skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The officers were pretty calm for an explosion that could have killed them.

I suspect they were the final sweep of the area before detonation.

An in-depth analysis of the explosion (history, motivation, means, benefit):

https://www.brighteon.com/cb6f4b98-ff6d-4515-8bfa-2b756abaa2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptio_continua
Oh man I've dreamed of being able to do a pseudo-LAN party of Time Splitters 2 using emulators over the internet. This gives me hope.
Exactly this. Some people think that Tesla's autopilot is just great, better than a human driver much of the time. As a Tesla owner, I am flabbergasted by that. At best, AP drives like I do. That is, perfectly straight and between the lines down a straight road. With any curves, and sometimes just on straight roads, it drives like a high-functioning alcoholic. I can't imagine how some people drive normally where they think that qualifies as 'good driving.' Some of us are very attentive drivers -- I never look at my cell phone, I never drink and drive, I don't drive when I'm tired, I avoid driving in inclement weather or at night unless strictly necessary, I am a very defensive driver. I don't get tickets, I don't get in wrecks, and this is by design -- I take great pains to reduce my exposure to these risks.

Personally I think the old joke about how 90% of drivers think they're better than average is both true, and also just a funny joke. We see a lot of perfectly good drivers on the road, but we don't notice them ... because they're perfectly good. There's only a few lanes on any given road, though, so if 10% of drivers in near proximity are crappy drivers then it practically shuts down the road. We notice that, and assume that most drivers are crap. Wrong.
I've come full circle and only order books (usually used) or things I don't care if they're Chinese bargain-version off Amazon anymore.

Target, or occasionally Walmart, gets what used to be Amazon's business from me.
> I think, after looking into it a bit more, I agree with him and that our period of fairly objective news and political information and the general consensus that brought was the anomaly. This raises the question then how do we as society re-learn to cope with that and filter out non objective information because clearly we're not doing so well with it now.

I don't know the answer, but my opinion is that we need to stop optimizing for views. I.e. kill the online advertising market. You can do your part by installing an ad blocker and paying for services you like with real money.
Bad analogy. Information products require artificial scarcity. Literally everyone making a living wage on this site benefits from this fact. If you want to follow your line of reasoning to its logical conclusion, then fine. But what I see are people who benefit from this fact taking a holier-than-thou attitude toward Nintendo, and I object to the hypocrisy.

iFixit is safe because it doesn't really affect Apple's sales. It may put a slightly downward pressure on Apple Store repair revenue. But iFixit solutions require technical aptitude, time and skill to apply that most people don't have, and wouldn't spend on fixing a laptop even if they had it!

But what if iFixit sold a dohicky that defeats the copy protection on all software written for macOS? Do you think that's okay, and that their right to share that device is free speech?
So Sweden banned gatherings of 50 or more people, while countries that banned order of magnitude smaller groups did an order of magnitude better.

And Spain locked people in their homes to the point where there was a black market in borrowing other people's dogs in order to have a legal reason to go outside, and did worse. There is not an obvious relationship between severity of lockdowns and deaths or hospitalizations. You see this in the US too, where the media have been demonizing Florida for months for its relatively lax restrictions, while its death rate is right at the national average.

Also I think it was never practically feasible to isolate vulnerable people as you describe.

And it is practical to expect the entire population to put their lives on hold for a year because of a disease that is not a significant danger to most of them?
I have seen a ton of forest service roads as well on Google Maps here in the Okanagan. Some of those are indeed maintained and very usable even in small cars (Penticton to Highway 33/Big White, for example). Others not so much. Definitely had some sketchy adventures in my tiny Corolla on them. I never rely on Google Maps to navigate them though, and never with any intent of getting somewhere. It’s just exploration and if the road gets bad, you bet I’m turning around.
I don't get why this is news.. the ARJ21 has been flying commercially in China since 2016. So another airline bought some and started flying it... and?

Anyway, China still can't make the complex parts, like engines, which I believe it sources from Russia.
Hasn't everybody started to ease up a bit with the cargo culting in the JS community? My impression was that there's a general awareness of how fashion oriented everything has become (as you mention) and ignoring the fashions is becoming more the new norm. Maybe I'm way off base though.

Find anything that fits well into your existing toolchain and meets your requirements. Who cares what anyone else is using, right?
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyCCJ6B2WE
Those unknowns already are being elucidated by experimental fleets. Self-driving cars won't be deployed en masse before the vendors can already demonstrate solid statistics worth hundreds of millions of passenger-miles, which will be sufficient to get the fatality rate.
Isn't this the case for all medicines? Vaccines mechanism of action makes it safer than any other medicine as they are harnessing the bodies own immune response system.
Aka "the Etsy effect" (lowering the bar for new sellers results in a flood of bad-faith sellers)
Trombone also works in a similar way with the slide positions and overtone series. In fact, experienced trombonists will refer to transposing licks up or down the slide or overtone series as fretting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v0C2nqVSlE
The only time I got told to use two spaces was by my dad. Literally everywhere else, it was single space. In school, two spaces was considered bad grammar and would get marked in red ink.
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How competitive and safe are these compared to Boeing and Airbus equivalent planes?
"Every other treatment we use medically is aimed at some existing pathology—from a cold to cancer"

Really?

prenatal care,
circumcisions,
postnatal care,
colonoscopies,
x-rays,
ultrasounds
(to name a few)

Are all preventative/diagnostic procedures that may not accompany a disease.
Where do you purchase things from now? I've been using Zappos for clothing and shoes, their filters are dead simple and allow laser-targeting.
Its not quite apples to oranges as many of the dangers of aspirin (e.g. stomach ulcers or liver damage) are due to long term exposure or over dosing, neither of which can easily happen with a vaccine.
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yeah it'd make sense if you disregard externalities.

i sure don't want the usb charger market to sort itself out by the metric of which products burn my house down faster.
Even books aren't safe. Support your local booksellers! https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/amazo...
Yes, it seems that we are finally approaching the time when waiting for multiple events and asynchronous I/O will become simple and efficient on Linux.

However, this has always been a weak spot for Linux until recently and it took too many iterations of various partial solutions of the problem to reach the current state.

This was a case when avoiding the NIH approach and looking carefully at the older Windows or FreeBSD solutions would have resulted in an earlier good solution.
You should check-out filmup if you’re interested in the art of film making: https://twitter.com/filmupco

It's really interesting how scenes are actually filmed.
I rented a 2019 Mercedes last week and drove it for over 1200 miles, most of which was driven with the cars driving assist technologies enabled.

My guess is that because this car drives so "carefully", such as automatically following at a safe distance (leaving maybe a 3 second gap between the car in front of it), human drivers will end up causing many more accidents. There must have been more than 50 drivers (with many annoyed stares into my window as they passed) that made unnecessary lane changes to go around me just to then closely follow the car in front of me.

This large gap may make it seem like the car is going slower than it is, as so many drivers tried to overtake me but failed as slower traffic in the other lanes blocked them.

Human drivers may just become worse over time as more law-abiding autonomous vehicles hit the road. "5x" might not be as much of an improvement in the future.
K makes this explicit with the ‘where’ function which converts a Boolean array into the list of indices of true values. Thus,

x[4 5 6] is index access (“at”); also x@4 5 6

x[&x>3] is “x at where x is greater than 3” ; can also be written x@&x>3
> Production of both the ARJ21 and C919 have relied on foreign suppliers for parts to build the braking system, engines and hydraulic pressure components. Chinese manufacturers have been able to make the less essential components, according to industry observers, but they are seen as likely to require more maintenance and incur additional costs.

How long before China also challenged the turbine and avionics market? They aren’t there yet but I feel like they have the economic capability to get there.
Based on an Aug 11, 2016 comment of yours, maybe you would like to start with The Captain and the Enemy, which also happens to be where I started. After that I started reading everything GG although I'm not quite done. I currently have The Ministry of Fear waiting to be loved. Myself I love the Penguin editions, perfect format and the smell ... the ones from the 70's I mean.
Ah yes, the regret of being seen unfavorably by Hackernews, I'm sure he was devastated.
Just a random but surprising statistic I found out last week: Most healthcare workers do not get annual flu shots.

And 2 articles from a quick Google search coincidentally show the same ~60% skip flu shots for both USA and UK:

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdandFluNews/story?id=641897...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-42634781

If I didn't see the above, my intuition would have made me guess that 90%+ of medical professionals get flu shots. It turns out I was way off.

However, the reasons don't appear to be safety like this thread's article. One doctor said he doesn't get flu shots because the CDC makes a guess for what goes into the next season's flu shot and they're only ~50% correct. Since he got sick from the flu shot (even with the weakened virus) many years ago, he now avoids them. He still believes in the science of flu shot and not anti-vaxx but he personally chooses to not take it.

EDIT: Apologize for posting bad statistic. Is the UK NHS statistic accurate? If so, why do most UK health workers avoid it?
Arguing that people should do what you want, irrespective of what they themselves want leads to all kinds of pain, on all sides.

"Why are people voting against their own self-interest?" is an analogous phrase. It seems awfully condescending to me.

Nobody's bound to your perspective of what's rational. Better to just accept that this is the kind of hurdle that self-driving will have to jump over and work on getting there ASAP.

Elon realized that the best way to get people to buy electric cars was to make electric cars that are better than gas cars, not to tell people they're wrong and stupid for not wanting to buy some inferior electric car. Once self-driving cars are obviously better than all but the best race drivers, people will accept them as a matter of course.
Great idea, but the performance is very poor for me. The games skip frames all the time, almost like a slideshow. I've only tested it locally, by the way.

(Windows 10, Chrome, i7-7700, GTX 1050.)

What emulator did you use for this? (I would suggest using DuckStation, it's a million times faster than any other and more compatible than most of them, only Mednafen may work better in a few games.)
How many precedents we have of a potential vaccine found out to cause serious harm? Asking seriously. Is there any studies/stats?
Kind of. The difference between human vision and computer vision is that human vision is stereoscopic. We perceive depth in addition to color and shape. And that gives us the ability to perceive the 3-dimensional shape of an object, which lets us anticipate how it might move. A lot of CV algorithms operate on single images from a single camera, which makes it impossible to judge depth. In that case you'd have to use the size of an object as a proxy for its distance and speed, so you'd tend to misjudge how far things are from you and where they're going.

The nice thing about LIDAR is that you can gather that depth/shape information and with sufficient calibration map the shapes in the camera image to the depths in the LIDAR image. You can do the same thing with two cameras so I'm not sure why LIDAR would be preferred here.
> smell the cleaning fluid

2020 brick and mortar's new motto
Given that I have a higher likelihood of getting killed by a bolt of lightning than by undergoing a number of medical procedures, I'd say the bar is pretty high.
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Nobody expected GDPR to be the cure for everything.

We had hope that it would do good and change the direction we were on. And it has been a success, the changes are industry wide and massive. Of course it isn't without faults, but we are far better off with it and have a better foundation for the future.
That was my original hope for self-driving cars. The easiest way to ensure that you don't kill anybody is to limit your speed to 20mph. At and below that speed a car-pedestrian collision is highly unlikely to result in a dead pedestrian. Also, at 20mph you can stop on a dime. So I imagined a large fleet of robot cars traveling at 20mph and normalizing that speed, forcing human drivers to slow down too.

But it turns out that self-driving vendors spend a lot of effort on "driving like a human", which includes driving faster than the speed limit and faster than vision zero would allow on shared streets & roads.
Where Have All the Flowers Gone is a famous folk song, written by Pete Seeger.

The song asks "Where have all the X gone?" for a chain of values of X, each being consumed by some thing which then becomes the subsequent X. The first question is "Where have all the flowers gone" and the answer is "Young girls picked them, every one."

The song is a commentary about how we send generation after generation of our children off to war and death--figuratively consuming our children.

Kinda like the ammonites of yore devouring their own offspring.
The three-letter names have the advantage that it makes the function names shorter since they are prefixed with the same letters.
Not a lawyer - would it really be a violation of the CFAA? I'd also be surprised if Visa involved the FBI for someone excessively hitting their API...
Random facts. French puts a half-space before any punctuation mark with two parts:

https://crowdagger.github.io/textes/articles/heuristique.htm...

Although in Quebec they only do it before colons:

https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tcdnstyl-chap?lang=eng&let...

German used to put spaces before punctuation, now doesn't, and some guy on Usenet came up with a term for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenken
A dilemma. Years and years of propaganda towards capitalism have trained people that individualism is the holy grail. Even the american dream basically says that you as an individual can change things because your perspective is unique.

And now, pieces like this need to be written to re-educate people about group behaviour and essentially socialism. The very thing that america even went to war against.

Weird world. And everyone not agreeing immediately is a heretic. Yeah. Talk about confusing messages.
Even the most dangerous vaccine we've ever produced would almost certainly be safer for most people than actually catching Covid.
To me, this sounds like Tegnell (who is an expert and has studied viruses and pandemics) knows what he's talking about. If you've ever seen an interview with him it becomes quite apparent that he's got a real scientidic mindset.
Yes, nothing is as accessible, immersive and engaging as still images.
Yes, from the perspective of a normie desktop user this was (is?) a common reason for disliking it. And yet every time it's mentioned online the only replies are along the lines of 'it's intentional, of course it makes sense to wait in case the service exits cleanly'. Was no one around before systemd to realise this was not an issue then?

It's infuriating when your system won't shut down due to some unknown service, which systemd gives [30 seconds remaining] to quit gracefully. OK, you think, I guess it's reasonable to wait and see if it will close cleanly, so you wait. As soon as the timer hits 0, it jumps up again: [90 seconds remaining]. How are you supposed to know how long to wait? What are you supposed to do if it continues forever? All keyboard input is disabled so there is nothing you can do but hard reset your PC and hope systemd unmounted the filesystems before getting stuck.

It's just an unpleasant software.
One thing that makes me nervous is the mRNA vaccine which, to my close to zero understanding, is a completely novel way of administering a vaccine.

Anyone have a good writeup or similar to relieve a bit of fear?
> they have even done better than Switzerland

Switzerland is only slightly lower than the US in death rate. I'm not sure the "even" is appropriate here for a country with far more deaths per capita than Austria and Germany, especially considering it also experienced a second wave far more fatal than virtually any other country.

https://boogheta.github.io/coronavirus-countries/#deceased&r...
> Crossing the street in front of a car is a leap of faith, not troubling at all when there’s a human there, but a robot? There’s no body posture, no gestures, no facial expressions, nothing to go on. There’s a computer in control of a powerful heavy machine that you’re just expected to trust.

This is something that's very solvable though. Robot cars should and almost definitely will have a way to communicate to pedestrians. I agree with the general point though around a greater possibility of very out of the norm mistakes.
I always sit in the back of the taxi (just like what Waymo does), and that already significantly decreases my chances of dieing. And with bus it's again easily more than 5x safer than a car.
As a class of biologically active agents, vaccines are incredibly mild. This is because rather than throwing a wrench in the gears of how cells work (the usual mechanism of action of drugs), they tell your immune system to do what it does every day, but just to include this one new target.

The definition of "intrinsically safe" doesn't even sound like a consistent bar. Nearly every aspect of living involves risks, even if that risk is of falling and hitting one's head.
Every time I see “champing at the bit”, I consider it a victory for humanity. People correctly assessing vaccine risk would just be gravy.
Let's start with breaking down the terms you mentioned:

Package Managers: Pretty self-explanatory, they pull in packages from other sources. In your list those are NPM and Yarn. The two use the same sources and can be used more or less interchangeably. I've found Yarn to be the better experience.

Transpilers: These tools will take in your source code and apply some meaningful transformations, such as turning code using new language features into old language features. In your list that's Babel. It's not necessary to use any, but can come in handy. Babel is the de-facto standard when it comes to plain JS, but there's also TypeScript (which adds a static type system to JS) and tools for other languages.

Bundlers: They take all your source files and link them, producing one or more "bundles" containing all your sources. They can also invoke the transpilers as a processing step. Those are Browserify and Webpack from your list. Others are Rollup, Parcel, ...

As for which you should use: it doesn't really matter, just get some template that works for you rather than spending a day wiring it up yourself, it's not worth it. If you want to do that for learning purposes, I'd go with Webpack, maybe Babel with preset-env, PostCSS and TypeScript if you want a type system.
You seem to think you can damn everyone who buys Apple for their participation in abuses, even as you enjoy products which are likely far deeper into this bullshit.

All you've done is point out your own biases and willingness to dive deep into hypocrisy.

There is a big problem with forced labor. Apple is one of the few companies who is remotely transparent about their supply chain. As much manufacturing as Apple does, they are bound to end up buying from some of these vendors. But unlike most of their competitors, we've seen Apple adjust their buying from suppliers who get caught doing this.
It does take quite a while to load though, is there a way to improve it, maybe with some caching on the server since the query is static?
There are plenty of terrible sellers on ebay, too, but it is much easier to sort out the garbage sellers. Seller feedback is right there in the search results, and though you can't filter by feedback any more, it is easy enough to just skip over any listings with a low number or less than 99.9% positive.
That's a good one. I have the opposite experience myself, but also the more time I spend on an email the more concise it gets.
My take for a long time has been that the government doesn't know much more than we do, and that that is the cover-up. They don't want to admit that strange possibly powered objects (but also possibly not) are being detected and witnessed in the sky that they can't identify, track, or engage. It means that either the government does not control our skies or that they're detecting a bunch of illusions and false positives and their equipment is wonky.

They'd much rather people believe conspiracy theories about the government having secret alien crash wreckage, etc., because that makes the government look like they're in full control of everything.
Too many people living in too small of housing units. I see it near my house. Then many of these people lost their jobs due to the lockdowns, leaving them home. Lots of people were still having parties here too, you can hear them all the time.
> const o = {}; o.prop = "something"; // oh, actually, o.prop = 5;

Care to share some examples / use cases where using these language characteristics can result in better, more expressive, more readable code?

(Not saying there aren't. I've been wondering about it myself and am genuinely curious)

Thanks!
I think book reviews (and presumably music, movie reviews) are going to be quite a bit different from other sorts of product reviews, for obvious reasons.
Some years ago, I watched some historical TV show (could be Rome?) where one of the characters has been diagnosed with some disease, so I wondered if they knew how to properly diagnose it at the time the show was set at. So I used Google to search for the disease to get to its Wikipedia page. Then I almost forgot about it.

For months after that, Google bombarded me with the links to the disease and cures and remedies and whatnot.

I remember even seeing that at my kid's gaming PC, and I don't remember ever logging in to my Google account there. We only shared the same IP in the household.

That's pretty anecdotal, I know, but that's what there is.