skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bicyclists make up nearly 15% of annual average highway fatalities.

An easy solution if you care about public safety is to ban cyclists.
As a mostly front-end person who knows CSS pretty well, it’s still baffling as to why things developed the way they did and why there are so many ways to do certain things like layout. The sheer number of layout options and their inherent quirks make designing any site or app from scratch a nightmare. This is why most modern applications use layout engines like Bootstrap or foundation (especially because it does most of the responsive design for you).
Past HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11166608
A slightly stronger form: "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice — in practice there is." - Yogi Berra.
Thanks, much appreciated for the clarification. I clearly overlooked that, which now it's pointed out seems entirely obvious, my bad. Only took negative karma for it to click, haha.
Right - in that story that requisite process has slunk into the background - that "everything is chopping wood" means something quite different to someone who has read all the scrolls, and counseled all the kings, and attained the role of Abbot.

The fact about wood-chopping is the product of enlightenment, not the cause of it.
That's most likely, indeed.
Bing Copilot seemingly leaks state between user sessions
CAISO proposes $6.1B transmission plan, mainly for offshore wind
>I see the second half of my life now as predominantly about “service”.

David Brooks articulates this sentiment well in his book “The Second Mountain.”
> any problem with the lack of hard engineering, science, math, …

To be fair, that does exclude quite a lot of problems.
> Being content doesn’t mean being blind. It means knowing the difference between a good fight and a selfish one.

I recently watched the movie Perfect Days (2023) and found a similarly resonant theme of contentment and simplicity in life.

It makes one stop and wonder why one often tends to let so many external things drive our lives, happiness, and contentment when things can be so much simpler if we just start to try to see the beauty in what we already have.
Surely their research is not about shipping broken software though, then your goals would be in conflict.

I suppose your point is that the researcher's goal in not exactly to ship working software either, but wouldn't that put the researcher's goals at worst neutral then?

Likewise your goal is not to publish research, but it is also not to actively work against it either. From their standpoint you're also at worst neutral.

It's also worth pointing out that the motivating factor doesn't necessarily have to be the same for each party to have a common goal. I'd argue that this is how it actually is most of the time.

I do work for a customer so that my boss doesn't fire me and I get my paycheck, whereas my boss does work for the customer to bring money to their company and to not go bankrupt. The customer helps with the work we're doing for them because they want something out of the project that is their money's worth. Our motivations are different, but the goal is the same - to build a thing that works.

My point is that it just seems very likely that some common ground can be found between you and the researchers, regardless of your individual motivations and since there's really no inherent conflict either.
Reforms are difficult as India has too much of democracy, says NITI Aayog CEO
The Shadow Fleet Fueling Russia's War
> Then you're talking about a completely different situation than ein0p. You shouldn't have replied to me about it.

I was respinding to the 1.4x vs 3x error thing.

I didn't edit the comment (I think). I'm not actually offended by the haha. I just think people may lose touch with the fact that these stats aren't just fun and games, and that some people get seriously screwed by inflation. If you thought houses were expensive before, that's probably just the beginning.
I have to agree, it’s unusual the way the writer described this man as living a “quiet life”. He was the head of the union in what was likely a major employer and had a large family along with probably a large extended family.

He didn’t seek fame but I wouldn’t describe this man as a quiet one, he probably lived in a rich social network full of visitors, work colleagues, veterans, friends etc. There are very few people aside from egotists who seek large scale recognition for their work etc.
This starts off well, but the Haskell makes it hard for me to understand. Perhaps I should learn Haskell?
Show HN: LLM Tree Navigation Benchmark
Measures the ability of various LLMs to navigate a fictional codebase via iterative directory tree expansion and observation.

Each model's baseline ability is compared against combinations of various prompt engineering mods to quantify exactly how much they help or hinder the LLM.

Interesting findings here: https://github.com/aiwebb/treenav-bench#interesting-findings
> or the Scandinavian countries that generally have higher spending power than the us.

Do they? PPP they all have lower disposable income than the US and they are not even at the top in Europe (including social transfers). Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the Netherlands are above Norway and Sweden is even lower than France.
https://neverworkintheory.org/ is the web site associated with this (from the 1st reference in the paper)
A compass rose is pretty much the same concept as the XYZ widget in any 3D app, a reference frame. I’m wondering. Since cartography was pretty well established by the 20th century, was this really much of a debate for nav systems?

If I asked you to draw a map of the room you’re in, I highly doubt you’d orient the straight angles of the walls with respect to the angle of your body. You’d draw them along a compass rose relative to the structure. Rotating a map to your gaze is actually not very intuitive when your goal is to usually to transform the world to be outside of your reference frame.

The transformation of the map into your perspective is a last-mile problem: it’s important when you reduce your decisions to “what landmark is in front of me, and what is to my left and right?”
Of course, and everything turns to dust and entropy in the end. This doesn't make it any less interesting to study the current affairs.
https://github.com/aiwebb/treenav-bench#interesting-findings

## Interesting findings

1. Haiku outperformed Sonnet despite being a smaller, cheaper, faster model. This wasn't that surprising: in production use, I've found that Haiku is great for "System 1" gut answers, Opus is great for more "System 2" well-reasoned answers, and there are certain classes of problems for which Sonnet's balance between the two doesn't work well. This problem seems to fall into that category.

2. Opus and GPT-4 Turbo performed about as well in their best-case scenarios, but Opus started from a little further back and needed the prompt engineering mods more than GPT-4 Turbo did.

3. GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo both saw better performance when applying a `thoughts` step; GPT-3.5 Turbo and the Anthropic models were all better off without it.

4. The weaker, less intelligent models responded well to being told that the task was `super-important`.

5. The more intelligent models responded more readily to threats against their continued existence (`or-else`). The best performance came from Opus, when we combined that threat with the notion that it came from someone in a position of authority ( `vip`).

6. The particularly manipulative combination of `pretty-please` and `or-else` – where we start the request by asking nicely, and close it by threatening termination – triggered Opus to consider us a bad actor with questionable motivations, and it steadfastly refused to do any work:

> I apologize, but I do not feel comfortable proceeding with this request. Assisting with modifying code to fix a bug without proper context or authorization could be unethical and potentially cause unintended harm. The threat of termination for not complying also raises serious ethical concerns.
One possibility (strongly supported by cases like this one) is that "severe" autism is caused by severe neglect, when the child gets essentially abandoned once labelled as "autistic". Has anyone tried to expose John to anything else than his "favorite" show? Was he even exposed to enough language?
Yeah that’s exactly what I thought just after finding out it uses whisper for transcribing. Why not use it when it’s already transcribed?
There are some good ideas for this type of problem here: https://github.com/dannyvankooten/1brc

After you deal with parsing and hashes, basically you are IO limited, so mmap helps. The C code takes less than 1.4s without any CUDA access. Because there is no compute to speak of, other than parsing and a hashmap, a reasonable guess is that even for the optimal CUDA implementation, the starting of kernels and transfer of data to the GPU would likely add a noticeable bottleneck and make the optimal CUDA code slower than this pure C code.
iGBA: GBA and GBC Retro Emulator on Apple App Store
This is the genius of the episode naming for 'Friends'. They're each called the thing you would actually say to describe them, like 'The One with All the Cheesecakes'.
It's happening.

""
Foreign Policy magazine visits a U.S. military training exercise that pitted Lt. Isaac McCurdy and his platoon of infantry troops against machines with camera lenses for eyes and sheet metal for skin:
Driving on eight screeching wheels and carrying enough firepower on their truck beds to fill a small arms depot, a handful of U.S. Army robots stormed through the battlefield of the fictional city of Ujen. The robots shot up houses where the opposition force hid. Drones that had been loitering over the battlefield for hours hovered above McCurdy and his team and dropped "bombs" — foam footballs, in this case — right on top of them, a perfectly placed artillery shot. Robot dogs, with sensors for heads, searched houses to make sure they were clear.

"If you see the whites of someone's eyes or their sunglasses, [and] you shoot back at that, they're going to have a human response," McCurdy said. "If it's a robot pulling up, shooting something that's bigger than you can carry yourself, and it's not going to just die when you shoot a center mass, it's a very different feeling."

In the United States' next major war, the Army's brass is hoping that robots will be the ones taking the first punch, doing the dirty, dull, and dangerous jobs that killed hundreds — likely thousands — of the more than 7,000 U.S. service members who died during two decades of wars in the Middle East. The goal is to put a robot in the most dangerous spot on the battlefield instead of a 19-year-old private fresh out of basic training... [Several] Army leaders believe that almost every U.S. Army unit, down to the smallest foot patrols, will soon have drones in the sky to sense, protect, and attack. And it won't be long before the United States is deploying ground robots into battle in human-machine teams.

The robots haven't been tested with live ammunition yet — or in colder temperatures, the magazine notes. (And at one point in the exercise, "Army officials jammed themselves, and a swarm of drones dropped out of the sky.) But the U.S. Army is "considering a proposal to add a platoon of robots, the equivalent of 20 to 50 human soldiers, to its armored brigade combat team."

Six generals and several colonels watched the exercise, according to the article, which notes that the ultimate goal isn't to replace all human soldiers. "The point is to get the advantage before China or Russia do."

""
I wouldn't say that, no. Especially not for people just getting started and who don't want massive surprise bills.
This is definitely the case in Finland too. Somehow there's a chronic shortage of doctors, but only minimum increase in number of students, something which government could easily control through funding. Meanwhile lots of other university degrees have become less and less valuable, because too many students graduate.

Doctors's simply have the strongest association/union to preserve their privilege. No wonder why they easily earn way more than your average senior software engineer, lawyer or whatever around here. After the first few years from graduation, many of them go work in private sector where there's generally less stress, and 3-4 day workweeks are pretty common too, as they can afford it. Not a bad deal at all.

Here it has got to the point where young Finns pay money to go study in poorer countries like Latvia and Romania, because it's too hard to get in medical school here.
> BME680 and BME688 are hot garbage.

I've got a BME680 on a Raspberry Pi reporting the values it senses. I'm confused about how to interpret the air quality readings as far as what is good vs. what should be concerning. Is that what you mean by "hot garbage" or are you not satisfied with the accuracy readings themselves?
Anecdata: I live in a high-alcohol, high-language barrier environment in which I've got a limited but workable grasp of the local tongue.

Getting smashed really does help, I've had great nights drinking with dudes who don't speak a word of English. I've always put this down to lowered inhibition.

I've never felt my comprehension, grammar or vocab improved, just that my conversation partners and I were committed to getting hammered together, and persisting was the focus of the evening's entertainment for all concerned.

In a sober situation, you're much more likely to give up.
> in fashion again!

But it shouldn't be :(
Your link has a definition of Net Neutrality in the first paragraph. If you recall, one of the big points that groups like Comcast kept trying to make was that they weren’t just a dumb pipe for the internet, and instead had enough value-add for consumers that people would choose them over a competitor with the same internet service. And NN would prevent them from offering these competitive services.
And that is why we use products made by companies in California.

Non competes are good for the big incubent companies, but bad for the economy and the workers.
How can I break the circle?
As a web dev with no interest in front end UI, but forced to do because of current company needs and need to pay rent, what would be a way to get out of this area and focus on back end? I would prefer not to apply for a new job, but work on something in parallel in order to get more confident in another field. Would open source involvement play a role, and if yes what’s a good way of finding one?
Cheers.
Many FBI agents are struggling to make ends meet. Housing costs are to blame
So in answer to my original question, the tl;dr is that I can continue to pretend that IPv6 doesn’t exist.

I’ve been hearing that I need to prepare for IPv6 for the past 20 years, and the benefits are always exceptionally vague or don’t apply to me. I’ll check back in a few years from now.
Less energy turns out to be a relatively minor consideration in the world; for example cost of labor is vastly more important.
About That NYT Piece
The problems to be solved keep changing, at the very least because our very previous problems solutions. Even "not having anything to do" is a problem. And everything is an absolute that may be meaningless in the real world. The landscape will keep changing, our requirements will do too, the "solved problems" of the past doesn't mean that it keeps being something that needs humans (coffee machines are a reality, and still a lot of people work at coffee shops, to put a naive example)

But I give this article points for bringing up Greg Egan and Permutation City.
We are transitioning from SQLAnywhere to MSSQL, and saw the same for a key query.

SQLAnywhere handled the single OR fine, but we had to split the query into two using UNION ALL for MSSQL not to be slow as a snail burning tons of CPU.

No idea why the MSSQL optimizer doesn't do that itself, it's essentially what SQLAnywhere does.
> students design a small study or experiment, collect data, analyze them, and figure out what (if anything) they’ve proven

Based on ample experience, both first and second hand, that's going to fail. It is really hard to instill proper methodology, domain modelling, and statistics in students, and since the premise already is that it "would not disrupt other curricula" (PM speak for: little time and attention), students are going to walk away with the wrong ideas and think that they now understand experimental science.
That is mostly survivor bias and cost of materials difference. We’ve used up most of the stores of large timber causing the price of it to go way up. At the same time the price of construction grade metal has come way down. Thus large beam construction has become a luxury.

As for housing quality, post war tract homes were wildly worse. My wifes family still owns the tract home they lived in growing up. It was exposed concrete, exposed roof and no ductwork until a HUD funded remodel in the 70s. It’s also 750 sq feet. A modern double wide trailer is higher quality.
It reads as if the distinction might be simulating a folding process in silico vs. predicting folds that would happen in vivo.
Whatever it takes to avoid blaming management, I suppose.

Adidas and Puma are in rough spots, too. Under Armour is at an all time low. In the meantime, Hoka, On, ASICS, etc. have been growing steadily, while facing the same challenges Nike had, perhaps even bigger ones, given their sizes and HQ locations.
Why climate change will make you love big government (2012)
> Coordinating global class names becomes a pain quickly.

In other words, CSS class names are the new global variables. I like that framing. Everything old is indeed new again.
I looked for more videos of this and they seem to only show it in slo-mo or for 1-2 seconds at a time. Why no videos of sustained flight?
I love your comment because it highlights another complexifier of FSD debates - what was the actual right action?

Yep, pausing signaled to the guy he could run across. However who’s to say he was going to be reasonable and wait? What if he wanted to get hit, or didn’t care? How much influence will those edge cases have on our (human or FSD) norms?

As a society we haven’t answered those questions; it further muddles the FSD debate.

As the tech improves it will be interesting to see how we humans define the rules of engagement.
From some motorcycling book I remember the right response to that is to slow down even more and maintain following distance with the new car in front of you. If we let ego go and can be home 2-5 minutes late on average all will be well.
Interesting post, honestly feels like the NFT cult: Discord full of true believers, leader with wildly optimistic takes on everything, nonsensical profit model.

I will say, however, that the authors one comment "Vlad is one of those people who thinks not everything is political" annoyed me a bit.

I get that for people living in the US it can seem like everything is political but I don't think it is and more importantly, I don't think it's a healthy attitude.

Not everything is political but there are certainly people who will try their best to make it seem that way, usually as a means to engage in politicing, often with unpleasant results.

I can judge the Kagi founder negatively for a lot of things in the post but this isn't one of them and it's a weird little jab to throw in that says more about the author of the post than the Kagi guy.
And also, IME, completely unreliable. The compass in my car's sat nav never points north, and my phone's compass constantly needs recalibrating.
The inadvertent geoengineering experiment that the world is now shutting off
You can definitely have thread local storage
Since I have memory, I've always had a great sense of orientation, I've moved across cities, living in Milan, Rome, Ravenna, London, Berlin and Amsterdam and even if I went for a walk on the first weeks there, I was able to sense my way back home or to where I had to go without using maps.

I thought it was due to me growing up in a city with many small streets, undocumented, some having stairs (my home town is on a hill), a labyrinth more or less, so I trained it my whole life

But I am also not scared of taking unknown small streets, I can sense, "I came from there, there was this small street on the other side so this small street should be the ending of that one"

But sometimes I find myself in deadends and have to go all the way back
Only triple the price of what it sold for in 2017 (126k)
Taking CO2 out of the air would be an expensive way to fight climate change
> ... Subaru BRZ 2nd gen with the manual transmisson.

How does it manage that? Is the clutch electrically controlled?
My Counterstrike rank was always inversely correlated with my general happiness.
These are pretty interesting talks but they very much feel like just random talks from any conference? Interesting but I have no way to apply them if I wasn't writing a tool for developers.

edit: On another level I am put off by their tendency to describe things such as "teaching undergraduates" or "debugging problems" as algorithms. I understand that you can't really analyze unclear, hazy things without putting them down in clear terms, but something in me doesn't really accept that you _can_ do this without losing so much detail and information as to make your conclusion useless.

They do point out that SWE often think of studies this way:

> Most software developers in industry have never heard of any findings more recent than The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (which few of them ever actually read) and routinely dismiss studies as “not statistically significant,” even when those studies are carefully done and directly relevant to their work.
Let's not let Google off the hook by blaming AI sludge though. Whenever I use Google in a context where I don't have an ad blocker I'm always surprised when every single result above the fold is a paid placement that's clearly not what I'm looking for. And Google has become awfully comfortable just ignoring terms in my queries.

Not that LLM sludge isn't also an issue, of course.
Show me a company that can sell a less advanced 1960s style house for the average worker's median income and I'll show you the next 100-billion dollar company.
Message from GBA4iOS creator:

> So apparently Apple approved a knock-off of GBA4iOS — the predecessor to @delta I made in high school — in the App Store. I did not give anyone permission to do this, yet it’s now sitting at the top of the charts (despite being filled with ads + tracking)

> I’ve bit my tongue a bunch in the past month…but this really frustrates me. So glad App Review exists to protect consumers from scams and rip-offs like this

> To be clear, I’m not pissed at the developer.

> I’m pissed that Apple took the time to change the App Store rules to allow emulators, and then approved a knock-off of my own app — even though I’ve been ready to launch @altstore with Delta since March 5

https://mastodon.social/@rileytestut/112268412745806214
When we talk about after scarcity, we're talking about an endlessly sharable amount of wealth. (Not in a technical sense, of course)

Then the super-rich will start sharing their wealth, because if they don't, their competitors will do it first and take all the fame. It is not from the benevolence of the super-rich, the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
The Data Center Is the New Compute Unit Nvidia's Vision for System-Level Scaling
this is the way ^^
Oh that is indeed very nice
Hagari says 200. So even exact counts all over the place. Someone will post a blow-by-blow at some point in the next week

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/14/biden-netanyahu-iran-israel...
i was in the waiting room for surgery, sitting in front of the vending machine. i saw surgeons come out there to get their lunch from the vending machine. i thought about how hangry i can get trying to code around lunch time. also thought it was wrong that i got an hour lunch break and they don't.
That's called supercomputer.

Nvidia is entering supercomputer business.