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What do you mean? Cars are a marvelous solution to traveling a medium distance rapidly. They are ubiquitous as a result.

I doubt we will ever have effective public transit across the US. It’s just too big and most places have too low a population density to make it cost effective. And the price of convenience would be high.

I used to be bullish about autonomous driving but no longer am. Ten years ago it felt like a much safer-than-human computer driver was within close reach. It no longer looks so rosy. I think Waymo’s approach will prove the most successful, and will end up with many of the same constraints as public transit. These companies have been going at it for a long time and have mostly demonstrated just how hard the problem really is. There is a decade of sunken cost for anyone leaving the market now. Would replacing human drivers be cost effective in any reality? I’m unsure.
So the network designed to prevent snooping really doesn't.

It just limits snooping to actors with the time and resources to do it on a large enough scale to capture what they are looking for.

What percentage of exit nodes are run by spy agencies and other snoops? Does anyone really know?
How about reduction of traffic-related deaths?
You’re not the only one. It seems to me we should be trying to get rid of cars in favour of mass transport or two-wheel personal transport. Having personal transport in the form of cars makes little sense in cities where space is at a premium.

Where I live, to get across the city on public transport takes 40 minutes and a bus change. I can cycle it in 20. Replacing human-driven cars with driverless cars is going to make no difference to that.

When I think back to the covid lockdowns and how much nicer and more spacious the city felt with no cars on the roads, that’s what I think cities should be like.

And for rural areas, I understand in the US they have arrow-straight and wide roads pretty much everywhere, but where I live the rural roads even 10 minutes out of the city are very narrow and winding, I’m not sure how well a driverless car would be able to handle that.
And it's far better in my opinion - ChatGPT actually creates its own prompts from what you give it and feeds those to DALL-E (you can see this by clicking on the images it returns and reading what the actual prompt was), although you can disable this by just firmly telling ChatGPT not to modify your prompt.

Additionally, the image generation itself is quite different. ChatGPT's DALL-E seems to create much more stylized images - much harder to get plain shots that don't heavily embellish your description.
Exactly. Rebuilding public transport in a completely inefficient way + buzzword of the decade (AI) = investors love it.
> Medicare and social security

These two are often lumped together, though are quite different. SS deficit can be fixed with slight increase of retirement age and slight payout reduction and slight contribution increase. Medical spend is completely broken and unfixable without going after the medical cartels.
Exact. Same. Guess. on my end.
Why not just something like nim and that point, and straight up ditch 90% of the complexity?
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/califo...
Upward mobility is doing fine for people with parents at home, but this accounts for fewer people these days.
given how terrible the mobile web is i refuse to believe anyone is actually doing mobile-first web design
I just did the Shimanami Kaido, the most famous bike route in Japan, yesterday and used a variation of this. It was designed for cyclists as the bridge entry ramps have low inclines of ~3%, and there are minimal situations where you have to stop. The visual indicators are clear enough that you can go without your electronics for navigation, too, and the pavement is smooth.

The route is from Onomichi in Hiroshima prefecture to Imabari in Ehime prefecture. It consists of 6 islands and 7 bridges, but I took a ferry for one of those bridges.

The weather was chilly but I didn’t want to bring my jacket since I expected to sweat from the ~70km ride. The luggage delivery cost was 2,200yen per item regardless of size. The drop-off time is 8am-10am and pickup time is 6pm-10pm. The ride should only take 4 hours but I took my time, started at noon, took many sightseeing/refreshments, and did 90km in total with detours knowing there’s no point in arriving early. You can elect your drop off location so I picked the onsen hot spring. Arrived at 7pm, confirmed my luggage was there and used the hot spring to recover from the bike ride.
Isn't this false? Don't certain languages basically need, say, a libc that isn't nessesarily available in kernel space?
Precisely. When you keep rolling double sixes, check to see if the dice are normal. Climate change paints a "6" on more than one face of each die. Hence the so-called (now misnomer) "century storm" happening multiple times in one decade.
Public transit is no good. I don’t want to walk to a station and then share the space with other people. I don’t want to lug grocery bags around. I want to make pit stops. I want to go off road. I want to live in the suburbs or semi rural areas so I can have a lot of land.
You don't need msys2 and bash. You can just install it with choco and the powershell integration is great.
> I'd agree with you if X was actually maintained, but we need to accept that it isn't.

Which is a self-fulfilling prophecy as the Wayland developers were the X11 developers.

To be fair, I don't disagree with them. X11 was meant for a much different world.

However, the Wayland developers have made some significant architectural mistakes. Fractional DPI for scaling is a clusterfsck. The memory ownership model is disastrous and makes communicating with languages other than C/C++ actively problematic. I can go on and on.

Wayland, itself, needs more than a little bit of reboot at this point. Vulkan/DX12/Metal has won--Wayland should be built around those abstractions. WASM seems to be handling interop and bootstrap better and better--it should probably be based around that rather than DBus. Mouse/Touch/event/etc. management needs to be rethought and probably refactored as much as possible out of Wayland. etc.

I suspect a lot of the problem is of the same origin, everybody wants to have unified abstractions for mobile/web and desktop. The Wayland/Gnome people do not want to have to write code twice--once for mobile/web and once for deksptop. In reality that turns into mobile/web abstractions for everything and desktop can go suck eggs.
It doesn’t last, one usually requires something deeper.
Slight tangent, but I bet apple maps would have a much greater market share if maps.apple.com actually showed something useful. If I go to maps.google.com, I see maps, which is exactly why it's popular.
Ironically, it was Dell's total inability to resolve a pathological rash of uncorrectable memory errors very much is part of the origin story of Oxide: this issue was very important to my employer (who was a galactic Dell customer) and as the issue endured and Dell escalated internally, it became increasingly clear that there was in fact no one at Dell who could help us -- Dell did not understand how their own systems work.

At Oxide, we have been deliberate at every step, designing from first principles whenever possible. (We -- unlike essentially everyone else -- did not simply iterate from a reference design.)

To make this concrete with respect to the CPU in particular, we have done our own lowest-level platform enablement software[0] -- we have no BIOS. No one -- not the hyperscalers, not the ODMs and certainly not Dell -- has done this, and even AMD didn't think we could pull it off. Why did we do it this way? Because all along our lodestar was that problem that Dell was useless to us on -- that we wanted to understand these systems from first principles, because we have felt that that is essential to deliver the product that we ourselves wanted to by.

There are plenty of valid criticisms of Oxide -- but that we don't understand our system simply isn't one of them.

[0] https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-...
There’s a guy at my work that sprinkles .. in every reply. It makes him come off as an asshole. (I’m not the only person in my company that thinks so btw).

Recommend you stop, unless you like coming off as an asshole..
Near to singularity. Text to software beta demo. Like and share
> but it feels useful

Did you mean "It doesn't feel useful" ?
What's wrong with that? I have no illusions that Next.js is part of a larger strategy to get me to pay money for services. I feel the same way about VSCode and Azure, or Github and Copilot, etc. I don't have any problem with paying money for products that deserve it.
> The one you choose to run can be better than the current one you are forced to use and thus your attack surface has decreased because you are not using the worse ones.

you seem to think that webkit is the worse one here and that having for example a blink based or gecko based browser would means that these kind of bugs don’t happen.

that is unfortunately just wishful thinking. just read through the release notes of Chrome and Firefox and you will see that they all fix security bugs for every release.

all browser engines are of extremely high quality. but they also all keep having regular and security bugs.
> flows on any (reasonable) screensize and adapts perfectly.

No it doesn't. It's this pointlessly narrow column in the middle of my screen surrounded by arces of whitespace. If I wanted narrow text I'd make my browser narrow. Looks like the result of some designer fucking around.
Would it make sense to put a base on this satellite and maybe use it for a telescope or build platform?

More or less sense than doing the same on the moon?
Agreed. It just irritates a little that an analogy was proposed between a lifeless planet and a continent with millions of people already living there.
edit: Whoops. I mean snake case.
Weird that an asteroid is named "thank you" -- according to Google translate from Hawaiian. Learned what a "horseshoe orbit" is -- that is a strange relative orbit.
I would argue “it depends”.

There are certain professions that operate with public trust. Doctor, lawyer, and engineer are the classical examples. Sometimes those of us in tech get lulled into complacency because we operate under an industrial exemption (ie, don’t require an engineering license) or we work on non-critical systems where we’re encouraged to move fast and break things. We shouldn’t let that attitude spill into safety-critical applications.

If you have a duty to the public to provide a safe product in an ethical manner, the software bug can certainly be the issue.
Waymo is already solid. I’ve taken about two dozen rides and they feel safe and travel fast (at the speed limit). It’s here now.
Designing good UI for such a varied platform as "the web frontend" is incredibly challenging. They might be at 300px wide, they might be at 1920px wide, they might have a mouse, or they might be using all touch. Or both. Or neither.
It was responding to a religious battle comment with a religious battle comment. We don't want that here.
I'm not sure why you're downvoted, but OSM is actually better at nature areas.
I guess they’ll just swallow the load and thank them for the privilege like fandroids do.
What did you mean by "I stopped paying attention" then? Was that a metaphor? It looks like you made the argument I claimed quite clearly.
Why isn’t it ok?
So any language that isn't sponsored by Google/MS/Amazon/Mozilla from day 1 should just die?
Coupling requires more integration work, including writing and testing custom firmware. Oxide will be a tiny market player for a long time, even if things go very well. Are AMD and Broadcom really going to spend as much time helping Oxide as they do helping Dell? Of course not, Oxide's order volume will be a rounding error.

I'm sure they'll improve their processes over time but the lag will probably always be a non-zero value. Hopefully they'll be able to keep it low enough that it's not an important factor but as a customer it's certainly something one should consider.

It would be surprising if they don't run into some nasty issue that leaves their customers 6+ months behind on servers or switches at some point.
Good point about running a diesel engine on Mars.

> So depending on how heavy the batteries are, I reckon we are already looking at around 12-14 tons of equipment, just for digging with a single machine.

So you're saying a single Starship could ferry 7 to 8 full rigs? 14 tons of payload is not a big deal right now, much less with 10 years of project-of-national-importance funding. Let's send 2 (one backup) along with lots of other nice goodies for setting up shop then.

> So to meet the energy requirements of even a small roadheader, we need 83 of these panels, each of which is ~21.5kg in mass, so a total of 1.784t in solar panels alone.
> ... I mean, these roadheaders will require new drill heads every now and then, won't they?

1.8t in solar panels and some extra for new drill heads is really not that much tonnage for the kind of project we're talking about. And remember, we're re-using all this electrical infrastructure for our habitat.

> ...we need food and water and medical supplies and power and space suits, and a lot of other things for all these people. Oh, and habitats, because they will need somewhere to live during all these months bevore the cave is ready.

They live on Earth before the cave is ready. Why send them at the same time?

Remember: the original point was that digging a habitat-sized cave on Mars is really not the hard part here, and something we could accomplish within 10 years if we wanted to. 15 to 20 tons of payload and some moderate engineering challenges have not really disproved that notion. Yes, there are plenty of other hard parts.
It would have been better, yes, and it would also have been better if you hadn't fed the offensive replies by replying to them.
As a slack-jawed yokel, I feel personally attacked.
It's definitely an immensely complex challenge, a legitmate "moonshot" scale effort. The benefits can also be huge. Think of the huge portion of a household's budget (purchase price, fuel, insurance, maintenance) and time is spent on cars. If someone can provide a better alternative to private car ownership (and goods transportation), they stand to capture a meaningful portion of those billions of dollars and billions of hours.
Yep. Real localisation is too expensive, English-labelled buttons will get you shouted at for being noninclusive (even though, speaking as an immigrant, a labelled button that I can translate with a browser plugin is much nicer than an inscrutable icon), so everyone is in this pit of awfulness.
Even if he hates gay people and says it, it's no excuse to delete someone's account and ban them. Delete their comment? Sure.
Didn't we have different variants before the vaccines even got rolled out?
why didn't they come up with a vaccine that could resist the different kinds of variants that were out as they were being developed?
There was sarcasm, but there was no derision. There's nothing wrong with sarcasm - it is a common and civil tool of communication. Sarcastically stating the fact about an bad take in someone's comment - that it is a bad take - is not derision. would you prefer dry talk completely lacking emotion? There is chat with a computer for that - you are here communicating with people.

Your take, is a bad take. Things are civil. They don't also need to look like two robots talking to an oven.
That's not remotely comparable.

Getting triggered by a title and regurgitating pre-existing bile about OO (of all things) in the name of protecting children (of all things) was, yes, offtopic and more than a little silly.
When they reach the end of their lifecycles, would one be able to find recycling places that accept them?
It’s not like it’s free once it’s solved. you will subscribe to it and pay probably some fraction of a car payment for life.
The main obstacle to better transit in a developed countries is the cost and scarcity of labor. An automated bus would basically eliminate most of the running cost; make it electric and it would be pennies on the dollar compared to running a bus today.
The economy is musical chairs, but you don’t want to stop the music if you don’t have to until after you die.
My Left Kidney
Driverless cars can eliminate individual car purchases. Idealized, they can significantly reduce car related injuries and fatalities.
You can now get it again with an additional $75 subscription addon to your membership.
Kinda circular logic though
> When I think back to the covid lockdowns and how much nicer and more spacious the city felt with no cars on the roads, that’s what I think cities should be like.

Me too! Short of another global pandemic, the best thing to have on the ride beside "no cars" is self-driving vehicles.
Trains used to offer something like that when I was young, because the early trains had more room (and less passengers) and the late trains were packed to the gills and overflowing.

Moving some of the luggage made their life easier at the cost of a final delivery.
> Plenty of Unity games exist with acceptable performance.

If that isn't damning with faint praise, I don't know what is.
If I make money off open source, I'll start paying more. As it is, I donate 5 bucks a month to OpenSCAD. I also bought printers from Prusa, so that already counted as supporting open source. That's thousand of dollars and increasing.

What I haven't done yet is to earn a single dollars doing anything related to 3D printing and design work.

Mostly open is still better than fully closed, right?

The dream is that commerce and open source aren't in direct opposition to each other.

We do that by finding the right business models, not compromising our values.
Research Culture Report
They really were older mentors to Nirvana. They and their band were about 10 years older (1 Beatles career), recruited them to Geffen, and really got them their first exposure outside Seattle. They also were largely responsible for getting Dinosaur Jr. their break.

I did not realize how old they were when I was obsessed with Daydream Nation and Dirty in high school. Kim’s just younger than my parents and they could never have been that cool. I went back into their catalog from there and followed along with them. That’s when I realized they formed the year after I was born. Blew my mind. Listening to the stuff like No New York that they emerged out of is kind of fascinating. Not my thing, but interesting historically.

Kim’s autobiography was an interesting view into the era my folks grew up in. I’ll have to read Thurston’s some time. Still bugs me they fell apart. I don’t normally care about famous people relationships, but they were like some kind punk rock institution to me. They were together since I wandered into that kind of music and nurtured so many bands I loved. But they’re just pretty normal people with pretty normal problems.

I totally agree on Sonic Nurse and Rather Ripped as well. The stuff from A Thousand Leaves until then was interesting, but not stuff I play often. Those have stood up well next to the aforementioned albums, Goo, EVOL, etc.
Thought for a minute you were talking about h trees[1], but of course those aren't curves.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H_tree
One day mid-1995 (just looked it up and it would have been May 20, 1995) Sonic Youth was playing with REM at the Gorge in Washington. He and the drummer had a side project that came to the little record store in Ellensburg (Rodeo Records, owned by Mark Pickerel of Screaming Trees fame) for a secret daytime gig. I lived half a block away and was tipped off by a friend who worked there. Went and drank with them all after the gig. Class acts all the way
I think an automated bus would have enough electronics such that it would cost a lot more than the bus driver for a long, long time. At least that's the status quo. A Waymo car costs a lot more than a $7K Uber Prius.
Ask HN: What is the smartest person you know working on?
PL/pgSQL is a great example of the kind of DSL that I would have avoided in the past but I'm actually much happier to use today because GPT-4 can explain code to me and even write basic things that work which I can then improve on.
There are a number of diseases that oaks are susceptible to. In our area, oak wilt is becoming problematic, and as the tree weakens, it becomes host to a variety of beetles whose grub larvae tunnel right into the trunk.

Pulling down sick trees is sometimes the best thing you can do to help the rest.
Generative AI Is Boring
In Japan, the default assumption is that unless you're in a very rural area, everyone goes everywhere by public transit. Even if you're just heading to downtown Tokyo from Narita airport, the Skyliner will be faster and cheaper than a taxi. Furthermore, you probably aren't taking a taxi from one prefecture to the next.
Second worse. The old Unity input configurator is the ACTUAL worst idea ever.
If I had one, I'd name it "Sick 'em" (like Ralph Nader named his dog).
We're seeing how the west is discovering those "chakras" and unlike the east, where the understanding of this topic is very broad and fuzzy, due to lack of experience in most cases, the west will develop a very narrow, but very sharp knowledge. Pair that with the thick dark cloud of nihilism enveloping the west today, and it's not hard to see where this will end up. Levin seems to have discovered what the east calls "etheric double" - a sort of living blueprint that guides the construction of any organic lifeform. That blueprint is of magnetic nature, and although it's not quite the same thing that flows in our copper wires, it easily interacts with the type of magnets at our disposal. From this point the discovery of inflow and outflow sinks of that "bioelectricity" is near.
What's the point in doing so? Just use ISP's DNS directly.
You are correct that Republicans only talk about the deficit. When it comes to financing more deficit spending, the House Rs keep passing debt limit increases and CRs to kick the can down the road. Yes, it is all talk and the actions are more spending.
Why? That's just how the image generators technically work.
Yea, the "relentlessly focused on safety" quote reminds me of every time a company gets breached by hackers, they trot out the same "At $company, we take security very seriously" nonsense. I wonder if these P.R. people have to chug a fifth of bourbon in order to stomach hitting send on these statements.
> And they need to get some testicles and start screaming that this is a problem at the top of their lungs

Are you serious? People have been screaming about this since the 70s at least. Everyone’s ears are sore so they tune it out.
I think it would be exactly like that, because that's how it already works for relays. The Tor Project operates a measurement system that tests relays in various ways and records their status in the public consensus document. Clients then use weighted random selection (along with some screening criteria) to choose relays in proportion to how much bandwidth they provide, according to the consensus.
You have to get your stones analyzed and they'll make suggestions based on what the composition is.
Technology developed that goes into keeping 83 year olds alive actually does have second order effects on productivity and being able to work for longer.
> IIUC the leader, Waymo, does all the computation in the cloud, so you're hosed if the network goes down.

All the computation for driving happens on the onboard computer(s) and the maps are also onboard, so they can drive just fine without a network. But it is required for managing trips, remote assistance when necessary, etc.

The vehicle will most likely come to a safe stop on its own during an extended network outage because it can’t report the trip status anymore.
Disagree. Many games are ultimately limited by the performance of a single hot thread (often physics). Some things just don't parallelize, so throwing 8/12/16/24 cores at them doesn't help..