skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, I think it could make perfect sense: What's written in the law is one thing, and how it's enforced is another; I would argue that the former should be done with consideration to the latter.

Based on my own experience, I'd estimate that well over 99% of traffic infractions go entirely ignored by the law: minor speed violations, unsignaled lane changes, rolling stops at stop signs, expired tags, cell phone usage, and yes, running red lights.

When the letter of the law is broader in scope or errs on the side of caution, that enables the police to exercise their judgment in enforcing it (with the obvious caveat that some police will abuse any power you give them). You could imagine a scenario where someone technically runs a red light but it's totally justifiable and safe (heavy load + moderate speed + short yellow + no other traffic) and another where someone technically makes it into the intersection on a yellow light but senselessly severely endangers public safety (busy intersection + rapid acceleration + traffic backed up on the other side of the light).

I would be okay with someone evading a ticket in the first case and getting one in the latter.
Mullenweg Says Lawsuits Could End WordPress
You would think that because you're a reasonable person. However at my previous startup, which no longer exists, the new CEO failed to save the company and parachuted out so fast that the company who later acquired the startup couldn't get the domain name transferred to them because the CEO and CTO were both gone. They had to bring back the predecessor CEO because he was still able to log into the registrar to transfer the domain.

In the case of a fire, some less than conscientious people will fend for themselves first and don't give a second thought to anyone else.
Or maybe the idea was to give those people an incentive to leave on their own, so you don't have to fire them.
> most of the code in WordPress was provided for free by people not employed by Matt

Automattic previously spent ~4k hours a week maintaining wordpress, so I'm not sure what you're on about
Show HN: LLM Thematic Generalization Benchmark
what a shitty headline and opening paragraph.

anyway, if you use SSO on a domain and then let the domain drop, you're an idiot and there will be bad consequences for your data.
because drivers generally actually stop at red lights? pedestrian crossings in the middle of the road are typically much less safe in my experience because a considerably proportion of drivers do not yield. i think driving norms in other countries around yielding to crosswalks also seem to be different aka non-existent
>Not completing the project" is not an option—if they don't hire someone to fill a vacancy on the team, the rest of the team will just be expected to work extra hours to keep up.

And that's the opportunity cost we don't talk about. The cost isn't "we slow down on a project from a bad hire". It's "demoralize/burned out engineers quit to a point where the deadline is impossible to reach". You can't force overtime to engineers that leave and take their institutional knowledge with them

There's also a lot of fake job postings as a sort of carrot to overworked engineers that "promise more help is coming". Which is just as ingenuous to existing employees as it is to applicants.
> "Ants never fail."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill
This is clearly to cull the "wrong thinking" employees.
yeah, google likes to have fun with the Bug Bounty program. See: https://bughunters.google.com/about/rules/google-friends/662...
In reality, "objective" could be a fairly subjective target that depends on your relationship with your manager in a company with bad culture. Just spend 10 minutes browsing on Blind.
Thank you - fixed it.
There isn't any real objective way to measure performance though - there are things you can quantify (lines of code written, code reviews performed, etc) but those don't encompass the entire job, and once it becomes clear the metrics you use people will work to optimize their numbers at the expense of the other aspects of the job that are harder to quantify/measure. Who has time to mentor junior colleagues when you gotta bump your LoC count for the quarter?

I think we need to embrace the idea that whether you are given raises, promotions, continued employment, etc is largely a function of whether your manager likes you, likes having you on their team, and wants to reward you. And if they don't like you, it doesn't matter how good your numbers are now they will find a way to get rid of you sooner or later. It's better to just get it over with, give the employee a generous severance package, and part ways (or transfer them to another team that's interested in them).
As Microsoft, IBM and numerous other organizations have shown, stack ranking is one of the worst ways to assess who to cut. It solves the C-suite issue of cutting the headcount quickly to satiate shareholders, but doesn't solve the manager's problem of making cuts in a way that allows performance to remain high.
Hot-desking also makes it hard to find someone in person, which is one of the claimed benefits of working in office.
These people are essentially competing against an algorithm, not against other humans. I consider this to be an extremely distasteful endeavor.
That's the same as putting it in a piggy bank, isn't it? Or even better in a fixed income account.
Ok, then what advances are being made in AI technology in this gaming that lends you such confidence? Care to make any citations yourself here? I don't really care what you think of my attitude, nor does it make for productive discussion or good posting.
I'm perhaps too online, but this is not the author's coining. There was discourse ages ago about how some people are "shape rotators" -- that is, they could reason about complex stuff in their heads, and their counterparts, the "wordcels", that could express ideas through writing. The latter admittedly does not make sense as a portmanteau, likely because a shape rotator came up with it.
They get a concrete maturation date on funding the bike-only lane construction, and also get to die another way than being hit by a truck.
Just when I thought maybe I could give Meta kudos for some respectable VR/game engineering and some open AI research, they seem to bend over backwards to keep a terrible reputation.
Possibly, that's an interesting thought. The main benefit of adiabatics as I see them is that, all else being equal, a process improvement of the RC figure can be used to enable either an increase in operating frequency or a decrease in power usage (this is reflected as the additional factor of fRC in the power equation). With traditional CMOS, this only can benefit operating frequency -- power usage is independent of the RC product per se. Supercondition (or near-superconduction) is essentially a huge improvement in RC which wouldn't be able to be realized as an increase in operating frequency due to speed of light limitations, so adiabatics would see an outsize benefit in that case.
Last year, during a period of recovery, I hosted a ChatGPT game with my nieces and newphew. I played the role of being a bride between them and the LLM. I read aloud the text, and translated their actions into queries.

With slight nudges, GPT performed well. It excelled at NPC dialog, location description, and to some extent improvisation. However, eventually the campaign fell apart on session four or five. There was a disagreement between the players over exactly how many maps we had acquired. As you know, answering this question is a needle in a haystack problem and asking the LLM proved to illicit conflicting responses. It ultimately led to me concluding that pausing the campaign was the right choice and accepting that we all still had an amazing time up to that point.

Which leads me back to the questions in the paper:
> We believe that with the above evaluation methods we can try to answer the following
questions:
• How consistent is a LLM Agent in its generative dialogue?
• How well can a LLM Agent keep a user engaged in a narrative plot?
• How creative is a LLM Agent when generating complex story driven narratives?

None of these are exactly relevant to my personal experience running a TTRPG game using ChatGPT and what makes it succeed or fail. What would make such a system an improvement is being able to store and retrieve facts about players (HP, stats, inventory), NPCs(names, location, history), and Places(items, descriptions, inhabitants) in order to solve the needs-haystack problem. Creating a world ontology and being able to CRUD facts against such an ontology would be a game changer(literally).

Despite the ultimate demise of the game, the experiment was a success. I'd highly encourage anyone with a laptop, a handful of dice, and a group of interested friends to give a shot. It's fun, memorable, and a unique way to pass the time and bond.
> I realised that when on a crosswalk drivers will come sailing at you and will cross behind you as you cross over. That is illegal here.

It's illegal in most if not all of USA too, but no one cares in practice. Legally, even when a car driver and a pedestrian both have access to a lane separately, if both are present, then a car driver must give a full lane-width of space to a pedestrian crossing or at the corner.

Also, even when a pedestrian is committing the auto-industry-invented crime of "jaywalking", the pedestrian still has the right of way in traffic, unless it is physically impossible for the car driver to avoid the collision. Car drivers are not judge/jury/executioner.

(Nit: "Cars" don't "drive" (yet, in most places). "Car drivers" drive cars.)
Nothing will be done, at best we'll get a $10 gift card to applebees for our trouble- the Luigi maneuver is the only possible recourse. It's crazy how little this breach is talked about, I was seeing red when I got that letter
My experience is that prices are increasing in required goods (food, housing, healthcare, education) so some people can't decrease spending. I know a lot of people who have cut spending for non-essential things but it's just that the cost of essential things have increased to keep their spending constant
I think what is more likely to happen is people just start considering the home disposable in disaster prone areas. The land is most of the value so if you can afford to finance the cost of construction in some way, you don’t even need disaster insurance coverage to stomache the one wildfire or hurricane, if that, that might actually directly strike your property over your ownership.
Yes, my point is that in practice, this gets abused. In particular, the possibility enables vendors to invent business models that rely on denying users ownership, and those happen to outcompete the fair, honest models.
Meta is embracing free speech while suppressing it!
You're not getting fired now, you're getting "moved out" or "exited"
They aren't, in the platonic form.

But what I think most of us have experienced, in most companies, is that instead of driving compensation and promotion/firing the middle-management decisions around those things are made and then post-hoc justified via the performance system.

Which is another symptom of HR not having real power and instead simply being used to implement decisions made by other leadership.
I would agree it's not obvious - but also if you don't think it's true, I'd love to hear why you think that. If you have numbers, even better.
(dang is also the main HN mod, as an FYI)
Yep. If all else fails, the list is CC0 so anyone can fork it and carry the torch hopefully!
I've heard that one of tricks recruiting agents use is to maximize mismatch without breaking the illusion of a perfect match, so that victim companies has to come back as often as possible, each time rewarding them with commissions. Value alignment is definitely going to be a problem.
Altadena is in a tough position with the mountain wave wind it sees.
Justified Text: Better Than Expected?
> actually a corporate strategy designed to make the businesses posting them seem like they’re growing

Assume these companies don't have morals (that should be the default, btw) and ask yourself why wouldn't they generate 1000s of open job postings? Especially if many steps in the initial process can be automated. This makes them look like they are growing, and maybe their filter might find some rare great candidate and they'll find an opening for them. All upsides and almost no downsides. One downside is having to manage applications. But that can be outsourced or automated.

It's immoral, disheartening to potential job seekers and skews job number stats, but that means nothing unless it's illegal. Once they start fearing of getting in legal trouble, they'll keep doing the same.
You're probably limited because 75% of all of your account's posts have been flagged to death for being low-quality hate/rage posts. Read the site's rules and guidelines and be a better member.
the 5% who didn't watch enough MMA or improve their PR in the deadlift
A municipality could (and should) add speed bumps or other traffic-calming measures even at the approach the light-controlled crossing where pedestrians are often present.
The president speaks for the united states. Brushing his comments off like that is absurd. You act like he got the job in a raffle, the majority of the voting population voted for him, explicitly asking him to speak for them.
If you fiddle with the pie chart graphic to show all Europe (EU + EFTA + UK), and January to November, the share of EVs has reduced very slightly, from 15.4% to 15.1%.

Hybrids have increased from 26.5 to 31.2%, petrol and diesel are down.

(It seems daft to concentrate on one month, or to count the number of cars rather than the share of cars sold.)
Then why bother making this site?
After the made up AI revolution we now have the made up recession, I can't keep track anymore. Actually did the AI revolution end yet? I still see the grifters out there.
Thanks for checking it out. Hadn't used Mix before, I can see the similarities. The app is a lot simpler than what they've done; I wanted a stream of new videos and a way to consume them quickly on a website. Any social interaction like commenting or upvoting are handled on Reddit.

With my usage, I don't want to log in to another site and I like that I could browse by user or multiple subs: https://ayayay.app/r/AnimalsBeingDerps+animalsdoingstuff+aww...
You’ve articulated, correctly, a need for performance reviews. We have a need to measure performance, but we don’t have reasonably objective ways to do it that simultaneously measure what we actually care about.

There’s a kind of tradeoff here, where on one end you have the most useful performance measurements, and on the other end you have the most objective performance measurements. When you’re doing things well, the best you can do is fall somewhere on that line. The entire line is bullshit, you just get to choose what kind of bullshit you have.

Large orgs tend to skew towards objectivity because it minimizes liability, and large orgs are full of people trying to avoid being liable for mistakes.
As a nearby Los Angeles resident, I can confirm that a significant percentage, say 30-40%, of drivers 1) don't stop at stop signs, and 2) routinely run red lights at intersections when few or no other vehicles are present. It's true that it's legal to enter an intersection when a light is yellow, but don't let this statement distract from the general traffic-lawlessness that prevails. Law enforcement is even less likely to follow the law (ignoring cases where lights and sirens are activated).

I think the defacto rule that many drivers follow is, 'if the intersection appears clear, I don't have to stop.' (I'm not advocating this rule, just saying what I think the rule is.) Cell phones and screens in cars have made this rule especially problematic because drivers aren't paying close enough attention to the road to ascertain whether intersections are clear.

This isn't a recent phenomenon in LA, but it seems to have increased during and since Covid. I'd love to find reliable data on traffic enforcement. The problem is cultural, but the apparent lack of enforcement seems to have expanded the population of scofflaw drivers.
This entire article is written before and doesn't reference v13.2
It's 100% absolute bullshit. We've seen the tests, it can barely replace a low skilled job. Who's going to prompt these AI tools to do stuff and who's going to correct the bugs AI introduces? Zuck is high on steroids.
So there was a platform called Twitter - apparently people who were 'woke' liked it and became the most loyal clients. This made the platform grow and become popular. Then came the "hero" and saved the platform from "wokeness". This is the real story. Elon came and bought something that was grown by the despised "woke" people and made it his own.
Maybe we shouldn't be supplying the machine (paying taxes) at all
It's all cool. Zuck is just riffin'

/s
> Let me ask you this: How does one, in your mind, do "something about it?"

There's a lot of injustice in the US criminal justice system.

One way you can do something about it is to actually get into criminal justice. Study and become a lawyer, become a public defender, maybe become a judge one day. Or at least make very precise arguments about the where criminal justice reform can take place.

Instead, a lot people stop at making a internet comment about who the current system isn't good enough, while offering no viable alternative. A common complaint is that defendants are effectively bullied into taking guilty pleas even when they are fully innocent.

I think that part is true.

However, what's the remedy? You can't simply ban people from saying "yeah I'm actually guilty let's just move on with it". Not to mention the fact that takes away their agency.

You may ask prosecutors or LEO to stop being bullies. God knows that doesn't work.

So you need some technical solution to this part of criminal (in)justice. But instead, people will simply comment at the face value statement of plea deals are abused sometimes, and then move on.

edit: thought of another technical solution: body cams. If people on hackernews feel strongly about criminal injustice, I urge you to develop some technology about better and more viable body cams, a technology that protects everyone (including LEOs).
If you have a local development setup, few hours of not being able to push should be a not problem most devs.

Except if you have a release planned but most don't at that time, statistically.

Problem is that people get comfortable with pushing to branch -> deploying in dev and testing from there.
> The author can get lost with this sort of textbook correct but questionable in reality take

I find this perspective very weird when (1) the "textbook" take (i.e. the one traffic engineers follow) is to almost always prioritize vehicle speed and driver safety over everything else, and (2) in what world is it questionable in reality when it existed in reality for decades, seemingly without incident?
Consumers take retaliatory actions against assholes who use their $44 billion megaphone to interfere in our politics.
I tend to agree with you. I regularly walk, sometimes up to 40 miles per month, in the suburban hellscape that is South Hill in Puyallup, WA. This is the land of major 4 lane arterials w/ turn-lanes and hundreds of unprotected two-way and four-way intersections. There’s almost no pedestrians, I’ll rarely meet other people on my way to work, and sometimes go the whole two miles without making eye contact with a single driver.

This article didn’t touch on it, but there’s another even scarier monster lurking out there. They’ve started to replace some of our larger intersections with these “Smart” traffic lights. Most drivers have a pretty well developed feel for the pattern traffic signals follow. These are pretty much random, adjusting the traffic flow based on some metrics. They use yield left turns with single direction flow and other tricks to try and control traffic. Since the light cycle doesn’t really follow any standard pattern, they’re also pretty much random when they’ll insert the protected pedestrian crossing into the cycle. It’s a death trap. There can be people waiting at a yield left turn which will be going to red, it will click on the pedestrian walk, and the opposing traffic will still be in full green, with drivers never coming to a stop. Add to that, if volume is heavy, you can stand there for 5 minutes or more waiting for a protected pedestrian crossing.
I got an email from LinkedIn prompting me to "unsubscribe from job alert <X> because you haven't viewed it in 3 months".

Indeed I haven't, because every week they email me the same list of the same jobs that have been listed since the first week I signed up.

And also because setting "remote" effectively turns off the radius, even though I ideally want a job that is remote but also local if possible.
Show HN: Compare Price for HDD, SSD, NAS and More
Hey everyone! My name is Toutoulliou, and I’m a beginner developer passionate about building websites. To practice and improve my skills, I decided to take on a real-world project: a price comparison tool for tech products like SSDs, HDDs, NAS devices, Micro SD cards, USB drives, and more. I used Django for the backend, TailwindCSS and Flowbite for the design, and even managed the deployment myself using Docker. It was a real challenge, but so rewarding!

My website pulls data from eBay and AliExpress APIs to bring you the best deals on the market. And here’s some exciting news: integration with Amazon is in the works! The goal? To help you find the most competitive prices in just a few clicks, whether you’re looking for a high-performance SSD, a high-capacity HDD, or a Micro SD card for your camera.

In addition to the price comparison tool, I’ve added a RAID calculator to help you determine the ideal configuration based on your storage and data security needs. This is just the first step toward a suite of practical tools that I plan to expand over time.

This website is first and foremost a learning journey for me. Every line of code, every feature added is a new step in my development path. If you have suggestions or ideas for tools to integrate, feel free to share them with me!

Let me know what you think!
There are two assumptions hidden in that which may not be true.

First, that the way the insurance company uses the data is accurate. For example, if you work nights, noticing that you drive at night might cause them to raise your rates, because more of the people who drive at night are drunk. You're not drunk, you're just commuting, but now you're getting punished for giving them data.

Second, that you know what "well-behaved" is, because people who know they're being tracked will try to conform to what they think will give them a better score. So now you're focusing your attention on strictly adhering to some mental model of what you think the tracking device wants to see in order to lower your rates instead of leaving that attention to focus on actual hazards. Then you end up having to brake rapidly because you notice an actual hazard too late, which makes the tracking device penalize you more than all of your machinations were helping, or even causes you to get into a collision.
Its only me, who think that 12 seconds of green light is just too small window. That's why every car try its best to pass through.
I wasn't able to locate a previous scrape of it on archive.org.
Buzz is not normal. Either it was really low quality, (unlikely since it has lasted this long), or it is not properly grounded.
No joke: just start!

Learn C and C++. Find a cheap micro pc board, pick one of the embedded linux distros that run on it, and make something with it.

Repeat until you get bored, exhausted, or a job. :)