skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some level this is an almost uniquely American problem; see similar statistics here from Great Britain: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua..., Australia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i... which have been dropping rapidly since the 1970s. So, relative to other very similar countries, the U.S. is doing much worse.
I wasn't really talking about the marginal differences we see right now in August 2024.

I'm talking about the next huge step forward that only 1 company will achieve, because it simply has the most GPUs (in limited supply) + energy source first and keeps that advantage.

At some point this becomes a run-away self amplifying differentiator and it will make that company win regardless of all else.

My money is on xAI in 2025.

PS: the only reason prompts need to be optimized for each model is a symptom of models simply not being that good yet. This need will vanish in the near future as you get way better models. A recent hint of what I mean: mid-journey needed very elaborate prompt (and even loras) to get what you want. In flux that prompt can be much shorter (without loras) and it still gets closer to what you want. Same will happen with LLMs. Another example: with ChatGPT 4 you need to literally beg a model to only return what you ask for (for example JSON) or put it in a certain mode (JSON mode), in Claude Sonnet 3.5 it will simply just listen to what you ask for. So again: that's not "because every model needs model-specific fine-tuning" that's because previous models where simply not as good.
The shift key is an uncomfortable stretch for my fingers. I can do it, but it isn't comfortable.
Your comment seems to be predicated on a falsehood, namely that the Iranian oil industry was not meaningfully privately owned. I hate to play wikipedia here, but see the first line in

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalization_of_the_Irani...
It is very helpful in providing highly specific "boilerplate" in languages/environments you are not very familiar with.

The text interface can also be useful for skipping across complex documentation and/or learning. Example: you can ask GPT-4 to "decode 0xdf 0xf8 0x44 0xd0 (thumb 2 assembly for arm cortex-m)" => this will tell you what instruction is encoded, what it does and even how to cajole your toolchain into providing that same information.

If you are an experienced developer already, with a clear goal and understanding, LLMs tend to be less helpful in my experience (the same way that a mentor you could ask random bullshit would be more useful to a junior than a senior dev)
Go watch a cop show on youtube, they are always pulling over unregistered cars with drivers that have a suspended license. My point being that people will commit crimes no matter how many alternate transportations you make.
The point is, different lubricants have a different effective time.

As I said: a chainsaw is constantly adding lubricant to the bar. Meanwhile the swing I built for my son had white lithium sprayed on it and still doesn't make a sound, after full exposure to 3 monsoonal wet seasons.
Of course it does.

Right now FF shares are so low devs are ignoring it.

If more browsers use this engine, more devs will test with it.

Also, if it reaches success, it make FF future more robust, which also helps with future diversity.
Not in MySQL 5.7, which is officially my least favorite database to maintain.
Pardon my naivetée, but what exactly is JSON-LD doing that the HTML meta tags don't do already? My blog doesn't implement JSON-LD but if you link to my blog on popular social media sites, you still get a fancy link.
Claude's 3.5 has 86% success rate on LeetCode problems
It's simple when the AI is trained on the answers.
Very interested in how you would suppose this works.
Map Rust vector iteration to assembly
Libations: Tailscale on the Rocks
I don't like it either. It's the language popularised by Apple and it makes me cringe every single time.

But is it really the most important thing you have to say about a new browser?

It's just marketing language after all. A lot of great products are marketed using this repulsive language. I couldn't care less.
There’s one problem left with those tools: authority. They’re not pypa endorsed, that’s what makes those different from cargo.

At the same time pypa wasn’t able to provide a comprehensive solution over the years, and python packaging and development tools multiplied - just 3-4 years ago poetry and pipenv seemed to solve python packaging problems in a way that pip+virtualenv couldn’t.

We need pypa to now jump on the astral.sh ship - but will they do that without a certain amount of control?
Servefolder.dev – serve local folder in browser
The author is telling us that "Hackers" are people who know enough ins and outs about the things they interact with on a daily basis.

> "My point is, it is not just about computers. It's about understanding how
the world works. The world is made up of people. As much as machines keep
society running, those machines are programmed by people--people with
managers, spouses, and children; with wants, needs, and dreams. And it is
about using that knowledge to bring about the change you want to see.

That is what being a hacker is all about."

I usually read/listen to people's experiences and whether or not their stories truly make sense depends on how they present them to the world.
Meanwhile html tags in JSX/TSX files still do not autocomplete/close. Speaking as someone who used Zed for nearly 7 months, it seems like should be prioritizing features that will make the editor more usable. I’d be excited to go back to Zed, but the issues drove me to Neovim.
I don't want to be too abrasive, but family people unironically complaining (almost humble-bragging in some cases) about their lack of time to others who may or may not have had the same opportunities on that front (e.g. no marriage prospect, possibly loveless life) can be very tiring.

tl;dr TRIGGERED
It was based on a book “The Coming Global Superstorm” by the late nightime AM radio host Art Bell… known for discussing entertaining but outlandish conspiracy theories and doomsday scenarios…. Not exactly for climatology expertise
Thanks, but no I'm not the author
Ask HN: How do you keep track of “Log in with” accounts
On MacOS, using the Passwords app, I find it unnecessarily difficult to find out how I signed into an account.

Some are un/pwd (easy), some are Log in with Google, Apple, etc, but those aren't captured and aren't easy to track unless I manually add it to the Passwords app with some invalid password that's an indicator of how I signed in.

Do you just use a password manager ... 1Password, Lastpass or the like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdV0AdgjPgo
Romantic AI Chatbots Don't Have Your Privacy at Heart
I also have the Phillips, game changer for northern hemisphere winter
I wish I could make your comment the pull quote for this discussion.

Break the an oligopoly by making them irrelevant. Academia cannot continue to feed these monsters with free resources and then also try to contain them.
There is also the problem that structure doesn't guarantee meaning.
Might be more accurate. ;)
Thomson Reuters Acquires Safe Sign Technologies to Accelerate Its AI Strategy
"It's about knowing what happens when you type "google.com" and press Enter" is possibly the best short explanation of hacker culture ever.
Top companies ground Microsoft Copilot over data governance concerns
Utah seeks SCOTUS review of unappropriated federal lands
From the opening of the lawsuit: "The United States currently owns about 69 percent of the land in the State of Utah—roughly 37.4 million of Utah’s 54.3 million acres. Nearly half of that federal land--roughly 18.5 million acres--is 'unappropriated' land that the United States is simply holding, without formally reserving it for any designated purpose or using it to execute any of its enumerated powers."
Take a look at aider-chat or zed. zed just released new AI features. Had a blog post about it yesterday I think.

Also you can look into cursor.

There are actually quite a few tools.

I have my own agent framework in progress which has many plugins with different commands. Including reading directories, tree, read and write files, run commands, read spreadsheets. So I can tell it to read all the Python in a module directory, run a test script and compare the output to a spreadsheet tab. Then ask it to come up with ideas for making the Python code match the spreadsheet better, and have it update the code and rerun the tests iteratively until its satisfied.

If I am honest about that particular process last night, I am going to have to go over the spreadsheet to some degree manually today, because neither gpt-4o nor Claude 3.5 Sonnet was able to get the numbers to match exactly.

It's a somewhat complicated spreadsheet which I don't know anything about the domain and am just grudgingly learning. I think the agent got me 95% of the way through the task.
The 5-star Open Data plan
I've interviewed a few people who have a great resume and came off well in the interview, but I was left wondering if they could write code. (HR only allows me to ask specific research based questions in an interview and so it is easy to answer well without giving any indication you can write code). We now have some filter exercises that are about if you can write code at all.
Thanks for the clarification, and it looks great by the way.
That's my instinct when people describe themselves, too. e.g in dating profiles when people remark about how "I'm smart, funny", etc.

They may be both of those things! But I can't help that my first conceit is always to think "that's not yours to decide here".
Generally speaking, they are.

As with most things, you'll find local fluctuations, like when Buffalo NY gets two meters of snow and Rochester NY gets none.
The common recommendation is to flood wet electronics first with distilled water and then with isopropyl alcohol
This has been possible for a long time. We just don't do it because it is stupid. See -rootwin option from the mplayer man page.
> If the above doesn't answer your question

You misinterpreted my question, because I was asking what saagarjha thinks, not what anyone else thinks.
Asteroid mining company (astro forge) appears to be making headway
I use vertical tabs, so I don't want 2 windows with tabs, I want 1 window with tabs-1stview-2ndview
mplayer has been doing this for a loooooong time with the -rootwin option. You quickly grow tired of this though.
Wild guess, but probably with a transponder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transponder
I can't such a feature in their API documentation. Have a look at https://opencagedata.com/geosearch (I'm affiliated)
once is happenstance, twice is coincidence...
I'm not sure about the title "nobody knows why"

I recently watched a conference by Prof. Rahmstorf, it was eye opening, and a little bit grim:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHNNW8c_FaA
How can we get web vitals metrics in Single page applications?
I'm never quite sure what to do with these kinds of articles. When we can't actually say what is causing change in the Atlantic Ocean today, its tough to buy any modelling that purports to know what is likely to happened over the coming decades.

If our models were really accurate enough to be useful guides, should we have seen a change like this coming or at least be aware of what modelled as a less likely scenario that would lead to this outcome?
I don't think there are many 3+ highway interchanges. These interchanges are designed to go in places where highways intersect. And you wouldn't design highways so that more than 2 highways intersect in a single point. If you need to connect 3 highways in a certain location, you can just pull back one of the connections and make 2 separate interchanges instead of one massive one.

Apparently no other country makes local stores directly accessible from the highway so 5 layer interchanges just don't exist anywhere else. This is why Texas interchanges are the highest, because they're the only interchanges in the world with 5 layers.
Every driver has a cellphone in their pocket, I'm sure it's more than possible to integrate people with modern vehicles in a mesh net to older vehicles by using an app or something. It's not hard to think about, c'mon now. What website am I on ffs?
> I mean, shutting down the library for an entire year still seems like a fairly unfortunate outcome.

The school library probably won't be closed for an entire school year. It's just closed indefinitely. The school could open the library early by progressively adding back batches of confirmed "safe" books. (None of what I said changes the fact that the updated Age-Appropriate Materials Act still violates the First Amendment.)
As a somewhat outside observer I don't quite understand what the PyPA actually is. In some sense there is an unclear number of participants and it's not even sure to which degree the PyPA relates to core python or the PSF.

I think the real endorsement that could help would be the core Python project itself. In a perfect world the official Python tutorial would start with "here is how you install python" and it starts by installing uv, the same way as the official Rust docs point to rustup and cargo.

I hope strongly that the PSF will manage to establish some sort of relationship with Astral which would enable that to eventually be a reality.
I think you be comparing an amateur artist with a professional architect (which isn't surprising; amateur architects are very rare and professional artists have less visibility.) Only amateur artists would actually describe their work as "beautiful".

If you go to a gallery or museum and read what a professional artist says about their own work (usually found on little cards next to paintings/scriptures/etc.) their descriptions tend to be about much more focused on what they were trying to convey and how they used that medium to do it.

This is also what I've seen from professional architects.

That doesn't mean you would be any more swayed by the professional artist, but it's at least more apples to apples.
There is academic research on how to interview. Most comments here give no indication the commenter is even aware it exists much less what it says.

I'm aware this exists, but I'll admit to not having read it directly. (HR gives me a list of questions I'm allowed to ask in an interview and they tell me those questions are based on research but I only have their word they are)
What resources would you recommend for someone who wants to improve their statistical literacy? You mention reading the right books, I'd appreciate it if you could give a short list, if you have time.
I saw an interesting review[0] from a climatologist talking about the biggest scientific inaccuracy isn't what you'd think. The mega hurricanes that freeze jet fuel in their eyes because they bring down super high elevation air? Apparently air, like most things, gains a huge amount of kinetic energy when it falls from great heights and would actually be incredibly hot[1], not freezing cold.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlhj-0iAiMQ
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_temperature
I live in an urban environment and one day when i got the lawn mower out of the shed felt some resistance. A regular 5hp gas powered push mower usually rolls ok but on this day it was stuck. After wrestling it out of the shed i started to turn it over to see what the hangup was and low and behold a small skunk walks out and strolls away. I was a little worried i was going to get sprayed, but also super excited about seing a skunk. It did not spray.
Theres an implicit assumption that the actions being offered an “undo” are semi-important/permanent.

In other words, if you delete an email and it goes to the trash folder: good use of toast + undo

If you empty the trash, and there is nowhere the user can go to unempty it: bad use of toast + undo

Its also useful as a sleight of hand eg when cancelling an action you havent yet taken (which actually is generally what a toast + undo actually is). The best example of this being toast + undo for an email send
A few years ago I freaked out the Reddit moderators on a sub called /r/bodymods , which was, ostensibly, about modifying your body, when I asked about the feasibility of doing ones own liposuction.

I'm not saying that's a good or bad idea from a medical perspective, but I certainly was off-put by their hypocrisy at shutting me down and their myopic definition of "body mods" which apparently to them was just poking holes in their face.
Governments, not technology, crucial for 1.5°C target
Glad to hear Mozilla is working on adding this. I switched to a chrome-based browser for a while and the only thing I miss after going back to Firefox is tab groups.
Also here: https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f55/can-a-mast-be-too-t...

>Counterintuitively [a boat with a tall mast] will be be more capsize resistant, capsize is a dynamic phenomenon and increase mast height provides a vastly disproportionate increase in roll moment of inertia which resists capsize. Stability is a static phenomenon even when the boat is moving thru the water and provides little if any resistance to capsize.
Most congressional seats are not up for election in any given 2-year cycle, so a single 6-month window of support for your side doesn't do the trick—in most cases you have to do that three times over six years in many states, which would tend to mean that the shift in sentiment wasn't ephemeral but was in fact a sustained national shift against the law in question. There are exceptions (2010), but even those are clearly cases where something abnormal was happening at the grassroots level, not just the usual 5% pendulum we see with the presidency.

And then, once you've successfully changed the makeup of Congress to meaningfully slant in your direction, you still have to also control the presidency or at least work with the president in order to get a bill through.

So, yes, Congress can repeal bills that it's put in place. But it takes a lot of work and generally would represent a pretty fundamental shift in voter opinions, which is exactly when laws should change.
I half fit in this.

Mine is also used to haul a bed full of gravel when my drive needs repair or dirt for lawn correction. Not to mention I have a family.

Rear facing child seats while being 6 feet tall. Most cars I've tested don't support this. (Prius) Or no children can sit behind me because my front seat is sitting so close to the back seat that legs don't fit between. (Camero/Mustang)

Camry and Pasat seem to work, but warranties wouldn't cover things like bad child safety locks.... Not to mention, you can't haul things like gravel. =/
Distractions are often the safety systems themselves! Over the last 4 years, my Model 3 has progressively started beeping and chiming more and more at me, taking over my steering because it thinks I'm drifting out of my lane when I'm trying to actually change lanes, chimes because it thinks I'm going to run over a pedestrian or crash when there's actually a bend in the road - every year there is more of this and none of it works reliably. Other cars are similar but different.

I dread what cars are slowly turning into. Yet most people are still myopically focused on the drawbacks of touchscreens instead of hardware knobs.
Scientists Found the Proof of Snowball Earth: Our Secret Frozen Era
Wikipedia itself is only a little over two decades old. I don't think anyone would parse "many decades" as "two decades".

There's also OpenStreetMap, exactly two decades old and thus four years younger than Wikipedia.
Genetically modified toxoplasmosis parasite may have potential to treat disease
Huh... somehow I noticed that but it never really registered with me that it's inconsistent because I've never wanted to join a channel.
>The problem with making hard things sound accessible for wider audiences, is that people who understand the hard stuff natively then cannot separate the layman’s explanation from the technical capabilities of the person making those explanations.

it can also be the case that the 'laymen explanation' is actually patently wrong -- not just over-simplified or 'dumbed-down'; wrong.

some things just require a certain level of background knowledge; this is why generally any 'celebrity scientist' explanation of anything with the word 'quantum' in the subject line is generally just down-right wrong.

there is no decent metaphor by which to onboard a laymen in certain technical topics.

that isn't to say that the 'wrong' answers don't have value in educating the laymen, but the liberties that some experts take in 'wrongness allowance' is quite different from one another.

personally I think it's the responsibility of the explainer to step aside at some point and say : "Look, this is wrong, but without the background this is as close as I can get you to understanding this thing, so just don't take what I say as gospel from this point forward." -- the reason this is important is simply due to the fact that the laymen doesn't stand a chance at finding out which parts are wishy-washy by themselves without some further guidance.

not mentioning where the fairy tale begins is what leads people into thinking that there is actually an alive/dead cat out there somewhere. they grasp the metaphor itself rather than the statistics concept that is being explored.
Web Page Blocked!

You have tried to access a web page which belongs to a category that is blocked.

:-(
Meta's crawler launched recently is scraping the internet for AI training data
You might have stumbled upon something, actually
It's literally more expensive than literally every other streaming service. Get a pihole/adblocker, it's less expensive.
Several SUV's are the same size as trucks. Even some Vans.

Small cars don't usually fit families well. =(

LOL - I'm imagining a Prius for a family of 6 =P
I get that, but even if titles were an amazing proxy for skill, that will only correlate with some subset of skills and say nothing about the rest (e.g. some staff engineers are amazing technically and only pretty good as team leads or vice versa). Even assuming that title correlates well with some notion of skill, there are organisations which won’t allow someone with Fancy Title to make a decision requiring skill C if they’re bad at it - and some would have no way of stopping them.
Bad news about the frequency of this trait
A16Z Backs Blockchain-for-IP Developer at $2B Valuation
You could wear something brighter than the sun blasting train horn sounds in a 360 and still get nailed by some clown mobile. It’ll be deemed an accident, person will get at most a ticket.

As the addage goes, wanna murder someone? Use a car, it’s an accident don’t you know?
2024 Pollscrolling
That makes sense now that the other reply pointed out the Join button being filled in. The like and dislike buttons are internally consistent but the entirety of the buttons down there are not consistent.
MIT engineers' new theory could improve the design and operation of wind farms
Not sure who's arguing what and on what side here but when making a sandwich, adding dressing or oil to the sandwich is often referred to as "adding a lubricant" to the sandwich.
I was looking this morning at migrating our software from poetry to uv at my company, due to poetry's slowness. And so far i've been reading a lot of doc and not getting a lot things done. I did the previous migration to poetry as well which was vastly simpler. So far it seems that poetry tried to make a simple package manager that works like any other, while uv is keeping quite a bit of the python package insanity around.
That's not true. Science communicators in the past have successfully taught complex theories to a wider audience without compromising in integrity and accuracy.

The issue here is that many youtubers have sold factual correctness for a view count.