skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the real answer is to reduce consumption. It can and should be done without sacrificing comfort. This is a very uphill battle against systems that are interested in distracting you by turning your attention towards fads (recycling, electrification, carbon capture) when in reality we need degrowth and permaculture. (Please read this thread a bit more, including my replies, before you tell me what I think degrowth means. I'm only using it to mean "less [economic] growth")

In a bit more detail:

How about less cars? More effective public transit is good for people and the climate.

Let's do away with golf lawns and pools for every house... Perhaps architecture can be adapted to suit the specific location instead of stamping the same stock photo "American house with garage that can fit 4 cars." Look at passive cooling and stuff. [Again, I'm talking about redefining comfort. Is a personal pool and large car and trimmed lawn really, honestly, what makes you comfortable? Or is it more a product of culture and advertising? You're absolutely free to believe either way, and I don't want anyone to force you to do anything.]

And honestly, we need to consoom less. Devices should not have a lifecycle of one year. You and I don't really need all these gadgets and trinkets, either. Let's stop buying random things

If you think this is a distraction or that it won't work because we can't get everyone to agree: Degrowth and permaculture requires honestly no critical mass. You can choose to buy things that last longer, and use them a bit more. Learn to fix things, etc. These are all nothing but straight benefits to you (more money in your pocket, skills that can make you more valuable in the current system, more time available now that you aren't swiping short form videos all day).
All except "the right person who you can trust for some reason"
I still don't quite understand what 10m means in this context. Sorry, I'm slow.
‘Colonialism’ Review: Empire Without Apology
I wear a mechanical because the loud tick of a full size 1Hz second handdrives me bonkers. Although I can handle the small seconds in a quartz chronograph.
I’ll throw in anti-drone tech too. Countermeasures are where the money is!
Cybercrime to cost Germany 206B euros in 2023, survey finds
To type kana with their keyboards on their computers.
Note that "some sort of partitioning" isn't a hyperplane. A partition is a set-theoretic concept. A hyperplane is (a generalisation of) a geometric concept, so has much more structure.
Ok so the guys and gals who we pay to save your life are saying they're getting in the way. But MLRoboCorporation(TM)(c)(r) says fuck those guys, they can go around?

I think I'll side with the humans on this one, let them take control of the vehicle.

I don't care how much money Kyle Vogt loses to car theft, that's not my problem. Clearly this industry needs to get regulated hard.
Bridges are still very real obstacles to people in wheelchairs, bikes, with strollers or shopping carts, or just mobility impaired in general.
> So I'm guessing the advantage here is just a bit of price competition.

The minipcs from Beelink and Minisforum are slightly dlarger than a Raspberry Pi, but they ship with AMD Ryzen and Intel i5 8th and 11th generation, and sell for around 300-400€.

I don't think this competes on price too.
Could there be any possibility that the number of convictions is an indicator that more action is being taken against this particular crime than might be in other places? Just another potential detail to influence your "gut feeling" there...
It's amazing and creepy when people talk about this sort of thing like it was a simple, silly claims, talk.. We are talking about a country that as stolen, militarized and laid exclusive claim to many of the places they make claim to in this map.. In many cases land and ocean unambiguously part of other nations. These aren't blowhards merely talking loudly!
Okay, yeah I’m aware of a “tautological action” where the very definition of the group is in terms of an action on some space (like say GLn), but as far as I know, quantum groups are not defined as some set of transformations of the adeles.
I saw Vale earlier today. The tool helps you comply with technical style guides like those by Microsoft and Google, and the out-of-the-box Vale rules (the extent of the Vale rules I am unsure; I got way more suggestions when installing the Microsoft and Google extensions).

A few notes while getting it set up for macOS:

1. brew install vale
2. Create .vale.ini (in root dir, I think)
3. A minimal setup that lets you lint with Microsoft and Google style guides:

MinAlertLevel = suggestion
StylesPath = styles

Packages = Google, Microsoft

[*]
BasedOnStyles = Vale, Google, Microsoft

4. Run `vale sync` to install the Google and Microsoft style guide extensions.
5. Run 'vale {file}.md` to run the linter.
Yes, nobody has ever really explained to me how you handle problems that don't neatly decompose into simple tasks.

In my experience this is usually handled by pushing back on the requirement or kicking the can down the road.
> For example, one of the biggest loopholes in the tax code is the carried interest exception. It created modern Silicon Valley; YCombinator exists solely because of this loophole. Most of the nation regards it as the most blatant subsidy in the tax code, but it is essential to startup financing. How would you feel if they got rid of it?

Aside from the fact that we might lose HN? I'm completely for that. Most startups are just re-imaginings of existing businesses but worse. Silicon Valley gave us the gig economy and commercial-surveillance-as-business, and has flattened the Internet into like 6 websites all of which copy-cat the hell out of one another to the detriment of all the features that made each of them notable in the first place.

And you know, crazy thought here, but if I don't make enough money to offset my living expenses, I go broke and go into bankruptcy and lose everything I have. Maybe if a business can't exist without ludicrous subsidies and serves no purpose outside of that, maybe we don't need it?
My son (15) has expressed interest in studying materials science. While he's still years away from a firm decision, it doesn't seem like a bad path to me.
> I've seen ambulances with sirens blaring stuck in traffic

Yet another reason to accelerate the transition to self driving cars. The weirdness around emergency vehicles will be transitory. Once we hit critical mass, ambulances will basically never have issues like that again
Golf gear giant Callaway data breach exposes info of 1.1M
Broadly speaking, my bet is on three to four major ones:

* AI

* Cryptocurrency

* Solar

* Biotech/Bioinformatics

Doing some back of the envelope calculations you can get a rough guess that we'll have "human level AI" by 2030 or so. The current trend of AI producing spectacular results will, in my opinion, not cease but continue to pick up pace.

Back of the envelope estimates can show cryptocurrency holding, conservatively, 20% of the worlds wealth by 2030. I suspect the growth of cryptocurrency won't be independent of other technologies. Cryptocurrency gets a lot of flack here and other places but I'll remind people, yet again, that many of the critiques against cryptocurrency are eerily similar to critiques of the internet, email, the world wide web and social networks in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Back of the envelope estimates can show solar producing over half of the worlds energy needs by 2040. In addition to solar panels, there's battery technology, microgrids, etc. so this is really about what technologies are rolled out to satisfy the 2.5% yearly energy usage growth rate. I don't see any other technology that has "Moore's law"-like behavior in terms of the energy harvested vs. the energy invested than solar and battery technology.

Biotech and bioinformatics will have profound consequences for health, longevity and a host of other issues but I don't have a good sense for what the major innovations are that need to happen before this becomes widely adopted. I suspect AI will help with bio-engineering crops, drugs, food and help with general medicine but I don't quite know what that looks like. We silently hit a roughly $100 whole genome sequencing [0], so it's progressing, I just don't know what rough goals to predict or what to look out for.

All of the above are relying on a sort of "generalized Moore's law" in that the reason the innovation and adoption is so quick is because cost is dropping exponentially.

I created a small post about it with some simple justifications for where the timelines come from [1].

[0] https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/

[1] https://mechaelephant.com/dev/Future-Predictions.html
My feeling is that it would be better to tax them according to the problems they create.

Scooter left on the sidewalk? Charge the operating company with a ticket. So they will charge their customer.

Scooter driving in an illegal manner? Charge the driver and the company.

This way, scooters would be operated in a manner that is good for everybody. They are a very effecive way to get around in a city. Are used much more than personally owned cars and bikes, so less parking time / occupied space. They take up way less space while driving and parking. Make no noise. And emmit no air pollution.

It is similar to banning light bulbs vs introducing a carbon tax. Concrete laws like banning things are more popular. But taxing the problems they create is more effective.
1 pixel = 10 meters

i'm slow too
In general, interest in career advancement is collapsing.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/your-coworkers-are-less-ambitio...
> "We dont need __some tech thing__" is definitely not a statement of fact.

It's precisely as much a statement of fact as your proposed "Twitter-like platforms lead to increased negativity", just not quite as mealy-mouthed.

> There's literally no universe where this is true.

Besides this one.
I found it clear when I looked at the site, but never thought about prose being used in this way. I didn't know the actual definition though, and after googling it's clear.
This is one step closer for me to type more prose in vim!
Nice hallucination ... could it maybe used as a source of inspiration for new research avenues?
Good luck with the new role! I’m surprised you’ve shared this rant non-anonymously, I hope it doesn’t have negative effect on your progress.
Note that the ambulance was not impeded for 90 seconds; 90 seconds elapsed from the patient being put on the stretcher to the ambulance leaving the scene.
That's some pretty impressive example of misrepresentation. Quote the most lunatic doomsayers, misquote the scientists, t put them on the same foot as politians and TV actors, systemanticaly interpret "we have x years to act to avert problem y" as "problem y will hit in exactly x years", etc...

Almost all the marks hit. "Quine", as we say.

Never mind. Predictions are hard, especially about the future.
I think you're misunderstanding the debate.

This isn't mostly about background actors -- digital extras are already widely used for things like large crowd scenes. And it's far cheaper currently to hire an extra to be a bartender who hands the main character a drink, than to 3D render that -- so it's not about that either.

It's about studios wanting to own the likenesses and voices of every actor they hire for a project, so they can hire someone with a really unique look for a single episode, then be able to produce the rest of the season with a cheaper actor and use AI to do a face swap and voice swap.

And that's unacceptable. Actors should be able to retain the rights to their likenesses, end of story. A standard contract shouldn't require that an actor signs over all rights to their likeness for an entire series just in order to be paid for a single episode. That's not right.
> They are assuming that the US would let it get to the point of cartel operating in the States with impunity kidnapping and murdering their way into effectively owning the government.

No, they aren't.

They are explicitly describing that the US might be forced to take extreme action domestically to avoid the “with impunity” part, because the cartels have the resources and US penetration already to act, if they were no longer constrained by the threat of what the US might do if they did, which they cease to be when the US goes to war anyway.

> We could trivially and in short order destroy Mexicos ability to function as a modern nation by destroying power generation, water, farming, roads, bridges, shipping, trains, airplanes.

What happens to conditions in neighboring countries when the US has done that elsewhwere?

Now, where is Mexico?

> There wouldn't be a drug business there any more than there would be any other kind of business once all the engines that enable commerce are silent.

We destroyed Afghanistan that way.

It didn't destroy the drug business there, quite the opposite. Well, until the Taliban takeover, but I’m not sure that's the win you want to look for in Mexico.
Let's not forget "Swan and Morton scapel No. 3 removes inoperable tumor, saving patient’s life" ... 100,000 times.
> but then you got a phone call later on - naively to upsell something, or the next step up, trying to scam you

This should have been obvious in retrospect. Call spam is India's biggest export.
Love it. Maybe not because of showcasing the power of htmx. I've been finding myself doing kitchensink projects in go (purely for fun) and integrating newer ideas is just so regarding! Where are you hosting this btw?
I found “The personal MBA” by Jeff Kauffman to be a good start in that it provides a good foundational mental model to build on top of
The amount of carbon emissions is simply far too large for sequestration efforts, natural or otherwise, to make a significant dent.

In the end, what the world needs is an abundance of cheap energy without proportional carbon emissions. Everything else is secondary.
I would look at areas of technology that can help with the societal shift towards having greater numbers of elderly people living longer and wanting to maintain a higher standard of living.

Most western societies have an age curve moving to the right. Lots of opportunities with AI and disrupting the user experience for the elderly. Have relatives who can't use a touch screen because of arthritis, bonus is the have money
Banning cars would do the same though, even more so.

The issue is one of appropriate spaces, if we actually had decent cycle lanes then I don't think we'd see this issue.
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I have no interest at all in being some high ranking manager or director in any company. I want to clock in, do my work, and clock out so I can go do what I actually want to do.

Don't get me wrong, I love my job and find my work interesting. I'm incredibly lucky to be where I'm at. But I'm also completely fine just doing my thing and being done for the day.
Not sure, much more here:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,33&q=%22pi...
Degrowth is a lovely euphemism for the forbidden topic of having less kids. [insert “how dare you” meme]
When Lime, bird and (I think) spin came to my city, they were used heavily for a summer or two, but just as soon as it started, people realized they can buy a scooter for $400, weighs half as much, goes faster, and is effectively free (minus some nominal electricity charges) after the original purchase. For people who find themselves shocked at how much then spend just zipping around on a scooter, this is kind of a no brainer.

There are probably many more markers than these companies originally considered where scooter ownership works better than others, and it’s going to end up killing their foothold in the cities they operate in. I suspect as electric assisted bicycles become even cheaper and lighter, we will see the exact same trend.
No one is saying that the Cruise vehicle was behaving well.

But there's clearly a difference in the scope of the problem between A) vehicle behaves badly, but it causes no harm, and B) vehicle behaves badly in a way that causes harm repeatedly.
There is no validator for the 'validity' of trade secrets, it's simply nonsense to say that they can be 'validated' or 'invalidated'.

You can't dodge this point, which you appear to be doing as I never claimed copyright law is uniform in all jurisdictions worldwide, nor was that implied.

If you don't understand how these things work, it's better to not make bizarre claims.
If the problem already exists, then in Valve's mind, it ought to be even more concerned, no? Automation would be like pouring gasoline on a fire.
Human drivers kill 30,000+ per year in the US alone. Development of an automated driving option is a safety-critical context, and that requires real-world deployment experience.

The precautionary principle is not what is called for here.
Wow what a treat. Thanks for sharing this link. Outstanding.
The Bay Area is full of transplants who moved there out of ambition in the first place, so moving to a city that has largely been populated until now with those who either stuck around after growing up there or moving there for less-ambitious reasons is gonna give you that as a baseline. Austin, in particular, was long a "weird" laid-back-creative-vibe place. So even moving from a small town for more opportunities to Austin is a bit "lower ceiling" expectation/ambition-wise than moving to the Bay to work for a tech company.

And then "tech transplant" is a broad bucket but one of the most common quoted reasons for going Bay Area -> Texas is cost of living. There's two ways to deal with cost of living: try to out-earn the costs, or move somewhere cheaper. One of those is decidedly less ambitious (even if more realistic, reasonable, and wise for most) and that's gonna be reflected in the resulting populations. Even at a larger scale: relocating your corporate HQ out of CA for cheaper housing and salaries.. that's less an ambitious growth move, more a cost control move.
From time to time I had a real definite idea of how to spend 2 months and been highly productive at producing something that I don’t think anybody else could have but then the marketing angle fell through and I found out nobody cared.
The US Copyright Office just took a big step toward new rules for generative AI
2) sure.. and you won't be happy if someone carjacks your uber either I imagine? get out of the car.
I suppose this comment will not be liked very much, but let me offer one another perspective on this. In one team in our organization, someone was hired who offered themselves (by their own initiative) as a developer coach with the intent on pairing, reviewing and in general helping other devs. They were very confident, and as we employ team recruiting, the team decided it's worth a shot, as the candidate displayed knowledge of relevant skills and - as already mentioned - was very confident to educate his peers. It was an intra-organization lateral move, so not much risk involved. Everyone was on board with that decision, and the expectations were clear: they would not be expected to produce code and/or design documents and so on, they should just support the other devs. It should be mentioned that the team they wanted to join was a really high performing team - still (or because of this?) they were open to the idea of having a well-trained, experienced pairing partner and so on.

Well after a few weeks it turned out not so positive. They had quite a broad knowledge of things, but not in depth. They didn't think far enough (like for example, giving the tip to "use a FIFO SQS queue" despite not really understanding the fine-print, but still they persisted and it ended up in a prod rollback), they preferred educating about code style, didn't really listen to feedback (not in the sense of ignoring it, they didn't even realize that they weren't so senior compared to the rest of the team at all) and in general slowed everyone down without bringing much benefit to the table.

In the end they didn't get fired or something like this. They did another lateral move as the team explained why the team doesn't want to continue this. After their next team change, they talked about that this specific team didn't want to accept their help and that they had received bad feedback since they didn't produce code.

Obviously this is just an anecdotal counterexample, but still this can happen as well.
This story is about an actor's union, not a writer's union.
I moved to Austin in 2012 and left in 2020. What was great back then was that salaries were almost comparable but the COL was so much lower. Until 2016 or so, Austin had the best salary to COL ratio of tech towns in the country. But that all changed when the Californians started showing up en masse.

Austin was never truly going to compete with SF on its perks, but it was a cool town that allowed people to live comfortably.
London next please.
It would acheive both: destroying the goals long sought by US trade policy, and increasing terrorist violence (in the short term by cartels, but once you destroy Mexico, it won't just be the cartel members with motives, opportunity, and a perception of nothing to lose) directed at US policymakers.
Survivorship bias? If it were a car you wouldn't be around to tell the tale.

Surely the issue is the scooter on the pavement, not the fact that scooters are allowed.
This is missing a very important part of how certain software became de facto standards: by achieving dominating market share, which, in turn, was achieved by shipping working software with passable UX, ruthless business practices, making governments use the software, and making schools teach the software.

I'm writing this because the software is already there. There are decent alternatives to most things, sometimes multiple. What isn't there is government adoption, and commercial adoption.
Could you please give an example graph from the site, and how you’d improve it?
Interesting read.. Brings up some good points.
Maybe if the Bay Area started building enough housing, people who wanted to live there could do so.
I wrestle with this frequently as I am on the cusp of Senior to Principal promotion. Principal means more money but diverting from my preferred sweet-spot of tactical and strategic technical leadership.

The optimal answer for me is to stay at Senior level and enjoy my work to an extent. But I am forgoing the related compensation increase and career progression.

Then my thoughts turn to working for myself or with other friends/associates I trust and potentially seeing more of a reward for the effort I put in every day.
It was operated by a human surgeon.
This article glosses over the reason people moved to Texas in 2020-2021. It had nothing to do with tech or public transportation.
Toto develops bidet feature that can be adjusted by smartphone
A WWII documentary series is being demonetized by YouTube [video]
'World War Two' is an enormous documentary project that's been following WWII week-by-week in ~real-time for the past 5 years.

Its content is increasingly being age-restricted and demonetized by YouTube.
I mostly agree, but the actors and all are worried that they will lose their bargaining power completely, and the studios are gonna do really crappy things like use their faces / bodies /voices with little to no compensation. It's not just about replacement, it's about wholesale theft of their persons.
My father was a born Austinite [St. David's] — he raised me in Cuernavaca (just outside city limits, west of Austin). We are both relics of a 20th century Hill Country, which time has now changed (inevitably, as always happens):

I am grateful to have moved away from my childhood memories of not having to purchase tickets in order to enjoy so many of the natural water features around town. I live outside Texas, with no plans to return.

¢¢ — I'll get off my [own] lawn, now. Enjoy ATX's modern fluorishings! All are welcome to make anywhere Something.