skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This surgery happened in Canada, where there is universal health care.
People aren't going to "degrow" by themselves, so governments turned authoritarian will force them, but will do so in a way that won't affect the rich.

For example, low emission zones for cars - you have to have a new car to be able to drive in a low emission zone. So, who can afford it?

Cheap airplane tickets, make them more expensive - who will be able to afford to fly? Beef contaminates, make it more expensive, same result.

You can follow the logic from there.
Not on civilised countries. There the robots do save everybodies lifes.
I think low-carbon power is fairly well understood in the form of solar and wind, and in future, maybe wave. The big problem is we can't store it or meaningfully transport it over huge distances.
For me, the whole value proposition of them is that I'm not committed to using them - I only do that when it's particularly convenient.
There are decent iPad keyboards out there these days, even 7-8 years ago I could author a full google doc on an ipad.
Is Nvidia or TSMC abusing it's market position?
Isn't that exactly what they've done? Forbes, NBC, KRON4, SFStandard, and probably other news orgs have all reviewed the video.
Ok, so I think below are the only parts of your reply relevant to the "force every website to implement it" idea:

> Client attestation also prevents bots(both good & bad bots of all types including new search indexing bots) from accessing websites. This has a nice side-effect for Google that it restricts building a new search engine(a competitor) without its blessing. Search is a gateway to Google's advertising.

Um, no. Let's imagine a world where Chrome starts warning about "websites that don't support WEI". What does that actually mean? At most it'd mean warning about websites that don't request an attestation. It cannot possibly be a warning about how the website uses the attestation, or whether it even uses it. So in this world where you imagine that Google Search can attest that a request is coming from their crawler, and every site in the world has been strongarmed into requesting an attestation by the mustache-twirling villains at Chrome, nothing about crawlability by smaller search engines has changed. Other search engines can provide their own attestations, and the sites can choose whether to trust them. Websites can choose to ignore the attestations entirely.

> Like any product that any company introduces, it is to drive adoption? The more websites use it, the more normalized and legitimate WEI becomes.

Normalized and legitimate in whose view? Why do they need that legitimacy? It's normally an invisible feature to the users. If it ships in Chrome and is available for Google to use for protecting their own properties against abuse, that's all they really need. They want to make the mechanism available for other sites and other browsers, but not because that third-party adoption is particularly important.

The reality is, anyone with an anti-abuse problem will be delighted to have this signal available, especially as the browser fingerprinting surface will keep shrinking over the next few years. There will be no need to coerce sites to use the API.

It's just a really stupid idea. High visiblity, absurdily high risk of a backlash (having it be a security warning would be obviously untrue), and all for literally no rewards. I will happily take a bet at 100:1 odds that this prediction will not become true. It will not happen by 2027 like the author thinks. It will not happen by 2033. And if that's really the most realistic threat to digital freedom that you can envision, we're in a pretty good shape.
This is such a weird framing. The person (a pedestrian) died because a car driven by a human hit them. There was also a human-driven police car that was also blocking the ambulance.

I don't think the Cruise made this situation better, but it was a human-driven car that caused the death. And as far as I could find, Cruise has never hit a human.
Drives me mad when there’s armchair bickering about “well you could have just done X.”

Doesn’t matter. If there’s a law about getting out of the way, offering maximum space and choices to emergency vehicles, and you didn’t do that, you failed and you broke the law.

One can definitely bicker about the details, but it doesn’t change anything about the fact that the vehicle failed to obey the law.
Cruise does not get to decide where the amb goes. The amb does. If the amb needs the car to move, it needs to move. For ANY reason. Often with more info than the driver has. So the solution is: move. 100% of the time. Don’t clap back with “yeah but you could have gone to my right.”
i have been looking for such a thing for long time.. always had to do that AND also coding and architecting and generaly moving the whatever project. Except just once for 4 months (from ~15 years).

Well, last 2 years i played that without the coding part (as a CTO!).. but not sure if anyone up-there noticed.

So i slowly start to dispirit and go bitter.. Seems Consumerism (throw-away-buy-new culture) ate the software/knowledge profession too.

i don't know, either noone needs deep, experience-backed, 360' looking knowledge, or it started grow on trees?
I am very familiar with Prague and have spent weeks-months there. I have never had an issue with e-scooters. They are practically non-existent in Old Town and didn't really even notice them in Prague 2,3,4. Where do you live in Prague where this is the problem or was this an isolated instance or locals (kids) using them to get around?
We would see this issue because Paris is also restricting car traffic.

https://slate.com/business/2023/03/paris-car-ban-bikes-cycli...

> It’s part of a larger movement—spanning a half-century, two decades, or the mayoral tenure of the Socialist Anne Hidalgo, depending on whom you ask—to expel cars from the heart of the largest metropolitan area in the European Union. Car trips within Paris declined by almost 60 percent between 2001 and 2018, according to research from Atelier Parisien d’Urbanisme, the city’s planning arm; between the city and its suburbs, they have fallen by 35 percent. Car crashes have fallen by 30 percent; pollution has fallen too.
A starting point could be to target contractor positions posted by companies and/or recruitment agencies. Those are sometimes really close to permanent employment (except the job security and employee-specific perks) but will at least get you started in the game.

Be mindful of laws around disguised employment with those types of engagements. You need to make sure you are in the clear legally by paying the appropriate amount of tax for your given situation (in the UK the regulation is called "IR35" and tries to specify what falls under a legitimate B2B arrangement and what counts as "disguised employment" and incurs taxation equivalent to conventional employment).
Although in fairness liquid fuels are storable, so you can use intermittent solar and wind to run syngas processes. Low carbon power isn't really the hard part, grid stability and the existing vehicle fleet is.

Also of course, you could theoretically build nuke plants in the middle of nowhere that are remotely operatable, then use the power to make fuel. That could avoid NIMBY related costs.
They have released it to several media outlets. It sounds like SFFD lied, or to be more charitable, the report was based on eyewitness testimony which is notoriously unreliable.
I have one of those Ulysses Nardin phones in a drawer somewhere as I was working on the software part of it back in the days.

The mechanical charging mechanism on the phone was basically a gimmick. You would probably have to shake it around for a few days to get the phone to even start again, if your oligarch plane crashed in the desert and your phone ran out of power.
I'd respectfully disagree. For the first part, datura is an anticholinergic neurotoxin, a deliriant. Salvia is a kappa-opioid dissociative, without any known toxicities. The important thing to keep in mind with salvia is minimalism. It has no tolerance to speak of, so nothing is lost by starting small, well smaller than you know will give noticeable effect. Then build up from there. (An effect of salvia overdose is 'automatic action', where your body moves on impulse without the intervention of your waking mind)
Exactly. Countries with birth rate > 3 should be unacceptable in 2023... One of the main forces driving Europe crazy today.
I think we could combine all of those into an efficiency tax, any productivity that outpaces the baseline of what an average (otherwise untrained) highschool graduate can produce is taxed in proportion to the relative increase in productivity.
For years I’ve felt “weird” and “wrong” for working this way.

I still feel guilty when telling people that I am only open for meetings from 11 am to 5 pm. The only exceptions are people in distant time zones.

It can also feel wrong if your SO is on a regular 9 to 5 and you are getting up without an alarm clock, going shopping and making appointments in the middle of the day, and generally setting your own work habits according to your own preferences. Last night I was working at 1 am because I couldn't sleep and there was something I wanted to get done.

OTOH, she never has to go food shopping and I have always been there for the kids in ways that are not possible for her - helped my adult child load and unload a moving truck last Wednesday afternoon, and over the years took both kids to school activities, driving lessons, and other events that my spouse couldn't attend.
I have, which is why I recommend beginners to NOT start with anything above a microdose of shrooms.

If you think tripping at near-DMT levels for that duration is something a noobie should experience, please do not trip sit or further give shamanic/healer advice.

Shrooms, especially alone, is the worst thing a beginner could start with, exactly because the potency between stems right next to each other vary wildy.

15mg of volumetrically dosed 4acoDMT with a -zolam is perfect, with no stomach pains because there is no metabolizing needed, it is a direct prodrug of psilocybin. Little body load, less mental, more visual.

It's a shame that, what, 6+ generations of synthetic awesomeness are suppressed because people think "shrooms" are more "organic and natural"
I have the premium option and it’s nice. I use it primarily as a spellchecking tool. And it sometimes detect when I use the wrong style (English is my third language).
If there was a reason that the ambulance didn't move right, then wouldn't that same reason exist preventing the taxi from moving right? Even moreso since they don't have lights and sirens like the ambulance?
Unions don't rely on the generosity of others, they rely on shared economic interest.

In any supply chain whoever is able to consolidate and monopolize has economic power over their suppliers and customers. This sets off a chain reaction of consolidation as everyone else has to get bigger in order to protect their margins from being eaten by Amazon and Wal-Mart.

Unions are no different. If your industry is two or three companies you can't leave for a better job. So you have to either collectively negotiate or not negotiate at all.

While I disagree that AI is presently capable of replacing voice actors, I don't think it matters. We already have a global agreement that impacts AI, which is the copyright on the training data used in the models[0]. While you probably can't stop someone from training on public data entirely[1], you definitely can prohibit the use of derived models to generate work that competes in the same market using copyright.

US businesses were able to break the backs of working-class unions like UAW using free trade agreements with countries that don't respect organized labor. Mexico and China[2] are hideously anti-union in ways that would be patently illegal in the US. I'm not entirely sure this process would work for creative talent. It would require Hollywood to completely undermine their cultural hegemony and shut down their own productions in favor of foreign cinema from Japan and the EU - countries that have explicitly been in favor of ML training on public data.

[0] Unless you're worried about the North Korean film industry adopting AI, in which case...

[1] There are some lawsuits attacking generative AI on this basis but I expect fair use to block those cases

[2] Yes, communist China, ironically enough
What happens when Bangladesh fully modernizes and the average Bangladeshi consumes the same amount of energy as an American today?
According to this crowd the alternative is probably to pretend bikes and trains can supply all transit needs and ignore the existence of rural and suburban areas.

Everyone just has to move into transit accessible cities. Of course that would require building massive amounts of urban housing that these same people would protest because it would “destroy the character of the neighborhood.”

There’s a certain mentality that thinks everything is wrong and horrible and any proposed solution is suspect unless it demands onerous sacrifice or doesn’t work. On the left it’s the degrowth people. On the right it’s the trads. God help us when those two groups figure out they’re actually on the same side.

(PS I think trains are great and we should build more of them. Same with urban housing. But trains can’t solve the entire problem. EVs are absolutely required to decarbonize as not everyone wants or is able to live in a dense city.)
Maybe the techies should form a union and lobby the local municipalities to relax the zoning laws.

After all, some of that monopolistic rent should go to good uses.
salaries for tech workers are a joke in DE/AT when accounted for cost of living, taxes and what other professionals are making. the incentives do not match the work put in, hence why they can't find people and are in constant state of "wonder".

what seems to be the way to go is people ladder hopping every 2 years to make it to a managerial level, because when you not a manager you are nothing in Germany salary wise. the tech worker career track simply does not exist.
Poor Maytag man, still nothing to do.
For anyone unfamiliar with the term firelighter, they are talking about fire starters.

Are these that widespread that they are concerning? I thought they were mostly for lazy outdoors people.

I use newspaper with olive oil to start charcoal grills. Never had trouble starting a fireplace, wood stove or camp fire with anything other than tinder.

Fire starter tablets often contain hexamine which I don’t really want close to my food.
Not to be contrarian but an e-scooter balance seems inherently less safe than a bike. It's actually one of the main concern when I'm around one, you see the base about to tilt ever 5m or so and you never know if the person splash in front of you.
It's a bit more expensive to fly with your $400 electric scooter too. Travelers are pretty numerous in the big scootering cities.
But for Texas they do have the very best public transport. Everybody there drives with the bus, in Houston or Dalles only the ones who cannot afford a car
dart myself and my puppy out of the way of these jerks

Imagine what problems cars would cause if traffic regulations were not enforced.

Look at all the infrastructure, rules, regulations and surveillance we maintain to make the use of these large, heavy, loud, air polluting vehicles possible.

Why not put some effort into making the use of small, lightweight, silent, clean vehicles possible?

snap a picture while keeping pup safe, would it be actionable?

Since the scooters have license plates, it should be actionable. Additionally, the scooters have pretty precise GPS. Which would in the majority of cases support the accusation of driving on the sidewalk.
I think the connection between technology/consumption with comfort is constructed by our system to manipulate you. The concepts are not synonyms. I honestly don't think having a lawn or a big car or pools or the newest devices bring me significant comfort.

In fact, I feel like if we did things less capitalist, we'd be more comfortable. How about devices that last longer and don't force fashion on you? (I'm looking at apple removing headphone jack, changing the notch, glued batteries, etc)

Further, how about shared pools that can be more comfortable and without requiring maintenance from you? (Or do you hire someone to take care of it for you?) Same with lawns and cars. Why not parks and transit systems?
stimulates a 5 alarm fire response.

it doesnt calm them down, it distracts them from you robbing the honey comb.

if you overdo it, the bees will abscond with the queen, and cropfulls of honey, and follow the scouts to a putative hive location, just like a real wildfire.

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i rarely use smoke, or veils, or gloves, we are all familiar with each others scent, and behaviour.
It always bothered me that Square reads the magnetic stripe but Stripe does not.
This seems to be a credible source yet it was downvoted, so I upvoted it back.
> As is often pointed out on HN, electrical cars are substantially heavier than their fossil fueled alternatives

Curb weight:

Ford Taurus: 3917 lbs.
BMW 330i: 3536 lbs.
Tesla Model 3: 3862 lbs.

Is this supposed to be a massive difference?

> With the recent advances of turning CO2 into other substances, such as propane, should we be focusing more on closing the carbon cycle and simply be producing fossil fuels from the waste products of yesteryear?

There is nothing prohibiting anybody from doing this. Make it cost effective and people will buy it. But those things are all theoretical or uneconomical right now, so until that changes we should carry on with the thing we know works.
Yea, amazing, not perfect.

If DaVinci hadn’t developed the robot, would more people be able to afford health care?
Having some knowledge about how such contracts usually go there’s approximately zero chance of him getting it.

It’s not just about potential corruption but also about how risk averse large organizations are. The tender would definitely include revenue, employee count, and potentially other thresholds, as well as require that X such projects have successfully been carried out during the past Y years.
Is any company in that area actually making a profit? It just doesn't seem like a sustainable business model given all the work necessary to handle charging and distributing the scooters. I don't think you can arbitrarily jack up prices here as well to compensate.
>>Datura is a deliriant.

Such definition includes very little context. You should try more functional, mindful set&setting based approaches.
Were UK airports once different from American ones? Cuz what he's complaining about sounds like "an airport" to me.
We are having less kids though. Give it time and in 30-50 years we’ll have global population shrinkage on our hands.

The issue is society as currently structured doesn’t exactly work without population growth.
- "blocked a San Francisco ambulance from getting a pedestrian hit by a vehicle"

I'm taking no "position" on either "side" of the debate, but I feel it's noteworthy that a *human-driven* car killed a pedestrian (seriously?) here, and that fact is utterly banal and completely unremarkable to the authors—and to us. AI cars are still highly flawed and kill people. Human-driven cars are highly flawed, probably more flawed, and kill way more people. This is sort of a trolley problem, and we suck at solving those.

Because: incompetent killer humans are a diffuse force of nature; incompetent killer AI's are a centralized, attributable malefactor. We humans love identifiable malefactors, evildoers; love identifying and spotlighting and ostracizing them. It's a honed evolutionary trait. We've no atavistic instinct for the opposite, utilitarianism—for minimizing harm through "rational" (?) number-crunching, even where it conflicts with "obvious" (?) morality. Should we? Or is the other side of the trolley switch the correct one?
Not the first. Amsterdam is an European capital that never allowed these rental 'scooters' ('steps' in Dutch) in the first place.

Btw, in Dutch 'scooter' is more like a sturdy motorized bike, a 'moped' maybe, in some languages? Those electric rental scooters can be rented in Amsterdam but are much more expensive. I assume Paris also continues to allow those.
You don't probably want delicate assembly operations on production lines. You do everything possible in designing what ever you are building to not do them.

On other hand, multi-axial CNC machines and various welding robots are quite amazing.
The universal health care in Canada is a little overrated:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/11/canada-cases-r...
The article states it would have required breaking the jaw in two.

So it was doable but as the article states "no one was lining up"
Lotta old redditors swapping over to other social media sites around then
It's uncanny how much nuance and craftsmanship there is to Oppenheimer you need to just... discard in order to make it into an example of a property that would benefit from AI.

If ever there was a movie that could only have been made by one person. If ever there was a movie that if it had been made by anyone else would have fallen along so much more standard and predictable lines.

Ask an AI to create a talky 3 hour biopic with as few explosions as Oppenheimer, and people would flock to it at blockbuster levels. Go ahead. Keep clicking the generate button. Use the Nolan preset.

There are so many movies you could argue wouldn't lose anything for being AI. I wouldn't even trade those for AI, but I acknowledge they exist. Marvel has about 30 alone.

And if ever there was a technology more analogous to the bomb in terms of the need for their creators to have been more humble and prepared and less naive about their effect on the world before rather than after the invention, it's generative AI.

Even if Murphy was a nepo baby, you're right there's unfairness in Hollywood, still we can't overlook how much we still need people and we can't be so naive as to think the same unfairness in human nature would just go away rather than simply start to benefit a different set of privileged people.
In this case we have a documented history of the origins of reggae music as an outgrowth from ska and reggae. This includes confirmation of the genre's post-Independence origins. So I'm not sure what this "Indian Origin of Reggae" comes from or why no historian or musicologist has ever noticed this.
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What is this?
So you will just always defer to public safety officials for everything they want and desire in the name of that safety?

That seems like it would be bad idea
I have small kids and there are always idiots on electric scooters flying by on sidewalks that I worry will really hurt one of my kids. I don't think electric scooters are inherently unsafe (I own an e-bike), but I think the people who use them tend to be reckless and naive--and often drunk.
> This editor is not designed for editing very large files.

Anyone have any GUI (non-CLI) recommendations for editing larger files, specifically text files 10 MB+?
Power Consumption Calculators (of home appliances and devices)
If we were spending more on spreading the basics and less on 'nice to have' robots, yes.
What to do when the docs aren't enough
Is it fair to tell an emerging county, hey I made my wealth doing X, however you can’t do X as it’s wrong.

Unlikely the emerging country will listen without the prior wealth being shared. And it’s unlikely for wealthy countries to give up their wealth.
I strongly support using OSS every chance I have, and do what I can as a non-programmer to support OSS projects, but as someone who trained on industry standards for audio editing (since the 1990s, starting with Syntrillium’s Cool Edit Pro) I found Audacity quite difficult to use. I really don’t understand this philosophy that prefers when applications lack any cohesive visual design language. “Designed by engineers” is every bit as problematic to me as “engineering by designers”.