skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>whether air travel in the US should now be considered dangerous

Air travel is orders of magnitude safer than the alternatives. According to the first result on google:

"In 2022, the fatality rate for people traveling by air was .003 deaths per 100 million miles traveled. The death rate people in passenger cars and trucks on US highways was 0.57 per 100 million miles"

Even if the current administration's cuts made planes several times dangerous, it'd still be preferable than the alternative. The same applies to the recent panic about 737 MAX.
Also be sure to use descriptive names so the guys who disassemble your code can write articles about upcoming features.
The article touches on GLP-1's but doesn't state explicitly: GLP-1's treat addiction. Scientific backing for this is still preliminary, but when/if confirmed, it'll be a game changer for humanity. Whether it's a digital, chemical, or biological addiction, (but sure which category gambling falls under) it'll be huge to be able to treat that underlying gnawing feeling that addicts of all stripes face.
Since most foundational models have been trained on illegally acquired books, this info should be already baked in.
"You couldn't get 11 million people to strike at once"

"50$ I can."
Sounds about right, as we are post-dead internet in public places.

There was a thread about the US tariffs on Canada I was reading on a stock investment subreddit. The whole page was full of people complaining about Elon Musk, Donald Trump, "Buy Canadian" comments, moralizing about Alberta's conservative government and other unrelated noise. None of this was related to the topic; stocks and funds that seemed well-placed for a post-tariff environment.

There were small, minor points of interest but instead of spending honest vacation time looking at each comment at zoomer internet church, I had an LLM filter out the stuff I didn't care about. Unsurprisingly there was not much left.
> The outlet reports that deleted datasets "disproportionately" come from environmental science agencies like the Department of Energy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Was there an EO targeting these areas?
Man admits to crashing drone into firefighting plane
> Parenting is hard, right or wrong are always in far future’s hindsight.

The idea that we can't possibly know what good parenting is until some time in the future, is an absurd abdication of your responsibility as a parent.

Parenting is hard and nobody expects you to do it perfectly, but that doesn't mean you get to throw up your hands and pretend like good parenting can't be done.

> I felt the need to blame my dad, until I had my own kids.

It sounds like your shift in thought process had more to do with a shift in what thoughts made you feel good about yourself, rather than what thoughts are actually true.
Can I cut and paste a Core Data Model that my LLM generated?
Indeed it is, but maybe is time that we detach a person from their proposals. I wonder how that would be achieved.
It really depends on how long study time is. That sounds like proper parenting so long as we're talking like an hour or two.
Currently running my own benchmarks, my preliminary results are that zstd becomes competitive again once you add the --long option (so `zstd --long -16 all.tar` instead of `zstd -16 all.tar`). Which is an option that not everyone might be aware of, but whose usefulness should be intuitive for this benchmark of >200 very similar files.
Assuming Dell doesn't pay for commuting costs, does this mean you can get an effective pay rise by moving 1h 1m from the nearest office?
If you believe the HN vote system works, then this question boils down to: are people wrong to upvote LLM posts?

What kind of question is that?
Sam Altman's Answer to DeepSeek Is Giving Away OpenAI's Tech
I enjoy this take. As someone who feels like they align with a lot of symptoms associated with ADHD, I thrive in startup environments and would rather be unemployed than work in a corporate environment. That checks out! And there's no harm to it, there are plenty of opportunities for people of all kinds. I think the danger is expecting that any environment fits everyone. We're too many and too diverse for that to be true.
That's not how neuroatypical children operate. Explaining whys will just disconnect them.

You need extra work to embed the explanation as experiences in the field they currently relate to.

That doesn't always works, or you get caught in situation where there's just no time to go the extra mile: today conflict was because she decided running into pool of a busy parking lot was what she wanted and she would ignore / shut out me, mommy, the cars, everything else was irrelevant at that moment.

I will find out other ways to explain later on, but the fact remain that I had to act to prevent harm, and it generated resentement. We got to puddles later, but things don't cancel out that way.
> The ACA was written by and for the benefit of insurance companies. It solidified their strangehold on the industry, and has resulted in rapidly skyrocketing prices.

That's incorrect. ACA was a mostly-consensus project, and insurance companies absolutely hated the 20% profit margin limit in the ACA.

At the end of the day _someone_ has to pay for the care. It has to be either the state (like in Medicare), or private insurance companies. Both approaches can work just fine. We need more regulation of the insurance companies, and we need to decouple them from employers.

> Ultra rare supermajority? Time for a lobbyist handout!

Republicans could have stepped in and offered a public version. Just _one_ Senator would have been enough. Yet Republicans decided to stonewall the ACA completely.
Or containers. The Swift project is pretty good about keeping their Docker images up to date.
You already know.

https://generalstrikeus.com/aboutus

> What are your demands?

> Our broad list of demands includes, but is not limited to: Climate action. Universal healthcare. Racial justice. Reproductive rights. LGBTQIA+ rights. Living wage / raise the minimum wage. Immigration reform. Education reform. Gun safety. Tax the rich. Affordable housing. Disability rights. Welfare and child support reform. Voters rights. Constitutional convention. Paid family and medical leave. Criminal justice system reform. Workers’ rights. Permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

> Specific demands will come from leaders and experts of existing fights for racial, economic, gender and environmental justice.
I wonder how much room there is for misfits these days. Young people have to nail it or fail with a high student debt burden.

I think in the past we missed a language to label the "weird" and unproductive people. But I know of communities were it was common for an employer to "hire" such people for a period, then pass the buck to another employer. Now the thing is, in the past, it was for the public normal to see a commercial enterprise as a social enterprise too.

Nothing of that is left anymore in today's Management Schools. In the technocratic thought of Nazism it started by just killing "unsocial elements" (read: people with disabilities).

The Euthanasia Program required the cooperation of many German doctors, who reviewed the medical files of patients in institutions to determine which individuals with disabilities should be killed. The doctors also supervised the actual killings. Doomed patients were transferred to six institutions in Germany and Austria, where they were killed in specially constructed gas chambers. Infants and small children with disabilities were also killed by injection with a deadly dose of drugs or by starvation. The bodies of the victims were burned in large ovens called crematoria.

(https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-murder-of-people-with-disabilities)

Okay, that escalated quickly. But talking about fitting in has to answer what it means to be human. And if we as society are actually at ease with people that are not as productive in current business processes. We obviously don't want to kill them, but on the other hand we require them to be "normal". Helping kids learning/trying to adapt a bit is not bad per se. But can we handle it when it doesn't work?
Back when a lot of my work conversations were with sales reps and system engineers over the phone, certain reps in particular would take 10 minutes to get to a point where they could have been handled in a minute with an internal email. Though, yes, sometimes the real-time conversation was useful.
What was the last good product dell has made? I avoid Dell & HP at all cost.
OpenAI Is Getting into the Nuclear Weapons Game
I assume I’ll still have access to storage and compute in Europe or Canada. If the situation degrades to the point even that isn’t an option (and the US government tilts towards China level control of electronic communications at nation state boundaries), I leave the country.
Because air travel is ridiculously safe. The incident with the helicopter and the plane is making the rounds precisely because of how insanely improbable it is, and even then from what we know, chances are the error was in the helicopter, not the tower.
Java has been playing catch-up for a while after the ecosystem stagnated on Java 8. The language seems to be very willing to incorporate new changes, but most interesting improvements seem to be stuck behind "nth preview" developments (basically useless), or the release was as badly thought through as any C# feature.

For instance, Loom took ages to make it into Java itself, finally reaching an LTS version in Java 21, but it took until Java 24 for Loom to be able to deal well with any code hsi g synchronized {} blocks. They also went back on their previous advice ("change synchronized blocks to reentrant locks to fix compatibility") which must be fun news for the projects that did follow their earlier advice.

And while introducing modules and breaking the compile for any old Java project seems to have gone through without much trouble (throwing compiler warnings everyone ignores for several releases before breaking code, of course), the language seems to dread minor backwards incompatibilities when it comes to language level improvements like nullable types, introducing a tri-state nullability definition while also refusing to implement some stricter null checking to ensure the language feature is entirely opt-in.

Java feels like the backend is picking up features as fast as Javascript or Rust or C#, but the frontend is managed like C. A weird mix between "change is scary" and "stagnation is decline". It's the language at the forefront of high-performance dynamic programming while also having had an unimplemented "const" keyword for 25 years.
You can decompile any modern .NET assembly to C# 1.0 in ILSpy. It can be quite useful when learning the language new syntax.
All of those things are completely legal. I do not agree with many of them. But laws are laws. Many of these executive orders are not legal. It doesn't matter how much you or I might want them, they must be passed by congress, and verified by the judicial branch. If you don't understand that, you need to go back and read the constitution, or leave and start your own country, because you are not a believer in the United States of America. Full stop.
Why -T12 for zstd and T16 for xz? How many threads is bzip3 using?
ATC-wannabe here.

I can't be ATC anymore because I'm too old. I can't even start. That age limit needs to change.

And yes, more pay.
Drill if you can, dig if you have to, nslookup if you must (2015)
The FAA's Real Air Traffic Control Crisis Runs Much Deeper
Why should it not, one of the design goals of Swift as C, Objective-C and C++ replacement was painless interop with those languages.

Thus it is more an issue of Swift embedded toolchain being able to be used alongside FreeRTOS on the specific hardware target.
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Air traffic controllers have basically been in shortage for the better part of two decades.

The current situation is also because a large clump of controllers were hired after the Reagan administration broke the ATC strike in 1981, and that giant clump of people is now reaching retirement age at the same time.
Those can run on methanol or synthetic fuels. For the source of carbon atmospheric carbon capture can be used.
They look up to me (as of 1pm EST)

https://www.cdc.gov/acip-recs/hcp/vaccine-specific/index.htm...
Which pilots? Rookie controllers already get paid more per hour than most general aviation flight instructors, or first officers in regional airlines. Pay for captains at major airlines is quite good, but few pilots ever reach that level.
I worked with a guy who could solve a thorny software issue with a quick glance at a printout. Looking back, I wonder if it was the right printout.

Not that it would have mattered. He spotted the problem instantly. It wasn’t the problem and we took a bit longer to spot it and fix it.

Things got a lot better after he left.

There’s a saying “I’ll see it when I believe it”
Thank you for the datapoint. I have not noticed them in the states or in my travels but I also haven’t been looking.

A quick google search says 70% of global market share as of 2022?! Even if that is off it still tells me my perception is incorrect.

Thanks again!
i would recommend two things for adhd . labels diagnosis lables are waste of time . if you are lucky enough to live somewhere where the schools will provide evidence based help amazing. if not and you have the double dose of adhd and dyslexia, do your own research find other people / families with similar issues . it's amazing to watch two kids with adhd realizing they actually like the other kid and they think like me.
Came here to say both of these things. I’ve had very similar experiences. I think treating ADHD as a trauma response doesn’t have anywhere near enough attention (pun intended).

I’m excited for the psychedelic renaissance that seems to be occurring. So much of this comes back to our internal mechanisms for feeling “safe”. If we weren’t taught that by our parents (which many don’t sadly) then it’s hard to find it later in life without very deliberate work.

Glad you were able to heal yourself mate!
For anyone looking for info on Jonathan Haidt, Techdirt has covered him for a while.

https://www.techdirt.com/tag/jonathan-haidt/

JH is the poster child for SM->Youth MH alarmism. His flawed premise have directed society down a wrong road.
zstd is faster and provides better compression than gzip at every point on the curve. There is no reason to use gzip these days other than backwards compatibility.
I disagree. The author is clearly stating that he was not compatible with his parents’ way of raising him. So he is saying their way was “wrong”, and this implies that there is a “right” way, or at least “not wrong” way. I just feel really bad for the parents.
> Capital owns AI

DeepSeek is free and you can run it anywhere.

The price of intelligence is quickly trending to zero.
This. It literally is like flash night when lights out and it is really annoying.
I disabled AI entirely on my ipad running 18.2.1 but it still indicates almost 3 GB storage in use for AI. The author suggests iOS will let you overwrite that space if needed, but I'm not so sure.
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I asked around, got these as reasons from various people (management or otherwise) for forcing workers to come to office

1. Effective tool to force people to quit, instead of laying them off

2. Smart, fast workers have figured out ways to do extra work (freelance, part time job etc) which enrages employers. We can debate the ethics of this all day, but remember that prices of everything is going up every year, but raises/promotions are hard to come by

3. Pettiness, micromanagement - just relishing the fact that people suffer from long commutes, have to find baby sitters etc. A manager at my job was collecting names of people who don't come to office minimum 3 days a week. This was his biggest "achievement" last month, he contributes nothing to actual work. Showing people who is "the boss"

4. Keeping commercial real estate prices from crashing
>pledge loyalty or resign

This is made up. It's a layoff letter like we see at big corps any other week. "We're reorganizing, here's an offer, take it or not, your job might get cut in 9 months."
For the most part, yes, it should be very achievable. Embedded Swift basically just produces an object file that looks like any object file from a C compiler. The objects mostly rely on very basic primitives like malloc/memcpy so it's pretty freestanding (you can turn off allocations, too). It also has very good support for importing C headers into Swift code so you can interop easily.

Probably the biggest roadbump for something like FreeRTOS is the asynchronous support though. Embedded Swift's async support is still extremely rudimentary and I didn't find much about how to extend it/attach it to other control loops. I think it only supports single-threaded execution right now as well.
Look for small companies to work at, ideally owner-managed ones. Yes there’s a salary trade-off, but you get what you pay for, so to speak.
I had the same experience as the other person that replied to you. At the front desk - "Hi, I'm here to do some IT work, is manager around?" "Oh the server room is around the corner, it's unlocked." Didn't need the root esxi password because the IP and password were stuck to the sever with a sticky note.
> if you’ll also entertain a non-hypothetical that DEI does not mean hiring quotas where you refuse to fill open spots

I'm sure this is true about the FAA, I have no reason to doubt you, but quotas are a very real part of DEI in other sectors and slots do stay open until they find a suitable quota-fitting candidate.
A lot of the “never upgrade to 11” folks are completely unaware at how antiquated their OS is at this point.

Windows 11 isn’t some kind of disaster, it’s a really solid if incremental upgrade to 10.

Is it perfect? No. Not at all.

Did I have to make a registry change to turn off Internet searches in the start menu? Yeah I did.

But other than minor quibbles like that it’s clearly a better OS than 10.
don't confuse blaming with introspection. you have to accept you're responsible for yourself to do that properly first, though.
Twitter not collapsing after Elons staff culling was probably one of the most pivotal bad moments for tech workers.
It's rated for 3 to 5 minutes. I can find slow gas pumps too.
"Because I said so" means "My authority as a parent should be sufficient reason for compliance. You asking for additional justification threatens my shifgrethor." Shifgrethor -- Ursula K. LeGuin's word meaning, roughly, authority simultaneously as the bedrock of the organization of society and as a measure of personal self-worth, is widely perceived as bullshit by neurodivergents, and it mostly probably is. But it is of prime importance to normies and if you challenge it, normies will inflict severe consequences. This is such a powerful lesson parents feel the need to instill it early on.
Ask HN: Why are we all pretending everything is normal?
I know we’re supposed to be tech focused but I see no posts regarding the situation at large. No tech, no innovation can really grow or come about if this keeps going. Those of us who have grown up with relative freedom and the room to innovate owe it to those coming up to do something? The system isn’t perfect, but what is happening will make it worse.
What can be done?
I won’t repost this if it gets removed.
First AI model to pass my test on the first try (I used o3-mini-high).

Prompt: Write an interpreter for a simple but practical scripting language. Write the interpreter in JavaScript to be run on the Node.JS platform. You can import any of the standard Node.JS modules.

Churned out ~750 lines and a sample source code file to run the interpreter on. Ran on the first try completely correctly.

Definitely a step up. Perhaps it's in the training data. I don't know. But no other model has ever produced an error-free and semantically correct program on the first try, and I don't think any ever managed to implement closures.
For some reason, my first thought was that all those people soght out testing because they all had sex with Sheen.
FOSDEM these days is best experienced online. The streaming is great.
I wonder if they’re secretly hoping it comes true.
> there is a lot of "AI Washing" happening in the space

Total red herring. Your argument for why AI cannot be a risk is because it depends on so much physical infrastructure. Sure, this infrastructure isn't going to come from thin air, but if there are strong incentives to put in place then it makes no difference whether it came from thin air or VC checkbooks. It is then in place, ergo your rationale for why this cannot be a risk is invalid.
The Wikipedia definition is too narrow. It should include the more ambivalent form, which is where any intellectual approach to a problem/question is met with blank stares

I live in NZ now, and while the Wikipedia definition does not apply so much, there is nearly zero intellectualism in the entire country

At least the U.S. has pockets of deep and meaningful intellectualism
There's been a lot of discussion in https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/

Here's documentation on independent backup efforts of various government websites: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1ifalwe/us_gov...

Also here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1idj6dm/all_us...

Apparently, much of the data has been back up here: https://eotarchive.org/

Here's also a discussion on whether the Internet Archive is sufficiently backed up/decentralized (it is not): https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1if32iq/does_i...
They are not alone, this is the reality in all companies demanding RTO.
I mean again, even within a single sport, there are role differences, but the degree of fitness that you have to have to build 130kg muscle mass that JJ Watt has, and to run the 38.5 that Mbappe does... is just not the same level of fitness.

On the reverse, Mbappe has less strenght, and JJ Watt moves like a tank with 27km/h speed. If you compare them to elite strenght sports, they're both weak. If you compare them to sprinters, Mbappe is an amateur sprinter, and JJ Watt is disabled.

Sportsmen specialize in what they do, but NFL simply doesn't require versatility so they are good in fewer categories, and not very good in any. Soccer players are good in multiple categories, and by the virtue of being the more popular and competitive sport and having insanely bigger selection, occassionally very good in one or two (e.g. Bale, Mbappe, and other freaks of nature who are essentially sprinters).

Also, soccer player does not run 1/20th of marathoner runs. Elite wingers run just under _a third of marathon_ each game, of which 3km can be sprint.
How do you showcase your AI agent?
Hi! We want to create pages for AI agents in our marketplace, to make them index in google and to showcase the capabilities prior to chatting.

What things would you like to display on the page?

Screenshots, videos, diagrams, integrations icons, agent icon? We thought about doing some interactive demos as well (example input-output in our chat interface with some animation), or automated video recording, that shows how you enter input and get some type of output from the agent.

So the question to you is, what would be the best way to showcase the agent capabilities without usage?
> Trump telling all ATC controllers to leave, immediately

this is not 100% accurate by any definition of the word accurate. It is an interpretation of a letter, and a wrong one in my opinion.

Believe me I'm quite pissed at the media for finally making both sides of the US political spectrum equally uninterested in facts
This is a classic for the purely algorithmic approaches:

https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Strings-Trees-Sequences-Co...