skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure any country is fielding 10 megaton monsters anymore. Maybe Russia has a few. The biggest weapon in the USA's inventory is "only" 1.2 megatons and that has to be dropped by an airplane so it's not going to have much chance of landing on Shanghai. Most weapons now are an order of magnitude smaller (hundreds of kilotons), with a high degree of accuracy ("circular error probable") obviating the need for extreme yield.

Nukemap, known to lots of people here, can help you explore your predictions. Here, I airburst a B-83 over Shanghai so you don't have to: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=1200&lat=31.2322758&...

Sleep tight...
Where's the proof that they actually are ? It seems to be «projections» at best.

Where are the respective numbers of light/heavy oil/electric road vehicles, how much they consume, and where the electricity for the electric ones is coming from ?

Latest oil consumption numbers seem to be from 2020, a rare year they were down, but that's more likely to be an effect of Covid, the trend is still of growth otherwise :

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/world-oil-sup...

Don't get me wrong, more people having better access to transportation is a good thing, but that's not going to solve the issues coming with oil usage, if oil usage is not going down.
Seattle City Light, according to a 2016 report (and its definitely improved since), was 88% Hydro, 5% nuclear, and 4% wind.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map reports Seattle City Light as 100% hydro, fwiw.
Duh. You can't just put "classified alien technology R&D" as a clear-text line item. Just trust them, it's all going towards national, even global, security.
> The only problem that self-driving cars will ever solve is where to put VC money in a zero interest rate world. We've had freight trains and mass transit for centuries.

They solve stress from a 30 minute daily commute.

Public transport is never door to door and there are always changeovers and cancellations, while self driving cars on demand can be door to door and is far less dependant on whether there's a labour dispute or leaves on the tracks.

They save thousands of hours per person over a working life.

(Also, before you comment: remote work doesn't suit everyone or every job and being able to work in a job that doesn't have to be within a few miles of your home and your partner's job is a huge flexibility, efficiency and career boost)
Am I missing something? Given most residential equipment tops out at 1G isn't coax better than if ethernet had been ran?
right and their negotiations are likely synthetic and geared towards mass deal making, which distorts the market in nuclear ways.

if we're all for transparent markets, these commissions interfere and it doesn't matter how close to reality they are as we can agree that they're largely not real, but synthetic amalgamations of something not related to the market.
I wonder if its because at first we were excited, it was novel, and as time went on, our expectations increased as to what they should be able to do, and now with ChatGPT 4 (and successive iterations) taking the scene, our expectations of AI are increasing further, and therefore these services seem underwhelming or broken by comparison.

I also wonder, in some respects, if the pandemic and everyone being home more often, lead to people using these products more often and/or intensely, and were finding their flaws faster than perhaps pre pandemic.
PTP is nearly always proprietary. It's very configurable and has to be configured to work. So there are many sets of settings called "profiles", defined by various industries for their own needs. They're not completely interoperable, but all have in common a high precision.
So you could say PTP is a kit to build timesync protocols.
YMMV of course. I maybe use it to play music in my bedroom a couple times a month. Usually I play it from either my Apple TV or my computer.

It's useful for a few other things. A weather forecast if I haven't gotten out of bed yet, setting an alarm, turning my bedroom lights on. The occasional quantity conversion in the kitchen.

But all those add up to something closer to "novelty" than whatever investment Amazon put into the technology.
Proving OP's point in 3....2....1....
Won’t this create pressure marks on the clothes where the hanger pushes against the wall? Since it’s not hanging symmetrically like a normal coat hanger, the hanger will tilt backwards against the wall due to gravity pulling the front part down.
Chatroulette 2.0?
Reminds me of this. Tl;dr ask questions, stare into eyes for 4 minutes, fall in love.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231030202322/https://www.nytim...

It's not loading for me either
Remember n years ago when people thought their lifestyles would have no consequences for the future of industrial civilisation? Anyway building more and good public transport so cars don't have to be used nearly as much is an incredibly good thing.
I find this to be quite common. Nearly everyone I know in software dreams of not doing it anymore, and everyone not in software dreams of doing it lol.
Outside of the cybersecurity analogy, as an American, that's . . . very disturbing.

Much like someone open carrying a gun is seen as potentially a few seconds away from committing a Very Bad Crime, so is someone walking around your house uninvited.
> So in the current iteration, I think LLMs are a shortcutting tool for experts. I can tell when it spits out a snippet of code that is correct, and when it's wrong. Someone who wasn't working in my domain would get fooled.

The real horror is when there's going to be an entire generation that grew up not by relying on experts/historic facts and reality, but on something that AI generated that looks good enough and is a neat answer.

Imagine this generation in positions of power over actual experts, or equating AI opinion with the opinion of an older-generation expert.

Progress in all of human history has always hinged on our ability to disregard idiots in favor of experts. Now, the position of the idiot is stronger than ever, because anyone can type a prompt into GPT without real understanding.

That's the real scary part.
1.2 Twh of capacity but only ~400 GWh of actual production. Don't confuse figures on production capacity with figures on actual deliveries. Capacity is often 2-3x higher than actual production figures: https://cdn.ihsmarkit.com/www/images/0722/global-battery-cel...

https://www.spglobal.com/mobility/en/research-analysis/growt...
They could also grow by saving and reinvesting surpluses/profits
It's a positive vision of where society can go rather than having to sacrifice and buckle down.

Do people not remember riding bikes as kids? Riding a bike is _still_ fun. It never stopped being fun. Now you can do that and get to work.
Array vs Hash table!
A future with significantly reduced car traffic in cities? It's perfectly possible. Cars will never completely disappear, only someone that hasn't thought about the problem or that is building a straw man would say that.

Car ownership in the US is ~90% (more than one per adult). In The Netherlands it is ~50%. They still have a car per family for longer trips, but they don't need them for every trip, so they use them significantly less.
But imagine if they were. Wars and other destructive behaviors would be a lot more difficult
It looks like it was a 10 year long plan, so they should be more than 80% of the way through it by now. So go a good approximation… how did it go?
Doesn’t track with me. If the EU legislates the market they can legislate blocking those E2E apps from the internet. For instance, require apps to be installed from alternative marketplaces and not just sideloaded, and heavily regulate alternative marketplaces.
I looked this up again in the book:

"In particular, according to hukou status, only about 36 percent of China’s overall population is urban and fully 64 percent is rural (some 800 to 900 million people). Owing to uneven birthrates between the cities and the countryside (until recently urban families could have only one child, while rural families often had two or three), China’s children are even more concentrated in rural areas. More than 70 percent of China’s children have rural hukou status today. This means that China’s future workforce is predominantly growing up in rural villages, where educational outcomes are still lagging far behind."

Rozelle, Scott; Hell, Natalie. Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise (pp. 8-9).

So the difference here might come from where the population lives vs. their houku status. As I understand it from the book, the houku status dictates where your child is allowed to go to school. So while 36.11% might now "live" in a urban area, many of the children of those urban residents likely will have to live with grandparents in the rural hometown. Unfortunately, this is one of the sections where I cannot quickly find a reference to the source in the book. Maybe if I read the whole chapter again, but I cannot do that right nwo.
To be fair a huge portion of the open source code being used by industry comes from industry.

Don't get me wrong though I love me a good open source project. I think the idea of being compensated might increase the quality, but let's point fingers at github. It would be as simple as adding a "support contributors" button on repos.

I don't know how divide the winnings fairly. But it should be possible.
Then this is why agents exist. That’s gate keeping to protect their patch.
I have lived in Toronto, Canada, for 15 years and never had a car. My family gets around all year by walking, public transit and cycling.

Most people live in urban centers where it is perfectly possible to live without a car. And as car use decreases, public transit availability will increase, together with other forms of transportation that don't have the externalities of private motor vehicles.
nothing about living in a city or riding a bike instead of driving a car is "elitist".

elitism is using a vehicle that has an average annual ownership cost of $12000 and takes up a parking space everywhere you want to go.
Think of this in the context of what happens with the majority of other purchases you are making? How many of those have a "buyers agent" vs a sales person? I've bought houses in both the UK and the US, I preferred the UK approach where I found the houses myself (and in the US it's not that different with tools like Zillow etc.) and paid for a lawyer to handle the paper work for much less than the real estate commission that was paid (and part of the house price I ultimately paid).

In fact, you could really view the commission split paid to the buyers agent (from the seller) as part of that expense of the seller marketing their property.
It's kinda weird how there are tax incentives for electric cars in the US but not for electric bikes (or... analog bikes, for that matter).
Yes, but spending money on garbage tech products fuels the economy now. It's not like we make anything else.
it's in this web forum's rules

> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.
throwing money at urban problems does not necessarily have a great track record, and NYCTA has had lots of issues with corruption when they do have money to spend. Id be pretty skeptical that giving them a lot of money would mean you can hop on a train in 5 minutes at 2 am, it wouldnt even be cost effective to run that many trains at odd hours. Cars are terrific for this use case, however.

NYC cops have like a billion dollar budget and while they are great at protecting businesses in wealthy areas they are not very popular in lower income areas as they are both blase and overly brutal at the same time, their huge budget not having helped that aspect very much.
What do I type into google to find this?
What? Which cities? In mine, Kraków, the above just isn't true. In my neighbourhood, there even isn't a chain-affiliated café that I could go to – if I wanted to in the first place – but there are five or six independent cafés in my immediate vicinity. Same with most Polish cities I've visited… That being said, yes, overall the number may be shrinking in favour of the chains. We're far from them becoming extinct, though.
The Chosen One: Consistent Characters in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
I like to think of these kind of web components as analogous to jquery plugins from back in the day. IF I think of them like that instead of a react component things make more sense as to why this is useful.
This might not be popular here, but in my opinion, the H-1B visa program has been a disaster for tech companies. It oversaturates the tech labor market with career-seeking individuals, drowning out the hackers who immerse themselves in technology (and may be on paper "less qualified"), and recruiting/HR teams have virtually no idea how distinguish between these types of candidates.
Wow, cool project!
The user will refuse to use such a device. Just like Chrome can't block ad-blockers despite massive financial incentives, because there would be massive user uproar.

Your average user doesn't try to copy movies, which is why DRM is accepted in Netflix.
>For realtors it's very simple. Why spend time on something they won't get paid for?

Isn't that almost everyone doing work? I don't do work for free.

>the dream customer of every selling agent is a clueless first-time buyer

I've purchased multiple homes without a 'buyer's agent'. I'm certainly not clueless. It's actually a great negotiating tactic and often yields real savings.

Agents are grossly overpaid, but buyer agents in particular are just an enormous waste of time. It was actually our first home purchase where we did use a buyer agent and it was...eye opening. People under illusions that buyer agents are actually informed or acting in the buyer's interests are the most clueless of all.
Ideally they'd make the S-Pedelec class of bikes (up to 28mph) much easier to own and operate legally.

The requirement for insurance and a helmet seems fine, but putting a full-size car number plate on an e-bike looks ludicrous (they need some sort of ID, but designed for bikes), and an annual MOT seems an unnecessary burden for what's still mostly a bicycle.
I can understand interest, sure. But this wasn't it.

First of all, it's not really clear to me how this is against Russia's deep interest. This gets bandied around a lot, but frankly Russia is already so close to NATO borders elsewhere (Norway, Baltics, Poland if you count Kaliningrad, and of course the Bering straight), and it barely matters with ICBMs around. A conventional war between Russia and NATO, where proximity matters, is totally implausible. I get that Russia would rather have an ally next door than a NATO country, but that it's a threat justifying neutralization is BS to me.

Second, Russian losses in this war are enormous. I can't see how Russia thought this war would make it a safer place. They are delving deep into the reserves for a full scale war (like, with NATO), which now they won't have.

Finally, this is off the back of a lot of esoteric Kremlin propaganda about how Ukraine has only ever been a part of "Greater Russia".
Or..."no path to revenue"?
The weight thing is absolutely real. You can’t just compare two completely different cars! Equivalent models usually gain a few hundred pounds in the EV version.
> copyright protections to peoples likeness and voices

What happens when you look or sound like someone (more) famous though?
You do not own a mortgage. You have sold a mortgage.
You can leverage debt as an individual as well. We often shame people for bankruptcies when we shouldn't. Businesses fail all the time and go bankrupt -- running a household is similar and can fail.
appreciate this viewpoint.

not trying to defend the large 'disconnected jumbled mess' that is military spending, but headlines (and large percentage of armchair commentators) make it sound like 'see, told ya so!' when in fact this audit is the weakest basis for an argument that military spending has no oversight, gets too much, etc.

note that i'm agreeing there needs to be more oversight, less spending, etc. but this audit is not going to serve persuading that.
Just to provide a ground-level insider perspective: We've been doing things in the name of "audit readiness" for a decade, and I just... don't get it. It has translated to a lot of asinine things like

1. Making sure that everyone's marriage certificates and kids' birth certificates are on-file, to root out maybe the one person in 10,000 who is erroneously getting paid an extra $200 per month for certain entitlements.

2. Making sure that when we sign leave forms (i.e. requests for vacation time) we do so with a digital signature (even though they got printed out for processing and archival) using a certain image instead of a manual signature with a pen.

3. Going through an absurdly painful process to put on the books every physical piece of property we see (e.g. hand tools, step ladders, obsolete radio and telephone equipment) and then account for them on a monthly basis even if they've been useless and in storage since the 1970s.

Meanwhile, I can see tens or hundreds of billions of dollars of seemingly wasted man-hours on various initiatives (including those listed above), unnecessary personnel moves / rotations, and questionable purchases of new uniforms, equipment, vehicles, software, etc.
If you tried to make a customer facing chatbot I wouldn't let it generate responses directly. I would have it pick from a list of canned responses. and/or have it contact a rep to intervene on complicated questions. But there's no reason this tech couldn't be used for some commercial situations now.
Panning, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blur
I tried very hard to get onboard with Ubuntu's new server paradigm, I've been using Ubuntu on and off since 2005. Snap is what turned me away. My research (admittedly several years out of date) told me that it was impossible to disable 'auto-updating' of Snaps. Now I see that they're rolling out what is apparently a high availability service built on services deployed through Snap. I don't see how this is viable, if Snap is still dead set on updating things on their own schedule. I certainly wouldn't trust it without some in-depth testing and validation to ensure that Canonical can't remotely DoS me by pushing some new update that I can't opt out of.
man, this will be so great! getting a plug-in system in place will be huge for helix.
gimme that sweet sweet copilot.
Sounds like we should get rid of trucks then.
Ukraine would like to join NATO and perhaps this would have been a rubber-stamp with a non-nuclearized Russia
IRS exists to give those organizations money, so they’re more of a client and you’re more of a product.
It's a clickbaity headline. That's it.
I wonder if people fall into a "happy valley of ignorance", where users don't actually see how an LLM can be wrong, rarely actually are met with hallucinations, and their use of LLM output is rarely a big enough problem. Whereas, we technical people who know its a bunch of matrix operations are so skeptical that we don't put this amazing technology to much use at all.
hate to be the stinky kid at school, but Honda Ruckus. its specs after twenty some years still beat out at ebikes. yes i dont have a car just my rucky (midwest usa)
That's fair, but electrification is the stated goal of all of the world. The article states they reduced their production costs by half, and although I didn't see actual numbers I tend to believe it. So it looks to me that Uruguay has people in charge that get it, and also now have results. There is no going back for them and they'll make progress very fast. People underestimate the long term effect of cheap renewables - you invest in them and save money long term, which you again invest in renewables. It's basically like compound interest.
Bikes often have to ride on sharrows and share the road with fast moving cars. Pedestrians usually have a much better degree of separation.
>Most software you leave it alone and stop paying for maintenance work and it doesn't just slowly lose features or get worse

This might have been true for client software. It has never been true for services, and is especially not true for services with diverse dependencies on other teams and products.
StuffMadeHere (https://www.youtube.com/@StuffMadeHere) is one of my favorites in this regard.
This seems largely true. I do wonder about "The west has the better part of a century's worth of catching up to do in know-how.". Does this truly extend to the West? Manufacturing in Germany seems alive and very healthy for more advanced products. Not sure about other European countries. I also understand that Mexico actually is very good for high value-add manufacturing.
Awesome write-up.

Big Broodwar fan, never got into SC2 despite multiple attempts. Honestly I think Broodwar is the best and most balanced RTS ever made, and would have loved another expansion rather than overhauling the entire game with SC2. 1 or 2 more units per race and 1 or 2 more spells per race, plus updated graphics, would have made a perfect game even more perfect.
> mount the filesystem of box2 in a folder on box1.

This is not possible due to the CAP theorem.

(You will need to severely rethink your concept of "file" at the very least.)
I deeply resent it when Alexa tries to upsell me something and I certainly would if it fed me an ad every time I asked it to do something.

And what's the alternative? A subscription?

Alexa certainly isn't useful enough to me to pay anything meaningful.
GPT-4 is not immune to making things up, and a smaller model that doesn't have as much garbage and nonsense in its training data might achieve results that are nearly as good for much less cost.
> I live in the UK.

> It rains here.

Funny thought popped into my head: Rain-based water wheel.
It's not, OP was wildly exaggerating.
I live near a couple of big supermarkets. I can ride to them easily but it's an uphill journey back and my last bike was stolen.

If I solve the stealing problem by adding some sort of bike shed and get an electric bike I'll be very happy to ride most of the time to do shopping.

The key issue is that I don't live miles from shops that have all the basics. I think if zoning laws allowed it then many trips could be satisfied by a bike.
If you want be compensated for your project, license your project appropriately and sell licenses/corporate support. Nobody's going to throw money at you out of the goodness of their heart, that's not how the world works.

If you burn yourself out on serving your entitled users for free, that's on you, not on them. You've created that sense of entitlement. You're an adult capable of saying "no" or "pay me."
It's possible to have both: bike stations near train stations. Ppl from suburbs/low density areas go with bike to train station, and to their destination with the train. You may say ppl don't want this and this may be true, it's about tradeoffs: do you optimise for medium-high density or for low. Nowadays us/canada&even some europe does for low density
Too many cities have physically been designed around driving
A model 3 (or maybe model y) platform-based truck would be incredible

edit: I've been told they're the same platform
There's also Lem, which has a good vim mode and is scriptable in Common Lisp (since it's built in CL) :D https://github.com/lem-project/lem/ It has: LSP support, a treeview, project-related commands, a directory mode, a POC git mode… with ncurses and SDL2 UIs.
Majority of my time commuting the bike wins every time, mostly because I'm commuting at the same time as everyone else.
I'm a little confused, as that doesn't seem to block on my machine? Is it something that used to block, but doesn't anymore?

You are right that it is difficult in many respects. But it is far from impossibly difficult. And most of the tricks you could do to make it easier typically lead to some silly hard edge cases in the code.
Your second example doesn’t make much sense because you can’t actually get across to SF via bike, the bike section ends at Treasure Island.