skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While quality of life has improved percentage wise for a small percentage of the earth's inhabitants, it is also a completely unsustainable way of living - it's a quality of life built on fossil fuels and debt. It's all a complete facade - if fossil fuels and access to effectively free money were wiped out tomorrow, quality of life would revert almost overnight... The fragility of it all is just extraordinary.
Hi! https://a-b-street.github.io/docs/project/history/retrospect... has a summary of where the project went. The original scope of the traffic simulation was too grandiose, and it was hard to influence real decision-making with something so complex and buggy. A/B Street morphed into several simpler tools focused on specific problems (removing through-traffic through an area, estimating uptake of new cycle lanes). I'm focused more on web-based tools for gov use these days, but will get back to simulation someday!
I wouldn't use the predicate "pose risk", but yes, the difference between 36 floors and 42 floors seems meaningful.

This North Tower in Atlanta I found slightly-but-consistently oppressive was and is only 29 stories (403 feet): https://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/9208476088/in/photostre...

More importantly, even at 36 floors, the building under discussion would already have been much taller than most of the buildings around it: https://cdn.chime.me/elegran-image/52cfa1bca73e6f084f007545-...

There are thousands of tall buildings in Manhattan, so in the grand scheme of things, one tall building doesn't matter much to any non-hysterical person, but you already know that, so maybe I am missing something about your question.

In general, I'm for removing many kinds of restrictions on housing construction, including in Manhattan, just not restrictions on building height although I'm not a fan of the way Manhattan's restrictions work, where the excess height of one building can be "offset" (by the owner of the one paying money to the owner of the other) by another landowner's choosing to build shorter than it is allowed to build, which allowed blights on the landscape like 432 Park Avenue, the very tall building in the left half of this photo: https://media.architecturaldigest.com/photos/6143755d91beee6...

Contrast those photos of Manhattan with these 2 of K Street in DC (which has height restrictions that cannot be offset like Manhattan's can): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Washingt... https://jamesposey.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1401-K-St-...
They are private practice doctors, this is literally how much money they are getting paid
Write me an email if you’re interested in details, probably have some code to share. Address is in my profile.
What counts as distribution though? Is serving user’s distribution? Or only distributing source code?
Well yeah, the kids can’t easily use their smartphone while swimming. So they prefer not to swim.
Key difference: productivity gains in agriculture made food not only more plentiful, but also cheaper.

We can say the same for the steam engine and transportation. It made it cheaper to move goods and people.

Question is whether advancements in AI translate to making some fundamental goods or services cheaper and more accessible.
Because the knock on effects aren't just in the tourists not spending money, but clogging the streets (go to central Amsterdam on a Saturday evening sometime, it's insane) causing trouble, and even if there's money that's not going to the cooks, servers, museum docents etc.
... As are ICE vehicles. Tire rubber is one of the major sources of microplastics after all, or did people think it just vanished?

> New EV models tend to be heavier and quicker—generating more particulates and deepening the danger.

Compared to what? I'm pretty sure a Nissan Leaf has nothing on an ICE escalade.
No, the locals want the tourists to pay for an expensive hotel room or AirBNB, respectfully get to know the city, and eat and shop at local establishments. They don't want tourists who load up on the breakfast buffet on the ship, rush around like maniacs trying to see everything in a few hours, maybe buy a little weed or a few trinkets, and then rush back to the ship buffet for an early dinner.
There are 469 studies for that type of cancer that are accepting males of his age, of which 260 are in the US, on that site. Obviously, many are going to be inappropriate, but hopefully with something is available to him.
This link is the parents speaking, nonetheless another data point [0}

I'm respiratorily at risk to particulate matter in the air (partially my own fault for cigarette smoking for many years, partially happenstance via a house fire/smoke inhalation), and the air quality has been a bastard in ON Canada this summer. It certainly has affected my outdoor activities.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/nine-year-ol...
That doesn't sound reliable. Tomatoes all have some naturally occurring nicotine, I would be surprised one grafted to a tobacco plant somehow has...none?
“People should be able to buy drugs and participate in a sex economy” does not mean that they are catering to those tourists. They’ve been trying to figure out how to retain drug/sexual freedom while limiting tourism for that purpose for as long as I can remember at least.

That’s a totally coherent position to hold, even if it’s difficult to encode into policy.
that's an economic no brainer for big tourist destinations. cruise ship visitors are cheap, they dont spend and just litter and clog the city for a few hours.

may be useful for small or up-and-coming destinations
I live in NYC too, but imagine if all of Manhattan was midtown. That's basically Amsterdam these days. The suburbs are fine, but it's a nightmare in the city center. Imagine Times Square but like 6x the size.
As soon as A.I. is used for serious applications like self driving cars, then data have to be audited by humans. Human judgment is irreplaceable. These machines are statistical algorithms anyway, so even with the best data possible, they will err occasionally. So we combine two or three of them and average the result given some score, for even better accuracy.

But data is the foundation of everything in their function. The transformation of data -> information is always done by humans. Given better and better statistical algorithms, that gap will become smaller and smaller, but automation will never be able to produce information by itself.

Other serious applications include medicine and doctors. How about building houses out of epoxy and graphene walls, weighing 10 kg every house and stacking 10000 houses on top of one another? I.e. skyscrapers the size of Everest? Don't we need some serious data and A.I. architecture for the construction to stand tall?
Clear makes a big deal about their biometric auth, but the point of clear is cutting the security line.
What do you mean by "cannot respond to the dispute or win"? Is there some documentation of the rules/laws for a layman?
>I think the amount of pollution per passenger is really disproportionately high for cruise ships

Cruise ships are not perfect. I love to take the sleeper train everywhere. Perfect is the enemy of good. Air travel is bad. Carbon footprints is a hard one, try to minimise impact. I think nudging the industry into electric ships and using shore-side power is better.

>Public transport is usually run at a loss
Maybe - look I don't want to go anywhere which do not want the ship to visit, however local officials (democratically elected) keep building facilities for ship to visit.

>Same for public museums,
I never bulk at a price - charge me a tourist rate - or use tricks so local can pay less. Put the price of the gift ship. But for example the Gender museum in Aarhus you not going to get a better take on local thinking without a physical visit.
I'm not sure about the 'random books' method, since there are a lot of extremely random books on Sparta, but I'd be very interested to hear about debate within the military history profession on the effectiveness of Sparta. (This is not me expressing scepticism that it exists, merely that I am ignorant of it).
With deno you need to manually specify if you want to permit internet access:

deno run --allow-net=xyz.com,abc.com

If you run without a domain, it allows access to all. Seems like it should be more explicit by default, perhaps there is a config option.

Speaking of config options, I wonder if there is a config option to prohibit access to domains like pastebin.org no matter what. Seems like an arms race that an attacker could circumvent, but maybe they won't bother and will only attack my dumber friends.
It was also tied to a number of other events that massively depleted the population, including the Black Death. Not violent but very deadly, leaving Europe open to social restructuring.
You know what, on a second thought I agree it is a misclassification. I was commenting from the place where I sit. It depends on the industry. Different talents in different places settling close to the centers relevant to the industry in question. However, across all industries companies struggle to find enough talent.
> £10 for an iOS APP???

£10 is outrageous when AAA video games start at $70.

> Are there any newspapers that are actually worth it, that enhance your life?

New Yorker, Economist, The Atlantic, NYT are all fantastic- I order print editions and don't install their apps on my phone.
With apologies to Bernard Woolley*:

I take into account my internal desires and intentions
You have positive illusions
He is biased

* a character from "Yes, Minister":
That’s one of those irregular verbs, isn’t it? I give confidential security briefings. You leak. He has been charged under section 2a of the Official Secrets Act.
No, but it could defer to a human if it’s unable to assist. If a chatbot can cover 80% of common support tasks, that vastly reduces the number of support staff but those who remain will be necessarily more skilled and have more authority
Sure, but cruse ship tourists bring in vastly less money so it’s not a constant benefit from a given level of harm.
The issue with antipsychotics tends to be the side effects, not the efficacy

Amisulpride, for a lot of people, would be one of the best antipsychotics.

Antipsychotics are incredibly important medications for a lot of people. It really matters that amisulpride is not available.

https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi...

"A comprehensive meta-analysis published in 2019 in JAMA that compared 32 oral antipsychotics helped solidify the sentiments shared by Kahn and other investigators who have conducted clinical studies with amisulpride. That meta-analysis identified amisulpride as the second most effective antipsychotic at reducing overall symptoms in schizophrenia patients (behind clozapine) and the most effective in terms of reducing positive symptoms. The analysis also ranked amisulpride better than clozapine in terms of tolerability and side effects."
Author here. I may have made a mistake. I live in Japan and go to a 接骨院 which I assumed was a chiropractor, but maybe osteopath is a better definition? I've updated the article to reflect this. I didn't realise there was a difference – lack of research on my part, sorry.
While you are technically correct, you are missing the whole point of the blog post
I m certain that in 10 years we ll be looking at tourism as a bad habit like smoking. It's given a free pass for now because many developed countries have large tourism sectors but it remains an unsustainable source of pollution
It is necessary because an informed electorate is a prerequisite for successful democracy.
Aye, this whole concept is a zero sum game hedging on you earning substantially more than median. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to live off your saved amount as the services rendered by other people would price you out. The returns on investments would have been very modest too with people extracting more value for their work.
Ask HN: Is there a browser plugin that will fade AI generated text to gray?
I've seen some that will annotate text but nothing that will fade AI generated text out to the background color depending on the level of confidence that a text was human written or AI written. Does anybody have something like this or have it in the works? If so is it local or does it require some service?
Most of my “tasks” are buggy, poorly written, feature incomplete, draft requests for code review which come with an implied contract that early feedback is welcome, but that I’ll let you know when it’s actually ready, and I promise to either make good on that or cancel the request and say why before the end of the quarter.

Planning schmanning!
It depends what you consider the outcome to be, by virtue of being a 39 y/o with early recurrent and possibly oligometastatic disease he is in the definitively palliative-intent treatment category so everything is a long shot.

Really the best and only chance for curative intent with most cancers is radical resection with negative margins which unfortunately did not work here (most likely due to micrometastatic disease and perineurial invasion). All of these new and fancy systemic options are not believed or intended to be curative-intent.

If we're talking about meaningful prolongation of life the best treatment would be a PD-L1 inhibitor like pembrolizumab if he has expression. He doesn't mention systemic/immunotherapy in his post but on the donation page his brother does so I'm unsure if he's in the early resistance/treatment failure arm for pembro, if that's the case it's very devastating.

He's correct that gem/plat chemo isn't great but it's something. Patients in his position are best served in clinical trials (also in the treatment guidelines).

With that said it also seems he had an aggressive bone cancer in his childhood, this suggests something unique to this person (e.g. some genetic driver mutation or hereditary cancer syndrome) that may complicate any of this prognostication. Unfortunately something very atypical and aggressive is happening in this person.

H&N SCC in younger patients or HPV+ usually has good outcomes.

Given his history it's probably not relevant to this case but best advice for any HN reader is to go get your HPV vaccine and reduce the risk of SCC.
Not sure, sounds like that is a baked measurement intended to superficially mollify people. Medicine and health costs more than ever. Inequality higher than ever. Sure, we can buy cheapish bread and occasional circuses, but is that a valid measure of life?
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This is the way, I aspire for this. One of my goal in life is to have a long fulfilling healthy life doing the things that I love to do, and hopefully see the 22nd century. written human history has only been for 5,000 years and the progress of engineering and technologies has been exploding for the past 100 years. I wonder how it will be in the 22nd century , it must be unimaginable to us right now. And I hope I will live long enough and have the luxury of a healthy brain to comprehend the beauty of technologies in the 22nd century.

I like the work of Blueprint by Bryan Johnson, though it's not replicable for most and felt a bit too much. For now, my lifestyle include eating clean, weightlifting, cardio, and good sleep. This is it or there's more to it? Appreciate any other resources/readings to pursue a long life
There will come a point when technology has advanced to the point to make most human labor obsolete. We are mostly just arguing about when that will happen, not if it will happen. I agree though, at this point, we could just be seeing another productivity boost that still requires human labor.
honestly, I'd be fine with just markdown with some extensions (e.g. images and footnotes, not sure if they're part of the standard)
Yeah, exactly. The writing is on the wall for password based authentication. I think this is all going to look very different in a year or two.
> Now, living in Antwerp the pollution caused by container ships is at a whole other level though.

Meaning diesel exhaust? So, nitrous oxide? I assume they're not allowed to burn heavy fuel oil in port.
Yep, to be clear I was agreeing with lolinder. I would have posted top level but they had already expressed almost exactly my objection to the article so I replied to avoid redundancy.
Breaking news, some plants are ok in (nevermind prefer) shade?

Hops can be climbers, i.e. inherently companion to some shade-providing plant/tree.
>that's 55,000 people each day, which is a huge number.
Cruise ship has around 4,000 (for a mega ship). So that 10 ships a day. Even Southampton struggle with 5 at a max.

https://cruisedig.com/ports/amsterdam-holland/arrivals

Suggests much less than 55,000 people each day. More like 3,000
> Now we know that IT is a growing market,

That's literally a non zero sum game. You can phrase it as cynically as you like, but that's still the definition of a non zero sum game.
As a fellow sailor who's only dealt with ferries, what's the wake like coming off those cruise ships? I can't imagine it's just the fumes causing sea sickness when one of those monstrosities steam past your 26' or whatever.
That's pretty much the point the blog post is making.
It is at that point I'll take those people seriously on climate change.
Doesn't the free market regulate this?
Not just operating systems, but everything that goes on under the application layer! All the way down to the bits living in the CPU registers and going out the PCIe/USB/Ethernet ports.

Another thought: a focus on staying up to date would be important. A lot of information about system internals I find is actually historical, and while that's useful sometimes, it's still a pretty big gap. Modern systems are quite poorly documented.
Localized toxic pollutants in air (smoke etc.) and water have been significantly reduced compared to 100 years ago.

However we have been too slow to reduce the CO2 emissions that are causing climate change exactly because it doesn't have an immediate local toxic effect.
It is going to make profits more accessible to those at the top; that’s that.
That’s the estimate for number of people killed by the treatment not the number of people who died in total.

You should be careful not to exclude trials cancelled early when considering how risky trials are.
It says only

>That said, the results indicate that the probability we are alone (<1) in the galaxy is significant, while the maximum number of contemporary civilizations might be as few as a thousand.

That's not very useful.

The full paper is available on scihub though.
I do do trips through specialized agents, sometimes with guides sometimes without, so yeah I don’t depend on general travel agents in general.There are private trips for someone going through some of these companies but they’re probably pretty expensive
Ultimately, it's hard to tell. SF spent many years decrying tech, tourists, and folks coming in to work across the bridges. Now that's mostly all gone and the city is shite but few in the city associate the two, expecting similar services with vastly less revenue.
The late David Foster Wallace wrote an amazing ode to going on a single cruise and vowing never to do so again https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Shipping+out%3a+on+the+(nearl...
One problem with that idea: sim games almost all (intentionally) model only a tiny fraction of the insane parking requirements in most US cities.
That's like saying: IPv6 is basically IPv4 with bigger addresses, right?
Not a chance of that around here. And with any solution you have to ask yourself: does it scale? What if the current population of the earth would want to live in a log cabin in the woods? The woods would no longer be the woods.
The tourists in Amsterdam are so bad it suppresses residents and businesses in a similar though obviously not identical way to the street residents of San Francisco.
The Dutch are quite pragmatic and they had years to think about this.
People will still recommend actix. That doesn't mean that axum wouldn't be recommended either. It was there a couple of months ago too and doing extremely well.
Hot water, sewers, decent food, television and films, warm & damp-resistant housing, electric lights and much more and I'm glad of it. I remember living in places where hot water had to come from a kettle and the house was cold and in winter the damp rose nearly to the ceiling from the floor. And the food back then was expensive and pretty bad.
Moss doesn't just grow in the woods. For instance it grows and is very viable for long term carbon storage in peat bogs. The reason for me adding to your suggestions was that it's clear that there will need to be multiple solutions to the problem since we also don't know what ocean warming/cooling in different parts of the world will do for phytoplankton and seaweed growth in the long term and banking on one medium for a solution could be catastrophic for us all.
> It’s a ludicrous proposal, requiring these trees to be planted in other nations.

Doesn't everything to address climate change require things to be done in other countries?
You can't compare Amsterdam tourists with "every town" tourists. Sorry that you have never visited but it is quite apparent if you have.
Might be waiting a long time. Just like self driving cars, the last 1% is the most crucial and the hardest.

Except of course LLM generated code is nowhere near the last 1%, and in any case very much misses what writing code is actually about - namely, communication with other humans.
I used E in the 90s: http://erights.org/

I haven't kept up with newer systems but I've heard of https://github.com/endojs/endo and just came across http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/home/anon/isr2017... (which says "in the style of the E programming language" -- that's as far as I've read) while looking that up.

WebAssembly was designed to follow the same capability security principles. CHERI too as someone else just brought up.

Yet another newer capability system in progress -- I don't know what it can do today or if it tackles this particular problem but it sounds cool: https://spritelyproject.org/
> Not OP, but laws against distribution? Absolutely.

> Laws against consumption? A terrible idea.

When we're on the topic of experimental medicine, it's the laws around distribution that have 99% of the effect.
I have a good friend who went through Immunotherapy on a Stage 4 lung cancer and had an impressive recovery (all the metastasis tumours disappeared in the scan pictures I've seen). Not cured of course, but has a much longer life expectancy. So I've seen at least one anecdotal evidence that they work.
> Wake me up when they ban private jets from celebrities and wealthy people instead of these stunts.

I'm pretty sure that a city banning private jets would be orders of magnitude less impactful and more media-stuntworty than banning cruise ships.
gonna be real, from now on I'll now look into web browser support of banks I intend to open an account in
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it is zero sum when it comes to Labor vs Capital relationship.

Counter example to your claim: if giving out RSUs is not zero-sum, then why don't Companies give me as many RSUs as possible, since they are not losing anything and it is not zero-sum game, by your definition?
Thank for you responding! Translation is hard, and there's nothing to apologize for -- I've also edited my comment.

(FWIW, "osteopathy" is also a quack practice, in the US. It's distinct from osteopathic medicine, which is an actual medical science. But it might be hard to translate that distinction; if your practitioner has a medical degree, then they're the "real" one.)
>CityBeautiful has an insightful video on this happening in Venice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SClC9TtQlco

Good video - thanks.

>area becomes dominated by tourism

Good point - make me thinks. How to a be a better customer and stop cruise ports becoming over dominating. Give-up cruising ? Be more selective of which ports.

South-west England is becoming like this (I travelled by sleeper train) and feel like tourists dominate locals. So dont like going there.

Do ethical holiday exist ?