skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes more sense if you don't trim the quote. Cars directly cause a large number of injuries and fatalities every year, and that's mostly premature — people who had decades of healthy life ahead of them until a vehicle incident, as opposed to someone in their 80s who died of cancer before heart disease got them.

I included lower quality of life because while safety and medical improvements have reduced the number of people dying (although trucks & SUVs have reversed that trend for people who aren't inside cars) it's common to hear people who didn't die but have a significant downward spiral after an accident: whiplash, back injury, inactivity, problems with chronic pain (a common path into opioid addiction) and becoming less active to the point of having health impacts. In the U.S. this is especially likely to put severe financial strain on people and their families because health care is tied to work and many of the long-term effects make it harder to work while insurance settlements are often not enough to cover more than a short time out and there are many reports about the difficulties of getting things like chronic pain taken seriously in court or by doctors (if you lose an arm, nobody argues that it happened — if your back hurts in a non-obvious way, you might be accused of faking it to get money or drugs, especially if you weren't starting from a high social status).
Your math is way off.
It's just because masks are new. People had the same negative reaction to seatbelts when they were first introduced, citing inane things like "it might wrinkle my shirt" as a reason not to wear them.

https://www.businessinsider.com/seatbelt-car-habit-obligatio...
Quite the opposite, context is a critical aspect voice assistants currently lack.
My personal guess is - assuming that democracy is in tact, redistribution will be voted in with landslide support.

In a hypothetical future where almost nobody can compete with an AGI and 90% of voters find themselves completely useless in the economy, the proportion of voters who are against redistribution will drop precipitously.
Zim desktop wiki, Zotero for citations. If I need markdown I use Zettlr (amazing markdown editor almost no one talks about).
I agree but honestly I'm used to it on HN. This place is a lot of smart people but also the type of people that suffer from severe cognitive dissonance and stubbornness.

They are the types that would ridicule Christopher Columbus for even considering the notion that the Earth wasn't flat...then after proven wrong go around telling people they had a strong feeling the Earth wasn't flat.
If one could automate that job, one could automate every job. That's AGI territory.

Very creative jobs involving leading people will be the last jobs to fall to automation - assuming that's even possible.
> There are many GPUs with no double precision floating point support in hardware.

Which ones? I'm genuinely curious about this.
This case would be argued along exactly the same lines before the court had the student in question thrown in a racial slur. It will also have an impact on the ability for schools to punish students for racist cyberbullying in future. So I don't think it's problematic in the slightest to bring race into the equation.
> Designated by whom?

The biggest marketing department in the world - Hollywood. It's an enormous profit generating machine and won't let silly travel restrictions get in the way.
This more likely shows poor planning (by the CEO). If your firm is so reliant on one person, even if it is the CEO, it is poorly run. I believe it is a function of a CEO to enact that type of strategy, whether it be succession planning, proper delegation, identifying backups, instilling self reliance, etc.

This probably shows some perverse incentives. A CEO can clearly prove their worth by otherwise sabotaging the firm when they're out.
The employer is not bound by the 1st Amendment. Whereas the school (functioning as a part of the government) is.
As a matter of their employment agreement, sure.

I guess students sign behavior pledges or similar, but I'm more inclined to enforce an employment agreement against an adult than I am to give local school administrators complete control over what activities students they disapprove of participate in.
Sounds like in your third scenario you possibly should have given that team an EOL date on support for their special use case from the beginning. If it was an open source platform deprecating support for a feature they use, then they'd make the time to implement a fix. But since you're part of the same org they're able to indefinitely delay when they have to do additional work, but at the cost of your team constantly having a slightly higher workload.
4 month ago covered https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25249471
Roku is not a completely innocent content portal. Roku notably sells buttons on its remotes tied to services you may not even use. A consumer friendly remote would have configurable buttons, so they’re not against favoriting certain apps over others. Within Roku itself you’ll get sidebar ads for certain video services. Roku is happy to prioritize your app but only if you pay for it.
No, that's not what it is.

That's not why people buy BTC. They buy it because it's going up.
RTK GPS has +/- 3cm Lat/long precision. That gets you very close, and then with a confirming camera, you could aim and fire.
Because most people here are engineers, not mathematicians. The newness of mathematics has little to do with its utility, so it is reasonable to ask if there are any relevant applications.
I mean we don't need it, society can survive without free CI, but it is nice. I'm happy to get free CI for an open source project in return for the CI company marketing to me a bit about how great their product is.
> Yes it is unless you label the clan as a terrorist org

The fact the Klan is not labeled as one is deeply shocking.
You would be surprised how few devops/platform engineers cannot write code that would get them a junior position for the code that runs on the platform.
"An intelligent spider would have no significantly greater chance of survival."

Just for a moment, consider your spider as the embodyment of a special form of intelligence.

And even dare to construct the term intelligence to include the web of the spider.

And not just as a tool of the spider.

As a problem-solving competence for a special problem category.
I believe that I have not made my point clearly: simply, you should not be fired for that letter.
If the data are so good, why hasn't the vaccine been approved. Mainly because it's not clear that you could replicate these results, partly because of how the data was analyzed, partly because of how the experiment was run, partly because AZ has (and openly admitted) been p-hacking their results.

If you are looking for 95% significance and you test something ineffective 20 times, you should expect to get one significant result.

AZ and the Oxford team openly did this this prior to this trial and actually admitted to it in a press conference. In fact they not only released data only from some trials but they only released some of the data from some of the trials.

In the real world, where you look at results from any trial in the context of other trials and available data, these results are not credible.

The AZ, PFE and MRNA vaccines were designed to combat the original virus. PFE and MRNA were over 95% effective in trials where they were tested against only the original strain but only about 90% effective against a mix of the new strains and the old strain that exists now. PFE and MRNA and all vaccines in general are somewhat less effective in over 65s. AZ was only 65% effective against the original strain in a population which included no over 65s in the original trials and the data from these trials were p-hacked and so almost certainly overstated effectiveness. AZ would have you believe that their vaccine is now magically 10% more effective in an environment where the variants are circulating and the 20% of the tested population is over 65. This when, real-world large scale population level data in populations where it's been widely used shows an effectiveness nowhere near that.

Also remember, this is in a context where they have openly, in a press conference admitted to p-hacking. The head of the Oxford team actually, for real, insisted that if the vaccine efficacy is seems significant in a sub-sample of the tested population at any point before the trial endpoint, it's effective even if it's not significant in the entire population at any point or not significant at the endpoint. There is something like a 70% chance that if you used his criteria, a saline injection would seem to be effective.
The "new famous"
I believe as public employees, they should be held to at least the same standard as people in private employment. If I, as the employee of a company, make a Facebook post outside of work denigrating a group of people and my employer is made aware of that, I believe that I can be terminated. Should termination be the only solution? I don't think so. In a functioning society, there must be room for genuine contrition and redemption of those who have erred. I don't know what the proper method of addressing it should be, however.. The removal of the offensive speech and an immediate and heartfelt apology would be a firm minimum IMHO. The same should be true for public employees with the difference being that the appearance of impropriety should weigh towards sanctions. In both cases, pending conflict with employment contracts or local law, suspension, re-training, and demotions are all possible alternative sanctions.
> To be effective Signal would need to exploit the major vendors equally.

Maybe they could, and that would be the problem. Cellebrite's case now raises the issue of what will happen to those decisions where Cellebrite's products were used. This can void those court decisions retroactively, which could also happen to any major vendor in the next couple of years.

In any case, I doubt that this will make them stop using their products.
It's common etiquette and sometimes a legal requirement to declare an interest in stocks if you are recommending them. If someone owns the stock you kind of assume they are pitching it rather than giving an unbiased opinion.
Not sure what kind of expertise I am buying with those sats. 1btc = 100million sats.
Agreed. If anything, this study makes the case that one person with sweeping decision power is at best a liability.
You're most probably right but one might think it'd be just as easy to skip it for public figures (where the info is accessible for anyone anyway) but yeah, there's probably some legal mumbo-jumbo preventing them. I just found it a bit bizarre to see something as accessible being redacted.
This is pretty insane actually. Is there a common metric that captures which companies are funding buybacks with debt? or is it easy to figure out? I am not a finance person.
you don’t believe a protocol like ethereum is beneficial to the above problems? How would you solve it without ethereum (or similar) protocol?
I do not demand that the government successfully predict the future. In March 2020, it was obvious what was happening in other countries. We were informed by the past and the present to determine how to respond.
Yes. Useful to the people who use them. Does useful equal to ethical? No.
Then you are counting pennies not pounds, so you're still starting at 1.

In other words, you start mentally counting from your smallest unit of precision in use.

This is a fun thought exercise, but what a pointlessly pedantic tangent this thread took…
They grow these enormous and very resilient root balls under ground. I was taught that the most efficient way to kill a blackberry bush was to remove the structure above ground, locate a central stalk that leads under ground, and stick the end in kerosene or gasoline I don't remember which. That gets sucked up into the root ball and kills the plant.
Never done it myself, mind.
It seems Kevin has discovered Rules For My Unborn Son. Specifically:

"• When playing Monopoly, spend all you have to buy, barter, or trade for the Orange properties. Don’t bother with Utilities."

This bit of advice comes directly from here:

https://rulesformyunbornson.tumblr.com/post/37172628/21-in-m...

And the associated image on this page:

https://rulesformyunbornson.tumblr.com/page/70

Many of the other bits of advice that Kevin has on his page are quite similar to Walker Lamond's book and blog.

https://rulesformyunbornson.tumblr.com/
Exactly. HN of today is a very similar experience to what Reddit used to be. The King is dead. Long live the King!
Someone in the position of exploiting the miniskirt loop-hole. Is probably smart enough not to become a high level executive. And rather become the ex-trophy-wife and enjoy half the money with none of the responsibilities.
You can say "Hey Siri drive to xyz using Google Maps".
It seems clear to me that "religions, cults, and political tribes" that enforce uniform behavior are by definition restricting freedom.

Which is not to say that freedom is never worth restricting. My general point was that I prefer American notions of freedom to East Asian notions of freedom.
Thank you for linking this. What a treasure.
I've never used Roku voice commands. Is it unambiguous that a command is for music? Or "Stevie Wonder interview" and "Stevie Wonder Superstition" be interchangeable, with the first going to a Youtube vid and the second playing in Pandora?
> Just use them. And keep on using them.

The last bit is very crucial. Be prepared to relearn it after a prolonged break. So taking notes may be of some practical help.

I wish *NIX land had some uniform convention for options naming and a targeted help system to go with it, so one could lookup an option directly (preferrably in shortened form, no need to spell out the whole word). OpenVMS HELP was a good example of user-friendly command-line help system, well, but that's another story...
No he isn't.
Alternate hypothesis: maybe he only wants people to use clients that advertise his cryptocurrency.
That is also a necessary effort, and I appreciate you pointing it out. My apologies for not enumerating in my above comment.
Next they will ask to be automatically loaded during startup.

Get rid of the youtube app. It's low quality videos with ads when I use roku I use it for a better experience.
I agree with your approach to the point I think it’s the only way to really tackle loneliness and making friends. You just have to talk to strangers, often about nothing.

Unfortunately for the less socially trained, the advice in the article seems pretty daunting. It reminds me of of the quote “people won’t remember what you said but they’ll remember how you made then feel”. I am pretty sure I’ve made a few people feel awkward or mildly uncomfortable in my time trying to do this.

Naturally, I’ve gotten better but since it’s not something I do frequently I’m still pretty bad at it. I really wish there were a systematic way to train talking to strangers in an environment where it’s ok to make minor social missteps. Unfortunately it seems to me that such an environment is some stage of development that I missed at an earlier age. Is there some way forward that doesn’t just involve eating the losses as a cost of learning?
It just seems like some vendor got the contract before a cost benefit analysis could be done. I mean 15 minutes out of a shift worker's time costs mcDonalds maybe $5. $5 for a day of ice cream sales seems like a cheap service contract to me.
Yes, that was a deliberate rhetorical trick. It's works for some audiences, but obviously not all of them.

At the time I wrote the original article there were a lot of people really excited about the performance of async IO in Node (and JS in general) and were implicitly accepting the async programming style that went along with it. They liked the former so much that it muddled their perspective on the latter. Sort of like how when you go to a shitty diner after an amazing concert and recall the meal as amazing when really it's just because it got wrapped up in the emotional experience of the entire evening.

I had many many discussions of people where I tried to talk about how the async programming model is really cumbersome and their response was "but it makes the app go faster!" We were talking at totally different levels.

It can be really hard to get people to have a clear perspective on something they have an emotional attachment to. By making up a fake language and a made-up concept of function color, it let me show them "hey here's this thing that kind of sucks" without triggering their "but I love async IO in Node!" response.

I had no idea the article would catch on like it did. Something I find interesting about it in retrospect is that because it is kind of strange and abstract, readers take very different things away from it while assuming their interpretation is exactly the one I had in mind. Some folks (like the author here) think it's about effects and static types (even though there is nothing about types at all in the article). Some think it's a love letter to Go (a language I'm not particularly enthused about in general).

Really, I just wanted to talk about the unpleasant user experience of a certain programming style without getting hung up on what underlying behavior the style is attached to.
The Indian government hasn't gotten a pass, they are being widely criticized in international news and social media. But there are significant difference in degree. China clearly is far worse on censorship and punishes dissent more harshly.
Your comment made me question why crypto would ever be declared illegal. People can do what they want with their money; whether they should is debatable. This article highlights some interesting things. There is a link in the article to a more thorough article.

https://law.stanford.edu/press/is-bitcoin-protected-as-speec...
> A Practical Guide to Reducing Loneliness Right Now: 11 awkward, life-affirming ways to connect with others.

The most practical way to reduce loneliness is not to connect with others. Become content living alone. Later you can connect to people when it's not a need. But you should understand what's driving the need, and come up with coping mechanisms.

For example, say you really want to show someone a cool picture you just took. Would you still take it if you weren't going to show it to anyone else? If yes, then consider when you will look at it again, tuck it away, and go on with your day. If no, then don't take it.

Don't let your needs control how you live your life, or your emotions.
What nonsense, they explicitly state they caused harm.

"we now understand that it was hurtful to the
> community to make it a subject of our research, and to waste its
> effort reviewing these patches without its knowledge or permission."

They EXPLICITLY state that they wasted community effort and explicitly, repeatedly acknowledge that they did things the wrong way.
I'm a moron and I realized in March 2020 that testing at scale is the main pillar of any pandemic containment strategy.
If I know Dan but not Dave, then Dan, Dave and I are not 3 people who know each other, but we are not 3 people who don't know each other either.
> $430 billion and add 20,000 new jobs

So it takes $22 million investment to add just 1 job?

Something seems off.
It's really unfortunate that rent-seekers (may have) ruined blockchain as a technology. The fundamental problem IMO is that the most useful applications have no speculative potential, and structuring blockchain applications in a way that creates speculative potential seems to inherently reduce their usefulness.

Decentralized currency on the blockchain? Great! But a currency's much more useful if its value is stable, so if you want to maximize its usefulness (assuming you don't want to tie its value to an existing currency, as existing "stablecoins" do) you probably need a mechanism to increase or decrease the money supply in response to changes in demand. Poof, there goes the speculative potential.

Or consider another potential use case that I've thought about a lot, raising funding for co-ops: it's hard for a startup to raise capital without issuing equity, and decentralizing that process could create realistic alternatives to the stock corporation ownership structure for big nonfinancial organizations. Or similarly, as an example that might be more familiar or important to folks on HN, it would make a lot of sense as a decentralized funding mechanism for FOSS development. (Yes, there have been attempts to do this, which I won't link here.) But no one's content to just build a protocol that lets people put (say) ETH in a pot to fund business investment or software features and then let others claim that ETH in exchange for implementing the stuff. No, you have to create your own DecentralizedFundingToken with a structure that's contrived to create speculative potential to reward "early adopters" and then do an ICO.

I currently own no cryptocurrencies. I owned <$10k in Bitcoin between 2011 and ~2014 (no, not at mtgox).
Try to type the following into Google:

“0.0037 btc to usd”
The U.K. invested £21m into the Halix plant in April 2020

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/british-taxpayers-fund...

I think the main difference between the U.K. and EUs approaches is that the U.K. were willing to accept some vaccines would fail and other succeed but were willing to accept the loses

Even AZ production in the U.K. is below what was expected
Housing has very little to do with it. SF has always been an expensive city to live in and its surrounded with suburbs with affordable housing.

There are almost no homeless people in the surrounding areas because they come to SF for drugs and they know they won't be prosecuted for living their lifestyle. We're literally killing people by tolerating their bad behavior.
> but you have to throw a huge amount of hardware at it to match them let alone beat them.

Sure, and I think hardware encoders are great when you need speed, certainly for real-time video. But in other cases, well, the medium preset sucks. I always encode videos at `veryslow`, and there's just no way to get close to that with a gpu.
Hands-On with Xbox Cloud Gaming for Windows, iPhone, and iPad
OK? Greg explicitly accuses Aditya.
> While this would have cost a lot of money, it would have been less than the PPP and stimulus efforts.

This quote is demanding that the government has access to future numbers, isn't it?

I don't agree that it was obvious what was happening in March. It's only obvious in retrospect.
How does crypto operate? On an open network that was build by agreements and collaboration between govs and entities.

How do they build/maintain power/network lines between villages, cities, satellite connections, underwater fiber routes?

Thus if everybody locks in their "wealth" with crypto, none of it would go to the commmons - these commons are used to run the crypto network.
The truth is that some CEOs are over-valued, and some are under-valued. And the same CEO one year may be overpaid, and perhaps dramatically underpaid in other years. It's complicated.
> Imagine you opened the folder and made a Xerox copy of the documents, but the words or dates in the copies never match the original documents.

Turns out that's actually a real thing...

https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...
The value of a CEO is in the soft value that they produce. Be it within the organization as a leader, or externally when dealing with gov't or a counterparty. In the best case, this soft value is translated into hard value for the shareholders, when someone like Tim Apple does what he's done for the past ten years.

If you consider an outlier like Elon Musk, the reason many CEOs can't be automated is even clearer: his cult of personality has added at least $100B to TSLA's market cap alone, and I say that while thinking that he's generally a pretty bad leader.
> They're even here downvoting you

Nah, if I had to guess, it's some of those patriotic Mainland Chinese living in beautiful democratic countries like US and Canada.