skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and loaded with features

"Ludicrous mode."

> the top killer of drivers are trees on the side of the road.

It's actually alcohol and drugs. Which is the reason those drivers find themselves in the trees.
Trees are anchored to the ground. Being heavier just reduces your ability to stop.
I'd love to see some sort of multiple regression or ANOVA on this, instead of singling out a single variable. Is car brand really the best independent predictor? Or is it specific design decisions you tend to see in certain brands?

(Like, say, maximizing driver distraction by consolidating a bunch of essential controls and information displays into a touchscreen display that's really difficult to operate when it's sunny outside. Just to pick something at random, of course.)

Somewhat related, I was recently shopping for refrigerators, and fell down a data rabbit hole. If you just look at the overall style of fridge, French doors look like a terrible option from a reliability perspective. But then, digging in a bit more, it turns out that's kind of a spurious correlation. Actually it's the presence of bells and whistles like through-door ice dispensers that kill a refrigerator's reliability. And then perhaps on top of that the amount of extra Rube Goldberg machine you need to make a chest height ice dispenser work in a bottom-freezer French door refrigerator creates even more moving parts to break. But a those problems don't apply to a model that doesn't have that feature.
The linked study is better: https://www.iseecars.com/most-dangerous-cars-study#v=2024
People aren't concerned about giving their details to a mortgage servicing company, they're concerned about giving their details to a random website called "closing.wtf", which promises to provide mortgage advice for free with no other obvious revenue source.
"fact"
The Triangle Of Power (Notation for exponents and logs) [video]
I am going to be harsh here, but I think it’s necessary: I don’t think anyone should use Emit-C in production. Without proper tooling, including a time-traveling debugger and a temporal paradox linter, the use case just fails compared to more established languages like Rust.
Even a decent town puts most things within a walk or bike ride. San Luis Obispo comes to mind as an example.
Which part of this is a fact? That there are many Asians in California? And that they make up a disproportionately big part of Tesla drivers?
Not true. If someone can make a point honestly and in good faith I do my best to respect it even it's "harsh". I myself am no stranger to being very blunt when trying to make a case for something.

What I consider "toxic" is using slurs, trying to make people angry, bad faith arguments, spamming replies without giving them much thought, etc.
The big ones for me with log/printf debugging are:

- I can get a good idea of the temporal behavior of the program, and I can just scroll up to see earlier state, rather than having to restart the program in the debugger. (I know that "time travel" debuggers exist, but I've found them finicky.) I can scrub back and forth through time just by scrolling.

- I can compare runs by diffing the logs. Sometimes that alone is enough to show where things start going amiss. Or I can keep instrumented logs from baseline runs.

- If there's a personally useful set of printf statements in an area that I'm in a lot, I can save those off to a patch file or a local branch. I don't have to reapply my breakpoints / watchpoints in the debugger each time. Easy persistence.

(That said, I do like to start with a debugger when tackling reproducible crashes.)
Which has limited value during real time events. If you are not preemptively following people who are interested in or involved with that event then you lose out on following that event in real time.
> every ICE vehicle feels painfully sluggish and slow.

You don't do much towing, do you?
Among my extended family, cousins, etc yes. Everyone has more square footage. Even double or triple. Even those that don't make six figures or live in Europe have much larger living spaces.
AI Can 'Hear' When a Lithium Battery Is About to Catch Fire
"In our cohort of healthy, community-dwelling older adults, egg consumption had no effect on baseline memory performance. However, the amount of egg consumption did moderate the rate of age-related decline in memory performance over time."
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8477346/
One obvious difference between what is known about the heritability of height and what is known about the heritability of intelligence or educational achievement is that when you put height heritability to the test, for instance by checking to see if the intra-family studies agree with the population-level studies, the height heritability stuff holds up, and the EA/IQ stuff does not. Another might be that successive rounds of study of simple phenotypical traits like height have not demolished previous estimates of heritability, while that has in fact happened in the EA/IQ case.

All this happens before we even reach questions about test-test reliability of IQ, or of whether gene-environmental interactions are uniform between Europe and other population cohorts (they do not appear to be!). It defines away SES confounding (which appears to be a significant issue). It has thus far largely ignored epigenetics. And, of course, for it to mean anything, the hypothesis also has to defend the idea that IQ/EA, at least in its genetic component, is immutable.

All that aside, I'm mostly just here to say that simple heritability statistics don't say what people on HN seem to think they say.
Threads artificially juicing their numbers with Instagram integration. I can't remember what it was but recently when posting to Instagram it offered me an option to enable all my posts to automatically cross-post to Threads, very possibly defaulted to "on" too.
Self driving seems to be doing quite well. See Waymo.
Ah, so this is why I need to disable cross site referer info in Vanadium.
LLM's get relatively better at read-heavy operations (ex: code review) than write-heavy operations (ex: code generation) as codebases become less idiomatic.

I'm a cofounder at www.ellipsis.dev - we tried to build code generation for a LONG time before we realized that AI Code Review is way more doable with SOTA
My Raspberry Pi has a better GPU than Apple's M4 Pro [video]
Besides consteval and constinit, you can force evaluation with static constexpr.
I'm surprised Google let's users create pages (and thus running user supplied javascript) on sites.google.com domain.
Astro is great and has deployment guides for so many platforms
They dropped the ball with the acronym though. Call it "A Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Information Systems (ARTEMIS), and then cue in all the cool Greek mythology puns about hunting goddesses and deer and swift reflexes and whatnot :p
How much data does Tesla have on the details of crashes? Probably depends on whether enough electronics survived to phone home.

It's possible to dig the airbag controller out of the wreckage and read out the last 30 seconds or so. Airbag controllers have a short but nonvolatile memory and usually survive crashes. That gets you speed, acceleration in several axes, plus steering, brake, and power inputs, and detailed info about what the airbag system did.[1] Those were originally created to tune the airbag algorithm, and, over the years, false airbag deployments have dropped almost to zero.

That's the basic info needed to analyze fatal crashes. Speed at collision? Speed 10 secs before collision? Accelerator and brake inputs? Maneuvering (side accel) before crash? That, plus the crash scene, tells most of what you need to know.

Law enforcement will sometimes read out those units, when it's not clear what happened. It's not done routinely.

[1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/fmvss/EDR_QAs_11...
this is great!!! Thanks so much for making this!

How are you handling the distribution?
rationally, budgets are constrained. any process that increases the number of potential tax payers is good. reassignment surgeries are elective, those receiving them do not pay more taxes, so priority should be given to fertility treatments.
I would expect most software dev jobs to hit the maximum payout but assuming that Walmart/helpdesk job will always be there and you can cover health insurance then it seems to me it would be better to take the unemployment first and get paid to send off a few resumes and have the time to do other things instead and then get the help desk job if you need to.
4 hours!

Yes, I'll do it, that'll be $(4 hours x hourly rate - 1 cent), please
Extracting Strawberry DNA to make Bubbles [video]
"DTSS was unveiled on May 1, 1964, along with BASIC. By that fall, hundreds of students were exploring BASIC on the 20 terminals around campus."

How far have we come! I just looked up and Dartmouth had about 3000 students at that time, so one time sharing terminal per 150 students!
Tesla drivers are young men with big wallets, stereotypically. That demographic is not known for their carefulness in traffic, or in any other matter. I'm sure that simple confounding factor is enough to explain the excessive fatality rate of Tesla cars.
I wish I had this for payment processing.
Trying to learn about this through claude was kinda funny.

Ask it to tell me about wood that doesn't come from trees, and it tells me about palm wood. I say, but doesn't that come from palm trees? It says palm trees aren't technically trees because their trunk isn't wooden.

Anyway, with your definition palm wood wouldn't be wood, and neither would bamboo. Feels like the vegetable/fruit thing though, there just isn't a perfect answer.
> Teslas can go fast real fast, so naively this is the result I would expect given how they have filtered the data. In other words, unless they controlled for this…

Explain to me why you would want to filter out fatalities caused by going “real fast”?
Both. Belgium is multi-lingual (NL,FR,DE), so most cities and bigger towns have 2 or 3 names. In fact, today, most streets in Brussels have 2 names. So do a lot of big local companies

Most local inhabitants would have called it Leuven, as it is a Flemish city. The rich people at that time, both inside and outside the city, heavily promoted French, and pushed only the French names in politics and international communication.

Even today, this is a very touchy subject.
Same with my older Toyota. They stuffed airbags in them, which is nice, but I've had several times where an adult on a bike is completely obscured, with my passenger having to scream "stop!". After the second time, I now bob my head like a maniac to look around them.

Can't wait for displays on pillars, to make them appear transparent.
Check out my gopher server using lynx gopher://gopher.petergarner.net ... Enjoy!
That said, I drove into a nearby city after dark which is increasingly early last night. There are no reasonable alternatives--I will for a 9-5 event but just doesn't work for the evening. There's a decent mass transit system including commuter rail but it it's just not organized around coming in at 5pm. It's chaos with cars/cycles/escooters/pedestrians often randomly crossing streets, poor visibility, etc. I mostly just don't go in any longer.
Introducing Ledger: A System for Monitoring & Reporting Carbon Removal at Scale
The worst 23 models according to the study are here: https://www.iseecars.com/most-dangerous-cars-study#v=2024

I'm not sure which of them are evs, but you could work it out fairly easily. Even if many of them are, it still looks to me like tesla is doing poorly by this metric.
A Comprehensive Study on Quantization Techniques for Large Language Models
"Large language models can sometimes respond with nonsensical responses, and this is an example of that."

No Google, there is nothing nonsensical in this response. It is crystal clear.
>they can collect pricing info on houses, run analytics

AFAIK house sale prices (ie. property transactions) are open in many (most?) jurisdictions.

>and swoop the deal with a slightly better offer

How does that even work? The winning bidder is presumably someone who gave the highest offer. Why would another company pay above and beyond that, considering that there's probably several other serious buyers who aren't willing to pay more?
Something that would be useful would be exporting to PDF with the whole report so you could send it to your realtor / lender, etc!
I have this and OpenSprinkler in my house, and love them both.

Hated myQ even before it went subscription.
Looking at your post history here, I don't think you're a pariah because of the amount of children you want to have. It's because you have a lot of noxious viewpoints that involve saying people straight up should not exist.
> .war for python

It shouldn't be that hard to get a general 'jar/war', not just for python.

Perhaps jart's cosmolitan libc with a zip file appendage which it auto extracts and optionally caches on first use.

A heavyweight solution, but still lighter than Docker.
Same here in Seattle, both in the city proper and in the surrounding suburbs. Many public schools closing down due to lower enrollment. Partly because many parents are opting for private school, but also because there are fewer kids in the area. Many possible explanations: It's expensive to afford a big enough house for a family, people are having fewer or no kids, many people unable to find a partner, etc.
They bought a president. That's not nothing.
right now ive been trying to export the PDF but it's annoying
There's a saying: BMWs are for folks that like to drive, Teslas are for folks that hate to drive.

My own add-on is: Toyotas are for folks that have to drive.
On the one hand, you say that this will help you discover your "unique voice" and yet in your post: "suggest messages that get replies". So your prospective match isn't getting to know you, it's getting to know an LLM.

How is this better than the classic bait-and-switch of using a fake or heavily doctored profile pic, except now it's extended to even the user's personality?
i never found foil stupid, but i also only have a bachelors in math. maybe this was because i had already been exposed to multiplying polynomial expressions, beyond just a 2 term * 2 term by the time i had learned it in school, but i never found it particularly complicated to grasp. foil was never taught to me as the only way to multiply polynomials, rather, an easy algorithm to apply in a certain case. the goal is for you to make the connection that oh, in a 3x2 case, u have to multiply each term in the 3 with each term in the 2, etc.

i think your problems with foil can be extended to the general way math is taught. at least for me, it was always full of tricks, little rules that can be broken sometimes, and i was constantly learning new things that made me realize my old teachers had taught us tricks to shortcut solutions.
There is a bug with that where you cannot "redefine" the ftp command used (I think it was that, or the group declaration), so in the end I had to edit the configuration manually either way
Community Notes is a great feature.

But on X too much value was / is being lost due to policy and algorithmic choices that discourage signal and encourage noise.

I used to go there for critical discussion of various tech issues or smart people talking about innovations at the cutting edge. As an example I used to use X to learn about modern graphics programming by searching certain terms to see what the smartest people in the field were saying while talking to each other.

It used to be that if a big account Tweeted something often you'd see true experts responding as the first replies. Now you'll see dozens of Bluechecks spamming memes or gross statements before you get to any substance, which inevitably has lower engagement.

Too many smart people have been turned away from the platform and it just doesn't generate the quality of discussion it used to. Already in the communities I care about I'm finding vastly more substance on BlueSky.
Akamai Announces Winning Bid for Select Assets of Edgio
Thanks to all the replies… ok, looks like I’m going to have another go at debugging!
Consider, my friends, this elegant plot twist. Musk is a secret blue agent infiltrated to make that government database disappear.
Tesla drivers demographic was that maybe in 2015. Today, it's the California camry.
instead of working through it

Loonnnng time ago (25+ years) I remember appearing for an entrance exam of a very famous, hard statistical course. It was a 3 hour exam, with only 7 or 8 questions. The exam explicitly stated that they do not care much for the actual answer, but the path taken to get to the answer (all questions were math problems). As a kid this sounded weird to me, but now it makes sense. Someone with good problem solving instincts will get to the right solution (even if it takes a couple of attempts to get there) vs someone who got lucky the first time (or brute forced their way)
When can the child be considered part of that culture though? They may be deaf, but when do they become capital-D Deaf as defined in the article? Is it while in the womb, when they're born, when they gain the capacity for signing and potentially speech, or when they are first introduced to members of the Deaf community?

I don't see the problematic aspect of "curing" the child's deafness before they become a member of the Deaf community. It's not removing someone from the Deaf community. Deontologically, it ought to be fine, surely? (I'm looking at this deontologically, because from a utilitarian perspective, we should be asking what is the correct percentage of otherwise non-deaf children we should surgically make Deaf.)
I would say that's better characterized as an opposition to urbanization that's designed for and presumes the ownership of cars by those who live there, and to that I heartily agree! Gridlock-bound US cities are a nightmare to navigate, but again, that is not the fault of the city, that is also the fault of the car and how inefficient it is as a transport solution.

If cars simply didn't exist, our cities would not, could never have, been designed the way they are, in any way.
> No plans to be in person

Figure out how to have some kind of face-to-face relationship. This could be an annual all-hands trip, or otherwise take a week to fly out and spend time with the person you work with.

You learn A LOT about each other when you interact face-to-face. I once worked with two developers in India, and assumed that the shy one was just so-so, and the talkative one was brilliant.

After some deep day-long conversations, and a few day trips, I realized my assumptions were completely wrong: The shy one was shy, and the talkative one spoke before thinking.

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More recently, I started work with a hybrid team. I live 60 miles from the office, but it's brutal commute. I go in once a week.
Oh, wow. That's a pity. I mean, you're down to the battery time of any random x86 laptop.

I usually get barely a working day out of my corporate MacBook Pro M1 with Corpo Security Special Sauce, CLion and Teams. But I have to kill CLion when it gets too crazy (i.e. often).
Do you have any insights from Activity Monitor on who is draining the battery?

My biggest offenders:
- Symantec Data Loss Prevention Agent (x86 Emulation)
- $Corporation App Store (I never use it, don't know why it burns CPU time)

This corporate "security" software is the essence of everything that's wrong with a corporation.
Show HN: A Tiny-C language compiler, rewritten in Python
A Tiny-C language compiler, rewritten in Python(It has been converted from C to Python with as much one-to-one correlation as possible).

Reference: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~felipe/IFT2030-Automne2002/Comp...
SpaceX Share Sale Values Company Around $255B
Because comparing the fatality rate of a Corolla going 50mph and a Tesla going 90mph is useless to a person who wants a car that is safe when driven responsibly.
These next 4 years will be a hoot and holler...
What's the PDF parsing like?
You mean the monitoring system birthed out of google's internal monitoring system that everyone and their granny has been deploying everywhere for the past, what, 6 years ?
Doesn't each major government do independent safety testing/has independent safety requirements, anyway?
You did not evaluate adobe marketo.
It's an interesting perspective. I was recently shopping for shoes, and a fully closed shoe had more places where it could break compared to my flip flops. That's why whenever you are doing a dangerous activity, flip flops are recommended.
What a surprise, given today's headline of women being asked to pre-pay the cost of births before delivery [1].

People can't afford housing decently sized for children, people can't afford birth itself (or medical complications), people have to work too much to care for children.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baby-birth-costs-women-asked-to...
I'm trying to avoid national politics on BlueSky simply because I want to take a breather from it.

I'm seeing vastly more signal and less noise on topics I care about like game dev, urbanism, art, and tech.
You're not wrong, dems aren't wrong, about inflation statistics themselves. But universally, everyone got a massive pay cut from inflation which has not been reversed. I even think people in California making minimum wage, which went up, are still worse off than they were in 2019 since they spend so much of their income on food, housing, cars, all of which shot up. But people in the middle class are arguably way worse off since jobs paying say 100k weren't handing out 40% raises. Aggregate inflation screwed us, and the rate of inflation coming under control doesn't reverse it at all. Tariffs may wildly change things. Best case, it could result in job creation and wage increases here, though none of those jobs would be for college educated Americans, which is why the Left hates tariffs.
I read this so I added Reversi for you now!
Bigscreen is very customized. They have different models for different interpupil distance. The face insert is custom made. Custom corrective lenses can be made and installed. Not even close to one-size-fits-all. This is all good but hard to market.
We need to decommission the culture of this website that makes straightforward eugenics a popular position here.
North Carolina next question.
> but you might say hi if you walk past their desk

No. I would never interrupt someone's flow for a "hi". What an insane take. Those like you, interrupting us for a "hi" and throwing us off a good thought process when you "walk by", is one of the main things which make us all want to work remotely, far from you, protected by a need to have a purpose for your "hi".
C64 BASIC got me started in my career. So grateful!
I have never done a wire transfer at a residential closing. I come to the closing at the title company office with a cashier's check from my bank for the amount they told me to bring.
The phase "Tankie" was coined to describe the communists who still supported the USSR after it deployed tanks to put down the Hungarian revolution, the left wing opposition to aid to Ukraine is generally them (well them and the peace at any cost crowd). Though the tankie logic has additional steps to take into account Russia not being communist, you see NATO opposed communism, and Putin's Russia also opposes NATO thus Putin's Russia is in fact good.
PyInstaller-made executables also used to have a habit of getting flagged by security software as malicious (maybe that's why you couldn't run it?) -- apparently, so many malware writers used it that it ruined the party for everyone.

Fortunately, that was only the 32-bit version of Python 2.7. Using 64-bit versions or Python 3 was enough to not get flagged as malicious. I figured that out when I decided I didn't want to teach myself Go just then to deploy something that had worked the day before.