skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While the number of cars continues to rise, we’re driving them less: 2.5m cars drive less than 5,000km. “We wanted to find out who are these 2.5 million people who own these cars that don’t make sense. We found that most of them are in two-person households. Not really a surprise. This is the second car. The primary car gets a lot of use. The second car is used maybe on the weekend to take one kid to sport … People are spending thousands and thousands of dollars just for these one-off occasions.

Not surprisingly, Uber is focusing on a problem that affects them ("why are people buying a second car instead of using Uber"), but doesn't really affect society very much. Eliminating these rarely-used cars wouldn't really reduce traffic or pollution, it would just save some individuals some money, which is great, and redirect some of their money from gas and repairs and such to Uber.
> order of tens of species get extinct daily.

Around 50 new species get found every day to put that number into perspective.

https://smv.org/learn/blog/how-many-species-are-left-be-disc....
> So he and his wife left the Australian-made station wagon in the garage for the month, during which they only drove their eight-year-old electric BMW twice. “Just on her urgent things. Other than that, we didn't drive at all.”

But that's half the point of car ownership, in the event of an emergency, you have an escape plan and won't have to rely on others for transport.
I think it often comes down to distribution. Now that the distributors (netflix, hbo, apple, etc) are the ones frequently funding the shows, the show dies when the distributor no longer wants to fund it. There is less opportunity for the rights holder to take that show to another network/distributor.

It would be harder to get trial, but if a pilot episode was free to watch on the show's website, then people could pay for the rest of the episodes right there. Conversion would also be lower than if it was distributed on a pre-paid subscription that someone already has, but at least the people paying for the show decide with their wallet if it continues to get funding.

I've got a concept for an animated series and I'm planning to release it on youtube. I'm hoping that if it gets enough of a following, I can make it work with just the revenue from youtube. Of course, this kind of model doesn't usually work for high production value content unless the people involved want to bootstrap it.
Part of what makes this hard is that "species" isn't a clearly defined concept.

So, depending on which definition you use, you can get very different numbers.
What's incredible is not Milei winning, but how the government party thought it was a good idea that the Minister of Economy who's running the country on 140% inflation and a 40% poverty level would be a great candidate for the presidency. "Vote for me! I will do the same things that got us here!"
There are two ways to add up the average spending on cars: ask individuals to estimate their aggregate expenses, or add industries together (dealerships, repair shops, petrol stations, insurance agencies, etc) and divide by population.

I suspect Uber statisticians did the latter. I also suspect that method is more accurate than people entrenched in car culture estimating their own expenses.
> What goes on in the head of someone that clearly relies on a government program and has decided to vote for a politician that will take that away?

Human Decency.
As it turns out, the information density of a region of space is bounded by it's surface area, not its volume. If you try exceeding that bound, you collapse into a black hole. This observation led to the idea of the Holographic principle in physics. Having said that, this is one of those areas that depends on a full understanding of quantum gravity, which we do not yet have, so I wouldn't call it settled science.

In practical terms, if your argument ends with "otherwise, your computer would collapse into a black hole", you are considering technology far beyond anything we are currently capable of, so n^3 information density is still on the table for everyone except theoretical physicists.
> The only real virtue of LP vinyl is that it largely prohibits loudness war nonsense.

Actually the loudness war started in the 40s with vinyl.

https://www.npr.org/2009/12/31/122114058/the-loudness-wars-w...

The part about digital compression is nonsense though. That’s not now digital audio works. Not sure why the article author asked a psychology professor to explain digital signal processing.
Yes,distributed systems problems and multi threading problems tend to have very similar solutions. Contention is the critical factor indeed - if there's no coordination needed, then we can keep scaling forever.
I like to think of this as level 2 systems analysis. It is implied in some of Feynman's papers on computation as well.

It gets even more interesting (to me) when you consider semantic entanglement of data in non-platonic spaces. When you treat 'time to data access' as a fourth dimension and the state transition vector of an algorithm as the path one can show that Ft(O(path(n))) (Ft being the function that converts the complexity of a path into the time such a path takes to transit) for some arbitrary n is rather difficult to nail down. It can also pop out the result that the lowest complexity path(algorithm) is not faster than a high complexity path(algorithm) if the entangled elements(data) are in a slow space. Crazy I know but it is a pretty straight forward path from Amdahl's law to this sort of analysis.
(Personal opinion with no intent to argue or pursuade) I think you are asking the wrong optimisation question. Indeed species have been going extinct forever and differing rates. I think what we should be optimizing for is quality. I remember as a kid growing up in SE Utah just being overwhelmed with insect, reptile, amphibian, and small game wildlife in the area. You didn't look for it, it was just around. I visit frequently and have been amazed at the decline I've witnessed in just 30 years. So few of everything. Now we search for lizards and horned toads. I hardly ever see butterflies and bees. It's [not] wild. I also just drove in August from SE Idaho to Tacoma. Mostly through Montana and Idaho. I didn't have to clean my windshield once the entire trip, there and back. I remember driving as a teenager it seemed like I always had to clean my windshield, even driving on I-15 from Salt Lake city to SE Idaho. Cleaning dead bugs off my windshield is something I don't need to do anymore. I haven't done it for a long time.

We could model our existence in a way to just optmize for our species existence. Humans have been running species into existence for a long time in order to populate. I think we should optimize the other way though. I think we would if we assumed that our mentally advanced status assumed a stewardship-like responsibility. Instead we take and take and take. I've been guilty as anyone, but have tried to be more mindful as I've gotten older and limit my consumption, and make sacrifices to do so where I see nobody else in my immediate sphere doing the same. I do that because I liked having nature be outside my doorstep. I don't think there is an asumption that there was or is an optimal number of species, I think it is just that some people have seen a tranformation that they don't like.
this makes a lot of sense. I wonder if board's goal in firing Sam was to make everyone (govt., general public,) understand for-profit motives of Sam and most employees at this point.

Either Sam forms a new company with mass exodus of employees, or outside pressure changes structure of OpenAI towards a clear for-profit vision. In both cases, there will be no confusion going forward whether OpenAI/Sam have become a profit-chasing startup.

Chasing profits is not bad in itself, but doing it under the guise of a non-profit organization is.
> Software doesn't wear out, or degrade through use. The analogies offered to other, physical common services are nonsensical.

But latent bugs are discovered at a rate that is roughly proportional to use, and for application software running under general purpose operating systems on personal computers or servers the operating systems and hardware gets updates which can cause problems for applications.

That imposes a maintenance and repair burden if you want to keep applications working that is very similar to the burden imposed by wear and degradation when you want to eep some physical thing running.
I lived in Germany about a decade ago.

The Germany federal government’s procurement process is kafkaesque at best (especially the armed forces); Germany spends as much on defence as France, yet France has a nuclear deterrent, nuclear subs, a nuclear aircraft carrier, and a sizable fighter jet fleet - all domestically designed and built. Germany’s government barely maintains its kit.

The railways are late a third of the time. The Swiss want to ban Deutsche Bahn trains because they’re causing so many problems.

The German telecom operators are terrible. Domestic internet is slow and the cell phone networks are the same.

The country just doesn’t invest in itself and when it does it can’t effectively execute.

I’m not saying Germany is a shithole, but its government bureaucracy is generally terrible and business administration lackluster (and yes, there are exceptions to the rule).

I’ll add that I’ll tear the shit out of my home country (Canada) similarly. We have similar issues with government procurement.
Governments do a pretty good job of verifying "unique humanness", but I suppose crypto innovation, fancy iris-scanners and a sprinkling of free-market fairy dust is what we really need in this space.
Most countries are heavily exposed to the dollar already as it’s the currency of global trade. The same is not true of the euro.
If you have another way to provide actual humans with arbitrary representative demographics for answering ten minute surveys for a total cost of around $1 each the market would love to hear about it.

Alternatively if you wanted to fund researchers and studies so they could afford to do these studies in a better way, I don’t think anyone would complain.
Mostly agree but I would argue that protesting climate change is the high-status norm for young people today.

Though we oldies may have forgotten, or disregard it as "not real", status amongst their peers is incredibly important to the average teenager.
Perhaps you haven’t heard of the Uyghur genocide by the CCP in Xinjiang. The local population very much does care about their local time zone (and language and culture, other things the Chinese government has stripped away from them). It may be one of the few places where you’ll get a different answer to the question “what time is it” depending on the ethnicity of the person you ask, and, if asked, you might get arrested for answering with the “wrong” time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Time
Cosmopolitan v3.1
Not heard of any of those except Shadow and Bone which wasn't very good.
This is a borderline nonsensical question, because this isn't something you can solve for X. What those species are and what niche they fill matters quite a lot. Genetic diversity within these species also matters. Countless other things matter. The rate of extinction has gone up drastically, and there are not new species cropping up to fill the growing holes.
There's a gap in the market for mature games.

The gaming experience is aimed at teenagers for obvious reasons. I know adults looking for a more mature tone and they're not finding it.
> (who undoubtedly makes $$$)

He worked at a public university until 2021, you can look up his salary as it's public information: $118,472.99 [0], not as much as your average mid-level software engineer.

Now he works at a startup [1], but not as a c-level, so he's likely making average startup software engineer salary (certainly more than a public university professor, but not exactly FIRE money).

It's amazing how much people begrudge anyone wanting to make some money for the tremendous effort the put in to helping people better understand an important subject. Anyone working in software can easily afford to support his work if they find it valuable.

Generally, anyone "famous" for teaching a technical topic is typically doing it as a charity even if people are paying for their content.

0. https://madison.com/uw-salary-database/html_e37ff025-9a87-5a...
1. https://sebastian.com
If that's a manual thing then it will work. Automatic transcription won't have the same effect. The trick to this live note taking is that I'm essentially allowing people to read my mind by externalising my thoughts where everyone can see them. The speaker, by correcting or not correcting my externalised thoughts, indicates to everyone whether or not my thoughts match their thoughts.
streaming is about manipulating the media, keeping files away from the end user, and limiting time place and method of viewing.
Sim Tower would deserve a spot on the list if it was more modern. It was originally built as an elevator simulation and then turned into a game, and it shows. Unfortunately, it's a 16 bit application and thus not well suited for modern systems. It was unstable even back then, time was tied to CPU speed, and playing with DosBox and corresponding bad mouse behavior (no acceleration) isn't fun.

Project Highrise seems to mostly omit the fine-grained elevator control that was at the core of Sim Tower, so the most recent successor that I'm aware of is Yoot Tower, which I didn't get around to trying yet. Unfortunately neither SimTower nor Yoot Tower seem to be available legally.
If they've done any research at all they almost certainly do know more.

I also live in NZ, did you read the CBA report on our feebate scheme a while back?

It concluded the policy had a net economic benefit due to correcting consumer's failing to take into account the cost of fuel in making ICE/hybrid/PEV purchasing decisions.
Any society with 2+ car households is a failure. All its residences will just be subjected to endless traffic and the smog/co2 emissions that it'll generate. Your second vehicle should be an e-bike, which you can take to a tram/train for long distance rides.
They still exist and put out a product used by quite a few people, so quite well?

You can't judge a non-profit by the same success metrics as a for-profit.
>What goes on in the head of someone that clearly relies on a government program and has decided to vote for a politician that will take that away?

You may see "I'm voting against my own interests" but I see the flipside of that woman with the bus subsidy:
"Our money is so worthless and our economy so terrible, the government has to intervene even in bus fare just to keep things going".
Parking Georg, who spends every waking hour of his life looking for parking, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

but, yes, it's a different timescale. They aren't saying the average person spends that much per day.
D7 is for the wealthy Koreans who come over and manage the factories. There isn’t really much else there, but the mall and a bunch of wannabe stuff.

D2 is for the wealthier western expats to ride around without helmets.

D1 is just… well… downtown.

I spent a lot of time exploring literally all of Saigon (and a lot of the rest of the country as well). More so than most locals really. There isn’t a corner in Saigon that I haven’t been to many times.
I personally believe these are marketing failures rather than technical failures.

I also personally loathe Microsoft, but even I will concede that they probably have the technical wherewithal to follow known trajectories, the cat is out of the bag with AI now.
It's a big problem because their catalog is also so spotty.

They should probably be ordering seasons in batches. Show runners don't really have much of a say, if they're told "okay we can give you one season and see how it goes" they're gonna say yes.

But in the case of 1899 was also a worse situation, to me, because the team had already proved themselves in another series (Dark) which was widely successful, except it didn't get successful until later on. These sort of series do require a bit more attention, people are not going to binge watch them like they do Wednesday. And that's okay (except apparently for Netlfix it's not okay).

And, I mean, I get it. Netflix strategy seems to be much more about optimizing a function that tries to minimize quality and maximize viewership. They literally don't care about high quality products. In fact, I would say, high quality products might even be undesirable as they might raise the bar of people's expectations.
It is an expensive contingency though. And public transport, taxis, non-uber rides etc. do exist. As do electric bikes. As does the option to move somewhere where not having a car is less of an issue. Or pooling a spare car between a few people.
The only reason this is a potential source of bugs is because of the poorly thought out changes in Python 3. It is not a problem with Python 2 code, and it wouldn't have been a problem should there have been backwards compatible types in Python 3.

What's done is done, and the best way to avoid this is to add support in linters to warn for this, or a runtime warning when that can be done safely. Deprecating or removing a method is madness for any language with any real world use.

The only thing that leads to is a lot of unnecessary work for a lot of people, and there will be a best practice to save old versions of the interpreter to run old software.
It didn't say it's in high demand, and compared to the other solver robot you can buy (from Gan, probably the only one available) - 100-ish € - it'll certainly be cheaper.

I have a feeling though that this isn't about solving a cube but rather about building a cube solver o : - )
I'm not the father of communism, Marx is, and he defined it pretty clearly in the Communist manifesto, which is still well worth reading.

It's his definition that is interesting for intellectual discussion.
You are very well exposed to Euro if you are in Europe or Middle East.
I use Termux all the time on my Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. Turns it into a nice console (text) based Linux box.

I have gotten it to run GUI programs via Termux/X11 or VNC, but my touchscreen only setup makes that awkward. (I'm running base TWM X11, and I've installed an on screen keyboard, but it's all rather slow.)

You can get such tablets for less than $100. Probably you can get generic Android tablets for little $$ these days, but I already had the Kindle. It's quite the advertising platform, but still it's great for casual text-based Linux Python etc programming.
Humans already started it when we killed off all the largest land animals outside of Africa 13 000 years ago. You know Elephants and Mammoths were found all over earth before then. Thank humans for the lack of Elephants in America.
> The more visibility there is into the infrastructure and code, the easier it is to penetrate it.

Then they are assuming their whole app infrastructure is written poorly and insecure, then instead of fixing their app they will take the lazy route and make the app closed source.
How fast is it on your raspberry?
An economist would probably say "just increase car registration fees", and that would be the most efficient way to get people to own fewer cars.

I have a car that I got as a gift. I put about 150 miles on it per month. But I still have to pay $425 per month to park it, about $110 per month for insurance, $350 per year to register it, and then gas, tolls, maintenance.

I knew it wasn't a good economic decision to keep the car. It would certainly save me money just to take Ubers to the few places I go. But there's a psychological element at play here. Right now, I pay about $600 per month to have the car and have unlimited access to go where I want. If I have to pay $80+ to go to a friend's place, I then have to ask myself "is that trip really worth $80"? I may then just decide no. That's what economists want, but that's not really what I want. I don't want to have that excuse to not go out and have fun.

If the equation were more like "do I want to draw down on my $1350 in Uber credits that I lose at the end of the year anyway", my whole internal calculus changes.
I continually get emails "thanks for signing up" where someone gave a fakename@gmail.com and they happened to pick my email id. Ah, the stories I could tell. I've spent years trying to convince some places that I didn't sign up. I don't know how common this, but I suspect it isn't rare. It doesn't sound like your service can avoid that problem. Please think if you could find a way to overcome that too. Thank you
At the risk of being off topic (well, definitely):

> in a post on X, formerly Twitter

It keep surprising me that someone can so completely torpedo their brand that news organisations feel compelled to keep referring to the old name so people have some idea of what they’re talking about.
The author took the time to write four long blog posts on the subject but apparently din't bother to look up cache-oblivious algorithms [1], i.e. the field that deals with designing algorithms that work well in the presence of memory hierarchies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache-oblivious_algorithm
Except for relying on others to have left your car alone, and to have left the roads accessible, and relying on gas or ev charging stations to be up and running.
That's just not true. They'll just be stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. Wanna know how I know? Because that's exactly what happened in the opening days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Luckily, Ukraine has a well functioning train system and the majority of refugees escape by train to Poland.
> but doesn't really affect society very much.

In addition to the items you mention, there is an embodied carbon / pollution component to manufacturing these barely used second vehicles.
Because ZK doesn't have an exponential economy, each unit is important, even the cheap ones. There's also metal reclaim in battles, which tends to be about half of your econ. So fights become terf wars to make sure the enemy doesn't reclaim each battles' spoils.
As someone who watched S1, and enjoyed it. I never bothered to watch S2 owing to the two year delay between releases. I felt like I had probably forgotten too many plot points to fully appreciate it.
I've been asking a few people about what range is good, and a lot say 90 is great, 70 is ideal to balance maintenance cost.

The answers vary by a lot it seems
NetChain: Scale-free sub-RTT coordination (2018) [pdf]
Argentina will now lead the world by example! Congratulations!
This reminds me of Dense Discovery (https://www.densediscovery.com/) and Tom Scott's newsletter (https://pad26.aweb.page/subscribe).
I think that's this part:

> Selective vascular access to the brain is desirable in metabolic tracer, pharmacological and other studies aimed to characterize neural properties in isolation from somatic influences from chest, abdomen or limbs.

So, as far as I understand: to control tracer liquid amounts more accurately, or deliver drugs to just the brain.
Yes it's a lifetime estimate, from here: https://www.parkhound.com.au/blog/australian-drivers-spend-o.... Extremely misleading quote from the Uber person, probably intentionally.

Also basically a made-up number, a website that helps people find parking asked 300 people "how long do you feel like you spend looking for parking on average".
No. What you say is a caricature of him. I listened to him directly. In spanish. I am spanish.

He never opposed to same sex marriage or denied climate change. What he said is that people treat climate change as religion without any other considerations.

A libertarian is not far right. You could consider it right, but far right is just absurd. A libertarian cannot be anti-liberal in essence. Milei never defended positions of force against others and promotes respect for life, private life (he does not care who you go to the bed with or who you trade with) and private property.

Anyone who knows ehat far right is knows perfectly this is not a far right position at all.