skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I find most striking is that people with very rudimentary training are allowed to use machinery of 1.5 tons and more, in public, in the vicinity of unprotected bystanders.

This leads to about 43,000 deaths per year in the US alone. And for some reason this is considered normal.
> Couple of years old . . .

Almost six years old.
It seems like we're reliving 1980 all over again but with smartphones, internet, millions of homeless people, and slightly better fashion.
Good inertial navigation units are really good. I had a professor who liked to tell the story of having one on the top floor of the engineering building and if you left it on all day you could watch your altitude go up and down as the building warmed up with the sun and cooled down at night.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to limit manufacturers from producing needlessly loud vehicles? We _know_ we can do it, but we _still_ allow idiotic V8 trucks, 2500kg SUVs with double turbos, Harley Davidsons that are _designed_ to be as loud as possible.

Stop making so much noise!
Why I Hate Frameworks (2019)
I built a few multi agent systems and went down a rabbit hole where I reached an important conclusion - From the perspective of the LLM, the prompt/context is the only thing that ever matters. Everything about how your agent will behave ultimately boils down to this.

I had a bunch of fancy stuff like agents collaborating by passing messages and interpreting them with their own prompts and function calls. Then I realized I could collapse all of my "agents" into one dynamic prompt that tracks state in a stupid simple text region. Passing messages around was playing in very expensive traffic at the end of the day.

This is ultimately about information and spinning up an entire matrix of "agents" to process stream of info from A to B seems quite wasteful when many clear alternatives exist.

If we are seeking emergence, then perhaps this mental model still fits better. But, for practical targeted solutions, I think it's a huge distraction.
I really wish I could sit on one of these decision meetings just so I could understand how the sausage is made. There's an entire class of people out there running the world yet operating in their own universe completely removed from the consensus reality we live in.

"Ok we have this cash cow..."

"Shoot it"

"But..."

"Shoot it, the cow accepted an open license"

"That doesn't make any..."

"I don't care, shoot the cow"
Have you fully read my comment? Time dilation is not proof of the existence of time as a physical entity, it is proof of different process speeds. This seems redundant and recursive, but time means something only for a sentient observer. There is no requirement in a time as a particle or dimension for the universe to exist and function. Time dilation does not imply that there is a past you can return to. You can't use time dilation as proof of the existence of time. The mere existence of photons is possible only because of the time dilation effect as we call it. However, if you look at it from the perspective of different speeds of process flows under the effects of time dilation, you will see that time is not a physical entity, it is our means of perceiving changes. So, this time travel to the future at relativistic speed is actually the same process but at a slower rate of change. I know it makes it complicated because of how we measure things, we need time to perceive changes and measure them, but it does not actually mean that time exists as a physical entity.

Assume it will be possible to freeze you to absolute 0 and unfreeze you afterwards and revive. Let's say we freeze you in New York, and move your frozen body to San Francisco. You wake up and here is your spacetime travel.
There is no heart or soul, rhyme or reason in it. It's all about who's friends with who, and each particular cult of marketing of apparent utility.
>This trope about the risk of being shot by police in the US is kind of dumb. Yes police shoot about 1,000 people here a year, but on average only 50 are unarmed.

This makes it even worse... Since those armed people can also shoot you.

In constrast the German police kills about 10 people a year, which given the population would amount to the US police killing 45 people total (so 5% that of the US). France, the worst example, the analogy would amount to about 250 per year (so 25% that of the US).

For homicides, Germany had 260 in 2026. That would amount to 1135 projected to the US population difference. France (again a worst case) has 734 per year. In US terms that would be equal to the US having 3772 per year. Adjusted for population, the US has around 5x the number of France and 16x the number of homicides Germany has. Other western european countries are much lower.
Nested – A universe simulator by the creator of Cookie Clicker
Isn’t this more of symptom of modern western values?

Try a book by Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss), like the Road to Mecca.

Every year during hajj in Mecca, there’s profound view of sea of humans wearing white from vast different backgrounds, wealth, health, ethnicities, continents. You can find Japanese, Africans, Australians, Russians, Indonesians, etc, variety of skin colors and builds, in one place.

Put the world in your hand, not in your heart.
I'm fine with 70 years post creation, it's 70 years post death which is too much IMHO.
Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)
I guess it's time the French gave up on the colonialist idea of the "Francophonie" and accepted that French is evolving independently in other countries just like English, Spanish, Portuguese or Dutch.

I wonder how much of this being perceived as "changing French" rather than just other countries having their own variants of similar languages goes back to France holding onto its colonies and trying to keep them close even after some of them formally gained independence.

Nobody would write an article about how Mexicans are "changing Spanish" or Brazilians are "changing Portuguese" let alone about how South Africans are "changing Dutch" (it's called Afrikaans and considered a distinct language just like Belgian Flemish). Some "spillback" via migration from the former colonies is hardly worth writing about.
Appealing to the slippery slope is such a cop-out. Screw that. All most people want is common sense regulations on the top 0.5% loudest vehicles which produce incredible amounts of noise pollution and disrupt normal life.
hallucination
Never had heard about the brainfuck language. Thanks for the wiki, it was nice to read.
Use llama.cpp for quantized model inference. It is simpler (no Docker nor Python required), faster (works well on CPUs), and supports many models.

Also there are better models than the one suggested. Mistral for 7B parameters. Yi if you want to go larger and happen to have 32Gb of memory. Mixtral MoE is the best but requires too much memory right now for most users.
"Mesdames et Messieurs" is inclusive. You've heard that for as long as you can remember.

"Statut : marié(e)" is also inclusive. Check your tax return.

The median "." for example "marié.e" is also inclusive and is probably what you're against. Please hate it right, we all use inclusive, even in English (ladies and gentlemen for example). Being inclusive is good, you're doing it too.
This really grinds my gears. Recently I was able to install Firefox addons and chrome addons on Orion browser on iPad when both chrome and firefox themselves arent able to. Why?

If Orion can do it, why not Firefox ?
> Instead of jus making a car unable (auto breaks) to hit a pedestrian, we are doing some silly workarounds

I have a car which auto-brakes when an obstacle is ahead. Usually helps when parking in tight spots, or when backing out — its systems have wider FOV than I do, and it warns of incoming cars of pedestrians a fraction of a second before I can see them, which is good.

Except when the weather conditions or something on the road trigger a false positive and I suddenly go from 45-50 km/h to full stop. It's also a lot of adrenaline fun for the drivers behind me. Happened twice last year.

So no. A speaker is more reliable and robust and simple a solution.
It is easier to build an engineering team when you don't expect them to be product-minded in addition to being technically proficient.
> French people always get criticized for not understanding foreigners' broken French. It is not out of malice.

Plenty of people seem to have anecdotes that are hard to explain in any way other than malice. I have one of my own:

I was out camping with the family in france, I don't remember where exactly. As is tradition we managed to forget to bring the can opener. Cue my dad in the campstore with a can trying to get the shop keeper to sell us a can opener. How can you possibly need more than someone miming a can opener with a can saying "ouvrir" to get what he was trying to communicate? Never mind that his french was plenty fluid enough to hold a conversation with plenty of other french people.

I'm sure most french people are perfectly nice and do their best to understand foreigners. But -- at least the last time I was over there -- there are also more than enough french people who just straight up refuse to understand foreigners to leave a bitter taste in peoples mouth.
What Is Bitcoin Worth?
Hopefully in 2200 we’ll be long gone from all important fields in favor of new tech species who lack all the bs humans inherently bear on each other. If not, our own fault. Our species is a thin layer of culture on top of the “who most dominant ape here” game.
MemoryCache turn a local desktop environment into an on-device AI agent
VCs are just a different target market. Similarly, you can build a business with grant awarding bodies as your customers. The problem with both is that generally you have to pivot to selling to customers who actually want the product you've been pitching.
The fun thing about those experiences in professional settings is that the non-native speakers struggling with $5 words will liberally use $10 words ($50 words? I don't know how this is deals with inflation) that are part of the specific domain.
Roughly speaking I believe it's the number of parameters times the size of the parameters. So in the 4 bit case it's half a gigabyte per billion parameters.

From a performance point of view (quantized) integer parameters are going to run better on CPUs than floating point parameters.
Stripe is a good for this.
Was it Dave Shapiro's agent swarm https://github.com/daveshap/OpenAI_Agent_Swarm or something else ? Do you have a link ? I am quite curious
> When measured in a frame of reference moving with the wind, with W as the wind speed and A as the air speed, a glider flying upwind has a velocity of -A, and after turning 180 degrees has a velocity of +A. The magnitude of both velocities is the same.

This seems to be begging the question. Why does it get a velocity of +A? It seems obvious if you assume the inertial frame of reference of the wind, but from the ground it's very surprising. Why is the frame of reference of the wind the "right one"?

Perhaps a better way to ask is: when the second turn happens, why don't we go back to -A? It seems the "correct frame of reference" is now the still air? But why?

It's easy for me to intuitively understand that there's a source of energy at this windspeed gradient but it's hard for me to understand that this technique can extract it.
26 years ago or so I dated someone who worked in a McDonalds that had a prototype robotic drink filler. It worked great except sometimes it would dispense random drinks.

It was driven by a really long RS232 cable from a computer in the back, and the random behavior coincided with starting some motor...

It seemed like it would be an easy fix-- toss in RS-485 converters, or change the communication protocol to be robust to corruption-- but instead it ended up disabled most of the time when it would clog itself up with bogus dispenses. I believe it was regarded as a failure.
Out of curiosity, why? If whitespace is merely an artifact of human readability, why permit (or why not restrict) infinite bikeshedding on that?
Environmental half lives are a different animal. I vaguely recall some obs studies that estimate a half life of PFOA to be 90 (water), 114 days for
PFOS, their half-life in water is greater than 90 years for PFOA and
greater than 41 years for PFOS, according to a 2014 publication from the EPA.

There's also a study from Europe showing vastly different half-lives based on soil temperature (colder temps -> longer half life), but I cannot locate the paper at the moment.

US EPA. (2014). Emerging Contaminants Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) and
Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA),
https://www.wqa.org/Portals/0/Government%20Relations/factshe...
arch2014.pdf
>Disney has put so much effort into building Mickey Mouse as a brand that I don't mind all the protections they get.

The law wasn't meant to extend protections based on "effort", but based on time, - for reasons of enriching the public domain and general culture.

Also Disney isn't a person, it's a company, and as such it put zero effort. People working at Disney put the effort, including many people fired, discriminated, compensated badly, and generally fucked over by Disney.
I went to a pretty mediocre public school that had a serious drug problem (metal detectors, drug-searching dogs, etc.) and I actually think that learning to navigate the broken landscape of such an institution was itself an education in applied creativity – and probably more applicable to the real world than the academically-better but more rule-following schools.

I imagine that the better schools prepare one for operating in operating within societal institutions, Ivy League, etc. but can actually be detrimental if you're trying to establish something radically innovative or operate in a way that isn't already accepted as "elite" by society.
I believed pressing the button was possible :)
> Cities and cars are not a good mix, unless you own a car

Even if you own a car really. I've owned a car for the past 8 years because of how crap the public transport is. It's the only way of getting to many places. But I've never driven within my own town except for getting out of town. What I've always really wanted is an out of town car park I can cycle to with secure bike parking. That would completely eliminate the need to use a car in town. At that point I could probably do without actually owning the car and just grab one from a pool of rentals.

Unfortunately people don't know what they're capable of and insist on cars being parked right at their houses. So many people even get groceries delivered by someone else now. They are mostly just wheelchairs these days.
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Nope. I literally flew from ASEAN to the East Coast a week ago. The only options below $1400 round trip for economy were Doha (Qatar), Istanbul (Turkish Airlines), and Dubai (Emirates)

Korean Air and JAL have handful of direct options from NYC, BOS, and DC, but they are very marginal and appear to be prestige routes.

In most cases you have to either fly to the West Coast, or fly to the Middle East if you want to go someone that isn't Incheon, as the Incheon to X hop becomes much more expensive than the Middle East to X hop.

Most airlines codeshare and piggyback off Turkish and Qatar anyhow because both are heavily state subsidized
Now you're falsely equating biological brains with giant arrays of floating point numbers.

we have NOT evolved where we are today by generating inputs to ourselves, watching our own output and modifying our inputs to watch again our outputs.

Rather - we had fundamental strong reasoning almost flawless rigorous (formally documented) capabilities from the get go. Interference, induction, deduction. LLMs have none of that and it's documented all over multiple times over.

We have built at that on top of those faculties again - by not giving input to us and observing our outputs rather poking around into the world with are reasoning and cognitive faculties and arranging/categorising carefully what we discovered.

So for fanboys, this surely is very huge and I respect that sentiment wholeheartedly.

EDIT: Note about reasoning
Other than cars with mufflers cut out most car noise (above a certain speed) is the tire noise. At least that's how I understand it. Not to say it wouldn't be nice if cars would be otherwise silent, but i.e. highway noise wouldn't be significantly quieter with BEVs all around. Could you tell me what do you mean by technical capability to produce silent cars?
As an example of this: Americans tend to expect plates being picked up as soon as one is finished eating, even when others on the same table are not finished yet. In my native Netherlands this would be considered (very) rude, with plates only removed after everyone is finished and then some grace period. Picking up plates early here indicates the restaurant wants you out the door quickly.
What prevents Google from collecting the same data from Maps users?
This.

> This effect was associated with improved mood

It's even in the article that they felt better which changed their behaviour.
In the meantime you have safety trainings for how to use a ladder properly in your org.

Don't get me wrong, work accidents do happen with ladders, and training/inspection can prevent them, but the risk stemming from ladders doesn't compare to cars.

The way society accepts risks tells a lot about that society.
Reminds me of Roy Kent in Ted Lasso.
There is a different but similar word in Hindi/Urdu/Punjabi - Oye.
I'm just seeing a white frame - no noise. Clicking on the white frame doesn't help. (Chrome 119, Windows 10, Intel NUC6i3).
webgpu is only available on chromium atm
That’s just partly true. While non-native speakers obviously recognize that something is a swear word, without immersion it’s often hard to gauge how it will be perceived by native speakers, simply because you don’t meet many, or any, to get reactions from.

I’m a non native speaker and it wasn’t until University when I met actual Americans that I realized my swearing could be ear-curling from time to time — I simply hadn’t noticed the reaction I got before in my life.

A simple example is the Swedish word “skit” and the English “shit”. In Swedish it’s actually pretty benign, for different reasons it’s not at all at the top of our swearing hierarchy: if you’d use “shit” in English in the same situations as you’d use “skit” in Swedish, English people will react.

So both in cases where there are cognates and a lack of actual experience with native speakers, there’s definitely a disconnect. I think any native speakers who have met good non native speakers have experienced this, they have 80-90% down but lack the cultural context (because where would it come from, movies isn’t enough)
You know, the best part is that US is doing this same thing with the incoming president shitting on the work on the previous president for the sake of domestic politics, and not getting a new deal with the belligerent state!

So instead of Clintons deal Bush tore it up, didn't get anything, and now North Korea has nuclear weapons. And instead of Obamas deal Trump tore it up and got nothing. Now Biden also wants a new deal, so we know how this version of story likely ends (especially with Bibi bombing out of control, the pro-nuke factions in Iran have great fuel for winning the go/no-go argument on building a weapon.)
Why bother to downvote, if you can't state the reason?
Do any of the modern filesystem on Linux cover this very important use case of instant search anywhere like the good old NTFS does (that's how you get Everything's awesome performance)?
The french that kids learn at school is different than the french they speak with their family[1] of the french they speak with their friends[2]. People adapt based on contexts.

I don't think it makes a huge difference on how the language evolve, as ultimately the French Academy cannot force french people to speak one way or another.

The only big effect it has is it brings additional hurdles for kids coming from another french speaking country when their country of origin has largely adopted simplified grammar and conjugations.

[1] regional expressions with sometimes a simplified/modified grammar on those
[2] use of slang + verlan (reversing some words) + adoption of some arabic words
I’m on the board of an NGO that works in the Peruvian Amazon… but have also done NGO work in India.

Some personal things I find super helpful (and the list in the article is accurate.. though I’ve never needed a big knife just small ones ).

* hydration salts

I personally really like Patagonia black hole duffles. I got one after my last duffle just shredded to nothing. They fold up very small.

platypus water bottle / bladder. I couldn’t find it for sale searching right now, but it has a flip cap with a locking mechanism and a carabiner. When empty they take up little space.

* I always pack two headlamps, and extra batteries. If you need a headlamp, someone else seems to always need one too.

* the right footwear, beyond just wearing something like Tevas, or Merrill’s (though I wouldn’t fully endorse either). Research if you need to have rubber boots that go to your knees as well, or similar.

* don’t assume a place to sleep. A travel hammock with mosquito netting can be a life saver.

I’m sure there’s other things too… but just off the top of my head. And of course, don’t skip any vaccinations.
I'm an American who has lived in Australia for a little over a decade, and I have not noticed a difference between Australians and Americans in this regard. If you aren't too familiar with one accent or the other, it may be a little difficult to pick up on whether someone is emphasizing or deemphasizing "too" or "bad", but the essential meaning of the emphasis is the same.

In general, I find Americans and Australians deemphasize positive things at about the same rate and in the same circumstances, though the exact phrasing used can differ (although "not too bad" is a case where the phrase is shared in both dialects).

However, Australians are more likely to also deemphasize negative things (e.g., "This weather is average" to mean it's bad) whereas Americans are more likely to use sarcasm for negative things (e.g., "This weather is great" to mean it's bad).