been used on several orders of magnitude more miles than any other offering. Check the numbers for general driver crashes and fatalities.
I think sometimes the affidavit can be sealed, in which case it becomes discoverable at trial, but if it's not sealed, it gets attached to the warrant. I may be wrong or it may be that judges just seal affidavits like that as a matter of course - I have never been served one.
In addition to other reasons given, the big one is interstate commerce.
There could be a shortage of data to control for obvious things like disproportionately many sports cars having manual transmissions.
So that's pretty wild because within the city, they are epically indifferent to enforcement.

There's been a recent epidemic of defaced / quasi legal out of state registered / fake or illegally purchased paper temp tags so people could avoid tolls and tickets.. largely unenforced by cops as they are often the perpetrators..

https://www.streetsblogprojects.org/ghost-tags-part-1-the-de...