skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes!
It annoys me when a scene with characters shouting is much louder than a scene where characters are talking with hushed voices, as an example.

We know a shout was louder at the source, but the decibel level at our ears is proportional to 1/distance squared, meaning hushed voices aren't necessarily any quieter "in real life".
I'd prefer suspenseful and dramatic scenes both play at similar, comfortable levels.
I don't want to have to adjust the volume up and down so I can understand one scene and then not have it be disturbingly loud in the next.
In practice, I just use subtitles to circumvent the "difficult to understand" problem.
Any idea what the rationale is for this? Seems bizarre. Why even have a 12V lead battery when that weight could be eliminated?
> The YouTuber Not Just Bikes made a great point in one of his videos: why in the world are public safety improvements up for debate? If people keep falling off a walkway, we don’t hold town hall meetings to debate the merits of pedestrian safety, we don’t do studies on the impact to traffic flow, we just put up a railing.

In my opinion, this isn't a great point, but a naive one. Literally anything can be argued for or against on the grounds of safety, and the fact that a safety-based argument exists isn't grounds to remove it from public debate. Also, blindly putting safety above all other concerns is just "safetyism", rather than a balanced argument. In the case of the railing, apart from a minor expense, there isn't impact to others. In the case of anti-car road diets, an attempt to create more safety will cause most users of that road to lose lots of time (to reduced speed limits, increased traffic). To most people, a few road fatalities a year simply does not matter in the grand scheme of things - it's a minor cost compared to the huge time savings of fast and convenient driving infrastructure.

> Here in Philadelphia, advocacy groups spent years fighting to have a wide, lethal stroad that runs through the middle of the city put on a road diet. Residents were polled, and something like 70% of people in the surrounding neighborhoods were in favor of it.

Mind linking to the poll? I find it hard to believe since the reality is that most people favor roads that are wide and have high speed limits, so they can get around quickly. A small but loud minority tends to argue, often successfully, for road diets. But most people aren't in favor of a war on cars because they get a lot of use from cars.

Additionally, what you're claiming about the poll being ignored is the opposite of what I've seen in west coast cities. Here, anti-car activists get into the transportation department positions and then try to implement their ideological plan regardless of polls or studies. Usually, they run dishonest polls that provide justification to whatever view they already have - for example, an online poll that only activist groups are aware of, which lets them get whatever numbers they want. If a poll disagrees, they don't talk about it or act against it anyways (example: https://crosscut.com/2018/04/seattle-city-hall-listen-consti...).
GPL would theoretically force ME to open its source code.
It does not, and has not for at least a decade!
So there's no need to ban super PACs, just a need to enforce the existing rules? Sounds more workable than a state constitutional initiative that directly contradicts a SCOTUS ruling...
In the US side walk are already hilariously under designed and roads are already hilariously over designed. In many places side walks are barley large enough for pedestrians and bikes to cross.

And pedestrian infrastructure is just horrible designed for wheeled vehicles in the first place. As people with kid strollers and wheel chairs find out quickly.

The actual solution, that pretty much every other first world country in the world has recognized is to start to build proper safe infrastructure for bikes (and the US overwhelmingly has plenty of space for that). Or to lower car traffic speed such that sharing can be done safely.

If the US had huge sidewalks everywhere and fantastic design for access of wheeled vehicle, your suggestion might make sense, in the actual world, it doesn't, it just makes the world worse for people that walk and those that cycle.

This is literally already all figured out and backed up with plenty of research but somehow people have to come up with their own 'solutions'.
In second year university I took a difficult 3d calculus class. I struggled for weeks until I suddenly developed the capability to visualize and manipulate 3D objects with axes, rulers and protractors in my mind. It like instantly leveled me up. Before that I had only done 2D math.
We have a standard for the maximum energy on given frequencies, not the total EM emitted. Spread spectrum clocking definitely reduces the peak energy on specific frequencies, which is usually what you care about more.

I guess it makes you more likely to experience interference, but the interference you'll experience, on average, will be much less severe.
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I am not very knowledgeable about freedom of speech laws in the US, but is it limited to individuals, or is it very broad, including organizations, coalitions and partnerships of multiple people as well?
ruby 3.3.0 vs ruby 1.8.7

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
I don’t know where you got the suggestion of sainthood. I personally am not a communist-adjacent like he is and believe me I cringed when I typed the term “oppressed.”

The point is that most people, even most new hackers, misunderstand who Stallman is and what his principles are. At best they see him and some random crazy pedant that’s probably never wrote a line of code like most politicians or lawyers in his space. They don’t understand the dude wrote the world’s most popular compiler for three decades or more (I won’t be surprised to hear they think BillG is more technical than him if you survey). Nor do they have a grasp of his movement to the degree they attribute Open Source, a deliberate and successful attempt to derail his PoV, to himself!

None of that implies sainthood or value judgement on him. It stops at hearing what the guy really says carefully.
I think this is not actually a reasonable marker to compare against in this case.

Neither of these are actually needed, all that is needed is to be able to disrupt the pipeline of jobs that interns/junior developers would normally build their initial skills on before moving on to more senior positions. Cutting these entry positions out means continually fewer replacements, and less talent (a deflationary trend, the limited number of positions acts as a filter, and its not necessarily merit based).

Without replacement, eventually older more senior developers will age out, retire, and then everyone will panic but by then it will be far too late (its already cascaded).

If it is not economical to develop or maintain a skill set, the knowledge involved becomes lost knowledge when that population dies out (as we all do given sufficient time).

A perfect corollary is the repair of electronics in the US. There might be 1 person per population of 100-200,000 that goes into business for this sector. If they get hit by a bus, its no longer locally available, and mortality happens to us all.

This is one of the main structural problems with burning bridges in blind marches towards some idealized progress.

How can you go back when all your competitors do the same thing and its no longer economic to run the business except by following the same doom loop as your competitors.
I don’t know how that relates to what I said.
> The same applies to Ruby.

With a big difference -- Perl and Python will always be installed on these machines, whereas Ruby might need two deployment steps: (1) copy file, (2) install Ruby!
For the same reason that Bob is allowed to purchase a pistol, but isn't allowed to organise with Joe and Frank and buy a functional tank with a 120mm cannon.

In the same way your freedom of movement doesn't allow you to walk over (like literally step on top of) other people.

Rights aren't an absolute literal things. There are always limitations.

Size matters. Organisation matters. Joe saying something is his free speech. Joe buying ads to say something is free speech. 50 people getting a billion USD to advertise how the gay alien lizards are controlling the sheople isn't the same thing because it has an outsized impact. An association of people isn't a human. In many languages there are even specific terms for "physical person" and "juridical person" (like a company, association, grouping, etc.). It doesn't get human rights.

And of course, most importantly of all, it's trivially obvious that to preserve a democratic society there need to be restrictions on campaign funding, advertisments and everything around that. Otherwise you can have extremely rich people simply innundating everyone with their views, skewing people's opinions and getting the results they want instead.
Can you read text when a book is upside down?
But having the same "seed" doesn't guarantee the same response from an LLM, hence the question above.
You could try https://histre.com/ (disclaimer: mine)

You don't even have to manually bookmark, in fact. It automatically learns what is important to you and surfaces the correct link on search. It has a ton of other knowledge management features too.
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You have discovered a secret area of my personalized "pet peeves" level: just a few days ago I saw an article (maybe video) about how "AI" tracks you in a restaurant. Screenshot was from an OpenCV-based app with a bounding box around each person, it counted how many people are in the establishment, who is a waiter and who is a customer, and how long they have been there.
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Most districts have actually done the reverse because school buses are really expensive.

If anything we need to bring walking to school back to historic levels. In 1969, 48% of children did so, but in 2009 that had declined to 13%. http://guide.saferoutesinfo.org/introduction/the_decline_of_...
> That's kind of the problem with urban planning in many cities in the USA -- the "primary purpose" of roads is assumed to be to serve cars, rather than to serve people.

Serving cars is serving people. Who do you think is driving the cars or being driven in them?

As an aside, I am surprised that this exceedingly shallow point is still being made in 2024. Let's be honest - it never made sense, and was only ever brought up as an empty slogan to dishonestly dismiss those who depend on and benefit from cars (which is most of the public in most cities).
if you go fast enough you don't need the bridge you can just ramp over it and land safely on the other side
Careful!

> What happens with a ball (or with a thrown stone) will differ depending on whether its velocity is positive or negative, and so on.

The velocity of a ball is a vector. Using a positive or negative number to describe it is a manner of convention. When you say that you threw a ball with “positive 7 mph” velocity, you need to explain what you mean.

One might argue that there really is a ball and that it has a velocity and that the velocity really is an element in a vector field originating [0] at the center of mass of the ball. Debating to what extent this is fundamentally true or is just a useful concept that people came up with would be interesting.

[0] In general relativity, space is not Euclidean (nor is it a flat Minkowski space), and velocity vectors are only really meaningful in association with a point in spacetime. You can read all about tangent bundles in Wikipedia :)
So any guides on how to make a self-contained Perl script that needs dependencies?
Is there any city that's done that and has completely banned cars to replace with transit? I haven't seen any except in very small pedestrian-only districts.

But I've seen a lot of fighting in my city anytime any transit or biking project reduces road space dedicated to cars, even if just removing on-street parking.

>People are in cars.

All too often, a "person" is in a car, which is a pretty poor use of space.
> How many financial companies in the world are based there?

Many, for sure. Plenty more are headquartered in Canary Wharf, which is not in the City but in Tower Hamlets. These include Barclays, HSBC and Citigroup.
Typically beer league players wear full face cages so facial recognition is harder to do
There's also in the same clause freedom of the press. So yes, it's explicit that you can band together with others to freely publish your joint speech.
Believe whatever you want, but visualization ability is like every other aspect of human experience: it exists on a spectrum

I can only visualize involuntarily as I'm drifting off to sleep, so I know what it is and what it's like. But I can't consciously do it, never have been able to, even with decades of deliberate practice.
A big percentage of ticket price goes directly to the studio/distributor, perhaps the entire fee stays with the theater.
The problem is that there is a whole generation of road engineers taught to use federal interstate standards on local roads, but there isn’t a more appropriate local road guideline.

When people use these standards for local roads it’s because it’s the same mindset as “no one ever got fired for picking IBM.”
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There are ICE powered drones, but they aren’t strictly better.

Batteries do a lot of things very well such as ramping up and down power output drastically with sub second response times. This allows quadcopter to be very simple mechanically making them scale down really well into a tiny package someone can carry several of them without significant issue. As a bonus tiny drones can be reasonably quiet and cheap.
Yep, boobless, aka 55378008. Sibling story is correct, but another reason for boobless is it used all 8 digits of the calculator.
there are fewer and fewer models with 8" beds

That’s more a function of crew cabs and using a pickup as a family vehicle. The bed has to shorten as the cab lengthens, else the truck gets unmanageablely long.
Go’s interfaces are unique in that they are structural, which makes this problem more difficult to solve.
> Your input contains inappropriate words.

c'mon
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> IMO. suid feature is huge security hole.

As opposed to running background processes as root...?

This is just mindless dogma at this point. You're going to need something to elevate permissions, and setuid is as good of a scheme as any. ssh or run0 are not magic and just as "vulnerable" as setuid or anything else. Any of these schemes are "security holes" if you abuse it.
I find rm works great as a tech debt buster
In the US, the joke is that companies/organisations are people in terms of rights (to do damage), but not in terms of responsibilities.

When Boeing or any of the oil giants or a megachurch/any other cult kill or defraud people, the organisation doesn't go to prison. There's a small fine, cost of doing business, nothing more.
>Serving cars is serving people

So is better transit, and biking, and even shutting off entire streets to cars and making them into pedestrian-only districts - and those can often serve more people than when it was just a road for cars.
"Get money out of politics" -- one of the all-time juvenile ideas.

And ideologically biased as well: they really mean "make it so only people with a lot of time on their hands, like us, will be able to participate in politics."
> Define "actual experiences".

People without aphantasia literally count sheep to go to sleep.
The only way to gain power over an employer is if they are failing. And if they are failing it won't be long until they try to ruin your "ideal situation."
Something like this: https://go.dev/play/p/AVVz0qs2i1e

This is much less convenient than using interfaces directly when that is possible, but comes with a lot more power. You have more insight into the "interface" value, you can use this to manually implement prototype-like behavior as seen in Javascript, you can deliberately make an object where one "method" is invoked on one object and one "method" is invoked on another, which is hard to read but may be just what you need in some situation, etc.

There are a lot of ways to improvise on this tune.

Also note most OO or OO-flavored languages can do this, Go has no special claim to it. But the tradeoffs are pretty similar in all those languages... you want to be sure this is what you need before you use it, because the design costs are significant.
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> A good two lane street can have similar or better average speed than a bad four lane stroad.

Can you provide a more specific argument or evidence? To me, it seems obvious that two lanes has less capacity than four lanes. Therefore, a two lane road will have worse traffic, all other things held equal.

It also doesn't matter that the other two lanes might be repurposed for something else like bike lanes. In my experience, when bike lane projects are forced onto a city by activists, without authentic support from the general public, it ends up just creating a lot of underutilized infrastructure. In many west coast cities it is common to see clogged up car lanes next to permanently empty bike lanes. So even if in theory you could pack those bike lanes with more people (although moving at low speeds), it's never true in practice. The real throughput only gets worse.
So where'd the original glacier ice come from? :-) Earth has 1.386 billion cubic km (333 million cubic miles) of water. Lot of glaciers, that.
One person’s freedom of speech is another person’s propaganda undermining everything important in society. How is bribery not a type of free speech for example?

Most countries have decided that during elections people spending huge sums of money is not going to lead to good government, but who knows.
Just because artificial scarcity exists doesn't mean natural scarcity doesn't. Do you deny the existence of artificial scarcity?
This seems wonderful. I’m in New York next weekend and wanted to buy a hat, but sadly you’re all booked up. Too bad.

Although since it only takes a few seconds, I’d expect you to be able to sell thousands of these a day. If you don’t mind me asking, how many slots do you release each day?
Very interesting; I'm quite excited for these future performance improvements! In small-medium sized projects the time isn't very noticeable but larger projects definitely are noticeable in CI.

edit: I should say for larger test suites rather than the project itself, but larger projects do tend to have larger test suites.
Hmm. On this very forum you will often see me argue actions vs speech and how the two are very different from one another and how only one of those can actually be construed as violence.

<< I guarantee you that you haven't come up with any ideas [...]that haven't been thought of already by countless criminal and terrorist groups.

It is likely. My imagination is somewhat limited, but this is kinda the point. If I can think it, a sizeable portion of the population can as well. The difference is that it just made it now is easier to deploy in non-benign manner. My concern is not with terror orgs. Those can and do their own thing. I am worried about a casual kid, who uses it for 'pranks' that will happen, as they seem to invariably eventually do, to go too far.
One person’s charity, is another’s tip is another person’s bribe, is another’s lobbying.
It's pretty expensive to haul rocks out of the ground and separate the various elements from it. I find it hard to believe that it's more expensive to refine a pile of used hard drive platters and it is to extract the same thing from some mountain in the middle of nowhere.
Mad hatter
They are free to add whatever they want, if I'm free to not use it, to disable their stuff without break my OS. Because at the end, that is MY computer not Lennard's. I moved from Windows for that reason, avoid a OS that deprive me the authority on MY PC. If it won't be possible in future, I'm already studying OpenBSD. Anyway, my desire is a systems-free linux officially supported by major software houses.
Instead of pushing the external, side-effecting thing down the stack, I put it up the stack and call the logic that generates the data for it from there. Now I don't need to mock an interface, I just need to test data in/out.

If you do this consistently, then you have much of the side effecting code residing next to each other per process/input handler etc.

It's not always feasible or the right thing. But it's a good default way of structuring code and makes testing much more straight forward. And it makes more clear "at a glance" what happens because you can reason more locally about the side effecting parts.

> It also means you are less depedent on the concrete implementation of the API and don't leak types and behaviour from systems you don't control into your codebase

You are always dependent on that. Whether you hide it down the stack or lift it up, you still need to put your data into a specific shape, do the same essential checks etc.
"Apparently during the conference call, when [the Sarepta CEO] was asked about why he was so confident [about the Duchenne muscular dystrophy medication's approval], he said that the FDA's CBER head Peter Marks was "very supportive". [...]

Boy, was that the truth. The agency has just granted that use expansion, and it turns out that it was all due to Peter Marks, who completely overruled three review teams and two of his highest-level staffers (all of whom said that Sarepta had not proven its case)."

[The article then talks about how this may be "A positive vote, which marks an undeserved and potentially hazardous victory of emotional rhetoric and relentless patient advocacy over the scientific and medical evidence."]

This is interesting. I didn't know about the influence of the CEO and this narrative around this medications approval/label expansion.

I'm not sure why I'm mentioning this (Devil's advocacy?), some users on HN have also commented that maybe it is good that the FDA approves medications more liberally to give clinicians and patients a chance to experiment with them (if their situations are dire).

Anyways, in this case, it is interesting to think about how much influence one person can have in the FDA.

Sort of related, does anyone remember the approval of aducanumab for Alzheimer's disease? https://www.npr.org/2021/06/11/1005567149/3-experts-have-res...

And now it is discontinued:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK573062/
This isn't really a good source for the full story, sorry.

All this FDA approval business is much less cut and dry than I would have thought 10 years ago.