skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they hate spending even one dollar extra on roofing when they know a taxpayer-backed insurance policy will cover their substandard construction

So people would prefer to lose all of their belongings and be displaced?
> With the walk signal there is a brief moment in time when the drivers are doing nothing but waiting for you

In my area, there are plenty of stop lights with pedestrian signals where both are active at the same time. This allows the traffic to flow if there are no pedestrians on the assumption the drivers will recognize the pedestrians have right of way. To me, this is bat shit crazy level of assumptions. Either protect the pedestrians, or you might as well remove the pedestrian signal.
This type of finger wagging is the exact type of thing that keeps workers in the US from being able to come together and unionize. Bezos however absolutely loves it.
SQLite performance is kinda nutty. My design of the DB at the time was probably poor (but I was 15 so cut me some slack :D) but I made an app that had to run on iPod Touches at the time, so we could use the accelerometer for physics class in school.

initially the performance was too poor, but after a bunch of reading and some changes in how I was using SQLite I got it to easily do more than 100k rows per second of insertions (the db wasn't very wide). On an old embedded device, mind you. Didn't need that much, but wowza! was my expression at the time. I've had a love for it in my heart every since.
Eliminating another flaw in sodium-ion batteries
Where I'm from it's exactly the opposite - straight road means you can't trust drivers to slow down, but any obstacle like a big mound with a road in a circle around it makes them pay attention
Yeah, for autocomplete it has a weird UX feel to it.

Some of the other examples like using it with the slider and the color picker seem like they're useful.
Same experience. I've found Edge to be the smoothest-feeling browser I've used on Android. Brave may be objectively faster, but somehow Edge feels better. If Microsoft did this deliberately, I'd love to know how.
I used to work at a place where I could do things of value, but my role has changed to putting out fires that are (to my eye) manufactured by our acquiring company and silly admin things that I have now responsibility of, but no agency in. Ex: they need me to do a performance review of my reports, but don’t let me give them the rating or raise I think they deserve despite the decision makers never having a single conversation with my reports.

Nobody knows our codebase as well as me because I built it. My output of customer value has dropped to 10% of what it used to be and I don’t think it would be possible today to build the things we built pre-acquisition that made us valuable in the first place.

Thankfully we were able to hire another engineer who is very good and has been able to keep up with internal and external requests. I am thankful he’s been able to get up to speed so I don’t leave my coworkers high and dry.

At 35 years old, I’m cooked, Chat. Thriving at a megacorp with these management styles is orthogonal to delivering value to customers.
So he’s an anti-woke California Democrat. That would make him a republican in most other states.
It's so common place that few are going to remember they applied to a specific company years ago to begin with.
I don't know USA, but in other parts of the world yellow and red are different colors.

Just because 2 things are illegal they aren't the same, and it takes away all seriousness from the article for me.
How would I recommend I get into embedded Linux as a total newbie with only Node/Ruby experience? :^)
The same vendors that sell Linkedin data in bulk include this level of personal information (phones, personal/work emails, addresses). Perhaps this is how they mine the data they sell, but I think it's more likely they take use the information scraped from Linkedin and send it to other vendors to enrich it with personal information.
This is asinine.

Next time you're in the car, try teaching your kid about solving systems of equations where both are linear vs one is linear and the other is parabolic. It's a lot easier to sketch it out on scratch paper than to pontificate from the driver's seat.
You mean like those pedal-free started bicycles marketed at daycare/kindergarten age kids?

The ones none of my kids could ever figure out how to ride? Nor would I expect to, because they ask you to learn too many things at the same time? The ones that have no stable position other than lying on their side?

I'll consider trying this for the "training wheels off" period, so thanks for the tip. At the same time, I don't know who figured it's a good idea to push these contraptions as starter bikes.

EDIT: balance bikes, they're called. Maybe the ability to use them is determined by a gene that isn't present in my lineage, or something.
Sure you can.

At very low speeds, yes, the bike will fall over. But a bike with some minimum amount of speed can roll upright on its own just fine. You can try it yourself with your least favorite bike and an empty parking lot. All it takes is a good solid push. It has to do with bicycle frame geometry and center of mass.

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains it in this video at 2:52: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIrgwWQqqts
The actual work underlying the essay - the one published in Cambridge Core - is pretty strong and has a lot of pretty compelling analysis. It's just long.
Could someone explain why we always put pedestrian crossings at intersections?

I've always felt like that is the most unsafe place for a crossing. In my city, there are a few pedestrian crossings with lights recessed from intersections. The lights turn on only when someone bumps the crossing button (which isn't super common) and only 2 ways of traffic need to stop/watch out.
Research on countdown traffic lights is inconclusive with regards to their safety [0]. They can not realistically be described as best practice.

[0] https://www.maxapress.com/data/article/dts/preview/pdf/DTS-2...
> I'm pretty sure the rates of hunger and malnutrition dropped significantly over that timeframe.

Being fat does not mean being sat or good fed.
Taking a bunch of waste plastic and burning it does not cause a proportional increase in oil/gas extraction. The partial derivative is going to be pretty low.
> Obviously Meta is shooting itself in the face. The entire national security propaganda farce has been transparently seen through, and most American internet users know that its really about corporate lobbying and Meta trying to maintain its grasp on American social media monopoly. The fact that Bytedance has a connection to China is a convenient angle for US Congress and media. But American TikTok users are actually responding out of spite — “fine we’ll go directly to China and hand them our data personally”.

That's frankly bullshit. It smacks motivated reasoning of the form "I like TikTok therefore everything that keeps me from what I want is bad/wrong/a lie/etc." Though I wouldn't be surprise if it's getting repeated so much in the TikTok bubble that it becomes easy to believe through repetition.

TikTok got banned because of the national security angle, and because it very unwisely decided to poke Congress's eye in a way that emphasized the reality of that, right when they were considering the bill.

When there's a serious concern you can manipulate Americans, it's really dumb idea to go manipulate Americans into doing something in a very public way.

> For the last 48 hours, millions of Tiktok users have started migrating to Xiaohongshu in droves. This feels very different from every previous Mastodon or Bluesky wave. This one feels sticky. Everytime I refresh my feed, there are hundreds of new videos saying “Hello from America, I am a Tiktok refugee”, and I have been refreshing my feed every few seconds for the past day.

> The reason why this is sticky and working is because these posts are receiving comments. Roughly half are in English and are usually some kind of mix of welcoming them or a snarky joke that they’ve re-connected with their Chinese spy. The other half of comments are in Chinese, making American users have to translate them using ChatGPT or Google Translate.

That doesn't sound sticky to me. It sounds like a small fraction of the US TikTok users using weird logic ("TikTok is Chinese therefore Chinese social media apps are good") then making first posts. IIRC, Little Red Book is closer to Instagram, so it's no like they're even going to be getting a TikTok-like experience.
Well put. As long as channels like Technology Connections can remain financially viable on the platform and not beaten down by the algorithm, I really don't care how many Mr Beasts are making "slop content".
There is no bicycle traffic because there are no bicycle roads. It's incorrect to claim that we shouldn't build bicycle roads because there's no bicycle traffic :)
In principle I agree but the edge case I think has to be accounted for is that many people have weak PINs protecting highly sensitive apps (financial, banking) on their phones like that could be backdoored with root access.

There have been times when I really wished that I could OEM unlock my Android device without wiping but overall I think I sleep better knowing that my PIN isn't sufficient to extract all of its data.
No one seems to have mentioned AI/LLMs yet. Between Khan Academy, Wikipedia, and LLMs, if your child has curiosity, the resources to tutor have never been better.
Maybe they are there to fake a good faith effort to justify their H1B hires.
> Are you saying that a right-turn can be green simultaneous with the pedestrian's crossing light being green?

I can't think of many places that I drive where this isn't the case.

The pedestrian crossing lights are in sync with the traffic lights, if traffic going N/S is green then the pedestrian lights going N/S will also be green even if cars are turning E/W
In my opinion a big barrier to the success of such systems is that newspapers often aren't primary sources. Most outsource the reporting to press agencies and (increasingly) to social media. Press agencies usually do sell individual stories with primary reporting, but not at the prices you and I can afford.

For mainstream press though, is it worth the pennies of a microtransaction to read someone's re-hashing of public records and social media posts? That is very much dependent on both the reader's personal expertise and the author's, and if they are mismatched the article becomes worthless to the reader. An article explaining what HN is would be illuminating to many, but entirely unworthy even of pennies to you and I.
> Something that was very common with BASIC interpreters but still baffling is how they were running on machines with extremely limited memory and fairly limited CPU time, but for some reason decided not to make integer types available to programmers.

To be fair, JavaScript suffers from the same laziness :)
If there is no way of configuring the intersection so that right on red is safe for pedestrians, then the problem is the right on red.
> Drivers paying attention to their surroundings is the goal.

In the real world, drivers don't pay attention to their surroundings; instead, they look for other cars to avoid being hit. Further down the list is avoiding static obstacles like street lights or bollards. Lastly, they may think of looking for pedestrians. In other words, they care about their safety, not their neighbor's.

Cyclists, if even noticed in the first place, are seen as nothing but a nuisance that should be overtaken at all cost, even when they are about to reach a stop light and there's no room to pass safely.

> You have the right of way!

A non insignificant number of drivers believe that "might is right" and will knowingly play chicken with you if they perceive that they are safer in the event of a collision. As a vulnerable road user, you don't know whether the driver you are interacting with will be one of the 95% of reasonable people or one of the 5% of insecure bullies.
MathReader: Text-to-Speech for Mathematical Documents [pdf]
The way you make your kids safe bikers:

1. NEVER RIDE ON THE SIDEWALK. Cars on the street cannot see you due to other parked cars and WILL make right or left turn on you. Additionaly, cars coming out of parking lots won't see you on the sidewalk.

2. NEVER RIDE ON OPPOSITE SIDE. Ride on the same direction as cars, make yourself visible.

3. INDICATE ALL TURNS WITH HAND SIGNALS. Be predictable. Don't just turn or otherwise behave unpredictably. Indicate turns, make eye contact and then turn.

4. (Obvious) ACT LIKE A CAR AND DON'T RUN LIGHTS.
This is Allstate, the house, trying to maintain their edge over their customers, the players. If they get additional info that tells them you are an unsafe driver, then their odds of you not getting into an accident diminish and their goes their premiums, the bets.

Yah yah insurance reduces risks instead of adding it like gambling, but the analogies are still there.
WiiM?
He said himself that probably knows more about manufacturing than anyone else. I don't take that as a true statement, but at the time he slept at the Tesla factory floor, I am sure he learned a lot and solved many manufacturing problems. He is not just a manager that signs paychecks
The "millions of accounts" is highly speculative, is it not? It relies on the idea that failed startups keep their SAAS accounts enabled, rather than offboarding correctly.
I try to variance of this where I was the DM and the llm played the player characters. It went okay but it was also a bit lame.
> (The worst are SF's 2-way stops at intersections between equally-sized roads that show up randomly throughout Sunset. Worst of both worlds.)

As a cyclist, I've been yelled at by drivers for not stopping at that type of intersection, where they have a stop sign and I don't. People are working off of their personal version of the rules of the road, where they are always right.
The murder of the united healthcare CEO, or more specifically, the positive reaction towards it, seems rather associated with the left, doesn't it?

People who want a certain party to be in power should hold that party to a higher standard. Independent of the party. Being "better than the others" is not good enough.
Preparing a campaign is an awful lot of work, which at least in my case is why my friend group almost never plays.
Indeed, "The Dish" is about the Parkes⁰ radio telescope. Very fictional though :)

Tom Scott did a nice video¹ visiting it a little while back - as a vintage computing enthusiast I was rather pleased to see a PDP-11 in their equipment racks!

⁰ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkes_Observatory

¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o38C-ultvw
Forward PE multiples can't be lower than trailing multiples unless you believe earnings will decrease next year. Interestingly, going off of Yahoo Finance, EPS did decrease in 2024, but I don't know their methodology. You'd have to scrub these numbers to make sure they are meaningful and I no longer have access to Bloomberg / FactSet / Capital IQ to do that... and I'm too lazy to pull up research reports and scrub manually ;-)
What O3 Becomes by 2028
My problem is that author doesn't seem to understand the traffic laws and wrongly says cars ran a red light. I'm not interested in his opinion after that.

If you are going to put something on the internet about bad design you should make sure you understand it first.
I think a pretty large percentage of drivers don’t actually know that they’re supposed to yield to pedestrians when turning at lights.

I’ve had multiple close calls where the driver looks at me angrily, I point at the white ‘walk’ symbol, and then their anger turns to confusion. They had no idea that they’re supposed to wait.
The problem with malort isn’t the bitter, it’s the lack of quality.

I love amaros and bitter liqueurs, but malort is a hard pass.
Sure, I don't mind the ads. The pervasive tracking and data collection and profile building is where I draw the line. Tons and tons of JS churning my browser to sell me stuff. If my adblock eventually causes some sort of economic disaster, so be it.
>If road infrastructure is designed solely to move goods quickly, it's only because people made a choice to prioritise that.

This argument simply does not work for the majortiy of USA.
We started attaching public comment boxes to everything and now everyone thinks their opinion on everything is important.
Yes a similar analysis is where the above expression f²RC²V² comes from.

Essentially -- (and I'm probably missing a factor of 2 or 3 somewhere as I'm on my phone and don't have reference materials) -- in an adiabatic circuit the unavoidable power loss for any individual transistor stems from current (I) flowing through that transistor's channel (a resistor R) on its way to and from another transistor's gate (a capacitor C). So that's I²R unavoidable power dissipation.

I must be sufficient to fill and then discharge the capacitor to/from operating voltage (V) in the time of one cycle (1/f). So I=2fCV. Substituting this gives 4f²RC²V².

Compare to traditional CMOS, wherein the gate capacitance C is charged through R from a voltage source V. It can be shown that this dissipates ½CV² of energy though the resistor in the process, and the capacitor is filled with an equal amount of energy. Discharging then dissipates this energy through the same resistor. Repeat this every cycle for a total power usage of fCV².

Divide these two figures and we find that adiabatic circuits use 4fRC times as much energy as traditional CMOS. However, f must be less than about 1/(5RC) for a CMOS circuit to function at all (else the capacitors don't charge sufficiently during a cycle) so this is always power savings in favor of adiabatics. And notably, decreasing f of an adiabatic circuit from the maximum permissible for CMOS on the same process increases the efficiency gain proportionally.

(N.B., I feel like I missed a factor of 2 somewhere as this analysis differs slightly from my memory. I'll return with corrections if I find an error.)
I'm not sure I agree that it's a flaw in Google's OAuth implementation. Domain ownership is the source of truth for many systems and, as the article alludes to, expired domains can be abused in a variety of ways.
Putting all of the employees on notice to keep their heads down and do their jobs without comment or complaint.
I think the real reason this happened is staring the author in the face. He noted the necessary engineering and construction work, and some of the price tags for that and the maintenance. I think this has less to do with any car-friendly ideology, conscious or unconscious, and it's just a boondoggle for engineering, construction, and maintenance firms.
> I'll take 4-way stop any day since speeds are lower.

Exactly. People are, at worst, doing a "rolling stop" so they are still only going a few kph when they "didn't see" you.
My son's district has a black superintendent and at least one black principal but otherwise black (and other) kids don't get to see the example of black teachers (and learn school is a "white thing you wouldn't understand" the same way that boys come to the conclusion that school is for girls when they don't see any male teachers -- the problem here is representation-ism that stops at the very top, if they do get a black teacher they get promoted out of the ranks immediately)

When my son was in middle school he was quite inspired by a curriculum unit on the Harlem Renaissance and liked the school's black principal.

Later on he felt the attitude about gender (man vs women as opposed to something else) was very oppressive and that it contributed to him and other students falling victim to incel ideology and sometimes body dysmorphia. Today he struggles to talk to girls not because he's afraid of being rejected but because he's afraid of being reported.
Main issue is that recruiters can get every bit as bougy as applicants can get when the market sways in their favor. So in a market like this, you may have less than a 10% response rare from messaging recruiters. Whereas 2021-2022 you'd almost always at least get a reply when you messaged a human.
Thank you for the context!

I also was a little confused by the goal, but that clears it up.
Likely because the annoying paywall to most of Medium.
I think we need to to focus on empirical consensus rather than taking as authoritative some file which makes claims about what a particular piece of software will or won't do.

So before running any code you'd hash it and ask your peers: "what do we think this does?"

If it does something surprising, you roll back its effects (or maybe it was in a sandbox in the first place) and you update your peers so that next time they're not surprised.

I keep saying "you" but this would just be part of calling a function, handled by a tool and only surfaced to the user when they ask or when the surprising thing happens.

It could be a useful dataset both for maintainers and for people who want to better understand how to use the thing.
Your choice of numbers is very odd - even though you mention that you can adjust them for your own circumstances, the starting point is unrealistic.

- Very few people earn $1.5M/year

- Saving 20% implies that you're spending ~$1M/year while working, so $150k/year in retirement would not be appealing

Did the LLM pick the numbers for you?
Minimum wage in California seems to be $16 an hour. I doubt this intersection took 37 500 man-hours to finish, so I don't think the cost is explained by wages. Also, $200K would still seem like a gigantic amount of money for adding stop lights to a single intersection.
We do not come to the same conclusions. The last paragraph is this:

“Luckily, I’d say I’m a pretty predictable guy.” Luck has nothing to do with it, Mr. MrBeast. Your predictability is the result of years of an information diet consisting of audience feedback metrics. You are the proudest creation of the YouTube Apparatus."

Audience feedback metrics are only part of what a creator does. They are people with complex motivations and being sensitive to audience feedback metrics doesn't eliminate that. I could see saying the ecosystem being a synthesis of demand (I mean that's just trivially true, we don't need an essay on Mr Beast to say that) but from interviews Mr Beast is very much a product of the pressure of YouTube mixed with the very specific nature of who Jimmy is as a person (from interviews he seems like a pretty weird guy and his videos definitely reflect his particular quirks).

Edit: I'm trying to see how the author and I agree but unless the author is saying that people who succeed on a platform are the people that do things that are successful on the platform (i.e. align with audience metrics) then I don't think we agree. And I don't think that's all they are saying because that's just trivially true everywhere and it would make all the talk about philosophy and authenticity useless cruft. I think that Mr Beast is the sorta platonic ideal of a "content creator" driven by metrics and even he cannot escape his own Jimmy Donaldson-ness in his videos.
That would attract people who want to use a lot of storage without spending any money, i.e. the opposite of what they want.
Take the warm blankets into the office with you
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42698568
It's too bad they didn't put a roundabout here, there's one in the middle of old town Orange and it works pretty well. Terrible waste of money to make the intersection worse like they did.

It also says something that the behavior of the cars here isn't even illegal in California. Entering an intersection on yellow and exiting on red is fine. Right turn on red is also allowed, and many people combine that with a California stop (though that last part isn't legal). All of the above are extremely hazardous for pedestrians and encourage speeding.