skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not if they're under 55k lbs. A 54,000 truck will cause thousands of times more damage than a Hummer EV. Does the tax you refer to reflect four orders of magnitude of damage differential?

Source: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/hvut/mod1/whatish...

Here's the amount paid for being over 55k lbs:

> $100 plus $22 per 1,000 pounds over 55,000 lbs

If that's the going rate for weight-based road damage, then scaled down to a residential vehicle, no one without a CDL would ever pay more than pennies.

Since gas taxes and vehicle registration fees are needed to fund road construction, I have to conclude that residential vehicles are subsidizing road damage caused by trucks.

Which, again, is fine. But let's be honest about it.
How to Think About Security in Next.js
> a stripped-down iOS specifically for IoT devices could be a huge, huge market.

Have you seen Zephyr? [0]

[0] https://www.zephyrproject.org/
The company needs to get permission from the government to employ that employee. That permission is the visa. It’s something you might or might not get. It’s not just a form you fill if you like to employ a foreigner. The company and the employee they want to employ have to win fking lottery to have their application processed. Read the article.
> And if you look at the HSL values of the juice in product photos like the following, you'll get hue values of around 52°:

So, Just clicking around your first OJ example and checking lots and lots of pixels, in all the areas of the juice, the juice pixels seem to be mostly around 38-42, with a low of about 32 and a high of about 50.

So, as I said, closer to orange (30) than yellow (60), though also definitely in between.

> For comparison, here's the first result for "banana" in Google Images:

> It's 48°, even closer to orange than orange juice.

Most of the brightly illuminated top seems to be in the 48-52 range, the indirectly-lit side is mostly in the mid 40s, though there are some pixels right along the bottom edge that are also brightly lit (from the reflection from the white surface of the light source above) that hit around 60.

Its not more orange than the juice, for sure.
tons of companies to short that are heavily reliant on inflated housing prices
You are skewing the data. The report itself says that. Buses only account for 2% of pedestrian casualties while cars and light trucks account for 90%.
I don't know how many people believe the two words are interchangeable (vs balancing factors), but one of your worst security nightmares could be when your employees fight against your security team. Making things inconvenience is one way to have it.
So true, and the nature of the work is also really different. Kind of unrecognizable.

Before, there was a majority of folks who were into computers & programming as their hobby, since their teens / earlier, socialized around it, had personal projects as well as their day job - not saying it was healthy, but that's how it was. Now, mostly people that just did ok at school, wanted an easy/decent paying job, and do it as a 9-5.
> People have long lost the difference in meaning between "security" and "convenience". They now believe the two are interchangeable.

Not sure they're wrong. There are so many IT departments and websites that force dumb practices which are detrimental to both: frequent password changes, required low-entropy recovery question options, etc. And then on the other side, some really convenient flows with reasonable security, e.g. streaming apps that show you a short temporary credential you can copy from your Roku's screen to your signed-in computer/phone rather than requiring you downgrade your permanent password to something easier to enter on the Roku keyboard. So while fundamentally you're right that "security" and "convenience" are in tension, in practice I think the bigger factor is competence and care of the dev and admin teams.
Ask HN: Which US/intl. companies hire remote(Australia) DevOps/SRE?
TL;DR version: Which US/international companies hire remote DevOps/SRE engineers based in Australia?

I'm based in Sydney and the job market here is bad right now. I worked remotely for the last 4 years and want to change jobs, but most companies require to go back to the office for 2-3 days a week. As salaries here are low and housing costs in the millions, I can only live in the suburbs, and I don't want to commute 1 hour+ one way.

Which companies are open to hire DevOps/SRE in Aus?
> The median home price of an existing home stood at just $278,200 in August 2019, according to the National Association of Realtors. That figure has since spiked to $407,100 as of August 2023.

“Talk about a bubble. That’s a classic supply-demand imbalance,” Bair told CNN in a phone interview.

Is it really a bubble though? How much is $278k adjusted for inflation since August 2019?

And if there's really a "supply-demand imbalance", wouldn't that be a further justification for the current prices? I assume she means too little supply for existing demand.
Related. Others?

I went down the rabbit hole of buying GitHub Stars, so you won't have to - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36151140 - June 2023 (178 comments)

Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35207020 - March 2023 (284 comments)

Ask HN: Has GitHub stars become a gamed metric? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33225477 - Oct 2022 (19 comments)
Things are going great, and they're only getting better! I'm doing alright, and got interviewed on the Joe Roganoid Experiments—major exposure for our world-saving project! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYGnYjWtOSo&t=303s
If you look into pedestrian fatalities per mile travelled per pessanger, buses are most probably still far safer
than any of the vehicles listed.
Says it all really... it's a puff piece to promote a book launch.

“If supply remains constrained, this could go on for some time,” said Bair, who last week released a new children’s book about bubbles called “Daisy Bubble: A Price Crash on Galapagos.”
While I deeply dislike these stupidly large trucks that are hardly ever used for carrying stuff or towing, the fact is that even the Hummer EV creates negligible road wear. It's all down to 18-wheelers.

But they do create problems for people on foot and on bikes.
"I ethically can't share non-public information with competitors."

Yep, say that. If they don't accept it, walk away.
I believe the former prime minister of Singapore studied Math, CS and worked as a programmer for some time, here is more discussion and some other examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9419035
This is how hacker UIs in movies should look like: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sandsifter/ma...
Bike crashes at 40 mph are brutal. The vast majority of fast, competitive cyclists in races are topping out at or below 25-30 mph in flat ground riding.
Do those chemical engineers make the same amount of money as a software dev with the same amount of experience? A fresh ChemE grad would be lucky to land a 120K job as a process engineer. Very lucky. An entry software job is 150K. Does this mean the a CS grad is on average more impactful to the economy than a chemical engineer?

Not all industries can pay as much as software. A PhD with an extra 5-10 years of industrial experience may get a 200K salary in biotech, often less. A CS bachelor with 1-2 years of experience would get that 200K. Pay doesn't always equal the value of your contribution, especially if you compare them across different fields.
Does the law require the website to provide an UI to every user for filing DMCA take downs? Can't Shopify only receive DMCA through mail?
> Meh, gsync keeps it sane.

GSync isn't magic. It can only do so much. In this situation, where you've tied your frames to 24 (for some reason?) and your monitor refresh rate is 165Hz, GSync isn't going to save you. GSync will help you if there are sudden, brief drops in FPS below the refresh rate and keep things in sync. It will not save you if your refresh rate is 165Hz and your frame rate is 24...

> Maybe when electricity prices go back down, I'll turn it up

I don't think you'll notice the extra $5 a month it costs to run that a couple hours a week.

We should at least use a real reason why you'd do this. Saving a smidge of power is not one of them.

You should, instead, under-clock your monitor refresh rate to something low, like 75 or 60Hz, then frame-limit to that number as well.
How to run Llama-2 on CPU after fine-tuning with LoRA
Pretty comprehensive guide on doing weird things with LLMs on CPUs.
The termcap parser code we're discussing was written in 1986.

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/news-tape/applicati...

tcap_parse.c, Mon Mar 24 11:25:44 1986

David Rosenthal,
Sun Microsystems

The RFC that defined SUPDUP was written in 1977.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc734/

>NWG/RFC# 734 MRC 07-OCT-77 08:46 41953 SUPDUP Display Protocol Page 1 Network Working Group Mark Crispin Request for Comments 734 SU-AI NIC 41953 7 October 1977
But the weird part is that OEM seem to be fine with that variation when it comes to climate control. Do they use multiple temp sensors?
Thread from 5 hours ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37990354
Shelia Blair is a woman, not a dude. Her name is the first two words of the first sentence of the article.

Is part of the reason it feels meaningless because you only read 10 words of content and it was difficult for CNN to pack a satisfying explanation of the economy into that limited bandwidth?
I did live with no internet for 10 years as a kid. I turned out perfectly fine and now have a successful career in software.

If I had all my living expenses paid for, didn't have to work, and basically just got to learn all day, I'd love to leave the internet behind for a decade.
I haven’t tested it personally but you may be able to get some of that battery life back by using the web version of Zoom in Safari. That tends to force video chat services to use hardware accelerated video codecs which are considerably easier on battery.
> Shopify says that it’s not feasible for the company to investigate the validity of all takedown notices in detail.

In other words, they don't want to spend the money to fulfill their responsibilities.
Related one from earlier in the year:

Steal This Idea: The Larger the Car, the More You Pay to Park

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36039364
i hear you and I don't disagree. That said: I feel pretty OK about selling my house that has appreciated >100% in 8 years (east LA) and renting a nicer house for a little less money. Could be that I'm wrong, but at the very least I profited more than $450k for simply buying a house, living in it, and selling it. If nothing else I effectively lived rent-free for the past 8 years and am left with enough cash to pay rent on a similar place for the next 11 years all for the opportunity cost of a down payment.
I just built a very small model from scratch because it made for a very simple (pageful of code) solution to test a simple claim, which I then expanded to cover some other cases. Performance was not relevant, simplicity was.
NYC Subway Station Complexes Visualized – With Elevators This Time
I would love to see that happen. I also, unfortunately, doubt it will.
Most people don't need larger houses, they just need some kind of house.

A tiny house and a small shed/garage would be a huge boon for many aspiring engineers.
That statistic supports the obvious: hundreds of thousands of buses throughout the world constantly drive tortuous routes through extremely densely populated areas, and far fewer drive in places with more miles and few people.
Does anyone remember a hw+SW company from the late 90s that had an application server that was sort of similar to this? I thought it was RackOS but I'm having zero luck. You could install/add different applications to the box and make them available on your local network.
Even slow paced games will experience tearing. Here, the parent post has inadvertently made their setup beyond non-ideal.

They picked a random 24 FPS target (maybe based off old movies for some reason?), but their monitor refreshes at 165Hz. The mis-match of frames and refreshes is so off, they will experience tearing even with mostly-static backgrounds.

Basically, nothing the parent poster is doing makes sense. Neither for power savings nor viewing pleasure.
That sounds like pricing for a "business-class" Dedicated Internet Access service, with meaningful SLAs and no oversubscription.
Walgreen was the last name of the founder. At some point the apostrophe went missing.
Well, I'm currently spending time on going over the Coursera Algorithms course by Sedgewick and Wayne in addition to doing at least 2-3 leetcode problems daily. I'm thinking of having a periodic check-in and code-pair session where we can review and challenge each other. And do the same for systems design/behavioral at some point if that goes well. I have tried pramp in the past and it was useful...until they got bought out. Look up my email and in my profile and hit me up.
Doesn’t matter if too few can afford to purchase it because of interest rates.
ah no mexican government is fining companies for doing this
Windows is most valuable because of all the software for it.

They need some sort of emulation.
Similar to lead paint, lead exposure is from lead dust primarily. Soldering produces lead dust, and it is relatively difficult to prevent further contamination

Lead free rosin is less dangerous than leaded rosin, check the SDS data sheets
I think the correlation between vehicle weight and injury to pedestrians requires some nuance.

The comments in the article imply that being hit by a heavy vehicle involves more force than being hit by a light vehicle but, other things being equal, the difference is likely to be negligible. Sure the heavy vehicle has more momentum, but neither will slow down significantly from hitting you, so the acceleration applied to a pedestrian that is hit will be more or less the same. Note this isn't true when one vehicle hits another - mass will matter then.

So what does make a difference? The shape of the front of the vehicle. With a regular car, you'll almost certainly be swept off your feet and go over the roof. Your legs will take the full force, but your torso never experiences a huge acceleration, so your chances of internal injuries are less. With a truck, there's a pretty good chance the front is vertical where it hits your torso, meaning the acceleration is much higher, and so the chance of internal injuries is much higher.

After you're hit by the flat front of the truck, where do you go then? There's a pretty good chance you go under it.

Now, heavier vehicles are also more likely to be taller, but the impact on pedestrian safety is a second order effect. If you really want to encourage safer roads for pedestrians and cyclists, maybe tax the height of the front of the bonnet (hood)?
The history of yarn is fascinating. Dependency management in our monorepo is super smooth since we use it. We are on version 3.6 right now.

I admire that arcanis tried something very bold with plug and play and zero installs in version 2 and 3, but is willing to default back to node_modules since it didn't stick. Must have been hard to come up with something this good, but then nearly everyone rejecting it.
I like Neil deGrasse Tyson's observation that we differ from chimpanzees by 1% of our DNA. Yet to be human is a giant leap to language, writing, mathematics, agriculture, philosophy, religion, science etc. A chimpanzee cannot imagine what it is to be human.

Now consider an AI intelligence that is 1% ahead of us. Can we know what it is like to be that intelligent being ?
that's probably assuming you set the qos correctly.
Yes, I just don't want to pay all of it myself. I just want to pay the marginal cost of making it. Let the automaker invest said millions (really billions over all the individual components) into the design and manufacture.
its only a bubble when people want to sell or refinance though

also unlike 2008, people dont have many adjustable rate mortgages, and if they do, it wont adjust yet

over 50% of current mortgages were started in 2020-2022, locked into to 2-3% rates until 2050! they don't have enough equity yet to sell and live in a different home. the speculators didn't get a continued rally, they're all stuck.

supply isnt going to occur just because aspiring buyers cant buy at these prices or pay a mortgage at 8.5% at any price

any counterpoints that would bring housing prices far lower?
Any treatment has iatrogenic potential, even therapy.

The commonly accepted rate of iatrogenic harm from therapy is 5%[1]. The six listed mechanisms don't involve diagnosis.

1. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-...
Unfortunately you can't do the reverse, pin to p core
Which they have! I use it daily on my MacBook Air, via Parallels, and it works great.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/apps-on-arm-x8...
> you always have to trust that they implement their white paper correctly

Actually, no - if they implement their whitepaper incorrectly, and I manage to keep my insecurely-encrypted vault blob private, I'm still safe. Bad implementation is only a risk if there is also a data breach. This is defense in depth. Your argument is based on an all-or-nothing model of trust, rather than one where trust can be contextual and partial.

Would you be comfortable uploading your vault somewhere 100% public, rather than behind authentication with iCloud/Dropbox/1P, since it's safely encrypted?
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I’d strongly disagree here. If I pick an individual plan tier from Spotify, YouTube or Microsoft, I would expect to be able to undo said change instantly and without 30 days notice. Apple put extra effort into making sure the launch of Apple One was billed correctly for people who already had subscriptions, but what they did not do was make subscription management any easier. This is proof.
It seems like it would be useful to show relative risk per passenger mile in addition to vehicle mile. I don’t think that’s in the study, and I can’t find average bus utilization.

For example, if cars and light trucks carry 1.5 passengers on average (made up number, but I’m sure it’s less than 2) and buses carry 20 passengers, then buses would be safer for pedestrians. Assuming you can “trade” light passnger vehicles for buses on a 1:1 passenger mile basis, which isn’t perfect, but it’s relevant.

Edit: this report [0] says buses average 9 passengers, cars average 1.58, and pickups average 1.46.

[0] https://www.transit.dot.gov/sites/fta.dot.gov/files/docs/Pub...
> if you buy a phone and use it till it dies, as we should

Why should we do this, exactly? Someone should use it until it dies, but that person shouldn't necessarily be the first owner. Why can I not use the secondary market to both subsidise my upgrades & provide someone with an opportunity to buy a second-hand phone at a discount?
Do you even need to ask?
How can you see which core a process in on from activity monitor? Only way I know of is via instruments?
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Syria, Yemen, Crimea, Darfur, Rwanda...we throw countries to the wolves all the time. In many cases the USA IS the wolf. I think the USA killed half a mil innocent civilians in Iraq part 1 and 2? The people in charge clearly arent hung up on noble intentions.

Russia has the economy of Italy so its not even remotely a threat militarily or economically. They have nukes but no matter what happens in Ukraine it doesnt get rid of those.

The US exports more oil than it imports so its not really oil fields.

So I dont understand the strategic interest of Ukraine.

I think our tax money could be used for something better.

If its your view that the billions given to fight the Ukraine is an efficient use of resources thats cool. Ignore that part of my post. It wasnt meant to start a flame war, I am open to friendly discussion though
That’s not a problem with RAG itself that’s an issue with your retriever. In the original RAG paper they used two vanilla BERT models and cosine similarity but there’s no requirement you do that. Use any retriever that gets you high precision. Use BM25 if you want, it’s simple and cheap.

You’re right in saying there’s not enough semantic meaning in the text of the query. The domain of queries and the domain of documents are very different. That’s why a real retrieval system will train the query encoder and doc encoder to be closer in their embedding space using click data. This is what Google is doing.
Musk is the only person to get shit for not doing literally everything by hand himself. People are like 'sure but he didn't design, build, program and launch the rockets by themselves' therefore he is pointless any even a brick could have done his job. Strange world we life in.
You can definitely distort behavior with taxes.
This is correct. Almost all road repair costs are caused by commercial heavy trucks. They should not just pay more, they should be paying substantially all road work costs.
How did you implement idea2img? Very cool
for some reason I was singing the title to the Beatles' tune, "Michelle"...

surprisingly works well.

now i can't stop doing it
What happens if the employer fires them 5 seconds into their first day of employment? Or the employer decides to offer the employee, say, 5 hours of work a year? You need some sort of program to verify that the job exists and is "real" in some fashion--this paperwork is the work visa.

Don't get me wrong: the US visa polices are a shambolic mess that is counterproductive to its own aims. I'd very much prefer a system that's a lot closer to "employer can sponsor anyone to come into the country if they need to hire from other countries." But what's preventing that isn't the existence of work visas; it's the unwillingness of politicians to advocate for such an immigration system (for which the primary reason I'd suspect boils down to some variant of racism--they feel immigration should be extremely difficult for various undesirable groups).
Well sure, but what if you throw in the possibility of mistaken identity?

Might not be too chilling.. as long as they get the right person. Best hope other Ryan just parties it up a bit and nothing more sinister if you want to become a teacher.
Accelerating through self parody we arrive at sincerity: one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready now go cat go. Andreessen shows that he's struggling to get past step two and is ready to make it out of the near-future in a Landian sense.
I mean technically our lower forms of AI have already shown manipulative behavior. Now maybe Bing didn't intend to tell someone to leave their wife, but intentions or not, they have the capability of mimicking human behaviors.
I have a startup without VC funding. On track to make about $5 million profit this year.

Downturn has been great for me. Could hire some great folks for cheap and I am in a few industries where downturns help me.

VC is a scam in most cases apart from a select few like YC.
This makes sense. An additional consideration along the same lines are that drivers of high-hooded cars have reduced sightlines and are more likely to hit someone dimply due to blindspots, and that likelihood should be be multiplied by the likelihood of injury. I would support taxing reduced driver sight and/or hood height.
While true, the DMCAs abusability is the real problem here.

That was built into it on purpose.
> you can't enforce laws without a police force.

You can in USA. Inform the grand jury and they can investigate and indict. Most anyone can do this by, for example, mail to the grand jury foreperson. I pulled up a big State for you:

"DUTIES OF GRAND JURY. The grand jury shall inquire into all offenses subject to indictment of which any grand juror may have knowledge or of which the grand jury is informed by the attorney representing the state or by any other credible person."

https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CR/htm/CR.20A.htm

The district attorney can present, and so can "any other credible person."