skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised you wouldn't always be required to stop for a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

Vehicles going fast speeding in dense areas are a huge driver of pedestrian fatalities so reducing speed limits sounds great to me. I've heard that lowering the speed limit from 35 to 25 mph can actually increase average throughput in cities by calming traffic. Here in Massachusetts we're trying to make it legal to use automatic speed limit enforcement (cameras with license plate readers detecting speeding vehicles).

Bicycle traffic does far less to wear down roads and other infrastructure than vehicle traffic. They simply aren't comparable. They also have a number of ancillary benefits for the city, like increasing income from local businesses (even accounting for decreased curbside parking!).

Barrier separated transport is great for cyclists (and pedestrians), but not if it means restricting cyclists to only riding in bicycle lanes. If you limited cyclists to only riding in places where they had dedicated pathways you'd vastly reduce the practicality of riding in any US city I've been to.

I personally feel much safer riding on streets when there are more cyclists around me. It feels like the motorists are more likely to keep an eye out and not do something careless.

We could also try and force automakers to make safer "light trucks", as they're currently much more dangerous than This article[1] suggests the rate of pedestrian fatalities by vehicle type is 50% higher for light trucks than for cars per mile driven. It's baffling that we allow such large and dangerously-designed vehicles on the road.

[1] https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/11/4/232
Can somebody explain to me why 24! ≈ 10^24 and 25! ≈ 10^25 makes sense?

25! is 25 times bigger than 24! while 10^25 is 10 times bigger than 10^24?
Mearsheimer is not liked

For his penchant for pushing half-truths, and intellectually distorted reasoning in other forms.

He explained: (1) the root cause lies in the April 2008 NATO summit Declaration that Ukraine (and Georgia) “will become members of NATO”;

The root cause of what happened to the so-called victim was their going out dressed like that last night. Also, if anything that summit was known for conspicuously "kicking the can down the road": It was more notable for declining to accept their applications of that time, precisely because of Russia's objections -- instead downgrading them to "aspirant" status.

There is no evidence in what Putin has said that he wants to make Ukraine part of Russia,” Mearsheimer adds.

Well, not all of it. He just wanted to annex parts of it. Leaving behind a rump state permanently pliable to Moscow's interests.
Make it available to mods-only. That isn't hard.
I own a Steam Deck, a barely used Gaming Laptop, a PS5 and a Nintendo Switch, and I have no plans of buying an Xbox. I'm even going to sell the Switch now that the Deck runs BOTW flawlessly and with cheats (I'm a casual)! I don't think I need an Xbox.
I know I’m in the minority here, but I hate it. The artist created created a song of a particular length for a very specific reason. I prefer to listen to a song the way it was meant to be listened too.
5% is 1m users.
IRL was advertised on UFC PPV.

There are some people on it just not enough to warrant that valuation.
This tech is really cool, but as they mentioned, they have not tested this with a moving satellite. Because any antenna would need to be localized on a satellite for transmission, you’re going to be stuck with having to maintain (likely) expensive and precise motors who’s job it will be to run in perpetuity. However, I would be confident that stepper motors of this grade will come down in price or will become more available.

My primary concern comes down to reliably. Your ground station must now accurately target moving satellites, negotiate handoffs, and reroute when necessary. Architecturally, you will need to develop the ground station with at least three transponders: an A link, B link, and a redundant Z link. The A and B take turns localizing to their satellite where one is only allowed to move positions if the other is currently active. The backup Z link is on standby in case of failure or maintenance. The three would likely rotate roles periodically to keep time on each of the motors more evenly distributed amongst them. This system must work in harmony with all the satellites in its network. The satellite system has its own maintenance burden too, including orbital decay requiring you to periodically adjust its position until it runs out of propellant, and send more up when it’s reached the end of its useful life. To me, this is a ton of moving parts.

An undersea cable by contrast, will pretty much be maintenance free once laid only requiring infrequent repairs in the event of a wayward ship anchor. Yes, the data center components will need to upgraded periodically but you don’t need to replace the transmission mode. There are no moving parts, no need To track objects hundreds of miles away, just sending light down a tube.

Is this tech cool? Absolutely. Will it replace undersea cables? Probably not soon, but I can see this as a great solution to link remote islands where it does not make strategic sense to run a cable, or where it is difficult or uneconomical to run a terrestrial connection.
Highly suggest to use dns-level blocking so the majority of that crap doesn't even reach you.

If you don't want to configure and maintain your own box, nextdns is a pretty solid option.
Wishy-washy language there about skirting lines doesn't make that a very good analysis.

You can use others' GPL code in your products and charge money for it. You have to "publish" the GPL'ed sources (and any sources of yours that derive from GPL'ed code) on demand -- publish as in: if someone asks, you have to give it to them, but there's no requirement that there be a public download page or anything like that, and you can send the sources out in DVDs or flash drives or whatever media you like, and you can charge nominal amounts for the media. I.e., you don't have to make it easy to get the sources. And you don't have to provide the built product for free.

You can do a lot within the boundaries of the GPL. If IBM/RH does that, so what?

One can even do this sort of thing w/o GPL. For example, SQLite3 is in the public domain, yet the SQLite Consortium exists and makes what I imagine is good money for D. R. Hipp and his employees with zero competition from forks precisely because SQLite3 is very difficult to credibly fork, and SQLite3 is difficult to fork because the better test suite for it is proprietary and secret.

To a business, open source is a tool. Even for individuals, open source is a tool. A young person just starting out and with few resources might make useful software open source so as to gain notoriety and better employment, or even to start a business.
Nonsense. There are properties that have doubled in price over the last 2-3 years for no significant reason other than the flooding of cheap money into the economy. Landlords did nothing special or productive to earn this huge share of people’s income. They require little labor or outlay relative to other business markets. Furthermore, housing is a necessity like water and food; such resources cannot be allowed to rise in cost disproportionately or a unstable society is guaranteed where the populous will simply seize the properties during a civil war.
Don’t forget there have been massive loopholes in vehicle emission regulations which favour larger SUVs and pick-up trucks.

If regulations actually focused on MPG, these vehicles would not be the size and weight that they are.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/cafe-lo...

Right target. Bad implementation.

Going forwards, with widespread electric vehicles, focusing directly on size and weight makes a lot of sense, in addition to MPG (or more generally, energy efficiency).
The psychology of this seems easy to explain, too. Stop signs get folks into a routine of basically, "stop, see nothing is there to stop for, start moving." Do that enough times, and you accidentally move on to "start moving" from habit alone. Contrast that with things that have you slow down, where you will slow down every time from the same learned habit. Even if you accidentally move on and potentially hit something, you will have at least slowed considerably beforehand.

(Yes, you should also be coming to a full stop, but it is impressive how rapidly people will go through the motions of "stop, look, go" to the point that they don't realize they didn't finish any one step. Similar to talking, all told. In speech, most words blend together and you don't have meaningful stops between all words.)
The entire Github thread felt unpleasant to read due to (what I perceived as) the passive aggressive responses. In a way it solidifies my choice to go with ATOM for my org rather than RSS, there's too much confusion for end-implementers in this space.

https://github.com/w3c/feedvalidator/issues/106
I am speaking more to the political possibility. Things like increasing car parking costs, removing car parking, and spending money on more frequent buses is feasible, but politically impossible.

Sufficient voters will have sufficient resources to own and store their own car, and they are going to want to use it, and they are not going to want to spend money on empty buses.
Turmeric’s unexpected link to lead poisoning in Bangladesh
No, you said they are 'unrelated to security.' Just admit you made a mischaracterization. It happens.
They all want to be the WeChat of the rest of the world. They want a platform that people live inside and all other companies just become apps inside their store (where they collect a tax of course).

None of the mentioned apps have managed to do this. Maybe that is because there is no consumer interest, but it doesn't make the goal any less appealing.
And you think these companies are outsourcing to these countries because they just love Colombians, Filipinos, and Indians, right?
Worth noting that in the mid 2000s we had urbanist evangelism via works such as 'flight of the creative class' ( https://creativeclass.com/richard_florida/books/the-flight-o... ) which was later put into question by the same author ( https://jacobin.com/2017/08/new-urban-crisis-review-richard-... )
Don't believe it's only a phone thing. My Lenovo Thinkpad touchpad goes crazy as soon as my fingers are humid, be it from hand washing or sweating (hello, summertime). For some reason it will jump wildly around and also keep a mousedown event like forever then nothing will help: wiping it dry or crazy tapping or anything. Reboot it and it will work again - until the next wet touch.
Disposable people... But they get a special funeral
It’s likely Intel compensated Dell for the problem.

I don’t like arguing by analogy, but I don’t have a better way to make my point—-what if instead, old lady paid for a cpu that was clocked at 3.2ghz, and instead the cpu was hardware throttled down to 2.8ghz.

I expect when I purchase an item, all the features I paid for operate correctly—-even if I never expect to use all of them or use them to their full potential.
They created it that length for their reasons. You might want it a different length for your reasons. It's not clear that their reasons trump your reasons, given that your modification has no effect on them whatsoever.
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We never grilled over our white gas stoves, we just used them to heat a pot. The flame is pretty hot, and isn't benzene pretty flammable? There probably isn't a lot left floating around.
Linux 6.4 debuts after unremarkable development push
I remember an article not to long ago (like past 2 years or so) talking about how all these retail storefronts in Greenwich Village and SoHo in NY were closing because the rents became insane, and apparently (for a reason I don't fully understand) landlords felt it better to have spaces remain vacant than to lower rents.

I know redeveloping commercial buildings into residential is very expensive and difficult, but if/when these large commercial landlords do eventually get bailed out, I hope any assistance is conditional on converting buildings to productive uses like residential.
This would be a good argument if they weren't so bad at allocating the taxes they do collect.
> What would stop Redhat from saying "[...] and anybody distributing the source code owes us 50k..”

The GPL doesn't allow this.
People are doing more and more self-hosting and desire PaaS-like offerings that run in their own cloud, rather than SaaS “we manage your spark cluster for you” which is what DataBricks was founded upon. PaaS has significantly thinner margins, but it’s desirable from the customers’ perspective as it’s cheaper and much better from a (data) security point of view.

As such, they’ll be forced to do a lot more services oriented work rather than product / platform oriented work, because it pays well. Their sales team is also excellent. I see a similar fate for them as Cloudera.
yes. but that's the python book.
You're going to need some kind of result on the occurence of primes at least, because if you remove all factors greater than some prime you trivially get perfect powers (e.g. 6! ≈ 12² if you ignore the factor 5).

(After thinking about it some more, perhaps not trivially.)
I asked my brother and SIL how they feel about this. Both of them immediately said it will be a shitshow because no one knows how to pump their own gas. My brother lives in one of the rural areas where self-serve has been legal since 2017. He says he helps someone pump for the first time at least once a week.

Last week he tried to help an older man who just gave up and left.

I think you overestimate how many people have ever pumped for themselves or are willing to learn.
I agree with this assessment. Happy Fedora user here, but I am a bit nervous about the I Mification of RedHat and the potential long term ramifications for Fedora.
American and Southwest Airlines pilot candidate data exposed
Looks a bit like https://www.screen.studio/
Yea, neovim + telescope + neotree pretty much replaces this, from the first glance.
Could you elaborate? There are a lot of proposed NFT usecases that sound superficially useful (e.g. magically preventing secondary sales of event tickets), but don't actually solve any real problems when you think about it properly.
Sequential/ordered. One after another.
Seems really nice, though for some reason after pasting a YouTube link it's stuck when reaching 100%, would have liked to give it a try.
I was quite upset with the abandonment of CentOS. Now RHEL is pushing even more. But, let's forget the ethical quandary they walked into.

As others pointed out, this is self-defeating business direction.

Vast majority of government Linux systems in several countries was CentOS and RHEL. Lot of the improvement can be directly traced to FOSS improvements, outside of RHEL. Majority of the recommendations to use Cent & RHEL in government systems came from the users and developers.

It is clear today that users & developers (aka customers or consumers) can make serious impact to a brand by simply refusing to do business with the organization that upset them.

Pivoting from CentOS/RHEL to another distro is significantly easier then pivoting from a tangible product or store.
Dating myself here, but reminds me of the episode of the '70s TV program "Salvage 1" about a scrap dealer (played by Andy Griffith) who builds a rocket from parts he finds. On their maiden voyage (I think) the cleaning guy unplugs the guidance computer so that he can plug in his vacuum cleaner.
It definitely helps mitigate the infrastructure buildout hurdles (which are not small), but they would still need to jump through any "I need to do business in this country" regulations, etc.
Lazarus it's close to Borland's Pascal.
Not likely to be a big problem for the Portland metro due to Vancouver, WA being right across the river and more or less part of the greater metro area.
Near Field Communication to get longer, stronger – better at contactless
> your groceries are fine being out in the heat for 20 minutes

It's not 20 minutes. It's 20 minutes more than the normal trip duration.

That 2 hours rule seems to be health related. But a lot of food gets bad much before it becomes unsafe to eat.

Anyway, city traffic is not caused by people getting to a grocery store. That's all a red herring.
Social media exists so that profits can be made from advertising. And that implies the gathering of data.

Invoking the word "conspiracy" is a cheap way to dismiss any argument. No conspiracy was asserted by the GP. And any time there is hidden information and people are similarly motivated it can appear to be a conspiracy. This could be why whenever I play poker everyone else at the table seems to be conspiring to take my money away . . .
I think corporations of "too big to fail" stature should have different legal protections than what are offered to humans.

Innocent until proven guilty is not quite fair to apply to corporations that get bailed out by taxpayers when the policemen are driving bicycles trying to enforce the speed limit on a highway full of McLarens.

When a company has positioned itself to be a critical organ of society, it should be required to function properly. The rules of nature do not forgive a well meaning hare that didn't intend to be eaten by a lion.
Not really...the real idiots are Saudis for giving SoftBank more money to play with. Still, so far it doesn't look like oil revenues are going down.
Not in my recollection. A white gas stove burns very hot. Even during warm up when the flame is comparatively cold, I don't remember much odor. Maybe if you spilled it out of the bowl before lighting it. Which I may have done once or twice as a young child learning how to light a stove without setting everything around me on fire...

We also used actual white gas, though, not auto pump gasoline.
> I don't think engineers at Google quite have a perspective on what it means when their decisions (not just security) ruin thousands of lives.

Doesn't that seem a little hyperbolic? "Ruin somebody's life" seems pretty dramatic.
The soul question did not ask that.
It stated that the soul has minimal impact on the person. Nature and Nurture still played the dominant role in personality, and memory. The soul does NOT remember and does NOT contribute to you, your personality.

It also did not ask you to believe in a soul. It said that it had recently been proven that souls exist, not that you MUST answer the question as if you believe it. The question asked "FOR YOU TO LIVE".
What does 'LIVING' mean?
If you freeze, and the soul dies, but it doesn't contribute anything, does it matter? You can very well choose to let the soul die, because to you, that isn't what defined life.

What this teases out, is if a soul does not provide any information about you, do you care? If the soul does NOT contribute to the next person, and you can't remember it, does it matter?

Typically people that believe in souls think that they are the essence, even if they don't continue on mentally. They think there is something immaterial that makes them 'alive'.
But even in this question, since soul contributes nothing, you can choose to freeze yourself and kill the soul.

You did NOT have to answer to save the soul. If that is not what defines life for you.
Months is incredibly generous
OK, go ahead and prove that with photographs or something. Because it's quite clear in the law that if you have a pickup truck it is to be registered as a commercial vehicle, unless it has a fixed camper top or other thing that permanently covers the bed. That's why almost* every pickup truck in CA has commercial plates distinguished by their format of a single letter and six digits, instead of three letters and four digits.

* almost, because you can still get custom vanity plates on pickups.
One solution I've heard mentioned is charging a tax per 1000 pounds of vehicle. There needs to be some incentive for using a lighter/smaller vehicle.
Yes, domain names have existed since forever, but I don't see how crypto domain names are any different or changes anything.

Does a domain name need a token attached to the service in order to operate?

I would say it is still a scam as it is airdropping ENS tokens that were minted out of thin air and insiders pump and dumping the token to make a profit.

You can't do that illegal stuff with traditional domain names.
To stretch the analogy there are large bombs going off and damaging the profits of the lenders who financed various loans. These will continue.

US banks weight in at $2T. The Commercial Real Estate market weighs in at 20T although only a portion of that is office buildings in cities.
Unpaywalled: http://web.archive.org/web/20230626161433/https://www.bloomb...
I have to register my building's alarm with the county and pay a fine after 3 false alarms, or not register and the police won't respond. I also pay an annual registration fee.

I wonder if too many "smart" false alarms will lead to similar regulation.
Are these false positive data points logged in a database?

Are your records shared or aggregated up to a central agency?

Wondeing how we might calculate the cost/benefit analysis.
Sync notifications need to be async. That goes for `fsync()`/`fdatasync()` as well as for `COMMIT`. In the case of a database-using application you can report transaction non-failure (as in: it was well-formed and accepted) in a UI separately from transaction durability success (i.e., it really finished), and if you have replication to worry about, you can also report replication success separately.

Every blocking operation needs an async variant. Everything should be async-first.
Looking at the Mosaic website, and looking at many AI startups, I can't help feeling like they are all small AWS Sagemaker, Bedrock, Trainium, ... (etc.) competitors, and not sure how they will compete with the sheer capital that Amazon has, and potential to offer that compute power cheaper (at least long enough to kill off most of the competition). Maybe it is it the off chance that one of these companies might become a big player worth billions that makes the odds worth it?
I think the reason they preferred the vacancies is that the value of the property is related to the rent price, so if they lowered the rent they’d have to lower the book value of the asset as well.
There are three books involved, two of them are Python. The original SICP, the CS61A Python version of SICP (top poster in this thread linked to it, no longer in use), and the current version of the text (also Python) that I linked.

(The title of the submission seems to have changed, earlier it mentioned both Scheme and Python.)
Not often enough.
Great one. I'm adding it now. Thanks!
Infinite roll: https://mofi.loud.red/edit/517b150b00ca475016cd64c2ed0730266...
I’d bump Localisation and Internationalisation higher that just subtopics, because it is such a cross-cutting concern. Cultural differences, algorithmic differences like number/date formatting, sorting orders, but also design differences like longer text or RTL.
huge congrats to the team - we interviewed Jonathan and Abhi from the team last month ( https://www.latent.space/p/mosaic-mpt-7b#details ) and it was blindingly obvious that they were an incredible team of engineers building one of the most valuable training platforms in the industry. congrats!
I've no idea how this could be so relevant to people but I'm enjoying how excited some are in this comments section.