skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first things you talk about have nothing to do with the second things you talk about, but I can see how they can be lumped together.

The truth is the medical sector in Australia is always under intense scrutiny, and rightly so.

Currently the biggest systemic threat to our healthcare system (in my opinion) is underpayment/underinvestment in general practice which is having a critical effect on new trainees entering GP.

Dr Levi is a well known Melbourne ENT surgeon who has been extensively involved in doctor wellbeing initiatives, including starting Socks for Docs day. It looks like he just discovered substack and has started writing - I am sure I have seen this exact essay from him previously, which is where we get the discordance of him talking about the 2017 death as though it happened last week.
Not necessarily, i'm not an expert in EU law, but being in the EU they may be forced to recognize the italian ruling, according to the Brussel I Regulation [1].

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_I_Regulation_2012
cruise missiles were launched more than hour ago. it were ballistic missiles and to intercept were launched arrow 2/3 which work way up there and deal specifically with ballistic missiles
I talk in public a lot (in fact, I just did it this morning).

That said, I'm not really a "keynote" speaker. I've been doing it for most of my adult life, in front of small and large (but never huge) crowds.

I've definitely had some bombs, but most folks seem to think I do an adequate job (the fact I'm not a rubber chicken speaker means that it isn't much more than "adequate." I'm fine with that).

Most times, I wing it, but when I'm giving an important talk, like a tech class, or topic discussion, I practice. The tip someone gave about recording themselves is good. It's also how I know how long it will take. I'll often use a prompter app, while practicing, but don't use it, while giving the talk.

I've found a bit of humor (especially self-deprecating humor) can "humanize" things, but it should be short vignettes, and know your audience. If I don't really know who will be out there, I generally don't use humor. Most times, I know my audience quite well, and humor is appreciated.

I have found that speaking in the vernacular is generally appreciated by folks. There are definitely some folks that don't like making difficult stuff easy to understand, but I'm just an ol' high school dropout with a G. E. D., so I don't really pull off the "talk purdy" kind of thing, so good.

I've found that Keynote/PowerPoint shows can be useful, but I seldom use "wall o' text" slides. I use a lot of images and animations, and pack my notes (not the slides) with what I'm saying. I will usually insert

-- CLICK --

in the notes to denote when I advance the animation/slide.

I'll put details and technology rabbitholes into the supergraphics.
>leading anyone who'd inspect the code first to doubt themselves and their understanding of the code

I completely agree. What seems incredible to me is that how much manipulation, thoughtfulness, patience, perseverance went into this. It's either a product of the obsession of someone, or a private security firm's or state actor's doing, who do these things to multiple projects as part of a 9-5 job.
>deliberatly sells devices that are borderline unusable

Some of us remember how Apple stuck with hard drives in many of their models (iMac, notably), long after SSDs were mainstream. They absolutely will sell borderline unusable machines.
I guess WPA3 and bluetooth are not "core systems" either.
You lack imagination and/or driving experience; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_hypnosis. that said, driving tired is not uncommon and just as bad if not worse than driving drunk.
Yes, but with this approach you risk spending effort refactoring code that could instead be deleted.
> get it to say when it's not sure

This is a function of the language model itself. By the time you get to the output, the uncertainty that is inherent in the computation is lost to the prediction. It is like if you ask me to guess heads or tails, and I guess heads, I could have stated my uncertainty (e.g. Pr [H] = .5) before hand, but in my actual prediction of heads, and then the coin flip, that uncertainty is lost. It's the same with LLMs. The uncertainty in the computation is lost in the final prediction of the tokens, so unless the prediction itself is uncertainty (which it should rarely be based on the training corpus, I think), then you should not find an LLM output really ever to say it does not understand. But that is because it never understands, it just predicts.
I think “human readability” isn’t a great feature for a columnar data format, because once you get data on a scale where the column oriented layout makes sense, you’re way past the scale where a human would be want to read over the stored data anyways. Like, no human is going to read 50k rows, much less 10m rows. I guess it’s nice you can spot check the rows using only zip & head -n 10 and paste, but I don’t think that nice-ness is a good reason to pick a format that forbids common ASCII characters and doesn’t have widespread support.

It’s guess there’s a sort of perma-computing angle here, this format is simple enough that you could pack a lot of almanac data into it, and given a working zlib get it back out with very limited dependencies.

But given the petabytes of parquet files out there, I feel like the format is here to stay, much like sqlite is here to stay.

EDIT: there is a great handy CLI tool for doing SQL on parquet, csv, sqlite3, and other tabular data formats called duckdb. Handy for wrangling and analyzing tabular data from 100 to 10m rows and up.
5x?

And you think the US in general has gotten more dangerous?
IC3PEAK – Marching [video]
Turn CC=On. This 2-piece band with Hollywood-quality videos has hundreds of millions of YT views, are banned in Russia, and it is likely that you have never heard of them.

Russia does indeed produce incredible art.
This probably needs to be added to a safety test suite. Either for the cars or for drivers.

Most adapative cruise control systems explicitly ignore stationary objects while at highway speeds. A vehicle immediately ahead that stops will be detected and responded to. A vehicle that did not move while in sensor range will be ignored.
it does. If the init system links xz... and systemd does.
Forget the landlord (who is already unlikely to give roof access, let alone run electrical wires outside), this immediately fails the WAF (wife acceptance factor) due to the hideous cable install.
Yeah, there is a lot of variation in interpretation here. I'm farther along the spectrum still: I'm on FSD essentially 100% of the time in highway environments now because I absolutely trust the car's attentiveness and precision more than my own.

Think back on how many times you've started a lane change and aborted because there was a car there, how many times you've looked down to navigate and hit the rumble strip, how many times you've had to rely on ABS to avoid hitting the car you didn't notice stopping in front of you, etc... Not once in almost three years and 40k miles in my Model Y has it done something like this. That's not to say it's never going to, but 100%, for sure, it's better than I am.
This is kind of adversarial sounding.

I’ve been in some messed up teams, but by the time it’s the blame game, I feel like people have stopped pretending?

Once the incentives are corrupted your business is living on borrowed time. But people generally agree (at least in private) when that’s happened.

YMMV.
> According to the NTSB, a witness had come across the stopped CR-V prior to the collision and noted that neither its taillights or hazard lights were illuminated, She was able to change lanes and avoid hitting the Honda, but after she passed it, she saw the Mach-E strike the stopped crossover in her rearview mirror.

This scenario sounds like what I refer to as a "peek-a-boo rear ending". You see it exaggerated in movies with high speed chase scenes, but its real world equivalent is a very common road going scenario and almost certainly leads to a collision if at 45+ mph and the rear car driver isn't maintaining situational awareness of traffic flow several cars ahead...a scenario that aggressive tailgaters simply don't take into account in their public behavioral risk calculus, and clearly BlueCruise isn't capable of handling either.
Iran launches a drone attack on Israel, a major escalation of conflict
compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bosworth_Field#Stanl...

> Lord Stanley's skilled political manoeuvrings —vacillating between opposing sides until it was clear who would be the winner— gained him high positions
I could probably give 20 different examples of this too. Not all of them would have identical compiler output, but the behaviour would be.

E.g. you could add

private int Foo { get; } = 4;

To the above example given that the behaviour is identical, although the compiled output should be different so I didn't to avoid any nit pickers.
This seems insane, are you telling me that these cars will travel at a speed whose distance is longer than the radar can detect? That is _guaranteeing_ crashes.
Exactly. It's easy to avoid a stationary object on the road in normal visibility out if your headlights work a damn.
Maybe I am just too accustomed to driving on rural third world roads where cows wander at night.
A great book. There’s a scene in which a message was to be delivered to the commander and the messenger was startled to realize that Grant, in muddy boots without a coat, was the recipient. The war started with generals with shiny buttons and tassels on their shoulders, directing battles by yelling from horseback, and ended with the general looking like a soldier, moving material by railroad and communicating with the telegraph.

As president, Grant sent 5000 troops to Louisiana to ensure former slaves could vote and hold office.
BSD seems really nice for its target audience. The people know what they want and the OS respects that.

With Linux there's a bunch of people who seem to want Linux to be more like BSD, while the rest want it to be more like Windows/Android, so there's a lot more bickering.
GPT is very cool, but I strongly disagree with the interpretation in these two paragraphs:

I think in summary, a better approach would’ve been “You obviously know the 50 states, GPT, so just give me the full name of the state this pertains to, or Federal if this pertains to the US government.”

Why is this crazy? Well, it’s crazy that GPT’s quality and generalization can improve when you’re more vague – this is a quintessential marker of higher-order delegation / thinking.

Natural language is the most probable output for GPT, because the text it was trained with is similar. In this case the developer simply leaned more into what GPT is good at than giving it more work.

You can use simple tasks to make GPT fail. Letter replacements, intentional typos and so on are very hard tasks for GPT. This is also true for ID mappings and similar, especially when the ID mapping diverges significantly from other mappings it may have been trained with (e.g. Non-ISO country codes but similar three letter codes etc.).

The fascinating thing is, that GPT "understands" mappings at all. Which is the actual hint at higher order pattern matching.
Ford should have acquired Ghost Autonomy.
You can score yourself on the quiz mentioned in the article here:

https://hegarty-lab.psych.ucsb.edu/node/226
> Incredibly secure operating system (No xz drama here...)

What makes OpenBSD incredibly secure?
>What does the loss and being terrible at selling cars have to do with EU laws? EU laws didn't make them be shit.

Do you just not understand how EU car regulations work? Otherwise I think you would understand why the 4 Billion loss is something Mercedes is happy to accept. Because it simply isn't a 4 Billion dollar loss.

>How would the Chinese have lot money if Daimler lost that money before they entered the partnership with Geely?

It's been 5 years since the partnership. The company isn't even called Daimler anymore and if they aren't loosing money now...

>but at least they're a great place to work?

Yes. Also people can go wherever they want whenever they want, which is another great benefit. Enormous benefits all together, which is why China is so keen on building cars.
We could technically do # of minutes since 1970-01-01T00:00:00 (or whatever) & seconds though, no? (int32 minutes, double seconds) would get us a pretty big range in a pretty compact format.
My issue in traffic is that if someone gets between me and the car in front of me, the car hits the brakes to make some room. I’ve had it slow down from 50mph, from 75. It’s dangerous, if the person behind me isn’t paying attention, they could easily hit me. If I ever have it on in traffic my finger is on the switch to turn it off incase someone merges in front of me.

Of course, I use the max follow distance, so I have time to react if something happens and the car doesn’t do its job. I know some people who use the closest distance, which I guess would solve the merge issue, but would stress me out and if something happened, I’d be screwed.
> At 80mph, the stopping distance of an average car is around 300 feet once the brake is fully engaged. That exceeds most car radar systems. And with no warning lights the camera won't do much good either.

I think this is a pretty important point for any well-built self-driving software. Does anyone know if radar advancements could help increase this?
The monkey paw curls a finger.
I originally wrote ZFSBootMenu as a reaction to how awful Grub is. I was hacking on the Grub scripts and hitting all sorts of limitations that were just awful to work around (or not possible at all). I used Grub to chain load early versions of ZBM before I had the whole UEFI application build process worked out.
(but maybe don't try and deploy them when you're stopped in the middle of a 5-lane highway with your lights off)
A possible alternative to tree shaking: https://github.com/avodonosov/pocl
For example I search for "spoti", and I get "Get Spotify...". Clicking that it opens Discover, the app install/update thingy and it shows an error message: "Could not open appstream://com.spotify.client because it was not found in any available software repositories". Very Linux-y, am I right? Debian Bookworm with KDE, I installed it back when bookworm was testing, but now it's stable.

I find I can disable this "Get X software" type search result when I right click the start menu icon, Configure App Launcher, click Configue enabled Seach plugins, and then disable Software Center.
Not my field, but I think If you want permission, you ask “May I?”, if you want confirmation, you ask “Can I?”

https://writingexplained.org/can-vs-may-difference
US drug shortages reach record high with 323 meds now in short supply
Colonial empires are just gangs with fancy hats, betraying them doesn’t count.
> CPI is designed to make the government look good, hence the article.

The CPI is run by the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

> The "food price index" evolved into what we now call the Consumer Price Index (CPI). During World War I, rapid in­creases in prices, particularly in shipbuilding centers, made a more comprehensive index essential for calculating cost-of-living adjust­ments in wages. Studies of family expenditures were conducted in 92 industrial centers in 1917–19 in order to provide appropriate weighting patterns for the index. Periodic collection of prices was started and, in 1919, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) began publication of separate consumer price indexes for 32 cities. Regular publication of a national index, the U.S. city average, began in 1921, and indexes were estimated back to 1913.

* https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/history.htm

It is one of most examined numbers in statistics, and while the "best" way† to do things is debated, are there any non-tin-foil hat people that think that the numbers are actually wrong given the published methodologies? Entire research projects (which have released source code) have examined the official numbers and found that they track things fairly well:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Billion_Prices_project

† Often no such thing exists, but rather trade-offs in various metrics.
Jesus Christ.

If _any_ of those things happen to you regularly, please do something about changing that before you kill someone.
Rounding is a major source of mistakes. It is very common that cases rounded through multiple people develop major gaps in information. This is not as simple of a problem as you think it is.
Automotive radars often ignore stationary objects because they have trouble differentiating between a car parked in a lane vs. a car parked on the side of the road vs. an overhead metal road sign. If they didn't ignore stationary objects they would be slamming on the brakes in the middle of the freeway all the time.
Radar struggles to identify stationary vehicles. Their reflected signals hide in noise from road signs, roadside vegetation, and the road surface itself.
Whatever enemy drones use, I’m guessing
I never drove one of these, but I always wonder if we're already past the "way too old person behind the wheel"-point where I rather see those people in a car driven by a computer than having them in control.

It becomes quite a discussion if a really horrible ancient happens here in Germany, but since this population group loves to go voting and Germany is a car nation, it dies down pretty fast when the topic of mandatory tests for elderly people come up.

It's the same problem with those who just got the license, of course, too.
From experience, coming up to traffic jams on highways in the past, you can get deceived by cars ahead either stopped or slowing down - you dont expect that, especially after long monotonous driving, hence need for warning lights.
>MITM-as-a-Service switches CA.
It was 9.50pm on a high speed road. I'm willing to bet 10 bucks you yourself would've crashed into it if you weren't aware.
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An early example of this is "Poème symphonique", a 1962 composition by György Ligeti for one hundred mechanical metronomes. Basically, start a hundred mechanical metronomes on a random speed and let them run out. Famously recorded for Dutch TV ages ago, here's a version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAYGJmYKrI4. It stops being chaotic noise at about 4 minutes in.
Stuff like checking the rear view mirror when slamming the brakes upon some surprise uncertainty, true. Humans will always be bad at this, but for a computer it's trivial to include the tail situation in the brake decision.
Possibly because early auto headlights were annoying and then there was backlash? I've got a 2003 s-10 with auto headlights, and it's reasonable, until you want to turn the headlights off (which is required when driving onto a ferry, very important at drive-in movies, and maybe there's some other reasons). There's no user visible switch, you just have to toggle the dome switch 10 times and the truck beeps to acknowledge. If this was my first vehicle with auto lights, I would have avoided it in future vehicles; but I got the cars below before this one (used light truck, because I needed a light truck and nobody makes light trucks anymore / I'm not putting enough miles to justify a new purchase anyway, unless it replaces an existing csr)

I had a 2007 Ford and a 2011 VW without auto lights at all. My current 2014 Ford and 2017 Chrysler do have auto lights, but it's the last position on the light dial: Off, parking lights, head lights, auto. So you can easily turn them off when you need to. Might be nice to have a chime and warning text for 'lights not in auto' on start / at intervals, too. Because driving off a ferry during the day, you don't always remember to set it back to auto until the next night driving.
What do you mean it's not seekable?

> ZIP files are a collection of individually compressed files, with a directory as a footer to the file, which makes it easy to seek to a specific file without reading the whole file... The nature of .zip files makes it possible to seek and read just the columns required without having to read/decode the other columns.
I think the answer for all this is one, and it's because a tire from the person ahead of me popped and he started swerving left, into my lane.

And I'm a bad driver (or an extremely careful/stressed one if you want to be charitable). All this should almost never happen.
And at slow speed in traffic jams, it plays accordion. When the car in front accelerates, it has a delay; when it decelerates, it has a delay… then it slams the breaks. If there’s one thing an automated system should be good at, it’s keeping a constant distance with the car in front, “constant” with the twist that it should be proportional to the speed.
Yes. So you can not really argue that C# is better in the browser than javascript because unlike javascript it doesn't have native integration, or the same loads of documentation and libraries and tutorials and frameworks that are part of the JavaScript ecosystem.
There are two kinds of drivers: drivers who know they're fallible, and fallible drivers who don't. Maybe you're an outlier who doesn't make these mistakes, and if so I applaud your skill. But most likely you're just like the rest of us, and have the added handicap of self-censoring your mistakes as "someone else's fault". Data filtering is a hell of a drug, as it were.
Not sure what kind of car you have, but that’s the way my wife’s car works too — aggressive braking to keep the gap. My Tesla is the only car I’ve used adaptive cruise control where it doesn’t freak out and brake when you get cut off. Instead, if the car that pulled in ahead of you is traveling at a higher speed, it just lets the gap grow naturally.

Now, of course I’ve still had it brake at shadows on the road, so it’s not perfect, but sometimes it works like I’d expect.
Do I miss ZipMagic that makes us use zipfile like folder in Windows explorer, including read write operation. It is diacontinued and its name is reused by another tool so I can only find its description in Amazon [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Ontrack-Data-International-99-00030-0...
There is no “monopoly” on cellular service. There are three national carriers and a few regional carriers that have their own network.

How exactly do more carriers competing locally even work? You slice the spectrum they are allowed and have worse service? Do you remember when t-mobiles spectrum allocation was so bad that you couldn’t get a signal inside of a building?
BlueCruise or not, the fact that our society accepts the number of highway fatalities that we do while underinvesting in obvious rail corridor and public transit opportunities is saddening.

The amount of yearly daily car crash fatalities would be like if 20 fully loaded commercial airliners crash every day. We would never just sit back and accept that in the world of commercial aviation.

Philadelphia and San Antonio are two very large cities where many daily car trips could be eliminated (this does not mean I'm telling people to sell their cars and walk everywhere) with even a moderateley conservative amount of public transit investment.
Your boss comes up to you and says "I need this by Tuesday" and then storms out of the room. You look down at your watch to confirm you're not crazy. Today is Tuesday. When does your boss need it by?
Retroreflectors are good but at a long distance you need a significantly brighter light source/reflection to be visible (intensity falling off with distance squared). At highway speeds that distance for safe stopping is probably in the hundred+ feet range.
Chinchilla Debunked
except a human driver in front of the Mach-E did see the car and avoided it successfully.

That makes it harder for the car behind. The Mach-E is following a moving car, which is blocking the view of the stopped car. She swerves out of the way, and the situation goes from everything normal to disaster in half a second. A difficult situation for humans or autonomous system.