skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like I'm doing a good job of, if not persuading people, at least putting the idea in people's heads by talking about it. Being optimistic is our best bet :)
Yes.

Da Vinci is famously not better. There isn't a single study showing its better. It's also not less expensive, and doesn't reduce staffing needs in the OR.

What is it? A marketing tool. Surgery centers and hospitals can drive increases in patients and patient throughput, improving their bottom line. It's marketing and throughout.

They have a classic razor razor blade model. The surgical instrument are proprietary and locked in with eeprom chips in the disposables. They only last a handful if cases and then must be replaces. Intuitive made something like 80 billion last year and has had no real competition in their market for decades. As a result they've been able to pretty much write their own checks, choosing how much stuff costs and achieving huge margins on lots of very expensive equipment and supplies.

Source- I've worked on and lead the design teams for surgical robots for several companies in the field.
I believe you’re citing a stat corresponding to the number of traffic fatalities. That doesn’t mean in all of those cases one person killed another as you implied. For example if someone dies after drunk driving and crashes themselves into a tree that doesn’t seem right to say “the driver killed someone”
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I can only find data up to 2021, but in urban environments in France that year, 165 pedestrians were killed in crashes involving a passenger vehicle. 2 were killed in crashes involving "Personal Mobility Devices (motorized)".

Source on page 79 - https://www.onisr.securite-routiere.gouv.fr/sites/default/fi...

(Meanwhile, 190 pedestrians were killed in just my state of Illinois in 2022)
> But the high-skilled labor? Finance, HR, admin in the corporate office... if they were to strike in solidarity with the peasants, corporate would have a much more difficult time to replace them.

And they should, while their skills are “high-skilled”.

Every chance there’s the generic executive looking to cut costs, and the hard to quantify losses like reputation; security; maintenance; and longevity get pushed aside.
Or much of anything, for those committed to doing nothing regardless of the data or presentation.
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That’s fine. We could cut probably 30-50% off our car use that way provided we could completely overrule NIMBYs and force massive urban development.

That would leave the other 50-70% of the country.
In fact I really like the look of the Mkdocs Material system for blogs --
https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/blog/

And they have integrations with comment systems like giscus.
You're downvoted because you chose to be pedantic about something that everyone, including the original poster, understood.
It's not just that. Solar is already cheaper than other generation methods, except that it's intermittent. So it needs some kind of storage technology.

The batteries in electric vehicles are a storage technology, so all you have to do is charge your car while the sun shines. If you need the batteries anyway it makes much more sense to put them there so you can also stop burning gasoline.
This website is meticulously curated by passionate artists who love this sort of thing. So no, neither of those things is true.
Unfortunately promotion is the best way to get more money at most companies without leaving.
> not the fact that scooters are allowed.

If you read my comment, you will notice I didn't say anything about this.
"Maybe traffic was moving so quickly that they'd have to accelerate hard and risk hurting the patient,"

This shouldn't be an issue - traffic is required to yield.

"Regardless, Cruise's vehicle clearly was at fault for not getting out of the way."

Yes, at fault for not getting out of the way. The article is a little misleading with it's insinuating that the patient death was somehow related.
I agree with you about the steps to take, though I don't think "degrowth" is the right label to that approach. When people say "degrowth" they often mean a reduced standard of living. But it's possible to reduce raw resource utilization while at the same time improving quality of life and building wealth.

A high-quality, well-maintained car or a phone that lasts longer is more valuable than the disposable equivalent. Developing dense city centers creates wealth, reduces environmental impact, and improves quality of living all at the same time.

In an economy that really is shrinking, things tend towards stasis and people spend much more time fighting over the shrinking pie. A lot of the built environment needs to change to become sustainable, and that's only possible if the economy is vibrant, housing and transportation are plentiful, and people are motivated to improve their communities.

I don't know the solution to convincing suburban Americans to buy smaller houses and smaller cars, but I think the only way it works is if there is a positive vision of the future with both more wealth and a healthier planet.
The dirty little secret of my F-150 is that although it does not require massive lithium mining and subsequent environmental pollution, it in fact requires the combustion of hydrocarbons thousands of times a second every time I start the engine. Needless to say I'm shocked and I am looking into alternatives.
The city has no regulatory authority, and unfortunately the DMV (a state entity) largely allows them to self regulate.
Yes, that is the case.

The people who care are freaking out. The ones intent on denying it at all costs are sufficient to prevent them from doing anything about it.
Reminder that hedge funds that are short Tesla stock (and other stocks) spend many millions to PAY/sponsor people like the author to write hit pieces.

Not just blogs, also enitre media companies (CNBC for example) often considered "mainstream". This is not "just" a click-bait blog post (as in: the author doesn't necesarily primarily make money off of ads: the post itself is the ad).

Basically a bunch of hit pieces in exhange for cash under the pretention of journalism.
With a bbq chimney I’ve never need to use anything but newspaper to get the coal going.
Yes, but let's also avoid oversimplifying how complicated that robot is, how much tuning the controls took and how much special training the surgeon needed.

Not a new concept by any means, but still worthy of continued praise and admiration.
> And since these people aren't in the voting base, their issues don't matter at all to the government or the candidates.

I think you never heard about lobbying.
Even if their issues could matter, they don't pay for it to be pushed on the agenda.
People have all kinds of sex for all kinds of complex reasons, and have throughout history. You’re right that the repression of same sex attraction / expression / intercourse has led us to a place where “Born This Way!” Is the safest way to pose it.

I have met men who didn’t find other men attractive in any substantial way under their wives died. I have met gay men who married women because they fell in love with a certain woman, and sexual attraction resulted.

Prisons, gender segregated societies, and single gender schools are places where homosexual acts happen. It doesn’t really say much about the people themselves.

For some people, maybe most, attraction is “stable,” but whether that has something to do with their innate being or the conditions they live in, it’s hard to say.

As this point, personally, I see sexuality as less an identity or state and more of just an expression of what a person happens to desire over a certain period of time. Sexual desire isn’t all that different from hunger (the ASL signs for these are almost identical). A person could spend years of their life really into a certain set of foods, and then discover they’re into others. I used to hate mushrooms, now I love them. Hormones, environment, society… all of these impact “sexuality.”
I feel like that was covered by the "Everyone just has to move into transit accessible cities" statement.
Weird, I had battery replaced and they made me turn on location services and/or find iPhone. Would have refused in theory but was already in process.
> Why not put some effort into making the use of small, lightweight, silent, clean vehicles possible?

What for? So that they can extract more money and let the rest of us deal with the externalities?

This is the people telling those companies that they create too much hassle for what they contribute. People are still welcome to have their own lightweight, silent, clean vehicles. The various start-ups who came here were just too much of a pain for everyone.
Why?

If it's your internet forum, run it as you see fit.

It will mitigate the time waste that is jailhouse lawyer threads.

If it matters, hire a lawyer because terms of service is a legal document.

Good luck.
Minecraft has no storyline or named characters though. It's not really "competing" against games with voice acting, as they're totally different genres. To me this feels like like saying movies don't need better CGI than Playstation 2 quality because of how's successful Paw Patrol and Baby Shark are.
I didn't realize people had these associations with degrowth. Maybe I should have said "alternative growth" or something.. I think we should decouple wealth and comfort from individual marketable material objects.
> an AI taking app.

I have no idea what that does, but I want it.
Drones drones drones drones drones.

The war in Ukraine has transformed drone tech. Ukraine alone is burning 20k to 30k drones a month. The military applications are leading to huge investments; economies of scale are leading to rapid improvements in tech and reduction in costs.
"The motte-and-bailey fallacy (named after the motte-and-bailey castle) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy where an arguer conflates two positions that share similarities, one modest and easy to defend (the "motte") and one much more controversial and harder to defend (the "bailey")."
> "a subfield of computer science" (computability is a minor concern compared to the statistical underpinnings)

Computability theory is not all of computer science. It's just one subfield among many.
"a lot longer " quite the statement !

reading here says "the behavior and qualities of these large models is poorly understood"

prove me wrong?

ps- I agree that BERT-related models have been "wildly popular in NLP for years now"
> Why not parks and transit systems?

Where we live the parks are always safe and almost always clean. The same for the transit network.

There are plenty of apparently weathy places where that appears not to be the case.
As someone who lives near Santa Cruz and works in Silicon Valley who wants to own a home but is priced out of the market, I looked into the idea of buying some land in either the Santa Cruz Mountains or the Monterey Bay Area and building a tiny house as an alternative to paying apartment rent. The major challenge is zoning laws (more specifically, minimum square footage requirements) that prohibit people from living either in tiny homes on foundations or mobile homes (which I’ll define as homes on wheels). While there are some municipalities in California that allow tiny homes, they usually only allow them in the context of ADUs. Even some of the more far-flung rural counties I’ve looked into prohibit tiny homes. I've since given up on the idea and resigned myself to the fact that I will need to relocate if I want to own a home.
Real wages everywhere are stagnant.

Higher salaries are eroded by high cost of living and higher taxes
Just curious, how exactly you're using this? You'll write stuff in a file and run `write-good stuff-i-wrote.md` and then look through the suggestions and modify as needed?
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Today it works for me, same setup, same DNS, same browser. :???:
This robot didn’t pull money that would otherwise be used for giving people healthcare. You’re complaining about unrelated things, the problem is around bought and sold politicians allowing for regulatory capture in healthcare, not around great science and engineering building an impressive product. This what-aboutism is just pathetic.
Sure, it's pretty easy to make fun of transplants complaining "Austin is so hot!", but as someone who has lived here for a quarter century, I think many of these complaints are valid, and, at least for me, "the bloom is off the rose" when it comes to Austin, and the past 5 years or so have seen a notable deterioration in Austin's appeal:

1. When I moved here in the late 90s, there was "the grand bargain" of Austin: it didn't have the amenities like world-class museums, theater, sports teams or architecture of big cities like NY or SF, and it didn't have mountains or beaches, but it had the sweet spot of being much more affordable so that you could actually enjoy these things a lot more. You could afford to live centrally and enjoy things like Town Lake, downtown, the good smaller museums and theaters we do have, etc. at a fraction of NY/SF prices. That bargain no longer works. Austin is expensive AF right now, especially housing, but its amenities and geography still lag what bigger cities offer.

2. Saying "Austin is where ambition goes to die" is a bit harsh, but there's also a lot of truth to it. People often move to Austin specifically because they're looking for a better work/life balance than other places. Young people move to Silicon Valley or NYC because they have big dreams and are willing to work insane amounts to try to achieve them (even if it means lots of other parts of their life suffer). I don't think Austin's focus is "bad", but it is noticeably different compared to NY or SF.

3. Obviously Austin has always been hot in the summer (I used to say we paid for our 10 months of great weather with 2 months of hell), but this summer was the worst by many objective metrics in a long, long time, and it's only going to get worse over the long run.

Obviously everything ebbs and flows, and after feeling like Austin was a "meme stock" over the past few years (tons of crypto bros, Musk fans and real estate investors moved here shortly before/during the pandemic), it's nice to see things calming down. Still, just looking objectively, I think there are a lot more cities now that offer a way better "bargain" than Austin does at the moment.
Yes, the medical advancement is quite amazing. Couple years ago a friend went on a funding tour visiting startups and he mentioned he saw a demo of 3D oral scanning device to build a 3D model of the teeth. This year I saw the device in my dentist office and did an oral scan to build the 3D mold for bite guard. He said it's cheaper than the old method.
Raspberry Pi 5 in 2024?
Yeah, sounds like a tough sell. Instead, let's persuade people to vote for politicians who support funding rail, bike, and ped infrastructure at par with or even with priority over car infrastructure.
Tesla (TSLA) tumbles on price cuts, “appreciating asset” dream going away
> as an approximate compass, if it has an hour hand (bisect the angle between the hour hand and noon, that's north or south, depending on your latitude, unless you're in the tropics where this doesn't work)

I've read and sort of understood and forgotten the technique before - but that's certainly not it: you could determine your north that way and spin around and it wouldn't change.
I, as a Real Engineer, REFUSE to use ChatGPT until we have a working theory of quantum gravity. Enough of this bullshit where no one knows the fundamentals of what they’re working with.
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This is the key. They don't want the third-world to industrialize.
> With the recent advances of turning CO2 into other substances

The "advances" are relatively modest efficiency improvements, but they don't change fundamental realities like the laws of thermodynamics.

"Unburning CO2" will require enormous amounts of energy. You may shave off a few percent of losses here and there, but the amounts are so huge, it is absurd to think that you could do that and just continue business as usual.

For your example of cars it makes even less sense. You have no practical way of capturing the CO2 from cars short of taking it from the air. So you added another extremely energy intensive process.
I really don't like these kinds of headlines.

The medical professionals are the real heros here. If the da Vinci system had just come out and this was some new capability I would understand. In this case the headline should say "surgical staff saves life of inoperable patient using standard surgical quality of care and using device that has been available on the.market for 15 years".

It's one thing to say "new Invention of the automobile saves life of first ambulance passenger" and another to say, today, the same thing.
Yeah I mean that’s pretty obvious. If you increase the cost of pollution then things will be more expensive, including for the poor. Still pretty disingenuous since the poor pretty much always get the short end of the straw by most economic crisis management, even though they are the least responsible for having created. Eg bailouts of irresponsible speculators.

Another aspect is that crises are really bad for the poor. Wars, pandemics and depressions is when the biggest poor-to-rich wealth transfers occur. Preventing crises is typically better for the poor than meager after-the-fact concessions.
As a driver in SF ive been stuck behind Waymo cars even as construction workers waved them to go with exaggerated hand motions. Was stuck for several minutes before hazard lights turned on and then shortly later it moved, i assume a remote human assistant got involved. Same with zoox, they have delayed me commuting to work. I want them banned/put back safety drivers
The founders went away with a whole bunch of VC money. They knew perfectly well what they were doing, and that was not establishing a sustainable business.
The argument is built on averages, it's not accurate per biology (what is someone intersex) or philosophy (needs an addendum or exception clause, so is not self-contained). This seems incomplete.
Before that, we had horses or donkeys to get around, as far as I can tell owning a household or personal beast of burden was about as common as personal or household car ownership is now.

People act like cars created a new paradigm, and they didn't - they extended and improved an old one.
Do you hate yourself for living under a roof when so many can’t? For eating dinner when so many are starving? For drinking clean water when so much pollution exists?

Good stuff happening shouldn’t make you miserable.
Though toxicity seems the main difference, comment above is talking about experience and not molecular mechanisms of action.

In a similar vein, if someone would ask a distinguished professor of neuroscience to provide a full description of the exact brain molecular state that "generates" an exact salvia experience (including any communicative content), s/he would fail.
Some of these are good, some are terrible. The rule about not using leverage is so bad that I can't take the rest of the article seriously. Anyone who really understands the purpose of debt and how to utilize it has to be laughing at this. The very best way to make money is with other people's money - this is a very basic tenet of wealth building. I challenge anyone to find an example of a business or wealth empire that wasn't built with some level of leverage.
I'm a fan of the fire hose through the windows type of solution. In the way and not occupied? Firetruck beats car. Car company doesn't like the loss? Provide overrides to move it.
A majority of the Carper folks (though not all) are in academia. Cambridge, Brown, Georgia Tech, NYU, etc.
Any reason not to extend that to all cultures? There is a limitation to the bandwidth any one community (including the smallest community, yourself) has to the "outside". Mass media and the Internet has certainly reduced the latency between cultures/communities but has not eliminated it.

I'm sure I'm not the only person to have thought about how cultural differences are sustained over time on the account of synchronization challenges due to bandwidth limitations between cultures (language, frequency, latency).
Growing up poor-ish and coming to a high income later in life (nearing 40 now) I believe growing your income is almost a prerequisite to accumulate wealth.

Sure, I wish I had known this advice earlier, but even if I did, now I would be only ever so slightly richer. When I spent the first half of my career in a low pay job living paycheck to paycheck, I simply didn't have the spare income to invest.
You would think that if the world is truly on the brink of devastation, it would be at least worthy of TRYING nuclear power.
how about drasticaly reducing unneeded complexity and de-bureucratisation of software?

Although i don't know how that matches anyone's agenda - software eating the world is exactly feeding on these "Perpetuum mobile"..
"People aren't going to "degrow" by themselves" is an immediate flaw, because, well, mere ideas were enough to convince me to change some of the ways I act. You're thinking about all this from policy at the global or national scale, but these ideas are closer to the local and organic level

It's actually a little concerning how your line of reasoning seems to follow the most dystopian path, can't you see any other way of it happening?
Bullshit.

Bike, ped, and rail infrastructure can be built at the national, state, and sometimes even local level. These things all reduce the need for owning so many cars.

Governments at any level can reduce how much they subsidize waste removal. Make people pay if they want to throw out more than is reasonable.

Carbon taxes can be levied against corporations, which would flow down to consumers and incentivize carbon-aware spending habits.
Is it because the systems are mostly designed on the 80/90 and are just outdated?

I guess you’d have to provide a solid reason for mgmt to invest into something new. So increased UX won’t cut it. AI/automation might, given that we potentially face massive shortages of admin people, looking at western societies. But it’s hard to see a path into companies to even start with this.
True, this happens. On the other hand, this is often the case for positions where you aren't allowed to wear jewellery or wouldn't want to wear jewellery anyway.

I.e. wearing a nose ring for a dev interview in a corporation with a strict dress code - likely a bad idea. But in a casual agency - you might get bonus points, if anything.