skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Musk slammed one of Tesla's founders by calling him the worst
In the US, Spanish Flu mortality was ~2%

It was far worse elsewhere; figures vary widely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Around_the_globe
> For example, one cache miss might take as much time as a hundred add instructions.

> Today's languages contain far too many features that do almost the same thing but have slightly different performance characteristics, for example regular and virtual functions in C++.

Odd example. Virtual functions help enable certain designs, but avoiding virtual functions is commonly recommended when writing cache friendly code.
That's the real question.

The title should be "Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot but continued to use it and didn't have his hands on the wheel when the crash occurred."
The Uyghurs getting put in political reeducation camps.
So does the merchant get your name/Info when you pay with Apple Pay? Are you afforded my privacy than w a credit card?

I care much more about privacy than security.
The issue is that if Google cuts their funding if they encroach too much on Chromium, then Mozilla is in trouble. At the moment, their entire operation is financially dependent on a competitor paying them money.
std::system_category and std::generic_category are generally the same on non-Windows platforms. std::system_category on Windows is any Windows error (HRESULT, GetLastError, etc) and std::generic_category always represents errno.

So for cross-platform APIs that exist on both you'll generally use std::generic_category as the API is usually defined to modify errno in the case of an error. For Windows-only APIs use std::system_category.
Why don’t we, as HN community, find a solution to pay for content before we take away the only legitimate, non-intrusive way to make a living from journalism. Remember Jamal khashoggi could have decided to become a software engineer and could have been drinking the SF koolaid instead of sacrificing his life.
Zulip (https://zulip.com/) has been doing this for a long time.

See this interesting blog post on how it was done: https://blog.zulip.org/2016/10/13/static-types-in-python-oh-...
VA delays launch of new electronic health records system
This resonates with me, and of course the classic xkcd on electronic voting https://xkcd.com/2030/
I don't know where you got these papers but you clearly got an awful sampling and I don't think you're giving computer vision a fair evaluation.

Granted, we're not quite ready for self driving, but there's no question that the neural network subfield of ML has absolutely exploded in the last 5-10 years and is bursting with productionizable, application ready architectures that are already solving real world problems.
Save you a click...

“Windows was available in Nebraska. This commercial is a parody of other commercials that, for legal reasons, had to exclude Nebraska. That line in this commercial is a wink and a nod to that.

So what was up with those commercials being parodied?

Prior to 1991, all 800 numbers were carrier-specific. Because of the mixed-up telephone system the US had after breakup of Bell, this meant that to call from one side of the country to another (such as on an 800 call), you may have to cross several carriers. This could get expensive.

To limit this, companies with 800 numbers got wise and centralized in the middle of the US. Due to its central location, Nebraska ended up the destination of many call centers for the, on average, cheaper 800 call rates. So companies moved their call centers to Nebraska for financial reasons.

But why did that make offers void? Because this 800 system could not successfully route in-state and out-of-state calls until 1981, when AT&T developed the tech to do so.

So throughout the 60s, 70s, and early 80s, the offers were void to Nebraska callers because they literally could not make the phone call.

As dumb as this sounds, remember: until the government stepped in in 1983, phone companies wouldn’t even allow consumers to own their own phone!

As an aside, there are still a lot of call centers in Nebraska, but the restirctions on 800 numbers being loosened has created a long, slow exodus of such jobs.

Refs: https://www.ringcentral.com/blog/the-history-of-800-numbers/...
The more I read about this, the more I wonder about the reliability of mortality rates generally. Or at least, for diseases where diagnosis depends on DNA-based testing.

I mean, it seems likely that pretty much everyone who dies will be tested. Except for victims of auto accidents or whatever.

But it also seems likely that many with minimal symptoms won't be tested. Perhaps because hospitals are so busy that people can't be bothered. Or maybe because people are afraid of hospitals, because they're full of sick people. Or simply because there's inadequate testing capability.

So isn't it likely that mortality will always be overestimated for such specific diseases? As opposed to, for example, auto accidents or falls.
I wonder what the author would do, when performance is critical. Today too many people rely on fast cpu and large memory. There are lots of applicants, where you need to optimize.
Yes, but that does not imply we have to post content from sites that need to make money on their content.
I love Merlin!

My only complaint about it is that there isn't an equivalent app for spiders. And insects. And reptiles. And mammals. And...

Ok, seriously, I do wish it had been keeping track of all the birds I've identified with it. But other than that, it's pretty awesome.
About 80% of Americans over 60 have cardiovascular problems, compared to a third of elderly Chinese people. That stat indicates that fatality rates could be higher in the US (and other western countries, although I don't have those numbers immediately) than China.

https://www.heart.org/idc/groups/heart-public/@wcm/@sop/@smd...

https://www.jwatch.org/na48562/2019/03/05/china-cardiovascul...
Spiders think with their webs, challenging our ideas of intelligence
What's funny is that people that have worked with Musk complain about him too.
Yes, of course. I was mainly stating the starting point.
Agreed but even if you think the real Wuhan death count is 10x the official (ie. ~10K deaths in Wuhan), there's still an order of magnitude lower mortality rate assuming there's been widespread exposure in the 3 months
Is there a cached version? I could not find it anywhere.
It's described pretty well here: https://wiki.debian.org/EtcMailName

On Debian update-exim4.conf writes whatever is in there into exim4 configuration files it builds in /etc/exim4. I have no idea why they do that - exim4 could just as happily read it from that file every time it needs it.
This is doom porn against air bnb. It’s a massively profitable website with very low capital requirements.
> If they truly believe that the autopilot driving is safer than unassisted, they might reasonably consider it an immoral act not to ship it.

Then Tesla should be given it away, not charging extra for it. To do otherwise would be immoral.
You understand git. If someone said you need to know how sed works, or grep, or babel, or clang, or bash, or perl, or literally any other tool that you use regularly that you don't know the internals of then you'd quite reaaonably say they were wrong because you're an expert what matters to you and you can do your job without knowing how something else works. Perhaps you should try to respect that other people choose to become experts in things that aren't git.
That's a lot of 5 star reviews, and a topic I am struggling with right now. Picked up a copy. Thanks, and look forward to reading it.
I think that’s been illegal for over 20 years
I use it extensively. Every time I shop at Target, Costco, Safeway (groceries) are always Google Pay.
I don't care about most people, so the feeling's mutual. ;) Anyhow, I'll check with the county morgue and records.
Since autopilots on airplanes literally fly straight lines between waypoints, it's pretty clear that whatever it means in airplane contexts has zero bearing on what it means in a car context. Having an airplane autopilot fly in proximity to anything else is a recipe for swift death.
Lagunita appears to be retiring on March 26 2020. Are there any alternatives you'd suggest for the courses on Lagunita?
You do it by management not making things zero sum, and by correcting/penalizing people for blaming behavior (e.g. saying a root cause is that a team/person made a mistake, vs a system not preventing or mitigating the mistake)
> People complaining about how user-unfriendly SAP is or how companies adapt to SAP instead of the other way around are missing the point of SAP.

> The point of SAP is that the module for your type of business is being implemented at the market leader in your area...

I understand that SAP apparently delivers an insane range of good defaults, complex business transactions and covers any imaginable niche use case. That's valuable.

However why does that rule out friendly, accessable and sane UI? Excellent form design, intuitive navigation and generally things that enable efficient work without weeks of training? That seems like low hanging fruit to me. Something as boring as lists and forms can still be a joy to use if done right.
I don't think any of us are sitting around reading articles on HN because we're optimally using our time. I'd rather know an article exists and see if there's a means to read it than never hear about it. Unless it's a piece of breaking news, there's probably not another equivalent source. It's unlikely some other source performed the exact same in-depth investigation with the same quality into whatever the paywalled piece is about.
Yes, the car is making noises when you don't hold the wheels and after 3 warnings, the Autopilot system is disabled until the car is restarted. The Autopilot is very explicitly not suitable for unobserved operation.
A lot of discussion seems to highlight the problem of unreported cases, but surely this is a problem for all diseases, not just novel ones.

Are there any epidemiologists here to answer how we account for unreported cases of e.g. flu in mortality rates? And if we don't, is it reasonable to ignore unreported cases of coronavirus as well, to compare like with like, or is there some factor I'm missing?
New York times, forbes, Washington post, wall street journal 600 a year.

Median individual income in the United States is $865.

If you are a highly paid engineer imagine writing a check for 3k for news. Poorer people could use the library if they had time between their 2 jobs.
WordCamp Asia Cancelled Due to Covid-19
Damn! Thanks for the share.
Thank you for the new word.

You make your case as if you have proof, which you likely don't. It's a moot point.
> I don't know your case specifics, but in presence of objective abnormalities - there is obviously going to be hesitation to diagnose somatoform.

From the HN Guidelines:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
I think I read his D3D8 book.
I do think changing the name would be the responsible thing to do.

If you call something a knife you can't 100% blame the customers if they try to use it to cut stuff, even if you say "Knife™ should not be used for cutting"
That’s an absurd suggestion. Every car company charges more for advanced safety features
How many paywall sites have half decent forums/discussions? It seems like that's the sort of thing they could leverage to drive their subscriptions, kind of like how the letters to the editor section used to get used. At the moment this is outsourced to twitter/facebook/reddiit/etc and they get no revenue from it.
I was optimistic like that in university. Great times :)

But then I went into consulting and saw that big companies have teams of lawyers that settle proactively out of court to keep inconvenient truths out of the public opinion.

Like the first few exploding iPhones.

(Just an example, never worked there)

BTW, did you hear about the Uber crash where their AI couldn't track a pedestrian and then killed her?
Okay, I have been following this closely as I follow JS libraries and this is the headline: The virus seems to require intensive care to some subset of the infected people and deaths occur when that care is not given in timely manner. That means it's mortality rate increases dramatically when your patient care infrastructure gets saturated.
> What's next, are you going to suggest basilar skull fractures are somewhat linked to emotional stress?

If you want to discuss this topic in good faith you should edit your comment to remove this appeal to ridicule.

I don't know what you think I'm advocating that motivates the bilious accusations in the rest of your comment.

From what I can tell:

- We seem to agree that people suffering chronic, difficult-to-treat illnesses have it extremely tough, and it would be ideal if they didn't (I know this from personal experience)

- We also seem to agree that the profit motive creates perverse incentives in medical research and treatment.

Outside of that, your comment seems to be just another example of the very phenomenon I was pointing out.

To be clear: I've experienced difficult-to-treat illness that seems to be autoimmune-related for much of my life.

I'm now almost completely well, having undertaken a variety of treatments including deep emotional/trauma healing work over the past 8+ years.

There is no mainstream physician, of any supposed level of competence, who would have recommended the approach that has enabled me to achieve the level of health I've now reached.

There are notable exceptions – Gabor Maté and Bruce Lipton being the most prominent – yet neither are taken seriously by the scientific/medical mainstream, despite both having advanced mainstream medical credentials.
I setup a simple new virtual-server yesterday, initially outgoing mail was rejected at SMTP-time by Gmail with an error referring to reverse-DNS for the IPv6 address.

Fixing a couple of things like that (add/update a SPF record, setup reverse DNS for IPv4 & IPv6) and mail was successfully delivered to gmail.

Biggest pain there is that some virtual-machine providers don't let you change RDNS for IPv6 addresses (e.g. scaleway). So you get the choice of disabling it, or changing provider.
Sure, but you can invoke nearly all languages (and write one-liners) at the command line, e.g.:

python -c 'import sys; f=open(sys.argv[1]);print(len(f.readlines()))' .zshrc

But I wouldn't recommend python as a good one-liner language. So the question remains, what is awk particularly good at?
I do. Every update of watchOS since version 6 seems to break activity syncing between my watch and phone. So I end up having to restore from backup every time, and thus reset ApplePay.

So far my banks have not complained.
I’m in Germany where everyone complains about the old school banks, but have been using only Apple Pay for all payments where contactless is supported (In the last years, it’s more and more places). There are still places that only support German “EC” cards (debit cards, because EC cards don’t exist anymore, but it stuck with people).
But if you have denser cities, that leaves more room for rural areas. I don’t think anyone is arguing for less rural land, but as it stands, it is legally impossible to build another city like San Francisco or Manhattan in the US, and that’s a problem for sustainability. People want to live in those places, and not just because they are old.
Ok, but quality journalism is, uh, not the NYT or WaPo. They sold themselves out awhile ago. I guess you can claim some performative woke points for it though.
> The article says a Prius hit the same place as this Tesla the week before. But the NTSB isn't investigating Toyota.

Makes sense to investigate Tesla since it's always the same driver causing the accidents. It still makes sense even if this driver is safer than everyone else.
I was thinking more of a custom shop 2-axis laser metal cutter installation with a keyed interlock, big red e-stop, warning signs on the entrances, mandatory eye/skin protection and some big red rotating light andons that laser is in operation. |-dB) I can build all of it, and it's not an area that the public or anyone else but yours truly will be in during operation, so no OSHA.

FDA Form 2877 has an exclusion for testing/development/prototypes "(i.e., not distributed)." so it should be fine as long as it's not sold to anyone else.

(Also, an AvE "Not to be operated by fuckwits." sticker is obligatory.)
I mostly agree with you that there are many false positives in the research papers. Still, you shouldn't outright dismiss the possibility of you not implementing their models correctly.
If I could buy the software equivalent of spending "$100 to just buy a complete crosscut sled made of aluminum with a good design that will last forever", I would have done that.

That is arguably what P/S/SaaS is, instead of building bespoke or Chef'd instances. But I'm not one to reimplement something in F77 in Julia just to have something to blog about.

Regardless, sometimes a DSL is just what you need, and you'd better have someone who likes creating compilers do it. Otherwise it's like when builders do wood things without talking to a carpenter first.
Personally, I agree. I have no problem with paywalls, and actually subscribe to one paid site and wouldn't mind subscribing to more. But it can be pretty irritating for an aggregator. I go to paid sites individually, not from an aggregator.
How do people sleep or play on their phones then? Are the warnings not frequent and prominent enough? Are people hacking it and disabling it? What's the deal here?
I use 'tldr' for that. It's a great man summary tool.
Isn't this link same as OP?
Why are there still these death traps on Highways ? No matter whether driving on AutoPilot or Lane Assist or manually, it is statistically quite likely a car can and will drift of for a second.

I have trouble thinking of any such places on the German Autobahn where drifting of would lead to a full head on collision with a concrete barrier.
I'd figure that for human eyes, it would make the most sense to generate pallets from colors that are equal distance in the CIELAB colorspace[0] (or similar).

I personally love the Dracula Pro examples on your webpage, and will definitely strongly consider buying it after I graduate, and recommend it to others. But I'm curious about the justification for using colors that are approximately equi-distant on a synthetic RGB-derived colorspace instead of a human-eye-derived colorspace like CIELAB.

Am I wrong? It looks like the Dracula PRO pallet is composed of points roughly equidistance in an HSL/HSV disk based on the sRGB vectors in one of your images[1]. But maybe that's a red herring; looking at the colors themselves in the IDE they look fairly CIELAB-esque to my eye at least so maybe you did use that family of colorspaces (HCL[2] or Lab, for example).

For people who want to play around with this themselves, http://hclwizard.org:64230/hclwizard/ is a great resource, although there may be other/better ones. I personally found value in seeing the points mapped to the 3D volume, and at least partially understanding how the HCL and Lab volumes map to sRGB volumes. This one doesn't show the volumetric spaces in 3D, unfortunately. But it does show some incredible visualizations under the "Spectrum" tab which show how linear the choices are in f(RGB) vs f(HCL) parameters.

Also important for readers to note that this pallet, "Dracula" is quite different from the potentially more widely seen "Darcula" pallet included in JetBrains IDE. It's easy to misread the spellings, but this one (Darcula) seems to have much, much better colors. To my eye at least.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIELAB_color_space

1: https://draculatheme.com/static/img/pro/wheel-dracula-pro.pn...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCL_color_space

3: http://hclwizard.org:64230/hclwizard/
Novel novel coronavirus. The next one after will be novel novel novel coronavirus. Reminds me of some people I've worked with who insist on long email threads with attached words docs as their "project management" methodology.
I think we have very little experience with how democratically-controlled organizations would behave and interact in the long term.

You may be right that centralization is inevitable for game-theoretic reasons.

On the other hand, I'm not sure how well game theory can model the decisions of large groups of people who participate in multiple organizations at the same time.

Definitely though, there are no examples from history of a society of democratic societies and how it might behave. Perhaps the closest examples are the ancient Greek cities and post-WW2 Europe (looking only at the state level, democratic corporations have not been tried to any large extent that I know of). In both those cases, there was no spontaneous centralization from within (i.e. one entity conquering the others), though for Europe it is still very early to tell, and there are future signs which may point to more centralization.
Imagine thinking one's choices are completely independent of status games played in the society.
> This is the part where you call me irresponsible, right?

Well, yes. But let's say everybody does things like this: the problem is that on a normal car you'll try to keep the off-hand time at a minimum, keep half hand on the wheel, or just give up and stop the car.

If you rely on autopilot you'l could just lower your attention for a longer time, and you can't rely on autopilot to actually do the right thing, it may work fine ten times and then crash your car into another on the eleventh killing both you and your baby.

The stress you feel is a good thing.
Not quite sure what point the author is trying to make? He agrees that lines of code are a bad measure of productivity because, yet claims that the average he computes can help him predict future development times. Then he explicitly points out that different parts of the codebase required different amounts of work, apparently unrelated to their code line count, yet does not relate this to the previously mentioned points. Also, what is up with the random comment about code coverage at the end? That doesnt fit in with the rest of the article either...
Telegram bot with options button.

As the telegram bot are processed by my coordinator website, almost every message sent by any user to the bot are saved in my co's database. There are 2 types of options, the public and private. Public type will be saved in db and tell the whole bot's user about information someone sent, with or without further feedback from other bot users. The private type will be saved in db and only visible to several user specified.

I though it is very versatile for report, lesson learned and etc.
This story just made my evening, thanks.
Seems about right, on the average day, you put about 500 in. the average year later, you're lucky if 10 of those are left.

sits back waiting to be told how badly I suck and something about code churn and patterns
One of the pain points of developing with Firefox dev tools, which has kept me on Chromium for development, is lack of proper formatting for tracebacks. Reading tracebacks in FF has been quite an eye strain, whereas Chromium offers syntax highlighting and formats tracebacks for readability.
Hanging out with Erdős was probably a ride. He was known for drinking copious amounts of coffee and taking amphetamines non stop. So he probably didn't get a lot of sleep. Now imagine that dude has showed up at your house to live and work with you for at least a few days, but probably a week or two. I wouldn't be surprised if he exhausted a few poor unsuspecting mathematicians.
Of course, it would depend on the workload. An exception here and there wouldn’t matter, but for a somewhat contrived example, using exceptions for something like a bad connection to a database on a server with dozens of threads could easily turn into a concurrency and a resource exhaustion problem (where every thread starts seeing the same error at the same time).