skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s an entire book length of material, but in short, for built up areas drivers are forced through street to design to be higher alert to their surroundings. EX: chicanes in the road, speed tables, brick roads, narrow streets, small/tight turn radius, no turn on red, etc. These all work together to make a system that is amongst the safest in the world for pedestrians, and by happenstance has the happiest drivers.

Also, bike traffic and vehicle through traffic are separated on different networks, so a conflicts are minimized.
With this change to the scenario, being required to stop before yellow makes sense. And blowing through red means you extra screwed up! (?)

On this note: In the UK, there is a yellow light prior to green; love it.
A context-based retrieval/memory system would be cool, too. Pull in relevant events based on the group's location and NPCs they're with.
Sadly it failed to make a separate loop to check for this first.
I wasn't suggesting an equivalence, just that the phenomena of the rage machine exists on both sides.

As an exercise, try coming up with some metric to measure it. Could be inflammatory posts, or the comment count on inflammatory posts. Compare BB BBS with some rough equivalent right-leaning place. You'll find it's worse in the right-leaning forum, no doubt.

But the phenomena exists on both sides of the political spectrum.

Many trends among one side of the political spectrum are mirrored to a lesser extent on the other side as well, and that's interesting don't you think?
I'd say through about 90% of the post I was wondering if you'd really not heard about balance bikes. It was only at the end that I realized the point of the story was the power of looking for more options.

One wonders how many HN commenters stepped out before that conclusion was given. Adopting BLUF[1] may help in that regard!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLUF_(communication)
In control theory, this is called dead-time:

>Dead time is the delay from when a controller output (CO) signal is issued until when the measured process variable (PV) first begins to respond.

https://controlguru.com/dead-time-is-the-how-much-delay-vari...
>This is so interesting that people want this.

Go outside. There's people for everything.
The reality is (and not in defence id managers) managers are getting just as effed by "leadership" (ever notice how managers are framed as scumbags but leaders are saviors?) and sadly managers cannot tell employees - "hey mate we are all in the same boat getting effed so let us game it/survive it together" for fear of being outed as non company players. You are always supposed to sell the company as your own line! So they are squeezed from the top and the bottom. I keep switching between management and IC so I have a bit of empathy here.
Make it a roundabout with protected pedestrian crossings. That forces drivers to be looking at the conflict point with pedestrians as they manoeuvre the roundabout.
I see decisions of the same type being made in the suburbs around here all the time, and the prioritization is identical. I think the issue is suburbanites and small-town folks generally have not experienced a walkable environment and don't understand how pleasant it can be. They are usually ensconced in cars and go isolated from one destination to another without actually touching the community at all.

I was trying to advocate for bike lanes and no-through traffic for a few streets near our small town's historic center a few months ago, and I'm sorry to say, to the community, I think I sounded like a weird European hippy. Even though I'm totally not a hippy and I'm American-born. I'm as capitalist as you can get. But I still think if the state is going to make design decisions on our streets, we should make decisions that make our neighborhoods better and ultimately more inviting and valuable.

The main opposition to what I was proposing was coming from neighborhoods that must commute from further beyond the city center to get to the highway that connects our town to the nearest major city. We have other, faster, wider roads to get to the highway from all parts of our town, but there are people that are adamant that during rush hour, they must be allowed to potentially commute through the historic downtown, and residential neighborhoods, to avoid traffic jams.

I was trying to explain that the bottlenecks are always the main streets that have the highway on-ramps, but to no avail. People like having many potential, fast routes to the highway, and they are deeply uncomfortable with you removing some routes even if they rarely use those routes themselves.

In other words, occasional car use is more important than daily, frequent pedestrian use.

And where were the pedestrians during this town-hall? For whatever reason there were none. Or if there were, they were silent. I was trying to understand why nobody else was speaking up when there are so many bikers, kids, parents with strollers, walkers with dogs, etc., using these streets that will be impacted by bad decision-making, and my conclusion is that young active people, and those with kids, have no time to go to town-halls. And the kinds of people that do go to town-halls are weirdos with design fetishes, like me, and extremely ornery and conservative people who see any change in their town as an assault on the AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE by perverted European-hippy Democratic Degenerates (into which category I have unfortunately been slotted it seems, though I'm embarrassingly capitalist and libertarian).

I would not suggest this will be the median experience in America. My town has a fair number of MAGA lawn signs, American flags, lifted trucks, Punisher stickers, etc., in addition to the tech community. So its a very specific kind of mix. I'm sure those of you in Berkeley or San Francisco will have much better luck.

My community has some of the strangest dynamics you have ever seen.
Minimum accessibility requirement doesn't define high quality and full black on white isn't the only alternative, so no need to limit your comparison to it
- Huge shift in (near-total abandonment of) antitrust enforcement starting in the late 70s, driven by Chicago school assholes. Centralized economic power.

- Fairness Doctrine killed in the 80s, resulting rise of partisan AM radio and, somewhat later, Fox News.

- Media ownership concentration rules neutered in early ‘00s (iirc). More centralization, again in the hands of big capital.

- None of those rules ever applied to the Web, so when its power as a propaganda and agitation tool skyrocketed with increased use by normal folks (rise of Facebook; usable smartphones with the iPhone) that immediately headed bad directions.

Now we have LLMs, which are at their most-useful by far when you don’t care about accuracy or reputation—so, scams and propaganda getting a big boost in productivity.
Bread/potatoes are about 0.6g/kcal which would put the cyclist at ~30g/mile vs 100g for the car. Not that people live on that alone but with exercise you often have more potatoes with the steak etc.

I've been using an ebike which is one of the lowest emission things, and fun.

Someone here ran some numbers with bikes better than cars/busses including the cost of making them https://www.bikeradar.com/features/long-reads/cycling-enviro...
I don't see why a re-design like this wouldn't have included both pedestrian and car infrastructure improvements. Tighten all the turn radii, add bump-outs to each corner, and you could have a signalized intersection that is better than it was before for both.
In my state you are allowed to exit the intersection while the light is red but may only enter while it's green or yellow. In driver's ed they taught us to enter the intersection while waiting to make a left turn so that we could complete the turn after the light turned yellow/red and opposing traffic stopped.
That would be my takeaway too. There is room for AI DMs, but they need to get a lot better before they're really fun to play with. I tried a few AI RP just to see how it works and it was pretty boring.
Wouldn't that imply that a bicycle wheel I roll down the street by itself should fall over immediately which clearly is not the case?
All good points!

There can be some mal-incentives in democracies when it's in the opposition's interest for things to fail though (read: positioning for the next election).

Imho, that's more a US problem of an overly-visible executive (whoever that currently is), to the detriment of congressional visibility (i.e. 95% of congress supported this, including your congresspeople).

From a US perspective, parliamentary style systems, with checks to prevent German/Italian/Israeli-style deadlock when the party percentages don't line up, seem the superior implementation.
Well, yes, they both show almost no impact from our green initiatives on the actual data. Emissions graph is increasing, and very slightly slowing rate of increase in the past few years. But the CO2 graph is a direct measurement of total CO2, so it is effectively a cumulative graph. And it is lowly curving up, accelerating, over past decades including last few years. Even if we magically flat line emissions graph, meaning no more increases of emissions, we will still see CO2 graph increasing and likely accelerating due to compounding of factors and existing CO2 levels already in the atmosphere.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/
Certainly his speech is considered foreign interference in Europe, but since it hasn't been unlawful so far there aren't any actions.

Europe in general is pretty much law-based, so I don't expect arbitrary retaliatory actions.
I applied to some New York City series B start up with a Director literally looking over my shoulder after she assured me the job postings weren’t fake.

Plot twist: they were fake they just weren’t in her department so she didn’t know and the only job they were really hiring for according to LinkedIn was an Azure contractor for $60 an hour
It sounds like a tone-deaf response to me. That is, it makes total sense to say that homeless people are not permitted to set up a mini encampment inside the store. On the other hand, telling outsiders in general that they can't come in to use the restroom is likely affecting many of their best customers. It is a "foolish consistency" to link the two policies.
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Which requires a long and detailed answer that can be found by simply googling "Dutch traffic engineering standards" which leads you to an entire wealth of information.
Job posting boards can punish them if they detect them as being spoofed through response rates.
depends on who: https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaLounge/comments/1hk3mmv/xpost_...

this is a very well known local meme which has been posted around the city. most people here get the reference and it gets called back about half the time i see a cybertruck in company
Funny enough, this is probably how the very first bicyclists learned how to ride - since they would've ridden velocipedes and other pedal-less proto-bicycles before even pennyfarthings (let alone modern "safety" bicycles) existed.
The simplest, dumbest alternative to for reversible computing is to install datacenters in ex-USSR, where there is still (slowly disappearing) rich infrastructure for central hot water. Instead of charging people, utilities can charge both people and datacenters and yet lower the carbon footprint.
Thank you! The number is the the sum of the logprobs from the token constituting the individual values. So it does represent the likelihood of seeing this value.
So yes OpenAI is super-biased as a random number generator.
We sampled other values from OpenAI and got other die roll values, but with much lower probs (5 has 8% chances ).
The irony of this is that you rely on strangers for critical stuff like ensuring you don't get electrocuted or burned at home or even ensuring that the water that you drink won't make you ill or that your car is a good enough condition to not lead you to a fatal crash. Any of these affects your close relatives. What makes education different?
No it's not. There's dozens of companies where this didn't work out at all. Plenty that were terrible bets.

Crypto currency wasn't a new thing. There has been digital currencies going back decades. They had all failed and become worthless.

Looking at the these ones that became valuable and chin stroking with a monocle is silly.

You can rationalize anything but that's really just imagined story telling.

It's all fundamentally irrational. Wise people don't get on top, it's blustering audacious gamblers and those of fortuitous delusion.

You combine that together and you could everybody from SBF, to WeWork, to Elon Musk and Elizabeth Holmes.

This is far more predictive of future events than writing stories after the fact and convincing yourself that everything is sensible
Isn't this a modern take on the yarn that ended up with students all just bringing a tape recorder to the lecture hall after the lecturer just played a pre-recorded tape as the lecture?
Roundabouts aren't great for pedestrians. You need to trust the drivers' signals.
There's no such assumption being made. If anything, the linked article is about how MrBeast is intentionally making vapid slop.
> Like in my experience the best part of d&d is the dungeon master who knows their friends making a story and details specifically for fun and the fun of the group.

Sure.

There are two reason why I can think of someone making a Dungeon Master LLm.

One is that when there is no cake we eat bread.

Don't get me wrong. I'm a DM, and I love playing d&d with my friends. I totally agree with the sentiment you are sharing. But people who are willing, and able to DM for others are not evenly distributed. There is a lot more people who would like to play TTRPGs than people who is willing to step into the DM role.

So in that sense think of this as a substitutions for those games which would not happen otherwise, because they don't have a DM. Or the only person who would DM them is an ass. Or their DM has burnt out.

Is some game better than no game? Sometimes. Depends on how good that game is. And we won't know how good the substitute can be without trying. Heck maybe more people will play, and they will realise how easy is to DM actually.

The other reason is the sheer challenge of it. Dnd has a lot of rules. There are the obvious ones you can read in the book. But there are also un-written rules. Like object-permanence. If a goblin steals a diamond ring from us, and we slay them within minutes they damn well have the diamond ring on their bodies somewhere. If three displacer beasts ambush us and we slay 2 there damn well be 1 more accounted for in some sense.

There are also "story-writing" rules. If we went through hell and high-water to obtain an arrow of dragon slaying after the blacksmith told us about the legend of it, he better not just pull one out of his ass the next time we see him. If the whole lore of goddess X is that they are kind and caring then they should better be at least not cruel when we meet them. These are all hard for an LLM. They are also easy for a human to evaluate. Because we just feel when they are not right. Therefore it is a good challenge to evaluate how good we are at this "making a bucket of sand smart" task.
Yeah if you're not a social butterfly in the modern world you're just effed. Or about as good as dead, unless you happen to be extremely lucky.
> Yes, you can drive a Ford Falcon coast-to-coast, but how much gas are you going to spend? Postgres is a solid database but has roots in the 80s. Optimizing for modern hardware would reduce hosting costs and improve efficiency.

This is disingenuous. If you’re comparing Postgres to CedarDB, a more apt analogy would be Postgres is a late model Ford F-150. A utility vehicle with roots in the 80s but continuously improved since then. Not the most efficient vehicle or the fastest, but has lots of utility and great reliability. People have collectively driven F-150s for billions of miles.

And CedarDB is a concept car that some guy built in his garage. It might be efficient but it certainly isn’t proven to be reliable like Postgres is.

If I’m taking a coast-to-coast trip, I’m driving the F-150. I might not get there quickly or efficiently, but I’m sure I’ll get there. And if my F-150 breaks down, there are thousands of mechanics between the coasts that can help me get back on the road. If I take the CedarDB concept car, when it breaks down there are only one or two people that can help me, and they are thousands of miles away.
Going slightly downhill can make it even easier to focus on balancing instead of propulsion.
In the UK, if you're at all over the line when the lights change, you're considered "in the junction" and are expected to leave the junction -- the next phase should give you priority to do so. The only way to run a red light is to start crossing the line while the light is red -- although plenty of drivers will start to inch across while they're supposed to be waiting :P.

The most annoying scenario is where a driver has either stopped or inched forwards far enough that they can't actually see the lights any more and don't know when they've changed.
You can shorthand the last four declarations with a single `inset: 10px;` (or maybe `inset: .625rem;`?
Bezicron: A 3D-printed electro-mechanical clock with flexible digits
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40 hour working week was something that organised labor fought for and won during the latter of the 19th and first half of the 20th century.

We can do the same for 30 hour working weeks in this century.
He said it was interesting, not baffling.
That's ok. We can hammer out the details together, but the principle is true if the light turns yellow before you reach the intersection. Note that I didn't say how rapidly you need to be decelerating, and if the light has turned red before the car even clears the crosswalk, as is the case for the first car, then the driver sped up instead of slowing down.
The second car definitely entered on yellow. It doesn't matter if they could have stopped. They have the right to enter on yellow.

The first car passed the first line when the light was yellow, but not the second line. The area in between is the crosswalk. I can't tell if "enter the intersection" means "enter any part of the area past the line where you're supposed to stop" or "enter the part past the crosswalk, where the roads actually intersect".

Does anyone know what the rule is?
Alvin Toffler called it back in the 70s (in Future Shock); in there, he thought educated elites would move towards homeschooling, nothing political on his analysis at least (that may match current trend?)
> I almost wonder if we finally reached a point where 'conspiracy theory' is automatically not only not 'a way to diminish a view', but 'a way to enhance it'.

Uhm, yeah, Trump is president.

Do you live in a city?
Satisfiability Modulo Theory – CDCL and Quantifiers
Brave has goggles that do exactly this. you can even share the list with others.

https://search.brave.com/goggles/discover
Real Time Location Using Ultra-Wideband (UWB) (2019)
I am an “everything is custom tailored to my players” DM and I use LLMs quite a lot as an assistant. Speeding up prep time is always welcome. Using an LLM directly as a DM? Oh hell no.

Also, I ran a session over Zoom and their AI summary was so useful!
47 Years Later, the Palisades Disappeared Overnight
I know in my area they're doing consolidation of schools because there are fewer kids enrolled than when the schools were originally constructed. Even after some consolidation many schools are barely over 60% of their enrollment capacity which is estimated to go down almost another 10% in the next five years.

People haven't been having nearly as many kids for a while. Fewer kids means fewer students. Revenue to operate the building is tied to number of students; fewer students means less revenue to keep things operating satisfactorily.

When the majority of the homes surrounding the elementary are filled with retirees whose kids have moved elsewhere instead of young families it is no surprise the school closes.
I would say the extended parts of my network are still getting the interviews, but I have people I directly literally went to school with, and lived in the same dorm with turn
me flat down for work, which was a real slap in the face. I’ve been applying since April 2020 (with about 7 interviews so far and 2-3 upcoming interviews total) and I’m getting kind of discouraged at this point.
"Yes" in that the above statement about needing proprietary blobs to boot the Pis is certainly accurate & true (ongoing science experiments notwithstanding). "No" in that we somehow went from talking about "how apps can safely assume to rely on accelerated rasterization instead of software rasterization" to "how the Raspberry Pi family needs proprietary boot firmware to do anything with app output at all" and I've missed the connection between the two points.
A stat of how many injuries occurred at this intersection would help settle your point. You're talking a lot of theory, where this person seems to have lived and traversed this intersection many times without incident.

Was the upgrade worth $600,000 in this town, this street? And why, if it is a small town with heavy pedestrian traffic, does it default to vehicular movement instead of pedestrian movement?
I hear this sentiment all the time. But as a kid, I first rode a bike with training wheels. The day my dad removed them, I went outside before him, hopped on the bike, and just started riding. There was no "learning to balance" or drama. I remember my parents were surprised but... maybe training wheels aren't so bad for everyone?

One thing I think gets lost in the discussion of training wheels: people act like you have four wheels flat on the ground, with no opportunity to balance. But proper training wheels should have two or three wheels on the ground, depending on if the rider is balancing or not. In other words, the training wheels should be lifted slightly up: https://www.twowheelingtots.com/training-wheels-faq/
> For some reason outside my understanding, a lot of small towns have shuttered the school in walking distance and moved to "consolidated" schools

In my experience it's because schools are being treated as a business, and businesses are usually more efficient when there's consolidation of expenses. Why pay for 3 schools with 10 teachers each when you could instead consolidate classes and pay for 1 school with 15 teachers? To a business, the decision is purely made out of cost. Alas, a lot of governments have such tight budgets (for many legitimate and illegitimate reasons) that cost benefits outweigh the human benefits.
Newfound Galaxy Class May Indicate Early Black Hole Growth, Webb Finds
Great point about private tutoring, I agree.

The equivalence tests are going to be country/US-state specific though. Many do not require such tests at all.
This is completely offtopic, but I would bet it was a government-funded museum.
A reasonable institution would have worked with you to find an acceptable compromise, something much easier to implement with a small sacrifice of aesthetics.

Anyway, great work, and thank you for taking the time to share it!