skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, the Shinkansen seems to average ~100 billion passenger-km per year [1] or ~60 billion passenger-miles per year. Using that as a overestimate for the last 60 years, that is a grand total of 3.6 trillion passenger-miles.

US commercial aviation averages ~1 trillion passenger-miles per year [2]. So if we compare the last 4 years of US aviation that is a comparable number of passenger-miles.

Over the last 4 years recorded on this dataset (2019-2022)[3] it looks like there were 5 fatalities total. Over the last 4 years recorded on this dataset (2018-2021)[4] it looks like there were 2 fatalities total.

So, while it does not appear to be safer, it is within a few factors on a passenger-mile basis. Furthermore, there are multiple periods of 4 trillion consecutive passenger-miles where there were 0 recorded accidents. It nowhere near obvious that it is “far safer than air travel could ever claim to be” and certainly a much closer race than you believed given your other assertions.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1262752/japan-jr-high-sp...

[2] https://www.transtats.bts.gov/traffic/

[3] https://www.bts.gov/content/us-air-carrier-safety-data

[4] https://www.airlines.org/dataset/safety-record-of-u-s-air-ca...
Most JS can't be server side.
As someone who’s been thinking about feature toggles and continuous delivery often lately, OpenFeature has been helpful.

Kudos to the team!
Why not rank based on figures not easily manipulated like assets held by platforms?
I think even the people advocating these stupid keyboard combinations don't really use them... they just think that it makes them sound smart.
Why would the Ran Air Turbine be time restricted? As long as the plane is moving there’s power.
you know indian tata tiago ev and new MG Comet EV?
I care less that such prompting hacks/tricks are consistently useful; I care more about why they work. These hacks feel like “old-wives tales” or, as others have mentioned, “superstitious”.

If we can’t explain why or how a thing works, we’re going to continue to create things we don’t understand; relying upon our lucky charms when asking models to produce something new is undoubtedly going to result in reinforcement of the importance of those lucky charms. Feedback loops can be difficult to escape.
Ex-cereberas engineer here. The chip is very powerful and there is no 'one way' to do things. Rearchitecting data flow, changing up data layout, etc can lead to significant performance improvements. That's just my informed speculation. There's likely more perf somewhere
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Sidebery is the only way to do vertical tabs in FF. It’s really good.
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Will purpose built EVs have better ride quality than an ICE platform with electric motor?
Is this... is this sarcasm? I honestly can't tell anymore.
I think you might be misunderstanding:

Yes the instance of chess is finite but the problem of computing moves is inherently in NP.

The key is that just because a problem is in NP it does't mean that its difficult to solve the instances with small parameters.

See the famous coloring, SAT, or any other equal NP problem...
It doesn’t matter to me unless it’s actually available for me to use.
Thank you @smcleod, accepted.
> Every customer (excluding Nvidia and Apple) is going to start working on RISC-V migration with vigor.

I am happy to take that bet, if the author is willing
> after going open source

I wasn't thinking that at all. BW started as open source afaik.
I don’t remember what Safari’s looks like but didn’t FF add an overview page recently?
Experiences with public transit in central Tokyo is don't generalize to the world. It's as pointless as talking in-store shopping or dining experience based solely on that inside a Disneyland. Just tapping Suica takes couple times less than what takes you elsewhere, if at all supported.
One of the replies in this thread sent me to transparency.dev which describes transparency logs as something different. But reading Apple's description doesn't change my opinion on this. It is a supply-chain / MITM protection measure and does absolutely nothing to assuage my privacy concerns.

Bottom line, I just hope that there will be a big checkbox in the iPhone's settings that completely turns off all "cloud compute" for AI scenarios (checked by default) and I hope it gets respected everywhere. But they're making such a big deal of how "private" this data exfiltration service is that I fear they plan to just make it default on (or not even provide an opt-out at all).
Half Life 2 running on a Unifi CloudKey
Learn how to think ontologically and break down your requests first by what you're TRULY looking for, and then understand what parts would need to be defined in order to build that system -- that "whole". Here's some guides:

1.) https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering 2.) https://www.promptingguide.ai/
Lost Silk Road cities discovered in Uzbek mountains
But there is good, in letting people wait 6 months for important medical issues?
It is easy to get JS build fatigue. But I love the fact that these competitors push the incumbents forward. SWC was one of the earlier Rust builders, which then became absorbed into Vercel and turned into Turbopack (is my understanding), and then we have Rome which turned into a Rust rewrite as Biome (though they are barely at the level of compilation), and the Vite team seems to be making progress as fast as their HMR system, with Vite 6 already looking quite impressive with its stack of open and modular Rust-based AST parser/compiler/linter (Oxc, originally another solo project like SWC) all the way up to the Rolldown bundler.

I'm curious to see what Rsbuild brings on top of this already very competitive space of Rust-based builders (and I haven't even mentioned the fantastic non-Rust ones like ESBuild!)

I would personally bet on Vite at this time because it's the most complete package with the most momentum, and it's already hit some of the best speeds out there. Plus I am really rooting for a Rust-based package that compiles well as WASM because I am very inclined towards projects that do a lot of code analysis/compilation in the browser.
lol it sounds so much more complex
I don't know. Last update two years ago when the project was first posted. Is it worth spending time on it?
Given how C++0x concepts, C++20 contracts, ABI discussion went down, where key people involved on those processes left to other programming language communities, not sure if the right call will be done in the end.

This is a very political subject, and WG21 doesn't have a core team, rather everything goes through votes.

It suffices to have the wrong count in the room when it is time to vote.
Russia hosts BRICS summit to show West pressure not working
Discussion (111 points, 15 hours ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41936316
I use this website https://excuse-seven.vercel.app/

You don't need to click anything. After the latest 500 articles have loaded, the first order comments will load.

You can mute words.
Article title: Putin gathers allies to show West's pressure isn’t working
My understanding is they were never closed source. Some of their code is GPL and some is proprietary, but all is source-available on GitHub. There was a bug where you couldn't build their client without a proprietary dependency, but they have fixed that so you can now build their client with only GPL code again.
It's very enlightening to fast from social media for an extended period of time (say about a month). If you return after that, you can almost feel the shift in your head. It's something I've experienced first hand.
First gen EVs also didn't have lithium batteries.
> It's also quite nice that Bitwarden can store arbitrary information like CCs, secure notes, and how I capitalized the answers to security questions and other account recovery/login information.

+1. I use my password manager (currently 1Password, but I have been looking at self-hosting Bitwarden/Vaultwarden) more for storing credit card information and security questions.

Most built-in password managers don't cut it on that front.
This (along with syncing on iOS) is what made me switch from `pass` to Bitwarden. Password sharing (and self-hosting sync with vaultwarden) are killer features for me.
McDonald's was bullied into changing its fryer oil by Phil Sokolof [0], who himself was tricked into believing his 1966 heart attack was caused by saturated fat. This article says Sokolof paid for ads to bully McDonalds in 1988: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-22-op-1193-s...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Sokolof

I said McDonald's was 'tricked' in ~1990 into switching to vegetable oil. This was trickery both because the fries became less healthy (Omega-6 oils are inflammatory, etc), and less tasty. Malcolm Gladwell's podcast McDonald's Broke My Heart is about how the fryer oil switch made McDonald's fries soggy: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/mcdonald...

The 2002 article you linked to is about how vegetarians believed the switch to using seed oils as the fryer oil made McDonald's french fries compatible with their dietary philosophy. Those lawsuits were in the late 1990's or early 2000's, which was well after the 1990/1992 fryer oil switch.

Thanks for bringing up the early 2000's lawsuit against McDonald's by vegetarians - I was not aware of that. My point was that Ancel Keys' holy war against saturated Fat was an important part of the cascade of science-mistakes that resulted in the obesity epidemic which took off around 1980 (weight started inching up in the "post WWII" period, but didn't take off until ~1980).
The custom PC components are already finished goods by the time they get to your PC assembly person. Most of the markup is already baked in. I would in fact expect to pay $120 or so to have a PC assembled for me, so we still get to the $150 figure in either scenario. I assume you have never worked for, or originated, any such business. That $150 has to cover overhead like assembly labor, rent, credit card charges, insurance, accounting, bookkeeping, excise tax, chargebacks and refunds, advertising, website development and social media, bookkeeping, software subscriptions, fulfillment, compliance, and so on. Running any business in the western world is complicated and expensive these days.

If you’re imagining you can take $30 worth of parts, sell the finished item for $60 or $90, and sustain that enterprise, it’s time to reconsider your business acumen.
This depends on the threat model. Having 2FA in the PW manager defends against someone phishing the password and database leaks on the server side,
which are the most common in my threat model. But note that if they can phish your pw, they can probably phish your 2FA as well.

It does obviously not protect against the scenario where someone is breaking into your password vault.

I tend to enable 2FA but conveniently save the token in the PW manager for relatively low equity stuff, just to make it less enticing for an attacker, but use hardware FIDO for everything actually important.
Ab yeah. In that case it makes perfect sense.

But honestly I’d stay away from PBDKF2 at this stage. If you look at OWASP they recommend 600k rounds. That number is getting bigger and bigger all the time (10k rounds used to be enough over a decade ago)

https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Stor...

I would use Argon or scrypt (which is basically PBKDF2 in a loop with some weird mixes) instead.
It seems though, that in the world of software, you can unfuck a sheep.

What worries me, though, that people who should have known better commit such oopsie daisies more and more (across many projects, I don’t mean this one only), almost as if they are testing the waters to see what they can get away with.
Google's DeepMind is building an AI to keep us from hating each other
By comparison with reality. The initial LLMs had "reality" be "a training set of text", when ChatGPT came out everyone rapidly expanded into RLFH (reinforcement learning from human feedback), and now there's vision and text models the training and feedback is grounded on a much broader aspect of reality than just text.
This app is fantastic - nice job! It is unique among transit apps in that it shows you only the routes near you and where they go. This lets you explore all the places you could travel to without dealing with transfers.
Needs a speed adjuster
I still have some old projects on Bower and I'm not sure what could make me find the energy to update them – especially since the JavaScript community will coalesce around something else in a few months anyways.
check the ecfmg website
Could we just like... have a standard for this already? Instead of two proprietary protocols that do the exact same thing... All it is, is a display and touch screen.
That can just be a forum - a forum I've been a member of for more than 20 years has been run by the members since 2010 [1], is registered as a co-operative/community benefit society in the UK and funded by voluntary memberships or donations, with members voting annually to elect people to positions required to run it.

A good chunk of those have been part of the same community on a newsgroup, then on a company-owned forum which got shuttered, then on a forum instance set up by a user who didn't want to run it any more after 6 years. The tech and platforms are ephemeral, always have been.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RLLMUK
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How to use Syncthing on Android now that the app has gone?
> Apple has lied to shareholders before

So sue them.

> how everyone's iPhone will scan their files and literally send them to law enforcement

That was a solution for if you opted into a cloud service, was a strict privacy improvement because it came alongside end-to-end encryption in the cloud, and I think was mandated by upcoming EU regulations (although I think they changed the regulations so it was dropped.)

Note in the US service providers are required to report CSAM to NCMEC if they see it; it's literally the only thing they're required to do. But NCMEC is not "law enforcement" or "government", it's a private organization specially named in the law. Very important distinction because if anyone does give your private information to law enforcement you'd lose your 4th Amendment rights over it, since the government can share it with itself.

(I think it may actually be illegal to proactively send PII to law enforcement without them getting a subpoena first, but don't remember. There's an exception for emergency situations, and those self service portals that large corporations have are definitely questionable here.)
South Korea treats spam as a luxury good - it's a part of gift baskets and it can be found in budae-jigae - army based stew [1] (sometimes along with canned beans in sauce)

[1] - https://youtu.be/-aO9pSOpA5Y
Looking up “brain MRI with contrast”, the biggest difference seems to be that in a regular MRI the contrast goes to the blood, but here it goes straight to the brain cerebrospinal fluid. You need open brain for that, so indeed doesn’t seem trivial.
In cold climates in Europe, diesel pre-heaters (such as Webasto) are pretty common. Compared to petrol, diesel cars have a harder time starting at low temperatures, and take a long time to warm up.

Where I live (-25c during winter) houses typically don't have garages where cars are kept. Modern apartments have underground parking, but the temperature often stays above freezing.
no, you still need usmle to get ecfmg certification. the difference is that you wont need US residency to get a state medical license
https://world.hey.com/dhh/you-can-t-get-faster-than-no-build...

There is always the option of not building.
Because many of the VPNs have _their_ internal routing using 10.0.0.0/8.

If the plane network uses 10.0.0.0/8; and then the VPN you're trying to connect to uses 10.0.0.0/8, stuff breaks.
Ok, I'll admit that I have not tested that many phones, but all the phones I had in the last ~8 years would not detect my remotes unless I used the front camera. That could very well be because all the remotes I tested operate on 940nm instead of 850nm (the two common options), and the IR filter in my devices are so that it would cut the one but not the other. Or that they just have a much lower power level. Either way, most modern phones that double as cameras will have an IR cut filter of some sort, otherwise some photos appear weird - like the red glow from a fire will appear purplish-white.
They said in the announcement that they've implemented speculative decoding, so that might have a lot to do with it.

A big question is what they're using as their draft model; there's ways to do it losslessly, but they could also choose to trade off accuracy for a bigger increase in speed.

It seems they also support only a very short sequence length. (1k tokens)
Based on my experience with doctors medicine is not one of those fields. Residency is the final gauntlet that matters and that’s the part that’s artificially restricted.

On the other hand, because of supply, finding a good lawyer just requires a bit of money, well within reach of the average person facing a criminal trial or some civil dispute. Finding a good doctor requires sitting on waitlists for months (if you’re lucky enough to find one taking new patients) unless you have enough money to afford a concierge service, which the vast majority of people cannot afford. I’ve had bad concierge doctors but I’ve never had a shitty lawyer paying that kind of money.

I mean really, where do we stop? There’s many more English literature graduates than jobs. Same with ____ studies and just about every other humanities degree. Do we restrict those too? How about higher education altogether?

There’s an important debate to be had about government financing and the non-dischargeability of loans and all its effects, but restricting education based on job supply is just harmful to societies on so many levels.

This is a two way street. Everybody needs medical care. Almost everyone is going to need legal advice in their lives. Depriving them of competent care and representation does far more harm than limiting supply would save. Failed medical students don’t die from the ordeal, but patients do.

The washout rate for A&P aircraft mechanics is on the order of 75%. Imagine if healthcare were as reliable as airplanes (though there’s a shortage there too).
in india you can go to a government hosipital and you get a big line but you are seen by top doctors.
you go into an accident, you are met with the top most doctors of that area.

the only thing upfront cost is to get a "Card" or a prescription number from the registry outside. costs Inr 10 normally or $ 12 cents.

that gets you infront of a doctor who can decide what to do with you. blood tests or some radiology or something else.

if you are to be admitted, they ask you to get a "file" that costs around $ 1 or $2. that gets you a bed in a general ward where you are monitored by good doctors.

surgery if you have a health card, you dont have to pay anything. there is a line for non-essential procedures but if its an emergency, you are prioritized and taken care of.

i have relatives working in government hospitals and their opinion is to not do procedures in private hospitals. it just costs an arm and a leg (without insurance) and you dont even get best care because consultants/top doctors arent even available during nights for example.
I made this BART arrival display website designed to just show upcoming departure times for a specific stop. The idea was that this could be used on a wall mounted display so you could glance at it on your way out the door to help you know how fast to walk. https://bart.blinktag.com
In the hardware secure boot chain ;)

You do have to trust the SEP/TPM here, it sounds like. That is verified by having a third party auditor watch them get installed, and by the anonymous proxy routing thingy making it so they can't fake only some of them but would have to fake all of them to be reliable.

If they were okay with it being unreliable, then clients could tell via timing because some of the nodes would perform differently, or they'd perform differently depending on which client or what prompt it was processing. It's surprisingly difficult to hide timing differences, eg all those Spectre cache-reading attacks on browsers.

It does look like there's room to add more verification (like the client asking the server to do more intensive proofs, or homomorphic encryption). Could always go ask for it.
Has there been any organisation to successfully roll this out, ever?

It’s great for security, but useless from a productivity standpoint.
Firefox sync made the criminal sin of implementing end-to-end encryption, enabling it by default, and being insufficiently clear to people that their passwords are lost forever when they forget the master password.

This provides a really terrible UX to "normal" users. I woulnd't recommend that option to anybody who doesn't already know what E2E is and what tradeoffs it has.

Google's implementation is a lot better in that regard, at least they offer plenty of avenues for account recovery.
I still have the i3 to sway switch in front of me. Screen sharing is a daily must in my work, so at least somewhat in the past there were too many warning voices.

Fedora has a sway spin. I wonder whether that "just works" (TM).
As possible counterpoint consider the departure of several advertisers from X following the Musk acquisition, whose controversial online antics and positions (irrespective of one's potential value judgments of them) were deemed bad for business and a damper on the "buying mood."

In general though it is true that ragebait and sensationalism do tend to drive "engagement" and thus ad revenue (often to the detriment of society).
You don't need quantization aware training on larger models. 4 bit 70b and 405b models exhibit close to zero degradation in output with post training quantization[1][2].

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.11055v1
[2]: https://lmarena.ai/
Italy declares its "web tax" applicable to any digital service worldwide
Could you link to a paper or working POC that shows how this “turtles all the way down“ solution works?
When I went for the first time before COVID I was surprised McDoanlds had spam as an option.
Bug report: digits don’t show for me. (Interesting æsthetic, actually, unmarked tiles.) Firefox, Sway/Linux, Settings → Fonts → Advanced → “Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above” disabled, and web fonts blocked altogether via uBlock Origin.
That's not exactly a fair comparison, because you're comparing distances traveled, rather than trips taken. Of course planes are going to look good, since they travel much longer distances than cars or trains, and because planes are more likely to have trouble when taking off or landing than any time in-between. It's not like you can just take a commercial airliner flight to go to your local grocery store, even though statistically you're more likely to get killed on that trip than on a cross-continent flight.
Wohoo! EU is the land of freedom! Suck it, USA
I agree, for TUI tools screenshots are essential and 2-3 can explain the project better than many written paragraphs.
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We really need an identifier that can’t easily be rendered useless by plate swapping, like a transponder that can’t be tampered with very easily. We could totally get the false positive rate down, but not with pointless license plate tech that is already outdated.