skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on where you live, it might be illegal to ride without a helmet.

Personally, I would ignore both this study and the WaveCel marketing material, and look at results of actual outcomes in collisions. Boston and New York both, just for example (many cities & states do this, and so does the NTSB), publish data on how often helmets prevent brain injury, statistically speaking. [1][2][3] (Note that NYC is so sure helmets save lives, they’re spending millions to distribute them for free. There’s a decent chance it’s saving money overall.)

> Or don’t buy a helmet at all, and trust that you won’t get in an accident?

Well, do what makes you feel safer and obeys the laws. But trusting that you won’t get in an accident because of that study you cited would be a dramatic, and possibly dangerous mis-interpretation and mis-understanding of that study’s results.

While there’s some controversy over that study admitted by the author, even if you take it a face value, it’s saying that without a helmet cars pass 4.4 feet from him, and with a helmet, they pass 4.1 feet from him on average. That might be a bit more dangerous, but what’s the actual accident rate? You can’t conclude anything about that from his 2 accidents, and the U.S. standard for vehicles passing bikes is 3 feet, so he’s demonstrating that with or without helmets, drivers are on average passing safely.

If you want to take the studies at face value, then try to calculate the expected value, which is risk multiplied by cost. It’s wrong to suggest that it’s a toss up just because there exists evidence in both directions, when the magnitude of the evidence may be overwhelmingly unidirectional. Clearly many people here don’t believe the 98% improvement WaveCel claims, but suppose you take it at face value. To decide what do to about it, you need to know what the increase in concussion risk is due to vehicles passing you more closely. Don’t call it a conundrum, find out. How often does an average of 4.1 feet of room result in concussion over 4.4 feet of room?

(BTW, do note the 98% number that WaveCel is advertising is relative to other kinds of helmets, not relative to the unprotected skull. Statistics on outcomes seem to consistently show 80%-90% effectiveness for wearing any kind of helmet, but don’t take my word for it...)

[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/biketips.shtml

[2] https://www.cityofboston.gov/news/uploads/16776_49_15_27.pdf

[3] https://helmets.org/stats.htm#effectiveness
U.S. Export Controls and “Published” Encryption Source Code Explained
This is not possible.

void foo(int x) {
if (x) do_something();
else do_something_else();
}

void fn1() { foo(0); }
void fn2() { foo(1); }

When the code is inlined, the compiler can propagate constant and optimize the `if`. Do you really expect two warnings there?

These warning would happen all the time.

And anyway, this does not apply to this particular bug which is just a compiler bug (which has been fixed). The warning was there all along:

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Well, I've never been called to participate in a political survey poll thing, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen to people. There's a lot of doctor's offices out there. What was your sample size?
GStreamer uses the argument "!" as a pseudo-"|" so you can build multimedia pipelines without actually using Unix pipelines, or repeating the gst-launch command:

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/tutorials/ba...
They don't have a mobile OS anymore. Apple is hardware-limited; there's a much larger buy-in required if you wanted to switch from Windows to MacOS than to Linux. And companies could save a LOT of money on computers if all they needed for software was Office and that were available on Linux.
The Social Security Administration's Death Index and Death Master File are a great resource. Too bad they make it such a pain to get.

The US military keeps its own death file for its beneficiary population (all members of the military, retirees, and their dependents). I have been told (not surprisingly) that there are disagreements between the various authorities on who exactly is dead.

So, even if you get an R15 and the bank tells you they certified the death against the SSA's MDF, they may only be mostly dead.
I’m not entirely sure what you are saying. Is it not cruel, or that the cruelty is OK?
Change the RAID settings in BIOS to ACPI and Ubuntu will work out of the box on Dell XPS.
Anecdotally, I've heard many startups (and large tech companies) enjoy (and prioritize) hiring Waterloo grads because of their expansive work experience, due to Waterloo's unique co-op program that mostly doesn't exist in U.S. universities.
Buy a Thinkpad and install Hackintosh.

I was so done with both the MacBook and MacBook Pro keyboards that I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad T480s. Installed Hackintosh, running the latest macOS Mojave 10.14.5 without issues (only drawback is that the Touchpad on the MacBooks are better).

Finally I can type again.
My sense is that's the vast minority.

I think most of the % fee-based "instant withdrawals" are done without understanding the effective APR. "It's only 1%!"
> Trustworthiness of content

I think this is over. Our ability to create has an inherent inverse correlation with the ability to validate authenticity. IMO, the best solution is to accept that nothing can be trusted and operate as though "facts" are in a quantum state. Maybe a thing is true, maybe not, what would be sensible to do in both circumstances?

> obesity

Such a good one. I don't believe humanity is going to work together for anything but if we could all look good, that'd be something. Enjoy the lives we have while we have them. At least there'd be less bickering.

A couple I'd like to add:
- Absolutely no form of regulation on creating sentient beings (ie spawning fuck trophies). Don't think there should be anything Orwelian, but some form of incentive needs to stop bad parenting from existing. Pretty much all problems can be improved with overall better parenting.

- Becoming more open to sex and touch. The two are totally separate things, but both approached horribly. Touch is good for people and mammals in general. It's like food/water levels of healthy, but for your brain. Similarly, sex is important, and incredibly poorly taught. "Hey high-schoolers, we'll just look the other way and you can go on ahead and fuck yourselves up emotionally, K?" There's a goldmine of human happiness just beyond this threshold of getting over the whole puritan thing. Working on communication and whatnot. Saying something like "air, water, food, shelter, touch, purpose, affection" when talking about needs.

-Mutual self destruction with super powers. Right now they hold all the cards. It should feel like we both have guns to each-others heads.
Vapor from dried toad secretion related to satisfaction with life
It sounded more like disbelief or mild shock to me, rather than excitement; as in, of all companies to contribute to open source and the open web, it is Microsoft doing so.
Wow, given that they're talking about something that invariably has a significant linear acceleration factor, that's a pretty... confident... way to put it.
So the app finally got approved just now on the 8th day. I think it was a combination of:
- recently changed google play review process that has created a bottleneck
- my being a new developer, with first app submission
- app had "for families" checked, that probably required additional review steps.
I only hope the release to production will not take as many days!
> Brand names were invented to differentiate identical products. The entire history of marketing in the 20th century is appealing to people’s emotions with emotional oversimplifications. Their goal is to creat an uninformed, irrational consumer.

Gosh, that is so different from my own experience. Let me tell you about a brand I trust: Kirkland Signature Extra Virgin Toscano Olive Oil.

Anyone who knows olive oil knows that it can be one of the scammiest products there is. "Italian" on the label may only mean that it's bottled in Italy, blended from stale olive oil from all over Europe and the mideast. It may have off odors and flavors, but you won't know until you open it. And how old is it? Your guess is as good as mine.

This Toscano is the real deal, and it proudly lists the harvest date on the label. They don't have it all year round - when they run out you have to wait for the next harvest. So I have a few bottles of the October-December 2018 harvest in our "olive oil cellar" (a cool closet).

Another good one is Trader Joe's Greek Kalamata olive oil, which also lists the harvest date.

Both TJ's and Costco have lesser oils too; it's not just the store brand but the specific product brand that tells me I will be getting a quality olive oil.

I don't see what's wrong with that.
Alaska was not my first guess, but made sense after thinking about it.

This got me thinking about what Scandinavia is like, and sure enough they both share high rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea: https://www.thelocal.se/20130605/48350 , https://onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/std-us-eu/

Could this be a cold-places thing?
We can burn it for power (https://energynews.us/2013/10/17/midwest/is-burning-garbage-...)
In the past, the file "panacea.dat" could get corrupted, and this was result in a working albeit very slow Thunderbird; deleting it would make it run quickly again.

(But .. don't trust a stranger on the internet telling you to delete a file. Do your own research)
the original leaky abstraction
Depends how your alternative timeline plays out. ;p

A HK airlift would be logistically challenging to say the least, and I don't believe it would have had similar chance of being successful. Look at Kai Tak, and its famously awkward mountain avoiding approach back in the 1950s. Berlin was universally acknowledged as strategically important in the newly hatched Cold War. The East and West had been nose to nose militarily in Germany since 45. Berlin was served by multiple source airfields, several air corridors and flying boats onto the lakes. HK would probably have had to be entirely sourced from Taiwan.

Yet Berlin succeeded as much from the counter blockade, that actually turned out to be surprisingly damaging to the East, as the huge scale of the sustained air lift. I can't picture a HK airlift around the same era as being nearly as successful.
And it takes anywhere from <unreasonably long> to <forever> to get it replaced because they basically have to replace the entire laptop just to replace the keyboard.

And the times are worse outside the US.
I assumed that they installed a root cert from the mitm device on the phones ahead of time so all the encrypted data could be read.
That was after a while. From my recollection, the locked down blackberry was a compromise after he insisted on his prior insecure blackberry.
Still using a 2011 ThinkPad precisely because of the keyboard.
WSL2 (beta now, out Q1 2020) will be a straight up linux kernel. It might better suit your needs, if you want to try it now MS has free ISO for testing you can run in a VM and toss when done.. .
How to Create a Virtual HardDisk Volume Using a File in Linux
Baby formula is interesting in that it seems to be used as a signaling agent for class differentiation. Which is to say, that the poorer the region the more likely parents will show how much they value their baby by giving it formula. Conversely the amount of time and effort necessary to breast feed a baby means that in more affluent areas baby formula is greatly shunned by mothers.

Mind you, this is mostly my experience with the subject from people I’ve talked to and haven’t seen any formal study.

Also, while I strongly believe that mother’s milk is vastly superior to formula, I was more than happy to supplement with formula with my twins. Producing milk for 2 is a full time job, also not possible for most women. I think formula generally is fantastic, but I also think it preys on a vulnerable population (parents of newborns).
As far as I'm aware, the entire POWER9 design is available for licencing for $$$.

The only obstacle to fabbing it yourself would be that it's designed to be fabbed on GF's 14HP process, which incorporates some IBM-proprietary fab technology which was transferred from IBM when they spun off their own fab to GF; thus AFAIK the GF 14HP process is only licenced for IBM's use. Since IBM is willing to licence POWER9, perhaps they'd also be willing to negotiate access to the process.

(GF 14HP is different to GF 14LPP, which is what other GF 14nm customers (e.g. AMD Zen) use.)
Is Power PC a RISC cpu?
If anyone here has switched from TypeScript to Flow or vice versa, care to comment on how that's been working out? I use flow at work, and I am starting to really love it, but it seems like most people prefer TypeScript to flow.
No, there is a 16-bit version
https://content.riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/riscv-s... See chapter 12, “C” Standard Extension for
Compressed Instructions

> This chapter describes the current draft proposal for the RISC-V standard compressed instruction
set extension, named “C”, which reduces static and dynamic code size by adding short 16-bit
instruction encodings for common operations.
Their collab with AMD is working out okay though right? And still gets a chunk of money from licensing server chip designs that they (China) then use for super computers
Hah! It's Data Mining all over again! Do... Do you guys remember Data Mining?
newsblur. That's not the answer you were looking for, since it involves a server (self hosted, freemium / paid). But it's very good - not affiliated, just a happy user.

I used to use thunderbird for my rss feeds and like it a lot. However, the problems with that setup is:

1. If you have multiple machines, there is no way to synchronize what has been read.

2. If leave your machine off for any length of time, you may lose updates in that time (many sites only publish the latest 10 updates in RSS; were you flying and offline for 5 hours and 15 stories published during that time? you lost 5 of them).

It was reason 2 that eventually drove me to look for alternatives.
I feel like lodash and date-fns is like 80% of what I want out of a standard library. I mostly use the built-in fetch but Axios is nice too.

I also tend to use js-cookie and uri.js because the browser has horrible APIs for working with cookies and urls.
Thank you.

It's not something I'm particularly proud of or something I talk about - outside of my immediate family no one really knows all of the details, and only a handful of people outside of my immediate family know about it. It's the most traumatic experience of my life and had significant consequences on my mental health that still affect me daily.

My blind optimism helped me through it, but it had really hurt my family too.
there is a good one, cheap borderless and you don't need a "provider"
Ah. You may very well be right.

I think "and from microsoft!?" would be one way to do that clearly. Not that it matters.
Is it really worth optimising the test runs in this way? The potential for making a mistake in the test resource specifications is huge.

Sure, you might save a few minutes per test run, but at the cost of buggy, unreproducible tests that fail at random due to interactions with other ones running in parallel. Tests need to be reliable and developers need confidence that the tests work and that failures are real.
Also the last three Nintendo consoles before the Switch.. one of which (the original Wii) sold over 100m.
Previous discussion (about the actual research article at https://weightagnostic.github.io/ rather than the blog post):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20160693
There are some interesting adventures over the edge.
Off-topic but it's really annoying to try to read an article with 30% of my mobile screen taken up by a sticky ego title. Please fight back against marketdroids who ask you to do this.
No they are not.
When your program invoke UB, it is a bug in your program, and not in the compiler.

The compiler author are helping you with things like -fsanitize=undefined. Or even lets you define some behavior which is normaly undefined with things like -fwrapv, -fno-strict-aliasing, -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks

But you are asking the compiler to optimize your program, if you give an invalid program to optimize, you get an invalid result. There is no bug there.
Reading this article cover is also a way to increase satisfaction with life.
Electricity costs for the 70s mainframes running COBOL probably. Only half tongue in cheek.
Back in the day when every thing was paper my dad said they can purge the files of incriminating evidence. But nothing keeps someone with a grudge from slipping it back before the next audit.
Why Microsoft Makes $5 to $15 from Every Android Device Sold (2014)
I’d like to hear your thoughts on this, real evidence be damned.
As an OCaml person, what are your thoughts on Reason?
The Japanese internment in the U.S. is not remotely comparable to the Nazis.
And OCaml lacks features that F# has. Like proper multicore support, computation expressions, unit of measure, operator overloading.
We need more data centers in Africa
Thank you for this in depth discussion about sponsoring open source. I think there aren’t great solutions out there and it was definitely worth trying something new.

I remember reading the original post proposing this concept.

Is it possible the system is working fine as-is and has been for decades? Although maintainers do not get great funding, the community is constantly proposing new solutions, improving standards and disseminating breakthroughs.

If companies were all privately building their own stacks, then they would all maintain their IP as a competitive advantage but won’t be able to share common solutions that they could feasibly replicate as well given time and direction. Only by everyone contributing do we have such a great community.

Unfortunately companies that sit on top of open source code don’t derive all of their value from just the code, although it’s definitely a part of it. They provide usually more than just a technology implementation, including support staff, communication strategy and so on that their stack doesn’t provide them.

I wish more maintainers were better funded, it could definitely help but I think also it’s amazing to see what we’ve collectively been able to accomplish so quickly by people contributing for free and permissively for the general good.
By old do you mean two years or twenty?
Yes. The reporter didn't understand the difference between airplane mode and Google Location Services. If you turn off the latter, the location upload won't happen, and you can still get your GPS location if you want it. iOS has the same location services system, but you cannot disable it if you want to get your location.
Watching wind turbines fail on youtube is kind of entertaining. Some of the videos are really quite spectacular.
I switched to apple ecosystem because I wanted the UX that just works reliably. MacOS is for me linux with ultrapolished DE. Bonus is that I can work on iOS apps and use Apple Photos which is way better for me than Google Photos. I used Arch Linux for many years before MacOS. I also switched to iPhone from Android. Wanted a phone that works in the same ecosystem (photos...) and is fast, reliable and does not change ux very much with new releases. On android I tinkered with the phone too much, various companies have different ux, and I started to dislike Google very much after they started randomly shutting down services as they like and one year after introducing them.
HK Cantonese has a regional accent (e.g turning the "n" sound into "l") and its own slang but every language has regional accents.
Not just China manufactured. Chinese ROM. Anything goes.
Other industries employing intelligent people are not like that, not to the same extent anyway.

Name one.

The news here (if it's news to you) is that tech is not special like everyone once thought. Everyone thought tech was above that kind of thing. It turns out everyone in tech is just human, just like the rest of the world.

The story here could not possible be more incredibly mundane and familiar and boring.
And that, only the amount over $30k/yr for a couple gifting their child.
Moving a message in a folder in Thunderbird makes a duplicate?
I'm hoping t get Hackintosh running on a lenovo yoga so I can replace my keyboard one last time and sell the POS.
Google Drive has a scanner too.
What we get wrong about meetings, and how to make them worth attending
Some suggestions that may see future attempts better received:

1. Try it on a repo with more substance. There were many comments about this project being a light wrapper around eslint config. It may be popular in GitHub stars, but intuition tells me the type of dev who installs a dependency to generate a JSON file is not the type to want to pay for anything; they're looking for a quick `npm install free-solution` for everything.

2. Don't focus on ads, specifically. Anecdotally, devs I know are very sensitive to ads/privacy, much more so than to paying money. Despite your good intentions, your ads will involve analytics/tracking, which you ultimately can't control.

3. Your various posts and web profiles eagerly mention how many downloads you have. The numbers are great. But, it comes across as your primary focus. Here's a test you can use to see if you are truly creating value: stop pushing code. When people start begging for updates, I suspect you will have more success with git bounties than ads.
This is my personal nightmare as a android developer, and knowing google it's not a matter of "if" but rather "when".

(Google did remove my app from store once for not providing a link to a privacy policy document, abruptly, with no warning and notifying me post-factum, reading other horror stories I consider myself lucky)
The easiest way to identify a monopoly is to look at how badly a company can treat its customers and still get away with it. My company has a half dozen stories like this about Google in the last year alone.

Know what Google is doing to its AdSense partners on a massive scale? They wait until your site has just under the earnings when they have to write you a check, then they terminate your AdSense account for “policy violations”.

I’m taking about AdSense sites that have been running for years with very little traffic, accumulating a few pennies a day.

They suspended a client of ours who was spending $40k a month on Google Ads with a two word explanation of “policy violations”, and steadfastly refused to explain any reason why. Our client was perfectly reputable, ran multi million dollar ad campaigns on television and radio, and was FDA approved.

When what Google has been getting away with finally comes to light... well, let’s hope it does come to light and they pay the consequences.
I meant large passenger planes. And I meant accidental crashes within the EU territory not extraterritorial. I believe the safety record is pretty good, but can’t tell you it’s perfect
Interesting to hear. One thing I never understood about Excel is why the cells which have formulas don't look different than cells which contain leaf-data. That I think would make it a lot more "user-friendly".

2ndly why not allow users name their columns, why do they have to always be "A", "B", "C", .. ?
I don't really see any mention of it, but do you at least have some idea of what may have triggered this issue? I see that your open-source Android app is serving ads. I'm also curious why your app isn't on F-Droid?
They're saying it's cruel, but some cruelty is sometimes needed if the benefits for humanity are worth it.
The primary difference is whether you think it's alright to spend £35 on a single simple cable or not. Many things that follow simply hinge on that.
Ted Nelson – Computers for Cynics (2015)
I wish I could remap my MBP arrowkeys to grow up and be full-sized keys...
When Testers and Developers Join Hands by Ray Parker on CodePen
United by Feelings
Did any of these people get fired for being so foolish?

No? Alright then.