skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hoboken's "Vision Zero" commitment is a total joke. It was basically a long-running PR campaign by the sketchy mayor ahead of his (failed) US congressional run. I lived in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Hoboken each for multiple years, and Hoboken is by far the most hazardous place to be a pedestrian I've ever lived. If you don't believe me, search on Hoboken's subreddit and you'll see tons of people saying the exact same thing.

Hoboken's traffic fatalities have always been low or zero, even long before all the daylighting, because Hoboken is only 1 square mile with only a handful of entry/exit points. Quite simply, it's difficult for a car to get to a sufficient speed to kill someone there. But they can certainly cause non-fatal injuries on a regular basis, and they do. I saw quite a few out my window at the intersection closest to my home, and it took over seven years for the town to even add an extra stop sign there.

Part of the problem is Hoboken's weird fear of traffic lights. The busiest commercial street has them on every block, but the rest of the city only has a handful. Everywhere else, it's stop signs, usually only in one direction, which changes unpredictably between blocks.

Compare this to NYC outer-borough neighborhoods of similar density and character, like Astoria or Park Slope, where they put traffic lights on nearly every intersection. Much safer to be a pedestrian in those places because you have a pedestrian traffic signal telling you when it's safe to cross. In Hoboken you just have crosswalks which may or may not have a stop sign, and drivers who may or may not stop for you, and complete lack of traffic enforcement by authorities who don't care when cars fail to yield to pedestrians.

Oh, and about that busiest commercial street in Hoboken that actually has traffic lights: it didn't even have pedestrian signals until 2017, many decades later than pretty much every other busy place in the entire NYC metro area.
I do understand your point, it might have been better to include the actual process of doing it, but what is done is done.

I did add the article link that I used to modify the blob itself at the bottom, so anyone more technical should be able to accomplish the same thing I did by modifying it them themselves.
I am reasonably certain I could pass this exam, I signed up for the waiting list, but I am doubtful that would in any way translate to any kind of job opportunity.

Even certs in more commercially popular languages aren’t taken terribly seriously most of the time; I have a few and I eventually took them off my resume to save space.
It's not personal-- the docs are there to cure disease and just doing what they know, personhood be darned.

Also, in the moment, it's entirely possible that somebody who is otherwise completely rational who just had a life-altering experience is temporarily less than completely rational and you're only hearing that one side of the story.
Cancelled in sometime before 2021: https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/s...

My long run prediction is that ITER will work and everything people on HN kept insisting would work in 5 years will suffer a similar fate.

I'll stake my claim now that I think Helion is probably not going anywhere (just a vibe, but there's something off about their recent big marketing push).
Ehm... Diversity do makes richness because makes different ideas, confronting them, mixing them etc BUT we are in very little diverse world... Did you see Chinese, Arab, African, South American leaders all wearing the same suit, at maximum with some obscene different tie? Is that diversity? Did you breathe the conformism of the modern era?
> I don’t want to live with conditions like dementia.

My mom doesn't recognize me since ten years, she cannot move, she's thin as she had just been liberated from a WWII nazi concentration camp. She cannot talk, she cannot move. She shows no emotions at all.

And yet the doctor refuses, on the excuse that she's fed with a spoon and not a syringe, to sign the papers allowing to euthanize her.

There's of course money involved too: the elder care home she's in gets a hefty rent each month. And so does the doctor.

I am very angry at this entire system. There's also, of course, a whole issue of legal paperwork / signatures, etc. that are problematic.

For, I'm sorry to say it: an empty shell. My mom is long gone. Let her body go.

Just fuck these insane laws and rules. It's a totally rotten system.
Panama court acquits 28 in Panama Papers and Operation Car Wash scandals
Doubly so given the epidemic of fentanyl contamination.
Probably not all instances of non-violent coin (and coin box) theft were recorded or assigned to him. Some instances could have been theft by employees or the coin box was inadverdently not returned, or needed replacement but a replacement wasn't available.

Post AT&T breakup means the phone companies were less centralized and organized, presumably, than if this had happened in the 1970s.
Doesn't Supermicro X10SLL-F have an IPMI interface to do it remotely?
I didn't encounter the issue you had.
The commonly used term, also mentioned by Fred Brooks, is accidental complexity.
Accidental highlights the non intentional nature of devs introducing complexity.
> unprecedented percentage of elderly individuals in positions of power, and they are often reluctant to relinquish their authority

Why are they reluctant? Because you eventually realize as you age that slow societal change is better than fast change. The young demand fast change aka “revolution”. Revolutionary change creates volatile societies and volatile societies don’t create progress that sticks.

When I was in my twenties, I was impatient and demanded immediate change. Now approaching my sixties, I want progress, but know that a slow trickle is better and would rather be patient to get there.
Using familiar terminology doesn't incite the type of fear and alarm in the hearts of potential customers that can only be assuaged by a suitable corporate tech savior.

No real news, here. Just a plug piece that implies Microsoft is safer than their competitors.
That's fine, but that is moving the goalposts. GP said that Firefox is so good on Android because it's important to have ad blocking, and Brave meets that need just fine.
The best answer to this question is, in the compilers of other programming languages lol.

Elm, for example, is in use in production at a variety of companies.
> There is nothing in the Constitution forbidding delegation of implementation decisions from Congress to Executive. Therefore it is legal.

Citation needed. Separation of Powers would like a word with you.
What does that have to do with OctoPrint?

Edit: Whoops. I'm stupid. Nevermind.
I remember lego online trying to fight against people erecting male genital organs. I wonder how a typical sprint of those poor developers look like.

Ticket asdf-1234: mountains that look like genitals when viewed from a 45 degree angle should not be allowed

edit: found a reference at https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/l8enni/til_t...
> And after all that health talk, I'll probably still end up scrolling through Reddit for a couple of hours before bed.

Going for a long walk, especially in an interesting/stimulating place like a pleasant city, does something similar for my brain. It entertains in a general, unchallenging way. Instead of scrolling Reddit past your thumb, you scroll the world past yourself. It's not like going for a run where you have to get over a wall; it's easy to just lapse into by default, especially if you put yourself into a walkable environment. Plus, after you've gone about three miles, your body just goes on autopilot and you just sort of naturally keep moving. It barely counts as exercise, but it will do something for your lower back, and it does burn about 100 kcal per mile, which if you keep it up all day will add up. So, I can heartily endorse, for the person who scrolls a representation of the world past their nose, to instead translate their body through the world.
C isn't a programming language anymore (2022)
> Given how rapidly the price of batteries and solar are falling

Battery prices are pretty stable, which is huge problem for wind and solar energy.
Seems like it would be easy to structure 'online content' so that it poisons the model with either nonsensical content or offensive content, like what happened with 'santorum'.
You can also use it on the web, no need to download it:
https://web.imhex.werwolv.net/
> How many people are going to fight life obstacles, pushing society forward, or rather terminally quit at the first sign of troubles?

Not many, probably, but the option should be available to those who need it.

> Nihilism was quite popular in the 19th century and led us to two world wars already

I'm sorry, but this is rubbish. Firstly, I'm not nihilistic, but practical. Not everyone who wants to die is suffering; sometimes they just want out of a pointless and meandering life. They don't want to put in the effort to up themselves, and frankly, why should they? What right do other people have to impose their views on someone who's feeling like this?

Sometimes one is suffering, but can't be bothered to, or might suffer more while trying to convince the state and a medical team that they deserve to die. It's 2024, and we have increasing acceptance of the gender spectrum, of the autism spectrum, of recreational narcotics, and more. Why is dying so marginalised? Like I said, this is a Christocentric view. A modern society must allow its citizens to die quietly, peacefully, and cleanly, whenever they choose.

Next, what led to the two world wars was not 'nihilism', a very loaded single word, but rather a bunch of overly-complex defence pacts, treaties, and arms races in 1900s Europe that eventually collapsed into a bloody shit show. The second world war happened because of a feeling of revenge, anti-semitism, and Slavophobia on the part of the Germans, and imperialism on the part of all the Axis powers. Nothing more, nothing less. Depending on who you ask WW2 began as early as 1910 with the invasion and occupation of Korea by Japan.

> your opinion will be eliminated from the gene pool

Wanting to die is not (only) passed down in someone's genes. It is highly environmental and depends on what people do, who they talk to, and where and how they live.
This was a great, uplifting post. I'm happy for the author.

I love sugar. Sugar cereals, sugar snacks, and especially anything that has peanut butter. But I've recently started to cut back. (i.e. Greek yogurt with fruit for a snack). So far, about a week in, things feel good and I've dropped about 6 pounds. (!!) I hope I can find more ways to make it easier.
i think cultivating smallpox is a much clearer thing to be guarding against, versus molotovs. With molotovs as the example, AI safety seems absurd and overly protective. But when you paint it in the light of smallpox (or other bio-chemical-nuclear realms) there very much needs to be safety.
Curing a disease can easily take tens-to-hundreds of millions of dollars or more and up to decades of research.

For most individuals, this degree of personal financial and temporal expenditure isn’t available.
Rainforest kinkajou rescued from dusty highway rest stop in Washington state
iOS requires a browser to use the OS-provided WebKit, but you can still use your own networking layer, and doing your own scripts injection (e.g. for extensions, like what Orion is doing). Firefox for iOS used to use Alamofire as its networking engine, but switched over to NSURLSession/URLSession at some point. Chrome for iOS uses Cronet which was extracted from Chromium's networking stack (or maybe used, I have not followed the development recently).
You did not read the article?
Very important topic.

Diagnosing skin conditions is already challenging because you need to differentiate between very similar patterns.

If you then only get trained on light-skinned examples, it will be difficult to build the intuition for darker skin.
You seem to be equating nudity with pornography, though. I tend to generate images that are nudes first in order to get aspects such as lighting and environment correct. Then i is may or may not add clothing.

Is this process objectionable to you? If so, why?

It’s also possible I’m simply misunderstanding what you’re objecting to.
Yep, I routinely get breaking changes with my neovim config, so I now keep both VSCode and neovim installed.
Precisely why we ought to step up our detection.
I loved the author's point on "incidental complexity". I would point out though, that even if you CAN explain why something is complex doesn't mean it SHOULD be complex.

When the subject of "tech debt" comes up, I always tell the teams I work on to focus on tasks that improve our speed or agility in the future. I believe that many coding tasks actually have a negative dev cost over time, as they reduce the dev costs of future work more than they cost at the current moment to implement. (Of course the problem is that they have a positive dev cost in the current sprint, so good luck convincing decision makers...)
This. Time value of suffering. Certainly, we should continue to innovate, but also have the freedom to check out when we want on our terms when success is beyond our life light cone.
What's wrong with the standard library parser?
So how small can you get for a hello world page with a single "hello $name" component, spending an hour or less on it?
Some background:

I found it impossible to bore into the river bottom to make post holes. Too many rocks and soon bedrock below those rocks. Second was an immovable boulder. So I made the boulder the anchor of the structure.

I poured concrete slabs reinforced with rebar to form straight planes and set them in place with concrete filled cinder blocks. Once those were all reasonably level, I built up a wall around the boulder with cinder blocks. This part easily took the longest to get to. Next, the holes in cinder blocks I filled with concrete and rebar.

The center I hauled all the river rocks nearby in the river bottom I could manage to fill the middle up. Then a layer of gravel over the top to make sure no concrete dripped down to the water line and I filled it up level to the top with concrete. I also had taken some really dense old growth trees felled nearby and poured concrete around the bases and set those in place (you want poles to help with mooring - I have a 20 foot boat). At this point I had a big concrete square with big posts sticking out. After that, concrete forms with bolt anchors so I could bolt down my wood dock onto the concrete.

I mostly did all this myself. I did have a little help here and there - my neighbor helped get the wood dock in place, and I paid my nephews to help pour concrete one weekend when my fingers were all too bloody.
I go a step further on "dumb code". Write code that is easy to reason about, understand, and grok the implications of.

I spent a ton of time doing support and engineering on a trading desk, where our SLA for an outage was somewhere in the range of 30 seconds to 5 minutes. Having super simple code that makes it easy to understand what the code problem is (if not necessarily the business problem) lets you move on with life and let the business keep moving.
Did you read the article? The stats appear to have been manipulated to increase popularity of that plugin.
I built an AI coverletter website about six months ago and ever since then traffic and usage has gone up and it is begining to cost me as i use chatGPT api to run the site. I want to charge a little fee for usage but i am not sure how to go about it especially as the site does not have a database or auth so using a subscription model is out the question. any suggestions her will be helpful.
People slam this for being ChatGPT but I wonder how often the references it finds on the web are more relevant than ones in this [1] style of HN [2] comment that often get to the top of this type of thread yet lack any deep analysis either. Slamming it for not validating the sources support the claim at least makes sense but isn't really specific to the ChatGPT fixation.

Perhaps somewhat telling on that is the comments are focusing on how the source was found rather than debating or correcting the figures themselves. The first figure sourced seems both accurately sourced and accurately estimated. The second figure I'm having trouble finding in the linked source and the figure seems to be more based on renewable energy investment not renewable energy research. I'm also having a hard time finding any good source for current renewable energy research investment to replace that with though so I can't say much in regards to how the final conclusion fairs.
Someone in the medical profession explained to me what 'do everything you can' means to doctors and surgeons, it's a binding command. My instructions are likely going to be 'do two things that you probably should at this point and then go have lunch'
The article is short on details. If you want to see the actual jailbreak prompts check out Pliny on X:

https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/1806446304010412227?s=46&...
I made a static site generator which uses Laravel's Blade template engine
What sort of tests does it seem good at generating? I was hoping it would give me a decent start writing tests with Jest and React Testing Library for an already existing but untested codebase. It seemed ok at small components that I can also quickly write tests for, but the larger, messier things would receive useless, failing tests.
The author’s comments about knowing your business context and the potential impact of bugs really hit home with me.

I have seen far too many teams using Facebook sized solutions for a few thousand users.

I’ve seen developers slowed to an absolute crawl, terrified of shipping code, for a completely secondary operational platform with low volumes and non-critical data. All because the product people were misguided in their mission.

And sadly, I’ve seen teams with almost non-existent security practices and knowledge happily banging out crap in financial services environments.

And I’ve been blessed with teams understanding their position and fully embracing it. Financial services products with quarterly releases that were rock solid and well architected. Batch document processing systems with just a few dozen end users who worked closely with us developers to tune algorithms where sometimes we would ship multiple times in a day and re run batches in production.

To be successful, teams gotta know if you’re at NASA level, or life threatening, or business critical, or somewhat critical, or just nice tooling, plus understand the cash flow / budget situation. As a dev you may not be privy to all that, but strive to know as much of this as you can.

And of course, understand who you users are, and who your customers are, and prioritize accordingly.
so is abandoning everything for a farm raising goats.
Show HN: Protect your links with a password
Keep your links safe and accessible only to authorized users
More predictable routes and minimizing encounters with CAT can indeed help reduce fuel consumption while maintaining safety. This is a relatively small saving for each flight which can add up to a big chunk at the end of the year.
This is an earth shattering redefinition of governance, completely remaking what governance is.

(Trump also plans to redo Schedule F, dubbing most appointees as political, and thus capable of being fired at will.)

The attempt to normalize & justify a massive rebuilding of our government like this is mind blowing. Shame on the many many many comments pretending like this is ok, like it's fine that we don't let agencies do anything at all, that ever single bit of the law has to be passed by Congress directly, without any delegation whatsoever. Congress does not have that capacity! It's impossible to imagine.

The Supreme Court had to throw on a "oh but pretty please don't use this to dismantle everything we have, respect stare decsis — that this is how we've governed in practice forever, through delegation." The new way is something entirely new.

These radicals are de-governing this nation, are tearing down the ability to do anything. This is a day of true horrors.
"Bad code gives you feedback, perfect code doesn’t. Err on the side of writing bad code".

This is probably quite a cynical way of putting it (and it speaks to me, probably because I am quite cynical) though I don't know if a junior dev will really appreciate this.

The way I would put it is: don't seek satisfaction from trying to make perfect abstractions for business rules no one quite understands, rather seek satisfaction from making your user's lives easier as efficiently as possible.
The graph starts taking off in 2008 in fact and I'm willing to bet that coincides with companies like Amazon starting seriously scaling up.

For instance:

Visits to amazon.com grew from 615 million annual visitors in 2008,[46] to more than 2 billion per month in 2022.[47] The e-commerce platform is the 14th most visited website in the world.[48]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)#Products_and_...

I'm not fingering Amazon specifically as the culprit but when you say "algorithm" in that sense, as you point out, I'm thinking of recommender systems and Amazon's must be one of the er scaliest; probably together with Meta, and I guess Netflix. Doesn't have to be on GPUs either. CPUs need power too.
Yeah, the rumours(?) are a groq system required to produce 300+ t/s on a Llama-2 70B (bs=1) requires 576 chips (9 racks) [1]

So, that's like $10M+ for serving bs=1 Llama-2 70B vs whatever a single MI300X costs?

[1] https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1759759125314146699
Or in short, KISS!

(Keep it simple stupid!)

And yes, users will notice the button that is only half visible quite a bit more, than a suboptimal sort algorithm.
> a hypothetical city which has too many unhoused persons relative to the city's financial ability to support those people

The cities do have the resources to support them - they would just rather prioritize everything else
How can I improve as fast as possible?
The startup I'm currently a co-founder of is running out of cash. Although I'm on great terms with one other co-founder the other has had some mental-health incidents that are straining the company to it's limits.

I've been doing startups for a few years and fortunately have some exits, but as a result my resume is somewhat scattered. I have a number of successful and unsuccessful stints at growth stage startups both as a SWE and technical product manager.

My issue is I have some dental procedures I need to have done and for my own mental health want to take a year or two just to work as a software engineer at a well established company.

Obviously the market is a tad rough at the moment, but what I've realized is that I'm not sure if I fully hold up to the current above avg bar for SWE's (enough to get hired without too much of a grind).

As a late 20's engineer does anyone here have a suggestion for how I can upskill as soon as possible to get a SWE job as someone without a perfect background or a FAANG background?

Any help here is immensely appreciated.
It was certainly great up to like 2015, perhaps later?

You could spend all day finding fun code to read.

I always like the main signal (eg sigsev) handler.
Is there any way to identify if I'm a creditor with the email I registered with years ago?
You may be being generous. 99.9% of employers: "What is Haskell"?
Sidenote but what's that strange mod he has on his Herman Miller Aeron chair? The circle thing above the wheels? It's the first time I ever see that, despite having seen hundreds if not thousands of Aeron in series, movies, pictures, at people's place etc.

I dig it for I always put my feet on, well, the chair's "feet".

EDIT: ah! Conveniently enough it's called a "foot rest". But it's not clear if it's adaptable on a regular Aeron chair or if it's only for the "stool" model.
No

(it's difficult to give a more detailed answer than that, without more detail on why you think it'd be an issue)
A robot gets a face of living 'skin' that allows it to smile