skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twice in the last year (>13k miles total). One of them involved a truck pulling a fifth wheel that crept into my lane, but not far enough to warrant an emergency braking response.

The other was a similar situation involving a vehicle merging in a short merge lane. I think the car was anticipating that the person was merging due to the short space that they had, but in reality they were slowing to wait on me to pass.

Both involved the car jumping immediately to a full on panic braking type solution when no collision was imminent or likely. To be clear, I don't know that these involved dropping >10 mph either... but it definitely would have if I hadn't intervened.
This is true but it’s still better to default to the Safe Thing, as long as there isn’t a good reason not to. How long until those values you know you control carelessly get turned into values you don’t control somewhere along the way?
The stuff I've used in recent months:

- For Java, personally I like the netbeans profiler
- Octave's built in profiler gets the job done: https://octave.org/doc/v6.2.0/Profiling.html
- I use JetBrain's tooling a lot.
- I like the profiler in Rider for VB.NET and C#
- The one in PyCharm is ... fine. Python profiling is ugly, PyCharm does a clean job handling it.
- For R, Rprof is ... fine: https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/utils/html/Rprof.html
- STATA's built in profiler does as good a job as possible given it's a weird language

For various other things, where a profiler doesn't really exist per se:

- SAS can be configured to output runtime after each proc. There's no cost, you should do it
- SAS proc SQL has an undocumented _method flag: http://support.sas.com/techsup/technote/ts553.html
- Past "EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN", one of the tools I build ends up doing a simple visualisation of SQLite's explain query plan output for *every* query it runs. There's no way to *not* get that estimate

Those are the tools I can think of that I've used in the last few months.
>the wildfires are 100% due to heat and drought

Well duh, but since we're talking about climate change we should be comparing against a counterfactual where climate change hasn't happened. I'm sure heat/drought existed prior to global warming. Did wild fires not exist back then? Should Newsom be let off the hook for his budget cuts because the forest was going to catch fire anyways due to global warming?
> What are the disabled supposed to do?

Golf carts. Electric wheelchairs.

> What about those with infants?

Definitely don't put them in cars. They're the leading killer of children, nationwide. If you care about your baby's safety, you'll put it in the car as little as possible, only when there are no other options.

> What happens if you are carrying groceries?

If you have children, then under the stroller. Or in a bike trailer/stroller combo. Or foldable personal shopping carts - I always see little old ladies with those. Or a rucksack.

> What about those with bad knees?

E-bikes with throttles. Or trikes. Or golf carts.

> What happens on the day when all the bikes have been borrowed and there are no options but a cab?

How likely is that?
> The ecosystem has a ton of exposed wires in builtins and libraries.

PHP is a light wrapper around C libraries.

> When the function's name is literally `mysql_real_escape_string` ... what does that tell you?

That it comes from the MySQL directly:

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/c-api/8.0/en/mysql-real-escape-str...
Quite a lot of milliseconds in fact. For a visual stimulus it is 1/4 of a second minimum. That's 22 feet at 50 mph.
FWIW Nyxt is written in Common Lisp, not in an “in-house” one.
You can't, really. You could send a letter to their registered business address with a code to use to sign up, but even that isn't a guarantee.
> You must force everyone in the ecosystem to use the latest version of the API

Couldn't Signal just announce a "flag day"[0] in advance and say that their servers would block connections from clients that don't support a specific version of the API by that date? For non-essential upgrades, the API change should be announced well in advance, but client developers might be given just a few days notice before security patches become mandatory. (Given the circumstances of this bug, though, perhaps several months of leeway would be more fair).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_day_%28computing%29
Just out of curiosity, do you have a preferred mysql library in nodejs? I wrote my own based on node-mysql that does server-side prepared statements, but it does them by compiling PREPARE and SET calls, not through a lower-level language. It works for my needs, but it's not really high-performance.
I saw something similar decades ago. I believe you.
I'm confused which one you mean, shingle is not a term used in my locale. The roof tiles? Are the roof tiles fake?
I'm applying also to a job in Germany, I haven't received an offer, but they told me since the first contact that if I got selected, I would need to start remote (at least half year) as the visa process is being slow.
I don't think the video ad example is particularly unethical, assuming it's disclosed to the video uploader. Or at least it's no more unethical than ad tech is by definition (which is pretty unethical, admittedly).

This domain registration scam is more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running and https://fortune.com/2016/04/20/amazon-copies-merchants/, i.e. inferring from the inside information you have as the market maker/platform that the value of something is going up, and using that knowledge to make trades or business decisions that are profitable to you, not something a platform is normally expected to do, and costly to the source of the information, i.e. your customers. These are considered unethical/illegal because the possibility they might happen is not disclosed to the user of the platform.
I fear I'll get a similar result.
If you happen to know German, ui --> au is an amazing discovery (huis --> Haus, uitgang --> Ausgang, various others).
It might not be that California has an unfair advantage, but that southern states have an unfair disadvantage.

If southern states spike their watt hours due to aircon, we could say the cause is poor construction/architecture. The poorer the insulation (southern homes' insulation is crap compared to northern) the more you need to pump the aircon. And when homes are not designed for optimal environmental efficiency or passive temp regulation, you can't cool the home well except with more aircon.

(All this also assumes that aircon is some sort of human right. We could learn how to deal with heat without power, the way we had to for the past 300,000 years)
Re your fear regarding a vaccine side effect;

Vaccines are not a medicine. They are not drugs altering body chemistry, or designed to otherwise interfere with some specific body function.

A vaccine is designed to teach the immune system about a specific, non lethal pathogen, so that when it encounters said pathogen it is more prepared.

This concept of vaccine has been around for a Long time and is well understood.

With any vaccine it is tested primarily for effecacy (how good is it at preparing the body) and reaction (what effects does the body have to it) and as such it is short-term side effects which are of concern.

The two things that slow down vaccine research are disease prevalence (ie a big enough control group) and willingness to experiment (ie a big enough group of volunteers). It may come as no surprise that getting sufficient numbers for this study was not a huge hurdle. (there's a reason no-one signed up for trials of a new rabies vaccine, but there were thousands who signed on to covid vaccines.)

Could long term effects happen in vaccinated people? Yes, in the same way someone might be hit with a meteor. It's possible, but unlikely. On the other hand the possibility of getting covid is high, with about 15% suffering from long-covid and possible long term side effects.

We are often poor at evaluating relative risk - and we tend to favour the known (no matter how risky) compared to the unknown.

In this case though there is more data on hand than pretty much any vaccine in history, so feel free to do the math.

Lastly, yes there will be varients forever. People will likely catch covid, and die forever, just like the flu is with us now. You can't stop the dice from rolling, but you can substantially change the odds.
My theory is that the progressive loss of the US' soft power is fueling the growth of emerging internal extremist groups.

This topic being another shard of the US' soft-power armour lost.

The more it appears that the US reached and maintains it's global superpower status with force, coercion, underhanded tactics, and other abhorrent behaviors that contravene the Geneva Convention (which are handily side-stepped by conducting these behaviors in countries that don't adhere to such laws), it only works to justify extremists groups to use whatever means they consider necessary to achieve their own manifest destiny.

In that context, almost anything becomes justified - which is nightmare fuel for the moderate middle majority.
> Automakers shouldn't be caring about gas mileage.
YOU should.

I'm not an expert in cars, automakers are. They can do a better job.
Many manufacturers now offer those features to a stop, or even stop and go situations
All facts aside about how it's now resolved and only surfaced using a certain setting, etc...

This an absolutely horrific bug - worse than even an encryption snafu. Can you imagine depending on Signal's privacy features, possibly with your life, and encountering this bug?

Fuck - this could ruin someone that hasn't even done anything wrong.

If I knew this bug existed and I was on this team, I would have been in all out panic mode all these months. Literally shitting my pants.
Engineer by Day, Venture Capitalist by Night – By Casey Caruso
What an incredible read by Casey Caruso, sharing her journey with great frameworks on time management and reflecting on her progress (check out the "Reflections" section). What an inspiration.
Entropy maxing out is more of a 10^100 year problem than a 100 year problem.
By the time anyone is 200, much less 300, assuming we have truly managed to cure ageing, I don't think we're going to be worrying about the impact on this particular planet. There's a whole universe out there to spend the next centuries of your life seeing.
Having gone to high school in California, we never covered Mexican-american or Spanish-american wars, civil war focused almost exclusively on slavery. 90% of WW2 was about Japanese internment or how racist nuking Japan was. History of Communism was never mentioned for obvious reasons.
Yes, regen does cut if the car detects slip (at least in Teslas)
I'm becoming increasingly extreme on actions were should take to fight climate change, but have to agree with you here. This type of weirdness happens because of super specific regulation instead of creating the right incentive structure. Just charge for negative externalities, in this case carbon emissions. That will incentivice consumers to seek out low-power consumption devices and energy providers to offer competitive pricing by avoiding carbon emissions. Set the right incentives and then the market/everyone together will solve the problem
This is the source NYT cited [0]. From page 11:

> Per research and analysis conducted by the Stanford Sustainable Systems Labs, idle load was 218 watts on average across the 70,000 homes in PG&E’s service territory. We estimated the always-on share of this idle load to be 164 watts.

Then they go on to say:

> ALWAYS-ON, 23% Continuous loads

> ACTIVE, 77% Variable loads, including heating and cooling, lighting, and actively used appliances

So their definition of idle load includes things like heating/cooling, wtf? Then they guesstimate that 23% of that is always-on load (continuous load) where do they get than number from?

[0] https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/home-idle-load-IP.p...
>All that the rules say (yes, I read them) is that a workstation with 32G RAM (formula is 10 + 0.03 * RAM_GiB) must not exceed ~ 11W in sleep mode and a desktop with 32G RAM must not exceed 6W in sleep mode (5 + 0.03 * RAM_GiB).

That's it? The rules only mandate maximum power consumption for sleep mode? Some comments linked to the actual regulations[1], and they seem to contain tables with per-year maximums per device[2]. Can you comment on this?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27955212

[2] https://govt.westlaw.com/calregs/Link/Document/Blob/Icabb0f7...
There are two ways to solve climate change. Lower the population or lower consumption. Efficiency gains such as these are a way to lower consumption and we should be continue to focus on regulations that drive towards lower consumption. Population control is still largely taboo so lowering consumption is the only way out of climate change at this point.
One among many reasons I use different apps for different people in my life. My partner is the only person I message on one, my friends on another, my family only over text messages, and my coworkers only over email or phone calls.
A multi-page PDF of monospaced green text on black, looking like it escaped from an Apple ][? I found this literally unreadable on mobile, and would appreciate it if somebody has a pointer to the content in a sane format.
Neurons specialize communication functions that normal cells also have, so plants could conceivably experience pain.

(Would still need to be shown, but is conceivable)

I'm not sure where this would leave vegans.
Stock Picks by G.K. Chesterton
Or if people in power are following the law.
> Certain parts of the country bring down the average hard, and while we SHOULD be doing everything possible to improve these areas, I roll my eyes when a European tries to use an average weighed down by places like Baltimore

European countries have their own Baltimore's also dragging their averages up/down, averaging such statistics is not some kind of American exceptionalism.

Just like it's a bit misleading to compare a country to a continent, or even to the EU. The EU is not a country, it's no federal government, it's mostly a economic, and to some degree political, union.
One can find a lot of words to describe this lifestyle, but I think one that fits the most is "parasite". And as most healthy organisms, a modern city in a modern society can tolerate a number of parasites, and they may not even do any harm when they're in small quantities. But if it spreads beyond certain measure, the lives of both the host and the parasites become very miserable.
I haven’t seen this, but I’m out of the loop. Which ones are claiming this?
It's barely readable on desktop...
Aid needs to go directly to those impacted, rather than get intercepted and siphoned off.
As an ardent women's cycling fan, i found it a fascinating fact.
I completely, fully, and totally agree. Although that's also why, in terms of energy efficiency progress, I'd like to see those factors take out and compare where they stand on consumption that is less tied to climate and construction quality.

That's not so say they should be discounted, only that each segment of energy consumption should be compared like to like.
You're saying that the wildfires are 100% caused by heat and drought? I think you should have a look at the huge heap of evidence pointing to poor forest management being the true culprit. It's a fact of nature that forests WILL burn and the more humans interfere with nature, the more unintended consequences we'll cause. There are plenty of natural ignition sources and forests are equipped to deal with relatively low intensity fires. Here's just one example: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2019/02/25/wildfire...
"Over several decades, Vaupel has been the optimist of demography, telling us that somewhere in the world, human lifespan is always continuing to increase, as
it has done since 1840, at the rate of about 1 year of new lifespan for every 4 years that passes. For the first 130 years of this advance, the improvement in lifespan was
predominantly about preventing infant mortality and combatting infectious disease. But since about 1970, lifespan improvements have continued to benefit the elderly."

But what kind of life is it?

Many elderly have lived miserable, hopeless lives, and when they age not only do they suffer bodily infirmities, but they're desperately lonely as for many of them all of their friends and family have died, or they've been abandoned by their families, they have no one to support them, and suffer from mental issues like dementia and depression on top of that.

Little wonder that so many of the elderly commit suicide.

Not to discourage anti-aging research, but if I had to prioritize I'd choose focusing on eliminating poverty, improving social safety nets, and building stronger communities.

Improving mental health and helping people to live healthier lives while they're young so their bodies aren't in horrible shape by the time they're old would also make for good priorities.
Most Brazilian sites use .br and I've not seen a non-Brazilian site use it
> I've allowed politicians to get away with a lot of bullshit, but if they come after my PC and homelab, it's time to water the Tree of Liberty.

Are we advocating for murder on this site now? Really?
The question seems poorly worded but I’ll do my best guess here.

As long as you are gaining weight/height, you should be decreasing the entropy of the system around you. Your body’s entropy should be increasing in absolute terms but staying the same/decreasing as a percentage of your overall body.
“Gallup selects potential panel members using random-digit-dialing (RDD) of landline telephones and cellphones or address-based sampling (ABS) to contact U.S. households at random.”

Also a bunch of weird stuff about weighting responses.

Overall, I think this is the result of asset price inflation. Everybody thinks they got rich last year while everybody else was struggling.
1,200-Year-Old Telephone, Invention of the Ancient Chimu Civilization
There's room for talking about both. It's not somehow a put down of the woman to kind of compare her to Turing.
My grandpa was from a similar area (the Tulelake basin), and before they had trouble with water rights, alfalfa was exclusively a rotation crop, but you are correct that when water becomes scarce, that it falls into a category of the only thing that can grow reliably. California is not a truly water scarce place kind of place--water is just political these days.
here is an article in German with Nils Melzer, who was the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, and who was fired for his assessment of the confinement of Assange as torture. He is also stating that the whole case is about setting a deterring example. (also posted this link here, in another thread)

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/wochenende/interview-un-sond...
The moment you said "subjective analysis" already invalidated the rest of your argument and supported what I said -- you are just saying it's okay to use you a set standards that are not universally accepted to judge others. It's probably not your intention to come across that way, but it is exactly this type of thinking that brews toxicity.

The OP of that "wannabe" comment could have finished the sentence without saying anything about wannabes and still get the same point across. So why bother calling everyone else who can't get their games paid wannabes?

Do we have any evidence that these wannabes are not "some people just want to make great games, don't care about getting famous"? What's wrong with wanting to become famous as a goal in the first place? Who decides who has the chops and who doesn't?

You simply can't unless you are objectively the best at something. The complexity in deciding what is objectively the best makes such efforts futile, and therefore everyone who thinks it's okay to call others wannabes is just conveniently glossing over the fact that they are also wannabes by someone else's standard.
I'm not anti-car. I'm pro car users following the road rules and acknowledging the existence of other road users.
Ice cream consumption does not cause drowning.
I don't despise, dehuminize, wish violence upon, or lack empathy for crusty street kids, because I can fully relate to them. And when I was one - or at least traveled as one - I was one of the few who bore no ill-will toward the people who chose to have cars and homes and careers and children. When I was 22 I thought the careerists had a limited view of the world: I still do. I just realize now that the punkabestia have a limited view, too. As you say, no one should be blinded by their social status into dehumanizing anyone else. But by the same token, it's possible to arrive at the conclusion that some things lead to objectively less miserable personal and social outcomes than others, based on experience, without apologizing to people who are still blinkered by certain views.
Spend some time looking at sped up videos of plants and then state that same feeling about their lack of reactivity with the same feeling of absolute certainty.

Some species have been shown to communicate using pheromones to increase tannins in the leaves of their neighbours.

Agreed about in the absence of evidence, but in the absence of much study being done we could maybe have a closer look?
In addition to upping the official ratio from 5:1 up to 17:1, they also started excluding stock compensation from that calculation
My First CSS
I've never thought of doing this, but I often feel a pang of uncertainty whenever I open my phone's share sheet.

Like.. when I pick person A, is the app going to screw it up and send it to person B somehow?

I honestly have nothing life ruining going on, but huge embarrassment sometimes if a mistake were made? Definitely.

This bug is a worst fear realized.
I know you said iMac, but if you are OK installing Linux on it, I think Endless OS* is what you're looking for:

* https://endlessos.com/home/
I agree with your post completely except for the importance of speed.

I would rate documentation above speed in my evaluation of an api. If its not documented I can't use it, regardless of how fast if is - if its documented badly and I can't easily use it, I quickly move on to an alternate offering.

Fast is great, and important, and nice to have, but documentation is a deal breaker.

I could go further and say that docs are even more important than "it works" because without docs my definition of "works" may be different to the authors intent.
I disagree, because Bottom Line Up Front. Take the straightest path to communicating intent. Word count is not important.

If your intent is to make the reader feel things with flowery language, then it's appropriate to use flowery language.

If your intent is to convey a concept, then do it ASAP and don't add anything else.
Anti-aging and longevity are two different things. My parents haven't stopped aging, but they are living longer than any of their parents did. not only are they living longer, they are living better.

We work in the sleeptech space, and sleep degrades as we age, beginning in late 30s. This degradation of sleep is closely linked to degenerative brain disease such as Alzheimer's and dementia. By improving sleep we aim to improve cognitive function longer in life, and improve immune system as well.

So yes, aging is inevitable, but I believe so is extending the human lifespan.
Probably for this line:

> If you're getting banned from github or a cloud provider maybe you should reconsider what you're doing.

That’s a sentiment popular among Big Tech types (such as Eric Schmidt: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place”), and distinctly unpopular among those who consider the cloud providers’ decisionmaking arbitrary, capricious, or dangerous.