skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to ask how does anyone arrive at a "55% more trauma" figure? I can see from the study they just tallied up ICD codes. This is not a particularly rigorous examination of the facts.

Also from the page containing the study:

> Fatal bicycle crash rates have risen dramatically over the past decade. In 2020, 932 bicyclists were killed on U.S. roads, up from a low of 621 in 2010. One reason may be the dominance of pickups and SUVs in the U.S. vehicle fleet.

Another reason is that there are more bicycles on the road over the last 10 years. Not an unimaginable phenomenon. Giving per capita data here would be far more useful in the analysis.

New York's estimates[1] seem to suggest that more than twice the number of people are bicycling over this 10 year period. Yet, there's less than a doubling in the fatality rate.

I don't find much of this conclusive.

[1]: https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/cyclinginthecit...
The point is that there's no way to know which "7" companies will carry the bulk of the growth, so you grab some representation of "all" of them.

So yeah, what you're saying is exactly how it's meant to go.

Also, "recession is looming" is easy to say at literally any time in history. Eventually, you'll be right. The trick is to know precisely when it will take place.
Custom keychains are also available if you worry about malware dumping unlocked keychain data via kernel privilege escalation (to bypass ACLs). For critical items that you decrypt once a year, it doesn't make much sense to use the resident login and iCloud keychains.

ACLs shouldn't be overlooked though: manual keychain items use the default ACL configuration and require user confirmation, which means you need to authenticate N times to access N items.
> ultimately going to the airport as rent, not to the CIBO food vendor as profit.

In food services in general there's this weird thing that the ultimate price on the product doesn't matter. The food-selling place will have paper-thin margins regardless. It will either be rent, or equipment and cutlery, or the need for highly trained and specialised staff, or... (and often all of those, and more, coupled together).
Sounds awesome! Let’s do it.
> I think that's just a typical big company bog that sorta forms at every company.

It’s somewhat intentional. They want the manpower to make big moves, but don’t actually want to shake things up.

So you put red tape all over the place and start games of phone tag with a dozen teams.
It's described in a separate thread https://mastodon.nl/@vickyvdtogt/110202237846457614
> Are there low-fee funds that just track the S&P 500?

...yes. Sorry, I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but is this really a question? There are dozens of them: https://www.thebalancemoney.com/the-cheapest-sandp-500-index...

I'm continually astounded by techies who have so much money and so little idea what to do with it. It's not like this stuff is even hard, not compared to keeping up the latest JS nonsense: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page#mp-gs-h2
Yep, though it depends on the use case. If you want truly cold storage that's super rarely accessed, LTO tape is really hard to beat on $/TB!
photographs didn't destroy paint, because they don't do the same thing. People trying to represent the world as it is use photography (for the most part) and people wanting to express something about the world use paint.

AI is even less than that - people who want a computer to make their artistic decisions for them have a neural net author an image or other work for them. generally the humans having no more artistic input than someone who commissions a piece from an artist by explaining what they want.

A person painting makes a trillion times more artistic decision making than someone 'painting' with a neural net. They aren't the author of the work, and can't enter it into art competitions on their own behalf (unless the rules are stupid), and can't register it for copyright as there is no human authorship.

It is the complete dissolution of human art making - its humans deciding to have a non human thing - that cannot feel emotions or understand the emotions in an image - make 'art' for them. Most because they are incapable of doing it themselves so having something is better than having nothing, some because they do art primarily for money and the neural net works faster than them and they haven't figured out the bit about no copyright yet, or will misrepresent it to illegally get a copyright on an image they didn't author.
For the CMB we predict (or rather invent) "inflation" - a rapid expansion of the space-time to preserve uniformity of early Universe [1]. Inflation lasted for 0.00000000000000000000000000000001s but the size of the Universe increased by 10^30 times.

1. https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Planck...

Edit: I wanted to come up with an analogy of increasing some object to the size of Earth (as it is the biggest object we can experience in real life). Though 10^30 times is so mindbogglingly large that we don't really have any sense of that small sizes at all. The object would have to be smaller than an electron by a trillion times (10^12).
UK, would get ~15 down and <1 up wired. Have a 4/5g connection that varies from 4 down to 350 down, generally stuck at about 6 up I think - only 4g for uploads. About £30/mo.

Strongly affected by signal strength, so I sometimes open the window to "let more internet in" which can dramatically improve speeds.

Very eagerly awaiting a proper fibre connection which would be symmetric gigabit for something like £40/mo.
> The American millionare class is a group of 401k holders.

What do you mean by this? That pension saving make up the bulk of wealth in the US? Because from what I can gather that's not correct.
I’m curious to learn more.
I don't remember the film well enough to say whether he attempted a first ascent in his 80s (I don't think he did), but his last accomplished first ascent was Bomber Lake Arete in 1997 (at the still impressive age of 74). While a first ascent at any age is impressive, and in your 70s even moreso, it would still be an inaccurate claim to say he was making first ascents into his late 70s, let alone late 80s.
Nor is it for IC vehicles. The tall car/truck thing is totally market driven. American drivers want a "high command seating position". Electric or not, people enjoy looking down on traffic. In fact a bunch of small SUVs (rav 4) are just Japanese car models made taller for the US market.
… but you can always build gas plants I’m sure. Same thing is true in parts of the US. Gas somehow doesn’t face the opposition of pretty much anything else.
Hi Indie Hackers,

I was very bad at marketing. I did all the thing that DO NOT WORK when finding the first 100 PAID users. But with time (and a little bit of luck) I now understand marketing way better than I did.

So I decided to take this initiative where I am creating a community (a telegram group) where we (Indie Hackers) will be able to talk, discuss and learn about what is right and REALISTIC way to go when it comes to getting users.
They would charge 400 dollars if they could. There is no principle to markets with artificial scarcity. They can do whatever they want when you're trapped there.
> RAV4 hybrid that drives like a car and gets 40 mpg.

I had a 2018 rav4 hybrid that never got close to 40MPG. Maybe 30-32 in the city, but once you hit the interstate where the speed limit is 65-70 the MPG significantly drops to 25-7 due to the underpowered 4 cylinder engine and the massive 3,900 lbs curb weight. The rav4 only had 5k miles on it when we got rid of it.

I guess it’s good if you live in a big city or never drive the actual speed limit on the interstates.
I just check out r/all sometimes and it’s showing up at least a few times a week on there. I’m not actively going to those subreddits. I’m finding myself going there less and less as it’s repulsive. Interestingly Twitter seems to have gotten more interesting lately.
That's not a property of being a reserve currency; if anything it's the opposite.. The US doesn't even have the highest ratio of debt to GDP. For example, Japan has 200%, borrowed in JPY.

The US can afford to have a lot of debt because it has enormous, highly liquid markets without currency controls, so people want to do transactions with it. So does Japan, which is why it works out for them.

To the degree that reserve status drives debt at all: the US has to issue some debt anyway because that's how foreign countries hold dollar reserves for foreign exchange. But the US is able to issue more than is needed for that (for the reasons above) so this is irrelevant. But it's not a case that being a reserve currency allows you to issue more debt than others can.
Just do yourself a favour and watch this video[0], you might learn why SUVs and in general cars with a taller bumper height are more dangerous.

.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo
These platforms do not want creators qua creators, they want creators as unpaid content producers, dependent on them to such a degree they cannot function as a creator otherwise, so that they may exploit the traditionally sacred relationship between audience and artist in perpetuity. These creators are only as such in the most degenerate sense, as the form, venue, and limits of their art are wrested from them by network effects. Recall that 'the medium is the message'.

Smartphones don't encourage programming because programming is power, in so far as it facilitates the ability of the individual to bring about actions manifesting their plans and desires. Apple, Google, et al. want obedient, docile serfs who pay tribute unto Caesar, tempt more serfs into their domain, and maintain their aesthetic preferences and dominion.

The productive question is: What can be done about it? How can the user be liberated from subservience and helplessness, which they are taught to desire with such fervor by well-funded and highly sophisticated propaganda/PR machines?
How would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast this morning?
That's fully possible, even easy, on an iOS device.

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The kind of programming people are agitating for in threads like these is emphatically NOT general-purpose programming. It's a very specific kind of proto-programming - being able to write direct inputs in exactly the kind of way you'd write software in the 1980s; a core example being the ability to write for a built-in BASIC interpreter, right on the commandline.

Plot twist: that shit's useless.

I grew up in that era, and that kind of programming is a toy. You can write gimmicky little things like outputting text in various colors, or at extraordinary expense, you can use these incredibly basic building-blocks to jerry-rig higher-level constructs to actually accomplish something meaningful.

It's an incredibly damning indictment that most of the successful pieces of software from that era started by bootstrapping their way out of having to do direct "dos/apple console" programming and wrote a high-level interpreter for something better so they didn't have to deal with that; every major title did something like its own virtual machine (c.f. lucasarts games), its own lisp interpreter, etc.

It doesn't teach you to program; it teaches you to bootstrap language interpreters — if you get incredibly lucky and figure that out on your own. The other "99% of space marines get attrited in training"; the other 99% of aspiring programmers from that era never figured that out, and gave up at the blinkenlights stage, without ever building an actual piece of software, or really getting their machine to actually do anything. I use that example to illustrate the absurdity: the WH40K trope is meant to be satire, because that level of attrition in any field is just a bafflingly wasteful way to elevate people to higher skillsets. Survivor bias may make heroes out of the tiny minority of people who actually made it (the Jordan Mechners of the world), but the cost in people who never "break through" isn't worth it.

I'd rather teach people to actually program. Teaching them to build the ingredients for programming (not the universal ingredients, but just the ingredients to enable it on one very particular kind of host medium) isn't it.

My regard to that "programming" era is: "rest in piss, you won't be missed".
I feel like the guy behaved pretty indecently, and to reward him with more attention would encourage others to behave similarly in the future, and detract from the other winners who participated in the contest in good faith.
The 14TB HGST Ultrastar DC HC530 drives I bought in server builds eighteen months ago (delivered one year ago) have gone down from $330 to $200 in that time period. Pretty amazing. 16-20TB drives are starting to lose their premium as well[0].

SSDs may have dropped even further. I had to unsubscribe from /r/buildapcsales[1] because I couldn't stop buying the SSD deals that popped up. I wanted to avoid juggling multiple storage drives in this machine, but now all my M.2 slots are full. Stuck one in a cheap USB enclosure to make a damn good flash drive.

QLC drives are starting to approach HDD prices. Here's an extreme example. Two months ago $100 was a good deal for a 2TB QLC drive[2]. Now you can get them (in limited circumstances) for $45[3].

[0]: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#f=2&s...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/111b8n8/ssd_...

[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/12fv841/ssd_...
> unlike at a movie theater, you can make yourself the same sandwich for $1.50 and bring it with you to the plane

You can do that at a movie theater too. At least, I did it back when I was poor. Well, not with a sandwich, but I got some M&Ms and a drink at a nearby supermarket to take into the theater, because that saves a lot of money.
There's a Democrat in the White House, haven't you heard? Terrible for the economy. What other criteria do we need?
How much profit do airports report?
No, most revenue was just people buffing their FarmVille plots. The company aimed away from online gambling or even hardcore gaming.

It was hard to understand what whales were doing because the games were so far from gambling; there was no legal way to cash out, and even goods sales were policed. Money spent was clearly for amusement purposes only.

These were people who spent thousands of dollars leveling up in Mafia Wars. The interpretation at the time was that these were affluent individuals who simply enjoyed competing with money.
s/twitter.com/nitter.net/
This is unfortunately non-trivial to quantitatively evaluate the performance against ChatGPT :-(

We didn't do much evaluation because there isn't much innovation on model side, but instead we are demoing the possibility of running an end-to-end model on ordinary client GPUs via WebGPU without server resources.
Thanks to the zero trust model, access to that would require additional authentication.
Huh, I don't remember needing to get working papers, but I vaguely recall needing a parent signature - I was also pretty rural tho, so you kinda know most people around anyway. Presumably, social security card/birth certificate would be enough as well.
The parent poster is saying that the lower nose of a Prius results in safer pedestrian collisions than an SUV would experience.
Visual Studio Code? Visual Studio?

C# / .NET (Core) / Typescript?

Teams are... "OK" at best. For school they're decent, for work their video-co is good I'd say, but chat is bad.
Not even close. The diameter of the electron is under 10^-18 meters -- that's a sort of experimental upper bound derived from collision experiments -- but it may well be much smaller than that. Some estimates for the diameter of the electron approach the Planck length -- and some, which are no less credible, are well under the Planck length, e.g. at 10^-80m.

In physics, the electron is usually described as a point with no size at all. Thus, for practical intents and purposes, it exists but is infinitely small. (Which sort of reflects the notion that human physics is an idealization of the natural world.)

The Planck length isn't a hard physical limit for size. It's where direct measurement starts running into insurmountable barriers.
What I've found is that often a flight will take the same gate as it took yesterday, and failing that a nearby one. I think people like to be near their gate to feel safer about missing the flight. You mightn't know know the exact date, but since airports won't even give you the general area.

Also I don't believe your efficiency story, there are plenty of cases where it's possible to know the gate ahead of time, and plenty of reasons for airports not to want people congregating at the gate as soon as they get airside.
It's also not "we don't know so maybe no black swans exist".

Knowing and belief are different things too. I don't know for a fact that the tree outside my house is still there when I'm not looking at it, but I believe it will be.

These discussions get muddy quickly precisely because sometimes you're arguing thinking that you know what the other person believes, which is a bit of an arrogant assumption, and then you're off having an argument with a specter of your own making.
In my case i just buy used HDDs from the local PC repair shop for pennies, and use them for my long term storage and offsite backups. Shops usually swap people's HDDs out for SSDs to speed up their PC, so they have a ton of ~1tb ones to sell for cheap. I doubt people like myself are impacting the market for HDDs though.
I think it may have been obvious to most. I didn't really read up on the story ..

https://www.eldagsen.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/preview_...

.. I was impressed with composition(s) as well.
>You can't attack others like this on HN, regardless of how provocative another comment was or you feel it was. We ban accounts that do so, for what should be obvious reasons.

I know. Hence the addendum to my comment. As I said there: "I screwed up. I will try to do better in the future."

My apologies for wasting your time.
Yes, easily. Buy an emerging market etf. Will outperform SP500 over the next decade.
As my physics professor said, "the intelligence of committees adds like resistors in parallel".* There are 8 billion of us, but it's hard to get us all pulling in the same direction: we're limited by communication bandwidth, distrust, incentives to defect and freeload, ~20 years of education to get up to speed, duplication of efforts, and other organizational difficulties. Meanwhile, we're manufacturing about 50 million discrete GPUs per year, which is about the same as the number of humans we add per year (60 million and falling). Obviously it's not simply 1 GPU per AI agent, but just in terms of rough trends, there you are.

* See also: Kasparov Versus the World, in which grandmaster Garry Kasparov defeated the "superintelligence" of thousands of chess masters combined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World
Steve Job didn't "understand design", but he understood what a good design can do for his product, and knew what he liked.

So he put the design team as the highest in Apple, and had every other team answer to the constraints of the design. It worked.

Musk may not "understand AI", but he understands what AI can be made to do, and he knows what he likes.

Which frankly, for the boss, is more important than understanding the code. And, he knows how to find and hire the right talent, how to excite them, and how to keep them. And how to ship.

IMO it is unfair to say "his company did it" especially when his rivals in each of those industries failed where he succeeded (including OpenAI, which he gets at least some credit for). He understands enough of what he needs to about both AI and business to make it work.
I think the point is that the divergence in market cap is so large that it’s become equivalent to a highly opinionated active manager. Any fund that’s allocating over 13% to just two companies seems a bit risky, but that’s what you’re getting with Apple and Microsoft here.
> If you disagree, the car companies must also be very wrong about what the customers want, because they keep making bigger and bigger cars and people keep buying them.

I know it’s controversial, but there’s a group of us who truly believe that yes, the car companies are wrong about what customers want, as those of us who want and desire subcompact vehicles keep being told we are wrong. Where I live, subcompacts are the most desired kind of vehicle and extremely hard to find because the car companies aren’t selling as many of them in the US as before. That is to say, they are refusing to sell them in the US market while still making and selling them overseas.

When I ask the dealer about this, they say they made the decision because consumers don’t want them. When I point out that I want to buy one and so do other people, and when used vehicles of that type come in, they sell right away, they just shrug. So here’s a case where it’s the consumers repeatedly being told they are wrong for wanting smaller vehicles. It’s pretty much a fact that the larger vehicles have been intentionally pushed on US consumers, so when you say people keep buying them, they are doing so because they have no choice.

With that said, there is and has been a bias against small cars in the US since the 1980s. There are two reasons for this. I think some of it can be traced to the original safety problems that small vehicles used to have, which have mostly been solved at this modern juncture. Second, I believe this bias against small cars might have started out as political and economic propaganda against foreign imports at a time when US car companies were still making large, oversize sedans.

I think that much of this bias is rooted in popular propaganda that has seeped its way into conventional wisdom. I have personally rarely experienced as much random visceral anger and hatred against small cars from strangers as I have regarding anything else. It’s like a form of sexism and racism that is unique to the US. If you dare to drive a small car in the US, you are treated like a second-class citizen. It’s bizarre, it’s weird, and it’s uniquely an American phenomenon.
Looks like this was hacked together pretty quickly. This in CPU is exactly what needs optimized to run on more devices, if that's even possible..

I guess it will take hardware and software a while to catch up to compete with ChatGPT..
Hey just bring your own food! Oh wait, I guess you can't thanks to security theatre. Guess you'll starve or fork over $15 for a shitty sandwich

Too bad we can't have nice trains. I mean Amtrak is okay but it doesn't even compare to the rail systems in other countries. Guess we're stuck polluting too. Thanks, Elon
Thanks!

You may be over-estimating how much money I have as a techie, I work in non-profit/academic sector. My retirement funds are relatively paltry compared to what you may assume about techies with so much money (but perhaps still more than US median for my age; googling says median US retirement savings across all working-age households is $95,776), and mostly in managed 401k/403b where I have previously just chosen "lifecycle funds". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

People make a lot of assumptions about how much wealth random HN commenters or the HN audience in general have, and sometimes I start feeling like I'm really poor compared to all you techie multi-millionaires... but when I actually pay attention to comments, I realize, nope, a lot of HN is more like me (although probably often ashamed to say so).
Frankly, the driving test in the US is a joke. Better testing/education standards for all would provide one of the most biggest improvements to safety given that it would apply to all situations and not just pedestrians/bicycles/[other singlular topic of the moment]. Proper safety training in school would be beneficial to other road users as well. After all, it's hard to be safe when you're ignorant. Even more so if both parties are.
Is it surprising that a newspaper admits it protects it's sources? I don't get the concern here.