skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but you're missing that overtaking events is just one of the metrics in question.

You're right that perhaps it is a big difference between cyclists, my guess would be the number of cars matters more than the number of cyclists. The study has been replicated elsewhere.

> Walker published 5 articles about the same data, and he got a different result in each one.

Uh, no? The 8.5 cm result has been consistent.

At the margin, these things make a difference, especially given that collisions are rare as a fraction for rides taken.
Some people will just resist any change and complain for the most petty reasons
Reading what you wrote makes me think of the Murray-Gelman Amnesia Effect. Most people get their information from media and in my limited, anecdotal experience when media talk about an area I do have a great deal of knowledge in there are always mistakes. My belief is that most of us don’t know what we are talking about except in a few areas.
This is one of the reasons why I have pulled back from social media. In feeds I see a random sample of the most anxious people I grew up with and find myself knowing more about their lives than I do about people I care about. I'd prefer to spend my finite attention on relationships that are actually important to me.
You just shop on a daily basis. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I did this for a few months right after work, which was in walking range. Eventually I went back to "shopping big" once every week after I moved and switched my employer, though. But it's doable.
> Do you wear a helmet when you drive inside your car? If not, why not?

Because I have a seatbelt, an airbag, and a reinforced shock absorbing shell around me.
Or maybe that billion dollar company's users don't change their preferences based on back button behavior so they feel no need to fix it.
ah yes, the considerable inconvenience part of my comment.

e: I know that a lot of people do this (often because they don't own cars), but having lived in cities my whole life and done both approaches at various times, the infrequent large shipping trip is much faster when amortized over two weeks.

and for those saying all my produce is going to be spoiled or I must just be eating processed foods... absolutely not.
You dont think its reasonable to offer passengers the option to wear a helmet?

I suppose it's also not reasonable to provide seatbelts to passengers as well as the driver of a taxi?
The times I needed my phone to have more power vastly outnumber the times I needed my phone to be waterproof...possibly by a factor of 1,000,000 to 1
They've identified several correlates due to weather (cloud cover, rain, wind, day length), but then I can't find where they correct for these in talking about effect sizes. All of these effects then "add up" to make the nearly 10-minute variation in sleep duration.

Also, sleep isn't only about duration - most sleep scientists would want to know about sleep efficiency too. This is "time asleep / time in bed". If you wake up more when it's cold, then there is a reason for shorter sleep when it's warm. Similarly, you'd ideally correct for air conditioning and factors like this on an individual level, but they don't seem to have this data.

Activity before bed, and the light that gets into your bedroom in the morning are certainly correlated with heat. It's important to investigate how these variables interact.
That was a genuine question, not sarcasm.
This is exactly what the US government does with H2A visas.
I assume the paper checked that the non-helmet wearers were not appearing in the morgue?
AC heats up the planet though (just think of the thermodynamics: not only to you pull out the heat and expel it outdoors, but that takes energy, which ends up as heat exhaust as well).

People need cool air, no question, but it's not a free lunch. We need to cool the climate as well.

(BTW I do believe everybody should have access to as much energy as the OECD countries use per capita. Sadly even this is controversial)
This is what my lawyer would tell me is willful. And high risk.
Ah yes, using examples of currency trade being halted as an example of how crypto is a solution of some sort.
Not sure if it's because I'm on mobile, but the "fake" images were not easy to spot. I wonder how different platforms compare
Is it "unregulated markets" that make all the difference somehow? Aren't $tsla, $zm, $coin ponzis as well?
You are free to install an extension if your display or eyesight needs extra accommodation. It shouldn't be the default. Same with font size.
For templates and patterns, we started Codiga [1] where you can define smart code snippets [2] that depends on your environment and can be parameterized by the user when being inserted.

We have a collection of existing snippets user can already use in their IDE on the Codiga Hub [3]. Developers can define their own snippets and share them with their team.

We are still developing the product. It works with IntelliJ and VS Code and we have already a lot of users on the platform. Would love to hear your feedback!

[1] https://www.codiga.io
[2] https://www.codiga.io/code-snippets/smart-code-snippets/
[3] https://app.codiga.io/hub
Please tell me this is a joke. The fact tether trades readily on an exchange is a major factor for it being convertible, even if at a price you don’t like.
I tried Iodine around 3 years ago on a Swiss flight, it worked to read my mails over SSH using Alpine, but was so slow that basically it was unusable. Not sure what was going on, I had the impression that DNS queries were getting throttled after some threshold...
> Do you wear a helmet when you drive inside your car? If not, why not?

My car has other safety measures in place to protect me from head injuries. A bicycle does not.
Because urban planning in North America is totally broken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYHTzqHIngk
Me too. It's been frustrating since the pandemic started and all the grocery stores near me used that as an excuse to remove them. The high end one has them back but not the others.
I’ve recently been diagnosed with tinnitus. It started happening after I got Covid for a second time. I went to an ENT and she was entirely useless. It’s disheartening. Luckily my sleep doesn’t seem to be affected, but I’m not sure how good my actual sleep is.

I’m not sure if Covid causes it, or it’s stress that is causing it. I notice it’s worse on some days and other days I don’t notice it until I’m in a very quiet area. It’s frustrating to go to the doctor and spend money and essentially just be told I’m fucked.

Should I look for another doctor and get a second opinion? Is there any therapies I can do to help alleviate it? Any help would be greatly appreciated
if even 1 incident occurs which was unavoidable by an unhelmeted cyclist which harms them more than they would have been harmed wearing a helmet, then the policy is unconscionable

claiming you're removing safety equipment to reduce risky behavior is the tail wagging the dog. there are other ways to reduce risky behavior which do not have such tragic consequences as side effects to them.
To my knowledge, credit card / bank signup bonus are not marketed / packaged as asset classes.

Learning that a non-crypto investment instrument was based on bank signup bonuses would be shocking to most, no?

To me, that’s the source of the astonishment in the podcast. If what we’re talking about is built on non-sustainable foundations, fine. Call it that. But that’s the opposite of an investment opportunity.
Biggest signs for me were the edges you mentioned, compositions that werent technically bad but were visually uninteresting (and had minor logical flaws like missing details in a reflection), but also the subject matter is the sort of thing that could be described in a succint text prompt designed to challenge a machine (I actually guessed a couple of the prompts, and "tessellated Hello Kitty" and "Origami car" are less likely to be human art concepts than challenges for machines). I'm browsing on a phone so some of the fine detail is lost.

The fact that I'm using the subject matter as much as the image itself to discern AI art is a sign of how good the tech is though. Especially since the subject matter in question is typically "stuff that would be really challenging for an AI to conceptualise" and the image itself (not necessarily the AI's only attempt of course) is a sound attempt at rendering it.

I see most of the utility as the opposite: the artist still needs to come up with the original concept, the overall compositions are unlikely to be better than an artist would conceive, but even in the hands of a non-artist a bit of text can produce "good enough" images (that can be cropped or touched up to remove rough edges) instantaneously which would take a lot of time for a skilled artist to produce.
It's not reasonable and it's not relevant to point that lack of helmet use out.

1. The road infra is entirely structured around making it safer for cyclists in NE

2. They don't BAN the use of helmets. That study is NOT a justification to BAN them.

3. No one is suggesting that they be mandated either.
We’re not exactly loving them now either.
Where will you put them? A recent study showed that just to offset _the yearly increase_ in CO2 emissions we would need to plant an entire continent of trees every year. And then ensure that they get adequate quantities of water.

Human CO2 emissions are so far off the scale of anything that has ever happened naturally that nature as she evolved on Earth has no way coping.
In the case of pedal.me, they do.

> At pedal me, we believe in looking after our people properly. That’s why our team are employees, not contractors.
There's an easy fix for that; drive in the middle of the lane. At least where I live it's impossible to legally overtake a cyclist without switching lanes so for anyone driving correctly it doesn't make a difference anyway. Of course that's not a hard rule for every situation, but after a couple situations that almost killed me I just try to reduce risks. Car drivers hate us either way.
> It was researched.

It doesn’t mean the research wasn’t bullshit nor correctly understood what happened there.
I tried it. It was too much like Eclipse, for me (I am not an Eclipse fan). But I know a lot of folks that like it.
Thank you very much for telling me what SPA means.
A tricky problem all search engines face, regardless of scale and popularity, is dealing with bot spam, of which there is a lot [1].

It's not uncommon to face quarter of a million bot-searches per day and it's really difficult to actually combat since they're on a botnet, without some sort of privacy invasion, either via cookies or something like cloudflare.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31395231
(I can attest to this pattern as well through my search engine)
My grandmother used to laugh about a famous person-on-the-street interview about Australia going metric: one woman complained, "why can't they just wait until all us old people die". It was her go-to comment about anyone complaining about change, and she found it funnier the older she got.
I mean for Lua we at least have LuaJIT which is pretty fast.

But Ruby?
Sourceforge.net Gives 500
Eh.

Scamming their users mostly makes the Founders look bad.

NOT kicking them out is what would make YC look bad. I wouldn't expect it to happen immediately, though, if YC does an internal investigation to see whether any principals, mentors, or advisors are implicated in the unethical behavior as well, whether by commission (giving unethical advice) or omissions (such as failing to raise red flags).

YCs public track record in terms of self-reflection on possible errors in judgement isn't particularly encouraging though. From the outside the org seems to focus on evolutionary changes though certainly at a fairly rapid clip (which means that cultural norms are hard to establish and maintain, giving the "carriers" of non-normative behavior opportunities to wriggle around avoiding scrutiny. For new extensions of the program YC favors rapid experimentation and iteration, which may fail to establish compatible norms depending on who is leading the effort.

It is worth contrasting one of the more stable outposts for YC culture, this very Hacker News site. YC has a very strong policy regarding not just avoiding a conflict of interest when it comes to moderation of posts critical of YC, but moderators have been instructed to moderate those posts and discussions considerably less than would otherwise be indicated, to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest or self-dealing. That's a pretty strong commitment, and one that can be difficult to live up to (avoiding the appearance of a conflict of interest is a standard that judges are supposed to be held to, but not lawyers, for example). YC may or may not have always lived up to the spirit of that commitment (only insiders can know for sure), but it is reasonably plain that an ongoing effort is being made to live up to the letter of that commitment. Kudos to pg for establishing it early, and to dang for keeping it going.

The point I'm arriving at is that establishing and maintaining a cultural reference point like that is very difficult in an organization that is growing, changing, and sending out strange offshoots without a lot of explicit (even occasionally public) communication about similar bright lines and thou-shalt-nots, and outside of the HN context, we really haven't seen evidence for that.
> Some examples: Apple's touchbar ESC key

The number of times I accidentally closed an almost-filled-out modal because a few molecules of my finger accidentally brushed the escape key on that @#$&* thing...
what about fundamental physics
I agree, someone who wants to be an engineer won't pick the trades. Someone who deeply wants to work the trades won't become an engineer.

What I'm saying is that the vast majority want to have a career that makes the most money, with the best benefits, and the best work-life balance within the body of possible options that interest and are available to them.

If you're interested in working with electricity you might be an electrician or an electrical engineer, but with the way things are lined up today if you have the opportunity and are not devoted to the trade, you pick electrical engineer every time.
They do this for org mode files, but that's a much simpler format than LaTeX.
Got me my highest score of 21!
They had a short period with 60 senators until Ted Kennedy died, so they had to reconcile in the senate what was already passed in the house — they had 59/60 senators who wanted to pass Obamacare with a Medicare public option but Lieberman refused and again, 0/40 Republicans helped in any way. So we got the ACA, a flawed piece of legislation but one specifically chosen to engender bipartisan support since it was largely based on the free market Romney/Heritage plan from MA.

And then what health care proposals did the republicans pass when they had legislative control to make things better? Literally nothing. Vote after vote to repeal the ACA and “a plan” to replace it that’s been 6 months away from being released for the past decade. It’s insane people refuse to admit this out loud.
If you can blink an LED, you have DC current and can electrochemically dissolve those bars.
I care! I never worked in trade, but perhaps I have an obsessive personality and like it when things are done properly. When I moved to the UK a few years ago, one of the first things I noticed is the appalling quality of work that the construction industry puts out in the UK. It is truly shocking. Everything is just “that’ll do”. It is very difficult to find a true craftsman these days, even if you are willing to pay for it.

I want people in trade to earn a very good wage. It is difficult labour that requires a lot of practice and experience to do well. Unfortunately, the entire industry today seems to be drowned out by construction “sweatshops”. It’s sad.
You need to be able to see true malice through Hanlon's razor. Not every bad thing is just a stupid person, sometimes (often) it actually is people doing bad things on purpose.

Even if someone is so stupid that they design a Stablecoin backed by leverage that fails if the market goes down 20%, that is malice by negligence, because that stupid person should know that they do not have the capabilities to produce what they are promoting to people. If they are doing harm to society they must be stopped; motive is really not important.
Well, I like a lot of that "cruft." Things like Storyboard Editor, autocomplete, DocC, Instruments, etc.

But is is crazy buggy. It's also YUGE. It's only exceeded in size, by games.
It's also really slow so idk if I'd use it at a large scale..
Sorry, but there is no world in which shopping at the grocer every day is more convenient than shopping once every 1.5 or even 2 weeks or so.

I live in a dense city and very close to grocery stores, this is still true.
What is the elastic modulus of the brain
What it was like to start a company in 2000
When a biker gets in a car accident, falling is generally going to be a part of that process.
> This seems like an extraordinary claim, given that safety systems in all other places have no such effects (or at least, not as significant).

There are examples where safety systems cause increased risk.

Football helmets are one. The helmet doesn't protect very well against concussions and the presence of the helmet makes it more likely for players to use their heads as a weapon.

I don't know about this bike helmet example since the actual data isn't available, but there are definitely times when counterintuitively having a safety feature is riskier.
Oof, this page just keeps reloading on mobile, article is unreadable.
what region
Do you live in a suburban environment? Because where I live it's not unusual to pass the grocery store every day while walking back home and buy groceries for the day. It's only for the big shopping trip on the weekends that I use the trolley (and even then the trip is done on foot).
I know this will astonish you, but when I ride a bike, I don't always put a helmet on.

Whether I do or not has a lot to do with how likely it is that I might get in an accident. Wild right? Why would I opt for more safety gear in a more dangerous situation.
Exactly. I'd have to make a giant stroad-y detour to/from the office to go to the grocery store. Even if gas wasn't $5 / gallon, the time sink isn't worth it
> I think something like that would have to be manually audited by humans

Such a body would refuse to audit e.g. Wikileaks or Syria or North Korea do to some political BS which has nothing to do with the issue at hand.
My educated environmentalist friends are complaining loudly about forest-planting programs the way they are implemented being pad for CO2 absorption (because they replace healthier ecologies) on top of being terrible for the local ecosystems. Ecology is _complex_.
I notice that these code smells as discussed are often really a function of the domain the developer is in.

Lots of game examples, saw some sql too.

What for me is the main reason not to like flags/booleans, is the current hype of MVP.

Yeah, sure, a decision cam be yes or no for the current process. But what about, yes, but.... or no, unless.... for later iterations?

Also, focussing on current user requirements leads to many booleans. What about, when the process is optimal, is it still a yes/no question?

I also notice questions on different levels. In case of visible and static, for instance. One has to do (i guess) with rendering behaviour, while the other has to do with (let me call it) game engine behaviour.

Is it then maybe also a case of (re-)defining the data models, as the element you're trying to specify gains depth?

Even, possibly, that your definitions have become convoluted? In the game example, a difference between the element as an actor in a game scene as opposed to its representation for a render engine?
"without increasing the number of potentially fraught officer–citizen interactions"

My dude, this /is/ a potentially fraught officer-citizen interaction. The police have done something unusual, therefore a chilling effect is going to kick in.
Here’s the contrarian viewpoint just for the sake of being a contrarian, in spite of decades of evidence that helmets improve cyclist safety.
> actively damage your rankings after a minor Google update on a rainy Thursday afternoon

If I were Google, I'd be making these changes all the time specifically to trash the profitability of SEO which damages the usefulness of results. By randomising out the effectiveness of any SEO method, the central limit would just be the actual content.

Assuming they are actually aiming for useful results, and not, say, profitable results (like, say, blogspam and mirror websites that have more ads than the originals).
To be fair in this case, self-service is objectively worse than having the shopkeeper grab everything you want. The popularity of curb-side pickup of your grocery order shows how nice that model used to be, but self-service is more scalable and cheaper. The same is true when it comes to paying. It’s nicer to have someone else ring you up than you have to learn to do it yourself.

I think a better comparison would be people complaining about frictionless checkout (where you just walk out like Amazon grocery stores) in the same way as shopping carts, which is actually a whole new and better experience but can feel so weird that people feel uncomfortable about it.

(disclaimer: I’ve never actually tried an Amazon Go store but I do avoid self-checkout whenever I have fruits/veggies to check out)
This sounds like one of those papers that got published with just barely "significant statistical evidence" but never had follow-up to verify, meaning you can't really draw conclusions for it.
ASP.NET, Blazer and Maui are IoC by default because they are complex franeworks, .NET is not.
That is not as good of an argument as you think it is.

> The only reason Chapelle is on Netflix is because one of the CEOs is a huge fan. There was a lot of internal pushback.

In other words, CEO endorses and demands a "comedian" who punches down on __other minorities__, and somehow Netflix is "woke".
This is the right way to think about this IMO. Wouldn’t it be amazing if tools like this massively increased the scope of what is possible for a single artist?

Something I think about a lot is video game creation - what if AI tools let you quickly create 3D objects and a world without a big, dedicated team of artists?

(Check this out by Nvidia! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5j8I7V6blqM)
> EDIT: also, this doesn't explain prohibiting helmets for cargo bikes, too.

I think it's a PR thing. They don't want prospective passengers seeing their branded bikes as dangerous enough to justify wearing a helmet, regardless of whether that particular bike is currently transporting passengers.
The submitter was concerned that the requirement was telling him something about the company, and, presumably, wondering if it means he’d be happier not working there. I proposed a test to help him/her answer that question. To turn your (reasonable) question around: is the HS diploma really so important that a company would pass up the chance to hire me if I declined to jump through the hoops to provide it? Are my individual qualities really that unimportant to them? Do they see me as an interchangeable cog in their machine? One reason we are beset by so many layers of irrational bureaucracy is our obedience to it.

I did not suggest asking. I suggested telling them “no”.