skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting in a car is fraught with peril. Every time somebody gets in a vehicle they're dicing with death.

I think it's important to contextualise the risk. The risk of dying from an anaesthetic is about 1 in 100,000. Compare with risk of dying in a car accident in a given year for example.

And again, it comes down to risk:benefit. Anaesthetics are not given out willy-nilly. The reason for the anaesthetic is considered along with the patient's co-morbidities and personal physiological parameter where relevant. Based on this a reasonable estimate of the personalised risks for that patient for that operation can be given for the patient to choose if they wish to proceed or not.
The title is incorrect! It's "~"400 in annual fees, not -400. Very different implication.
Biden is purposing giving tax breaks to cities that stop this practice.[0] How is does this support the other poster's argument?

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2021/04/14/zon...
Regarding ORM, it's typically paired with Sequelize or Prisma. (I'm personally using the latter.) I've built Django apps in the past (it's actually how I learned Python in the 2.5 days), but what's nice about Node/TS is that the frameworks are more loosely coupled so you can pick/choose your best components. For example, while I mentioned the ORMs above, you can even go one step further and use a backend headless CMS like Strapi, which will get you the ORM + admin interface that you'd get from Django models.
Twitter's subscription service might cost $3 per month
And yet – Apollo advertises its easy Python interoperatibility right on the front page, as one of the features that makes scaling easier.¹

GraphQL arguably makes decoupling frontend and backend languages even easier than classic REST APIs, since the GraphQL schema can serve as single source of truth across language barriers.

¹ https://www.apollographql.com/blog/graphql-python-api-comple...
Top-level await is very, very new and requires ES modules -- you can only use this feature without warnings recently in Node 15. For the foreseeable future, the final line should be replaced with:

withAsync()
.then(() => print("done")
.catch((err) => console.error(err);
It is true if you aren't fully vaccinated.
A counterargument would be that cars cause basically no road damage and it’s all caused by trucks. Studies have put the damage of a single truck at weight limit in the US to be equal to that of 9600 cars[1].

[1] https://www.gao.gov/assets/ced-79-94.pdf
I’d rather the article actually mention gold. Maybe someone else has a meaningful comparison?
It doesn't use json schema but you might be interested in something like this: https://gcanti.github.io/io-ts/

(You can define runtime encoder/decoders which produce typed values.)
I believe that’s impossible.
Rescind the gas tax and tax the tires instead.

Works even with larger vehicles as they have more tires.
I think there is more that is not being disclosed. It seems hard to believe someone could be so public and just vanish like that after having stolen so much.
This is a step backwards for LGBTQI rights.

It is scientifically proven that there are no differences between men and women.

I hope the inevitable retraction gets as much attention on HN.
It won't be long before they're just another pintrest.

Facebook is going to need to keep something it bought alive or it might struggle to keep the lights on.
Thanks for your reply. It's good to hear that Tabs Outliner is a favorite for other power users out there. Interesting that you had a great synergy between it and The Great Suspender. I myself hadn't ever used The Great Suspender before hearing about it's recent demise. It sounded pretty useful, and upon looking for alternatives, I discovered the cross-browser extention Auto Tab Discard. FYI: https://github.com/rNeomy/auto-tab-discard
besides being really insane typing wise, javascript also both really lenient and unpredictable in what it accepts as expressions. Try to guess the result of the following expressions:

> [] + []
>
> {} + []
>
> [] + {}
>
> {} + {}

It means that if you feed it nonsense it does not stop you but happily carries on and explodes a few milliseconds later somewhere else. Another can of worms is the difference between null, 0,undefined, '', ....

Ok, you got me worked up. I need to go for a run to blow off steam.
Stop chasing the latest trends, it's pretty simple.
> what's nice about Node/TS is that the frameworks are more loosely coupled so you can pick/choose your best components.

For about two weeks, then one of them becomes deprecated again and you have to migrate everything all over again…
I have never heard of this idea. Has any other state or country done this?
Texas is already short on their highway funds. Only 41% are funded by use fees[0].

Back of the napkin for me says it should be about $0.40/gal given the Texas gas tax is $0.20.

Either way, I suspect that even this is too low and Texas is due for an increase in the gas tax by another $0.10-$0.20 in the next few years. This $400 fee will most likely be the EV taxes moving first, in my estimation.

0: https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/fiscal-notes/2019/jul/...
American dissident Fred Hampton was assassinated by the CIA in 1969.
I completely sympathize with you. I hate criminals, I'm tough on crime.

But... 68 years?

At that point, I almost think it's kinder and more honest to execute people.
"living charismatic leader the enemy can't seem to catch" has much greater recruitment value than "dead leader martyred, but we'll keep fighting".
I wonder how much of this is just a misunderstanding of what vaccines do. They're probably perceived to be medicine for the weak, when in reality they train you to become stronger.

Shouldn't it make sense for the sort of person who stockpiles guns to also stockpile immunity?
Sorry! I didn't realize the overload.
I think given the variation in costs for HSR worldwide, we need to consider the first point of discussion for CA (or US) HSR to be "why are the costs so much higher here?"

It's true that the costs are crazy high, but that's not true worldwide. That means that objections to CA/US HSR are initially (at least) really objections to the ridiculous costs, not the actual idea itself.
+1 , some excellent points in there
disincentivizing car owners from replacing their tires sounds like a public safety hazard.
The weakness in that argument is that it presupposes childhood health indicators and adult health indicators are linear, which we know to not be the case.

For example, the introduction and "ramping up" of testosterone and estrogen at puberty has a significant impact on the human condition that simply cannot apply to the prepubescent state, as does their subsequent decline in menopause and old age in general.

Each stage of life comes with its own signals that can be serious health conditions if present in other stages of life, but completely normal and healthy at the appropriate stage. A tween with acne is rarely something to call the doctor about. But a 3 year old with acne certainly is. A colicky baby needs a soother or some other placation. But a colicky adult certainly needs medical intervention.

So the idea that weak babies make weak adults and strong babies make strong adults doesn't work out as cleanly as this comment suggests.
and channels... extremely useful for network servers.
Texas gas taxes are $0.20 state tax, plus $0.184 Federal tax for $0.384 per gallon total.

$400 / $0.384 = 1042 gallons of gasoline in equivalent taxes.

Typical annual mileage per vehicle runs around 12,000 miles. Most cars get much better than the 11.51 mpg implied by the tax.

So Texas EV users are being financially punished for cleaning up the air. Which is very, very much on-brand for Texas. I'm amazed they aren't outlawed.
Fuel use is not a bad proxy though for ICE cars, so it made sense: People who drive more (and cause more road wear) pay more, heavy vehicles (which cause more road wear) pay more. Efficient vehicles are incentivized. And not a fan of calls for taxes based on actual distance driven, because tracking that leads to monitoring I'd rather the state not have.
not -$400. it is > $400. title is misleading. For a second I was happy the lawmakers have magically turned green
The idea is sound but the tax appears to be disproportionate to what internal combustion vehicles pay. Texas taxes gas at 20 cents per gallon:

https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/texas-drivers-pay-20-c...

A Texan driver would have to buy 2000 gallons of gas a year to pay $400 in gas taxes to Texas. That seems pretty high when the average Texan drives 16347 miles per year [1]; it implies fuel economy of only 8.2 MPG at average travel distance. Even the big Ford F-450 has better average fuel economy than that.

[1] https://www.caranddriver.com/research/a32880477/average-mile...
We're not at the point of explaining complicated models with a straight face. Based on the saliency maps, it looks like the model has learned something around the bright circles (or is it the blind spot? Not an ophthalmologist). Makes me think the network can reverse engineer distortions in the light to get curvature of the lens which might be indicative of gender differences.
With the exception of a couple of toll roads here and there and no doubt some complexity in some state's legilation, we absolutely do not fund roads with use fees. These are all general fund taxes, not earmarked in any meaningful way. And in any case the revenue they generate doesn't come even remotely close to the cost of maintaining the ground transportation network.

This point just doesn't hold, sorry.

I mean, fine. Maybe the gas tax is unfair and we should replace it with something more neutral. Or maybe the gas tax should be viewed as a "sin tax" the way taxes on alcohol and cigarettes and tanning are. Maybe it should be higher, if that's the case.

But whatever side you decide to come down on, wanting a steady source of revenue for road maintenance just isn't related.

In this case, the Texas legislature clearly wants to stick it to the dirty fucking hippies. Their roads are fine and they know it.

(That said, if Texas were to institute a new tax on electrical generation to better regulate its disastrous distribution network, maybe there would be an argument...)
That's basically their proposition by earmarking a portion of fees paid by other EV owners.
It's definitely a barrier to have to switch languages. You might be super familiar with Chrome's debugger UI (which is excellent, btw), and feel lost when suddenly getting dropped into IntelliJ's.

Also, what if you just have frontend developers who straight up don't know Java or vice versa? I don't see how having a shared language could ever be a bad thing.
Other users have already explained the technical aspect of PWA (i.e. you can install it and run offline as a desktop app). I just want to add that by offline-first I also mean confidentiality -- your data doesn't leave your device, whether you're offline or not.
It's not satire, but it is a schtick. If you listen to an interview w/ the guy, he's not at all what I expected from the book (and I had the same response as your wife, though I've heard worse in SV many many times and sort of just appreciated the honesty even if it doesn't reflect my worldview). So does it still reflect a culture that's been problematic in SV that we want to get rid of? For sure, yes. But also, maybe people should be allowed to make mistakes - this kind of sexism was widely tolerated in SV even five years ago. That doesn't excuse it, but I sort of think we have to allow people to grow and change.
A single 18-wheeler causes as much road wear as 9,600 sedans. Charge everyone proportionally and I'll be happy.

http://archive.gao.gov/f0302/109884.pdf
The article argues that the EV tax is much higher than gas taxes, and even more so if you include taxes paid for electricity.
Fix North American prisons?
Road maintenance fees should not be attached to the price of gasoline. The wear and tear on the road is a function of the weight of the vehicle and the miles driven.

The best place to figure out the fee should be the annual inspection. Plug into the computer, check the mileage, and calculate how many miles were driven since the last inspection. Put it into a calculator, and send out the fee.

Most of the road wear is from trucks, anyway. And I mean big rigs, not an F-150.
A lot of states have passed these laws, but it seems like a silly way to solve the problem.

When you register your car, you have to say how many miles you drove, and it gets verified every few years with smog checks.

Why not just charge a per mile-ton fee? Maybe give freight trucks a break so we don't kill shipping, or only charge them for their empty weight? Have some of the fee go to the state and some go federally for redistribution (like gas taxes work now).

Then eliminate the gas tax as a source of funding for road maintenance and shift it to a carbon tax? And make EVs come in for a "milage check" since they won't have smog checks.

Then everyone pays fairly for road maintenance based on how much they use the roads, and people driving ICE vehicles will pay for the externality of their pollution through their gas consumption.
For the oil princes who run the state it's right. Proof we live in an oligarchy.
What? Staking has nothing to do with a price
Here is something which struck me as obvious yet would get furiously disputed: if you care about the charisma of a company head, or any other superficial aspect like City of London fashion etiquette you are being an idiot and are asking to get scammed by privileging what you expect to see above talent. It is what they do that is the important part.
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Texas and many other places already have a road tax, called a toll.
Realistically there is no such thing as a war without the destruction of civilian assets. What do you suggest Israel should do if Hamas is firing rockets at them from within a city?

There are a lot of people who do want to blow each other up and that's just life
When the new Transportation Secretary floated this idea a little while back, somewhat unexpectedly, he had to really quickly walk it back because of the backlash. Having trouble finding a halfway decent news article, but this describes a bit:

https://www.tmz.com/2021/03/27/pete-buttigieg-biden-administ...
Good extension. ClearURLs can also do this for a wide range of sites, and supports custom rules for sites you specify:

https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls

Privacy Badger is another option that cleans Google and Facebook links while blocking trackers, and is available by default on Firefox for Android:

https://privacybadger.org
Your examples doesn’t really read as a prototypical server application.

Rapid startup: lambda is a tiny subset, and not really server application. A server app could take minutes and would still be okay, because they are designed to run for a long time. Even in case of scaling minutes are more than okay since deploying a new instance takes a similar amount of time.

excellent sandboxing: you usually only run your own code connected to db and other very privileged services. If there is a vulnerability it is a very big problem with or without sandbox

no blocking code: i’m not up to date, but node doesn’t have a strong parallelism story at all, compared to the JVM, Go, .NET
How about taxing vehicles based on their weight instead? Would scale well with trucks.
It's an SDR transmitter, not receiver.

Pity that the bands are still limited to 2.4 and 5 GHz WiFi.

For GPS [1] or cellular [2] spoofing, osmo-fl2k may be a better option. In practice though, I've only used my MAIWO KCB003 for that once, as a demo. It's quite inconvenient to set up the flowgraph on an Ubuntu VM, generate 20 GB of samples, and then stream it from my Mac. Better software would make this much easier to use.

I use a MAIWO KCB003, for portability. It's not very good as a USB-VGA adaptor though, because it needs custom drivers to be installed. When the guest speaker needs to plug their laptop into a projector, they don't have time to install drivers.

[1] https://hackernoon.com/osmo-fl2k-a-15-dtv-transmitter-fm-rad...

[2] https://hackaday.com/2018/04/23/spoofing-cell-networks-with-...
"model was trained on 84,743 retinal fundus photos from the UK Biobank dataset. External validation was performed on 252 fundus photos"

Is it common practice in this field to test an overfitted model's performance with such a small data set so that the test could yield random results?
You're right - any conversation at people's desks in an open plan office should essentially be considered open for anyone to listen and join in. Otherwise it's just plain rude or inappropriate.
If it were to affect our perception of reality, what differences could we find?

I'm guessing that it would affect our perception of reality in the same way eye color would.
Funny how these concerns about paying for roads never apply to the semi trucks that do the vast majority of the damage.
That can be a case of that yeah. Using your example, a lot of devs might use that email parsing logic in various independent components of the same system. Eg if you have a reporting component that sends you business reports, that component really shouldn’t be validating the structure of email addresses…if you need to refine the parsing logic now you’ve got to do coordinated deployments, possibly backfills, etc., whereas if you just treated it as an opaque string in that system you’d be better off.

This isn’t really a criticism of the approach, it’s super useful, just that it needs to be applied judiciously. “Parse all the things” isn’t always the best advice.
> I guess they could alternatively bet on Gnome

Yeah, except Gnome looks pretty crappy on every other OS (and only marginally less crappy on Linux). Meanwhile, Lazarus Component Library looks native on every desktop.

> if you want to download official Qt binaries--ones that are at all supported by them--you have to have a Qt account; offline installers and LTS access are now commercial-only.

I was just now able to download the installer for open source usage without a Qt account from https://www.qt.io/download-open-source , so that seems very questionable. By the way, of course Qt is not going to provide production level support for free for open source software, why should they be expected to?
2 days ago, he said in an interview:

> A month or so from now, there's stuff I can't talk about, that is happing that will be really seismic in this field. Somebody whose name we all know, and whose name I cannot mention, but who has been talking to me and has been interested in this for more than 15 years is finally going to be doing something. And if you're listening for god sake don't fuck it up the way Larry Elison did 20 years ago and the way Larry Page did 8 years ago. Get it right."

My thoughts: The biggest problem about radical life extension is still cultural. I honestly don't understand how this is not the most important thing in everyone's life. I'm not trying to attack or shame anyone, I'm genuinely clueless. What are people doing that is more important?
The article is about biological differences in the brain not everywhere else and it's unlikely brain wiring is specific to genders. Brains are adaptive sensory fusion organs and if there were any gender differences it would not be because of the brain but hormonal profiles. Furthermore, the starting point of all humans is female, that's why men have nipples so even men start with "female" brains.
taxing gas doesn't stop people from buying gas... taxing cigarettes' doesn't stop people from smoking.

While I question the intelligence and timing of taxing cars... taxing tires would stop people from replacing tires more than any other rising cost, how?

I also question whether they would "remove" the gas tax... I also question why people wouldn't cross state lines to save money (depending on tax and/or distances - same as nearby where Delaware has no sales tax but the business taxes are higher so it kinda balances out).
Surely not any more than my terrible eyesight does. I don't think my spectacles are altering my perception of reality.
Tax dollars for non-renewable energies should not transfer. Why the FUCK would anyone accept a gas tax for driving an EV is beyond bullshit.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/add_user.shtml

An interactive test that can ascertain your gender simply based on a variety of tests (e.g. rotation of objects in 3d space vs remember locations). It's been around for over a decade and was right on n=5 people I know who have done it. [Sadly requires flash]
"it doesn't just stop working on sex."

Or above the neck. This is one of the things that baffles me most about people who claim to respect science. If there are meaningful differences about human populations in all sorts of physical characteristics, why should our mental faculties be precisely averaged out on the same gauge across almost 8 billion individuals? That would be extraordinary to say the least.

Now I can understand that we yet do not understand the nature/nurture balance when it comes to the capabilities of our brains and we cannot easily draw conclusions. But to claim that all the observable differences are due to cultural traits, oppression or privilege, sounds as a radically non-scientific opinion to me.
> So, if a country says "you cannot criticize anyone who promotes exclusionary ethnostates", or even "you cannot criticize anyone who promotes exclusionary Jewish ethnostates in particular", then Facebook should ban that content on behalf of the exclusionary ethnostate supporters.

Exactly these kinds of questions are what should be regulated by international agreements between countries.

> White supremacy and zionism are two sides of the same coin—both feed off each other

What?
Maybe this exact one doesn’t say exactly against that specific article. It’s not a direct response to it, so it wouldn’t.

But the line some people espouse is “Rust is a new C++ not a new C and C programmers who don’t like C++ would never like Rust,” and while some folks do feel that way, it isn’t universal. That’s all I’m saying.

C programmers are numerous and in a variety of fields doing all sorts of things, pretending you can speak about this stuff as though there’s a monolith of opinion is a category error, in my opinion.
This reminds me of a USENET newsgroup (can't remember the name) that I frequented decades ago. It was a bar/pub/dive of some sort. Patrons adopted an appropriate personae and sat around musing over their adult beverage of choice about the world. Everything old is new again...
A Tale of Two Majorities (2016)
Treat gas cars and electric cars the same. Dump the gas tax, charge a fee that takes into account mileage/vehicle weight.

Even if you should (based on environmental impact or even just road infrastructure impact) tax gas vehicles more. But we know that's not gonna happen here in Texas.
Their flawed logic is likely as follows:

1. I have consistent prolonged exposure to inmates in my day to day so there is a high probability of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection.

2. While infected, my immune system produced similar or identical antibodies to the vaccine.

3. The potential benefits of the vaccine no longer outweigh the potential risks.

Something must be done to educate these guards.
Not having obvious clinical utility at the moment doesn't mean it's outright useless.
But did they die of cancer ?
Yes but there's no need for monitoring anything other than the distance driven. We already have cameras monitoring license plates to identify owners that have not paid their fixed road tax. They could tax the electricity at charging stations, but then people would rather charge at home. For the roads in the county or region we already pay car property taxes.
One of many hidden handouts to favored industries.

Socialism for me, but not for thee.