skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I'm necessarily disagreeing that in the worst-case scenario that helmets do the job of reducing brain and skull trauma. Doing something is the alternative to doing nothing, you'd expect some difference here.

My problem is that helmet use isn't exactly "well-studied." All these studies look at existing reports from medical centres on injuries & deaths. This doesn't actually account for the broader behavioural changes in the system, or look at causes outside of "injured while wearing a helmet vs. not."

In any other industry this kind of reporting (while factual) is absolutely ignoring everything else. A short list of what isn't being considered:

- Which road and behaviour led to incident?

- Which kinds of road conflicts can be addressed by helmets?

- How did road design lead to the incident?

- Were environmental factors a concern (winter, ice, rain, etc.)?

- How does behaviour for the cyclist change as a result of not wearing a helmet?

- How does behaviour for other road users change as a result of a cyclist not wearing a helmet?

- What kinds of helmets are more viable for protection in the case of the most extreme (and most common) conflict scenarios? How do we then test these helmets to ensure compliance in manufacturing?

These are all questions you'd expect to be answered here, and then you'd do the cost-benefit analysis on whether a mandate is necessary or not. A "well-studied" field would have discussed these effects in broader detail, not just short-cut to "fewer people who already had huge injuries while cycling died when using a helmet." That is not the entire problem, because it leaves out a huge sampling of people who do not wear helmets and do not make it to the hospital in the first place.
Oh, so its 'once guilty, always guilty', i see. Please keep in mind, the guy was a kid and still is.
Ask HN: Seeking recommendations to learn and practice Game theory in D2D life
Scouting for good frameworks to learn and practice game theory and probability based thinking in day to day decision making. Any books/blogs/podcasts would sincerely be appreciated!
It was actually a very uncomplicated process.

Not much pain. I significantly lost hearing in that ear immediately. There was not really any way to treat it apart from waiting for it to heal itself, which it did after about 4 weeks. Hard to tell whether it's truly as good as new though.
I donate $5 at Publix. Publix's income (and tax responsibility) increases by $5. They donate my (and everybody else's) $5. Their income (and tax responsibility) decreases by $5 to the original level.
I used to monitor CO2 in the house with Awair units, specifically those because it allegedly interacted with my Ecobee AC control. So I could say if the levels were rising, force the fan on to push fresh air around, although I'm not sure I ever got it working correctly.

It's a big problem for me, as living in Florida basically means the AC runs almost year round. In the colder months we open the windows as much as we can to let the levels drop, but from spring through autumn it's just too hot to keep them open, as it just pushes the AC harder to cool more and more, while also increasing the humidity.

We definitely started getting better nights sleep once we had either the windows open, or the door to the bedroom open. I also rarely shut the door to my office as I was getting so sleepy at my desk during the afternoons.

I have no real solution for the hot months anymore, as Awair has basically abandoned the units I was using. I've just had some Zigbee air quality monitors arrive that I ordered on Aliexpress, but I'm skeptical at how accurate they'll be. Infact I'm skeptical at how accurate any of them are after I did some research into building my own and adding some sensors to an ESP32.

Going to have to try and come up with some HomeAssistant automation task with the Zigbee sensors and Ecobee to push fresh air through the house.
While I totally agree with you on the payments side, I still like to see the message being sent out that reckless has consequences outside my own little head. Even those family members can suffer from my reckless behaviour. Right now, in case of a self caused accident without precaution measures (like, no helmet) the insurance will shorten the payments yes, but the system also won't let me default on the treatments - social support will kick in. So I have both the support and the threat and I think it works fine like that.
Large language models help decipher clinical notes
OP here. Yes, this seems to be the best available approach. You apparently can burn it in regular reactors if you mix it with uranium in what's called "mixed oxide fuel" (MOX). However, there are a bunch of logistical hiccups that make all of this a giant pain.
You seem to have missed the fact that cycling deaths NOT involving cars are negligible. Remove cars, remove deaths.
They could design it in a way that it operates on your data but they have no access to the data outside of these strictly defined operations. If that was a priority to solve, it would be solved.

If you’re thinking of end to end encryption, that doesn’t discharge from GDPR. When person-related data is processed outside of the EU, even just to store encrypted bits, it must comply with all aspects of GDPR.

The genie is out of the bottle, cloud cooperation is a given for modern software. The question has moved on to how to regulate those clouds in ways that prevent the harmful sides. GDPR is one attempt to do that.
What people are missing here is that you can setup feedback loops of models to get the "correct" content or whatever you want.

For example, If you get too much NSFW content put a NSFW detection step on top of GTP ("Is this response offensive") and have that model respond to GTP with "please repeat but with fewer bad words".

For accuracy you can add a Wikipedia feedback loop. "Does this response match information on Wikipedia?" if NO ask it to try again.

Think of these models as transistors or basic logic gates. The real power comes out when you link them together into more advanced logic like a Instruction Pipeline circut.
> They are using a photo on file and matching it to a picture they take.

Now they have two photos. Next time I fly, they will have three. Soon they have lots more. Why would I want this?

> It’s not like they are taking a 3D scan of your face like an iPhone does.

Not today, maybe, but I'm sure they'll be trying to roll that out next year, if they think they can get away with it.

> The government is already tracking you

Well of course they are. Is that supposed to make me feel better? I will continue to resist, at every new step, even though I will probably lose; at least I'll make them work for it, as best I can.

> If you don’t know the advantage of TSA Precheck, you obviously either don’t fly a lot or don’t fly out of major airports.

I don't want any such advantages, and I have no interest in making the TSA's job any easier. I am willing to spend the time it takes.
So the title is true in every case of the tuskless elephants except the base case.
I drive a small hatchback. The camera shows things that are not visible any other way. Even if the rear hatch was entirely transparent there are large areas that wouldn't be visible due to the rear seats.

So, no, it isn't only a "giant Canyanero hurr durr" issue
Better yet - stay at home. Don't leave unless really necessary. Have everything delivered, preferably by autonomous electric drones. WFH. Exercise indoors. Have a super-insulated home, but don't naturally ventilate it.
Why queues matter in software development
Note: Article is from 2019.

While the risk of nutritional deficiencies when tracking 1200 calories/day is higher, it's possible to make choices with whole foods that are satiating and satisfy daily micro-nutrient requirements despite low calorie intake.

For instance, for a 1500 cal/day diet, the following mealplan is quite a bit of food:

Sample Lunch: https://i.imgur.com/ZTeKsX4.png

Sample Dinner: https://i.imgur.com/sX2g5dL.png

Daily nutrition tracker: https://i.imgur.com/YrGjSQJ.png
this is a ridiculous question

i am not going to subject myself to hours of manipulative propaganda for which truth is not even a consideration in order to write a 'rebuttal' nobody wants to read, thus implicitly affirming all the errors that i missed or that didn't seem important enough to mention

dramatizations are works of fiction

literally everything in them is false with the occasional exception

every word, every facial expression, every event, every chemical reaction, every purchase, every article of clothing, every motivation

the exceptions where they say something objectively true are enumerable; the falsehoods are not

don't base your beliefs or life decisions on fiction

finding out what is true and making good choices are hard enough without deliberately sabotaging the process
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

if 90% of everything is garbage things are really bad. If 99.999999% of things are garbage then everything is completely useless.
I've got bitten by "lifetime" deals before. One was Zoolz backup, which offered a lifetime, but stopped it after only 2 years after I paid for the service.

Another is a web hosting service that offered "lifetime" webhosting, which seemed legit, but then after couple of years, the company folded or at least what they claim... I suspect they've moved on and started another company in place.
Hijacking GitHub Repositories by Deleting and Restoring Them
Mac OS 9
> Current AI replaces SW developers the same way StackOverflow and blog posts replace SW developers.

You can ask GPT how to optimize code and it’ll actually give decent responses in a few seconds though. That’s new. It can reveal answers about questions you’re not sure how to ask, at least as a less experienced developer.

All of its optimizations so far have been things I’m aware of except for one, which was mostly due to me not writing that kind of code very often.

That’s becoming superior to blogs and SO if only because the response is rapid and concise.

As for correctness, honestly, I come across so much human-generated stuff online with errors that I read docs and experiment unless I can find the answer from a source I have high confidence in. People with less experience don’t have that luxury, so they go down far more rabbit holes without realizing it.

GPT will still parrot some of the bad ideas, but eventually it could be trained on industry standards. Tools like copilot are poised to become incredibly helpful, I think.
To me it sounds like ChatGPT worked like Bootstrap: you need to make your website project decent looking but you don't know your way through css (although you know the fundamentals), Bootstrap to the rescue.

Needless to say: Bootstrap didn't make designer nor frontend engineers jobless.
His lawsuit against chess.com is certainly not about (2).
Well, I hope so. They have to record the income, which is taxable. So if they're donating it to a charity, they should take the write off.

It's an interesting situation, since the stores are not charities themselves. I don't know if you, the consumer, can write it off.

I don't know if there's a some kind of "pass through" loop hole that lets the consumer write off the donation, while the store funnels it to the charity, but themselves do not get dinged for the taxes on the income.
I’m surprised by the statement that cost is a limiting factor. If the model produces correct high quality output, 750 words for 2 cents is a bargain! Do you know how long it would take me to write 750 words??? Even if I only spend 10 minutes it’s a no-brained to use this tool to help.
I have train set 182 [1] from 1975, bought at Harrod’s in the UK and brought back to the US for a family friend who passed it on to me. It’s still in the box with styrofoam liner.

[1] https://brickset.com/sets/182-1/Train-Set-with-Motor
This is the exact premise of one of the stories in the Cyberiad. The main character Trurl builds a machine and it is convinced that two and two is five, so much so that when Trurl refutes it, it starts getting angry and hunting its creator.

There is also another story, "The Electronic Bard" another computer made by Trurl, capable to write such good poetry that poets start to give up on life. ChatGPT is surprisingly good at writing romantic poems in the language of pure mathematics! Though still needs some work on rhyming.

Of all the Sci-fi AIs, we ended up with the ones from the Cyberiad. Amazing.
Of course not the only reason, but a reason nonetheless.

"Contrary to often-repeated claims that today’s genetically-engineered crops have, and are reducing pesticide use, the spread of glyphosate-resistant weeds in herbicide-resistant weed management systems has brought about substantial increases in the number and volume of herbicides applied. If new genetically engineered forms of corn and soybeans tolerant of 2,4-D are approved, the volume of 2,4-D sprayed could drive herbicide usage upward by another approximate 50%. The magnitude of increases in herbicide use on herbicide-resistant hectares has dwarfed the reduction in insecticide use on Bt crops over the past 16 years, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future."[1]

Please bare in mind that I'm not advocating against GMO. I'm advocating against hailing GMO as a win:win to all of society and environment.

[1] https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/2190-471... "Impacts of genetically engineered crops on pesticide use in the U.S. -- the first sixteen years"
We're witnessing the making of Demand Media 2.0, except that you can now run it from your basement.

https://variety.com/2013/biz/news/epic-fail-the-rise-and-fal...
I’d tell my kids a lot fewer lies if they actually fell for them. Half the fun (and the entire point) is watching them get a more and more sophisticated nose for bullshit.
You think the goal is to reduce cycling head injuries by 40% by reducing cycling by 40%?
This false equivalency just keeps being made.

Yeah absolutely, acceptable in case of humans and not acceptable in case of GPT.

GPT is not human. It is employed by a human to get around having to benefit other humans with attention and money.

Meanwhile human world is structured around fate, happiness of humans -- such things guide our considerations as to what to consider legal and what not.

There are other differences that make it OK for humans and not GPT (like we can attribute and credit what we learned from, whose ideas we used in work and what inspired us) but they are less significant than above principle
The Raspberry Pi Pico W has always been easy to source, if you wanted to stay within the R-Pi family.
Yet another reason to switch to git.
I was called stupid when I bought my license. Now I really do feel stupid.
There's nothing about the question or answer that suggests that they're different people.

FWIW I've done the same, even more like that than the post here. (Not about Lego though!) I had a problem, was disappointed not to find the answer on StackOverflow so when I came to post the solution I put the question in the way I would have written it before I figured out the solution. Seemed more likely to be found by anyone with a similar problem.
> Do you think that anyone should be able to build a street-legal car?

Yes

> Regardless of how well it is manufactured and how safe it is for those inside and outside of it?

No. Should have cat, compliant lighting that's not too brigth/dim, working brakes and suspension, ABS and some common sense (like no spikes protruding from it). You know, the stuff proper MOT inspection would fail you for anyway. And maybe pay few hundred to professional mechanic to get thru it and make sure you ain't doing something stupid and get you nice custom VIN for it.

If it is (say) 100+ production yeah probably should have some actual crash testing and rest of the compliance, but if it is one off ? Won't be worse than 20 years old F150 or someone's restored 70's/80's car and we aren't taking those off the roads.
Remember when Singapore stock artists for traditional chinese media used the footage used by others to silence ccp critics and youtube did nothing.
Navigation/location data, and also likely time stamped car activity data which you don’t get from the MCU.

Call data and other data from devices tethered to it, and for connected infotainment systems also wifi and cellular data which can provide a secondary source of location data in case the location history has been purged.

It wouldn’t surprise me if there are some more rich logs there including CANBUS data from other car systems on some of the newer models.

Overall if you have a late model car especially towards the upper end of the spectrum I would assume the infotainment system has about as much information as a cellphone you carry because they are basically phones stuck to the console at this point.
People you’re referring to are not talking about gpt as is, they’re talking about the rate it improves and extrapolate it to the near future.
Is a white-collar recession looming?
Compared with some of the pre-war predictions, the visible effects of Russian cyber-campaigns have been somewhat underwhelming. E.g. the Ukrainian power grid remained largely online until the Russians started to launch physical attacks on the infrastructure. Perhaps they've already squandered their best assets (e.g. zero-days) or are keeping them for later / other enemies.
CBP already has facial recognition and gait recognition running in general public spaces at quite a few major US international air traffic hubs. My spouse (who works in the export compliance space) was given a capabilities demo one day while meeting with CBP officials at our local international airport, which included tracking individuals of interest from first appearance on airport cameras to their departure down the jetway.
They should mention that each "debt" has a counter party that has an "asset". Ie, net zero. Which doesn't resolve the liquidity issue, but it's not a black hole like they make out. In addition, it's not clear they are netting across all transactions. Many of the players in this market have offsetting positions.

It's derivatives. It is what it is. Marking everything to market all the time isn't a great answer either.
But this sort of change is happening all the time in all sorts of different domains. There probably isn't much of a role for a web developer who just knows some basic HTML like there was in the late 90s. And you can apply this to a lot of basic wring, transcriptions, etc.--at least at western pay scales.
Most companies just stop offering the lifetime license to new customers...
It's possible to recognize the advancement within the field while simultaneously recognizing the deficiencies from a general standpoint, especially with domain knowledge of the former. ChatGPT is both fascinating in that it _can_ act like a bunch of ignorant liars using Google and Stack Overflow, and mockable because it _does_ act like a bunch of ignorant liars using Google and Stack Overflow.
> 1. A fraction of the Indian populace is so poor that the cost of operating a cash economy (printing currency, transporting it securely, stocking and operating ATMS and bank branches) might prove forbiddingly expensive to service rural areas -- leading to financial exclusion. So, for them, digital infrastructure (which reduces cost of transacting) is a matter of life support, rather than the luxury that it is in the developed world (where everyone has bank accounts, access to cheap credit, and can swipe plastic cards everywhere).

So poor, but well-off for paying for mobile phones/laptops and internet, and educated enough to understand the app interface/language?
Demystifying the wild world of crypto (Ted Talk)
I kagi’ed around and I can’t, sorry. The software is 30 some odd years old and was acquired by IBM and sublimated as all ibm acquisitions do. But my memory of it could well be approximated by using dot to create nodes for execution points with edges to calls that are rendered with a weight proportional to the log of the execution time. The nice thing is it allowed for recursive calls to be rendered as cycles, and there are a lot of non recursive cycles I found. It also did a reasonably good job of clustering so highly popular calls fanned into a sub graph but with each graph calling in clustered independently.
No, they're a subset/superset with different agendas.
I'm a little wary of relying on this, because it seems like the kind of effect that would go away if no-helmet was more normalized. In other words, if we have a (local) culture that says "bicycling is sufficiently dangerous as to require a helmet", then drivers (even the ones who don't themselves cycle) are going to have that in their heads, and it's going to influence their behavior: "if I accidentally strike this person not wearing a helmet they're going to get really hurt, I'd better be extra careful". If the consensus is that lacking a helmet is not particularly problematic, I suspect we'll find drivers not acting specially too.
I've come to believe that tech won't solve any actual problems.

What I mean is, real tech provides a necessity solution such as food/clothing/shelter. Phantom tech (like phantom wealth) provides the appearance of a solution the merely streamlines some other task like search/logistics/profit because it's geared towards takers not makers.

In a very real sense, what people need most now is income/time/autonomy so that they can get away from obligation and self-actualize. Those are specifically what we won't see coming from tech. No tech is coming that will provide an income or pay an ongoing dividend beyond human effort. That's because our problems today aren't technological, but sociological.

We've had the tech to free everyone in the world from nearly all labor since roughly the Green Revolution of the 1960s. But at every turn, especially since the 1980s, all excess wealth has been sunk into wars or wealth concentration or whatever maintains the status quo. We generally put our money into mansions, not solar panels or anything that pays a return on investment outside of finance.

I'm open to the idea that my projections aren't reality. For example, I waited half my life for blue/white LEDs to arrive, and lithium iron phosphate batteries, wireless networking, affordable solar panels and electric vehicles, AI that passes the Turing test for people at a median level of techno-literacy..

But now that innovations are arriving faster than I can keep up with them, I find myself paralyzed at making positive changes in my life. Like many of you, all I do is work. I know exactly what I want to do, and have taken major steps towards my dreams, but for all me efforts, those dreams feel further away than ever before. There is simply no point on any timeline, no matter how long into the future, where I see myself pulling away from work and being an inventor for example. Whatever contributions I might have made to society will most likely die with me.

It's an odd feeling to see advance after advance with little or no material increase in quality of life. And it might sound strange that someone like me, so immersed in tech innovation, can't seem to ever get my affairs in order. But here I am. This is the single most debilitating struggle that I've ever faced. We can call it melancholy or depression, but it goes deeper than that. It's existential crisis played out daily as we're forced to run the rat race to make rent in a world where everything we do could be automated if it weren't for multinational corporations and billionaires vacuuming up every last cent of disposable income.

Laugh at me, give me advice that doesn't work, point to your own success or whatever you want. No amount of lip service will fix stuff like the 40 hour workweek and the fact that we have to work for another's profit. Until there is a mass-exodus of the workforce in developing countries because people have the means to make their own food and water (and everything else they need) to have a quality of life better than hunter-gatherers, I'll consider tech a marvelously pretty failure.