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> 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!

Indeed, it is per capita deaths that have increased since 2013 or so [0].

Why speculate when you can Google?

[0] https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedes...
Direct impact of commonly used dietary emulsifiers on human gut microbiota
I feel like some conclusions of the intent here are born from being very well versed in the actual outcomes, including what I can only assume was a very painful end to someone's life.

But on the surface level of it, it's a scientist doing something knowingly incredibly dangerous and dumb for no particularly justifiable reason.

We've all felt a bit like that at some point. We just probably didn't have a core and a screwdriver.
14% of remote software engineers do almost no work vs. 6% in office
Personality is ~70% determined by genetics, not life experience.[0]

I’m surprised that someone interested enough in the topic to write such a long post wouldn’t put the time in to do a cursory dive into personality psychology. I’m going to assume that the author has a similar definition of personality to mainstream psychology, but if so, they are ignoring accepted studies and evidence that make it pretty clear that personality is not learned through conditioning like AI.

0: https://www.themantic-education.com/ibpsych/2019/02/11/key-s...
No, they meant what they said, a huge amount of the funding for these ventures comes from the taxpayer.
Indeed. Because they whole deal of them getting that money was to do the job for NASA the way NASA cannot due to public scrutiny.
Before relying on the US commercial space industry, we were relying on Europe and Russia. Now we’ve leap frogged the whole industry by a decade or more.

Is that mentioned in the article? No mention of Russia.
In France, there is https://www.francevelotourisme.com/itineraire/gps

UI is not as good but, there is very useful tools like camping, train station, the ability to split your trip in steps ect.
> What I meant is that Ukraine is putting up a fight against an aggressor is doing unbelievably, and the west while helping isn't helping nearly as much as it should.

I hear a lot this:

- Either we should invest our full energy in coming to peace, whatever it costs, because the main goal is to save lives and keep the peace

- Or we go and support Ukraine with NATO and forces the War to an end

What we do today is none of both, like "almost 0 diplomacy" and giving weapons and support in the bare minimum, not committing to any position, is pretty bad to the civilians and soldiers in Ukraine.

Something that I never expected to hear and see: In Germany the Green Chanceler candidate, Robert Habeck, trying to score in the upcoming election, saying that he would deliver Taurus to Ukraine: https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2024-11/ukraine-krieg-ro...
I worked on a government software contractor that ended up growing from 10 people to 300 people in about 8 years and sold to Booz Allen Hamilton for around $50 million. You absolutely nailed it.

Sadly I didn't get much of a payday out of it.
> > Thread-local is way too magical for me.

> There's a perfectly cromulent register just begging to be used; [...] what magic are you afraid of here?

Most of the magic is not when using the thread-local variable, but when allocating it. When you declare a "static __thread char *p", how do you know that for instance this is located at the 123th word of the per-thread area? What if that declaration is on a dynamic library, which was loaded late (dlopen) into the process? What about threads which were started before that dynamic library was loaded, and therefore did not have enough space in their per-thread area for that thread-local variable, when they call into code which references it? What happens if the thread-local variable has an initializer?

The documentation at https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread-Local.html links to a 81-page document describing four TLS access models, and that's just for Unix-style ELF; Windows platforms have their own complexities (which IIRC includes a per-process maximum of 64 or 1088 TLS slots, with slots above the first 64 being handled in a slightly different way).
TLDR:

> The answer, as best I can find it, seems to be related to the points about status.

> The second is the overly bulgy bit in front of their front legs, the brisket. And, also according to my research, when cattle are judged for competitions or prizes, the brisket is taken into consideration.
Lots of native apps could be websites right now, it's not a matter of technical limitations.
I agree that the discussion in the blog post is incomplete because it does not consider that we shape the environments that shape us, though it does briefly touch on the fact that other RL agents (people) try to shape us, and we them. But it is certainly more than that.
If you like mechanical keyboards with relatively light to mid-weight linear switches, you’ll probably enjoy Hall effect switches.

Being contactless, they’re extremely smooth, quiet and reliable, and being able to set the actuation point exactly where you want it is a very nice bonus.

I’ve been using a Monsgeek M1 HE (I think probably still the cheapest option on the market, even though it’s an incredibly solid block of aluminium) since the summer, mostly just for coding, and for me it’s the best keyboard I’ve ever used.

If your preference is for tactile/clicky switches, or heavier linear switches that you hit hard enough to bottom out, or you’re perfectly happy with any old membrane keyboard, it’s probably not worth the expense.
Break them up.
I'm not saying they're not smart, I'm saying it takes more than just a smart man. If Einstein was born in Africa to a family barely scraping by, and never got an education do you think he'd have come up with his theory of relativity? That's a rhetorical question, it's pretty much just a fact that he wouldn't. So you need the genius, you need the education and all the other social infrastructure, lots of circumstance.

Also I'm saying that nobody can come up with the theory of relativity again. That big juicy fruit is picked. I'm not saying it was low hanging, but it also wasn't at the top of the tree. Maybe if someone else figured out relativity and Einstein was born 40 years ago he would just be another relatively unknown physicist today. Maybe he'd have figured out some other amazing revolutionary thing, who knows. He certainly wouldn't have been the one to figure out relativity if it had already been done.
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Wooting is in fact mentioned in TFA.
I find myself using sponge, ts, and pee (tee for pipes: split stdin and send it to two or more different command lines) the most (and in that order).
This is a significant update on an event of historical impact.
Reference? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSD6WhIAF8Y
No, hype is an over-presence and/or over-representation of the benefits. Just because there's a hint of truth to the sentiment does not mean there is no hype.
The focus is not "making money of off it".

The main point is "can you compete while not being fully dedicated to the sport (i.e. it being your literal day job)".

And my examples along the spectrum: running - boxing - snooker, are just an example. Shared because I think it's an interesting _aspect_ of looking at sports (one of many aspects!).
That’s a fictional accusation
https://www.honeypot.io will be discontinued at the end of the year
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What's important is that you know who is deserving and who isn't, right?

I did not say that mind or consciousness is unique to humans. Our difference is that only we can control our minds and only we have a conscience to help us make moral decisions, which is always within the realm of self-reflection. Animals only possess the barest minimum of mind and self-reflection, for the sole purpose of survival, which pressures them to be as fit as possible. We exist at a different scale of consciousness.

Morality only exists within human beings because only we can calculate (using our mind, under the pressure of our conscience) how our actions might affect others positively or negatively. Then we use our greatest gift, our free will, to choose between selfish and selfless behaviors.

Even our attitudes can be chosen, over time. Choosing to be empathetic is an essential path forward to positive group behavior, and those without empathy are dangerous folk, indeed. Helping our younger generations develop a matrix of positive group morality is the highest purpose of education, sadly mostly neglected nowadays.

You should remember, as a CEO, that your choices bear a greater burden because they affect an entire organization as well as all the folks affected by whatever it is your firm produces (I don't know, I didn't look).

And, my friend, my universe is not at all capricious, but my fellow human beings are definitely flaky, being solely motivated by selfish desires, few having any more than a passing interest in the well-being of others. Of course, I do not consider that some being given more wealth and/or hardship than others is capricious; others surely disagree, obviously. As to the fairness of our criminal justice system, that's on the human beings making those decisions, not the universe for giving them the power to shade things however they choose.
Check https://icomoon.io/

You can create your custom font with existing sets of icons and get a nice overview of existing freebees.
These comparisons are always interesting because there are malevolent assumptions one can make about US car size, but there are also Occam's razor convenience aspects / differences in demographics.

Compare to Europe and Japan, US has - MUCH lower energy costs, larger family sizes, much further travel distances, and smaller % of population in pre-modern urban areas with pre-automobile sized roads.

Add to that a less top-down centralized government in the US and the resulting lack of mass transit, particularly inter-city, and you end up with more people, driving bigger cars, further.
The domain well represents what it does, and there are plenty of grep.* TLDs still to choose from should GNU want them. ;)
This comment tastes bad: It says that an oligarchy is OK as long as the oligarchs "risked their entire net worth".

Would you say this also applies to other systems? Like dictatorships, etc?
Something something a different enough value function is indistinguishable from malice.

More seriously, like the old adage about everyone being the hero of their own story, all parents think they have their children's best interests at heart. There's probably no such thing as universal best interests. Gets at some of the thorny problems - personhood, adulthood, cultural values.
I find the waste concerning, why is the visual of a body, lips barely matched to the voice even an appealing way to consume these stories?

Personally, I'd prefer to only listen, if not only read the news, with full screen graphics.
It's not just cities and towns, a lot of rural areas (particularly in Scotland) have single track roads with passing spaces i.e. a single lane, not a single lane in both directions.
This is mostly correct. Working memory plays a huge component in grokking more complicated mathematical components, and IQ itself is separated into performance and verbal IQ (which together constitute your IQ score) and its demonstrably robust. Some people find this easier than others and that is OK.

I dont disagree with the premise that mathematical thinking can benefit anybody, but its absurd notion that everything abstract is teachable and learnable to all is a fantasy of a distinctly left-wing variety, who would have you believe that everything is just social conditioning and human beings dont differ from one-another.
> My point is not that doing these things is never beneficial (well, one may argue about the psychedelics lol)

In our experience, psychedelics are very hit-or-miss depending on the person. Some (like us) take high doses regularly without much consequence, others can suffer terrible damage after just a single dose. It can be difficult or impossible to predict, anyone who's unwilling to take the risk probably shouldn't.
Khronos Announces Vulkan Video Encode AV1 and Encode Quantization Map Extensions
I haven't had the opportunity to use this in research yet, but i liked numbat [0], as it comes with relevant common units and lets you define your own. It appeared on HN before [1].

[0]: https://github.com/sharkdp/numbat

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38276430
As with a magic trick, the delight resides more in the mystery than the solution, and this article spends its time appropriately. Were the answer given too quickly - were the reader not given the opportunity to marinate for a time in the oddness of the phenomenon, while being drip-fed increasingly outlandish examples - the impact of the reveal at the end would be lost. The punchline is the recontextualization of what we think of as "art" as functional objects, and it is only through being invited to ponder for ourselves for a time that we are prevented from pretending that we understood this all along.
With timers ? because undersea communication is not as solved problem AFAIK
Did they add extra bars for the purpose of gaming the tests or did they add extra bars and then whoever chose what to send for the tests picked the obvious best choice?
Nurturing a competitive private industry will yield far greater dividends
Converting a Dart Google Chrome Extension to a Safari Extension
Not to throw cold water on Artemis, because I'm enthralled by the mission, but... With all the things awry in our countries and the world at large, is going to the moon the best use of government money? There's an opioid epidemic, a housing crisis, a mental health crisis, food is getting more and more expensive, and climate change is exacerbating the pre-existing environmental racism not to mention resulting in an influx of climate refugees.

Is putting people on the moon for scientific exploration and human pride really a priority, budget-wise? That's not a rhetorical question, it's an invitation for discussion.
Yeah the article completely misses the mark there. The suffering is not even a part of the meme, nobody really delves into that.
Personally I've always found, ironically, some of my most ardent atheist friends to essentially treat the topic with a level of intensity you might expect from a religious evangelist. Often there's also a level of religious fervor they carry over to politics as well.

I don't really care what other peoples religion/non-religion is anymore than what type of underwear they prefer, and yet...
Astronomers measure the spin of a supermassive black hole for the first time
Show HN: Superflex – Turn designs to code that matches your project (v0+Cursor)
Hello HackerNews community!

We’ve been working on Superflex for several months now. We built this because front-end code is tedious + we wasted a lot of time writing frontend manually at our previous startup.

It supports all major frameworks (React, Next.js, Vue, Angular) + Typescript & integrates with Figma to get all of the related properties from Figma’s API. Then it writes code that matches your coding style, design system and reuses your UI components.

How it’s different from Cursor: We’re focusing purely on the the frontend and take inputs from Figma, which allows us to make better UI generations.

How it’s different from v0/Replit: Tools like v0 are great for prototyping, but they do not work if you have an existing codebase and if you’re not using ShadCN.

We are currently looking for contributors to help us improve the UX (fast apply, tab etc), so if you would like to work on a dev tool, feel free to contribute! Note that only the VSCode extension code is open-sourced now, we will be open-sourcing the backend soon, we are still cleaning up the repository to not expose any security vulnerabilities.

If you have any feedback please comment here or you can schedule a call with me here: https://calendly.com/yegemberdin/quick-chat-w-aibek

Website: https://superflex.ai
That's a very important thougt and I belive the world would be better, if more people would connect with their mathematical side.
> Does `$this->country =` use the setter even if it's in a hook (but not a `country` hook)?
To me it is obvious hooks won't use other hooks because that could lead to an infinite loop in a hurry

I would expect hooks for properties other than `$this->contryCode` to be called inside of a `$this->contryCode` hook.

Btw the docs that are linked in the post[0] seem to be clearer than the example in the announcement. Reads less ambiguously to me.

[0]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration84.new-features.php#m...
27C at night is uncommon, but I can tell you there is no weather that stops Dutch people from walking or biking. It is mind ingrained.
Bird flu has the opportunity to do the funniest thing possible to the second Trump term...
I think that they'd rather show you the right answers, if they can. Those sites will often have exactly the same ads, and they won't make you think about jumping ship to Bing or Kagi. And advertisers will pay more for sites that actually have good reputations.

Search engines are the picks-and-shovels of the Internet gold rush. They profit either way. They want to do it in a way that keeps the gravy train going.

I'm no starry-eyed capitalist. I'm sure that Google would sell their own grandmothers for a few ad clicks. But occasionally the cynical thing to do is actually the right thing.
PostgreSQL 17.2, 16.6, 15.10, 14.15, 13.18, and 12.22 Released!
Can your sensor product feed data to open source software for hobbyist and professional agriculture?

I set up FarmOS in a container once; the PWA approach to the offline mobile app was cool but I guess I wasn't that committed to manual data collection or hobbyist gardening.

Are there open standards to support architectural sensor data?

Where is the identifier on the sensor? How does the user scan the visually-confirmable sensor barcode or QR code or similar and associate that with a garden bed or a container?

How does it notify of low battery status; is there a voltage reading to predict the out of battery condition?

Is there a configurable polling interval?

How do I find a sensor unit with a dead battery; is there a low-power chirp, or do I need a metal detector or very directional wireless sensors and triangulation or trilateration?

Are there nooks and crannies in the casing?

How to replace the battery?

Can they be made out of compostable materials? E.g. carbon with existing nanofabrication capabilities

After Single Walled Twisted Carbon Nanotube batteries which are unfortunately still only in the lab, and more practically Sodium Ion, which batteries can safely be discarded or recycled in the agricultural field?

LoRaWAN may be more economical than multiple directional long range WiFi antenna like can be found on YouTube. https://youtu.be/GWq6L94ImX8

Notes on LoRa and OpenWRT, which also supports rtl-sdr, BATMAN wifi mesh networking, and (dual) Mini PCIe 4G radios: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22735933
Perfect comparison at Myers-Briggs being more scientific.

like astrology with extra steps for dorks
You can't easially do adjustable actuation points and a click feel so I doubt it. They can put a click in someplace, but that is a mechanical operation which means either it is fixed at the factory or you need to take a screwdriver (or something) to each key to adjust. The nice thing about hall effect switches is you can choose the actuation point(s!) in software making it quick and easy to change until you find what works, but software cannot adjust a mechanical click.

I can think of a couple ways to adjust a mechanic click from software. You could put gears and a stepper motor in the keyboard to adjust where the click is (you of course need to design a click mechanism as the keys don't have it) - this would be complex, fragile, and expensive (likely large as well). You could put a coil under each switch and fire that when the key actuates to provide a force change. There are probably others. I have no idea how practical anything is, but I wouldn't discourage anyone from trying it if you are interested - it sounds like a fun project (of the type I don't have time for)

This article is about GAMING keyboards. Magnetic keyboards seems to offer some nice features gamers will use. However for general typing a traditional mechanical keyboard may well be better: do not feel bad about using Cherry MX browns if they work for you (I use them myself, but I'm trying to figure out if my budget allows for a model F) - the only downside is in competitive games you may lose to someone who has a keyboard that can do things yours cannot.
Because its not the readers job to support a writers position.
To me, the headline feature is full control of sensitivity, in real-time if you want.

A standard mechanical keyboard has a fixed actuation point. If you want to change that you need to replace the switches. A Hall-Effect keyboard allows you to tune the actuation point exactly where you like. You can also tune the actuation and reset points independently and even in relation to each other. That allows you to have a reset on a slight raise of the finger without having to raise past as absolute point in travel.

As an example of how the analog nature of HE keyboard could be useful, you could (in theory) set it up so that key repeat rate is adjusted based on how far past actuation you have the key. So, if I press harder the key repeats faster. Sure, you can solve the same problem with navigation shortcuts, but the point is that having a keyboard that captures an analog value for each key opens a wide range of possible use cases. I'm personally ecstatic that they are finally releasing Low-Profile HE keyboards.
Behind the Mask: Jailbreak this LLM to win
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42203177 was a reply here but I've pinned it to the top)
Interestingly, soy lecithin did not seem to have negative effects.
> Right, but the hall effect sensor measures the strength of a magnetic field.

Yes I recognize that. But I've seen hall-effect keyboard many, many times and magnetic keyboard never (before this post). I guess some company decided to call their keyboard a magnetic keyboard and now a specific subset of people think they're all called that - even though they've been called hall-effect keyboards since their inception.
My spouse works in a nuclear research facility. Everytime they talk about radiation or something i make jokes from the HBO "Chernobyl" series like "3.6 Röntgen, not good, not terrible".

Some years ago i gifted them a snow globe for birthday, but not one with a snowman and white particles, but one with a little chernobyl plant and black particles. Their coworkers found it funny. It is still at their desk these days.