skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stair height matters, most businesses have a spiral staircase with platforms at each floor at a minimum (usually every half floor). That already cuts down the injury risk.

Further, for people under 60 a significant factor in falling down stairs is alcohol (about 30%).

Finally, if you look at who ends up in the emergency room, it's generally old people with brittle bones. In fact, that appears to be where the 1.1 million number comes from, people over 65. https://nfsi.org/national-floor-safety-institute-comments-on...

If you are sober, younger than 65, and capable, taking the stairs is a good choice. It's a decent low impact cardio exercise.
English-friendly Romanization system proposed for Japanese language
I used to look forward to his takes. Some of the past posts were genuinely insightful, but now all I hear is the cliched difficult road leading to an AGI whose consequences always seem utterly dire for anyone involved, perhaps except OpenAI.
Were the servers part of an Elixir cluster? Because that functionality should be transparent. It sounds to me like you had them set up as two independent nodes that were not aware of each other.
Many industrial applications as well. Mitsubishi used it in the ECU of some of its cars, including the Lancer Evolution.
I think goal of the article series is admirable, but content choice for the very first one is somewhat strange.
Why primer on representing numbers? If thats desired level of details, would the rest of CS101 take next 100ish posts?
When I was 12 I was chaining proxies to play runescape at school. With how many content creators picked up a nordvpn promotion, I would be surprised if the youth doesn't at least have a vague idea. TOR doesn't care about the block either, which I'm sure more and more people have become aware of.
I guess the unused entries spell "bad FC" (for floating constant). Also I think constants 6 through 10 are relevant for the decimal-to-binary conversion or vice versa, as evident from the following observation:

0x5c3bd5191b525a249 ~= 2^123 / 10^17
0x470de4df820000000 = 2^13 * 10^16
Considering this is from 2015, I wonder how much does inflation bring $2.5 a day to.
Apple's 2024 report card: the Mac
It's a temporary strategy. Chinese factory workers and Indian workers know they're being underpaid and gradually get paid more and more. This offsets the cost savings and makes logistics and managerial barriers more glaring.

If you're a hotshot Serbian developer making a two thirds of an American, you're going to look for ways to reduce that delta.

But that's years away.
Future of ARM BSA/PC-BSA/SBSA Checklist Page
You're probably remembering this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42565606
I think the problem exacerbates as he tries so hard to appear more sincere and interesting than he truly is.
> I noticed symptoms in my 5 year old kid

If you don't mind, could you share what those symptoms are? I have 5 year old too and have some suspicions of ADHD.
Paywall, available here: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/cities-rarely-snow-getting-more-01...
> I’d caution against assuming IQ is at all representative of average practical or applied intelligence

I don't necessarily disagree. Unfortunately, demagoguery has paid off handsomely in recent years. It has been refined as a discipline to the point that the "self-destruction gullibility threshold" might actually be much higher than 100.
Sole author, and the citations are:

1. Himself, four times,

2. A mathematician for a restatement of Stokes' theorem (which he introduces kind of mysteriously in the first place), and

3. Three non-peer reviewed books from 1893(!), 1968, and 1992

so this pretty much goes to 11 on the crank scale

(Yes the 1893 is Heaviside and yes I've cited fundamental results that old but he's already hanging by a thread here)
How can a duopoly produce regulation? That'd be straight out corruption unless someone came up with a new word for it that suddenly made that legal, moral, and efficient.
The proverbial finish line.

I don’t think anyone seriously views technological developments as having ultra clear cut start and finish lines.

Engineering/technological innovation is an iterative process and we have steps that provide value and capture value to then generate and provide more value to capture and so on and so forth.

I don’t think having a universal agreement of what AGI is matters, like at all.
Like others have said this is just a thin client. The concept has existed since the beginning of modern computers.

This is functionally no different than Chromebooks and Google ”imprisoning” hundreds of school districts.

Besides, “the enterprise” has been “imprisoned” by Microsoft for decades. They were never going to switch over to Linux or anything else en masse.

Even companies that did have Macs were still buying Microsoft Office since before Office was even available for Windows.

Also, IT departments love locked down computers and I’ve seen plenty of places that use Citrix with terminals.
I had some bad experience debugging a legacy code base in C. People who wrote that code didn't organize their code as they would do in C++. They implement classes using structs and put the member functions everywhere in the code base, (not in pairs of h/c files). The struct fields can be accessed from everywhere too, no enclosure .
Wow, I expected a lot more men
Counterpoint: VISA and Mastercard.
> As long as there is suffering, there is more work to be done.

A noble sentiment that I think resonates with most people.

> There is a sacred responsibility implicit in the acquisition of resources. It implicitly says "I know what to do better with these resources than others."

No, it doesn't. I may 'acquire resources' and use them (or not) simply because nobody else is around who wants them more. I may spend money on something frivolous (e.g. going to the movies), even while knowing there's a possibility that donating it to some 501c3 (or some other person directly) could end up improving lives significantly more than mine was improved from watching the movie, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

> This kind of misallocation is a universal crime.

We have fundamentally different conceptions of property rights.

You seem to believe that people who come into money have a responsibility of spending it in ways that you think are important. In my mind, unless they're ill-gotten gains, they've already improved people's lives proportionally, and they can spend or not spend the value others have accrued to them as they see fit.

There are economic systems where committees get to decide the most appropriate allocation of resources, independent of the people who "amass" the resources themselves. These systems universally end up with lower levels of societal wellbeing than ones where property rights are respected.
Around $3.30
The more I use AI, the more convinced I am that we're nowhere near the point of time where it will take even the majority of dev jobs.

Maybe I'm wrong. But I just don't see it. I see it greatly increasing the productivity of developers, and removing the need for certain tasks, but not removing the need for them entirely.
Congestion, mostly. Really it's a problem at conventions or sports games where every human and probably each pet brings one or two WiFi transceivers. Best way to alleviate that is more bandwidth.
Couldn't an attacker put in bogus whois data?

Is there anything which validates that the information from whois is actually accurate?
Sure, that would be better. It isn't snarky, and it makes fewer uncharitable assumptions.
The printers never “required” a subscription. You could choose to buy subscription cartridges or cancel your subscription and use regular cartridges
This touches me so deeply... I had a similar experience in the sense that I too created a fansite for something I really enjoyed back then (first with Frontpage, then iframes, then PHP), and now that evolved a lot and I kind of become an expert on that (and a business on itself, I am generous!)

But while I was doing that, being a 10 years old, my best friend had his own Simpson fansite, so this triggered a lot of nostalgia. I when I visited yoru website and I saw the Buttons sections, oh my god. I wanted to cry. Thank you so much, I don't know how to thank you. I'm in love with the fansites from 2000-2005, and this was a trip.
I’m always intrigued by the apparent total disconnect between official inflation figures and observed cost of living. Our weekly groceries have doubled over the past 3-4 years but inflation is in the low single digits so what’s it measuring, exactly? The answer, of course, is “whatever the current administration wants it to.”
$3.37 per CPI Inflation Calculator, though it may be even higher given food has increased above the average.
I have been here since the mid 90's. Ads have been a plague for almost 30 years
Original source: https://www.wkyt.com/2024/12/27/did-officers-go-wrong-home-d...
And if an accident occurred because a typhoon washed out the antenna, people would argue a concrete foundation would have been safer.

As an aside, this reminds of the consideration highway bureaus in the US give to trees and poles.[1] Trees are removed and poles should break easily and fall after a vehicle impact. This comes to mind because I have given most thought to these considerations as a pedestrian, regretting tree removals and feeling exposed to passing cars in a system designed to accommodate them safely (for them) departing the roadway anywhere, anytime. Of course, sometimes broken poles fall on cars or people, power outages are more routine especially after vehicular accidents, and there are other tradeoffs too, some of which are safety-related.

[1] https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/roadway_dept/countermeasures/saf...
> and I don’t believe he’s incorporated

Why would you believe that? He was incorporated in Singapore last I spoke to him. Looking back 8 years ago, to last time I bought something from him, it's from an NL company with a VAT number.
"Does 'AI' pay your bills" was a gratuitous personal attack.
This is a very human thing linked to environmental perception. Cats and dogs, for example, do not appear to experience this at all. As a result humans have absolutely no concept of time of day without position of sun in the sky or a modern chronometer.

Dogs on the other hand tend to be aware of time of day down to about 5-15 minutes of accuracy, which is a performance feat humans cannot even dream of. Cats are even more accurate knowing of time of daily routines down to about 5 minutes of accuracy or even down to an astonishing 45 seconds of precision provided training and a more intelligent cat.
There will be no proof until somebody inside Apple who is in on the scam decides to grow a conscience and blow the whistle. Then they will be dismissed as a "disgruntled employee". Decompiling Siri probably will get you a lot of attention from very expensive lawyers that will make your life very interesting for a long while.
And the interstitials tend to break reader mode.
>But the finish line promises a significantly better future for (potentially) all

Citation very much needed. Maybe better for the ultrarich owners, but for the billions out of work trying to find how they're going to get food and healthcare? No.

>Adaptation is/will be required, and it’s not going to be easy.

"Some of you may have to die, and that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make" [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiKuxfcSrEU
Gears also aerobrake.
Perhaps it's possible that it's just not a reference to the bible in the first place?
I would guess that a gazillion dollars of other people's money is hoping that he doesn't put his foot in his mouth.

So there'd probably be staff/consultants who you'd want to review these pieces before they're published.

There might also be staff/consultants who have particular goals of the writing to begin with, and who might even write the entire thing themselves, or at least itemize talking points.
Because hackers can contort themselves into amazing shapes in order to fit through tiny holes in the oddest places. Once they position themselves correctly, and are able to reach the network address and port of a given service, and it has no authentication, it's open season. It may seem difficult, nigh impossible, for a hacker to reach all the way into your WiFi LAN. But there are always twists and turns to take.

From the public internet: tens of thousands of internet routers have publicly known exploits right now, which the router vendors refuse to fix. Just scan the internet for the routers, use your exploit, and you're inside.

From the opposite direction: malware in a website can redirect your browser to the management interface of a router on your local LAN, where it can reconfigure your router. If there is a password but you have logged in from your browser, the active session token lets it right in, and CSRF protection is often disabled or incorrectly set up. And even if it has a password, many such routers have exploits that will work despite a password. Many people also fall for phishing attacks that can drop payloads on your machine directly.

In some cases, the ISP itself has shipped a firmware update to routers that included malware.

All of these things have happened in the past 2 years, to millions of internet users, that we know of. Many large attacks go unnoticed for years. Once the router is compromised, it can be configured to forward ports or enable UPnP, or simply persist malware inside the router itself. The network is wide open and at the attacker's fingertips.

And this is just one class of attack. There are many more that can attack private networks. So there is no place safe from network attacks. Not in a corporate network, not on your local LAN, nowhere. There is no network security. The only network services that can be somewhat trusted are ones which require strong authentication, authorization, and encryption.
Even modern chips have a single layer of transistors, although there is research into 3D transistor stacking. (Flash memory stacks dies for more density.) Modern CPUs have much, much smaller transistors as well as constructing them more vertically (FinFET) but it is still a single layer. Modern processors can have over a dozen layers of metal, while the Pentium I examined has just 3 metal layers. I'm not going to be reverse-engineering a modern chip since you need an electron microscope to see the features; the features are orders of magnitude smaller than the wavelength of light.
I know it feels that way, but people's perceptions of each other online are so distorted that this is just a recipe for massive conflict. That's off topic on HN because it isn't interesting.
I never said that it misleads people into thinking that they might be on Google.

The aspects that you're bringing up aren't particularly relevant since everything you're describing is auto scrolled away.
c and c++ are not failing us and are not unsafe.
I sold quite a few things on Amazon back in the day. Was great for getting things off my shelves collecting dust at a good price. At some point maybe ten years ago they started requiring very invasive identity validation to sell. My account from '98? and good selling karma does not matter apparently, not grandfathered in.

Long story short, don't expect Amazon to be more reasonable than Ebay these days.
There was this guy called Samsa ...

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis )
This is for the enterprise. They are paying per seat subscription fees now and have been for decades.
To quote Jim Whitaker, once upon a time a famous climber and founder of a well known mountain guide company, "If you're not afraid of heights, I don't want to be on the mountain with you".
Sure, but I'm not inclined to believe that number on its own. Practically, even the cheapest grocer like Aldi could turn out to be expensive than the quoted $3.37.
I noticed Substack recently switched from "click this link to log in" to "we're emailing you a code; enter the code to log in". Wish other companies would follow this approach.
Very poor. Sloppy. Like ‘hey this tv drama show exists and is my supporting evidence…’ what?
The economist, too. Weird. Usually better quality overall. This is just weirdly written like a 12 yo that’s been on the facebooks reading anti-boomer propaganda too long.

Also, someone needs to get laid and smoke a joint. I’m
not even joking. Feel bad for the kid. But I don’t see a byline on this, so I’m not sure who.
So in a few years this will be
about $3.50.
People see “framed” facts hammed down their gullet for so long, accept this, be ok with that, this is the new normal even if it’s only “because we say so”, that when an other option is presented, and one isn’t ordered to “accept this because…” it resonates.

Surely you realize this.
When Did Trolling Become Inextricably Linked with Pedophilia?
> In every place I’ve worked, outside of independent contracting, the sales person didn’t do the trench work.

Have you ever worked at a place where the sales people promised features that didn't exist? A bad sales person can ensure you're in the trenches doing work that is urgent but not important. A good sales person anticipates requirements, identifies when they're not currently available, and proactively works with the right people to get the important features prioritized strategically.

The sales people talk to the customers, so from a certain perspective they're the ones in the trenches and talking to customers while you're in the back office plugging away at a keyboard.
The paper is full text, fyi. You won't get any extra info about actual glucose measurements. The paper is all about their device idea engineering. The press release dose purport to show a pic of a supposed sensor and a vague claim of clinical trials.
That is a nice guide, it is useful simply for getting games to work with Lutris and Wine, regardless of the cracking.

Note that some of the tools you recommend are not exactly fully open but come from 'cs.rin' and I'm not sure (that is I don't know) how open or safe downloads from that community would be. To be fair, I also don't blindly trust downloads from Github :)

I'm really glad that now I might be able to play many of my old Steam purchases without the intrusive online requirement.

It would be cool to self publish this as a PDF or similar - though of course I would pirate it.
Sounds like you have an issue with our current governance structures which allows too much value capture to proceed to the ultra wealthy untaxed, despite them relying on the society supported by said taxes to generate their massive wealth.

This will be true whether you’re for/against AGI development. You’re not solving the underlying problem, you’re just kicking the bucket down the road for others to deal with.
Not the US, but my dad just got one installed in his two story home, cost him around US$25k for installation of the lift/elevator itself, although he incurred a few grand more on modifications to create a space to install it in (would have been more but he did some of them himself). Not a new house, around 40-50 years old. In part, he got the idea because one of his neighbours had already done it. Plus his partner has dementia and climbing stairs has been becoming an ever increasing challenge for her.
I think you're right in the long run, but in the short run all it takes is largely the non-experts and business people to _think_ they can make mass layoffs and "hire" AI for a significant number of people to lose out on the industry.
> Does he mean AGI as in "sentience", AGI as in "superintelligence"

No. OpenAI and Microsoft changed their definitions of AGI to raise more money: [0]

AGI used to mean something years ago, but at this point is a meaningless term. Since the definition is different depending on who you ask.

It may mean "Super Intelligence" to AI researchers, "Raise more money to reach AGI" to investors, "Replace workers with AI Agents" to companies or "Universal Basic Income for all" to governments.

It could mean any of the above.

More accurately, it may also mean: "To raise more and more money to achieve "AGI" and replace all economically valuable work with AI agents (with no alternatives) whilst selling millions of shares to investors to enrich ourselves and changing from a non-profit to a for-profit for the benefit of humanity."

The last definition is what is happening and that looks like a scam.

[0] https://archive.ph/pmudc
I lived through the early internet, and by and large you didn’t come across much page-view monetization or engagement-maximization tactics.
That's a questionable thing to say on a page where a decent amount of users got into coding at around age 13.

Sure, tech literacy has taken a massive step back, but given how easy modern consumer VPNs are to use, I don't doubt most would manage.
Thanks! I think you've figured out those mystery constants. How did you recognize them?
I'd bet it's closer to $5 now to buy equivalent food in practice.
He actually addressed this recently: https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3leuuhotnpk2...

I will add a +1 to your recommendation as well, his blog has been my favourite way to keep up with the AI landscape over the last 18 months. Just the right level of detail and technical depth for me
Wow, I stand corrected!
How "hey siri" or "hey google" trigger phrases would work if they aren't listening?
RFK was a primary nominee along with other Democrats that wanted to challenge Biden for the spot.

it is insane you have to even write this but here we are... :)

Though not unprecedented in US history, its a huge problem in my book.

huge problem but more of a problem on a democratic party side. while trump did not want to participate in the debates, he won the primary by getting enough votes to become a republican presidential nominee. not a soul voted for kamala to be democratic presidential nominee... while many different "excuses" were made why her campaign failed this by itself was an issue that was not discussed enough. in my small personal circle 2 people specifically said they voted for trump in large part because of this
Love this, cooking with limited ingredients is a true skill. Korea has a cook out of the fridge show that I like.
Winston, but yes he is a records editor at minitrue.
EBay doesn't care about fraud unless they think you're going to file a charge back with your card issuer, then they're pretty quickto protect their bottom line.

I do know for a fact that eBay can kick a seller off very quickly though. I bought a NES shaped raspberry pi a few years back as a gift. The day I got the item, I went to leave the seller glowing feedback, only to find his account was axed (he included NES roms on the SD card).
True, though I don't have a breakdown of net effects.

Commercial jet aircraft utilise thrust reversers, speed (or air) brakes (usually control surfaces which can extend out from the aircraft fuselage or wings), and landing gear brakes.

The latter are not insignificant, but thrust reversers and speed brakes are major contributors, especially immediately after touchdown.

There's also the effect of spoilers which increase the load over the gear and hence the braking capabilities of landing gear brakes.

Jeju 2216 failed to utilise nearly all of these mechanisms. It landed without flaps, spoilers, or gear, and possibly w/o thrust reversers.
If this were real journalism, I'd want a profile of the person they killed-- was he a former government employee? Was he a Boeing whistleblower? Was he involved in something? Not to be suspicious, but we should be thorough. It's too weird to have such accidental murders.
They cant produce the warrant, they were out of jurisdiction, they raided the wrong house after being given the correct address 5 times.

This was not just some weedeater, I'm sure it belonged to a family member of one of the cops.

Seriously, most car thefts go un investigated. Am I really being asked to believe a warrant and nighttime raid was ordered over a hedge trimmer?
We saw a new house with an elevator when we were looking, but it seemed to be an accessibility quota thing, I don’t want to think what it costs to maintain and what kind of inspections it needs.