skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you compare these actually objectivly then things arent that clear.

Great, lots of environmental laws that ... prevent a train line that is objectivly great for the envoirnment.

The simple fact is, China transportation system is better for the actual environment.

Worker protection, ok, US worker protection globally known for being great? If im China a train-line is built 10x as fast, then even assuming higher insure rate, the overall project might be safer.

Lets talk salary. Are US workers that work on CHSR better paid relative to other jobs in the economy compared to China? Did China use ultra cheap slave labor? Can you actually show that its the actual workers who benefit from this 10x cost upgrade?

Private property isnt absolute. The US can take property if required. And happly did so and still does so for highway expantion. Japan on the other hand has less ability to do it and still manage to build trains. Im not sure how exactly this works in China. But just saying 'private property' isnt actually great analysis. Can you objectivly show that people on the path of CHSR were objectivly better of then those that had property along a line in China. And even if so, how much of the cost does that actually explain.

You can look at any number of statistics in regards to infrastructure spending efficency. The US does then to be very high.
More appealing than typical factory farms, yes.
Michael Seibel on his next ten years at YC
Out of curiosity, does anyone know the technical requirements for the age system that this law requires? I'm assuming it's something more complex than "enter your birthday".
AI Support Can Prevent College Students from Failing Stem Classes, Study Shows
Why does it matter if you don't get promoted? What if you like doing good work, making all that impact by osmosis anyway, but do it for the sake of just liking your damn job?
If people wanted to wear a phone screen taped over their eyes out in public, the technical limitations wouldn't barely make a dent in that desire. But the vast majority of people want to have real in-person human interactions when they're out in the world. That's what the makers of these devices fail to see. But they can't see that because they're self-described VR enthusiasts. If they talk to non VR enthusiasts (which is everyone else), they'll see that the limiting factor isn't the hardware.

Think of it this way. Most people think it's rude to talk to each other indoors with sunglasses on. That's the slimmest form factor you're going to get, and it still steps on the toes of human connection.
That sounds absolutely horrible. It's the ratcheting up of injustices like this that will put the final nail in the coffin of our "modern society."
Great article. Really great article.

After asking ChatGPT to get the last 3 characters of a file name, and then asking why I wanted to do that:

> You're likely interested in extracting the file extension from the file name, as file extensions often provide information about the type or format of the file.

So these AI are reinforced to be obedient, but they might still know your mistakes. Though this isn't a particularly good answer either.
i literally know absolutely nothing about boeing or this guy. i have 0 opinion on this case at all. what i have an opinion about is people using someone claiming they won't commit suicide as evidence that they were murdered when they die. see john mcafee. it was a major headline when he died that he said he wouldn't commit suicide and then he died therefore conspiracy. except in reality he is the exact sort of unhinged maniac that would commit suicide. i wouldn't be surprised if there was ACTUAL evidence of a conspiracy, but him saying him saying he won't kill himself aint it.
I can't picture things in my mind
You could even hang some servers underneath your LACK, aka the LackRack [0]

[0] https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack
But their work on the software side transfers seamlessly to a pass through device later. It still serves its purpose as a beta (beta meaning data collection and improvement process, not its modern “we just don’t support this” definition.
> they fail the "normal human being" test

Hahah
It could play out like the iPhone where it costs N times more than the competition, but lasts 2N times longer, and has better resale value. (For iPhone, N is ~1.5)

I’m having a hard time imagining that level of planned obsolescence for VR displays though. If anything, I’d expect the quest 4 (or 5, or whatever generation matches Apple specs) to last longer.

Of course, it’s a moot point for me and the large percentage of the population that will never strap Facebook-controlled eye trackers to their head.
Is complying to kids data regulations worth it?
I believe my startup has a segment of child users and I’m wondering how much work it is to become COPPA, GDPR, and AADC compliant. I saw that Amazon and Meta have been hit with lawsuits and fines in for COPPA violations and it seems like the government is starting to care more about this space — for example, until this week I wouldn’t have expected Congress to pass a TikTok ban.

Has anyone done the work to become compliant to these regulations? How much effort was involved? Did you feel like it was worth it?
I think it's a mistake to frame it that way. Collecting and selling data is essentially ubiquitous among companies with access to harvestable data. ISPs, cell providers, smart tv manufacturers, and so on are not broadly associated with some specific historic cultural or urban planning failing. They're companies with access to an additional revenue stream, and nearly any company that can will make the same decision.
People keep vastly overestimating the amount of content that is consumed in group settings.

I watch a show / movie with my girlfriend a couple times a week. A nice TV is still better for that obviously.

But I watch stuff on my own every single day. Personal media consumption for me is probably 8x my group-based consumption. I would wager most people these days have similar habits.
Solo-movie watching seems like _a_ usecase, but I'd argue most people don't watch movies alone.
Was your <$30K down a <20% down payment and are you paying PMI as a result? I totally understand that %20 down is a big pile of money to conjure up, but PMI wouldn't have been cheap for us had we been unable to conjure it.

Our cost to close was under $100k with a 20% down payment, but still substantial. And yes, we were first time homebuyers. Obviously we did not buy anything approaching 2M.

With closing costs of $10k-15k, 100k doesn't even break a half million at 20% down. That's (sadly) not even table stakes in e.g. most parts of Boston.
That's exactly my point. If you want committed bandwidth then pay for it. Now, if there is no option to pay for committed bandwidth, then you may have a legitimate gripe.

I believe that the Internet providers are not fully transparent about network utilization, but the bulk of the consumers are also ignorant about what they're actually paying for. Let me put it another way. What the Internet providers are really selling you is an opportunity to fill a pint bottle from a common spigot. They are not selling you the milk.

It's a bit like a ticket to an amusement park. You may get on your favorite ride right away, you may have to stand in line for hours or you may not get an opportunity to ride at all. Rent the ride for a private event and you'll be sure to ride it. Of course the amusement park could have timed entry for rides, but that's their business choice.
Well, I sanitized my report of the interview. He actually asked if I had a bad history. I was confused and said I didn't understand. He clarified that he was asking about things like crime.

So the element of getting suddenly put on the spot doesn't really apply. That's already about as awkward as communication gets.

More importantly, though, I don't think the point is correct to begin with. This is fine:

> I think you'd be surprised how many people are really bad at lying; or even bad at acting normal when they think they have something to hide, particularly when asked such a question unexpectedly.

But job applicants with criminal records are only going to match this description once or twice. For the rest of their lives, it's not going to be an unexpected question, and they'll have lots of practice in denying their record if that's the way they choose to go. You're just never going to catch anyone out this way.
I consider the culture war a political issue but I'm glad you can see the obvious bias in the wiki article.
Our understanding of the universe changes all the time as we gain more information. I find this rationale approach very good, but it can also be really frustrating when debating the origins and composition of the universe with someone who takes theories as "categorical" truths.
I try not to be hateful but dealing with attorneys every day will make you truly despise their profession. This brightened my day. Now if we could only disbar a couple million more.
Oh, yes, that's what I do! I act first, and then consider the action.
i felt this way too. i did buy the AVP because of the 14 day return policy. i ended up using it four hours a day, which is all of my non meeting work time.
You’re supposed to prepend the context to an error before you return it, so the final error reads like a top-level stack trace: “handling request: fooing the bar: barring the baz: connecting to DB: timeout.”
It’s a legitimate form of “try before you buy” for online purchases. Even when buying in-store where you can try it before purchase, the demo is rather limited in time and exploration freedom to really make an informed decision. Companies like Apple know that their lenient return policy is worth the extra purchases it generates.
I dream of a world where the majority of humans could come close to 59% after attempting a ten step logical process.
> City limits are important because each city in a metro area could have different zoning and noise ordinance laws.

You can have these differences within one city as well, on the district level or even individual streets.
For further details on the "data privacy company Onerep.com" discovery

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39709089
Even hospitals outsource some core infrastructure to the cloud. Cut the internet connection and suddenly they're in the 80s.
They still need to make sure the restaurants on top of them are generating money. Otherwise they'd just build self-storage units on each one.
Perhaps the incessant talk of GPT-x being AGI, whatever that means.
I know this is about a fundamental physics question, but what jumps out at me is that JWST can resolve individual Cepheids at 130m light years distance !!! What an incredible marvel of engineering.
> The freedom to not be exposed to lab-grown meat.

What do you mean "exposed to" ?

If you mean "eat it", then ... don't eat it. Eat something else. That's not at all the same as preventing me from eating it. "personal freedom" is, as I said, a multi-edged implement, Why trample on my freedom in the process of freely not eating something?

If you mean that it's around, then so is lead, gasoline exhaust smoke and any number of other pollutants that are present in some quantity, are much harder to avoid, and are worse. We don't have complete freedom from them. There is no justification for a special legal exception for lab-grown meat.

If you mean that you don't want it present in the same supermarket, even wrapped in plastic, then ... isn't that a little fragile? Vegans are expected to shop in meat-carrying shops, and there is no justification for a special legal exception in that direction, or the the other direction.
I believe he nailed it with the live sports argument.if Apple can get that going people will buy it for that alone.

I have personally wanted VR for flight sims. It is jarring to have a screen full of instruments or looking out the window, but difficult to do both without a crazy physical setup that I do not want in my office. VR solves this by simply moving your head, the same as pilots do in real life.
The highest quality furniture can be found in antique stores or estate sales. Perhaps it's just me but my default has always been to buy old things with the idea that, if they've lasted this long, they'll probably last longer. I've always felt it was lower risk. But please don't all rush to buy old things; because I like the low prices too.
There are lots of ways to raise the avg. salary without giving people a raise. If you fire the lowest earners (and perhaps outsource their jobs to third party contractors) then the avg. salary goes up without having to give anybody a raise.
I ended up doing MDF tops for my workbench (1" MDF over 3/4 plywood), and finished them with shelac for a protected, low-friction surface. It is still vulnerable to water damage, but not as bad as unfinished, and as a spoil layer it's not bad. It has plusses and minuses.
It is already widely supported by all the major browsers except Chromium that powers Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. And the lame excuse they give for that is "Chromium has actually decided to discontinue JPEG XL support, citing a lack of interest in the format." So if you wait for Google (and Microsoft) to support JPEG-XL, you will be stuck in a kind of "chicken and egg" paradox, where you wait for Chromium to support JPEG-XL and Google waits for developers like you to implement it in your apps.
But if building an app is as easy as voicing a requirement, and getting an updated version is as simple as asking for a change, then why should there be an ecosystem at all, rather than just bespoke on-the-fly apps for every single individual?

As a tangent, I've been thinking about this in regards to the edtech space. For now, the focus is on GenAI tools for quickly building courses, but if we have AI with the combined skills of a Subject Matter Expert, Instructional Designer and Tutor, why would we need to build courses at all, if instead it could just teach anyone anything on the fly, based on their specific background and interests, and adapting immediately to their reactions?

We've already been talking a lot about bubbles / echo chambers over the last decade, and I imagine that this will get a lot worse/better over the coming decade, depending on your perspective of the value of shared experiences.
Reddit's early employees were very busy with sock accounts reposting things from other sites, commenting on them, then messaging the creators on the original sites "hey your thing was posted on reddit!".

Marketing comes in lots of forms.
A significant number of McDonalds locations in the US are owned by the McDonalds corporation, not franchisees. And McDonalds wields a heavy hand in "encouraging" franchisees to participate in whatever program they're currently running or implementing. This goes from food introductions, to hardware, to back of the office programs.
I read that Endurance book on Shackleton's failure before you were even born.
And another person can literally read the plain text and see how the Supreme Court performed malpractice of law, by picking their outcome then contorting their arguments to match. I'm not surprised; we're only human.
Maybe you can also tell the business owner to like his damn job of managing the company more than the sweet profits coming from underpaying senior engineers?
"Equality is a myth therefore it's OK to apply laws unevenly."

Am I stating the argument correctly?
Ironically when I want a 15 minute timer, I get given 50 a lot of the time... 14 and 40 are also problematic.

I figure I am just holding it wrong.
The trains has to run on legacy private routes in a state the has barley invested in trains in centuries.

It is a line not well integrated in the larger transportation system and has a limited scope. Getting to as many riders as they have is impressive.

Its unsafe because of Florida insane traffic engineering, not because of any issue with the trains or the company.

In the context of the US Brightline is clearly a success by a large margin.
A new technique to work out a corpse's time of death
This sounds RFC 3514 compliant.
I view it a bit like assembly. Nobody learns that anymore outside of niche use cases. It all just moved to higher abstractions. I suspect programming with AI will become a similar abstraction of sorts
World Cup outages changed how incidents were handled at Twitter
When it comes to predictions everyone has their own opinion, and I don't think this technology is mature enough for anyone to claim to own the truth.

Either LLMs already showing us all their potential, their improvements will be incremental and marginal - in which case their role will be mostly as augmenting tools that human use to be better. Maybe some full automation suites heavily adding up to LLMs to build complete, albeit crapy un maintainable and limited software, as existing no code options do today.

Or it is only the beginning and we'll get actual thinking that can grasp what the need is, and build something awesome and usable without a human developer supervisor.

To draw a parallel: the building of furniture has been largely automated, yet people value hand crafted items more, where time is taken to produce a unique, refined finish. Maybe we'll have the same? Where simple software is relying on less specialized devs (or accountants/logistics managers/... turned the minimum bar of developers) - and more complex or critical ones still rely on software engineers augmented with LLMs?
What does that tell about the backend system? - Nothing.

Also last time I went to auch a place they asked me for a loyalty thingy even when not ordering by app.
>Defining intelligence as prediction leaves out a lot of other things that humans would see as intelligence in other humans (e.g., creating a novel)

Would it?

Why would "creating a novel" by a human not itself be text generation based on prediction on what are the next good choices (of themes, words, etc) based on a training data set of lived experience stream and reading other literature?
> You're most likely not paying for 900. That's just marketing talking. That's not committed bandwidth.

I do get around 900 megabits of download on real actual workloads like downloading from Steam (over 100 MB/s). I believe there's absolutely no uptime commitment though, and they do commonly shut off my internet access for like 5 minutes at 4am, presumably to install some sort of unwanted update on the router that I don't own, because if I try to install a router I do own, they cut the line after a few days of usage.

in contrast, I get about 24 megabits of real-world upload speed.

That ratio is disgusting. (DL:UL 35+:1)
This actually helps me a little bit. I've also seen people say they can read screens, and that's not my experience. I also have the lens inserts, and I suspect that part of the problem is how they implement the prescription. I'm not knowledgeable enough about lenses to say this with confidence (please correct me!), but I wonder if this is because Apple prioritizes a farther away focal point for the inserts, so you literally can't focus on anything close up.

I've noticed that I can almost read things if I hold my phone a little farther away, but I wouldn't call it usable by any stretch. I've considered getting contacts for the first time just to test all of this, but I'm extremely turned off by the upkeep of them (to say nothing of the idea of touching my eyeball to put them in).
The critical temperature for killing bugs is 60 degrees centigrade, not many sofas are going to withstand that.
I mentioned Chicago because the parent did.

But I agree that there's a lot of cross influence.
Go to an estate sale; pretty much everything you need for a house will be there. No need to frequent vintage stores.
I was interpreting "this world" a bit more widely than just the work environment in high level Academia.

There are certainly environments where anti-social behavior can be optimal. But there are also a LOT of environments where pro-social environments are rewarded. Includig, but not restricted to, within families.

Anyway, you're right that we're not living in our ancestral environment. But I don't think we're in a world that actually rewards anti-social behavior less (EDIT) than much of our evolutionary history.

Rather, I think cynical outlooks like that of the OP actually appears for reasons such as:

1) People who are themselves anti-social who either actually think that everyone else are the same, or at least try to normalize such tendencies.

2) People who, during early development, had a very naîve world view and then when faced with reality, became so disillusioned that they went to the other extreme.

I think the vast majority of people on earth today still live in environments where some amount of compassion, conscience and empathy are useful traits (for themselves).

However, in a lot of cases, it can also be useful to have the ability to turn such emotions on or off depending on the context. Once we start to think of some other group of people (or individuals) as either a mortal enemy or a kind of prey, a lot of us can reach such an off-switch when dealing with them.
No, not really. You can obtain the certificate externally and use it internally. The DNS challenge type does not require a web server exposed externally either.

Sure, it's far easier not to do it. It's also far easier to have no root password.
>The ability to write a novel is different from actually writing a novel

In what way, except as in begging the question?
Hardly. Amsterdam is comparatively small city = much smaller audience. You can se the stability of the scene in how often clubs close down. Just recently De School closed (now it should be reopen again under different management/name).
Some of the Berlin clubs have been open and solid for 20 years.
Why forbid them from setting it automatically? Tracking is meant to be opt-out.

Other than that yes this would be the solution.
You’ve never made a mistake in your reasoning?

Tongue in cheek but this has been considered and has resulted in experiments like tree of thought and various check your work and testing approaches. Thinking step by step is really just another way of saying make a plan or use an algorithm and when humans do either they need to periodically re-evaluate what they’ve done so far and ensure it’s correct.

The trick is training the model to do this as a matter of course and to learn which tool to apply at the right time which is what the paper is about wrt interspersed thoughts.
Paul Walker would confirm.
I think the key to your last bit is "indoors." People don't consider it rude when talking to each other outdoors because it's mutually understood that wearing the device is beneficial.

All it takes is to get to that point with AR. So it's more a critique of the state of AR's present usefulness rather than an innate, immovable reflection on society.
The Grim Reality of Banning TikTok
McDonalds' product, someone in that business explained to me, is consistency: You can get the exact same food in any town, in any country, at any time. (Also, it's availability, as they have prime location and usually are nearby.)

It's pretty impressive from a business and logistics perspective. Imagine delivering the exact same physical object, which is perishable and must be locally prepared, everywhere in the world. That's a different challenge than your cloud app's capacity.
This reminds me of Orson Welles' excellent film: F for Fake.

It explores art forgery, art experts, and the author of a book about art forgery committing a massive forgery.
Thanks for highlighting that! I think in the new economic cycle we should judge companies in a holistic manner, including the CEO’s personality and character because such things often affect how they provide value or screw over customers.
That... makes sense, but I really wish the game would have warned about it.

By default I just run everywhere, in basically every game. I think a lot of gamers do.