skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Bicycles are equal to other vehicles so it makes sense to concentrate the intersecting traffic to one flow, so it is easier to observe

Swedish bike lanes are the absolute worst I've cycled on - and I've cycled in England, Denmark, Spain and (briefly) the Netherlands.

Disregarding the pitiful maintenance of a lot of the bike lanes in Stockholm (which is another discussion), the current model where a bike-lane has been carved from the pedestrian pavement, but which then throws the cyclist out to the road immediately before a junction is a deadly design which I've found to be nerve-wracking both when I'm cycling or driving.
The cyclist is hidden behind parked cars, and is in the blindspot of turning trucks, until the very last seconds before suddenly emerging into the flow of traffic when crossing the side-street. I see near-misses almost every day.

It amazes me that anyone ever thought this was a good idea - but even more egregious to me is that Swedes seem to think their own invention is somehow so good they want to export it.
can we have something like an api for this ? I am thinking of creating a cli tool on top of this thing interesting
It’s kinda sad about the BSD operating systems …. fantastic operating systems and in a different universe without Linus Torvalds these probably would have been the server operating systems to take over the world. But ultimately outclassed by Linux - it’s impossible to compete with such vast community.
The boostrap skill is the ability to obsess over something. To focus and self-reward on anything is a heaven sent. Good thing we do not medicate that if we are unable to get that energy on the road, that base skill.
to be fair, the Kremlin usually gets it before it reaches number 10 [0].

[0] https://youtu.be/1KjHYsDoLyw?si=ji8xCWnJoBS-FXbc
I live in NL close to a border. Guess where tourists tend to stop their car, when coming in from the left in situation of the fine article?

People have little situational awareness anyway, but perhaps a bit moreso when they are Dutch.
> All Life on Earth Today Descended from a Single Cell. Meet LUCA

I thought it was Adam. /d
There is a dosing schedule for all the GLP-1s, with what is considered the minimal therapeutic dose being several times your initial dose.

However, a lot of people either see results on these initial doses, and plenty of people find them to be effective as maintenance doses.
Not necessarily. The state of Colorado is one of the plaintiffs.
Europeans Spend 575M Hours Clicking Cookie Banners Every Year
There are watchdog groups. The DoD Inspector General mentioned in this story is one of them, but the main one in government is the Government Accountability Office (https://www.gao.gov/). Famously, the GAO saves the federal government between $70 and $200 a year for each dollar spent on its budget.

There are also various levels of auditors within the organisation, some of whose reports are used as inputs for the IG and GAO.
This line of the article resonates with me a lot:
> A good reminder to be careful when changing code others might depend on

If you maintain a widely use Free Software library, please consider avoiding breaking changes when possible.

I'm not going to imply you have any obligation to do so, but your users will appreciate it.
A lot of rambling/yapping for sure. Context Window, parameters, whatever, one current fact remains: If it wasn’t present in one form or another in pretraining, it goes off the rails real quick, yet people constantly keep overestimating the capabilities.
I use LLMs daily but I’d really appreciate it if people would stop cryptobro-ing it up to AGI, replacing X, and so on.
The phrase “the technology is only going to improve” is the worst offender, there is so much tech used in the past that was simpler, better produced and more productive.
Yeah, this is AI we’re talking about, but does model collapse exist or not? What happens today if your synthetic dataset has a ton of slop and benchmark data included? What’s the result?
I wish for some genuine developments instead of blind faith.
How to Scale a Startup
"Fractals are not self-similar"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gB9n2gHsHN4

If you want to learn more about the fascinating world of fractals.
The point that this is too graphic for children stands, but this is a metaphor for Samaria and Jerusalem. This is stated explicitly in the text.
I don't think it's that hard, but it's easier for screenshots to drift and become out of date compared to just written text documentation.
That’s a south park quote: https://youtu.be/wWfacULP1o0?si=ddBWXFuQMoxxY-Yu
Well that Fargate article looks interesting. I had no idea there was a serverless pod management system you can talk to with tools like k9!
Sigh, agreed!
I conducted an interview with leetcode 2 years ago while not doing any leetcoding before. Surprisingly, by just applying some math tricks i finished them and got into later rounds. So yes math tricks are helpful.
I only have my personal experience. Biking on the sidewalk lanes in Taipei creates a lot of scary close calls esp with children and dogs. On the road I only rarely have some issues with buses. Everyone is moving in the same direction so it's generally less scary.

I think in terms of deaths, the most dangerous issue is getting t-boned at an intersection by a car going fast through the intersection. I'm not sure how either setup really addresses that. You need to decrease overall traffic speed somehow. Chinese do this with speed cameras everywhere and electric scooters being much slower than gas powered ones (which are illegal most places now)
Driving lessons in NL also teach you to open your door with your _right_ hand (left is right side drive), that way you turn your shoulder a bit and get in perfect position for controlling blind spot and mirror for eventual bike incoming (or whatever vehicle you missed).
>Checking to see if crash tests are being gamed with hyper-specific optimizations isn't really feasible for someone who isn't a billionaire.

hmm, operation "Trick Elon into Wasting His Money" has published its latest trick!
>"Why CDNs?

Services like Cloudflare, Akamai Technologies, Fastly, and Amazon CloudFront are not only widely accessible but also integral to the global internet infrastructure. In regions with restrictive networks, alternatives such as CDNetworks in Russia, ArvanCloud in Iran, or ChinaCache in China may serve as viable proxies. These CDNs support millions of websites across critical sectors, including government and healthcare, making them indispensable.

Blocking them risks significant collateral [commercial, commerce] damage, which inadvertently makes them reliable pathways for bypassing restrictions."

(There's also TCP/IP (Internet) via HAM radio (packet radio) and/or StarLink (or more broadly, satellite Internet)...)

Observation: If a large enough commercial corporation has an interest relating to commerce (in whatever area), then if that commerce conflicts with a government block (foreign or domestic) of whatever sort, then the large commercial interest, given enought time, will usually (*) win (they can usually hire better Lawyers, foreign or domestic...)

(*) But not always...
Which leads to the ultimate question for a BSD…… if we’re going to lift those great features from Linux then, we’ll may as well just use Linux.
Meanwhile, in France: https://tinyurl.com/yjvsm9x9
ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials
> I gave up on it for usability reasons

Pray tell what were those reasons?
This problem is already solved in places with more developed infrastructure:

• Workplaces can have chargers in their parking lots. In places where cars are parked for many hours, slow chargers are sufficient, which makes them relatively cheap and easy to install, so they can be plentiful.

• Malls, supermarkets, gyms, restaurants, etc. can have medium and high power chargers. BEVs need 20-30 minutes to recharge from a high power charger. You can do your weekly shopping while your car recharges.

• Charging posts can be installed along roads with on-street parking. In some places even lamp posts can be modified to have charging sockets.

Modern EVs used for commuting need to be charged only about once a week (BEVs are most efficient in city driving, and the median US commute is 1/10th of good BEVs city range).

With the infrastructure in place, daily use of BEVs is more convenient than ICE, because you never need to go to a gas station. BEVs charge unattended, so you don't even spend the 5 minutes refuelling. You plug your car in and leave to do whatever you wanted to do at the destination you were going to anyway.
I think part of the exercise is creating a thing that does stay sort of close to the spirit of the story that it is based on. This isn’t a totally free-form universe simulator, it is different way to interact with this one story.

I got rid of Fitzpatrick and tried to team up with Crispi. Didn’t work.

I dunno. If you’ve ever played D&D, there’s the concept of “railroading,” DMs who keep the players going in the “right” direction for the story they’ve set up. This annoys some folks, but some herding makes things easier. If the DM doesn’t know how the story will end, how do they set up foreshadowing?

I mean, if you want a classically structured story with a beginning, middle, and end… those aren’t designed in one shot, they require going back and forth, editing, to set up hooks and work out the narrative structure. So, this sort of game—it is going to need to know the end before it gets there, to foreshadow.
I think the actual website is pretty clear that the project is in the very early stages; I think the HN submitter (not the project author) made the headline sound more like this project is ready (perhaps inadvertently).

For me that first sentence made it obvious that this project isn't complete, but maybe a prominent "Preview release: Mac-only for now" would help some people.
And also car vs pedestrian is much larger than bike vs pedestrian, and in most places, higher than car vs bike also.
> NATO has deployed Tomahawks in the past and threatened to put them in Ukraine in the not so distant past.

Not true.

> Would you find the deployment of Kalibr (the Tomahawk analog on the other side) to your borders, within 7 minutes flight time of your capitol city, to be an acceptable state of affairs - especially if the deploying party had recently torn up any involvement in the treaties designed to reduce their proliferation?

That is already a reality with Russian missiles in the middle of Europe, in Kaliningrad: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2016/1...

Should we bomb Moscow to get rid of them?
ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas officials
As I commented at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821419 when this came up last month, the analysis here is pure BS.

"On average, a user visits about 100 websites per month, totaling 1,200 websites per year."

First, that is not in the cited link. The word "month" isn't even present.

There is the line 'In the US, the average internet user browses over 100 different web pages on a daily basis.", but that cites a blog post from 2007 ... which include numbers for dialup users(!)

Second, if users visit 100 new and distinct websites in one month that does not mean they visit 100 new and distinct web sites every single month. You've got DuckDuckGo and HN and Codeberg and your Mastodon instance, which you visit every day.

And once you've said to allow or disallow tracking, the web site can, you know, remember the answer for next time. Using a cookie.
I’m not a crash test dummy, but….

If the object is completely fixed and effectively inelastic, the main determinant in survival is the distance over which the deceleration of the occupant occurs, assuming a lack of cabin intrusion.

So the mass of the vehicle is ideally fixed in relation to its rigidity, and it’s not better to have less, or more, mass except as the ideal ratio to the rigidity of the vehicle.

What you want is a vehicle that decelerates as slowly as possible over the greatest possible time/distance.

A light vehicle that is very rigid is equally terrible as a heavy vehicle that is very rigid. What matters is how many millimeters it takes for each vehicle to come to a complete stop after colliding with the immovable object.

There are a lot of combinations of vehicle mass and rigidity that meet the ideal here, and it is not sensible to assert that a massive or a lightweight vehicle will be ideal in this case.

What you want is a vehicle that, at the speed of the collision, deforms the most completely and to the longest distance possible without incursions into the passenger compartment.

Ideally, the vehicle would have a very long and well engineered crumple zone in front of the occupants. Here, assuming similar material engineering of the impact absorbing structure, length is king. All things being equal, a car with a stubby front profile will expose its occupants to twice the acceleration as one with a 2x longer hood.

Still, the vehicle must have enough mass that the crumple zone is fully compressed at the speed of the collision. If it’s too light, it will decelerate before the impact absorbing distance if fully used.

If it’s to heavy, it will still be moving when the crumple zone is fully exhausted, and either a sudden peak of acceleration or a cabin intrusion will occur when the passenger cage becomes involved in the deformation zone.

I’m going to guess that on average, you’re still better off in a full sized SUV than In a more sensibly sized vehicle, hitting an unmovable object at speed.

You say you have a background in vehicle safety, so maybe you know something I don’t. Please explain where I’m going wrong here?
> In a 2024 analysis of fatality rate per mile driven from 2018-2022, the worst car manufacturers were, starting from the worst, were Tesla, Kia, Buick, Dodge, and then Hyundai.

I don't think this is a tree Elon wants to be barking at too loudly. But then again, you never know, every time I read the news I can't tell whether I'm reading The Onion or not.
and yet, Microsoft do it on their consoles with the "quick resume" feature.
What's wild about it? It's one person, and they probably mainly use a Mac. If they used Windows, it would be Windows-only at this stage. I have lots of projects that only run on Linux. Clearly, if the project succeeds and gains tractions, the other platforms will come.
Poverty has many meanings. The State of Uttar Pradesh in India where I am from used to provide less than 8 hours of electricity per day when I was a child. Oil Lamp is for the times when lights were out. Inverters and battery lamps came very soon. The whole story is spread across my teenage years and of different times.

Thanks Sherlock.
Well regulated marketplace huh? You mean the marketplace that forces customers to purchase through a dealership because of dealership lobbies? You mean the marketplace which has those same dealers charge outrageous markups just because the law says they must exist? Ok.
Hey, that doesn't have to be what "natural curiosity" means. Besides which it makes no sense to say people are born with complex interests. I mean, OK, your genes might incline you a certain way, but that's not the same thing.

Being interested in a subject is massively helpful to learning it. But interest arises circumstantially, it's an emotion. The grim reality that it would be really useful to you to learn a certain subject does not necessarily make you interested in the subject, unfortunately. (Perhaps "financially interested", but that's something else.)
> addicted to HFCS

HFCS consumption (along with added sugar consumption in general) peaked in 2000 and declined steadily until 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38094768
Just a degree in Sid Meiers Civilization
As a Dutch citizen, I love the expanse in terms of space. Lately, they have been allocating a lot more green areas as well, making the whole experience very enjoyable.

Example: https://zuidas.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/groenstrook-bee...
How funny it is to hear foreigners try to pronounce it?
Wazifa To Convince Parents for Love Marriage

In this post, you will get the wazifa to get parental approval in a love marriage.
This wazifa is of Surah Fatiha.
With the blessing of the wazifa of Surah Fatiha, you can gain parental Approval for Love Marriage in 7 days.
It should be remembered that every parent wants their children to get married in a good family and in this regard parents allow their children to marry keeping in mind the caste community, education, job, and home.
But sometimes girls want to marry a guy who has no special qualities,
But because of love, girls want to get serious with the same guy in any situation,
while they also know that their parents will not allow them to marry for love.
Therefore, if you want to get the consent of your parents for a love marriage, then for this purpose you should do wazifa of Surah Fatiha for 7 days.
Insha Allah, in 7 days your parents will agree to your love marriage. Surah Fatiha removes every hindrance to the marriage of every Muslim in 7 days
Also, if a daughter wants to succeed in a love marriage, then the wazifa of Surah Fatiha is better for this purpose.
Researchers produce hydrogen and purify water at the same time (2023)
It "doesn't seem up for handling" it because it profits from showing you those ad laden sites. It's intentional, not incompetence.
I didn't find this any different from any other AI RPG, or even just randomly roleplaying with ChatGPT. What am I missing?
> If it doesn't work well for such high profile names

What, exactly, doesn't work well? Almost anybody knows of Redis and ElasticSearch, many of the ideas they implement spread in the ecosystem and everyone can still use the old versions as the FOSS they were made as.

If you're talking about that they were unable to build a for-profit on top of giving software away for free without any concrete plans on how to actually make money, yeah, that might not have been sustainable. But that makes it sound like their business plans were what didn't work, the Open Source part seems to have worked out just fine for what the purpose is, to give away software for free.
Part of it is the dissatisfaction that systemd is Linux only and can't be ported, which is an deliberate choice.
As NASA increasingly relies on commercial space, there are some troubling signs
I will think of this and laugh the next time i have to find a basic function that is hidden behind 10 submenus or just missing because apple does not respect its users intelligence/competence
A street like your picture would make it incredibly difficult for a car to obtain a dangerous speed, so would by itself largely eliminate the need for dedicated cycling space.
The problem in the UK is a deep cultural one.

First we have to understand that, all things being equal, cars "win" by default on the roads. They are bigger, heavier, faster and more powerful (thanks to burning fossil fuels), and the operators are more reckless and inconsiderate due to being shielded from the outside world. That means their presence on the roads automatically makes it more dangerous and unpleasant for everyone else.

Second notice that primary routes are always designed for cars first. Every two places has a primary route connecting it. Depending on the importance of the route that route will have some level of protection against things like flooding, subsidence etc. and also be generally higher quality. That primary route is always for cars. Due to the above, that generally makes it undesirable or often practically unavailable for non-motorised traffic. See, for example, dual carriageways. Technically everyone has a right to use them by any means (they have paid for it, after all), but you'd be crazy to walk/cycle down one.

Third notice that cars are basically untouchable. It's considered a perfectly acceptable and normal part of driving to put people's lives in danger by driving too close and too fast etc. But nobody dares touch a car. They have the capability of killing or seriously injuring people, but people don't have the capability of killing them (the cars). The police will laugh at you if you report a car driving too closely. But scratching a car or something? Police will be on your case. Basically, we value metal boxes on wheels more than people's bodies.

Fourth notice that every part of the road network is designed to make it easier for cars at the detriment of pedestrians and cyclists. Why does a pedestrian need to press a button to cross the road? Why, upon pressing the button, must the pedestrian wait to cross? Why doesn't the light cycle start immediately? There is absolutely no sense at all in making the pedestrian wait. But everyone is used to it and doesn't question it; it's just the way it is. But what it does is makes being a pedestrian a third class status. It's these little things, like having to sit at the back of the bus, that chip away at people's ability to feel like an equal member of society. If you walk or cycle you are under no illusion that you come second to cars. It's little wonder people choose the car if they can.
The UK isn't alone in having old narrow streets, so it's just a case of re-allocating space. However, it does require a change in mindset so that rather than designers focussing on how to maximise driver speeds, they need to minimise driver speeds at junctions and make it clear that pedestrians have priority.
Not the original poster, but I want to push back on one thing -- being capable of something and being one of the best in the world at something are hugely different. Forgive me if I'm putting words in your math -- you mentioned "placing the bar for mathematical skill pretty" low but also mentioned running a sub-10s 100m. If, correspondingly, your notion of mathematical success is being Terence Tao, then I envy your ambition.

I do broadly agree with your position that some people are going to excel where others fail. We know there trivially exist people with significant disabilities that will never excel in certain activities. What the variance is on "other people" (a crude distinction) I hesitate to say. And whatever the solution is, if there is even a solution, I'd at least like for the null hypothesis to be "this is possible, we just may need to change our approach or put more time in".

On a slightly more philosophical note, I firmly believe that it is important to believe some things that are not necessarily true -- let's call this "feel-good thinking". If someone is truly putting significant dedicated effort in and not getting results, that is a tragedy. I would, however, greatly prefer that scenario to the one in which people are regularly told, "well, you could just be stupid." That is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Costly Ruby on Rails Upgrade Mistakes to Avoid in 2025
You can do a lot of the codeblock stuff with JavaScript's Function prototype (bind, apply, call):

const someBlock = function () { console.log(this.a + 2 + this.c); }

const myFunc = someBlock.bind({a: 1, c: 3})

myFunc(); // => 6