skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
43000 people die in car accidents a year, why not enforce a 15mph speed limit? That's gotta reduce the number of deaths.

>I agree that some will rig up completely unsafe "alternatives" but honestly, doing that rather than renting a safe saw for a dozen bucks... those people at least know of the danger.

You can't rent a table saw for a dozen bucks lol. Especially not with a safety saw blade.
Pumping to start the car, to prime the carb but never heard of the keep it running part unless you been needing to keep the revs higher until it warms up? But then you don't need to pump, just hold it.
What I'd like to do is pass a state law that requires employers to pay commuting costs for their employees, plus only allow up to one hour of unpaid commuting.

So, suppose the only people applying for your job live 2 hours away. You'll have to pay 1) the federal mileage rate ($0.50/mile??) (or better yet, an even higher state rate to account for higher costs of car ownership there), or buy the employee a company car, for their commute time, and 2) the employee will get paid for 3 hours of commuting time, and only have to actually work 5 hours on-site (but getting paid for 8), so you'll have to hire another employee to cover the time difference.

These people living in 10M homes should be paying $500 per plate to eat at a restaurant and $20/gallon for milk from the supermarket. And yes, $500/hr for the house cleaner.

Here in Tokyo, it's normal (maybe legally required?) for employers to pay for employees' commuting costs. Of course, since the best public transit system in the world is here, a commuting pass doesn't cost that much.
Have you tried the salt reduced version (the one with the blue stripe around the top of the label)? It's definitely softer and sweeter than the original and a little more like Marmite (sort of halfway in between).
https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/780cbf29d5a88db... to update the NEWS file is equally honest:

5.6.1 (2024-03-09)

IMPORTANT: This fixed bugs in the backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) (someone
had forgot to run Valgrind).
I agree with this, but I will also do my best to limit smartphone and social media usage by my son.

To me the single biggest problem with western society is the idea that happiness is the ultimate goal in life. Happiness is an emotion, and you can’t force your body to experience one emotion all the time. Equanimity is the goal, and emotional control. If you tell someone they’re supposed to be happy all the time, they’re going to think something is wrong with them when they’re inevitably not.
When ethanol is added to saliva, bacteria in the mouth produce acetaldehyde, which is known to be carcinogenic. I need less ethanol in my mouth, not more!
Interesting if true but I can't help but be a little skeptical when the article writer so obviously wants to sell me something.
I wonder if using mouthwash that kills "99%" bacteria make this product useless over time?

Also, does using mouthwash daily negate the need for this product?
New AI music-generating service Udio is good
It's actually a 14.3B parameter model. It's irritating that they don't follow the convention of naming the model according to size. Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B is named for the 2.7B activated parameters. I guess it helps to obfuscate the size, given that it performs about as well as Mistral 7B.
Unpopular opinion: I miss the lockdowns. It was empty, clean, no traffic, no delays, excuse is ready for introverts, list goes on!
How does Meta benefit from open-source Llama?
It seems less like a threat than an observation about how conservative science can be sometimes. From what I recall their problem with the book is that the studies were cherry picked and overlooked overlapping factors like lead, drug wars, and relied on sloppy statistics.
Another example:

https://twitter.com/nasescobar316/status/1777481957774872704
Maybe a little safer, but you can do plenty of damage with hand tools. I haven't had any serious injuries with power tools or hand tools (knock on wood), but I have knicked myself pretty good with a chisel.
Biggest Scams in Software Engineering
XP64 was an odd animal.

I had a Customer who usd it to run Unigraphics CAD. The Dell Precision machines they had with factory-loaded XP64 were fine. Trying to get their random other machines to run it w/ working audio, video, and chipset drivers was a pain.

I never ran it as a desktop OS myself. I installed plenty of the server version it was based on (W2K3 x64) but those boxes always had standard VGA drivers, no audio, and sometimes a RAID controller driver, but that was usually it.
"Life, uh, finds a way..."
I’ve been waiting for years (more than a decade at this point) for this to be commercialized, and have had to have most of my teeth repaired due to cavities. $250 is a cheap experiment, depending on your financial situation.

(Preordered, no other affiliation)
I don't get it. Even if filenames were displayed in uppercase back then, there's no reason to do so now.

It's like how people write SQL with uppercase keywords, but not any other language. I suppose it's learning by emulation and then old habits die hard.
Of course, I'm not advocating for such adversarial behaviors like the upgrade process deleting your files.

But you have a point, and maybe a solution to this issue ought to be found.
Parents of a school shooter have been jailed
It’s possible. The interview was from a while back and early in the press’s lifetime.
As co-parents with different homes in nearby towns, being able to coordinate with each other and our multiple children at multiple schools in real time became indispensable.

The kids also used their phones constructively, for assignments, tracking school progress, Youtube how-to videos, contact with cousins, etc. They had social media accounts but they never became a focus.

At school they kept their phones on silent and in their bags.

--

Fortunately three insights helped us:

1. Casual addiction is the intersection of two problems: an unhealthy addictive thing, and a lack of engaging or planned healthier alternatives.

Solve either one! But the latter problem is far tractable than the former.

2. There are only so many hours in a day, so solutions to the latter problem usually have a low complexity bound.

3. Social media isn't that rewarding for kids, once they have voluntarily invested their interest in longer term activities and challenges. Doom scrolling notably lacks any verifiable feeling of progress.

So solutions are pretty robust to ups and downs.

We kept our kids lives full of physical and real world social activities, family outings, social events at home, regularly eating times for talking and bonding, regular homework times, etc.
This reminds me of an urban exploration video on YouTube taken in a dead mall, where the people found a hidden apartment in a crawlspace where someone had apparently been living — there were signs that the area was being actively used.
I don't have any solid evidence but I feel like the LED also disturbs sleep of people who live near street lamps. Also I found out recently that never putting an outdoor light shining upwards is somewhat less disruptive to moth navigation.
That argument doesn’t make sense. The city doesn’t provide homes to any other workers
idk if I feel that relieved that malls are our only hope
About as relevant a measure of speed as parsecs
There's always a market for dumb phones.
One of the guys was deputy director at Caltrain. Very doubtful he had "low income". And he was siphoning public funds to do it, for his own benefit, something which actually does hurt people with low incomes.
Flip phones are fine at communicating over SMS or phone calls. That's realtime enough for anything
Defining it as "a human choice" is both clearly accurate and misses the point. Yes. It's obviously not physically impossible. But just ascribing it to "a chronic lack of intestinal fortitude" as if everyone involved is just too much of a sissy to blow a hole in a mountain like people used to is absurdly reductionist. It ignores the vast history of how much past US grand projects like the interstate and the railroads were built on the back of destroying the environment and often genocidally taking land from native Americans.

Yes, some of it is for dumb reasons, but there's also plenty of reasons that aren't just "we used to be a real country". It is, in fact, not 1824 any more. We can't just offer thousands of Chinese immigrants $2 a week and have half of them die while putting a hole in the Rocky Mountains. Yes, that's "a human choice", but the physical dimensions of the problem define the very real tradeoffs that have to be made. The "physical laws of nature" don't stop us from doing all sorts of things we'd probably regret, many of which we do regret now.

To go back to my original point, those reasons are a lot more compelling when you're spending some billions of dollars that connect to another country's billions of dollars of trains, and you get some regular amount of cross-traffic. Sure, we could build more, but we're not going to build a Deutsche Bahn amount of rail within Arizona. They're about the same geographic size, and Germany has 10x the population. Likely same with Nevada and Oregon. So what do you propose we connect to that has anywhere near the same network effect of cross-travel?
For CP/M it seems like it was more like bad luck and failing to predict the future:

> Kildall accepted, believing that IBM's new system (like its previous personal computers) would not be a significant commercial success.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall

Bill Gates/Microsoft was also DRI's nemesis, from supplying a CP/M-86 clone to IBM to trying to torpedo DR DOS (which nonetheless lasted into the 2000s.)

If we consider DOS to be a version of CP/M(-86), then it is still in use to this day (and it's probably running on your phone or PC you have any old games that use DOSbox) - a remarkably successful run for any OS.
Looking to start a tech start up? Well someone's selling millions in hand made soap. WTF.
The world narrowly escapes a supply chain doomsday scenario
Windows 98 icons are great
Lede is an alternate spelling (dating only from the 70s) of lead-the-intro to distinguish from lead-the-metal which was also an important word in printing at the time.
> Thailand has transitioned to cars. You don't see "Tuktuks" outside of tourist centers anymore.

What are you talking about? I live in Thailand and there's tuktuks everywhere, especially outside tourist centres. And I make heavy use of an electric tuktuk ride-sharing service called Muvmi.

Yes, the Hilux is the most popular personal vehicle choice country-wide, because that includes a lot of rural areas. It's certainly not the most popular choice in the city. And people don't buy tuktuks for personal use, or Hiluxes for ride sharing, so I really don't know what you are trying to say.

What a weird, confident, and completely wrong comment.
This sounds so cool and great, but no mention of FDA approval anywhere.

Sounds like it's being sold as "cosmetic".

It changes my body chemistry. It gets described as a vaccine.

Not sure humans should be the test subjects and very concerned anyone can just buy this.

And I know people will. I want to and am having to exert will to use my better judgement.

In the safety section, it makes it clear it can't be reversed without serious effort and no evidence anyone has successfully reversed it.
India will never be a manufacturing hub because of the absurdly high land costs. India is simply uncompetitive because land acquisition eats up into your budget.

The moment any large manufacturing facility is cleared through the red tape, speculators buy up all the land in the vicinity, making the entire supply chain more expensive.

You can work on red tape and ease of doing business, but the simple reason why Indian small and medium manufacturing units never graduate to large scale is because they simply can’t acquire the land to grow.
My kids are 11 and 12. We have a YouTube time limit of 30 mins a day, and there are some videos that are just not allowed. Nothing with too much bad language, Nothing with people doing dangerous things to be funny, nothing with rich people buying stuff to break. I did spend some time in both my kids accounts blocking streamers I thought where just bad influences. It has given us a chance to talk about why some of the stuff on YouTube is stupid.

Nobody in our house has used or is interested in TikTok so I have not had to deal with that.

My kids know I hate Robox but they are allowed to play. (I'm a game developer). The kids are are not allowed to spend pocket money on Robucks, but they do get gift cards from friends and family on special occasions and because the Robucks are so rare they have become very precious. The kids agonize over every purchase. They carefully evaluate the value of things. They look for the scams, they avoid gambling and loot boxes, and instead look for things with more value.

We have also had the opportunity to discuss that when the servers go down, all this virtual stuff they seem to own will disappear. That they don't really own it.

As much as I like to hate Roblox, it has been good for my kids. There is a wide variety of free content and you can try before you buy. Its multiplayer by default so it's social in the good way, you are actually talking, thinking and playing with your friends. And both my kids use the editor creating new content and leaning programming.
You should also look into alternate video sites. A couple of creators I like(Practical Engineering, others I can't remember) have promoted Nebula as having curated high quality educational content.
I've never been to India, but I have seen (and heard, and smelled) the multitude of two-stroke-engine-powered vehicles in Southern European cities, so I can imagine having them replaced by electric versions would be a blessing...
My cynical take is:

1. Many of SawStop’s patents either expired or about to expire.

2. Bosch already has a similar tech but was prohibited to sell their saws with it in the US. I think soon all the patents that were basis for this ruling going to expire.

3. SawStop already by acquired by TTS(same company that owns Festool). They may have plans to integrate it in their line up somehow and safety tech becomes less of a differentiator.

And my even more cynical take is that FTC only considered requiring safety tech after a nod from the industry leaders.
I am not a lawyer, but lately, I have been wondering whether the contra proferentem rule interacts with these licenses.
REST API testing made easy
https://archive.is/4K04p
Thanks for digging that up!
"The average person has enough of these bacteria in their gut to have a natural blood alcohol level - even after zero drinks - of about 0.1 mg/dl. Under pessimistic assumptions, BCS3-L1 will add another 0.2 mg/dl, bringing the total to 0.3. This is still a pretty normal number that some people have naturally (it would bring the average customer from the ~50th to the ~80th percentile of natural blood alcohol). It’s also far from the usual threshold for feeling tipsy (30 mg/dl) or too drunk to drive (80 mg/dl).

Under more realistic assumptions, the amount of alcohol produced by BCS3-L1 probably isn’t significant even by the very low standards of natural blood alcohol concentrations."

(From https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/defying-cavity-lantern-biow...)
I mean, is there anything there that couldn't just be a library function? Not everything has to be an operator.
Yeah, in generic raw bird-lives wind-power wins easily. Even turbines designed by Vlad the Impaler aren't going to kill as many birds as the same systematic extraction and burning of fossil-fuels. [0]

> A 2012 study found that wind projects kill 0.269 birds per gigawatt-hour of electricity produced, compared to 5.18 birds killed per gigawatt-hour of electricity from fossil fuel projects.

That said, localized effects are another matter, if someone erects a bunch of wind farms around birds that are in some way vulnerable to them.

[0] https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/do-wind-turbines-kill-birds
"The claim on Twitter" is why the FDA exists, and that's a good thing. Bread can be a bit alcoholic, yes. I try to avoid it for other reasons. I would prefer that everything I eat over 50 years not be turned into fractional bread by my saliva.
> Which compositor is used?

> Any wlroots-based compositor (including Labwc, Wayfire, Hyprland and Sway) should work, and kwin_wayland works really fine too.

Well that's neat. I don't think I've seen any other DE that left that open-ended in Wayland? Although I guess that depends on exactly how you define (wm/compositor) vs Desktop Environment.

(Although it does make the prior "But I need global shortcuts!" "You can configure them in the compositor." a little unfortunate)
It’s not ok to steal public funds. It’s sad that you think that merits a reward.
funnily enough i have a library i’m planning to open source soon! i’ve used airflow as a guideline for it as well.
It’s more like the people who knew the internal system and understood that it would break with those changes were fired. So, whoever made that change probably thought changing a few values would be sufficient without proper research. I doubt it was documented, since it has never been done before or even expected to be done. And of course, they wanted to impress Elon by getting ‘shit’ done quickly!!
Looking into vitamin K2 (not K1) along with vitamin D is interesting as well -- I got my bone mineral density to 99th percentile (DEXA measured) without changes in physical activity (which has just been walking) with lots of K2 and vitamin D; with the vitamin D from sunlight and a UVB phototherapy lamp when I wasn't getting lots of sunlight. My sense is that bone and teeth health are at least significantly related and I bet having excellent bone density carries over to caries, or to a lack thereof.

My guess is that typical Western diets are pretty subpar in terms of vitamin K2 intake (modern Westerners aren't usually fans of liver etc) which makes teeth pretty vulnerable to physical/chemical insult.
Please do a "Math for general relativity" course!
>I need less ethanol in my mouth, not more!

Said no one ever.
The only cavities I have had formed before my 25th year. 6 of them. I haven't had any other since then.

After I had them filled, I started going to an odontologist for a checkup every 4 years. The odontologists says she doesnt see cleaner teeth from patients who checkin once a year.

My personal conclussion is that adults can be more careful with their health than teenagers.

I don't eat between meals (mostly). I eat twice a day. I brush after meals. I only floss before going to sleep.
We used to have computers in schools, on which we did all the things you present as requiring a cell phone to do, only without the persistent Internet access. Somehow we survived.
Boeing Engineer Says Company Used Shortcuts to Fix 787 Jets
"While researchers determine the cause"...
Ask HN: Home lab scale-up ARM box < $1.5k USD?
I'm looking to convey into my home lab an ARM box more single-image capable than my RPi 4B POE + SSDs cluster. Already have OrangePi and not looking at RPi 5.

What good SBCs or used enterprise ARM servers exist that aren't running antique/unsupported Linux/*BSD distros?
> I think mass incarceration is probably the main reason for crime going down.

This hypothesis is strongly challenged by the fact that crime has also dropped in other developed countries that do not have mass incarceration.
'What if'?. What makes you think this is even a possibility?
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This author is seriously suggesting that governments ban children's use of social media, and that can't really be done without completely destroying internet anonymity.

Any policy that actually achieved this, without being trivial to circumvent, would basically need to replicate the great firewall of China.

Doing this in a half-assed way is even worse than not doing anything at all. If you just require ID checks for all users to do age verification, you create a privacy nightmare for the adults. Meanwhile, children will circumvent the restrictions with VPNs, so you need to ban VPNs too. Foreign companies, who have no incentive to play by the rules, will surely capitalize on this, so you also need a comprehensive website blocking system. As they say, there's nothing more dangerous than a teenager with very little money and a lot of time on their hands, so a simple DNS-based block definitely won't suffice, you probably need Chinese-style deep packet inspection and such.

The only middle ground I see here is enforcing this through the App Stores, perhaps with an extra ban on sideloading without a developer certificate, guarded byID checks. Losing the ability to sideload would be a shame, but this is the "worst solution, except for all the others" kind of situation. Sure, this is trivial to circumvent by using the web, but the extra friction required due to web apps being worse than native might be a good enough deterrent.
Jack Ma steps out from the shadows with morale-boosting post
How does Chronon do this faster than the precomputed table? And in a single docker container? Is it doing logically similar operations but just automating the creation and orchestration of the aggregation tasks? How does it work?
Mark, you probably remember this project from your time at Cygnus and maybe you even were involved in it? I sorry I can't remember any more.

As we both know MIT gets away with a lot simply due to its deep interdependence with literally every department in the federal government.
Apple's India iPhone Output Hits $14B in Pivot from China
What you're describing sounds more socially healthy than modern usage. It was kids exploring the world digitally. Now that's been captured by digital fiefdoms actively manipulating their users into unhealthy levels of engagement by any means necessary.
From the source: "The endogenous alcohol concentration in the blood of sober people is 0.39 ± 0.45 μg/mL or 0.039 mg/dL (Antoschechkin, 2001)."

Further down:
5. Then you’ll end up with 11mg/5L of blood. This is, in more familiar units, 0.22 mg per dL

0.22 / 0.039 = a *5.6x* increase in chronic blood alcohol concentration, albeit under pessimistic assumptions [1].

No thank you. There's no telling what that will do to a person over 50 years.

[1] I'm not sure it's so pessimistic. This number comes from culture on blood agar, which isn't exactly the sugar level of a western diet. Blood agar contains almost no sugar.
That makes sense. But would that mean the eclipse and the normal night period were constructed differently?
The US has space and pick up trucks that can fit plenty of table saws. Big tools in general are more accessible and affordable in the US. I have not seen as many people owning large tools like table saws, metal mills and lathes as in the US.
100% and the people who created Facebook, Instagram all know exactly what they were doing. This is why many people hate Mark Zuckerberg and the Instagram founders and they need to be protected at all times by armed guards.