skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My ride was so smooth, the novelty began to wear off, turning a trip to the future into just another journey across town.

This is the only nod in the article to how futuristic and revelatory this innovation. The journalists sound so bored.

I wonder if this is a function of how “around the corner” this tech has felt for so long? Have we somehow become jaded to this innovation before it has even arrived?

Were journalists covering advent of passenger flights dedicating the first half of articles to safety and political concerns before accounting for the experience of a “first in a lifetime” ride?
Forgot to say, the complexity of this, if you manage to do it, is a solid PhD. At least one.
> Because here in the US that's not the case. For the Three Mile Island meltdown, the cleanup cost was about $1 billion, and the vast majority was born by the private corporations, not by the public.

That's called holding private corporations accountable for negligently contaminating the environment. There's a difference between the government paying to decom a well-run plant after 40-50 years, and sticking the taxpayer with cleaning up a mess that's not the public's responsibility.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-pixel-binary-transparency...

According to Wired, Android Verified Boot (AVB) prevents the computer owner from changing their mind about an OS update. No going back to the previous version. Leave no escape from from the latest improvements in Google's data collection to support its advertising services racket.
Podman has been a very straightforward drop-in replacement for Docker at my company. Even if that didn't work out, things like Linux namespaces, chroot, bubblewrap, and so on are all beautifully well-documented, battle-tested tools.

Docker has no moat.
That's doable if you don't eat out or have food delivered. $1600/month is a lot of money on food imho
I can’t think of a better way to kill the platform.
According to YNAB we averaged a bit under $1500 for our family of five (one of those is a breastfed baby, so not substantially adding to grocery costs, except of course for diapers).
Ads aren’t neutral, informative pieces of information. Most are there to manipulate you, often subconsciously. Eg, all the product placement in tv and movies is subliminal advertising, or the car ads meant to make you think something is high status without ever using a logical argument. Looks what ads have done to our culture over the last 30 years, and the environmental and financial consequences connected to it
Oh absolutely, but that's not going to make the comparison with solar and wind any better. It'd probably make carbon capture for gas a really interesting peaker solution, though!

Considering that during the 1970s nuclear boom a single plant still took a decade to construct, there is simply no way we could possibly have a "large fleet" in under a decade. The only country with the capability of doing so is China - and they are not going to be of much use to Western countries.
If you share the road with a self driving vehicle you’re part of the experiment.
The reason for Musk's behavior is that he has decided to Fight the Establishment. As a reminder, the Establishment is that poorly defined group of people and interests, centered on the left and right coasts of the US, that exists to promote the success of the American experiment. For a number of reasons, over the past few years, Musk has grown dissatisfied with it, and actively uses propaganda to weaken it. Musk admires Putin because he's an unapologetic power-leader and Musk wishes he could be, too. In Musk's mind, if we just put a small number of really bright people in charge, we'd be able to solve some hard problems like multi-homing humanity to deal with existential risks.

We should all be thankful that Elon is taking his money and burning it, because in doing so, he reduces the likelihood that he can have a significant negative effect on the stability that the Establishment brings.
Folly of Forecasts, Big Short Edition
What the hell are you eating, sushi every meal? Thats an absolutely obscene food budget for a single person
Ads are fine, but please try to use an ethical, privacy focused ad provider and please don't throw angry popups at people who are using ad blockers. I understand that my ad blocking is possibly reducing sites' revenue, but I can't stand the way the web looks without ad blocking on. It's cluttered, provides visual noise (especially for animated ads), and is extremely distracting.

With that being said, best wishes in your endeavors with this site!
In 2023 utility-scale solar generation capacity is expected to grow by 29 GW, and wind by 7.5 GW[1] - that's 700 MW per week, so we're almost on track already. (The EIA's "expectations" might be optimistic, but I don't think it's at all out of the question to roll out wind and solar on this scale.)

1. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/update/archive/febru...
Good. Then keep your arrogant ass elsewhere; we don't want it anyway.
Comcast has a 60 story skyscraper in Philadelphia (tallest in the nation not in Chicago or Manhattan) dedicated to technology. I'd be surprised if there's not a team of people working on the iOS and TVOS apps.
I think this should have "(US)" in the title.
You use Mac. You are already being attacked by Apple. Both on the permissions to run the computing you want, and your data being harvested by them.

Good on you nonetheless to check one less, but the one still open is much larger, so the fight goes on.
> The Waymo rides were affordable, ranging from $18 to $21

Goes to show you what world these journalists are living on that think that's totally acceptable for a five mile ride. I'll stick with public transit.
It took just two moon landings for people to get bored.

I don’t think you need a technology to be fully functional for people to tire of it. It just has to be in the news for enough years.
It seems pretty clear to me (if you've been to SF recently) that autonomous cars react to pedestrians quicker and are much more careful around pedestrians than human drivers.

You can certainly take the attitude "I will only agree with having autonomous cars on the street once they are provably 100000000x safer than a human" but I don't think that matches most people's view on what constitutes safety.

Also, that goes pretty strongly against the American ethos, where we let people make their own decisions in terms of what kind of things they buy, within reason.

We already know that SUVs are more dangerous for pedestrians, but I think most of us agree that making SUVs illegal for this reason would not be a good idea, and is against the American ethos.
Social media simply amplifies what is already common among human beings. One way it seems to do this is by flattening and legitimizing impropriety. Normal societies are "chunky", that is, you have niches and enclaves and varying distance unified in some increasingly "thin" manner. This enables various kinds of relationships to flourish (think of how marriage creates a special space for the couple, and then another space for the family that results from it, then consider the different space that the extended family creates, or coworkers create). But in social media, this structure evaporates. Everyone is shoved into the same space. People you barely know or don't know are on par with your closest family and friends. This is bound to cause aggression and nosiness and impropriety. To put it hyperbolically, it's like having your coworkers in bed with you making lewd comments as you have sex with your spouse. Social media encourages and defaults to this kind of boundary violation so that you are effectively consenting to it by using it because otherwise, it makes little sense to use. So telling someone to mind their own business becomes more difficult _because you're the one who volunteered the information in the first place_, whereas you can still tell an intrusive stranger to piss off with the confidence of moral justification.
And: https://archive.is/6TrvU
It's like this paragraph is obligatory:

> Waymo has had fewer headline-worthy troubles. In May, one of its cars struck and killed a small dog. A few years ago, a driverless Waymo car with a human safety driver operating the wheel hit a pedestrian who needed to be taken to the hospital.

After reading that reporters were explicitly instructed to go after tech[0], I just can't not see stuff like this.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33456708
it can detect duplicates in your collection because it maintains a small database of what it's seen. Great for ingesting the big pile and cleaning up
The point is this is tractable. Your argument is Sophist deconstructing the previous argument without contributing to the discussion by nitpicking points.
You don't see how it generating a registered trademark in its output is a problem? You think it's okay to monkey patch this one obvious case and call it good?
But… why couldn’t we just build more and better trains?
A new carnivorous plant in western North America (2021)
You sure you aren't thinking of pulseaudio? Pipewire really hasn't even been out "a long time", and does do everything you listed kinda shockingly (to me) easily.

To be fair, I was a fan of pulseaudio even in the early days: being able to set up my desktop, with its decent speakers as just another audio sink for my laptop with its horrible speakers was like magic to me back in the day.
> We have what, like 50+ years of certainty as to how dangerous people are as drivers

Yes, the answer is "very". Over one percent (1 in 93, National Safety Council, 2021[1]) of Americans will die in a car crash. That is insane.

The data so far is clear that autonomous vehicles are safer, and it isn't close.

> Also “meatbags” has the same tone as “sportsball” imo.

We're comparing humans to computers. Sue me.

[1]: https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-o...
Don't forget that many nuclear plants have a guaranteed electricity price and demand.

Basically, if a nuke plant wants to operate, other plants will have to shut down to let them. And if the electricity price on the free market is below their guarantee, the government will pay the difference.
There's also drunk driving the crime and drunk driving the act.

What I mean by this is that when people go out to eat lunch or dinner, they drive to the restaurant. They obviously need to drive back when they're done. They obviously also had some good drinks while they were there; beer, wine, the works. Even just a sip of alcohol will count as drunk driving, legally speaking.

The police largely turn a blind eye to this, because it's so utterly commonplace and a fact and part of life that policing this would quickly lead to a community and public revolt. Restaurants also happily serve alcohol because drunk driving is not their problem, and restaurants that don't will quickly go out of business anyway.

On the other side of the coin however, if you drive to a liquor store at an ungodly hour the police will be on you in an instant to check if you're driving drunk and arrest you if you are. Why? Because everyone wants or needs to eat and drink, but nobody needs to drop by a liquor store at 10pm.

The police will also check if you're driving drunk if they see you on the road and it's blatantly obvious you can't drive straight. This should go without saying, though; and it means most people who drink at restaurants can drive safe (FSVO safe).

Obligatory IANAL, obligatory don't drink and drive disclaimer.
A concept I look forward to is not just a driverless car, but driverless "various size vehicles" from a 1-person car to a 100-person bus. In this future we could get the advantages of public transport and car-free living into rural and suburban areas, while in the city these systems could adjust and use AI to find optimal routes that are a lot less slower than current buses (or even trains that require 2 or 3 connections). All the while using electric and reducing energy per passenger and knocking over fewer cyclists :-).
Compared to Lyft or Uber, that's a fine price. Those are its real competition.
Productivity is a spook, but I like it around 75°F
Sorry, I realize I was being confusing by measuring in 400 MW farms: the total required was 800 MW/week, which we're not hitting yet.

We are at the right order of magnitude, though, as you show. The question is whether we can hit the actual number required (which is close to double what we have now) and sustain it for another three decades.
Nobody expects self-driving cars to be bug-free-- why would we?

All that matters is, statistically, that the cars are better than humans at driving. And that's something that will eventually be achieved through a combination of software engineering, hardware engineering, and spending lots of money to build trust. Some number of people will still die in accidents even if the entire fleet is self-driving.

You might, if you do not already, find a like-minded crowd on the Risks mailing list, where they argue about 0.0000001% risks like "streetlights that turn green automatically when emergency response vehicles approach the intersection, fail at some rate because the designer didn't anticipate two emergency vehicles approaching the intersection at right angles" (which very very rarely causes an accident).
Aeron – Proof of the benefits of open development
Could someone who disagrees with the above comment explain what’s wrong with it?

Edit: it was downvoted but seems to have come back up.
It actually takes much less energy to throw something out of the solar system than into the sun: 17 km/s deltaV versus 28 km/s.
It really depends on the cost. Whatever your analysis says, surely it says something different if the cost of solar goes down 90% over the next decade.
Compile-Time Checked Truth Tables
The article you linked to cites as a major problem lack of transmission infrastructure, which is going to make a lot of this incoming generation either localized or 'in queue'. Is there a plan for this?
Why? Easy. We're a few months from an election year.
It should be expected by now I suppose, but MeFi's comment section is of much, much higher quality than HN on this topic.
There's another category between analytic (no affixes) and agglutinating (potentially multiple affixes on a single word), namely inflectional (usually one affix per word). Many IndoEuropean languages like Spanish, German and to some extent English fall into that class, although there are nuances. Spanish verbs generally have a single suffix that encodes person, number, tense and mood, but you could analyze the Spanish future tense as having a future suffix followed by a person/ number suffix.
If you are alive you are part of many experiments.

Among them being human driving, which hasn’t panned out well.
I've been learning screen readers in my spare time because it seems like a nice screen off way to browse content in bed. It's servicable and maybe even viable way to work if more of the web was tailored for it.
I felt this way too after my Waymo ride in Chandler, AZ. The ride to my destination was incredible, my family couldn't stop taking pictures and gushing when the car managed to deftly make turns and obey traffic.

The ride back from our destination we were just looking out the window and occasionally glancing at the car's 3D view.
For those who keep screwing this up in the sibling comments: 5G is LTE.

LTE is a protocol managed by the 3GPP Working Group. LTE is a forever protocol that continues to add new technologies and enhancements to existing ones while maintaining that single technology. LTE has gone through many versions whose names are absolutely useless, such as "LTE Advanced" or "LTE Advanced Pro", which do not align with any major addition to the LTE spec; new versions of the LTE spec may not explicitly contain the name, such as "5G NR", which is a source of confusion for some.

Also, 5G is not, automatically, mmWave, nor are 5G handsets required to implement it, and many don't.
Amusingly the inverse Cramer ETF is in the red YTD
Is it?

"""The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released its latest projections for traffic fatalities in 2022, estimating that 42,795 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes. """

"""The number of vehicle-miles traveled on all roads in the United States decreased by some 1.55 percent to approximately 3.17 trillion in 2022. "

Ignoring some important details, that means americans drive 75 million miles before a person is killed. That seems .... awfully damn good to me.
More people would do this if it was easier to do.
>In raw deaths per megawatt nuclear wins above all else.

Just a quibble here: your post is obviously pro-nuclear-power, however this sentence seems to claim that nuclear power causes more deaths than any other power source, which is not what I think you meant.
AI can probably replace Katy Perry, but could AI generated music ever replace Rancid or Junior Kimbrough or Fela Kuti? I don’t think so personally. I think truly human music will continue to stand apart.

I do agree with you in large part. I think I’m just slightly more optimistic that people who are driven to create will continue to do so and that people who really want real and human experiences and interactions will be able to find them with effort. Probably not anywhere on the mainstream internet though. Maybe even only in person.
I interviewed many years ago at a web agency in Melbourne.

I was coming from contract work for the federal government, preceded by salary work for a state government - both of which allowed me to work flexible hours, eg start at 10, finish at 7 or what have you.

I asked the guy if they supported flexible working hours (this was a year or so before I started working fully remote) - their office was literally the other side of the city to my house so commuting during non peak hours would be a huge benefit for me.

His response: "well we have a standup meeting every day at 8am which you must attend, and we don't allow overtime so you need to finish by 5. But you can take your lunch break any time you want".

They offered me the position a couple of days later and I never bothered to respond.

If your working conditions make government employment look flexible, there's something very wrong with your company.
Do you have any concept how long it takes to go five miles on SF public transit? If both your stops aren't on a MUNI rail line, you've easily burned an hour.
China hoped Fiji would be a template for the Pacific. Its plan backfired
Book Summary: The Molecule of More
How is macbook battery life with Podman? Docker really kills battery life.
they're talking about ethics, and you're talking about authority aka what the w3c recommends
Oil also doesn't make sense without subsidies. If renewables are going to compete, they currently need subsidies. He's simply saying that they wouldn't cover their own costs without the credits. Not that the credits somehow pay for more than the price of the wind farm.
I don't see the little hobbit as a 'man' or as 'white', but as a small creature of good nature that is innocent enough to carry the greatest of burdens.
There's a good, inexpensive grocery store where I live (a WinCo in central OR). We probably spend $400/mo each. And we buy a lot in bulk.

Interestingly, a Safeway 5 miles from there seems to have prices that run about 180% of those at WinCo, and it has plenty of customers. I worry sometimes that WinCo will find out. :)
Personal Income in the United States : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...

Income in the United States: 2021 - Census.gov : https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/demo/p60-27...

Income and Poverty in the United States: 2020 - Census.gov : https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-27...

'US Average Income'
It's true for most people, but you also have fans who never get bored --and in the case of rockets to the moon would witness every launch, if they could --just as some people love watching planes take off and land.
I think you meant polysynthetic languages. And you don't have to memorize all the forms of each stem, there are grammar rules that usually let you derive each form.
I'd adjust that to: a lot of people work at least one job less than 40 hours a week.

I've held multiple jobs in the past for some extra income. So did my mother when we were growing up. So have all three of my siblings in between jobs or when their jobs didn't give them enough hours (they would have taken full time positions if any were available). So am I right now, actually. I just started a new full time job a week and a half ago and have been stuck doing exploitative gig app work to make ends meet before my first paycheck hits at the end of September.

All anecdotal, just a gentle warning not to leap to assumptions in areas like this without data to at least suggest the leap.
The Passing of General Georgelin
I'm fairly certain orbstack runs "machines" as lxc containers on the host vm, and then container runtime inside. Not sure if that would make container operations any faster but it would speed up "machine" lifecycle.

You can do this yourself via multipass, it's an interesting solution specifically on Apple Silicon because nested virtualization is not available and lxc does not require a hypervisor .
Treating candidates inconsiderately in any form
No. Kurzgesagt has a good video about this on YouTube. Launching nuclear waste into space is not even remotely cost effective (and launching it to the Sun is even worse).
NVIDIA does have "official" freebsd drivers (including display drivers/etc) but it's obviously not as easy as with AMD. I've never tried using NVIDIA (or graphics at all) on freebsd tbh and I don't know whether the experience works well or not.

I do know there is no nvenc though oddly. because that's built around linux APIs too lol.

but yeah freebsd is pleasantly uneventful and well-documented, and the handbook tells you like 90% of the sysadmin job too. and it's well-integrated with zfs and time-tested.

it's a shame that docker is built around linux, that's where all the inertia is these days.
I think that depends on your perspective - specifically, whether you think more deaths or fewer deaths is winning:)
Not sure what you mean here. There is no obligation to use social media. Quitting it is a healthy move. It seems like you think acting for your own good is the same as selfishness, which would be ridiculous. You have a moral obligation to act for your own good. It's just that people often have stupid ideas about what it _objectively_ means to do that. True selfishness is not good for the selfish person.
I believe the OP is saying that it "wins" by having the fewest deaths per TWh, and it does - it's the same as solar and wind. [1]

By far the worst is coal which [1] has conservatively at 25 deaths per TWh vs nuclear at 0.04.

The worst nuclear incident of all time killed 4000 people, and Fukushima killed exactly 1 person. The third-worst, Three Mile Island killed 0. This isn't even low sample size. Nuclear has generated 20% of the entire US power demand for decades.

Even if you attribute all the deaths from the bungled evacuation of Fukushima to nuclear power (2300), 10X more people would have died in the normal course of operating a coal power plant at the site over the course of the reactor's life (1485TWh from 1979 to 2011 @ 25 deaths/TWh = 37,000).

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
Have you ridden in the Bay Area? Public transport in SF is slow outside of a few routes.

A MUNI ticket is $2.50 for 120 minutes. I would gladly pay 10X that for 30 minutes if my train was timely, clean, and safe-feeling.
"mostly well-intentioned protesters"

The useful idiots of the coal/gas industry
It's often (certainly not always!) the case that if a language has significant inflectional morphology (conjugation) for expressing person and maybe number of the subject (and for some languages, the direct and/or indirect object), then you don't need to use the pronouns, unless for emphasis. Spanish and Italian are like that.