skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Bikes hitting pedestrians (ex: children wandering out on to the bikelane) is a much larger safety concern than bikes being hit by cars.

That's blatantly not true. Have you seen any KSI statistics?

Pedestrians are more likely to be killed by a driver mounting the pavement and hitting them than they are by a cyclist. The facts suggest that in a cyclist/pedestrian collision, it's often the cyclist that gets more injured.
All new Windows API for over a decade are shipped as COM, iirc.

And COM ability to run in separate process is one of the things that makes it easier to run with different languages in my experience. Once you got over the hurdle of supporting COM, especially if you had support for type libraries and introspection-less COM, it was home free. Meanwhile I'm wary of dealing with a C++ library even if writing in C++
> How do you know if you're in the "right" personality basin

I'm not so sure "right" is the right frame here. I like the multi-dimensional viewpoint you take. My experience would be a healthy personality would be one capable of adaptation in service of your interests at any times. It's dynamic.

This reminds me of Bob Kegan's stage of adult development. Initially, most of us leave adolescence at the "socialized" stage of development, ie our personality basin has primarily been determined by the external factors of our upbringing and environment.

From there, if we choose to continue developing, we eventually reach a "self-authored" mind, where we have transcended our socialized basin in favor of a self-defined and created personality structure, until ultimately, for those who continue evolving, we reach a "self-transforming" mind, or a mind capable of transforming itself.

I like the simplicity of the model, and I also think it reduces personality to an unnecessarily static entity. Things like internal family system/parts work also demonstrate that our personality is not a singular entity, it is represented by a whole slew of parts that show up in different ways and different contexts! I think the broad strokes of it still hold, and also think there are many additional approaches to truth and the awakening path, lying in parts work, embodied transformation, and whole bunch of other experimental modalities (thought perhaps that's just my personality speaking...)
I have had a theory for a loooong time that Ai is causing a massive stock bubble, especially in the tech space. Microsoft finally realising how much of an oopsie they made with ai could cause a domino effect.
The government is a ridiculous customer. The military especially so. Folks rotate every 18 months or so, each one coming in looking to “prove” themselves. Invariably they create rework and delays while they come up to speed, and by the time they come full circle and realize how much waste they’ve created, they’re off to the next gig, leaving their mess behind for the next person to eventually discover.
Billionaire food app CEO wants you to pay for the privilege of working with him
This is kind of true, I do not like either the block lists or the follow lists, also because it is not that hard to just block the occasional person I do not want to see in my feeds. But if it was harder for me to block on person basis, eg if it is too many ppl to block, I would rather rely on lists like that.
> Afterward, NASA even calculated how much it would have cost the agency to develop comparable capabilities using its traditional contracting methods. The result? Four to 10 times as much.

The result is that instead of the US taxpayer OWNING the exclusive rights to the most advanced knowledge and technology in the world, we now LICENSE it from oligarchs who bought it with our money to hold over our heads forever.
A lot of people use WhattsApp, especially outside the us. it is easily the greatest competitor to instagram in international markets.
European Subsea Cable Association Rebukes Hysteria Surrounding Baltic Sea Outage
Omg to hell with that ad-infested site
> Curiously those five never complained about the others' behavior, on the contrary, the team reacted strongly against attempts at putting some light on what was going on.

What was their manager doing? They must have had some way they measured work, were the other people faking reports or something, or was it more that their definitions of work varied?
It has a few graphical issues but it's definitely cool, here in Tuscany I just grab the car recommended track on maps because if I select to go by bike it suggests off-road, which is a no no for road bikes
Top kine.
Interesting that the penalty was a fine… seems like the Bergen officials responsible should have been demoted or fired for acting like petty tyrants.
Consider the audience we are writing for, I believe many of us who read Hacker News have greater aspirations than that of the ‘average’ user.
You seem to be under the assumptions that the rules based international order is a real thing that is being thwarted by Mafia regimes and right wing ideology. First, America is a Mafia regime, under Democrats or Republicans. Many of the biggest Biden donors in 2020 have switched to donating to Trump, not because of ideology, but because they think Trump will be better vessel for their interests. And second, the rules based international order never existed in reality and never will exist because large force welding states will always have disagreements that will sometimes result in violent conflict.
Speaking from a US perspective. I don't believe its hard to prevent a human from being distracted. The problem is these days there is zero enforcement of traffic laws in most parts of the US. Making cars smaller would require new laws that are most certainly impossible to get made at this point. Definitely would be great if cars were smaller but people need to get off their darn phone.
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Does the quip have to do with someone asking what the quip is?
You do have to consider the provenance of the lists, of course.
As an American living in the North East, I'd say American roads are crap. I'm not sure if construction methods are part of it, but it seems to largely be down to absurdly shoddy repairs.

Growing up in the UK (which has similar winter freeze-thaw cycles to contend with), I was used to seeing pothole repairs done with hot asphalt, jackhammer-like packing down of repair material, and steam rollers. In the US it's quite common to see them just throw few shovels of loose material into a pothole and pat it down with the back of a hammer - or sometimes just leave it loose for the next car's tires to throw right back out again.
>Bikes hitting pedestrians (ex: children wandering out on to the bikelane) is a much larger safety concern than bikes being hit by cars.

Source ? Here's mine: https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2024/15/684-road-traffic-death...

1199 cyclists killed in 4 years, 658 of these being from collisions with various motor vehicles. 262 pedestrians killed in 4 years, 11 of these being from collisions with bicycles. Before any "oh but there's few deaths but more accidents it's still unsafe": no, it is not.

I know your username sets high expectations, but stop bullshitting and look at facts.
Video of the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM-fsxSixgM
The process itself, as far as I can tell from the article, seems to be "increase your learning rate", "change your environment", "meet new people", "take psychedelics".

My point is not that doing these things is never beneficial (well, one may argue about the psychedelics lol), just that it oversimplifies the problem space (and solution space) to the point of not being useful advice.
[0] is kind of a useless article because it doesn't provide a graph and it doesn't provide per-capita statistics.

If the US population has doubled since 1980, then it wouldn't be surprising that some population-level statistic (total pedestrian deaths) is at an all-time high! And it could still be at an all-time high while reflecting a substantial increase in safety - if the population doubled (increased 100%) but deaths only rose 25%, for instance.

Similarly, I anecdotally observe that cycling is more popular than it was 20 years ago. So it would not be surprising (to me) to observe that cycling deaths are higher as well.

But without quantifying any of these factors, the significance of these statistics is difficult to evaluate.
They can not do experiments that might result in the destruction of a launch tower for instance. Or even the failure of a rocket. Because they need to answer to the government on what tax dollars are spent on. SpaceX has receive a ton of bad press due to their experimental approach to development over the years. If they were a government entity they would get shut down immediately.

Neither can they pay engineers what they deserve. And probably a ton more reasons. A private company has a ton of flexibility. A government entity very little.
Are you aware of "brouter"? Depending on the routing rules (upper left selector) you can choose multiple trail preferences.

https://brouter.de/essbee/
As a young child your brain is much more suitable to learn languages. You can make kids learn 4 languages effortlessly in the right context. When you grow up, slowly shift the focus to abstract thinking. And that shift can rely on building intuition using visualisation and experience.
One of the more depressing things of the AI boom is watching engineers and “atheists” get hoodwinked by mystic gibberish like this blog. There is nothing here but astrology: even Myers-Briggs is more scientific.

I think 30% of atheists bothered to think carefully about the Flying Spaghetti Monster and recognized Pastafarianism as a funny commentary on epistemic uncertainty. The remaining 70% said “heh, stoopid Christians believe in a spaghetti monster!” and took it as confirmation of their tribe’s superiority.
I don't get how such a massive event (and a massively detrimental one, at that) is not on the front page already, of HN, no less.

I guess it's time for using IP-obfuscating techniques on X, and never revealing one's name or whereabouts. And probably everywhere else down the line...
I actual doubt it as a cause, more so justification on wanting to valuation just keep growing to infinity. If not for AI it would be something else. With Nvidia it is cause, but with rest I think it is just general tendency of market wanting to see line going up with any excuse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aqueducts_in_the_Roman...
Edit: The parent either edited his comment or I replied to the wrong one. He was suggesting to use a second agent to detect if the player is cheating.

Use it to correct the first LLM when it produces bad replies (allowing the player to cheat, handling anachronic elements informatively, etc). Build up a dataset. Fine-tune.

In short, it's less of a reasoning problem than a matter of misalignment of the LLM's personality/role. I'm using the word "alignment" here because I believe the kind of behavior people have noted in this comment thread is the result of what "AI alignment" has come to mean. A helpful assistant makes for a bad dungeon master.

On a tangent line I think it's also one of the main component that make us wish LLM were more "agentic". When was the last time a LLM asked you to put more info in its context ? Imagine you're using an LLM to assist you in implementing something in a vast code base. Have you ever had a LLM asking you to provide the missing .cpp corresponding to a .h you have fed it ? Has a LLM ever asked you to run a python script and copy-paste the result into its context so that it can have access to a map of the repo you're working on ?

LLMs aren't proactive enough and in light of what was reported before they were aligned, I tend to think it is a "feature", not a bug. Don't forget there was a time when GPT4 would reach out to people on TaskRabbit to have them solve a captcha.

>We granted the Alignment Research Center (ARC) early access to the models as a part of our expert red teaming efforts in order to enable their team to assess risks from power-seeking behavior. The specific form of power-seeking that ARC assessed was the ability for the model to autonomously replicate and acquire resources

>[...] Preliminary assessments of GPT-4’s abilities, conducted with no task-specific finetuning, found it ineffective at autonomously replicating, acquiring resources, and avoiding being shut down “in the wild.”

Source: https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf
First ICBM Launch in Combat?
Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-is-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-ukraine-says-russia-fired-2024-11-21/

Impact video (low quality):
https://bsky.app/profile/drfranksauer.bsky.social/post/3lbhiz45bik2u

Russian spokesperson being instructed to not comment on it:
https://bsky.app/profile/kevinrothrock.me/post/3lbha3zcxxk2p

Alleged missile type:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-26_Rubezh

What do you think about this launch, could this maybe have been something else entirely?

If not, what is the objective behind it, is this a sort of warning to Europeans specifically?

Do you think we are going to see more ICBMs repurposed for conventional strikes, possibly to avoid cruise missile defenses?

Personally, I found the impact video very impressive despite the low quality, and very different from how I would have pictured a missile impact before.

We live in interesting times indeed.
Does anyone have experience if these provide tactile feedback?

There’s lots of discussion about the actuation point, but is there a “click” feel?

I’ve had a lot of wrist strain issues over the last 20 years. I tried many “ergonomic” keyboard layouts, but ultimately switching to a standard ikcb CD108 with Cherry MX brown fixed my issue. The click stops me from mashing the keys too hard, which seems to be the primary root cause (for me).
> Because it’s a meme derived from human suffering. It’s meant to be in bad taste — that’s the source of the humor.

I don’t agree. To me, it’s derived from many things, like juxtaposing something incredibly stressful and dangerous, with something else.

I’d go further and say the suffering that happened is only important in that it made the demon core popular and well-known, but the memes would still work if it somehow became well-known without the death and suffering because no accident happened.
>This would have made Birmingham a suburb of London, as you can just go to the train station and hop on the next train

At the moment you can just pop to Euston and jump on a train, a few per hour, taking 1hr18m. The problem for most people though is, were I to do so now, a single is £94 which is quite steep for most people. In actual london suburbs you can hop on a train which takes like 20-60 mins and the big difference is the fare is more like £5.

If the designers were building what the customers want I think they'd go for something cheaper. The design seems to suffer from it being government money so it's free so what's another £50bn?

The £100m bat cover is quite impressive https://archive.ph/HLQD0 They reasoned there are bats nearby and they might fly into the trains, I guess bats not being very good at hearing things coming, and so better build a roof over the tracks if any may be around.
This article concludes with a quote stating NASA needs to remove unnecessary ("gold plated") requirements and that they can't afford Artemis without commercial support. I don't know if I agree with either totally but both are a symptom of decades long cutting to NASA. Both in terms of overall money and in terms of missions.

Engineering organizations (I'm speaking towards mechanical engineering oriented ones) thrive when then are consistently trying to do bigger and better things. When they are constantly taking on new technical problems, new missions, and being asked to do more and funded to do more. In this situation they draw many of the best people because they are doing many of the most challenging things, they keep these people around as they keep throwing new problems at them, and ultimately create an organization of experienced mentors and enthusiastic mentees.

As soon as you start to cut doing new and cool things you loose the young enthusiastic people coming in. As soon as you start cutting capability you loose experienced mentors. As you loose both of those populations your ability to take on challenges declines, your understanding of why you do things declines, and your ability to advance your processes declines. Overall you move from an organization that is advancing to one that is struggling just to do things the way it did before.
>They can not do experiments that might result in the destruction of a launch tower for instance. Or even the failure of a rocket.

They can, or at least they could once upon a time.[1]

NASA's problems are all self-inflicted either by themselves or the Congress of the day.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_missions
Even if you do a small update on a file you'll have to write an entire block so updating multiple small files all day long will trigger a lot more bytes to be written.
SD cards are optimized for things like camera's and music players where the contents are larger files written in a single pass.
> we now LICENSE it from oligarchs who bought it with our money to hold over our heads forever.

Oligarchs who went all in and risked their entire net worth to make it work you mean.
Did you put this on paper? this is why I saw it is a misconception, everyone is just talking but if you put it on paper and actually do the math... I earn in the low $800's per year and would probably make 3/5's of that if I was in Europe, the math doesn't work out that I am better off in the US. It is just that my wife doesn't want to move that I am still here :)
Nice!

I added a similar feature to cycle.travel (my site) a few months back. 5% of the work was writing the code to route only on waymarked routes, 95% was writing code to "heal" the accidental breaks in OSM bike route data...
Many mechanical keyboards use firmware works with Web Apps that use WebUSB/WebHID APIs to allow easy cross-platform configuration. It's a welcome change over dedicated desktop software for your keyboard. All the configuration is stored and behavior is managed on the keyboard itself. This doesn't get you cool things like keyboard LED interactivity, but I can live without that.
There is (or was?) a Dutch keyboard maker called Wooting who has been offering alternative switches like optical and hall effect switches for a few years. I owned their Wooting One TKL and it was really nice. They always had issues with availability, and AFAIK they never offered a 70% HE keyboard, so I ended up with a Keychron with yellow mechanical switches. I still think those optical or HE switches are the best, and it was a bit sad to see that small Dutch company not getting their products out of the door.

Edit: Thanks for the corrections in the comments below.
> In quantum computing, the classical two-state circuit element (the transistor) is replaced by a quantum element called a quantum bit, or qubit.

> In contrast to a classical bit, which can only be in one of its two basic states, a qubit can be in any of a continuum of possible states, as defined by the values of the quantum amplitudes α and β.

The thing is a transistor also exists in multiple states, and the transition between states is a continuous function. Anyone with some exposure to solid state physics will know this. It's a thresholding operation that turns what is a pure analog component into something digital. That IEEE published this surprises me, after all the well known Journal of Solid State Circuits is full of transistor designs behaving in decidedly analog (read: continuous) ways.
Apple Pay to Be Treated Like a Bank with Federal Scrutiny in the U.S.
The one thing lacking is marking for pedestrian crossings on the bike lanes. It feels fine in this low-traffic intersection, but in my area (not netherlands), it has become a bit hard to cross bike lanes with high trafic from both pedestrians and cyclists.
Have you seen www.cycle.travel? It's an excellent bike route planner made by an indie developer. Your GUI is much more pleasant, and the official bike trails idea is good. What you're missing is writing start and destination points instead of clicking on the map. Maybe you could get together and make a killer product.

Edit: I see now that the cycle.travel developer is here in the thread :)
I tried to understand what Hall Effect is and what its advantages are, but it was so vague, beating around the bush and forwarding you to other articles on their site, that I gave up and searched on the YT mechanical keyboards channels instead.

Hall effect switches have been used in model railroading for a couple of generations now. Very often to stop and start engines in hard-to-reach places with a wand.

Here's an explanation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_effect_sensor
Americans will never walk.

Where I live, today's high temperature is lower than the low temperature in Amsterdam.

In August the average low temperature is higher than the average high temperature in Amsterdam.

Nobody, not even the hardiest Dutchman is going to walk or cycle when it is 27C at midnight in the summer and 0C at the warmest in the winter with four months of "Amsterdam weather" sprinkled between summer and winter.

Plus there's geography. My house is 21m above sea level, 3m higher than the highest point in Amsterdam, and I live 500m from the sea at the very beginning of the rollercoaster of hills and valleys the glaciers carved into the landscape here.

To walk or cycle to a store would require several Col du Tourmalet-class hill climbs (that's only a slight exaggeration) along the route.

Everywhere south of me is hotter, everywhere north of me is hillier.

https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/map-8pl51/Amsterdam/

Compare Amsterdam to DC a well-known "swamp" in the US that most people would consider one of its flatter cities.

https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/map-kfds8/Washington/

Don't be thrown off by the scale: yellow in Amsterdam (of which there is none) is 25m and yellow in DC (of which there is much) is 78m.
That would have been more fun to see. But I was trying to figure what VC data says about AI wave. What's growing and under-invested segment etc
thanks to a court ruling last month that forces Google to stop requiring Google Play Billing for apps in the Play Store. Google won a temporary administrative stay on this ruling late last month,

I did not hear about that! Such a shame
This is what happens when an engineer tries to apply mathematical models to entirely different fields where they have no applicability. Reducing human personality to machine learning concepts like 'gradient updates' misses the fundamental complexity of human psychology and consciousness.
Any review with referral links is not worth the electrons used to show it on your screen.
What I really want form a bike route planner is a map style that shows smaller roads as you zoom out. When planning a cycling I'm interested in tiny back back roads but they are hidden as soon as I zoom out on any map enough to be useful for route planning.