skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's better for some metrics - number of passengers moved per vehicle, fuel efficiency etc.

What it isn't optimal for is getting from origin to destination without walking and without waiting.

If I am carrying heavy/bulky things or I am less mobile than average, walking to the nearest public transport stop isn't great, and every change of transport is painful.

Waits are also long basically anywhere that isn't the center of a densely populated city, and add up with every change of vehicle.

Eventually, a public transport based solution to travel ends up using "find ways to travel less" as a component.

The existence of direct door-to-door transport with cargo space, however it is achieved (cars, self-driving, carshare, taxis...) is needed to close these gaps, and therefore I do not see it ever going away.

Societies need to make the other forms of transport attractive enough that, given access to direct door-to-door transport, they still remain a viable choice.
It's ironic that almost everything in your long list of Labour's financial sins is equalled in $ by National's one single move of new tax-breaks for landlords. It puts into clear context the way that appearances trumped objectivity, when it came to the country's electoral fickleness. It's also ironic that what you're here lauding - the PFAS story - is an initiative which occurred under Ardern's government. It's not the kind of thing you'll be seeing in the results of the new one.

So yes, the thread is about PFAS, but its secondary framing is that of lauding New Zealand for an environmental positive. And, in that same light, its quite relevant to mention in the same breath that New Zealand is also taking several, arguably much larger, steps backwards environmentally - pulling back the country's environmental focus, in favour of business and commercial interests, due to having elected a right-wing government which stands in stark contrast to the "kind, positive" aspirational style that the world remembers from Ardern.

'New Zealand leads the way environmentally' is a style of story the world will be seeing less of, the more terms this new government has.
So many possible confounding factors. Men in partnerships are healthier, for one. There's also possible selection bias!

Edit based on comment below: possibly I am too cynical :-D
Thanks, yes protocol-aware recovery was the context. Pretty sure I first heard it described in Joran's QCon London 2023 talk here: https://youtu.be/_jfOk4L7CiY?t=1460

> If you want your distributed database to maximise availability, how your local storage engine recovers from storage faults in the write-ahead log needs to be properly integrated with the global consensus protocol.
If quality content is the seed, then digital promotion is its chance to germinate.
The H100 is currently $30000-40000 because there is no other game in town due to CUDA/software compatibility and the upcoming H200 will be even more expensive. These cards "only" have 80GB of RAM and there are other cards that I couldn't find a price for with more RAM for training LLMs. So people are already paying a huge premium for "ecosystem". Apple could easily do the same for machine learning driven server products.

I find it interesting that you think Apple products are more expensive because of the branding, I'm willing to pay more because they work much better than other systems for me and also if you subtract the much higher resale value they are actually the same value as other products.
I highly recommend reading through Waymo's own publications that addresses these exact concerns: https://waymo.com/safety/

Specifically "Framework for a conflict typology including causal factors for use in ADS safety evaluation" and "Comparison of Waymo Rider-Only Crash Data to Human Benchmarks at 7.1 Million Miles"

It may not surprise you to know that they have given a LOT of consideration to these factors and have built a complex model that addresses these to demonstrate their claims.
the lyrics you quoted are actually:
"Simple and clean is the way that you′re making me feel tonight."
I suspect this is a problem for your browser? The CSS media query only makes sense as 'prefers dark webpages' — there'd be no point having it, if it means 'the browser theme is dark and it doesn't matter what the user prefers in terms of web pages'.

Your browser should offer you a setting to choose whether you prefer dark webpages or not (SEPARATELY from the browser theme).
Not sure if Chrome currently does but if this annoys you, it would be worth looking for.
Vote for mvp.css [0] here.

[0] https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/
Why physicists are rethinking the route to a theory of everything
Roblox is a lot more than just a game collection. The social aspect is a massive part of what made (keeps?) Roblox popular.
Oppenheimest: Every time someone says 'Oppenheimer' on 'Oppenheimer''
This is kind of the basis of an entire field of yoga called Pranayama.
Its translation varies, but can be roughly translated as breath control.

A lot of it is breathing slower, or faster than your body requires (including retention of breath, or holding with no air in the lungs), in order to elicit mental and physical states.

Another example of this is Wim Hof, where you over breathe intentionally and then hold the breath for extended periods.

Breath is a really interesting topic, being an autonomous system for the most part, but one which we can take voluntary control over.

If you are interested in learning more, I'd recommend the book "Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art" by James Nestor.

Edit: After trying the meditation, I also found it was a little quick if I was trying to sync my breathing to the dot. It may be intentional if the aim is to improve focus and alertness for an upcoming task, rather than relaxation!
Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
What happens in Gaza is:

- targeted destruction of civil infrastructure (check rules of warfare regarding that)

- intentional destruction of a city

- a specified goal of displacing Palestinians living in Gaza

- blocking escape routes forbthose people

And all that after:

- turning Gaza into an open air prison

- controlling all utilities for Gaza

- blocking Gaza's access to the Medditeraneab

- blocking and controlling all border crossing into and out of Gaza

Maybe not yet Genozid yet, but clearly Apatheid and on-going ethnic cleansing. Stop defending that.

Just some numbers:

Displaced people, 1.8 million in Gaza, 3-5 million in Ukraine

Civilian casualties, 10,000 in Ukraine between Feb '22 and Nov '23 and 28,000 in Gaza as of Feb '24.
I dunno, I feel programming stuff feels a bit more intuitive and fun than something like chess or learning spanish
3M electric toothbrushes were not used in a DDoS attack
> If you simply don't drive while intoxicated, extremely tired, or distracted with your gadgets, you're already beating the average when it comes to collisions and injuries.

It still does not make you a good driver.
I've personally been in situations where I'm on the right lane, going slightly below the speed limit, when the vehicle (usually a pickup truck) passes me from the shoulder on the right, often blaring it's horns in disapproval as if they were on their way to save lives.

> Rules for Using the Shoulder. The laws for using a shoulder vary in each state, but it is illegal in all states to use the shoulder to bypass traffic or to pass another driver.

I can't wait to make it illegal for humans to drive on public roads.
Can women take viagra too? For the same cognitive effect?
I grew up working construction on the side with my father, became an appprentice lineman, moved to aftermarket electrical installations in CNC machines, then ended up writing software products for over a decade. I've worked on a wide variety of software: Embedded projects requiring 2000 line assembly ISRs for legacy RS232 protocols, reverse engineering binary network protocols, implementing network server protocols from specifications, writing my own actor and dependency injection frameworks in managed languages, web application backend work, frontend work with JavaScript/TypeScript and frameworks, and so on. I also do a lot of product management, support, customer management, and internal management. Much of my customer support involves teaching external developers from large corporations how to use HTTP and SDKs.

I'm usually one of the smarter people in the room when doing software development and spend a lot of time helping others. In construction, I'm the enthusiastic idiot as the skillset is different. Most tech workers underestimate how high skilled tradework and many other positions outside their experience are, especially management work.

Having said all that, I feel uniquely qualified to offer a rebuttal. The article is describing a clear pattern that I see at large companies that are not focused on software development or lack solid engineering leadership. Ironically, the problem gets worse the more a company tries to outsource IT as they face all the same challenges with less control. It is an organizational health issue however, not some universal truth. If tech workers lack anything, it's experience with organizational growth, change, and group dynamics, not construction experience. Organizations are like people, they grow, change, figure out who they are, have identity crises and need different things in different phases. Ask the highest level/most competent manager you have access to for book recommendations if you're interested in this.

Anyway, back on topic, software "gruntwork" typically implies a department lacks the agency to automate away said gruntwork or lacks the skills to do so. As an example, I work with many organizations using the JVM, but none of them use Scala, Kotlin, Clojure, or any other "nice" JVM language. They use Java. In some cases Java 8. If you're writing Java, there is absolutely stupid gruntwork. I've written example applications for some of these organizations and I had to create code generation tools to stay sane in this environment. In software, you eliminate stupid gruntwork with tools, not people.

We do need average enthusiasts in software development, but it's not the same as construction. In construction the less talented person fetches things and does setup work. In software development, the less talented workers spend most of their time using libraries, plugins, frameworks, compilers, interpreters, databases, and languages while the more talented workers write them.

My experience isn't universal, and I'd be interested in hearing some dissenting opinions on this.
Best of luck to JPLers. I know someone who was laid off. These are some inordinately talented people.
Fortinet confirmed it wasn't a real attack

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39300373
Architecting LLM Powered Software
When it is good enough, we should remove the ability for humans to drive cars manually in all new cars after that point.
inflamed appendices, sure. gallbladders are removed with a lot less care
I feel like maybe they didn't read the article and misinterpreted the double-negative in the headline.
Reading that page, I learned that while California does not de jure have the Idaho Stop, it does de facto have the Idaho Stop. Waymo should account for this.

However I think that is irrelevant, depending on whether the description I heard is correct - it sounds like Waymo turned so quickly after a truck that it could not be certain its path would be clear. That to me seems like the real mistake.
Your are missing the part that Fortinet didn't publish the attack themselves but choose a non technical news paper.

Highly suspicious and now confirmed it didn't happen.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39300373
In case you are looking into cutting down your Github Actions bill
> They have no reason to release it to the public.

I mean, if it reflects positively on them, they have huge reason; they want to put as much distance between their response and Cruise's as possible, and show that they're acting in good faith.

A large part of what killed Cruise was, well, either the cover-up or its employees' amazingly persistent internet connectivity problems, depending on how cynical you want to be.
Updated, so it works for the days when there is the grieving bar at the top

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Barring an agreement to the contrary, employers and employees can terminate employment any time they want, except in Montana, as long as the termination is not due to the employee being in a protected class.
In ger you can get double digit orders for MSRP...
..and aptly named too:

>the fungus Rust that is “over-engineered for survival”.

Obviously Rust is indeed surviving (and thriving) and damn it is over-engineered.

If C++ wasn't actively developed too, Rust would surpass C++ as the most complex programming language sooner or later.

I wonder if we have already reached the point where no single individual fully understands Rust (C++ passed that threshold years ago [1])

[1] Yes, even Bjarne Stroustrup himself can only keep a fraction of C++ in his head at any given time, even if it is a large one, e.g. there was an interview where he got the behavior of unique_ptr in a certain scenario wrong and had to be corrected on camera by Herb Sutter (who certainly can't keep the entire language in his head either).
PS: what was up with my mind when I wrote this? (second paragraph) Some serious confusion about throughput and power: power and mass throughput are obviously the same at a given shaft height, the advantage of a chain with less gaps/more vessels in transit at the same time is that you don't need much speed to achieve throughput.

Still, the approach of stacking many copies of the same loop design, with a well designed handover mechanism remains the way to go, instead of one big elevator trying to achieve throughput by faster travel. The key core idea is that the structure that carries the upper parts of the whole thing is already there (all the ground that hasn't been dug into)
From the referenced page:

> SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen().
Didn't happen, confirmed by Fortinet

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39300373
And yet younguns with good eyes and no color blindness will be able to read the text, and others won’t.

If you let a designer put grey on grey once, they’ll do it 10,000,000 times.
In early 2010s Java was widely used but the language and ecosystem was stagnating. This lead to an explosion of alternative JVM languages: Groovy, Scala, Clojure, etc. But most people didn't want an entirely new language, all they wanted was basically 'Java with lambdas'. One such language was Ceylon, and Jetbrains (after unsuccessfully trying Groovy) decided to create their own Ceylon and called it Kotlin.
Cool. Here are some other resources that I've encountered along the way of learning Forth:

- JonesForth: https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...

This is legit a text that goes the an x86 Forth implementation. Actually, it's just an implementation with really extensive comments. That said, including whitespace and comments, it's just 2000 lines and the pedagogy is excellent. Highly recommended for anyone who would rather see behind the curtain before picking up a larger text.

- SmithForth: https://dacvs.neocities.org/SF/

So, Smith decided to hand-write a Forth directly in x86-64 opcodes (well, the corresponding ascii hex bytes). It's incredibly slim and enlightening how you can bootstrap a language in just a couple hundred bytes or so.

This project actually inspired me to really learn the x86-64 architecture, so I ended up hand-decompiling the SmithForth binary instead of going through his commented implementation. Hand-decompilation is an absolutely fascinating exercise. You learn all about ELF structure, opcode encodings, and actually start to see the gaps where microarchitectural details shine through. Highly recommended for any hacker that really wants to grok low level details.

- Mecrisp: https://mecrisp.sourceforge.net/

An amazingly fast Forth implementation for MSP430, ARM, RISC-V, MIPS, and some FPGAs. This gave me one really nice understanding of Forth as

A REPL into your hardware!

- ##forth on libera.chat

Really active and helpful members there. Definitely worth dropping by.
If cyclists go through without coming to a complete stop (like 99% of drivers, complete stop means the wheels are not turning and the speedometer says "0") and gets hit, the cyclist/pedestrian dies.

If a car ignores signals, the cyclist/pedestrian still dies.

These are not the same modes of traffic, and forcing everyone on earth to bend to the behaviors of the most dangerous mode of transportation is insanity.
Ask HN: What have you built using AI on plant genomics?
I recently came across the possibility of founding a startup for predicting traits given genomic information. I am pretty excited to apply this technology to breeding and GMO campaigns.

It seems like selecting the correct variants have a great impact in time-to-market and variant acceptance rate as cultivation takes years to perform.

I was wondering whether this (or something similar) has been done before and what were the challenges you might have encounter.

Feel free to ask for more information :)
Being forced to donate a kidney is different. We should always allow people to decide to be left alone and for nature to take its course.

Allowing a child to grow naturally inside his or her mother's body is the natural course of events. Pregnancies terminate naturally at birth.

Brutally murdering your own child and taking away many decades of life from that child to avoid a few months of inconvenience is an unfair trade. If the mother gained more than a year of life at the expense of one year of the child's life, I would be more sympathetic to the baby killers, but in the case of abortion-murder, the mother avoids a few months of discomfort by taking away maybe 8 decades of life from her own child.

Disclaimer: Relatives have told me I survived an attempt to abortion-murder me. I want revenge.
unfortunately they explicitly say they have no CSS solution other than plain files or Tailwind
Jobs that are hard to fill will often teach you how to program, because it’s a better value for the employer to burn money on the right people on that education ramp up than spending equivalent time and money finding a less strong fit whom is already trained.

This is the position I am in. Last year I was laid off from a job writing JavaScript. I made a promise to myself to never write JavaScript as an employee ever again. A different group eventually picked me up to learn something unrelated just because I had all the required criteria and 15 years of experience writing software.

I have chosen to abandon writing JavaScript after 15 years because it’s extremely immature. I love the language and what you can do with it but most people writing JavaScript professionally absolutely hate writing software. They tend to be interested primarily in code vanity and tools because they are insecure about writing original code. If I were interested primarily in trends and fashion I wouldn’t write code for a living. Beware of people claiming to want to do something, such as write code, but actually hate doing it.
I mean, it's something we use everyday without thinking much. That's what I meant mostly but yeah innovation is also slowing
Not the OP, but political loss is still a loss.

If the Republicans abandon Ukraine, US credibility will take a huge hit, probably worse than when the US abandoned South Vietnam.
We seen this in nature all the time when a species overtaxed available resources and suffers a population collapse

I think it stings because we can imagine humanity coming together to survive, but all we see is frustration and failure to act.

It's sad we were not up to the task, despite having more tools than all our Ancestors, it was the failed social co-ordination that ended our evolutionary race
It's a less verbose island
is it safe to assume,

that this ffect is rue for taladafil/sindemafil based pills?
More or less yes. 1+2 are decent, but Simple and Clean is more powerful than either game combined.
TrueTime is designed for monotonicity. It give bounds for concurrency control.

PTP do wallclock time.
Are you saying this represents value for money? :-)
all CSS-in-JS or styling solutions that allow for component scoping require some kind of bundling or otherwise interaction for the bundler. It's true most people don't need it, but most people don't need 90% of what Fresh offers, surely?
Diaspora was a bit of a grab bag, he re-used elements from some of his short stories including basically the whole of “The Planck Dive” and “Wang’s Carpets”. But the main theme, as far as I can tell, was how far can you change a persons mind and still have them be the ‘same’ person.
I was looking for a comment like this to verify it was him. I met him in the early 2000's when we were travelling to Les Trophées du Libre (a free software contest and awards event). I think we were both judges. We sat next to each other on the bus and he was explaining how he had moved to Switzerland and renounced his US citizenship and how I should do so too since I moved to Sweden. I remember being confused because he seemed way to humble and down to Earth to be the founder of Autodesk.
>Make people work 12 hours
>Why no kids?
What about vestigial stuff, like leg bones on whales?

https://www.icr.org/i/stage_248/whalelegs_stage.jpg

Similarly, what about things like congenital diseases? Why does sickle cell anemia seem to be an imperfect answer to malaria? Etc.

My suspicion is that evolution satisfices rather than optimizes, because once a trait which is in the process of changing ceases to be the limiting factor in reproduction it ceases to change rapidly. So unlike an optimizer, evolution often doesn't take free variables to extremes (eg remove the leg bones entirely) and doesn't find a global minimum, it finds a satisfactory location in phase space close to it's previous position.

Or maybe it optimizes on a higher level, and satisficing is more advantageous because optimizing to local conditions will leave you unprepared for future environmental changes, and tolerating things like vestigial traits creates opportunities for advantageous mutations. I think both explanations could coexist. This is all speculation, to be clear.
That's historically and factually illiterate on many levels but it would be too tedious and likely fruitless to attempt to develop.
Suggestion: toggle to show/hide the sidebar (the table list) to give more space for table contents.
Google has a union (AWU). It is currently protesting in support of Gaza.
>Epic games has the potential to be the virtual Disney World ...

I miss Unreal and Unreal Tournament.
Clojure - an expansion from CLJ which stands for CLR, Lisp, Java.
They are cut off from the American system. The products will leak from both ways unless you impose a strict naval blockade. For some premium, many countries will dodge the sanctions.
Why include a (much more expensive) FSD computer in every Tesla then, if it was just a cost-saving measure and radar is actually needed for self-driving? FSD works better today with vision only than any other solution with vison+radar.