skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ehh, the research is a little more mixed than that article suggests.

It’s not really part of the narrative of the book but fatigue was only a contributing factor for ~13% of crashes historically so the maximum positive impact couldn’t be that large. Meanwhile there’s been a long term trend of significantly increased fatalities. https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/safety/data-and-statistics/trends-...

The comments on studies looking back 1 year while the transition happened 5 years ago looks like cherry picking data to fit a narrative. Yes the year after it was introduced was a 30 year high, so was the year after that, and the year after that…
In university, I had fun actually applying lambda calculus. Here’s a very silly python script.

# a factorial function written entirely with just single-argumented lambdas
# and calls
fac = ((lambda p: p(p)(lambda q: lambda n: ((n(lambda e: lambda e:
lambda a: a)(lambda i: lambda l: i))(lambda d: lambda c: c)
(lambda m: (lambda m: lambda z: m(n(z)))(q(m)))((lambda c: lambda x:
n(lambda g: lambda h: h(g(c)))(lambda u: x)(lambda u: u))))))
(lambda s: lambda q: lambda w: q(s(s)(q))(w)))

# for converting between church numerals and python numbers (you need
# a few python functions and operators to manipulate them)
natural = lambda c: c(lambda x: x+1)(0)
church = lambda n: reduce(lambda x,y:
(lambda n: lambda f: lambda x: f(n(f)(x)))(x), range(n), lambda f: lambda x: x)

# test!
# fac(10) is about the highest number computing in a few seconds on a core 2 CPU
print natural(fac(church(10)))
How to rewrite text with ChatGPT/Llama
This is why every southwest flight has 20 boomers in wheelchairs at the front of the line for preboard.

One time I was traveling with a blind girl who had a guide dog and the boomer patrol had occupied all the bulkhead space. They seemed to think she should sit with a German Shepherd in her lap. Needless to say I aggressively advocated and reminded the flight crew that FAA regulations entitle persons with guide dogs to a bulkhead seat. Let me tell you, we got some stink eyes from the displaced boomers who didn't want to have to walk an extra six feet to the potty.
Sweden had bicycle-mounted infantry into the 1980:s (towards the end, mostly local defence units). However, the soldiers were not supposed to pedal for any significant distance (and certainly not to fight mounted!). They would be towed by tractors, and leave their steel steeds to fight on foot. I think the concept was introduced during the first half of the 20th century because it allowed increased mobility at a much lower cost than having everyone in a motor vehicle. It has also been noted that, in case of suddenly appearing aerial threats, a bicycle unit could melt away into the forest with remarkable effectiveness.
How would one even go about a phonebook-style mechanical listing of facts and occurrences? You’re listing an impossibility and then saying that garden-variety connective sentences somehow make it not a factual listing.

Like yes if you copy a NYT article verbatim it’s like copying a phone book ads and all, and that’s infringement. But that’s not what a LLM does, NYT doesn’t like their content being used and summarized at all, even in a rearranged form that merely relies on the factual information included in the article. That’s what they want to get paid for, and unfortunately that’s not copyrightable and OpenAI is correct they don’t have to pay for that. NYT disagrees but again, they are kinda attempting to claim copyright on the factual information because they wrote some connective sentences between.
> Use international venues like WTO to get a judgment enforceable in the US

If I was a browser vendor, I'd wait for this. The US will never allow it.
Yes, I went to THE university of York. How dare the other one have the temerity to think it was THE university of York. No no, it's a jumped up teacher training college of Ripon and York St John, made university, just A university of York, not THE.

Also, York University in Canada confused things.
They've tried. Language lawyers are very good at their jobs, though.
You'd expect less commits on a mature, full-featured product. That repairmen are always working on a car is no endorsement of its functionality.
Motor carrier stuff is incredibly complex with a bizarre patchwork of regulatory domains and a network of shitty operators, who employ shitty drivers who work the loopholes.

The most egregious examples are the Chinatown busses, which routinely operate with material safety flaws.

To understand safety data, you have to study the cohorts of carriers that comply with regulations. The Feds and state authorities working with them statistically approach compliance inspection, but the smaller, dirtier carriers tend to be fly by night. If you see a crazy trucker speeding at night in the middle of nowhere, Pennsylvania, you’re probably seeing one of those trucks, schlepping stuff between distribution centers outside of federal enforcement scope.

The skilled drivers are right - it’s bullshit. But you need to infantalize the 30 year Walmart driver who has 20 million miles and no accidents, because there’s a 22 year old driving a truck that’s overweight with bad brakes trying to meet a schedule he can’t keep.
Do you really think your extreme examples are the average experience outside of Nebraska?
I am sorry my good man, but I likewise believe that if you have nothing but reason and no faith, then you are an empty banging gong, who stands for nothing and cares for no one, with nothing useful to say to someone like me. Good day.
I don't think that would be the case, but I see what you mean.
lol when I read the title I was asking myself how they would have scalpeled out the right sectors... turns out it was a lot less exciting
If anything, it's a correction and we'll get to where we need to be eventually. We went from kids being coal miners to crippling entire generations with debt that they can't get out of with lifespans that are shrinking.
>In my experience, men, engineers, and especially engineers who are men tend to think of

Not necessarily, I’ve worked with engineers/men who used emojis as a passive aggressive response, goes like “oh no, not like that, it’s XYZ :)”
You may be onto something, as Lenovo shut down the super-badass ultra-phone. https://www.androidauthority.com/lenovo-legion-phone-shutdow...

But reciprocally, what's the new ultra-hot device? Gaming decks. Lenovo just announced theirs today. Steam, Asus, and dozen of others have amazing devices. And there are still gaming-centric phones galore.

This should be an easy ask. It should be a lock. Android alas is kind of a weird divergent hard to use OS that makes everything difficult. Apple hasn't supported anyone elses GPUs in a long long time. But in general, this should just be easy simple & doable, were it not for the sins of these ultra-bizarre weird not-PC but so close systems. ChromeOS finally found jesus & is now running on Wayland, because it was obviously the correct & only sensible choice all along, And has huge advantages, such as having a huge world of people optimizing & making the system better. I don't know how Android ever pivots (they just steal everything ChromeOS (which runs Android great) is doing), but it should, so that it can make ideas like this unimaginably easy & simple tasks, versus today where this sort of idea is a painstaking slow & awful endeavor to make happen.

So much of computing is a story of niche finding leverage & finding adherents. The early adopters are just those who see potential, and they continually have reshaped what computing is. Writing off "niche" as uninteresting & minor ignores how sensible & clear & obvious so many advancements are & should be.
Reminds me of that Kurt Vonnegut quote that has recently become viral. Why buy 100 envelops when you can buy one at a time and go on a tiny neighborhood adventure each time you need to buy a single envelop. You'll see dogs, trees, neighbors, and have tiny conversations with yourself that lead to new insights.
i've thought of this more often in terms of putting natural brakes on otherwise problematic activities that are too hard to control other ways At low levels the friction doesn't matter, but when the undesirable activity gets out of hand it slows it down. Think eg: sending spam, or in a completely different domain, authorities abusing power to search people's possessions, track people everywhere etc. Of course all these examples are on my mind because it is the natural brakes on them that are falling away with technology and hence we have to suddenly question if there needs to be an artificial brake. Which then seems highly counter-intuitive to the people involved - police go crazy when confronted with process designed to deliberately slow them down and effectively waste their time from doing what they think is just their jobs.
micro – A Modern Alternative to nano
From the Specification section of the website:

> 1.00GHz quad-core Intel Alder Lake N200

> Turbo Boost up to 3.70GHz, with 6MB Smart Cache
Copyright doesn’t allow you to impose a contract of adhesion to viewers of material you’re broadcasting out into the public. I don’t agree to your contract just because it’s coming into my radio, you can’t create a term of service that imposes additional restrictions on what I can do with it. Copyright may apply but that doesn’t give you the right to enforce additional contracts of adhesion simply based on consuming the content.
I live in an old cattle ranch and the fertilizer use over the years made my well really high in nitrates
> China seems to be successful with the internet censorship thing.

Domestically sure but I see stuff about the Tiananmen Square massacre and even whinny the pooh all the time. I don't even go out of my way to look for it.
Classic cancel culture mindset.
The quality of my life is not defined by stomping around or playing loud music. It’s having access to and making use of amenities. What the hell good is money to me if I have no goods and services to spend it on?

Maybe most of your time is spent on a computer.
Maybe your existence outside the internet is so minimal that it can be judged by a comment thread... remember that's not universal.
There's not a lot of interest around there. Deniliquin is a town of less than 8000.

This picture shows some surrounding towns
https://images.theconversation.com/files/541855/original/fil...
Calculating trajectories is easy. Getting good data points is hard. Two pictures using a telescope on back to back nights is probably the smallest reasonable sample one could get. Take another picture the 3rd night and you've just doubled the size of the arc.

Wait a week and get another sample and your arc is now approx 5x as long. Wait a month and get another and now your arc is 30x as long as the original. More observations shrink your error bars.

There are systemic errors here for sure. Two kinds, really:

1. Limits of resolution of telescopes
2. Short sample lengths

You absolutely can't do anything about error type 1. You can fix 2 by getting more data. But there's no point in getting data on asteroids that have absolutely no possibility of hitting. So only asteroids that have some probability with limited measurements get enough better measurements that are high quality in order to find out where they're really headed.

All of these measurements of trajectories are completely uncorrelated, so you can't use the priors to adjust probabilities. I mean you can do whatever you want, but we haven't been hit by a big asteroid yet since we've had telescopes and tracking databases.

If we made adjustments based on priors we'd have to discount all collisions down to 0 irrespective of the trajectories. Seems absurd, so there must be something else going on here.
(I found it in the same place :-) )
> But they can and will come after you

No they can't and won't. Though they will grab you if you go to them.
Unloading is pretty fast. Loading is the slow part.

However efficient loading doesn't make passengers happy.

Priority boarding is worth an extra fee from some passengers and adds several minutes to boarding time.

https://youtu.be/oAHbLRjF0vo for a bit more about various options and the reason it is all moot.
I’m pretty sure this isn’t the end of the saga.
Switzerland had bicycle regiments until 2003: https://www.campfirecycling.com/blog/2017/02/27/the-swiss-ar...

From my time in service, I remember how much of a pain it was to ride these bikes, although they are literally indestructible. You can still see them all around the country in private use because they just don't break.
I got through the first half of the tutorial. I have a busy week but I was excited to see this. It’s right in line with tool I’ve been trying to cobble with distracted effort for nearly a decade. I am so excited to continue to use this tool. Y’all nailed it.
Eh to me it reads like an old fart who doesn't find science fun any longer and is just waiting for retirement.
As a taxpayer and someone who’s interested in being part of civil society, I’m fine with it.

Freedom doesn’t mean being a nuisance or disruptive. Some of us like to live in NICE living conditions.

What’s wrong with not being drunk when they’re in a program designed to help them?

Do you think it’s bad when you can’t drink alcohol or be drunk in a public library? Or at work? Two person startup aside are you going to show up to work drunk or smoke a J at your desk in an open office? Gonna join zoom zoinked with red eyes? Come on bro.
And? GP's point still stands.
Except you could find an alternative for asbestos. I don’t think anyone could come up with a replacement for plastic that is… not plastic like.

Ideally someone would make “plastic” that biodegrades over 10 years into completely harmless substances.
I'm glad to see this idea getting some traction again. I haven't used Go much in the last few years, but I started playing around with a similar idea back in 2016 when I was working on a small compiler for a configuration management tool, and later put together a small stand-alone proof of concept library(https://github.com/rebeccaskinner/gofpher) as part of a talk (https://speakerdeck.com/rebeccaskinner/monadic-error-handlin...) I gave in 2017.

At the time, I remember finding FP in go surprisingly ergonomic. Implementing the library to support it was a pain since the type system wasn't expressive enough to prevent everything from devolving into a pile of untyped reflection, but it was reasonably easy to keep that an implementation detail. On the whole, I felt like go would have lent itself well to the "dash of FP for flavor" style of programming that seems to be gaining popularity these days. Unfortunately, in 2017 at least, the Go community seemed to have very little interest in the idea.

I still have a fondness for Go. It always felt nice to use. If the language features have caught up to the point where a robust library like this is feasible, and the communities attitude has shifted, I might take another look at the language.
They had a greenish tinge along the, I don't know the technical term for it, the line between the nail proper and the bed. But she smelled, uh, "leafy?"

I have a particularly keen sense of smell and, well ... like fresh green leaves, in a vegetable kind of way. But it was enough for me to make the connection.
If you grab a TOTP secret at setup time, you can do whatever you please with it, but this is of course extremely perilous, because access to the secret equals full control of that factor. The Yubikey's one-way storage is trying to save you from that danger.

So one strategy for maintaining multiple authenticators or yubikeys would be to save all the secrets away and call them up when it's time to load up the alternate factor.

What I do is register both keys at the same time, one after the other so the QR code doesn't leave my screen. Can't do it this way if the one key is in cold storage, of course.
That would be nice. For now, I really like using the iPad Blink app as a mosh/ssh client to a leased Linux VPS. With mosh, I can be in a Linux dev environment instantly and adding tmux I have several screens to bounce between. Adding a great Emacs setup lets me edit markdown manuscripts and code in Python and Common Lisp.

I am at a relative’s home doing a hospice thing sitting with a loved one who is dying. I only have a small iPad Pro with me, and that is sufficient, but only because I am using my VPS.

Having just normal iPad apps does not cut it for me.
You could consider a BitGrid to be a giant state machine, given any current set of inputs, and the program loaded into it, it is possible to know exactly what the next state will be. The connectivity turns it into a complex system. The number of possible states is somewhere between 1 and 16^cellcount

I'm not sure that it's possible to compute (in a reasonable amount of time, or maybe ever) the exact number of possible states a bitgrid may have, given its current program.

It's my conjecture that finding this exact number is equivalent to solving the halting problem.

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Also, any computation in a Bitgrid is an acyclic directed graph. Because there is a delay between cells, you can only effect future states.
Grandparent is right that people keep conflating copyright and licensing. That term doesn’t allow you to violate the copyright of a licensor, but, it also doesn’t rule out (eg) fair use.

Fair use would have to be blocked via a license, and it’s going to be difficult to argue that someone agrees to a license merely by turning on their radio. Responding to unauthenticated internet requests with content is the internet equivalent of broadcast and similarly the LinkedIn case held that this did not allow LinkedIn to impose terms of service in a contract of adhesion in this fashion.
Measured concentrations reached up to 37.5 nanograms (that’s a billionth of a gram!) per cubic meter of air.

Nearly nothing, in other words... not that it matters anyway, because it's all practically inert. Perhaps they will serve as evidence to future historians of an era of progress before radical misguided environmentalism took over and plunged civilisation into another dark age.
That looks great, I actually just ordered one the day before! I found a few that seem to intersect with the no plastic + good quality requirements.

Posting here for posterity:

1. Secura: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HLPVR45/ref=redir_mobile_desktop/133-1464296-5591920?_encoding=UTF8&ref_=dp_ob_neva_mobile
2. Ottoni Fabbrica: https://ottonifabbrica.com/en/home/15-alice-nero-8711369209998.html
3. Frigidaire Kettle FD2129
I, too, desperately want one. The price on that one wasn't even as high as I thought it would be, until I saw it had no title and no battery and hadn't run for a while. Any reputable multi-fuel motorcycle would be great...
Yeah felt more like a rant. He could have done a TLDR in 10 sentences or less. Like I said above, it sounds more like a professor really ready for emeritus status.
Cars are a necessity in America not because of car advertisements, but because of the low density of American towns and cities. Things are built that way because Americans want them like that, and it's nothing new: Americans started moving to the suburbs in the 1950s, partially because of the availability of inexpensive automobiles and fuel (mostly thanks to the post-war economic boom), and also because they didn't want to live near the black people in the inner cities. Outright racism drove a huge amount of why America looks the way it does now, as far as infrastructure and urban planning go. And it hasn't changed: just look at what Americans on online forums say when you try to suggest they live in dense, walkable cities and use subways. It'll either be comments about how they like having such a huge house and yard, or comments about the people living in inner cities.
> They’re going to drag down the next two or three generations with their idiocy.

Or it'll last forever because when non baby boomers buy those houses, their entire retirement/net worth will be based on the same system and they will vote the same way.
It wasn't always this way.

Google Authenticator used to be much more secure. That is to say, it closely guarded all the secrets and they never left the app.

Unfortunately they had to bend to pressure of convenience for users, and that meant that now you can extract the secrets and push them around to your heart's content. That also means that an attacker can do likewise, or intercept them in transit, and so you lose the safety of a security key that is a "roach motel" for secrets.

I don't know about the author, but it seems there are still problems with secret portability. If your phone breaks, or it's stolen, and you have no access to the app, how're you going to export your secrets now?

The other cool thing about Yubikeys is that they're purpose-built, inexpensive, single-purpose. I don't want to be using my phone as a Swiss Army Knife authenticator. That's way too risky and dumb. It has a huge attack surface. Any malware could get at the phone. Plus all the risks of loss, breakage, or theft. A key can stay safe on my keyring and is "nearly indestructible" and it does only that one thing very well.
Fractional scaling works well on Plasma under Wayland if you're using an up to date distribution.
I'd set up a simple page that blocks downloads while not doing much else to stop use in France. That way, you comply with the law by not offering it to the french while also allowing anyone there to use it if they want.
Luna Display [1] works with iPads running at minimum iOS 12.1.

Which means iPad mini 2, iPad Air, iPad Pro 1, iPad 5 and greater.

[1] https://astropad.com/product/lunadisplay
Alternatively, you could tilt the sensor as you move it to compensate. Perhaps moving it on a curved path to match the optical center? I don't know how well that would work with variable focal length lenses, though.

If you've ever seen a ball cutter attachment for a lathe, or one of those parallax eliminating camera mounts, you could step the sensor along a sphere instead of a plane.
Blending and juicing are different things. Juicers typically remove the fiber which is then discarded as a waste product.

It's very possible that blending is still worse than eating whole though because the juice is now immediately available in the gut without the whole food needing to be slowly broken down even if you also still consume the fiber. Rate of absorption makes a huge difference in nutrition. Obviously the real secret is chewing as little as possible and instead swallowing large chunks.
> Chrome will automatically upgrade all http:// navigations to https://, even when you click on a link that explicitly declares http://.

https: and http: authorities are totally unrelated. Here, https: server will receive and reply to requests that were intended by websites to go to http:, which is dangerous if the two servers aren't controlled by the same author. All in all, an insane change.
Every time I see an article about a new place where microplastics have been found (blood, brains, babies), I feel like this is a battle we already lost before we even knew it was a battle.

Although this article seems to be more about particles from wear and tear on tires and clothes, which I always felt was a separate issue from plastic packaging that ends up in sea. But maybe I'm wrong about that.
Working on the zren server component – kick.com/gbafana25
Cool, so what concentration of microplastics would you accept in your food? Your drinking water? Your mother's breast milk (yes, microplastics are present there)?
Sure it is. Fucking up is part of a job. If you’re working 9-5 on the clock, you don’t have to fix shit after 5. Choosing to stick around to fix your mistake off hours without pay when you could do it the next day or take comp time later is a sacrifice of your time/money.
I think he changed this perspective on sleep as a whole, but the factual errors in Matt Walker’s book remains there.
That's interesting. I've never looked at Gab but I've seen FB posts with comments that got just stupid nasty.

I finally started using that "block" option a lot faster and put an end to that.