skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't begin to tell you [1]. It's not a 25% variation, once you've extrapolated from the samples by 10,000x (or whatever). The 25% inter-sample error was on a few replicas of teeny tiny measurements. The post-extrapolation error bars are so wide that they're meaningless.

The Smithsonian magazine article is garbage. Ignore it. The paper is saying that they see longitudinal trends in plastic bioaccumulation in various cadaver tissues, and this is plausible. But no, you don't have a plastic spoon in your head. That's just panic porn.

[1] Actually...I just asked Gemini and it reminded me that the expected variance of a draw from a distribution, scaled by factor C, should have a variance of the scaled sample distribution that grows with C^2. So, if we scale up the measurement by a factor of 10,000, we'd expect the variance of the scaled estimate to be proportional to 10,000^2.
When a bug pops up, what do you do? Fix it? Ignore it? Does your logging tool catch it? Or do you only find out when a customer complains? But, hey, the stuff you gotta do this week doesn't change, right? Wouldn't it be awesome if you could whip up a fix PR as soon as a bug hits? Error logs aren't always clear, can mislead, and often don't reveal the cause, so you can't say you'll fix everything 100%. Still, it might cut down the initial investigation big time. So, we ran an experiment combining a logging tool with an AI Coding Agent to see if we could create a fix PR right after a bug shows up.
Safer than driving, you say?
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None of these things are going to happen. Voters keep voting with their votes and their wallets that they want bigger cars and don't care about climate change. Meanwhile reactionary billionaires have hijacked most of our mass media as we blow by the 1.5°C Paris agreement and Trump dismantles our science institutions.
This has been fixed! I was using the wrong urls.
And only one of them was a person being sparta-kicked onto the tracks
I was very skeptical of the congestion pricing policy but I have to confess that it frigging worked. Based on my observations it significantly reduced traffic not only in lower Manhattan but also in NJ coming into Holland Tunnel. It does not change the fact though that this was done more so as a money grab by the MTA.
My grocery store is literally in another town 20 miles away. I have an EV but apparently those are even worse for microplastic generation. Am I screwed?
I am wondering how Dang manages a continuous stream of posts. Does he monitor it full-time?
expecting tesla stock to jump 10% tomorrow after elon announces flying robotaxis by thanksgiving
There are extremely well cited papers for and against various COVID-19 topics but you could sooner convince me the Earth is cube shaped than research publishings in academia are free from being politically charged.
If it’s anything like SF most crime goes unreported.

Not to mention the knock on effect. A single criminal incident can result in thousands of people choosing not to use public transport.

But you are right, the crime aspect is overblown in places like NYC.
This is great! Thanks for sharing that with me :)
Yes, but the article is talking about how YoY crime is down last month, while ridership has _increased significantly this month_, so the crime rater per capita is _significantly_ down.
Google search has gone from the greatest product on the internet twenty years ago to the worst today. Fractional reserve banking gave MBAs so much money Page and Brin sold out to them. Now it is run by clueless MBA types.
Many things are based on the assumption of the impeccable credit of the US government.

Elmo being a shitty business partner isn’t the same as the US.
>why would I even want to become a frontend lead and sacrifice the part of development, that is much saner

That's your choice, but myself personally, I like the deep focus on one thing along with guiding my team. I think we perform at a pretty high level and we are a happy productive team by all reports.

Our frontend is sane and that was because I was given the scope to make it sane. Others will have different experiences, and I agree that full-stack would have less sane by default, due to the lack of time or care for it.
A scenario that has never occurred a) outside the subway or b) outside NYC, yes?
That would be really hard considering that the Ryukyus reach almost adjacent to Taiwan.
My cousin worked at a major network porting programs for rebroadcast (they did some minor updates). They got surprised when a few shows they posted on YouTube got some traction (they became news worthy), getting a decent numbers of views and a check appeared..
>> Most large projects have some percentage of total project value in liens.

I hate to be this guy but please provide a source for this. I’ve been involved in the construction industry for quite a while, almost exclusively on large and mega projects, and “most” of my jobs have not had any percentage of their total project value in liens.

One company that refused to pay for work my (then) company performed is SpaceX. Our work did not permit filing a lien.
To be even more precise, here's the message from the source;

> This community has been banned

> This subreddit has been temporarily banned due to a prevalence of violent content. Inciting and glorifying violence or doxing are against Reddit’s platform-wide Rules. It will reopen in 72 hours, during which Reddit will support moderators and provide resources to keep Reddit a healthy place for discussion and debate.
Yup, it's unpopular to say, but American style policing works through vigilance, responsiveness, and deterrence. When academics and pundits argue that the 'Nordic model' or other European style of policing and criminal justice system is better, they ignore demographic differences , unreported crime, and a those countries having a higher tolerance for crime. The way you lower crime is to have less tolerance for it ,and prosecute it when it happens. This is not to say it's perfect, but the counterfactual is much worse.
You're welcome to your opinions, I don't stop engineers I'm working with from having opinions about the code formatting. It's still going to be formatted by the opinionated formatter.

Having one gets us into the "Well, it's not quite what I want but at least it's consistent", and it gets rid of arguments that don't really provide anywhere near the amount of value engineers feel they do. There are almost always significantly better and more productive things to be spending time figuring out.
contributes to the fact that richest man in the world is 100% the most miserable man in the world
I can only find back to 2020 when there were 136.

https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/pr006/new-york-city-crime...
Ok. What is your point exactly, I do not disagree.
Not really. There was a state-funded deployment in 2022 that ran out of money and the 2024 city-funded surge replaced it.

1,200 officers per day funded by the state down to 1,000 per day funded by the city IIRC

Subjectively, and it appears borne out in the data from a cursory glance, it seems things got really fucked during and right after COVID and have been getting better across the board since then. Crime also fell, for example, outside of the subway system which had no similar surges.
Hi there! Thank you for the kind words.
The URL bug has been fixed - I was querying the wrong urls.
You can find me at aizk.sh - I'd be happy to talk more about a domain, I think that's the last piece of this puzzle :)
I'm pretty sure one of the properties of cars is that they can catch on fire (due to all that gasoline, which is famously flammable), so I don't think you should start driving if you want to avoid burning to death
I guess the polyamide filter in that system isn't putting microplastic particles in the water? Probably not.
Here's some reading after a quick googling.

https://time.com/7212753/trump-elon-musk-federal-laws-legal-...

Definitely in uncharted territory, but these are some possible laws that have been violated:

Impoundment Control Act of 1974, Privacy Act of 1974, the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA), Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), Internal Revenue Code’s Section 6103.
I'm not a parent and I know very little about it outside of being an old guy, however I wanted to say for whatever it's worth, this is exactly what I imagine great parenting looks like, so kudos.
Why yes, i think i will believe the random internet commenter.
It charges people for the privilege of driving their car into the densest part of the largest city in the country. They could take all the money and burn it, and it still would have been worth doing.
I work in private industry (cybersec) and we have a pension + 401k w match. It's great. I dont think I would ever work for the state or federal gov. Their pay sucks.
I'm struggling to think of a use case for this.

Hexagonal maps make sense for values where geographical size is irrelevant and you're not controlling for population size.

So state-level hexagonal maps make sense for showing the red/blue color of US senators, for example. (Technically each hexagon gets split in half, since there are 2 senators.) And you could do a hexagonal map for Congressional districts as well. Or state-level legislative districts within states. Because each area has equal political power, and so it makes sense they have the same area.

But I'm struggling to think of a situation where you'd ever want to do this at a county level.

If you want to draw things like population density, then you can shade by people per square mile or similar, within normal geographic boundaries, and there's no distortion.

Or any kind of rate per capita, then you just shade the normal geographic boundaries at a per-capita rate.

And if you want it to also be population map, you need to resize areas proportionally to population, like this:

https://www.vox.com/2015/8/19/9178979/united-states-populati...

But that's the opposite of making things the same size.

But I can't think of a single county-level statistic where there's a good reason to make counties all the same size. Can anyone else?
I’ve only ever learned two assembly languages: 6502 (when I was in elementary school in the early 80s) and 370 (my senior year of high school when I had access to the UIC mainframe thanks to taking night classes there). I can roughly follow the output of godbolt on those rare occasions that I’m curious enough to bother, but the complexity of modern CPUs and computer architectures are such that I don’t know that I really need to deal with assembly language now. That said, my mental model of how a computer works at a low level is very much based on how the Apple II was set up.
And only one of them was a young woman having her face randomly shoved into the side of an arriving train rendering her a quadriplegic.
They know it enables money laundering. They don't care because their goal is enriching themselves any which way possible.

This is standard practice where they re-frame the issue to find the largest number of cows (customers, investors, employees) to milk.

Like with social media they spent years claiming they were defenders of Freedom of Speech. With 2008 Subprime mortgages it was about how they are going to provide housing for everyone.

These are extremely ambitious, have too much energy but are basically stupid people. Its a bad combo and society gives them too much space to exist.
Those are the number of rapes reported in the city, not the number of subway crimes.
I'm not convinced by their graph. The decline was already apparent before the Linux ban. There's a slight additional decline. Also, I never trust graphs that don't show you the y-axis.

Some people in the comments were saying that they were also deploying additional security measures at the same time but seem to be blaming the decline completely on Linux bans.
It will be enforced by a future administration, is the answer.

If a federal civil servant receives payroll, but does no work, for months on end, they have not taken a buyout, they have defrauded the federal government. What is the statute of limitations for that crime? Longer than 4 years. And Trump is term-limited.

That said, I agree with others that the more likely outcome in this specific case is that everyone who takes the “buyout” simply has their payments cut off rather quickly.
Los Angeles is one of few US cities that is managing to build at least some new transit lines. Increasing density in desirable cities is actually pretty easy, all you have to is make it legal (by-right zoning) and then the market will do the immensely productive and profitable thing.
people might even want fsd if it worked… except of course it only works on the highway and my 1986 hyundai had cruise control that did 93% of what tesla’s “f”sd does
This is true unfortunately.

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-subway-woman-fire-c946bb...

If there is a “bright” side it’s that they caught the guy almost immediately because of cameras. It will take some time, but my hope is that eventually criminals will understand that cameras now make escaping from a crime impossible.

Solve rate goes up -> crime rate goes down -> solve rate goes up even more.
Based on the headline i assumed it was endangered but appearently not, its just difficult to photograph.
The Target brand Good & Gather eggs were $9.49 in Boulder Colorado this week.
"Diversity-based targets" is Orwellian language to disguise blatant racist policies.
This happens in cars very often.

Surely you apply the same rigorous analysis to driving as you did to this, correct?
LLMs still feel so magical. It’s like quantum physics. “I get it” but I don’t. Not really. I don’t think I ever will. Perhaps a human mind can only comprehend so much.
Federal employees are not permitted to strike. See 5 USC § 7311.
Terms of service, probably. Never bothered to read it, I'm sure I break their terms of service 6 ways to Sunday. At the same time I've been doing this type of bypass with AT&T for years and never heard of anyone getting blocked for it either. I'm sure someone somewhere has though but I suspect they are much more interested in those abusing their connection or causing legal troubles than someone paying but silently using a different modem.

As for the one I'm currently using, https://pon.wiki/guides/masquerade-as-the-att-inc-bgw320-500...

There is a Discord "8311" which has a 10G-PON US channel for a community around this.
> However I'm not sure it matters that much until a mechanism of actual damage is established.

This is the thing about all the microplastics articles I see popping up: they rarely include any description of harm. If they even mention it, it is only speculative, as in this article. Until I read a scientific article about real harms, I am going to regard most of the microplastics news as fearmongering. Humanity has been surrounded by vast quantities of plastic for decades; if there was a big effect, wouldn’t we have seen it by now? If it has big effects, those effects would be surprising, which means that the evidence would have to be strong. I don’t see a lot of strong evidence.

If anyone reading this has a paper like this, please share.
Those two questions are cherry-picked to imply the questionnaire was specifically designed to only let people pass who preformed badly academically. However there are several other questions that specifically ask for the applicant's average grades and anything less than an A grade will not give you any points.

The problem is that the test is completely arbitrary with no rhyme or reason to it, not that it was designed to select for candidates who preformed badly academically. Thus leading to the allegations it was designed specifically to only let people pass who were given the answers beforehand.
Being too clever and being too casual are the same thing when it comes to matters of math.
> down from 231 last year

I have no idea what you’re talking about. Oh wait, are you referring to the news media? Noted I guess. I’ve seen scaremongering on both sides, especially when dealing with change.

Anyway, for context, because the first thing I wondered that the linked article completely delivered on was, out of how many passengers?

TY: 3,834,806 vs. LY: 3,303,727 and that’s a single days ridership in the city. That’s more than the population of many states. While it’s good news that the number of crimes decreased from 231 to 147, isn’t it also impressive that the number is so low considering the amount of people that take the subway? I’m frankly impressed with the safety of the New York subway system. Brilliant work by everyone involved. I had no idea it was that good, not being exposed to that volume, I simply didn’t have a frame of reference. Just wow.
Certain 3rd party certification systems exist, such a https://certifiedhumane.org/
and on the flipside of this

"This game sucks, would not recommend." - playtime 1.2h
Chance of being in a car accident on the train is zero.

Chance of being the victim of a crime is low but not zero.
What part of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google's_Ideological_Echo_Cham...

serves the role of "pakistani child rape gangs"? Right now the analogy does not makes sense to me. "pakistani child rape gangs" are reprehensible, nothing that extreme comes to mind when I think of James Damore's memo or similar.
Let's say the lawsuits are won. Here are the two inevitable outcomes for the ones that matter:

Appealed to Supreme Court which is overrepresented by Trump cultists.

Trump's DOJ refuses to enact whatever verdict the court determines.
RL provides very poor training signal for deep learning, an order of magnitude or more worse than supervised learning. Better than nothing of course.

What the OP suggested is similar to training a transformer from scratch using RL (ie. no training tokens) towards an objective of steering a pretrained LLM to produce human readable output. It will probably not even converge, and if it does it would take immense compute.
CERN's open source heritage: Building blocks to share
Talk about a false equivalence
As far as I can tell, no money goes to improving transit between New Jersey and New York
... You concede that it was cronyism here. Unless you want to expand on what you are saying.
America is more acceptance of crime and accepts more excuses and is celebrated in media/tv/movies. America over reacts to crime where law enforcement become people committing a new crime and people end up in jail for life. But this standard isn't applied equally with those closer to power/money having free rein and others powerless/poorer getting examples made of them.
Haven’t they put cops on the subway passenger cars of late?
I think might be misreading the article.

It says the answers were sent from the FAA to members of the "National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees". It went to all of them, not just friends. It was DEI, not cronyism.

Soon, though, she became uneasy with what the organization was doing, particularly after she and the rest of the group got a voice message from FAA employee Shelton Snow:

You might be confused by this line:

As the hiring wave approached, some of Reilly’s friends in the program encouraged her to join the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees

That may or not be cronyism, but once she joined, the whole org got the answers, so clearly it was aimed at getting more Blacks through the process.
I look at those subway crime videos, someone gets into a fight and a bystander pulls a weapon joining the attack and everyone scrambles out the car. Someone’s lit on fire and everyone scrambles.

Crime and victim count: 2

When they start counting the mental health toll as victims too, NYC’s subway stats will be cooked. The numbers will rise by 50x and match what everyone already perceives
Thank you!
I've built a lot of apps, and I've gone viral a fair number of times, but I haven't done both at the same time.

I can pinpoint to you the exact tweet (well it's technically a retweet) and you can see what gave me the inspiration. For quite a lot of people the two tweets showed up side by side, which is even funnier.

https://x.com/rauchg/status/1886807959340245137
Look further

Data obtained by fox news suggested that migrant arrivals at the southern border declined by 60% in the first week of Trump’s presidency compared to the last week of Biden’s administration. However, this figure differs from Trump’s 93% claim.

That's why I said 60-90%
It wasn’t even cops that caught people and you think increased presence prevented crime? How them boots taste?

Half the time they’re not looking at anyone but chatting in a circle. And the NG at the stations are even more useless (I say this as a former NG member) for this

And time and time again it’s been shown the way to prevent crime is social services eliminating the drivers of crime, not the punitive reactive scenario you’re describing
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I have to admit that while I never believed the hysteria of “crime ridden cities” and my wife and I started traveling a lot post Covid - including “crime ridden” [sic] places like Seattle and San Francisco - I have to admit that I always thought the subway system in NYC would be some dystopian nightmare.

When I went there in 2023 during the US Open, we rode the subway everywhere and I didn’t feel the least bit nervous.
The solution to an potential cross species epidemic is probably not to have a bunch of people live in closer proximity to the primary disease vector
Bessent Says He, Trump Are Focusing on 10-Year Yields, Not Fed
I love 68K. So nice to read with the separated data/address registers, and between the instruction set and addressing modes you can easily translate idiomatic C into reasonable 68K assembly.

Main downside is that with 68K you're more likely to be loading your program into an OS rather than bare metal hardware, and have to deal with things like relocation.
Confidently incorrect. Federal employees marked as "mission critical" cannot strike, but other federal employees can. Unions take this into account and have workers strike on-behalf of mission critical employees.
That'll show you a slightly lower rate of death-by-murder, but a significant increase in overall death-in-an-untimely-fashion.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-07/is-new...