skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death in the U.S.1, with over 100 people dying every day.

Motor vehicle crashes are slightly outside the top ten causes of death. Those 100+ deaths are coming out of about 9300 total deaths.

> The economic impact is also notable: for crashes that occurred in 2017, the cost of medical care and productivity losses associated with occupant injuries and deaths from motor vehicle traffic crashes exceeded $75 Billion.

Productivity losses are outside the scope of medical costs, but even if we include those dollars that's $75B out of $4100B in health care spending.

So I stand by my statement that it's a pretty small impact.

> American Society of Civil Engineers infrastructure report card says only 45% of the US population has no access to public transit.

And most of the other 55% still need cars.

You said "good subway systems and a walkable infrastructure" and that's what I responded to. We can go ahead and remove the word "subway", but the fraction of people with access to good public transit systems is pretty small.
This is some of the worse advice I’ve seen on HN in a long time. The type of work the author is recommending will at most keep you middling along in your career.

If you do ever want to get BigTech compensation they want you to be able to show “scope” and “impact” at anything beyond a Level 2 engineer. They also expect you to have some system design chops.
I think so? To me, least seems to be used for things like patience, distance, tidiness etc whereas lowest seems to be used more for money or countable things.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32803396
Not necessarily. That's a simple question with a complex answer. There's a lot of "ifs" and maybes and it depends a lot on how the site is set up internally.
The problem is also the media. Twitter outrage mobs aren’t so effective on their own because average people don’t read twitter. But news sites often pick up these outrage mobs and shun a light on them. Which amplifies the outrage and puts it in places regular people read.

And then companies have to act on it because the media sites are reposting tweets claiming the cloudflare CEO wants to see trans people die or whatever the thing of the day is.
> Can drivers used to the higher speed not read the updated signage?

I live near a road that looks like a highway, and is 55 mph through a quieter area between towns. As you approach the business-heavy area, it drops down to 45, 35 mph, but the design is the exact same.

It’s impossible to feel how fast you should be going because the entire road still feels like a highway, so you’ll just naturally go fast. Most people don’t look down at their speedometer very often.

I have to keep looking down and correcting because your speed just naturally creeps up when a road feels like a highway. And this is as someone who lives near there and drives it regularly! Imagine the people who don’t go that way as often and aren’t aware that they should be making adjustments all the time because of the terrible road design.
You never truly have leverage at a company of any size. You are replaceable.
That tracks. My understanding is that part of the genesis of mobile homes was the industry lobbying for exclusions to residential building codes "because mobile homes are mobile." So I'd expect any mobile home (read: excluding prefab or factory-built) would fail a standard code check.
What Darwin won't tell you about evolution – with Jonathan Pettitt
> Outright threats of harm — I’m sorry to hear you are subjected to this.

No worries. I've been out on the roads for a couple of decades, and so these days it's not the occasional person who throws a hissy fit that concerns me. I'm a lot more wary of the motorists who aren't at all aware of what's happening right in front of them. This includes those who literally can't see me because the front of their vehicle is so high up that it completely obscures me from their vision as they turn across my lane.
Only if your frame of reference is the driver in the car. However, you are not always a car driver. Sometimes you are crossing the street on foot to get to your car. Then the very thing you optimized for comes back to hurt you, literally.

The reality is that we are a meta organism. The vehicle fleet itself has some optimal weight that balances survival for all individuals in the system to its most optimal level, but this paper shows that heavier vehicles are not that and in fact do more harm than good for the system overall.
Just use http://16777217 instead.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/x1hp4u/my_...
what a terribly written, self-indulgent article. Basically unreadable.
Now try running your sales team with MS Access, Sharepoint, HTML, and JavaScript. Your sales force will quit not long after. Remember, the sales org is a profit center and IT is a cost center. Salespeople want to track leads and close opportunities without worrying if the VBA scripting of Sharepoint integration with MS Access worked.
Missing Allen (2001) by my late father Christian Bauer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOXSI_vcqK8

Around the turn of the century, my dad's good friend and longtime collaborator Allen Ross vanishes from one day to the next, just after they have finished shooting a film about the Mississippi. Years later, my dad returns to the US to find out what happened to his friend.

It's his most personal film for sure, and I remember him going off to the US for weeks and faxing us letters to keep in touch. It's also the one that had him most scared, he took out life insurance before he left because of the people he was looking into.
A 90s American wasn’t comfortable in a 90s Geo.
hey if they "tailgate, rev their engine, yell out their window, and/or wiggle back and forth in apparent frustration", it means they can see you which is the most important thing.

Imo the likelihood of an unhinged motorist killing you on purpose out of rage is vanishingly small compared to likelihood of one killing you without even noticing.

Motorists beeping at me is the joyous song of angels, they can see me!
You neo-luddites sure are strange people. You always have the most convoluted hypothetical scenarios you use to justify your weird beliefs.
> Many times I have had to decide if my Python code would be more legible or get free performance.

This is rarely an option that has presented itself to me. If there's a clear performance issue in my code then I probably picked the wrong algorithm or my code has a bug, unless you decided for some reason to do heavy calculations in raw python. If you're doing operations on big chunks of data you should always use something like numpy or jax.

Even OPs issue the clear reason is that it's doing an operation in place instead of creating a copy, for ML models this can only be done at inference time and not training time since you need to keep track of the whole network, hence why the code was in it's unoptimized state.
i've been putting together a guide to prompts here https://github.com/sw-yx/prompt-eng/blob/main/PROMPTS.md
I don't understand why all these crazy forks don't switch to using the HuggingFace codebase[1]. It's much better code and easier to add features to.

It's true you have to use the code from git rather than a release, but that's not hard.

https://github.com/nlothian/m1_huggingface_diffusers_demo is my clean demo repo with a notebook showing the usage. The standard HuggingFace examples (eg for img2img[2]) port across with no trouble too.

[1] https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers

[2] https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers#image-to-image-text...
Yeah, but most of the times it's not that - most of the time the motorists make risky maneuvers to overtake you just to get to the next red light a few seconds sooner...
Just yesterday I was using this a tool to compare similar minimalist stylesheets: https://github.com/dohliam/dropin-minimal-css
It's a red herring though. The 2020 toyota yaris weighed 2400 lbs like something out of the 90s.
I'm not quite sure how to respond to this.

Sarcasm should beget sarcasm, yet grief should beget earnest sympathy, and there's maybe some 1% chance I'm being entirely too uncharitable and you're being earnest all the way through, not taking the piss out of me at all, which would imply your dad is dying, not dead, yet without any mention of under what circumstances. Yet something so nausiatingly generic as to cover all that - perhaps "I'm sorry for your struggles" - feels like it would come off as insincere.

> who do you suggest I take the issue up with to get the unfairness resolved?

There are plenty of people one can try to blame for those whom have died. God, the medical system, the political system that created the medical system, the society that created that political system, the insurance companies that failed to step up and meet their contractual obligations, the people whose negligence or malice lead towards death... and while trials, wrongful death lawsuits, insurance payouts, holding people accountable, and social safety nets - won't make one whole - and won't make things fair - they can at least make things a little less horrifically unfair. Or, if improvements are made, can make things a little fairer for the next victim of life. But I doubt you would be asking your question, sarcastically or not, if there was someone so easy and convenient to blame - or even scapegoat. It would lose it's biting edge.
This reads like a paid ad for those spoons. I’d expect a “mad quest” to talk about trying many spoons, deep discussion of spoon properties. But no, this looks like standard-issue blogspam. We’re not far away from this shit being auto-generated.
there are several problems with these figures. first of all, the unknown category. this data comes from police departments. if they "don't know", it means the person was unarmed. otherwise they would have said. secondly, the vehicle category includes anyone who was in a car. while a car theoretically can be used as a weapon, that also is a category the police can put anyone they shoot after pulling over because "I was afraid they were doing to drive at me". thirdly, caring a weapon isn't illegal. this chart doesn't break down by whether the person with the weapon was actually threatening the officers with it, just whether there was a weapon on them when they were killed. in the most egregious cases like George Floyd, the police sometimes get charged but it's rare. Floyd's case was exceptional because it room place over 9 minutes in broad daylight with dozens of witnesses and multiple camera angles. there are hundreds of unarmed people killed by the police every year, and the vast majority see no charges.
On my M1 MAx with 32 GB I'm getting 1.5 iterations/second (ie, ~30 seconds for the standard 50 iterations) using this example: https://github.com/nlothian/m1_huggingface_diffusers_demo
Are ATMs mysterious black boxes that dispenses random amounts of paper to random people, at random times? Of course not! The person standing in front of the ATM is entirely relevant to what comes out of the ATM. First check is that there's enough money in their bank account, but other bits of information, like their citizenship status are relevant to the transaction. American citizens typically have US bank accounts with US dollars in them, and the super-duper special status that they have; the privilege that US citizens enjoy, is that the US government has no currency trading control. As a US citizen you're allowed to trade away all of your USD for whatever other currency you want.

If you had the luck to be born in a country with a strong currency, like Sweden, you're also blessed with this privilege, but if you're from a different country, like say, Argentina, then you're only allowed to trade a certain amount before you're cut off, which the bank, and by extension the ATM will check. It's less about US citizens having some super-duper special status, but that they have rights that people that only have Argentinian citizenship don't have.

Of course, being a US citizen isn't going to magically turn the bills inside the ATM into USD, but prior to the currency controls, Argentinian ATMs had USD to dispense, to both Argentina and US citizens, as well as citizens of other countries.

The stated goals of Argentina's currency controls was to stop the out flow of Pesos to USD. An American tourist visiting Argentina is going to spend their money in Argentina while they are there, which, no matter how you denominate it, which would be an inflow of money to Argentina.

When the controls were announced, the banks went overboard implementing their blocking, which also prevented this inflow of money into the country. Which is why it's remarkable.
The types are text -- if you use a generation mechanism that is convertable to uuid then you can coerce the values to the uuid type.

I think it's rare to have the kind of case where the inefficiency of indexing text vs uuid actually matters -- usually sorting is a bit more important.
do you mind putting a license on your repo? as it is right now Diffusion Bee is technically not open source.
I think I've seen it used once or twice in my career so not common.
Amongst my whom???
Yes of course. Are you qualified to be interviewing?
What annoys me about otel is that it seems to require direct live connections. I'd much rather just add the tracking keys / spans / whatever to my logs and parse them out of there later, but no standard lib / app / process seems to like that idea. I have no intention of adding extra sockets to my requests when I can just dump everything to the logs as JSON.

So that's what I do, but instead of relying on otel tools, I have custom queries I run against elasticsearch (or grep syslog) using my trace tags.
Works great. No multi-process visualizations but i can make my way through a process chain quickly enough
I use poetry and forget the rest of them exist. It has worked well so far.
he just came up with a whataboutism that fits his narrative. commuting/recreation it doesn't matter. The bike inconveniences the motorists for a short time where as the car can end the cyclists life.
The best flatware ever made (IMO): WMF Nortica

The have a really nice balance, perfect weight and are practical while modern.

Unfortunately they are not longer manufactured and and now cost $240/set!

https://www.replacements.com/silver-wmf-flatware-nortica-sta...
What’s wrong with being bald? I saw the writing on the wall in my mid 20s that my hairline was soon going to look like Lebrun James or George Jefferson (https://images.app.goo.gl/oJmeW1o7VFYgzUqX7). I cut all of my hair off. I’ve been wearing a bald head and most of the time a clean shaven face for the past 20 years.

Another benefit is that no one has a clue how old I am. No gray hair or receding hairline if you cut it off.
This blog entry is an advertisement for boot.dev's backend training product.
agreed, and also for cars over XXX hp (not sure of specific limit but still)
IBM cools down world’s largest quantum-ready cryostat
Why is "trending on artstation" a keyword that influences the ML model? seems weird
It excites me. Healthcare is one of those industries stubborn to any efficiency improvements.
Isn't happiness just one of many emotions? Why is there such an obsession with it?
Is this a lookup overhead thing or a memcpy based overhead regression? In the case of the latter it seems like this may result in an unexpected mutation of the source data?
as someone who lived in Chile for 3.5 years, I can tell you that all developers who use tzdata = a gift from God.

Calendly always seriously struggled with it, which is really bad given they're a scheduling tool. The amount of meetings I (or my guests) came 1 hour early/late to was... too many.
Speaking up for an taking cases from both liberal and conservative people/points of view.

Such as opposing Gov DeSantis's stop woke act: https://www.thefire.org/lawsuit-fire-challenges-stop-woke-ac...
Something like a honda fit or a similar subcompact car. Lightweight, around 2500 lbs for these cars give or take between makes, plus they all generally have a sloping front end that will just shed pedestrians off of it like a cow catcher on a train. Many SUV and truck front ends are pretty flat otoh.
Some people quite reasonably object to spending billions of dollars every year on a project with a vanishingly small prospect of success, and of exactly zero practical value if it ever did succeed. There will never be so much as a single kWh of commercial power from these turkeys.

We can all think of numerous projects going unfunded that would have much higher chances of success, and much greater positive impact. But we have a research institution whose only possible recommendation is to continue giving it money, indefinitely.

We see the same dynamic in Alzheimer Syndrome research, where almost all the research money goes to people still fooling with amyloids and tau tangles. The people who control publication, funding, and hiring are people who would have nothing to do if funding for amyloid work stopped. So, they continue funding amyloid work long after it was recognized as a dead end. They have bred up mice that get dementia, and literally everything they do is about the mice.

This is somewhat different from the current crewed spaceflight program in the US, where the absurdly expensive SLS rocket is mandated to be used because senators have constituents in their districts depending on income from building them, useless as they are. In this case NASA would dearly love to abandon SLS, but is required by law to try to launch them. The best they can do is delay launches. Anytime the shoot one, they have to spend $billions building another one.
I would have thought it would be intuitively obvious to the most casual observer, but for the sake of those not burdened with the realization that "full stack" really encompasses everything from the quantum behavior of charged particles in a electric field to the world and the people around the software: binary logic gates are a very low-level hardware devices implemented in MOSFETs. They are the tiny building blocks of computational power. To reify these physical devices as abstractions at the level of a language designed to abstract concepts such as the y combinator of lambda calculus, seeing binary logic gates is clearly a leak from lower levels.
Their goal is to decrease the risk to their family.
Absolutely. I'm sure media was always a retread of an official / inside feed from somewhere, but it feels so much more automatic now.

24/7 to fill with content = {scrape social media trends} -> {generate story} -> {repeat}
what even is devops in the first place? Like is it just IT for deployments with a bunch of management lingo tacked on?

like how are there people in the industry working on this sort of thing who can't code?

It just bugs me, I talked with someone from work whose job title was System Engineer; I asked them if they do systems programming or something... and they said they don't know how to program (even after getting some kind of tech degree!!)
I love these post burning man posts.
Calcium sulfate (and I suppose other sulfates) are quite common.
Like a modernist chair, this spoon looks equally uncomfortable. The tapered butt lacks purchase, a functional faux pas.

I prefer 70+ years old serving spoons, like the Gorham King Edward[0]. The wide butt and thin neck feel great in the hand.

[0] https://www.replacements.com/silver-gorham-silver-king-edwar...
> If you write code that tries to get a pointer to the first variable in the stack, and guess the stack size and read everything in it, Odin does not prevent that, it also (AFAIK) does not prevent the compiler from promoting local variables to registers.

This is exactly what I described above. Odin does not define the behavior of a program which indirectly pokes at stack memory, and it is thus able to perform optimizations which exploit the fact that that behavior is left undefined.

> The compiler does not get to look at that and say "well this looks like undefined behavior, let me get rid of this line!".

This is a misleading caricature of the relationship between optimizations and undefined behavior. C compilers do not hunt for possible occurrences of undefined behavior so they can gleefully get rid of lines of code. They perform optimizing transformations which are guaranteed to preserve the behavior of valid programs. Some programs are considered invalid (those which execute invalid operations like out-of-bounds array accesses at runtime), and those same optimizing transformations are simply not required to preserve the behavior of such programs. Odin does not work fundamentally differently in this regard.

If you want to get rid of a particular source of undefined behavior entirely, you either have to catch and reject all programs which contain that behavior at compile time, or you have to actually define the behavior (possibly at some runtime cost) so that compiler optimizations can preserve it. The way Odin defines the results of integer overflow and bit shifts larger than the width of the operand is a good example of the latter.

C does have a particularly broad and programmer-hostile set of UB-producing operations, and I applaud Odin both for entirely removing particular sources of UB (integer overflow, bit shifts) and for making it easier to avoid it in general (bounds-checked slices, an optional type). These are absolutely good things. However, I consider it misleading and false to claim that Odin has no UB whatsoever; you can insist on calling it something else, but that doesn't change the practical implications.
Most vehicle accidents are between vehicles. Most vehicles weigh far less than busses. And most busses spend most time travelling at lower speeds on surface streets (though long-distance road coaches are exceptions).

I've been in a bus-automobile accident, at low speed (< 25 kph). The experience from within the bus was an abrupt stop, I've experienced similar from normal braking.

The auto involved suffered major rear-end damage. The bus's front bumper was somewhat scuffed.

High-speed rollover accidents, collisions with fixed structures adjacent to a high-speed roadway, or plunging from a bridge or cliff might benefit from additional restraints. Those circumstances are seldom encountered.
Zones are for interoperation.

Seriously though, everyone having slightly different individual times could be real confusing.

For example, two people, a couple of hundred miles/kilometres apart share a phone call, one of them asks: "What time is the game on?"

Also, I am picturing the engineer who work on Google Maps crying at the time adjustments required for traveling east/west on the journey time/arrival time estimate.
Not putting your page header and footer inside the <main> element is a giant pain in the ass. Both ways are semantically correct and accessible, but putting them inside the main gives you more flexibility to control your page margins/padding for various display sizes and lets you set up a grid for the whole page.
As of right this second, a 2015 iPhone 6S can still run the latest released version of iOS.
I can see them next to me here in the fight!
If you understood anything about how literally every chemistry problem scales non-linearly, and requires exponential amount of sampling to yield any predictive meaning you wouldn't talk about things you don't understand lol. Peta=>Exa equals 1000x so you can get 31x the accuracy in a monte carlo assuming perfect parallelism (at 1000x the cost), and that's one of the better scaling things it could be used for.

It's fun to have big toys sure, it's fun to make big GPU clusters. But if they spent what they spend on this computer, on just funding students to solve problems and toss them a 3090 100000000x more scientific breakthroughs would happen. This machine is 60% paperweight, at best, with a hefty budget for good old fashioned contract pork.
Parking minimums effectively make excellent public transit a much harder problem.