skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> American's love affair with the automatic transmission

I don't agree with your point here. I switched to auto boxes around 10 years ago, and (if anything) they free me up a bit to be more aware of my surroundings, because I don't have to spend any of my attention on using a clutch and gear stick.

Fully agree about touchscreen controls though - if controls are physical and tactile, I can easily use them without diverting my eyes from the road.
>Sharing unlimited copies of child abuse videos does not actually hurt anyone.

This is contradicted by the evidence we have to the contrary, in particular the model of supply and demand identified in child porn markets.
Have to agree with above comment - this is where snyk and whitesource are trying to stand out with usage analysis to tell you if you are truly vulnerable. The load is too high on both sides for humans.
The OP's point was that the risk of _catching_ the disease might be even lower, _if_ everybody else is vaccinated.
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> "We won't be able to move furniture!"

Also frequently used to justify buying a big SUV, just to learn that the average piece of furniture doesn't fit in the average SUV.
> vehicles like police perhaps

Policing itself changes significantly when much of the population isn't in a car. And police may be able to see crime in action rather than reaction.
We have two and live in an apartment. The problem is not that insurmountable when there are chargers at work and Superchargers. At work, they are expanding the number of chargers year after year. Same with Superchargers. I am always able to charge well beyond my commute miles at work, for free.

I'm not saying it's a non-issue, but it is possible for a lot of people, and it is getting better, even for people who currently do not have chargers at work, things are changing rapidly.
LOL, what a drama. fucking first world problems.
I've been using Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro [1] for a little over a year now and there is not a single visible sign of wear. People have had various problems with this laptop, but mine is still in a great condition. I'm running Arch Linux and so far everything has worked without hiccups.

Build quality, in general, is very good. Some positive highlights:

- It has an aluminum body and feels very sturdy.

- Lid can be opened with one hand and even after one year it feels like when I first got it.

- Keyboard feels very nice: there's a great amount of travel and keys have a great clicky feedback.

- Touchpad is superb, very smooth and responsive. It's definitely better than that of XPS, but obviously not as good as Mac's.

Some negative aspects:

- Some keys started to squeak rather quickly.

- One of the speakers rattles at higher volumes.

- Screen of my unit had several dead pixels on arrival. Fortunately they are only seen in pitch-black darkness on a black background when the screen is at near max brightness. Not once have I noticed them during daily usage.

- Keyboard stays lit for a fixed time.

- Soldered RAM.

- Fans seem to not be of very high quality.

- Slow SD card reader.

Specs: Quad Core i7-8550U, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce MX150 GPU, 256GB NVMe SSD.

Overall I find it an excellent laptop with great specs. I got it for 920 EUR and it's impossible to find such laptop for such an incredible price where I live in Europe.

[1]: https://www.gearbest.com/2in1-laptops/pp_009171639711.html?w...
Morpheus: A Vulnerability-Tolerant Secure Architecture [pdf]
I think it's pretty legitimate to be distracted while walking around. Being distracted while operating heavy machinery, on the other hand, is kinda bad.
What I “see” is a brief flash of an afterimage, something like when you see for a brief second when you close your eyes. This is the limit of my visual capacity to remember. I always assumed everybody is like that. :)
> My head really is full of burritos

Not such a bad life, if you ask me.
How would you then explain well-to-do parents -- not to mention with reputations to protect -- coming out in opposition to the way vaccines are administered and the current vaccine regime in general? [1] [2]

What do they possibly have to gain from taking these adversarial positions in such hotly contested issues? Is it really possible that they are grossly misinformed too?

These people have the net worth to wholly forsake raising their kids here and picking some foreign domicile that offers them choice in these vaccination issues.

[1]

Robert De Niro and RFK Jr. have joined forces to push vaccine nonsense

https://www.vox.com/2017/2/15/14622632/robert-de-niro-rfk-jr...

[2]

Jessica Biel Weighs In on Vaccine Fight, Drawing Fierce Pushback

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/us/jessica-biel-anti-vaxx...
The software has changed as well as society's coupling to that software.
>And honestly, I expect the vast majority of abusers to be doing it either for fun (so they'd stop sharing videos, but keep raping) or for the money.

This runs contrary to the fact that people share things not just for monetary profit, but for other videos/pictures in exchange, and voyeuristic/exhibitionist reasons.
Strange idea, that blind people have some special power here. Any human brain has sophisticated techniques for locating the sources and nature of environmental sounds.

Just close your eyes, have somebody stand behind you and put a hand up to your right or left ear, 8 inches away. You can instantly tell where their hand is. Just from the change in the way environmental sounds reach your head.

Did you try it?
Illuminating human activities using the Night Light dataset
No Stress Booking – Chrome Extension to Block Popups
That's how I use the word, too. It's a Heisenbug, though only one that manifests itself when you try to present something.
You could probably build a Docker image and set the command to run streamlit, then run it like anything else.
> e.g. anarchy (which is often considered beyond extreme right, at least in Europe)

Anarchists are leftists, Ancaps are on the right.
Holland Tunnel is a problem every day. I can see it every day.

My taxi story is an anecdote, sure, but it goes to show there isn't reliable NJ/Brooklyn transportation via Manhattan streets. If I had been going towards the airport I would have missed my flight. Or put another way - right now on Google Maps, getting from where I am in Brooklyn to EWR would be faster via Staten Island than via Manhattan. If the argument is that X is reliable, examples of X being unreliable once in a while are in fact evidence against it and not just anecdotes.
Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: An Advanced Short Course (2016)
I used to want that too. Spacemacs has pretty good support out of the box if you’re willing to use stack. Vim w/ the haskell-vim-now collection is good too.

But soon after you realize that all you need is any text editor and a terminal (to run ghci(d)).
That's how I use the word, too. It's a Heisenbug.
It’s self documenting if you consider a type signature to be documentation.
Yes, because when you factor in the cost of transit and the schedules its either cheaper or the same to drive in dollar terms or way cheaper in terms of time.

Everyone gushes about how awesome transit is, but that’s only true for a few areas of Manhattan and Brooklyn. If you need to take a trip that isn’t in the happy path, a car is way better.
Researchers used CRISPR to give ‘monarch flies’ superpowers–here’s why
Well its hard to buy that line of thought when you have widespread rule flouting to fix prices and worse.[1]

[1]
60 minutes : Generic drug makers accused of price fixing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZAOvcHlsnY
Hinting at a massive design miss in modern cars: not embracing the smartphone.

If the phone was an essential component to the car, say to be plugged into the center console as the display, the driver could not futz around with it.

CarPlay/Android are just workarounds, even Tesla is wrong I think. The car should act as an attachment to the driver’s phone.
>Yeah that's cool. Let's classify your personal behavior by your host or birth country and see how you like it.

It's not classifying personal behavior, it's putting an additional barrier based on the country you're from. This is done in pretty much every other form of international interaction as well (visas, extradition, commerce, etc.).
We're the dumbest animals that could possibly build a technical civilization, because if we'd been any smarter then we'd have built it earlier, when we were dumber.

It won't make you feel any better, but perhaps this was inevitable.
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> I almost never take them except to the airport...

And you probably have functioning limbs, respiratory system, eyes, etc.

> ...the densest subway network in the United States...

Manhattan is not very accessible. The stations do not have elevators in most cases. The platforms are narrow and often dangerously crowded at peak hours.

As an experiment, I suggest you push a bad of flour around in a stroller for a week or two. Be sure to have a bag with at least a diaper, wipes, and a bottle with you.

After the experiment, imagine doing it after recovering from a recent surgery.
It's not the language that's frustrating to learn, it's the tooling.
If these people fear Big Pharma shouldn’t they believe that vaccines are a blow against the “man” because every prevented disease prevents Big Pharma from selling medication?
I think it’s more of a price insensitivity thing. I’m loosely basing this on luxury car owners I’ve known and what I’ve heard about BMWs specifically. Basically BMWs tend to be designed to be great for the first 16k miles or so then fall apart. They use parts that are in hard places to service and that break around that point. It sounds like they are meant for people who will be onto the next car at that point. Probably sounds like a ridiculous market segment, but there really are people who have enough money to not care about dropping 100k on a car once or twice per year. Mercedes have a similar viewpoint on their customers - they “can afford more expensive maintenance.” Something not dissimilar from smartphones being replaced because their batteries being at end of use.
I have observed a case here in Poland - the parents refused a vitamin K shot to their baby because they found something in the leaflet. Later it turned out that this particular vitamin K was not approved in Poland for normal use, only for urgent cases - but still was used routinely on newborns by the hospitals because there was no other.
Of course the parents were called crazy anti-vaxxers - but who is there to read the leaflets and check the doctors if not the parents?

Parents can be ignorant - but they are more reliable to have their children interest as their main objective then any institution. In communism times, and probably generally in the past, the institutions like hospitals were much more authoritarian, and in my family there is a personal story about how horrific it sometimes was.

Of course doctors don't like being checked.

Now vaxination is a kind of shibboleth - something you need to agree with, and agree quickly and automatically, to be admitted to the 'enlightened' society.

I think the hysteria around anti-vaxxers is the worst thing.
Right. XMPP is merely a transport protocol. That solves one very minor problem which can be solved dozens of other ways. The contents of those transport packets have to make sense between devices. How do you do that?

Say you introduce a new device to the network. Whatever magic transport protocol you are using discovers it and your control hub takes ownership after some handshake process. Now, how does the hub—and by implication every other device on the network—know what that new device is and what it can do? It’s a lightbulb? Okay, that’s just on and off right? Oh, no it might have dimming capability. Maybe it’s a candelabra with multiple bulbs? Maybe the bulb can show different colors. Maybe it has a wake-up gradual brightening process built in. Maybe it has a sensor built in to adjust brightness and color temperature based on existing light sources. Maybe you want to disable that but also set the color to purple. How do you exchange all this capability information? And this is just a lightbulb.

XMPP federation doesn’t solve for that.
Apache Milagro (incubating) Crypto C and JavaScript Libraries 1.0.0 (alpha rel)
Game of Thrones – Tyrion Lannister
In Russian, the word is визит-эффект (https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%8...)
When our kids were born our pediatrician who was from Germany mentioned that the US vaccine schedule was accelerated compared to Europe. The reason was that parents here are more likely to just stop bringing their kids in for scheduled checkups at some point and the accelerated schedule somewhat compensated for that. In addition pharmaceutical companies don’t or won’t coordinate so there are fewer combo vaccines and more shots than necessary.

So take a new parent who’s surging with oxytocin and vasopressin; give the parents only one choice (vaccinate or don’t); and then stick a needle in their kid. Then repeat that the next visit but with multiple shots.

Hmmmm... yep it is the internet...

How about this:

- Create two vaccination schedules to provide parents choice

- Force vaccine providers to package vaccines to reduce the number of shots

- Eliminate vaccines at birth when parents hormones are surging

- Centralize tracking of vaccinations to reduce the burden on parents who move between health care providers because of changes in insurance

- Offer in-home checkups and vaccines for at-risk groups that you wouldn’t be able to reach otherwise
This would require you to open a foreign bank account, which you must tell the U.S. government about. Not telling them is a serious crime. See the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
Of course. Chromium is still an upstream that has had changes due to Google's interests, right?
> as your principal interface between your internal and external domains is an extremely high-cost endeavor due to the
complexity of handling things you can't predict.

I fail to see why if you believe this is true of haskell, it would not also be true of C#
Cool, we're busy working on RSS importing now. Should be up in a day or two.
what is POSSE?
Where does most of the Mozilla Corporation's money come from?

I'm not trying to cast stones here, but they're still primarily (last time I checked) funded by Google- not users. Your incentives are aligned with the people who pay you.
Apache Arrow 0.15.0 rel cross-lang dev plat for in-memory data
I really hate the concept of "weed out" courses. That is the opposite if what colleges should be doing. We had plenty of them in the sciences almost 30 years ago when I started. We need to make everyone welcome in sciences, not weed people out with overly complex 101 courses.

We had Haskell in college too, almost 30 years ago, and even then it was one of the hardest courses at school. This was before IO monad, just as the language was being created in the early 90s.
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> A friend I know went from software engineering to civil engineering

Do you mind if I ask how he achieved that? Did he go back to college? I ask because I've been thinking about transitioning to mechanical engineering, but going back to college for 4 more years and racking up 10s of thousands of dollars in debt is off putting.
For reference, I own an Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro which is at 87% capacity after 1 year.
For those interested, “Lesson Plan”, the documentary mentioned in the article, is streaming on Prime right now.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076KS3CCS
I live in the EU, but use a self-hosted VPN (for privacy reasons) on a German IP (digitalocean). And I too get the annoying reCaltcha prompts or even bans “your IP range has been blocked” all the time.

PS. To be fair it’s not just coming from Cloudflare-protected sites. Webmasters and SaaS-app devs add this to their WAF layers everywhere. :(
Were the intestinal problems before or after eating a cake everyday
Doesn't designing road features that require slower speeds and risk car damage penalise all drivers - even those who would never text when driving?
Even if it’s legitimate it could still impact your ability to see a car heading towards you and react to it.
For a hand-drawn aesthetic chart.js alternative (that uses SVG), check out roughViz.js

https://github.com/jwilber/roughViz
They could contractually state a non-monetary compensation, i.e. fixing/replacing the broken appliance. Similar to a B2B service contract, where you pay a monthly rate in exchange for updates or even hardware fixes.
One of the top two or three developers I've ever known used arrows in vim.

Turns out that vim or any editor usage is only a (poor) signal and does not inform an observer on a candidate's product knowledge, arcane technical knowledge, past successful launches that a candidate has led, or helps glean any insight into the zounds of hard won battle scars in project design, system design, networking, concurrency, state management, etc.
I think it has a lot to do with taste; you really need to like typing and abstracting everything; which I do in C# (no stringy types unless i'm in a blistering hurry) because I get paid to program C# because I actually find this very beneficial, but not limited to Haskell; Haskell taught me to do it to extremes though which, in my opinion, is what you are basically asking. That 'elitist' community in Haskell teaches a lot of abstractions, that, once practically understood, for me, give a great amount of power (which, for me again, means a far better understanding of large codebases and easy adding of features. For me that would answer the question you ask as a lot (most) of these are just very hard (not impossible which is why we see more and more of them, but not at the speed the Haskell community introduces them) to move to other languages.
>Cars release particulate matter that's bad for our lungs.

...and our hearts!

https://now.tufts.edu/articles/big-road-blues-pollution-high...
It is? If so, the same market dynamics not are pushing people to pick service X by amazone/google/microsoft. Its a fools aren to compete with Atlassian on developer productivity software. Think you can find a better offering then their suite
The End of the Chinese Miracle Is in Sight. What’s Next?
I don't consider interviews with prosecutors about allegations to be factual sources of criticism.

Interestingly, nearly all drug companies have compassionate use programs that get high cost drugs to poor people. Funny how the articles rarely mention these programs!

Note: there certainly are unethical players in this field, but it's still painful when you're an ethical player in this field, to hear people throw accusations that don't have all the internal context.

Again, there are massive systemic barriers to making higher quality drugs that are effective- both against disease, and in terms of cost. The government could go a long way to changing laws to achieve this.
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Your own definition of a problem perhaps not mine or the millions who use it every year. Its faster to go around now because manhattan takes some of the traffic, if it didnt do that what do you think will happen with that traffic.
That's not a counter example.
I stated map/fold/filter is difficult to read. You said they are easier to write.

These are not opposite, and I happen to agree with you.
Seems the theory I read somewhere that over time Euphemisms become dysphemisms and dysphemisms become euphemisms is getting applied here.
Re: Avoid Working Alone
And the price of travel changes as the price of gas changes.

I was taught to check my mileage every time I fill up the tank. It would be just as easy to divide `cost / trip meter` vs `trip meter / gallons`, and would arguably give a more interesting number.

Mostly just an idea I had that I thought may be worth trying.
All the "buy quality stuff" people seem to ignore the fact that it's nearly impossible to recognize quality stuff.

I can spend $10 or $40 on a toaster. Both will do the job. One will maybe look slightly nicer. Maybe the $10 toaster will break after 2 years (if it breaks before that, it's still within the mandatory warranty period), then I'm out $10 at worst.

But when I get the $40 toaster, it might be higher quality, or someone just put even worse crap into a nice box and charged me a ridiculous price for it. I can't distinguish those two scenarios. It might last 10 years, or it might crap out after 2 and now I'm out $40.

And the cheap toaster might also last 10 years (mine is 5 years old, so even if it craps out now, the $40 toaster would have had to last for 20 years to be "cheaper"). In the end, it's a gamble, and I'm not convinced that paying a factor of X more increases your chance of not getting crap by that much.

In fact, I've been quite happy with most products, cheap or otherwise, and the occasional disappointment is much less of a problem when you buy cheap.
You are on to something, I fear. The tendency for automotive related carnage to be perceived as normal and acceptable is a glaring disparity with the rest of our expressed values. I see driving as the unspoken modern Ludus Magnus, or Colosseum.
I can. Perhaps you have Aphantasia[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
Publish on your Own Site Syndicate Elsewhere.
Solving documentation for monoliths and monorepos at Spotify
It might work if NYC got better at hauling garbage, clearing snow, and ticketing people for blocking sidewalks in other ways (tables, signs, delivery trucks, etc.).
Functional Effects – Part 1
When I got an EV, my apartment had shared chargers in the parking garage. As an experiment, I tried to not use them for a couple weeks and lived on public chargers. It wasn't terrible. It was basically back to periodically filling up the tank, except that you get some shopping done while waiting.
How so? If my political platform was guaranteeing every American gets a free unicorn there is no way that could possibly be construed as truthful.
Well said. The "Human Animal" has a "dark side" which only needs a suitable environment where it is condoned without repercussions for it to flourish. In a small group (eg. a Village) since every person is personally identifiable these "animal" tendencies can be kept in check by a suitable environment. But in a larger group (eg. a City) because of the power of anonymity rules can be broken without repercussions. "Cyber Bullying" is another very good example. "Normal" people say the vilest of things due to the psychological distance involved and lack of personal repercussions on the Internet.

In a way, i think B.F.Skinner's "Behaviorism/Operant Conditioning" was exactly right as regards "Human Nature" but sadly people don't want to give up their utopian fancies.
I've not worked on Haskell but while reading about it I've always been suspicious that its type system is actually effective at preventing integration bugs. It's nice to hear this echoed.

I'd love to read more about this experience (good and the bad).
One thing learned growing up in a German household (my parents are from there, I was born in the US) is that there are special words and phrases and putdowns in German for almost anything. My grandmother also spoke Yiddish which confused the hell out of me as I thought some things I heard were German but weren't. My favorite putdown was always "Brat mir einen Storch und macht die beine recht knusprig" (spelling might be wrong).
Words have multiple meanings, that can often be similar and context matters a lot. The press often uses this fact to sensationalize stories, while a scientific community may have a very specific definition in mind when using those words.