skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah? Except where I live, we have "bike trails" wide enough, and newly paved looking enough that I could drive my car over them, in fact! The lawncare people for my neighborhood absolutely drive their trucks on them, with enough room to let people pass them by! And yet, I still see people on the regular roads, at the worst times: early morning when most people are trying to get to work, or right as the sun is going down when it is drastically harder to notice a bicycle.

One time I was going up a hill I've been up and down a million times, only to be shocked to find, after sundown, similar road with a BIKE TRAIL, some person riding their bicycle WITH NO LIGHTS, on a road where you're expected to go 45 (its actually 55 when I googled it!) or more, giving me little time to react, I have NEVER seen someone be so careless on this road, or even ride a bicycle on it, because its not a road for bicycles. So no, it's not just the cars that are dangerous, its the carelessness of bicycle riders that is equally dangerous.
Agreed. At least for new engineers, and like you said, for those you choose to focus on technical work.
The photo hasn't reached us yet.
If the Waymo could not see the bicycle then them cyclist could not see the Waymo. So at best the fault lies with each party to make visual contact and determine who goes first.
I took one of the last ham radio exams in the Netherlands that were taken by having many test takers in a room (now it's computer based, using the same infrastructure as the driver's license theory test).

Of thirty people, there were only men. Not all were old, but at least 70% seemed 40 to 50. Zero minorities. I fit the profile myself (a part from being German, not Dutch) but still feel grossed out by it
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Do you see drivers regularly hitting people? You don't think almost anyone would be horrified if they hit a person?

I don't have evidence, but let's not imagine people are the sociopaths they claim to be on the Internet.
I've only had to buy it in three states, but generally my experience has been that you can buy a "30 day supply" per month. How often are you sick that you need more than 30 days of the stuff every month? If we run out I'll buy a 30 day supply and that generally lasts the whole family a year or more.
More discussion on the source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42083052
Another way to put what I think they were trying to say -

If you have a lack of knowledge, the ‘rational’ set of things to try can be so large that it’s overwhelming/impossible to actually try them. You have to pick something.

Intuition can help there (and is commonly found in almost all major discoveries), even if it isn’t necessarily right. Since it’s still more right than not listening to it.

But then you need to pay attention and do some rational analysis to verify, and then iterate.
Exactly this.

Part of the experience of riding a motorcycle is being acutely aware of your surroundings at all times.

I rode a motorcycle as my daily commute for years, and then when I switched to a car it felt oddly strange how little I had to pay attention:

(Possibly controversial belief: riding a motorcycle makes you a better car driver. Motorcycling has made me pick up habits like always looking over my shoulder and not solely trusting my mirrors when changing lanes)
I was denied this the last time I tried to buy it and the pharmacist couldn't even tell me why aside from "the system won't let me". I went to a different chain a half mile away and walked out with a month's supply of the stuff. Hilariously incompetently-designed regulation.

Meanwhile meth making is more efficient, cheaper, and delivers purer-grade glass than ever.
Congrats on the launch guys! Tried the product early on and it’s clearly improved a ton. I’m still using Cursor every day mainly because of how complete the feature set is - autocomplete, command K, highlight a function and ask questions about it, and command L / command shift L. I am not sure what it’ll take for me to switch - maybe I’m not an ideal user somehow… I’m working in a relatively simple codebase with few collaborators?

I’m curious what exactly people say causes them to make the switch from Cursor to Codebuff? Or do people just use both?
> Unfortunately there is an absurdly low limit on purchasing amount in the US.

The maximum safe dose for an adult is 240 mg in a 24 hour period. Current guidelines allow for getting a 10 day supply (the average cold lasts 7-10 days) in a single visit, and basically a limitless supply with a few visits (37 days worth every 30 days).

If you are running into purchasing limits, you are either making meth or blowing out your liver.

Edit: Math is hard. The 30 day limit is 7.5 grams (a 31 day supply), or 3.6 grams per trip (a 15 day supply).
And yet homeopathy stuff is legal and often mixed in on the shelf with actual drugs.

Sigh. Still an improvement.
I have no problem working for a company like meta for the reasons you mentioned. I wouldn't for other reasons. Choosing employment by ethical standards are fine but if you eliminate facebook for that reason you remove most companies. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, the government.. but also sectors like finance or gaming (including poker), crypto and many small businesses who get money from shady sources or have to do grey area activities to break out of the pack.

I'd start with what places are ethical to work at for you?
I take it one step further: I'm not only invisible but am being actively targeted with prejudice by those who can see me. You very quickly develop a knack for predicting what "cages" will do at any given moment.

As a pilot, there is a sense of "falling behind the aircraft" when your situational awareness diminishes --- getting ahead of the plane by 30 seconds, then 5 minutes, and then 30 minutes translates to non-flying tasks/jobs too. It's a great mindset for "incident management" in any field.
The philosophical issue is there are questions which seem "simple" and have answers, but even if given the answer you could not know whether it was the right answer.
Related, I love Rob Pike's talk about lexical Scanning in Go (2011).

Educational and elegant approach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE
I don't think things are always so black and white but I respect your opinion.
Chrome 130 top toast popups, no option to disable under settings
Someone should tell peepz over at the Chrome browser UI team that maybe, do not turn the desktop browser experience into a nightmare.

I just noticed that they implemented these so called toast popups. So whenever you copy a link you get a small popup reminding you that you just copied a link...

Who thought this would be useful in any way to bring this utterly irritating abomination into desktop space? Who needs this? And why isn't there any option or mention in the settings to disable these? Why do I need to get into chrome://flags to eradicate this annoying feature??

Are employees under so much pressure to perform, or why are they implementing completely unnecessary things?
And it's much more profitable to scrape every ounce of working life out of the poor, then use them as slave labor in a prison once their addictions get them into a critical situation or farm them out to a rehabilitation facility that pays councilors 20 bucks an hour and gets a large chunk of it's funding from taxpayer subsidies. If there's any issue, blame the overworked poor for turning to drugs, then sell them energy drinks.
> If you are running into purchasing limits, you are either making meth

This would also be an insanely expensive way to make meth.
I remember complaining to my friends about how frustrating it was to hear that a medicine I frequently used turned out to be placebo, exactly one year ago today. Opened this article up, I'm currently taking the _exact same_ one in the article photo - it's what I had lying around and I had forgotten the name of the "bad" sudafed (it's sudafed PE). They need to take it off the shelves quicker. Every day is tens of thousands of more people who are scammed.

Putting my money where my mouth is and leaving a comment on the FDA proposal...
Removing the human-caused fires from the picture will reduce the number of fires but the fuel will still be there, the fires that remain will be bigger.
The next question is whether there are programs with lower time bounds that can be made arbitrarily large.

It's not precisely the same as "arbitrarily large", but this is the practical result given the busy beaver function. Following from that, yedidia and Aaronson proved the existence of BBs outside of ZFC that are smaller than almost all real programs. I'd consider that essentially what you're complaining is unproven here.
> And for clarity, yes, both sides participate in this charade of incivilities, but I am simply expressing my own opinion as an independent in 2024 that it overwhelmingly came from one side towards _me_ in this election cycle.

I added that sentence with the express purpose of acknowledging both sides have participated in harsh rhetoric, but that for me as an independent, it came far more from one side than the other.

I was getting dragged into an argument I wasn't interested in pursuing since I had already addressed this perspective (and even explicitly re-quoted it). The commenter's insistence on continuing is what perplexed me, and I don't think my follow-up inquiry was shutting down the conversation.
What a beautiful idea!
Really interesting take on the new Google super tool.
That's why our current approach is to build missing or not fully functional features ourselves to move fast. For example, DuckDB performs reads from Iceberg tables not according to the spec, can't perform writes, etc.
You’re not wrong. The space for ham enthusiasm has been greatly diminished by the internet. Since its inception in the 1910s until maybe the 80s or even 90s, saying “I contacted a dude in Thailand and another in Poland last night from my shack in Nebraska” would have been such a flex! It would have attracted the interest of many nerds and engineering/science minded folks.

Now a days it wouldn’t even make any sense to announce or mention that. You’ll have to qualify it with a lot of “oh but I didn’t use the internet, or any infrastructure. In fact I can do this with nothing more than a battery and my radio. Isn’t that cool?” And it’s cool, in a way, but only to those who are really care about the specifics.
is instant pot much more versatile device?
Ok so it still seems easier to blame the people forcing bikes onto roads than to blame the people with the least capacity to hurt others.
Also though, if a slow-moving vehicle is impeding other traffic, they should pull over at the next safe opportunity and allow traffic to pass.
Delsym is dextromethorphan-polistirex, a long-acting formulation of DXM that is supposed to last 12 hours. DXM is available in almost all cough syrups.
HIIT or Tabata must not be done day-to-day, everyday. With no recovery days, there will be no gains. A 21 year old is able to recover like crazy, a good 9 hours of sleep might be enough to mostly recover. For others it would not work well and would lead to over-training. In overtraining, the 100% efforts will be 90% efforts, impact the immune system, generally just not good all round.

For disproportionate benefits, one needs to define which benefits exactly. A max effort will burn a lot of calories quite quickly and potentially increase V02 max (which is highly correlated to overall longevity). Zone 2 training has become popular and has other benefits, notably increases 'fat max' threshold - which gives different benefits (specifically the ability to work harder for longer while still using fat as an energy source for the exercise).

> I found that it's indeed difficult to strike a legitimate 100% effort, even when it's only for 20 seconds and only 5-10 times.

This is essentially the point. At the end of Tabata, the last interval should be the last bit of energy you have in the tank. It should be entirely draining. Doing this routine daily will not allow recovery to then properly do the training well.

FWIW, I heard it paraphrased as this: the body has essentially too modes, hard & easy. When going hard, it only matters how hard you go, not how long. When going easy, it only matters how long you go for, not how hard. At the same time, zone 2 training and HIIT/Tabata are not mutually exclusive in their benefits, but it's more which systems receive the most benefit while other systems in the body receive benefits but to a lesser degree.
Hey HN community!

I've recently fallen down the rabbit hole of ham radio and antennas/satellites. While experimenting with a handheld directional YAGI antenna, I realized there must have been a better way than pulling out my compass app and continuously checking to make sure I was getting the right angle. So I built STAR! It uses your device's built-in motion sensors and location to precisely align your antenna with any satellite orbiting around Earth.

Honestly, I didn't know you could access a device's motion data from the web so that was super fun to play around with. I've been able to get some great images from NOAA weather satellites and learn about some fun math that makes this all work.

PSA: You can build your own YAGI antenna for about $10 in materials. Just look up a "tape measurer antenna" and thank me later for the fun project :)
Thanks for taking the time to write this up! My own interests are largely related to understanding EM physics and technology - Ham radio provided the conduit, pun intended.
About 30 minutes ago, it has been my Gmail notification sound for a few years :)
Previously (11+23 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42080594 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42080782
> What we want everywhere is block-scoped defer, right?

Not always. Block-scoped defer makes allocating inside "if blocks" a pain.

The flip side is that function-scoped is a pain to implement in a non-GC language.
I did end up trying to research it a bit for my own edification, but I wasn't successful in finding the paraphrase given by the commenter. The closest I came is to an uncorroborated report from one of his staff that quoted him as wanting generals like Hitler's. However, I couldn't find a signal reference that the intent of wanting these generals was to kill democrats.

I would be happy for someone to provide more evidence, as I gave up after 10-15 minutes.
Does anyone have a good EBNF notation for Sqlite? I tried to make a tree-sitter grammar, which produces C code and great Rust bindings for it. But they use some lemon parser. Not sure how to read the grammar from that.
I'm alive because my father did the same. How much value is your life worth?
phenylephrine is still pretty effective as a topical nasal spray. so don't write it off if you see it in that form.
An egg laid by a chicken is also an egg from which a chicken hatches, unless significant mutation. An egg from which a chicken hatches could be a mutant laid by a non-chicken. But it's a bit sorites heap trying to decide which mutation makes the non-chicken a chicken.
When you're that rich you are going to be surrounded by people with crazy expensive stuff, and exposed to media about crazy expensive stuff, so much, that it will be more obvious. Like how you don't have to be a watch aficionado to know that an Omega is more expensive than a Casio; you just have to have heard people talking about "regular" vs "expensive" watches and seen some commercials and such. Same deal, just now talking about "regular" watches is a much higher baseline.

(I think this is related to how "a million dollars" still sounds impressive because of the change from 6 to 7 digits even though it's not nearly as much money as it used to be. A lot of people have super-dated signifiers for what "really rich" means because of the persistent anchoring of the terms.)
Direct link to the article, starting on page 1086:

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Electrical-Experim...
How is this shortcut even possible? Maybe it’s because I have an older model or haven’t figured out how to build good Shortcuts yet, but I thought that every shortcut requires some kind of manual activation. Would you launch the shortcut from an Apple Watch? Wouldn’t iOS require confirmation from the thief to turn off airplane mode?

That being said, I have heard of a weird automation someone made where it would open an app as soon as they went to the Home Screen. It took some thinking for them to deactivate it because the shortcut was really fast to activate.
Corporate leadership*
Most worthless law. Now i have to wait in line for 10 minutes to get it and yet meth is still widely available and usage actually increased. Did nothing except shift manufacturing to outside of the US.
> This is great until you lose control of your domain because you forgot to pay it or whatever.

There's an easy way to address this that a lot of people overlook. Seriously, I'm not being snarky or sarcastic in what I'm about to say. A lot of people seem to really not considered this. Use a calendar.

Every major desktop OS includes calendar software, I believe, as does every major mobile OS.

Create a calendar on one of your devices and when you do something like buy a domain, but an annual recurring event named something like "renew domain" that will be due a couple weeks for the domain expires.

Get in the habit of taking a look at the calendar every day. Most also allow you to assign alerts to events to further ensure you won't miss it.
One thing that changed is that everything is instantly reported through numerous channels, and globally: traditional broadcast media as well as independent reporters using Internet channels.
My anecdata is that, though it's not as effective as pseudoephedrine, phenylephrine actually is effective in an inhaler, and a helluva lot better at clearing up a stuffy nose than "scents and essential oils". Of course, a cylindrical inhaler with a wick inside it doesn't go near my digestive tract... Now I'll have to look around for a replacement inhaler, something quick enough to avert choking-panic. Thanks, CVS.
What would you consider to be small or medium? I have a use case for analytics on ~1 billion rows that are about 1TB in postgres. Have you tried on that volume?
I think this is a bad take. The press mostly do their jobs, I see lots of opinion which they could reduce, but most of the time it’s on point, at least in the mainstream news, and sometimes even fox. it’s not their fault if Americans are giving in and listening to foreign propaganda from Russia and the CCP, these easily fooled people will have to get burned like they’re getting ready to get burned in the next 4 years, to return to the fold. They’re essentially still children when it comes to threats like promoted bluecheck bots funded by foreign actors like the aforementioned ones on twitter and reddit.
Under $100: A cooking scale ~$30. It turns every bowl into a measuring cup, so recipes become fairly universal and easier to memorize.

Under $1000: Braun S9 Sport electric shaver ~$200. I can take it in the shower, streamlining my morning routine.
You mean caused by the war on drugs.
Our initial approach is to do full table re-syncs periodically. Our next step is to enable incremental data syncing by supporting insert/update/delete according to the Iceberg spec. In short, it'd produce "diff" Parquet files and "stitch" them using metadata (enabling time travel queries, schema evolution, etc.)
Does anyone else feel like dayquil is an effective decongestant? I do. I can literally feel the gunk running down from my sinuses to the back of my throat when I take it. Confusing to me cause it's phenylephrine, which is what the article states is ineffective. I've had this experience after reading these reports about a year ago.
Our 11-year-old Bengal cat basically converses with us. You call her, she'll respond or just look at you, acknowledging that she heard you, but reacting is completely her choice.

Sometimes, she brings us gifts. IF, she likes someone, she might give them a gift, and she will bring it to that person, you'll know it's for you, not anyone else.

When we are eating, she will query us. We need to either share with her, or let her sniff, to let her make sure, we are not eating something tasty without her.

She'll bring toys, if she wants to play, or a pot if she needs water, she'll nudge you to things that she wants.

Other 5 cats, understand each of their names, but nowhere near close as smart as her. Still, I saw one trying to open the cabinet where we store cat foods (he did that several times already, I was not sure which one was doing it), I am looking for ways to keep that cabinet closed :|

I think it's something to do with my wife, she has some magic with animals, with her love and caring
I based it off something similar to this https://blog.marxy.org/2018/12/minimal-wspr-transmit-with-ar... and moved it to Pico from arduino
Another ridiculous take.
I've found that the logos crate is really nice for writing lexers in rust

https://docs.rs/logos/0.14.2/logos/
Ah the good old $5 wrench crypto attack vector strikes again
There is a micro kernel version that runs on RP2040 would that work for you?
That’s a nice compendium of methods. I tried almost all of them, they all work to an extent.

I now use a smartphone again, as practicalities of life demand it. But I am switching to an old sluggish iPhone with a 4.X inch screen to hopefully put frictions in my use of it. I will see if that helps.

You can disable Safari in iOS. Search for “Content & Privacy Restrictions” in Settings. Then turn Safari off in “Allowed Apps & Features”. The app will disappear after a few minutes.

You can also turn off the Fitness app this way, even if you have an Apple Watch, and Car Play if you don’t like it for some reason, such as your car auto-connecting.
I seem to only be able to buy 10 days of Sudafed 24 Hour every 14 days. That doesn't work if you have allergies.

Presumably because places like Walgreen's can't adjust compliance per state and places like Alaska have "No person may purchase or possess more than 6 g of PSE, EPH or PPA per 30 days unless dispensed pursuant to a prescription"

Note that 6g / .240g = 25. So I can only buy 25 days worth of pills every 30 days. Or 12.5 pills every 15 days which is suspiciously close to that 10 every 14 days number.
It’s incomprehensible to me how people don’t think through what Trump says.

Even more incomprehensible that even if Trump’s policies were sound that Americans would vote to have such a reprehensible person as their leader.
> "I've been urban biking for years. It's no doubt dangerous... Part of my commute was on a path off the roads, it was nice."

Ironically, in 10+ years of cycling in London, the worst accidents I've ever personally witnessed were bike-on-bike crashes on the crowded cycle lanes! Broken bones, possible head injuries, ambulances and police called. I do recall one near-miss involving a bus and a few dooring accidents but nothing the cyclist didn't walk away from.
>>> Most roads aren’t even meant for cyclists

Source?
Code Spelunking in DocC