skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish for every one of these 'not an accident, but it was scary' stories there was a story about the 30+k deaths that yet again happened on US roads last year and we barely cared. Unfortunately some day there will be another major airline accident because no system is perfect. The stats are clear though, airlines are incredibly safe. We are over reporting these types of issues by orders of magnitude compared to other transportation and safety related issues.

I wonder if there is an (unnamed?) psychological effect at play here. When a large activity has very rare issues compared to its peers maybe we tend to over emphasize the few issues found? Possibly because the difference in rates is too extreme for us to comprehend. Hundreds dying on the roads every day, nobody blinks an eye. One plane does what it is supposed to when a mistake was made and it is a news story.
The submission is a page from r/Buttcoin, a Bitcoin-hater subreddit, with a random screenshot making the $188 for $4.09 complaint.

For those who don't know, Bitcoin on-chain transactions fees are not proportional to the amount sent, and it is common knowledge that $5 on-chain transactions are not practical. There are other solutions for sending smaller amounts.

Fees are currently spiking, but according to mempool.space (as I post this) an average on-chain transaction with ~$10.50 in fees will be confirmed within 30 minutes. See: https://mempool.space for details.

So this is not a very accurate, informative or helpful submission.
You are correct!

This is Cunningham's Law [1]! And it seems exceedingly plausible after observing behavior on many online forums!

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
Haha that is funny.
You are ignoring state government expenditures.

>...The US government's Bureau of Economic Analysis as of Q3 2023 estimates $10,007.7 billion in annual total government expenditure and $27,610.1 billion annual total GDP which is 36.2%.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni...

>For the size of the US economy, spending should be significantly higher.

The percentage shot up during the Covid spending and is still slightly above the historical average.
I doubt they are as far as smelting copper, but they can be expected to at least be coding in Javascript by now, which is like Upper Paleolithic.
You got fired and your response is to give them a gift? Fascinating.
Ask HN: How do you optimize Google search for good long-form technical content?
These days I don't quite like the search results(especially website that rhymes with Radium) ridden with basic to-do list tutorials or full of generic chatGPT text dump. All fluff, no insights.

Please share your tips/tricks/collection to optimize search results for good long-form technical articles.

Fwiw I follow company blogs(Eg: AWS well architected, Netflix, Stickfix, Shopify etc) and find that to be much better value for time spent.
plane big, car small. planes made 9/11
Sure, I'm aware of it, but having your team abjectly fail isn't good for your continued job prospects either. You shouldn't be the hero, but you also don't want to have your team get fired for want of you spending 2 hours of work a week keeping it on track.
> Someone probably told me that every cell in my body has the same DNA. But no one shook me by the shoulders, saying how crazy that was.

This is only mostly right. Every cell in your body has an astonishingly similar amount of DNA, but every cell division (and even steady state DNA repair) offers the opportunity for mutations. So your cells are all astonishingly similar, but there can be detectable differences.

One implication of this is that cells that are closer to each other in developmental history will have more similar DNA. One of my colleagues in graduate school used this to do phylogenetic lineaging, where he looked at markers in DNA from whole organisms to reason about which cells are closely related, and which cells have a more distant developmental ancestor.

Biology is super cool! I hope that everyone finds a little bit of it that they can enjoy. :)
People do that a lot too. Over 40k people died on the roads in 2022. Maybe we could save some of them if we went autonomous. The better decision point is about overall safety, not one-off incidents. In aviation, like driving, the #1 source of accidents is human error.
It's terrifying because these things are all signs that the era of Pax Americana is coming to a close, likely more swiftly than any of us realize, to be succeeded by the era of Pax Sino.

I for one overall enjoy(ed?) the Pax Americana state of affairs, but Pax Americana exists on the premise of absolute economical and technological superiority against would-be challengers.

We are well on our way to lose our economical superiority this century, and we already lost our technological superiority; our military superiority will also vanish once we lose both of the aforementioned, too.

Pax Sino will be nowhere as comfortable or prosperous an era (for westerners!) to live in. That is why this is terrifying.
On the one hand I like to have faith in humanity. OTOH...

Anytime someone in power has no need for someone - what have they done?
Provided for them for the rest of their life? Or discarded them?

The results generally lie with emotional attachment or sentiment. Take care of your aging parents as they become productively useless - sure.

Take care of the abstract thousands of people who made [thing] but are out of work now? Somebody else's problem.
It doesn't matter. YC isn't some not for profit BS. They're not handing out free money. If its a beauty contest, it's because they think the start ups are beautiful.

Expect them to take a half a million dollar bet on you based on their own metrics; as scientific or gut as they allow. Just because you think they're dog shit doesn't mean they are. And some partner at YC saw something in them and _that's_ what matters, no?
Force to sell it, and the owners should be in US or something like this can happen again.
The state then has data access.

I get what you mean but it is just splitting hairs at this point.
uops.info is a very useful website when you're starting to optimize your code. It shows you the throughput and latency of most x86 instructions as tested on a large range of microarchitectures.
I don’t know, but I doubt that they’re so smart that they’re the only ones who “deserve”, somehow, to be blessed with functional CS101.

I heard that it’s a special form of torture, since those CS programs must be hard, but I don’t really buy it.
The problem is that most people cannot tell the difference between a scam and a legitimate app.

For example, my father wanted to watch some YouTube videos offline. He naively Googled " YouTube video download." The result was obvious: most of the links were scams. When you work on dev every day, your first option will be to search for open-source or a well-trusted source and distrust a scammy-looking website that promises you many things.

After that experience, I started to see the value of Apple's App Store.
Sadly, the chain of trust provided by the App Store is ruled by one company.

I wonder why the industry couldn't agree on a single standard or method to do different chain of trust checks. For example, if all email clients adopt a sender identity check (like GPG), then spam and phishing will be extremely easy to eliminate.

Suppose applications have a sort of group approval. In that case, the OS can warn you before trying to install or run a scammy app. (something like Apple's notarization + user vote, but without the control of a single entity).
Is that a bad idea? What will be the flaws?
Interesting idea, but not quite useful. I tried two: How to replace a fiberglass window screen and how to replace the "cycle clutch gearh on an IBM Selectric Typewriter"

https://stepify.tech/video/KafAn1h4x14

Neither were good enough to use.
it is: https://hvmn.com/products/ketone ... i'll email you!
I believe new world monkeys are speculated to have crossed over about 40 million years ago - whereas humans are closer to 40,000 years ago. I think the northern boundary is just because there is a giant desert, though I admit it is still surprising to me.
Also B cells and T cells undergo genomic rearrangements to get a diversity of receptors that can make specific targets.
Polykey is an open-source, decentralized secrets management solution that uses GitHub as an identity provider (IDP). During the initial setup—akin to creating a new digital wallet—users authenticate and claim their GitHub identity via the Polykey CLI. This step binds their Polykey node to their GitHub profile, verifiable through a publicly visible cryptolink called a "gestalt identity" displayed on their GitHub user profile or gists.

Within the Polykey network, each node can host vaults that safeguard sensitive information. By integrating identity verification directly into this decentralized framework, Polykey enables users to discover, trust, and securely share cryptographic keys with other verified nodes. This system departs from traditional methods that depend on anonymized wallet addresses for user discovery, offering instead a mechanism for direct interaction within users’ operational environments, provided their identities have been linked to their nodes.

This approach aims to tackle foundational challenges in key management and identity binding. Do you think integrating identity verification in this way could improve the management and security of cryptographic identities? Are there any potential advantages or drawbacks you foresee with this model?
Its incredible how little society cares about road accidents. Its not just the deaths. Also the injuries and the massive amount of property damage and other costs.

Somehow this hasn't been identified as systematic issue and the only solution anybody seems to come up with is 'cars are just gone drive themselves and they are going to be perfect'.

The solution are so simple and low tech, so much incredible low hanging fruit. If only people actually thought about it in those terms.
'My hell in Myanmar cyber slavery camp'
When I looked into a random sampling of these uses, my impression was that it was a common kind of project in China to take a common paper (or another repo) and implement it in Mindspore. That accounted for the vast majority of the implementations.
I used to think a lot before coding.

Then I learned TDD, and now I can discover the design while I code. It's a huge improvement for me!
You missed the requirement that it be better than comparably priced options. Hard to find a reason to buy this over other flagship Androids other than wanting to be more integrated with a Chinese software ecosystem.
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You are going to the wrong places to eat if your food isn't even "fine" 20% of the time.

How many supply chains does your gallon of milk go through? Are 20% of gallons of milk spoiled, rotten, undrinkable, causing illness?

Nope.

Your entire arguments flies in the face of a mountain of empirical evidence of the safety of modern scale systems.
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I run one of the worlds 12,000+ open dedicated 24/7 meganode peer-verifier.

As a perk of maintaining 120+ simultaneous connections of fiber, I can usually effectively coax transactions for less than a dollar [by instantly being in everybody else's mempool]. This does typically mean I have to wait several hours for confirmation... until a few years ago, I could still do "no fee tranactions" — while today this might work, its success is no longer guaranteed.
Obviously the domain is a large part of the brand.

It's like saying "1800 flowers" can rename itself. Or Jacoby and Myers had a phone number that was all 8's. And then when they split up, they got other numbers like 800-800-8000 but it wasn't the same.

People type in the domain name when they think of chess.com or whatever. You're using examples which are the most ubiquitous companies in the world that spend the most on brand recognition. That's not a great way to support your point!

Consider "basecamp.com" or "hey.com" -- would they do just as well if they had to switch every month to basecamp.nl and basecamp.io ? Probably not. And why should they?
Bad management kills passion instantaneously. The best teacher, faced with administration which will constantly kowtow to parents and refuse to discipline bad students, will lose their passion rapidly.
huh, glad i swapped my fritzbox out about 6 months ago for a fanless opnsense.
how about 5th grader or above?
No you're not.

Perhaps if you're a homeless bum with no real life importance at all, but they'll still want to bombard you with their propaganda.
> What's the proper social response to that, I don't know.

Universal basic income of some kind.
Otherwise you can't test it, for one. It is easy to concoct all-encompassing explanations that can't be proven wrong. Here's one I just made up: instead of one god, there is a pantheon of gods. And a different one for each universe. Ours is governed by the Norse league. Prove me wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
People just aren't good at understanding risk. If we do it every day we get numb to it.

I actually use cars as a personal risk metric. Most people drive regularly so it is clearly a risk we 'accept' but we also admit it is risky and require training, inspections, vehicle and road standards, dedicated police/fire/ambulance/etc etc etc. Basically, driving is my cut-line. If I am doing an activity that is statistically as dangerous/near the danger of driving I will consider extra precautions or consider avoiding it all together. If it is less dangerous I generally just accept the default safety included with the activity. If it is more dangerous I seriously consider not doing it.
I'm sure it wasn't the intent, but when someone sues for $10 million over a death on the train, you can bet that data's coming out in court.
Who is already using speculative decoding? I haven't seen anything about it in the llama.cpp or ollama docs.
I have played a lot of Pearl, and almost as much Unruly and and Keen.

I find a custom-sized Pearl board so that it fills as much of my phone screen as possible without getting teeny is just the right length to fill a minute or two. I wanted to play even bigger boards on my tablet, but it seems the puzzle generation algorithm is exponential and asking for a too-big board will crash the app.
So why are the margins so low if prices are high?
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It's definitely circumstantial. There are certainly many more people who are experts in topics who are not consulted or are left out of discussions that are filled by less experienced people who are better at dealing with human processes, bureaucracy and administration, conflict, etc. Lobbyists come to mind - they tend to be educated, intelligent, driven people who thrive under high stakes and pressure, effective at achieving outcomes but not necessarily nuanced subject matter experts (although many are, or have valuable perspectives).

At work, I hired someone to be my "lobbyist". He has no experience or background, but he trusts that I do, and I use him to get through to people that I can't communicate with. It's backfired a bit, though, because he's so easy and enjoyable to talk to, as intended, that management wants to recruit him. I've encouraged him and offered support because it's certainly within his capacities, and I'd love to stack the deck a bit.
It's called the availability heuristic and the response to airplane crashes are frequently used as an example of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
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idk I read that as "I found out about this from the abstract". Not sure if it was shared in advance
The way the world works: dismiss enormous numbers of deaths when they're unknown, nameless, individual, low status people, or happen to Rwandans or Palestinians in distant lands and not pretty children of celebrities.
A common miscommunication in an R&D organization is asking another team to do a task, and getting the reply that they're willing to do the task if you provide headcount. You're not asking them to grow their team in perpetuity. You're asking them to reprioritize their existing work to accommodate one request.

(I know this isn't really a miscommunication. It's misaligned incentives leading to an exasperating kind of logrolling.)
I think it will get sold pretty quickly. There's just too much money involved, too many Gen Z eyeballs, to go away.

TikTok is a capitalist narcotic.
What if the broadband companies are right though? I would prefer having a voice in government that isn't just a politician. Obviously an unpopular opinion but municipal broadband would likely not be good for me personally.
Self organization works when every single person is ambitious enough to try to do something, brave enough to speak up and be heard, and humble enough to admit they could be wrong and be willing to compromise. No company is full of unicorns by definition. Self organization the scale of Bayer is doomed to fail and so obvious that I suspect it is part of some larger ulterior strategic plan.
There's an excellent Android version of Slitherlink with multiple variants, well worth the couple bucks to unlock unlimited games beyond the initial couple hundred.
Yes it is.

The US or other western countries don't hide/censor things like China & the CCP, you're free to publish your opinion here. US doesn't have police stations in my country, but is following international rules for extradition.

The level of danger involved with meta info gathering from the west is much safer than those from the "axis of evil".

All dangerous trends seem to be coming from TikTok these days.

And there is a reason TikTok itselve is also banned in China and why the videos on Douyin are so different.

TikTok should have been banned yesterday. The CCP can't be trusted with a democratic country.
IIRC, they could correct your bill after the fact.

I used to joke with others that shoplifted items should be retroactively free - as long as you self report after the fact. (Extra useful training data...)
So why are they keeping it open?
I worked in a Hill office and heard most of the votes were decided long ago. Meta did a full court press, deeply entwined with the government, to push TikTok out. Expect Meta to make a play for TikTok.
Sort of works if you start that way. Meta sort of does this by putting the onus of creating and working on the right project on individual contributors. This is sort of product and project management evasion of division of labor by making everyone shoulder the burden of a cross-cutting concern without any help. Similar to getting rid of secretaries and personal assistants when some leaders aren't good at time management, scheduling, remembering people or events, or being the least bit organized... certain people plus the right personal assistant can comprise an immensely productive and impactful team like a superorganism.

Drastically changing who holds priorities and assists with unblocking company-interfacing issues isn't leadership, it's anarchy without setting a tone or a direction. It just sounds like the leadership class doesn't have a clue what they're doing and will try a reorg and another layoff should the continued beatings not have the desired effect.
Even in districts where there is a union issue with firing, you could not easily find good replacements anyways. The pool of passionate teachers willing to take these roles is a small percentage of the total jobs, and they tend to self select into good higher paying districts with better behaved students.
You need to start with no/little increase in taxes from corporations and see how that works. Previously unthought of loopholes will keep the status quo of low corporate tax payments.

> The biggest problem really is people just hoarding wealth

That is a pretty substantial problem and doesn’t seem close to the biggest one.
Monsanto was a 15 billion revenue dollar company in the same market (ag seeds and products) as 50 billion revenue Bayer. Werner thought he could handle the baggage. The US tort system is proving him wrong.
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No, but the ratio of data I use to data available per billing period, coupled with excellent coverage, meant being on data vs wifi made no difference whatsoever. It served absolutely no purpose.

Same with the battery icon. When you plug in your phone every night, but the battery lasts 2-3 days, knowing you're at 80% vs 72% has no purpose.

Why have them there if all they do is contribute to anxiety (why did I lose 3% faster?) and take up space in the top bar (where alarm and DND indicators live)?
Yes exactly. Old age.
Given your username, I have to ask. Do you ever meow on guard?

On a serious note, what are your views on privatization of ATC? The one airport in my region that I know is privatized has a horrible reputation among pilots and DPEs alike.
Ah, so it's the updated version of this:
https://opensecuritytraining.info/IntroX86.html

Let's see...
Interesting tools, unfortunately I'll only be looking at these when I want to change my phone and when I do I'll be in a bit of a hurry and unlikely to wait for an optimal time!
The other side of the point is that having manager with small team means those manager need managers, which means another layer. Big team manager means flatter hierarchy which may be desired by everyone.

But yeah following Goodhart's law it's bad if it makes managers hire new people instead of vanquishing other managers and taking other employees under their direct command.
Managers want to hire more people because teams are way under-staffed. I’ve never worked on a team that had enough people to do the important things with leeway for sickness vacation and turnover. Maybe there is empire building going on, but I think it’s deeper than that.
I like JAX, and find most of the core functionality as an "accelerated NumPy" great.
Ecosystem fragmentation and difficulties in interop make adopting JAX hard though.

There's too much fragmentation within the JAX NN library space, which penzai isn't helping with. I wish everyone using JAX could agree on a single set of libraries for NN, optimization, and data loading.

PyTorch code can't be called, meaning a lot of reimplementation in JAX is needed when extending and iterating on prior works, which is the case for most of research. Custom CUDA kernels are a bit fiddly too, I haven't been able to bring Gaussian Splatting to JAX yet.
Gun violence?
I'd argue against the triviality, but even if we accept that premise, the exact challenge is "with all the necessary information".

Human ATC operators integrate a huge variety of information including voice comms to build a situational awareness of not just the current position and velocities of planes, but also their stated intentions.

Yes, with sufficient coordination you could push all of that over into the cockpit and have the pilots input their intentions directly. We all know that voice transcription is a bit hit and miss (though the phraselogy used would probably be quite helpful), and certainly typing is... not optimal for emergencies.

This aligns with basically all questions about automation in aviation (including in the cockpit). Automated systems can generally out perform human operators in probably the 99.99+% of typical cases. However a human with full situational awareness is still critical in the remaining situations. The challenge is that:

* For a human to have proper awareness, they must be meaningfully engaged. They must actually be having some real agency and effect on the system.

* Neither full human nor full automation provides the degree of safety and performance that we currently desire. Somehow we must integrate the two systems together.
A lot is hanging on that 20 GW offshore wind. Would be a bummer to see permits canceled due to politics... I have a feeling the next administration may not have any good will toward California.