skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Butterfly spreads. A 4-part derivates trade.

I would say it is purely entertainment because as a saying goes, "if your options trading strategy involves the name of animals, just walk away"
If you read about Vision Zero and its methodology, you can see that it indeed celebrates incremental progress and indeed encourages simplest improvements first.

Before you dismiss something as silly, perhaps you could try understanding it some first.
I wouldn't consider "officers acting professionally" as evidence of a conspiracy. A simpler explanation is that they acted calmly because they are well trained. They may have also acted calmly before the explosion because they didn't expect an actual detonation---most bomb threats don't end in detonation of a device.

However, it is their duty to evacuate the area because no one likes the excuse "statistics were against anything bad happening" when their family members are dead.
Why do you assume that suicides are biased toward young healthy people?

Young healthy people were in best position to not be isolated even in lockdown, unlike unhealthy people and old people who wont just play computer games for company.
There is certainly a contingent on HN who belong to the camp of "we need tamper-proof national ID secured by technobabble." I'd just point out that it took me two tries to get a new RealID license because, even as a homeowner and passport holder, I didn't quite bring all the required forms of identification and proof of residency the first time.

Personally, I'm just fine with a system that has some cracks and limitations.
Edit: I misread this originally—but please don't copy-paste comments on HN. It strictly lowers the signal/noise ratio.

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I can't tell what comment you were referring to, but please don't copy-paste [dead] comments on HN, or any comments. If there's a [dead] comment that shouldn't be dead, you can vouch for it as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html, or email us at hn@ycombinator.com.
Dating further back, it might be even closer to this old "Chrome experiment" from about 10 years ago: https://github.com/dataarts/webgl-globe
And I’m simply stating I don’t like their position just like I believe in right to repair
Documentary follows implosion of billion-euro brain project
Can you blame them? It's a replay of the iraq war with embedded reporters, trying to keep people captivated at their television sets and keeping their money rolling in. I don't have TV anymore but when I visit family, it's mostly big pharma commercials and bizarre as hell to watch.
You're right. Many Japanese products started out as copies of products from other companies in the West. However, within a few years, those same Japanese companies were producing original designs with no derivatives of foreign products.

Has China gotten to that point yet? imo, it's really hard to achieve when you have a more collectivist culture vs an individualistic one that's ruled by an authoritarian government.
> Also, insane that your health plan costs as much as the average citizen's share in all federal taxes (which also include corporate taxes, tariffs and whatnot).

That's pretty typical for a quality health insurance / month.

Good health care plans in America are expensive. My employers have always broken out how much they are contributing towards my health insurance each month, ~$1000 is typical.
I don’t think that’s true in google3. People often mistake the scale of Google’s internal code with respect to their visible external code.
I find the new york times sort of annoying now.

I like them and even set up a script to pull down the homepage as a .pdf each day to read it. Today's would be:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/12/30/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf

But I found the articles I generally read (mostly links from hn) have a different quality than the front page.

The front page articles seem emotional. They seem opinionated. Bit they're not marked "opinion"

Even if I agree with the opinion, I think they could take the high road.
I don't even think it needs to be free. Many US States provide a State ID for $20~$50. Even if you don't drive, it's very difficult to survive without at least a State ID (just to buy alcohol or for anything that needs legal identification ... like a job or I-9 form).

The arguments against requiring voter ID are silly now. Yes, at one time reading tests were required to vote in the Jim Crow era, and they were intentional to prevent blacks from voting. But we've come a long way since then. Asking someone to set aside one day and $30 to get an ID, in order to vote, should NOT be considered an unnecessary hardship. It's a bare minimum effort if you want to vote.

Some will say, "Well there are all these poor disenfranchised people who can't afford a day off work or the $30 to get an ID!" ... You've gotta be kidding me. Unless they're working under the table, how do they even have a job without ID? We cannot keep lowering the bar.

My best friend, a friend from Ecuador, talked about how some of the worst leaders in South and Central America worked on lowering voting ages down to 16 and 17, because they knew it was way more easier to influence younger people. It's straight up corruption.

State issued ID should be required to vote, period. This entire election cycle is a mess because of massive, unsolicited ballots with no chain of custody mailed out to dead people and people who have left their states. It's insane that all of Big Tech and US media is claiming there is no proof at all of fraud, when countless people are testifying in every state under oath. Just today in Georgia, people brought videos showing trucks shredding ballots. When they called the police, and even went to the Sherif, they were told law enforcement was specifically ordered not to send anyone to any voting precincts.

There is not excuse to not require Voter ID except to allow more fraud.
The $36 Billion isn't going to the government of Nigera...
Follow-up questions: what data on race and creed does the USA collect that e.g. European states generally do not? And what is the difference between enabling the state to discriminate between its citizens vs.enabling its citizens to prove they are who they say they are?
AFAIK, blockchains are good for planet-scale distributed read&write access. The government is a central authority, and tax records are not generally public information. Sounds like a good application for a private-access, append-only database. What does the blockchain offer that, say, postgres can't handle?

Right now the record of identity is a social security number. True, it's not terribly robust, and, for instance, can be stolen -- but so can your wallet if somebody finds your private key.
There's at least one of each I work with, so probably a moderate amount?
Here is an online retropi version[0]

[0] https://cloudretro.io/
have you considered localizing and selling it to english speaking countries too? cool looking maps but not all that accessible.
Interesting that a feature intending to increase safety ends up being a hazard.
I am only aware of nanopb being used at Google in embedded scenarios. The primary reason for the project I worked on was that the first Pixel Buds didn't have a C++ compiler (at least not a functional one - based on GCC 2 or 3 if I recall correctly & an extremely crippled implementation). Pixel Buds 2 didn't have that limitation (stock GCC 9) but nanopb was kept for the second Pixel Buds because the memory management was saner for an embedded RTOS environment (vs stock upstream that might use STL or otherwise try to allocate memory). I don't think runtime bloat was really on our radar (it could have been the next critical path, but wasn't on our radar at the time).

Nanopb itself needed some changes to the codegen for the first Pixel Buds (which I investigated & fixed) due to architectural peculiarities of the CSR8675. It generated a lot of constants but the CSR8675 had limited space there & was made worse because every 8 bits took up 1 16-bit word (e.g. the size of your string literal or any constant byte array is effectively doubled). So I changed the code gen to put those constants in the code section instead. Before this change resolved the issue more fully, random engineers who were unlucky enough to add a constant in some way were hitting limits internally with regularity (as the project was heading toward ship) & working around it by removing characters from log messages (e.g. "Some long message" => "Sme lng msg").

For what it's worth I tried to contribute any meaningful improvements we made back to nanopb but this one didn't make that cut as it was specific to a chip no one in the wider community would be using anyway (8675 is super old).

I don't exclude the possibility of it using in more places, but I'd say the average Google engineer does not encounter nanopb in their daily development.
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Oh, well, good for it.

If I were to pick the reason, it'd be simply that I don't like Boost.

To me, Boost is an ultimate embodiment of all that went wrong with C++ when it evolved from being a better version of C into the multi-paradigm monstrosity that it is now. Just look at the man page linked above. How to get a clever little concept of intrusive containers and completely decimate it into a technically correct, but unpalatable formulistic piece of engineering that, above all else, is rid of any shred of elegance that made the original concept so great in the first place.
This same general conversation came up here on HN about a year ago - I recall vividly several posters from other states in the east / south US who made the same observations I did, IE: that their states had similar laws on the books still giving favor to a "traditional" child care giver, IE: a female.

We passed laws pertaining to homosexual marriage a while ago here in WA and had "domestic partnership" laws before that. I have asked many lawyers since then how the courts would view a divorce situation between two men or two women as in light of these laws that continue to give favor to a "mom". I've yet to get a straight answer, yet somehow the courts are presumably processing divorces for marriages of all types.
> No, not really. If you look at Australia's parliament, you'll see that even though Labor and Liberal are the biggest party, they 'only' make up 60% of the seats. That's not really good, but it's a far cry from Canada's 82% (or the US's 99%)

I'm not sure how you came to that. Australia has 151 MPs, 68 in the liberal party, and 61 in labor, or 86% in the two major parties. Their senate has 76 members, 31 liberal, 26 labor, or exactly 75% in the two major parties.

> Do you mean 'against FPTP'? Because I can assure you that I'm not pushing for FPTP at all.

Yes, I misspoke there, as is clear from the rest of my argument.
It is absurd that we can't track people at the federal government level. We could be doing things like automatic voter registration, auto-filed taxes, automatic unemployment benefits, etc. But we don't because the government can't handle the development of fundamental software infrastructure to run government functions.
Sheaf Neural Networks
Is it not due to the inexactness of mapping the image pixels to device pixels? (Similar to what happens when drawing text with antialiasing)?
To me it seems like just a somewhat awkward way to phrase exactly what you think it means.
I use the retailer so that if the product breaks I can just walk back in and get my money back.
In terms of ingredients, other than genetic materials, is there a large difference?

Other than genetic material is there anything in these vaccines that doesn't have a long history of being injected into huge numbers of human beings?
I think those are neither first nor the last examples of anti-consumer behaviour from Nintendo. The ones I can remember without looking up:

- Cloud saves require paid NSO subscription. You also can't export saves locally. So it's a matter of time until something happens to your device and all your saves are lost. Or you can pay Mafia^H^H^H^H^H Nintendo for protection.

- They recently introduced a timed exclusive game. You either buy it before the deadline or you can't ever buy it after that. Pinnacle of FOMO if you ask me.

- Nintendo never fully accepted the well-known joy-con drift issue, and after many years it's still not addressed in newer units.

... list goes on and on, though I'm not sure how much those things affect their public image outside of the hacker circles. Since there's no strong demand from the public for Nintendo to do better, they likely will not.
I like this idea a lot! From poking around it seems like your execution on the pdf generation is high.

My (possibly useless) .02 -- I would not pay for this as is. What I would pay for though is an API that reliably converts internet articles to markdown of the same quality your pdf generation seems to have. A couple years ago I poured 3 or 4 months into a site that let users select time-boxed streams of articles clustered by topic (i.e. "give me a 25 min list of content about Glacier National Park for my subway commute") By far the most challenging part of this project was formatting content in a readable way from various sources, which it seems like you have done VERY well here.

Anyway, congrats on shipping something, regardless of customer base that's very impressive!
Can't agree more. Any headline which invokes a "what, really?" response should not be clicked, instead the keywords (like $villain or $unflattering_third_person or $unique_despicable_action) should be searched (for pro's, in a private window via DuckDuckGo or if that sucks (like, most of the time)) with google (may involve skipping the first, second or even third page of results for _hot_ clickbait topics).

With some luck there'll be a really credible secondary, or even better, the primary source. Those usually come without clickbait headlines.

This is much better that an ad-blocker, since it doesn't increase click count for the attention-seeking clickbait news provider, and yields no money for them. In the long run, this drains their money stream. At least I hope so.

It is also simple enough to understand and follow to pass over to most non-IT-friends and acquaintances.
> but I do implore people to keep in mind when deciding on policy the law of unintended consequences

This is one of those things that feels easy with the benefit of hindsight, but it's extraordinarily difficult to do up front.

Specifically: There are no modern studies that could quantify the negative externalities of mass quarantine on the mental health of a population. Obviously isolation will be detrimental to many, but where would you even begin to put a number on it?

Even more difficult, there are counterbalancing factors to mass quarantine such as a reduction in traffic fatalities. This one could maybe be estimated up front because we do have some statistics and models around traffic deaths.

Coronavirus is a unique situation because the negative effects are very non-linear. The fatality rate will skyrocket if/when hospital capacity is overwhelmed. Many policy decisions have been made in order to avoid those non-linear scenarios, which can look like overkill if you only consider them in the context of having avoided those scenarios.

But the real problems come from the political maneuvering that this opens up. Once you open the door to unmeasurable or unpredictable possible downsides of a policy, you will be flooded with "think of the children" type appeals that use fear of "what if" scenarios to grind progress to a halt. At scale, there is no such thing as a possible that doesn't have downsides to someone, somewhere. Trying to mitigate any and every downside is impossible.

> I've been shocked and saddened at the unwillingness of pro-lock-down people to consider the unintended consequences

Frankly, I think the average person doesn't fall into all out "anti-mask" or "pro-lockdown" categories, despite what you see on the news. We only hear about these extremist positions because the extremist voices tend to be the loudest. When considering one's own position, it's tempting to only look at the most extreme examples from the "other side" because they're the easiest to dismiss. In reality, the vast majority of the population is firmly in the middle. The average person doesn't like the idea of extreme lockdowns any more than they like the idea of a total laissez faire approach. We just don't hear about the middle ground on the news or social media because it's boring.
Thanks this was a great presentation
I like it. Esp. price transparency. AHA and the Trump admin have been fighting over that in the courts. Not looking good for the AHA at the moment:

https://www.policymed.com/2020/07/district-court-upholds-hos...
Vaccine Roundup, Late December (AZ vaccine and the UK "strain")
With the right catalyst, we might make jet fuel from CO₂
Sure but not all blogs are posted on HN.

But yeah these days you could technically have a reddit thread on your user page for each of your blog posts.

But how is that different than mastodon? At least you can self-host mastodon.
If the ads bother you, sign up for YouTube Premium. It's not that expensive and you will enjoy ad-free videos.
Baltimore police lied about almost every aspect of its spy plane program
Not so rare, in switzerland for each death on the street / car accident, almost 3 people do a suicide.
It wasn't a big serious project or anything, but for my first income generating project ever I made a small single player word game for Android that I should have tried to monetise more. Android had only been out for a couple of years at the time so it was easier to get noticed then.

The game was free with an ad-banner during gameplay. I was making a decent amount in ad clicks and also had players emailing me for a paid version that just disabled the ads. Instead of jumping on this to release a paid version and expand the game with more features, I ran into perfectionism issues + decision paralysis releasing any changes.

The game blew up for a few weeks and I got something like 0.5 million downloads eventually but didn't do anything to monetise it more so felt like I missed a big chance.

It was a great feeling checking analytics though to see that there was literally years of collective gameplay time being logged, and I've had several emails and reviews from players saying they've been addicted to playing the game for years.

My biggest lessons are probably:

1) Doing/releasing something is always better than doing nothing so don't let decision paralysis get in the way. "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good".

2) Don't fear releasing or making changes because you might get bad reviews. You'll never please everyone and even the perfect app will inevitable get some brutally unfair and weird/crazy reviews.

3) Some people are obsessed with word games!

Anyway, as a lockdown project for fun, I started making a new web version for mobile + desktop. :)

https://seanwilson.itch.io/wordoid
It's like that saying. The entrenched monopolies of today will be surpassed relatively soon by companies that are unknown or don't even exist yet.
I actually don't know anything about the actual left and the fake left. I think you are overestimating how familiar other people are with things you know a lot about.
> The question is how can we change American culture to be more collectivist?

The real question is should we make America more collectivist. Without a convincing answer you'll never get anywhere.
The more important question is how do you match response with effects.

2% of covid deaths are people under 40, there is an at least linear correlation between risk and age.

I value a day in my life much higher at my current age than I would serval decades in the future, and in general I think this is true.

The issue is that the people with the most risk have the least to lose, and those with the least risk have the most to lose.

Eventually you have to get to the calculus of how many months of bored teenagers is worth how many months of saved life for the elderly?

When it comes to me personally, the pandemic and response has taken away a not insignificant chunk of the prime of my life. How many days of life did I save for my part and was it worth it?

People tend to have this notion to cling to every second of extended life, that’s not necessarily right.

Life is risk, and everything you do changes the risk. People tend to want to take one extreme without matching their choices with values.
The solution to this seems to be to make software companies liable for the damages their errors cause. Zero day in Windows allows massive theft? Microsoft's on the line. Your web app let someone drain the state unemployment benefits? Guess who's on the line for that, too. If your company could obviously not cover the kind of problems that could arise, you have to be bonded.
Ok, that makes sense. I know people live them, but that’s a brand that’s going to spend some time in the shop.
I'm married to one who does their level best to be a thorn in the system. When we married, we were polar opposites with regards to medicine. Now, parity, finally. I know many others besides. Some are opposed to anything that would take a penny from their bank accounts. Others, increasingly, see things as I do. Europe has many troubles, but half my family still live in Europe and they report nothing untoward medically other than our shared pandemic misery. In fact, they are normal, everyday people and have already received the vaccine. Not so much here...
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I built a really simple way to poll 50 random people in the US.

It's called This or That and functionality is currently very simple. You submit a question along with two images via SMS and you get your answer back usually within the hour.

I've had a few people use to test new logo ideas, to ask which of two TV shows to watch, or which outfit looks best. So far no one has paid for it, only a few hundred free users, but I think there's something here I just haven't marketed it to the right audience yet :)

My goal is to make this usable via Slack next year and let teams use it to trial new marketing campaigns or other run other small tests before launching. https://www.thisorthat.ai
Oh wow, yeah that's nothing like my situation.......I wouldn't email em'. They probably will cancel after, haha.
I was referring the absurdity of empathizing with drivers who kill people while texting, drunk, etc. (hence the quotation). What part of that statement do you agree with?

But I’ll go further and double down and say the entire post is nonsense. Why? Because the author’s skepticism doesn’t extend to the human factor. The position is not an accurate representation of the facts i.e what causes accidents (humans) and the known data around AVs today. If AV risk is so obvious as you claim then why does the enormous amount of data show that AVs are involved in the less accidents and lead to less fatalities than cars operated by humans on a mile per mile basis? And how is the negligent human driver not obvious as a source of automobile fatalities? The notion that we are safe because we can read humans is not substantiated by anything. Maybe you believe this number of fatalities is acceptable or the best we can do but I certainly don’t. There will be flaws in autonomous vehicles, no doubt. But will there be a net reduction in automobile related fatalities as a result? Like anyone else, I can’t predict the future. But to paint a rosy picture about how our ability to read other drivers is somehow safer relative to AVs is nonsense. It just is. The data doesn’t support this argument. And separately, if we’re talking about will happen in the future, the notion that humans will ultimately prevail over AVs because for safety reasons seems preposterous. We can debate the “when” in terms of AVs but debating the “if” seems pretty out of touch with the way society has progressed with respect to our willingness to depend on technology.
This attack vector was created by gigantic, centralized, and ineffective bureaucracies. I’m not sure if it follows that a new international bureaucracy is needed to stop the damage.