skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The driver can usually see the countdown on the pedestrian signal anyway. It's not obvious that this would be worse.
It's only "alarming" because it's presented in an alarmimg way. If the headline had said "Protein powders found to contain 2.5% as much lead as undisturbed dirt" you would not have found it alarming.
Cars run stop signs too. They also speed. That’s an enforcement opportunity.

Claiming this makes the intersection less safe despite the engineering studies that were conducted is a claim made without evidence. Pedestrians not having permanent right of way isn’t a safety issue, as the author admits, it’s a convenience issue.

It seems like the author is against cars in principle and uses that bias to complain about something that makes it easier for cars despite having no demonstrable impact on safety.

I live near Barcelona and in the city, stop signs are very rare. Its signals everywhere aside from little low-traffic back streets — and Barcelona is perfectly walkable. Cars are more likely to roll through a four way stop than a red traffic light — especially if they don’t see any conflicting traffic. And at night, stop signs are less safe because you might be pulling out and a pedestrian walks out in front of you — while with traffic signals, it’s clear whose turn it is. Cyclists also seem more prone to ignoring 4-way stops than traffic lights.

Here’s a study from Montreal that, among its other conclusions, showed that signals had no impact on pedestrian-vehicle interactions.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00224...

“… the models were unable to demonstrate a significant relationship between stop signs and vehicle–pedestrian interactions. Therefore, drawing conclusions regarding pedestrian safety is difficult.”
That was my first guess. I am using using Ipv6 egress which is supposed to be serverless.

I can confirm I do not have any NAT gateway anywhere
Can you share a few studies, please? I'd like a good theory for the effectiveness of bromelain, first.
Hyundai (SK) is opening a big vehicle and battery plant in Georgia

https://apnews.com/article/hyundai-georgia-electric-vehicle-...
I have some friends who are Christian but left wing (their kids would come over to play and draw pictures about helping poor people.) The dad teaches CS at a small Catholic college, mom stayed home and educated their kids.

The "disgust over woke issues" existed in some form 30 years ago when people were homeschooling but it had not hardened into the constellation it is in now. Back then you could get folks like that to talk articulately about how they disagreed with secular values, introduce a word like "woke" and now people talk past each other, at best, if they talk at all.
Not really—public school takes up 6+ hours of every day, and I'd like my kids to have self-directed time as well. If we tried to do some sort of after-school tutoring with mom that would deprive them of valuable time to choose their own stuff to work on.

And what would be the point? If we're right that their mom is better equipped to teach them than a teacher is (because of time to dedicate to them and a personal relationship and understanding) then what do we gain by having a teacher do it too?

(This isn't the thread for the socializing argument, because OP started with teacher qualifications. I'll just add that we are aware of that concern and have strong mitigations in place.)
You might be interested to learn that bicycles initially didn't have pedals or a drivetrain[1].

They were ridden exactly the way you're teaching your kid. Adding pedals later is just following the history of bicycle tech development.

Velocipede, the French word for that vehicle, remained being the word for "bicycle" in several languages.

I guess if there's any moral to this, it's that learning history makes a lot of things far less surprising — and makes a lot of what we have today far more meaningful.

Or: one doesn't really understand something without knowing its history (and the best way to find gaps in your own understanding is to teach or explain the concept to someone else).

Using the metaphor of your post: to find out what are the "pedals" to take off, learn about how the "bicycle" came to be before explaining it to others.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy_horse
It's a bit strange that SQLite went up only 1 place on the ranking (to the 10th).

There's a lot of new articles of how to improve its performance and I love that I don't have to care about the n+1 problem so much.

It is now the default production database for Rails for a good reason.
I've similar trends here in regards to new languages, technologies, ... People love to bandwagon.
how is it a lot closer to readiness if it has never had a successful launch?
Couldn't agree more with you. At the end of the day the people building the most successful products, are too be busy to be formalizing their experiments into research papers. While I have respect for academic researchers, I think their perspective is fundamentally very limited when it comes to AI engineering. The space is just too frothy.
There is massive overlap between those who watch video game streamers and those who watch the right wing rage content. Youtube is recommending you the videos those other people who watch video game streams watched next.
What difference does it make? The main point is that this design induces drivers to speed up even more than they're already speeding (and, this being North America, they're already speeding), at a dangerous point in time when pedestrians are starting to cross. It literally makes no practical difference whether they're entering on a very late yellow or a red.
In CA we have many intersections where one wants to turn left, but there is not a dedicated left turn signal. When the light turns green, you pull out into the intersection. Ideally you pull out enough that the car behind you can also get into the intersection. On busy roads you may not be able to complete the left turn until the signal goes red. If you chose not to pull out, then nobody would ever be able to turn left. I believe CA passed a law some 20 plus years ago that you must be able to clear the intersection before the red light, which is in conflict with what is sometimes necessary. There are situations though where the direction you are headed is backed up, such that if you pulled out you could end up stuck in the middle of the intersection long after the red light. I believe the law was intended for this situation. So don’t pull out if your direction of travel is blocked.
Yeah it'd not be as nice, but it's technically possible. Probably the limiting factor (I think we're already seeing this) is people feeling they are too "crowded, cramped and hungry" and not feeling like having children.
I've been on the lookout for a lighter, faster version of dbt and I was hoping sdf might be it.

For our (https://www.definite.app/) use case, I'd love to have something that compiles client-side, but in general dbt just feels like a lot of work to set up for what most of our customers actually need (simple transform to create tables and views).
What sort of business are you running now, if you don't mind elaborating?
> short-term motions can get you stopped out with a big loss before realizing profits

Can you elaborate on that a little? How does that happen?
My friends with Teslas seems to have more than their fair share of issues too. I haven’t yet had any problems with my car so far, at 90000km total, with 40000km on the electric motor.
I first tried btrfs 15 years ago with Linux 2.6.33-rc4 if I recall. It developed an unlinkable file within 3 days, so I stopped using it. Later, I found ZFS. It had a few less significant problems, but I was a CS student at the time and I thought I could fix them since they seemed minor in comparison to the issue I had with btrfs, so over the next 18 months, I solved all of the problems that it had that bothered me and sent the patches to be included in the then ZFSOnLinux repository. My effort helped make it production ready on Linux. I have used ZFS ever since and it has worked well for me.

If btrfs had been in better shape, I would have been a btrfs contributor. Unfortunately for btrfs, it not only was in bad shape back then, but other btrfs issues continued to bite me every time I tried it over the years for anything serious (e.g. frequent ENOSPC errors when there is still space). ZFS on the other hand just works. Myself and many others did a great deal of work to ensure it works well.

The main reason for the difference is that ZFS had a very solid foundation, which was achieved by having some fantastic regression testing facilities. It has a userland version that randomly exercises the code to find bugs before they occur in production and a test suite that is run on every proposed change to help shake out bugs.

ZFS also has more people reviewing proposed changes than other filesystems. The Btrfs developers will often state that there is a significant man power difference between the two file systems. I vaguely recall them claiming the difference was a factor of 6.

Anyway, few people who use ZFS regret it, so I think you will find you like it too.
Yes, when someone uses it to weaponise or manipulate the population via spreading lies and misinformation.

I think the Greeks worked that one out a couple of thousand years ago or so...

Free speech does not mean there is no accountability for what you say.
Not so much to tell: example: some company has been running for the past 20 years on some erp and things have been attached to it and built around it over that time: suddenly it stops working for no clear reason and the company basically is not functioning fully or at all, losing whatever amount per hour. The original lead dev is gone or (in a recent case) died years ago and there is not much documentation, no issue tracking or even version management (it's a little HN myth that non IT companies all use that stuff as well; they don't, including some IT/SaaS ones we encountered). We get asked to fix it and make it run again. Sometimes we get ask to figure out a plan to fix it long term as well.
The second definition is a gentrification of the first definition. It has everything to do with how it's used today.
The firehose of cash is ads and user tracking, not serving better video.

It's such an unprecedented amount of money that it corrupts everything else and distorts the market.
zoom out on the map. There is a big roundabout a couple blocks away. It is called "The Circle In Orange."
> "solves" ... money for time

The proposal was two middlemen. It's just an inefficient way to, as you (or somebody up the chain) said, charge for attention to reduce spam. Since the middlemen are being paid, most spammers won't hire them.

> incredibly inefficient

In practice, yes. In theory, it could be fantastic. Imagine, as a simple example, you have two early-career backend developers. They could each do the same search, or a middleman could do one search and share the highlights with each developer. The fact that you have overlapping demands and information opens up the potential for the work to be amortized, even if you're not adding any value as a middleman other than trading time for money.
Write the legislation so data is not retained/sold. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Are you saying that a right-turn can be green simultaneous with the pedestrian's crossing light being green?

Because where I'm from, traffic lights are not allowed to be set up like that. No simultaneous green for crossing traffic flows, unless otherwise indicated (eg, an extra warning light+sign under the turn's traffic light flashing when it's green and off otherwise).
https://x.com/seunosewa/status/1878835480424513903

"Usage is usage. I don't make the rules."

He also clarifies he's referring to the contemporary meaning in the linked essay:

> Wokeness is a second, more aggressive wave of political correctness, which started in the late 1980s, died down in the late 1990s, and then returned with a vengeance in the early 2010s, finally peaking after the riots of 2020.

> This was not the original meaning of woke, but it's rarely used in the original sense now. Now the pejorative sense is the dominant one. What does it mean now?
Installed! This should not be a function of the search engine nor a plugin. This should be integrated in the browser.

Another great function (not for this plugin) should be the option to "bundle" all search results from the same domain. Stuff them under one collapsible entry. I hate going through lists and pages of apple/google/synology/sonos/crab urls when I already know that I have to search somewhere else.
I'm not sure I've seen evidence that running stop signs is more likely, but even if that is the case which one is higher risk? I'd subjectively say running red lights is more dangerous as you have a higher chance of several pedestrians entering the cross walk all at once, or several cars going at once, since it causes people/cars to move in waves. I think its pretty clear that the author is upset that a stop light that increases risk for pedestrians, cost the school and city money, and provides minimal time advantage for cars was implemented.

Also, I'd like to point out that normal does not mean good, or best.
Apparently it depends on dealership / market.

Mine's in today, Reddit has reports of people being told as late as March. Hyundai Finance is working with customers who cannot get the fix in the near term
I randomly browsed the site with Firefox stable and I couldn't see any obvious malfunction. What exactly is not working? Is there a specific webpage where the malfunction can be seen?
I like that insight and should I ever be back in the kafkaesque nightmare of blind online job applications, I will take your advice. As you point out, barring typographical mistakes a cover letter being too generic isn’t likely to result in a rejection, but not “checking the box” very well might.

cheers
On the other hand, whether the driver was legally or illegally passing through the intersection is also irrelevant for safety: the fact is that the video clearly shows that the driver didn't put anyone's lives at risk this time, neither themself, any pedestrians, nor any incoming cars.
Uber exists but only through taxi companies that employ the drivers.
We have our share of delivery apps, both for restaurant food and groceries. Plus a lot of people who study creative stuff end up rather offering services on online platforms rather thank working in service.
I admittedly don’t have precise data, and I guess this point is not as strong as point number two, more of an observation coming from empirical experience and chats with business owners.
I teach my kids valuable lessons in the car, during dinner and on evening walks. But I’m not in a country that is starving their education system.
> To evaluate whether LLMs exhibit theory of mind abilities, Kosinski used false-belief tasks. These tasks are a standard method in psychological research for assessing theory of mind in humans.

The Human was impervious to our most powerful magnetic fields, yet in the end he succumbed to a harmless sharpened stick.
If road infrastructure is designed solely to move goods quickly, it's only because people made a choice to prioritise that. Not The People, but indivial bureaucrats.

At least here in the Czech Republic, moving goods isn't on anyone's radar when designing municipal infrastructure. Delivery vehicles need to physically fit, sure, but any economic benefit they bring will only be felt as a very slight n-th order effect by the municipality. Complaining residents, be they pro-pedestrian or pro-car, are immediate and much more likely to be heard.
I created personalized image with tailscale and kasmvnc for this particular reason, ... not on a public VPS. you can find images on my github as inspiration; do not directly copy unless you understand what you are doing.
I don't know if California has a different law, but at least in my state it is very much illegal to accelerate into a yellow light.

Enforcement is basically non-existent, but it's absolutely "running the light" and "breaking the law" to accelerate into yellow lights.
> The only upside here is good publicity

Well, the ten organizations working for a more open internet, who happened to be chosen by the Proton community, and who will together receive over $1 million in donations might disagree that publicity is the only upside here.
More on the physics of how bikes work, Derek Muller from Veritasium demonstrated what happens if you lock the steering of a bike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cNmUNHSBac
Ask HN: Help find a post. Chart: time waiting action vs. time to fix action
Not so long ago, a developer published in his blog a simple X-Y chart in which, for a blocking task:

1) Given the time idling waiting for the blocker to finish
2) And given the number of expected occurences of the above

He calculated the allocated time to try fix/improve the problem

I've been unable to find the post. Any clues?
In Spain Tesla has actually had a record year, with a huge lead in EV market share (26.5%, the second being BMW with 6.3%). But I think this is circumstancial and next year may be very different.

The purchasing power in Spain is considerably lower than in e.g. Germany or France, so very few people are buying VAG or Stellantis EVs as they are perceived as overpriced (and the brands themselves often don't seem to want to sell them, but I won't bore you with that). During most of 2024, the Model 3 made sense for a lot of people in Spain, since it was the only EV that wasn't perceived as a toy car (Dacia Spring) or too expensive (most Volkswagen, etc.). Basically for less money than what the likes of Volkswagen or Peugeot were offering, you got a car with vastly superior specifications (especially range). Hence, it was the best selling EV by far, in spite of widespread negative perception about Musk and about the lack of physical controls.

Things are changing fast, though. On the one hand, the traditional brands are catching up with attractive models with decent ranges at attainable prices like the Citroën ë-C3 or the Kia EV3. On the other hand, the Chinese have entered the market, and even with the EU tariffs, they have attractive options at various price points like the Leapmotor T03 or the BYD Dolphin. So now if you don't actually like Tesla's offering that much, there is no reason to buy it anymore.

Scarce data, of course, but in the first 12 days of 2025, the Dolphin is the best-selling EV followed by the EV3. The Model 3 is far behind so far.
Depends on area. Portland schools have plenty of money but still struggle. Administration and retirement perks eat up most of the budget. In a sense its that they are not a business that leads to that kind of issue.

But ultimately its a complex issue. eg voucher systems would resolve the above issues, but create entirely new sets of problems which may be worse along the way.
I have seen kids learn to ride with training wheels. Basically the training wheels are raised relative to the rear wheel and the child learns to balance the bike on the tires, with the training wheels only touching when the bike leans over. But that only teaches them how to balance the bike when riding in a straight line. Not start, turn, or stop.
I'm not sure it's that direct of a connection.

There's something to be said about the structuralist part of it: using large amounts of text as a rule set to return a semblance of truth seems to be a structuralist's wet dream.

It's like drawing the map for the king: the real is being represented by reducing a huge number of data points to a mixture of randomness and hard rules that pretend to be real.

At the very least it's a form of hyperreality as far as I understand it.
Would you hire someone who can't solve fizz buzz without a LLM? Are we being for real here? Fizz Buzz tests the absolute basics of understanding control flow.
"pedestrians have to press the beg button, wait for the light to cycle through its routine, and then walk across the street"

Quite often what happens is

- Pedestrian presses button

- Light doesn't change for 30 seconds and there are no cars in sight

- Pedestrian goes "fuck it" and crosses

- Light changes red, after pedestrian is done crossing

- Car comes along and gets stopped at red light for 30 seconds
TIL Fizz Buzz is "leetcode"
How are countdown signal better ?
Good stuff. More cities need prank liquor.
Europe has great employee protection but it is not always this panacea either everywhere.

When I worked in Paris, I started at 10 am (to avoid rush hour on the subway), but rarely left before 7 or 8 (instead of 6) and it wasn't uncommon for me to stay until 11pm. I was "cadre" which means you need to deliver on tasks but get no overtime pay with the idea that workload is realistic but flexible: finish early and you're done, run late it's on you to deal with it. Needless to say the balance often tilted one way and not in my favor.

One reason was the culture at that company was to take many coffee breaks, long lunches, go for drinks after work and return to the office after etc. That means the days were pleasant and relaxed most of the time, but you made up for it by spending more time at work. I actually enjoyed it at the time, but I don't think I'd do now.

This was quite typical in my experience. Other companies would pay for overtime but only if you worked after 9pm (because 6 to 9 is for dinner). They'd cater pizzas during that time and folks would end their day at 9, and do just the 3h unpaid overtime while eating pizza in front of their pc.

Just saying, Europe has some great labor laws, but it's not all roses and rainbows either. Employers may still try to exploit you as much as they can within those laws (and sometimes by breaking it, I think lawsuits against employers (aux prudhommes) are a lot more common and employees win them quite often.)
It’s not a drag if you ignore it and it doesn’t happen even once a decade.

Still I’m looking forward to uv because I’ve lost faith in pypa. They break things on purpose and then say they have no resources to fix it. Well they had the resources to break it.

But this doesn’t have much to do with installing tools into ~/.local.
> Assuming those accounts get 60 years of use out of them that works out to 21600 USD in value/lost revenue.

Has any lifetime account for anything ever lasted for an actual lifetime? Short of the gold airline tickets that airlines have been weaseling out of recently?

It's a tech company. I'd charitably assume that "lifetime" means min(how long has the company been offering this service, 5 years (3 if company took VC funding)).
In some jurisdictions, this is literally how it works. You claim the intersection, wait for oncoming traffic to stop, then perform your turn. It's legal in jurisdictions where red means you cannot enter, like California.

The major problem is that on very congested streets, the driver won't know if the exit will be free of traffic when the light turns red. Blocking the intersection is illegal.

To a certain degree, it is a failing of Civic design and the ruleset. The solution is generally no left turns during peak hours, which is a duct tape fix