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I was at a trampoline park last weekend (regular kind of place, everything padded for safety, as you'd imagine). A ten year old kid left in an ambulance, neck injury, one side of t…

AI: "this is a known open problem, I can not solve this, sorry." Prompt: "Can you try solving it, instead of not solving it?" AI: "Oh, sure, here you go!"

> The tendency of Wikipedia editors is that, when an article is many years old, they would rather flag it for improvement rather than simply throw away years of fellow editors' wor…

Hmm, that seems to contradict the article directly - insecticides were used to try to battle screwworm initially and were not really effective - the solution was using sterile male…

Official site announcement discussion thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772573 Looks very interesting though!

Lemma 1: you want to protect your users privacy, and are also beholden to regulation enforcing that commitment (GDPR). Lemma 2: you are obliged by other regulation to offer equal a…

Very interesting - I just installed pg_hint_plan [0] extension a few months ago to get around a query that was confusing the planner too much. Edge case, but when you need it you r…

This is beautifully written - don't know how this got on HN, but thank you for sharing it.

Time to revive my account... (scrobbling since 2003, heh) - started in audioscrobbler days, before last.fm My usage has gone way down since switching to streaming services, this ma…

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427388

Well, sure - braking is mostly relevant when merging to the slower lane, when merging to faster lane I generally do not need to - since that lane is already moving faster, just nee…

I'll tell you what I specifically and intentionally do when I need to change lanes. I brake slightly, signal, and wait for the person on my right or my left to pull ahead of me, th…

This is awesome, and deserves its own post!

Since people are posting links to alternatives, another awesome source is the noun project. Has a mix of royalty-free, Creative Commons CC-BY-3.0, and paid license icons. https://t…

This is a very cool app and list of resources for learning Japanese. Does anyone know of similar top recommendations for learning Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese?)

While I agree that the training/learning ecosystem is pretty heavily centered in Python, going from that to "Ruby is awful" seems like a very drastic jump, especially if we are tal…

You don't need it until you need it, and needing it often comes in the form of a lightning strike from blue sky. The counterargument is that having everyone pay a higher amount mak…

Oh my god, that makes the Matrix world make so much more sense :)

> They almost exclusively compare their model to prior models from 2024 As another comment here noted, the title is missing (2024) - this model was released almost a year ago, last…

Yep. You'd be shocked (or maybe not) at how many people I looking at their phones on a freeway. I wonder if there's any statistics comparing deaths and injuries from drunk driving …

I hope they find a way to open-source it! Seeing years of hard engineering work disappear into a black hole would be truly sad.