skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much all the EU; although the 1st three years after new car purchase there is no technical inspection.
I have nothing to do with Wire, I just thought it was close enough to his requirements that he would benefit knowing about it.
I wonder how neanderthal genetics varied from locality to locality. Presumably those in Russia were somewhat different to those in e.g. Gibralter.
Sure it’s a good argument. Just because you have a choice doesn’t mean you should always choose the lower risk option no matter what.

For example, you might have the choice between driving to work (1 in 1M chance of death) or take a bus (1 in 10M chance of death).

If you can save 1hr on your commute, then choosing the higher risk option makes sense.

Same thing if you need to take a flight and the option is fly on a 737 Max for an hour (no the flights available) or take a 5 hr train ride.
Can confirm that adding https:// the url works for getting on the website.

According to the privacy policy, the website is run by a company called Angeion, which according to a quick google search is a settlement administration company. Those handle complying with settlement agreements for other companies. Kinda like the one listed at the bottom of this webpage:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7999009/in-re-google-pl...

The addon "uMatrix" that I have on firefox confirms that the only parts of the website are from Angeion, the website listed, and the usual google analytics crap.

The adresses from the website and email are for what appear to be a real court office in the northern distric of California and the Angeion office in Philidelphia. I couldn't find anything on the listed phone number.

To me the parts that looked the skethiest to me were:

1) Asking to not call the california office

2) Saying that anyone who does not reply and opt-out will no longer be allowed to sue after the set date

Disclaimer I am not in any way a lawyer. The things that look sketchy to me could easily just be normal legal stuff that I disagree with (I'm staring really hard at the "you can't sue us if you don't notice this email in time). Asking to not call the California office could just be to prevent the legal office from being spammed by calls when there's a different place specifically set up for that.

Also, the information asked for on the website don't seem unusual given it's self proposed purpose. The information asked is very dependent on what you're trying to do, e.g. opting out requires an address and submiting a claim requires a claim ID.
(Table 1, col 4): https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

CDC Influenza and pneumonia deaths by influenza season and age: United States, 2008–2015: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/health_policy/influenza-and-pn... (these are not estimates, see the footnote)

2015-2016
Flu: 7,961
Pneumonia: 131,858
All: 1,769,940

Excess deaths are the only accurate measure of a pandemic: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
> The article never mentions, but how does the Porsche detect oncoming cars and overly reflective signs?

My Jeep Grand Cherokee does this, auto-dims the headlights when oncoming cars or reflective signs appear. I assume it's just the dumb way, if something "bright" is ahead of me then dim the lights. I don't think you have to do a lot of "image processing" to single out the direction a very bright light is pointing.
It is very easy to prove. Note first that ~P is an abbreviation for P -> False. So we can rewrite this as
(~ ~ P -> False) -> P -> False.
This is tautologically true by modes ponens if P -> ~ ~ P. But that is a well known fact.
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The opposite!

Less time coding = more time running businesses.

I'm not writing any code at Brick either.
Maybe we should give the president a share of GDP?
Oh hi! It's going on - and indeed, your question prompted the note.

As one might expect, the original scope was ... insufficient. The exchange team have taken over the responsibility for new customer-facing stream API. The current one is starting to bump into a number of edges that were not obvious two years back.

I can however happily say that the first major migration is complete: the team moved settlements from the old Erlang-based system to C++. (The final remnants of the old component were removed from our tree less than a month ago.) This doesn't necessarily sound like much, but it required a lot of walltime due to multi-month shadow deployment. Since the last time we visited the topic, they have also migrated the market state updates from their old "teed off" feed to a dedicated subsystem with higher throughput and better reliability - though not without hitches.

A kafka client library bug caused them (and our customers) quite a lot of grief. The postmortem for that was rather uninteresting, even if the visible impact was bad enough. When the solution to a problem is "downgrade client library, wait until upstream fixes are in place, avoid local delta", the technical aspect scores quite high on boring.

Another component, a customer-facing "recent orders cache" subsystem written in C++ now augments its Erlang predecessor. A service designed to run in a K8S cluster from inception is obviously an easier deployment and maintenance target.

The two really big ones left are the actual exchange core ("matching engine") and market maker trading API. Both under active development. It'll probably be some months still before the new trading API can take over. And it will be a long road to validation, but the matching engine has also recently graduated to an early shadow mode, feeding off of the the order flow spigot.

In a nutshell: plumbing. So much plumbing...
> The impacts of any outreach effort should be seen across the entire UC system and not just Berkeley.

You say this as if I'm just supposed to accept it, but I don't believe it. UCB, along with UCLA, are the top tier of the UC system. I don't think it's a big stretch to think that someone who might be applying to UCB wouldn't be applying to UCSD.

I'm not coming straight out and saying you're wrong here, but I am saying this is a statement that needs supporting.
Not sure if media player is the best choice, since playing a video is similar to a game and I guess that most of the battery power goes into decoding and displaying the video not the surrounding gui for play buttons and the like.

I would rather see how they fare with a classic GUI like a text or spreadsheet editor. Maybe for simplicity sake a calculator or an IRC client, then you just have to join an active channel and let it run for a while.
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With increasing internet popularity it has become very important to have a good online presence in the 21st century.

This hypothesis is incorrect. There are plenty of people who lead extraordinary lives without broadcasting anything online.
> secondary effects which the public health response might have caused

You're correct, but this is still relevant. It all depends on how the statistic is presented. Excess deaths shouldn't be presented as "deaths due to Covid-19 infection", but it could be presented as "deaths related to the Covid-19 outbreak", and people who died from cardiovascular disease because they didn't seek help due to the pandemic are still very much relevant since they are just that: related to the Covid-19 outbreak.

After all, if you save 100 people in ICUs after they contracted Covid-19 that's good, but if 1 000 people die of other causes because they were scared to go to hospital then that is still relevant to understanding how the pandemic affected deaths in general, and how the response could be improved in the future compared across countries.
A bit like dual clutch transmissions - a few years back only to be found on exotics now I have one on my very modest 1l Škoda.
> Not sure about that, they're rolling it our across VW models now,

My bad then. At least I think they made the newer implementations a little bit less obnoxious, I can only notice them on Audis that are a few years old (like 2013-2015, even newer), on the newer Seats or Skodas they are not such in "your face".

> They don't blind you because the beam is pointed downwards.

Maybe the drivers around these parts of the continent are doing it wrong, thing is that driving at night has become particularly challenging when there's even slight traffic coming from the other way. And I don't think I'm that old (I'm 39) or with a particular bad eye-sight. It also doesn't help that I drive a small 1.4l hatchback while the majority of newer cars seem to be higher CUVs/SUVs, in which case them "pointing their lights downwards" practically means them pointing the lights straight at me.
> As pollution mounts and industrial input into agriculture falls, food production per capita falls. Health and education services are cut back, and that combines to bring about a rise in the death rate from about 2020. Global population begins to fall from about 2030, by about half a billion people per decade. Living conditions fall to levels similar to the early 1900s.

This article is from 2014, so the 2020 bit struck me.
Great stuff! Congrats on launching.

Can it be combined with https://svelte.dev? Would be great for reactivity and cheaply creating visualisations.
In a few states like California there isn't a difference in the minimum wage for tipped and untipped workers.
NOIA Network fixes core problems of internet infrastructure
>Banks in the US are very risk aversive when it comes to new technology

But are somehow fine with crappy magstripe easily cloned cards. Bit odd how they judge risk
Community is also key. it will either make it or break it.
I never understand this line of reasoning. What do you think is it that comes up with a thought like 'be excited about this task'. When you say that your brain is easily convinced by this you imply that there exists something besides your brain that comes up with thoughts, which makes absolutely no sense at all. It's more likely that your brain just decides a priori to do the task and then comes up with the thought that justifies doing the task.
Working with some power companies in Australasia, I found out there are actually water heaters which receive a signal over the power lines to turn off and on. You would make an agreement with the power company for a lower rate, and a total amount of hours on per day (plus more details). The power company would then schedule your water heater in off peak times.

This was more of a method of managing peak load, however, still seems applicable.
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It's insane to me that people want to make such large-scale changes to people's behaviour based on some anecdotes.
No. At least not that they are telling anyone about. But there is plenty of evidence people equipped to do something are thinking about it.
Nice stuff.

Check also out openasapp.com
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Show HN: Full-text search for the August's who is hiring thread
Got tired of clicking "More" so I implemented full text search for August's who is hiring thread.

Suggestions for improvements welcome! Still needs some spit and polish.
But there is a missing feature: how do you generate assembly at runtime?
Very hard. I tried and failed for the good part of the last 15 years despite mounting evidence (and resurfacing burried one). Dr. Lustig has some good talks online that were revelatory for me at the time of "my transition".

It's kind of with everything else... people are addicted (I certainly still am, after decades of sugar abuse). Then there's a whole culture around that addiction and our natural craving for easy calories (fuck evolution, really).

As with all of those issues (religion, ideology, conspiracy theories) you need to "nudge" people in the right direction so they can "discover" the issues themselves. Facts don't help nearly as much as one might hope and a lot of it is correlation obfuscated by wishful thinking and genetic variability ("but my cousin Joe always drinks a coke a day and still isn't fat!").

Ever tried to convice a smoker of non-smoking? An anti-vaxxer of his narccisistic ignorance? It's always the same pattern.
Bill Clinton is largely an irrelevance now; Donald Trump is the sitting President of the United States of America. It should be obvious why Trump doing whatever is news-worthy.
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This works, which is why many code and study late at night. But it has the side effect of trying to do things with the inefficiency of a tired brain, plus being too tired to resist other temptations.
>extending socialized benefits to non-citizens is a nonstarter and isn’t the case in any of the other Western societies that supporters of single-payer universal healthcare

As others have pointed out, I don't think any of these societies limit benefits to citizens. In the UK, emergency care is free for everyone, and there are few checks on other forms of care in practice. I seriously doubt that someone who was in the country illegally would have any problem registering their child with a GP. Doctors aren't trained to perform immigration checks, and are not usually interested in doing so.
> First they lured the West into playing their dirty games, and when Western countries thoroughly dirtied their hands, then come and say "your hands are as dirty as mine, what's the point fighting now?"

I am very curious when exactly you imagine a period where "The West"'s hands weren't dirty. Both before and after WW2 ended, for example, many European nations still had colonial empires where unspeakable atrocities were happening under their direct rule (not as abhorrent as the Holocaust, but still extraordinarily disgusting). In the period that followed, "the West", just as much as Russia and China, immediately started supporting favorable dictators wherever there was some conflict - like the military anti-communist dictatorship in Greece with Allied backing, and many far-right regimes in South America and Asia.

During this same time, gay people were legally persecuted across "the West" just as much as elsewhere (though, oddly enough, with a short reprieve in early communist Russia - before WW2, before Stalin) - including, famously, war heroes like Alan Turing. Lynchings were still happening in the USA. In fact, the USA at this time had a system of first class and second class citizens with explicitly racist laws.

And in the years that followed, while civil rights movements grew in power in Europe and the US (with strong opposition from the government, for a very long time), "the West" only escalated its fight against democracy in the rest of the world - either by supporting brutal dictatorships established by others (Indonesia, South Vietnam, a lot of South America, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, even in communist bloc countries such as Romania), or by orchestrating their own coups to install loyal dictators in place of elected leaders (with initial success in Iran or Nicaragua, or ending in failure in Cuba, North Vietnam). Other European countries supported horrible regimes in their former colonies, usually supporting white or loyalist people against revolutionary or "brown" people - such as Swiss, UK and US support of the apartheid state in South Africa in the 1980s.
Web guy here (more PM than developer). The two things I've done to keep the (unavoidable) feast/famine cycle at bay are:

1) keep two work bank accounts, one for daily use, one savings, and syphon off more than needed from daily > savings when invoices are paid. Example: client pays us £5k. We know we need to put aside corporation tax (we're UK based) of 20% on profit, but instead we put aside 25%. After a while of doing this you end up with a nice chunk of cash in the savings pot for any really famine-y times.

2) Retainers and ongoing "low effort" rolling work. We've got a bunch of clients on board who pay us for hosting, maintenance, the odd fix - they pay annually so it's a good "known" source of income without varience. I mean, obviously sometimes they churn and decide they don't need us any more, but for the most part it's solid. This second source is also good because we offer it whenever we do new work - so typically a project will pay for the project but then also for the ongoing retainer as well.

The second thing is important to note for developer type people I think - namely, people pay for things that you (as developer) wouldn't necessarily pay for. I'm surprised at the high percentage of clients who sign up to maintenance agreements (it's north of 95%), purely because they want someone onboard who will hold their hand / look after stuff that they don't understand.

So I guess I'm saying - do a side hustle, totally - but maybe start by looking closer to home. Existing clients are really, really easy to sell to, easier than a new project and probably easier than working in a bar, too :-)
There are so many other egregious acts of police brutality out there and BLM, a hateful black supremecist & anti-Semitic group uses George Floyd to stir up more hate?

By being disruptive and argumentative and refusing to comply with police demands to sit in a car and shut the hell up he escalated tensions and the need for physical restraint. Whether it was the drugs or the same psychological condition that led him to commit a home robbery, his actions disproportionally contributed to his death. No one is saying he deserved to die for what he did, though I'd argue the infractions of his past should have led to an automatic life without parole sentence. In any event, the question for me is now: how much latitude should officers of the law have when apprehending a violent suspect? I do believe this incident will lead to adjustments in SOP to detain and restrain. Because if Floyd George was detained, restrained, and placed into the car as originally wanted by the officer, this situation wouldn't have happened.
I still think the effect of attractiveness on female-female friendship is much much more than male-male friendship. I don't know if there is some known theory or reason for it, but you can see in a group of female friends, the attractiveness level is in similar range more often than not(of course speaking from anecdotes, nothing to prove).
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What really needs design changes? Boeing's organization! This is going to keep happening until it is restructured to take safety seriously again.
John Oliver on how the history of race in America is taught in schools
Discovery is IMO the biggest reason why voice interfaces will never take off.

Mapping the space of possible solutions is delegated to your brain. You are responsible for remembering what's possible, what you can do, and what you should say to make that happen.
The majority of the time you will fail, because you forgot what the magic spell actually was.

Visual interface has an unobtrusive way of showing you what you can do. More importantly - it can show you multliple options at once. Voice feedback can only tell you one thing at a time and very slowly.

Voice assistants are called that for a reason - core assumption is that you share your intent, and assistant is smart enough to make that happen.

But that does not work with people either! Nobody can read your mind (yet) - that is why project requirements and management exists. I would love to tell my team one sentence of what I want done, but I have to review that at some point.

I am not using voice assistant to do human things badly. I want it to do computer things well.
Peak oil is not a good indicator of eg lithium or rare earth or helium. Simons win would be a win again rerun from now. Name your at limit scarce resource and name an endpoint and go to the long bet website
Just FYI, govt. dark patterns in the US have been around for a very long time. For example, you could read about the "literacy" tests for voting in Southern states. Robert Caro has a nice description in Master of the Senate, vol. 2 of his LBJ biography.

EDIT: (From Caro) Questions on these tests posed to Black people in Alabama have included: "Give the names of all sixty-seven county judges in the state", "State the date when Oklahoma was admitted to the Union", and "How many bubbles there are in a bar of soap".
US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia are four of the “Five Eyes” surveillance community (the fifth is the UK) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
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Last time I used Godot, the editor itself had a little indicator showing if the editor was redrawing or not (if it was redrawing, a little spinner appeared). And, indeed, if you leave the editor alone with only still elements, it doesn't redraw. I think that's an optional settings now. But if the editor can do that, why not the applications you make in it?
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> For example games have exactly zero accessibility support, system actually knowing about what is being rendered is quite useful for it to provide tools like voice over.

Some engines do have accessibility support. Most games don't do accessibility because it costs money. Same as web apps, by the way. It is not a technical limitation.

> What about IME?

What about it? It works just fine in any proper engine. There are a lot of non-Latin-charset speakers in the world...