skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree.

You can't enforce a speed limit by simply placing a speed sign and hoping everyone is going to magically follow them. More cops or speed cameras isn't going to work either.

My city is currently working on a plan to lower the speed limit from 50kmh to 30kmh (30 mph to 18 mph). The entire thing is a multi-year program because it essentially means redesigning those roads from scratch.

A road which has been designed for its speed limit doesn't even need a speed sign - the driver will naturally be driving at that speed already because anything faster will feel unsafe to the driver.
> Hardly anyone obeys it of course.

Isn't is wonderful how vehicle owners are entitled to break the law, and nobody seems to care? Driving drunk, ignoring the speed limit, are all actions that directly endanger unrelated citizens. And all that vehicle operators have to say is "of course".
I don't think that admitting an AI is in some way sentient would create a push to protect it. Animal testing is still very popular, despite there being no arguments about them being sentient. The tech industry isn't a moral leader and, based on some things major companies do, isn't even moral.
I know nothing about this guy, but in this tweet, its pretty clear why:
https://twitter.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/171333500612114051...

"If that is a crime, send me back to jail."

Well, yes, its been made pretty clear [1] that, this is indeed a crime in the UK. Now whether that is right or wrong, is for a million other people to argue about, but it is a crime.

And, in the replies, many were quick to tag police and cpsuk to let them know.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/hamas-suella-braverman...
I will wait until machine intelligence will have any symptoms of being conscious, then it will be able to "dismiss" anything. Until then, it's just another mathematical model, used recently for several new hyped schemas of making money.
Because it's always a waste of time for multiple reasons.
>Every car sold at the moment lowers the speed shown on the speedometer algorithmically

Your example increases speed shown

20mph shown and 32kmph being base means that

20mph shown and 27kmph being actual means shown is increased?
Ah right. Yeah we had a good laugh about that, why put up so many if you make it so easy to spot them?!
It does not matter how much energy is there available in the Universe. Even if there is infinite amount of it, you can't still use it because only finite amount can ever be reached / affected by any single observer. Only finite amount of universe can ever reach any single observer.

So for example, there is a limit on the mass of the computer that can be constructed and still send its result to a single spot in space in the future. And the longer you wait, the smaller the limit because less and less of the universe is available to you to build the computer.
Always good to accuse someone of racism in the first interaction you ever have with them.
I'm french as well and I despise how the 30km/h limit is rarely obeyed

I'd just put speed cams until they stop paying for themselves and then use the following year's funds to narrow the worst of these roads.
> 1) try my hardest to leave the world a better place than it was when I arrived

Why? What is the reason for that? You will not care about it when you're dead and right now you might spend a lot of resources for that, decreasing your quality of life, which is everything that you have.

> I try to take actions that contribute to the well being of others or humanity as a whole whenever I can.

Same as above. It's probably very hard, without any benefits to you on Earth.

> I think we can all have well being as a goal without resorting to any unsubstantiated religious dogma.

We probably can indeed, but I do not understand the logic of pursuing long-term benefits for everyone while sacrificing immediate benefits for yourself. Is this just an instinctive decision?

> I’m curious to know what you think any of this has to do with “the meaning of the universe” (whatever that means).

The Universe looks extremely complicated and unlikely to me. It's laws are fine tuned to make it as complicated as possible. The more we learn about how it works, the more questions appear. Whenever we think that we understand most of it, new discoveries turn everything upside down. The Universe is almost designed in such a way to create humans, if not on Earth then somewhere else. Could this be the meaning of the Universe? Then, there might also be the meaning of humanity, too.

Another angle to this. Imagine there is a possibility to create a simulation of the Universe. If someone could do it, then they likely run many simulations simultaneously, just like people do. Then, the probability for you to be born in a simulation is much larger than in reality.

Offtopic:

>purpose of my life, at a biological level it’s to procreate

At this point, this purpose goes against the well-being of humanity: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7159189/
Thank you! I’ve been thinking this for a while but hadn’t quite found the right way to articulate it.
It’s something you just know if you’re bilingual or more. It would sound threatening to monolingual speakers but this is just how it works. Languages are our thought construction algorithms.

It’s not a “Turing Completeness isn’t real” hypothesis, more like just “Rust != C”. I think this is where software nerd types predict wrong, as it sounds as if it is trying to disprove TC, which shall be futile attempt. It’s not(the former one at least).
There are three speed cameras in 20mph limits near me in my area of London. Whenever I'm near them I see someone flashed by them about once every 5 minutes (one is opposite a bus stop that I often wait at).

It's surprising just how many people will continue to speed past these very visible cameras.
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> My friend and I have a theory that a significant chunk of the problems mentioned in the article could be solved if every guy had a genuine platonic friend who is a girl.

I suspect that the causation might be reversed. In other words, men who women want to be friends with may have the personality attributes that allow them to express their masculinity in non-problematic and easeful ways.
Plus you’d be constantly looking a the speedometer and not the road.
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Neither this study nor the previous one from the same authors seems to look at the water. I would have thought the hardness of the water also influences what grows in the starter. Especially with white flour, which has few minerals.
At best 1% of people in this thread would be capable of noticing a well mounted attack of this sort, and I assure they would not be using a random charging station :) (Or they will do it with device locked or turned off, which mitigates the attack but also means they wouldn't find out about it.)

Many devices do not request data access for an input accessory like a mouse-- and if you gain input you can dismiss the popup instantly in your exploit.

Also, many people might not pay attention to that popup.

Also, 0days exist.
That is hilarious because it first happened way back when GDPR was in the news, to me at least, I opted out because why not. Sure enough a lot of features stopped working. But here's the funny part, they came back! And from then until just a a month ago I've had my search history "disabled" but all those features working. Then suddenly a month ago they told me yet again that I have to enable search history and this time they disabled all the same shit.
> Every car sold at the moment lowers the speed shown on the speedometer algorithmically.

? Do you mean "raises"?

The legal requirement is that it MUST NOT under-report your speed. So generally they over-read by about 10% compared to GPS ground track speed measurement.
I have a gun and pretty fast a car, never in my life I've escalated anything even to a fistfight. Why can't cops be held to a standard of discipline?
Named thematically with pelican crossings (originally pelicon crossings - PEdestrian LIght CONtrolled), since phased out.
I would add to your point that streets should be designed to the highest speed and throughput practical[0] for their locale. It's an obvious source of 'driver frustration' when the apparent objective of these changes is to add friction to transport. No one likes having to dodge speed bumps, or being stuck in traffic on a 'calmed' street.

[0] which needs to be supported by e.g. separated bike lanes, well marked and signed x-walks, employment of limited access roads vs. stroads, enforcement, etc.
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WebSockets: Shaping Real-Time Communication
I won’t quote Edison here, but I totally agree.
Well I'm sure that's the case for some of them but you shouldn't let jokers and extremists poison your opinion of what is in reality a quite sensible policy.
Please try to be more scientific in your posts, thanks!
Well, they're still in beta, even notifications weren't working that well up until recently. Plus, being closed off from the non-users might be a marketing thing. A lot of people were hyping it up with invites being seen as very desirable.
>still way too cheap

Said no sane person ever.
Well they don't put cameras where you can't exceed 60. That would be stupid. Where they do put them, people get caught at over 60. So I still don't see the problem.
For me the way manual gears are calibrated at present, it is difficult to maintain speed at 20mph. It is very easy to overshoot compared to 30mph.
> there are barely any speed cameras in the UK (compared to other European countries) and yet almost everyone drives under the limit

As a UK resident who spends a lot of time in France and Italy this statement really surprised me, and really isn't my experience. I had to read it twice as I assumed you meant the opposite

I recently drove from Brighton to Glasgow vis Nottingham. I'd easily passed through 10 before I reached the M25 south of London, including one on the street I lived on. The M25 itself easily had 10 possibly way more. The M1 must have had another 10 or so. I passed through about 5 or so driving through Nottingham. Similarly there about 5 before I hit the A1 which now has dozens. There were 3 or 4 on the A66 and even the M74 and M8 have cameras now. I keep Apple Maps on the whole journey even though I don't need it, specifically to beep and warn me when I'm approaching one.

I can't recall seeing cameras in France, but I'm sure they are there somewhere, plus I rarely drive through the large cities. I've never seen one in Italy, but maybe I don't know what they look like and I tend to drive the same routes. I have seen the police at the side of the road with a handheld radar.

Are we maybe driving different parts of Europe?

A quick check (after writing most of this) gave me this graph which, as a non-member, I can't see the sources for, but looks believable.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1201490/speed-cameras-pe...

Which, ignoring Russia, has Italy #1 and the UK #2. So, clearly, I'm not driving the parts of Italy with lots of cameras, but the UK has more cameras than most European countries.

> yet almost everyone drives under the limit

Is also something I haven't observed. We have 'boy racers' shooting up and down our street, the M25 has giant expensive cars aggressively pulling up behind you and flashing their lights and driving through speed camera without a care (or weaving through traffic by undertaking). The right-hand lane of most motorways is people driving 90-100 mph when they can. My experience is that it's congestion, not British good manners that keep people under the speed limit. On the M11 which, last I checked, was still camera free, the fast lane was people driving at 100mph. The 6 lanes on the A1(M) between Huntington and Peterborough was even faster. I recently got an early-morning Taxi from Brighton to Heathrow, and the taxi driver drove at 125mph between cameras.
> That's not as I understand it. Why would SMS OTP be used? 100% of accounts today will already have a password, that's how you would login if you lose your only passkey device.

I've been using passkeys on yahoo.co.jp for a while now after they prompted me to set it up.

It works fine on my Mac, but for whatever reason it won't see the passkey on my phone - it just pops up a QR code dialog and says to scan it on another device (my only other device is my Mac which won't scan QR codes). iCloud Keychain is syncing fine - regular passwords on other sites work.

Once that fails it drops back to SMS OTP. There is no option to log in with a password.

So as far as I see it, Passkeys are still an experimental technology. Passwords suck so I hope one day they figure out how to get it working.
You can use `interrogate clip` to reverse engineer the prompt. It's part of stable diffusion webui or you can even access it here (haven't tested this one):

https://huggingface.co/spaces/pharmapsychotic/CLIP-Interroga...
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then why pay someone to talk as opposed to going to the pub with your friend?
I literally just woke up from an In Our Time-induced nap!

I'm working my way through the entire back catalogue, currently in approx 2009 and today it was Suffragism. I'll rewind back to roughly where I was when I fell asleep and continue another time.
What frightens me the most is that chicken and birds in general are literal dinosaurs, with millions of years of evolutions compared to sauropods. Imagine what life on Earth might have been with massive predators with claws and teeth, with the intelligence of a prehistoric, unintelligent chicken.

Somehow I doubt T-Rexes had the intelligence of a crow.
You have the same problem with property taxes, no?

Usually that is solved by various measure to slow down the tax increases for existing homeowners - which can be good or bad, depending on whether you're a homeowner or somebody looking for a home.
Country roads also have a) considerably less traffic and pedestrians b) often have obvious blind spots which drivers cannot speed around without very obviously rolling the dice. Its why you see traffic calming measures in Belgium and the Netherlands which are in the form of straight avenues having lots of bends[0] in to ensure drivers have to pay much closer attention to the road.

Further to that, putting signage on a lot of these rural areas isnt economically viable for a road that has very little thoroughfare and associated accidents. That said, having 60 everywhere and trusting drivers sound insane

[0] https://www.youthforroadsafety.org/news-blog/news-blog-item/...
> british society is in fact quite “uncivilised

Sadly there is a significant part that is.
i guess your point is there is a spectrum of needs and a spectrum of solutions to fit those needs. I think my question is more like, why are the edges seemingly geometrically far from the center?
It seems to be less about the needs of each gender and more about the social expectations for each gender. I take the question as "what should a good man be doing", not "what does one need to be a good man".
Policing by consensus. People respected the rules because they agreed with the rules and trusted the rulemakers. Now the trust in rulemakers is gone and some people disagree with some rules.

I wonder what the impact of this policing by consensus was. Did the UK spend a lower percentage of GDP on policing than peer nations ? I don't think they have lower crime numbers. Surely not in London.
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These trajectories must be how an electron would fly within a chaotic electric field. The field acts on the electron from a perpendicular direction, creating the effect of rotating its velocity vector.
The football always annoyed me. The riot great I can understand, the SMGs are inexcusable. I always felt it was an excuse for the police to bill the club for their most expensive personnel.
I'm no economist, but it seems like such a flat tax would result in a lot of defaults on land the further you get from popular areas.
Have we forgot that we have attributed "thinking" to all the machines since the beginning?
I once saw something like this on hackaday. It works well on RVs because you can charge up to 50km in one day and then drive to the next spot to camp. It is completely impractical on conventional vehicles.
oh, just You wait until You discover the wonderful new old world of fountain pens and inks ;-)
>> make management non technical

> This is a big flag to me. I know this is a devisive opinion, but I don't think you can do a good job at managing people without knowing their core business.

I have mixed feelings about this.

I used to have a manager (who later became vp) that was technical, and it’s been the worst. Of my professional life so far. He would dictate the technical solution and shut down every initiative, making people below him mere executioners. No room for dissent, he had the last word on everything.

The problem being, this person worked for like ~5 years as a developer, then became a manager, then got in charge of infrastructure.

And oh boy, infrastructure was not his core competency.

So prod infrastructure was essentially at a hobbyist level (everything in the same subnet, some dev stuff along with prod stuff, no network segmentation, a number of things implicitly relied on virtual machines not being rebooted or getting the same ipv4 if rebooted, dns was a patchwork etc). In all this he avoided solutions that he wouldn’t understand (no matter if people below him would understand them). Oh and he would have the console access to cloud services and the authority to do all the testing he wanted, we did not (hence perpetuating some thoroughly artificial knowledge gap).

So yeah… having a technical manager can be awful.
They have different last names. Are you sure they're related?

https://newtongov.org/Directory.aspx?did=10
Some actual studies.
Edinburgh: https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/32217/evaluation...
Belfast: https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/1/17

Traffic volume is reduced with more people choosing walking and cycling. Speeds are reduced only a little (you weren't going as quickly as you thought anyway) but potentially reducing accidents. The Edinburgh data shows a dramatic reduction in accidents, down almost a third.
It's disingenuous to ascribe health benefits over years to placebo. Placebo works on individual experiments, not in the long-term, because it would not be placebo any more, would it?

> If the liver is so amazing at filtering all this out of the animals we eat, when why doesn't our liver do it when we eat?

That's disingenuous as well. The liver isn't made to filter chemicals that are constantly ingested over a long time, because they tend to accumulate and cause damage. Additionally, how can a human liver have evolved to filter chemicals we have invented in the past 100 years?
That's a "consent of the governed" thing; they're unpopular enough already, but making them sneaky, hiding them round corners, etc. was even more unpopular, so in a spirit of British fair play they are fully visible and if you get caught it's your own fault for not paying attention.
Redesigning entire streets is tricky; setting lower speed limits is easier.

If you look at the data for speed limits vs deaths they show pretty convincingly that what drivers think are "completely normal speeds" are actually "reckless driving".
The ETSI documents I saw all tried really really hard to “don’t repeat yourself”, and, as far as I can tell, succeeded at that.

So, I guess this is a document that has two columns, the abbreviation and a reference to the document that defines it, without mentioning the long form?
Hmm, I don’t really know what “British English” is, here in Britain we speak English!

I am reliably informed that our language has spread to other countries who have their own interesting and sometimes peculiar variations. We give these variations labels such as “American English” to distinguish them from the original.
I bet you think that aeroplanes don't fly either. /s
Which brings us to the point another commented made: design the roads as such lower speed is the only sensible way to drive. No straight 4 lanes through town, but... is "chicanes" the correct word? Tree islands, roundabouts, curves, parking spots, crossings, yes even bumps, many things can be added to force lower speeds and sometimes even make the neighborhood look nicer.
This will impact the driving tests as well. A typical practical driving test lasts for 35-40 min. But with 20mph it will cover less distance. Interesting to see how the DVSA (the body which conducts these tests) handle this.

Increasing test duration means the backlog (which is already huge) will increase. Keeping same will mean less road features will be tested.
I don't know about how rare it is, because rejected offers don't make the news. We either talk about the successful selling stories, or the major holdouts. I don't think this paints a full picture.

Besides, my point is that there are multiple options, all of them rational. There is no single rational choice.
This is asymptotically true for high speeds but false for low speeds where 2-seconds-car is comparable to the average length of a vehicle.

If the speed limit was (magically) 0.001 mph then raising it to 0.002 mph would double throughput.
I don't claim to understand the SUV buying public, but as a man I'd be more ashamed of driving an SUV than a mini van.
Easier said than done. Even with Google level resources, TPU support for pytorch is patchy (https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07181). Device abstraction is not great, assumes CUDA in unexpected places.
> If you compare train on a train-direct path...

That's why I specifically took an example of my then-commute, which consisted of 15mins to the train station, 25mins train ride, then 10mins to workplace. I wouldn't exactly call that "train-direct".

The UK doesn't exactly have "suburbia" quite like the US, although there are definitely remote places without good public transport, distances are not beyond practical for non-driving.

Another prominent UK feature is the "terraced house", with a small backyard patio, usually with a small shed. This is typical for a low-wage family, or in the towns even for wealthier people. Or you would be living in a semi-detached house, probably with a small garden. Storing a bike or two is mostly a non-issue.
> No data point other than every guy that I know who has close friend girls, never had problems with masculinity or something

It’s possible you’re mixing cause and effect here; like, it’s not implausible that men with the sort of issues mentioned would have difficulty relating to women as people.
> Sorry, this content is not available in your region.

Video of the news segment on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLvokfzXjRY

And the body cam footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so_bFYoIsow
Realtors And especially real estate brokers, have ripped apart our society with cartel like tactics so they can grab a few percent on each bit of the destruction.

I hope the book is thrown at them as harshly as possible.

Claw back those earnings and put it into funds to clean up the mess that has been made
> I understand why Bluesky doesn't let anyone create an account just yet, but why don't they make posts publicly visible without needing an account?

Keeps the PR impact from trolls lower until they have figured out scale of moderation required. As soon as the service is general-public available, it will get used by CSAM spreaders, Nazis and all other kinds of people you don't want to have on your platform for PR and legal reasons.
While a very nice project, Faircamp doesn't come close to offering what Bandcamp does. It's self-hosted, requiring the artists to have the technical knowledge to both customise the platform and run the infrastructure themselves, and it doesn't support any payment options other than a barebones liberapay implementation.[0]

It's also most importantly not a single trusted entity that people can trust with their payments like Bandcamp is.

[0] https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/manual/payment.html