skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your talking point about "experimental vaccine unnecessarily to healthy people" has been extensively debunked above, if you didn't listen then you won't now.

You keep repeating about the Paris demo as if it means something, it does not. We had the same kooks behaving badly in London and in Australia. I mean ranting about 5G mind control and wanting to hang nurses. Proper paranoid extremist crazies.

Their numbers would not make them correct, and they are not correct; but they are just a small and loud fringe, and there is no reason to accept their delusions.

I wouldn't be proud of proud of them, unless you're also proud of "patriotic spirit defending democracy" the "hang Mike Pence" crowd in Washington on 6 Jan.
Imagining a thing and promulgating it through a messy and extremely inconsistent organization like a state government are two different things. Surely you've experienced the situation where an apparently simple concept requires a surprisingly large amount of code and time to implement.
Won’t we expect to see token burns to match redemption? That should be easy to point to on the blockchain. Such a low cost way to just blow away all FUD.
Side-note: I really, really, really wish MacOS had mouse acceleration control in the settings menu. It's the first frustrating roadblock I hit whenever I set up a Mac, and it makes me just want to flash it with something else.
Droplets swim with tentacles' stored heat energy
A lot of stablecoins sacrifice decentralization, but there are some like DAI that get you all of the (non-volatility-related) benefits of cryptocurrency like direct control without the price volatility. If you want to use cryptocurrency as money, the price volatility is often a big downside.
It should not be surprising at all that reviewing the evidence with a few decades more knowledge would yield slightly different conclusions. If you read more about the history of that fire, you'll find that they still don't completely understand what happened.

Back then, they knew nothing about ozone depletion, for example.
Boston Brahmin
Why do all these bookmark projects:

1. Rely on JavaScript for the interface. Being built in Go, why not just paginate the results and utilize Bleve or Xapian for search?

2. Store data in a format that is not easily readable by itself. The only exception to this is nb.

3. Suck at CLI tools. I'm looking to rclone, Hugo, kubectl, etc for the right way to build a CLI.
A majority of private security in the country works through intimidation alone. Legally they have next to no rights, at least different from you or me or any other bystander. If I ever get harassed by mall cops or anyone else of the sort my response is always to either ignore them completely or ask them to call the cops. In both cases I am immediately left alone.
"... why wouldn’t you want to collect exculpatory evidence?"

In my experience, it's mostly that they are lazy, incompetent, and/or have their mind made up. In some cases, it has to do with costs (eg they aren't going to DNA test a petty theft crime scene).

Contrary to TV, forensics are actually used very rarely in the criminal justice system. Most of the ones that are used are fingerprints and drug tests.
I think you need to pay more attention. The A1 was released. Hyper fast abacus with very little manual labor required.
and a pattern of withdrawing the evidence when the results are challenged so as to avoid setting precedent.
> To put even a slightly finer point on it -- isn't this, in a sense, journalism without a filter?

I don't think it's journalism if it doesn't have a filter. IMHO, the job of journalists is to filter through a bunch of garbage to produce something that's succinct, informative, and as truthful as possible (given the constraints). Publishing a stream of raw garbage is not that.
There is a lot of this that seems poorly thought through.

Asking for an employee's medical records is forbidden. Asking an employee to undergo a medical exam is forbidden. Asking questions about the employee's health or disabilities during the interview process is forbidden. See https://www.eeoc.gov/pre-employment-inquiries-and-medical-qu....

With all that said, what prevents anybody from saying "I don't feel comfortable taking a phone call" or "I need extra time for this" without actually being autistic? Then the disadvantage they claim to be removing hasn't actually gone anywhere.
There are certainly some negative examples. But
"The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life." is way too harsh imo. You learn dozens of things that help you in life & business as well:
-pushing yourself to the limit
-how to learn best
-how to get back on track after defeat
and much more. For me, getting the GM title was sort of a life school. I'll profit from the journey my whole life.
The amount of money necessary to have similar impact to better benefits and sick time is ... considerable.

It takes a LOT more money to be able to afford a home, for example; but, another week of vacation time? That has value right now.
Market share is instant and fleet composition is the integral of it. In the USA the median fleet age is now over 12 years, so you should expect it to be a while before the sales leader is the most common car in the fleet.
"inflation is economically useful" is not merely proven, it’s 101 econ, so fundamental is it that even people like me know about it. Trying to criticise it by comparison to hyperinflation is only a tiny bit worse than saying “water isn’t needed for life because people can overdose on it”.

> There is no argument that the govt is adopting bitcoin over the dollar.

On the contrary, roughly 75% of the time this topic comes up I see bitcoin supporters absolutely advocate for that.
They sell very few Tundras & Sequoias, I’m not so sure about the other vehicles. Hybridized trucks and body on frame SUVs are coming within this year though. They simply invest less into vehicles they sell fewer of.

The Corolla and Camry get excellent gas mileage even for not being hybrids though. Part of the issue here is a shift in consumer preference towards SUVs, in particular vehicles like the RAV4 and Highlander which get much worse gas mileage even if the powertrains are more efficient.
If it's anything like the Ring "neighborhood alert" notifications I briefly had on after getting a doorbell: no, not really.

A filtered (only the worst things get reported) dubiously-accurate (lots of "heard something that sounded like gunshots") view of a large geographic area (they sent me stuff covering a much larger area than I would've been concerned of) isn't "the truth of who we are," it's just a window into how some people are feeling, presented by a company that stands to make more money if they can make you feel more concerned.
But the result is the same!

I don't care how complex the vulnerability is. The consequences I do.
You're being overly critical of a scientific article that is very aware of its statistical limitations.

I would also venture to guess that you've never suffered from or attempted to self diagnose a chronic health issue.
The people in this article had been suffering for years (case 1 was possible 10+ years) and each went through a pretty scientific process of food elimination. To suggest that this might be a placebo effect is ridiculous.

Cases 1, 2 and 3 all mention a reocurrence of symptoms after consuming MCA - unlikely that these people are dealing with repeated placebo effect that happens to occur after eating MCA.
I disagree. You're overlooking the psychological aspects. Range anxiety is real. You might not need to charge up more than once a week but if you're down to 1 day or less of range do you really want to count on the fact that there is a free charger available when you get to your destination? I live in a condo so charging at home isn't an option. If I had an EV I'd probably start to get anxious when it gets down to somewhere around 1/3 of the charge left.
>dangerously delusional

LOL

"For over 5% of these deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 4.0 additional conditions or causes per death."

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

The #1 additional condition is, you guessed it, obesity.

I'm not fat. I have zero underlying conditions. I am healthier than the vast majority of people. Good bodyfat ratio. Good muscle mass. Really high-quality diet. Zero stress. I don't take any medications.

People like me almost never get sick from covid.

You seem to think that people who never get symptoms also can transmit the disease (so-called asymptomatic spread). This has never been proven to happen. There has been some, much more limited than initially thought, pre-symptomatic spread, but that means that the person doing the spreading without symptoms will get sick in a day or three.

The healthy and young of this world have no observed impact on spread.

You may not take much personal responsibility for your health, and thus may be fat or otherwise at risk. You may have some rare condition beyond your control that puts you at risk. If so, maybe you should take experimental vaccines.

It makes zero sense for people like me, who have taken care of their health and thus have robust immune systems that handle this virus with zero problems and develop robust immunity to it, to take experimental vaccines. You'll have to have some more actual data to back that up, though.
This is easily solved by providing hunting opportunities. Simple effective and people will pay for the privilege.

Or if you are not against spending money, a bounty will solve it even faster.

( if this is truly and issue to be concerned with )
It doesn't matter that someone had X for a time. You don't get justice by taking two eyes for an eye just because someone had three once.
> Hybrids were a mediocre half-measure

The US currently has just one million EV's and over 5.8 million hybrids (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_t...) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_electric_vehicles_in_th...).

I think it's a lot more fair to say that hybrids are a transitional solution. They came out in the 90's and still outnumber EV's on the road over 5-1 today, so I'd say we're in the midst of a 30-50 year transition.
Notch is in no way a "final boss programmer". (In fact, him being a successful businessman clearly points to the fact that he isn't.)
Florida Sheriff Is Spying on People to ‘Predict’ Crime Now
In fact, an ICCT study shows that hydrogen tank manufacture is as CO2 intensive as batteries… if that is true, my mind is blown

https://theicct.org/publications/global-LCA-passenger-cars-j...

https://twitter.com/colinmckerrache/status/14193077299995115...
I liked it! (Will get downvoted for this comment as well…)
> A functional legal system is one of the qualifier for being a democracy.

While it is true (that you need a functioning legal system), it is also worth mentioning that a lot of regimes have excellently efficient legal systems and judicial branch that put any democratic system to shame.

The issue is what regulations you put in, how independent the judicial branch is and whether it is corrupt or not.
As long as we are limited on battery production capacity, plugin hybrids save a lot more carbon emissions (you can make several of them for every full electric).
EPA: Highlights of the Automotive Trends Report
I think niche is fair, especially since they are almost entirely driven out of the non-safety use cases, and even in them many look for alternatives (although they are hard to find). It's a shame really, QNX has some really nice parts, but it's kind of being kept on almost-life-support and isn't getting the support it needs to flourish. QNX seems to have decided that they'll ride down the almost-captive audiences they have for a few decades and collect the money until then.
Because... The Hill
If you want to consider lithium against hydrogen, that's fine: What's the environmental impact of hydrogen electrolysis, transportation, and construction of infrastructure to support it at a scale large enough to replace the ICE vehicle fleet? What kinds of materials need to be extracted to produce hydrogen fuel cells, and at what scale? How do those compare to the inputs for lithium ion batteries?
Bah, that's an easy one: To begin with, make sure what you're wearing has a total of at least fifty-two pockets...
It's comparable to the US. If you look at the roster of billionaires in Germany, and then look at their national median wealth figures, it's stark.

Klause-Michel Kuehne scaled from Germany's economic size to the US economic size would go from $37b in wealth to $195b. That's Jeff Bezos.

Dieter Schwarz scaled similarly would go from $26b to $135b. That's Bill Gates.

Susanne Klatten scaled similarly would go from $24.6b to $128b. That's Zuckerberg.

Thomas and Andreas Struengmann scaled similarly would each go from $21b to $109b. That's Warren Buffett.

Stefan Quandt scaled similarly would go from $21b to $109b. That's Steve Ballmer.

And so on. Germany has 30 of the top 500 largest individual fortunes globally; the US has 159. Interestingly that's the approximately correct scaling if you account for the difference in economic size (although one would expect it to increase even further with scale, and given the US also has other things in its favor (eg global reserve currency, military superpower); so Germany is more than pulling its weight in relation to the number of US billionaires at the top). Overall Germany had 153 billionaires as recently as 2019, while the US had 788 that year; once again that scales roughly correctly for the difference in economy size.

So yes, the incredible wealth at the top in Germany is every bit as lopsided considering the size of the German economy.

Germany's median wealth figure is below the US. That's despite the US massively debasing its median with tens of millions of poor immigrants from Latin America over the past 40 years (meaning those people are starting from scratch, typically with no valuable labor skills or education background, and often without even knowing English). Comparing apples to apples, US demographics to Germany demographics, US white people are drastically richer than German white people at the median. And it's also despite the US not having the much vaunted labor protection that the Germans enjoy.

Germany, given its immense economic output, relatively stable culture and politics, high productivity, and strong labor protection, should have extraordinary wealth at the median. It doesn't (France and Britain both far exceed Germany in that regard; Germany is only slightly ahead of Portugal by comparison).
These sound awfuly bad for wearing, i would be so nervous less my periphery vision. I have office with a door and will kill to keep it. Ability to have a call in peace and quiet, talk without being heard and without hearing others, do work without other persons looking over my shoulder, constant bothers, have not the visual distractions, are all reasons why I can have any productivity. Open office classic case of a surface cost savings but lost productivity make very expensive in actuality.
borg maintainer here:

Yeah, restic is a great backup tool also.

OTOH it is a pity the we could not join forces (Python vs. Go and also some other differences), but otoh it means more choice for everybody wanting a nice deduplicating backup tool.
I didn't say that. Their MacGyvered memory-safe iBoot implementation [1] shows that it's at least a consideration and that they're exploring ways to shore up vulnerable components.

Swift is not (currently) a viable replacement for C.

I'm not saying they should rewrite the entire OS immediately, but: given the pace at which they're able to pump out new marketable features; the massive deployed base of iOS devices; and the sensitivity of the data that is kept on those devices, I would argue that they damn well better have a long-term plan to replace their bug-ridden kernel and other important low-level systems, with code that isn't vulnerable to classes of bugs that have been solved for decades and are frequently exploited in the wild. And I'm not just talking about Apple here.

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/security/memory-safe-iboot-i...
There certainly are bigger problems to solve than this one. The article almost reads like, "We need a good reason to allow the reduction in nuisance wild pig populations."
If anything, Julia becoming popular with academics makes me extremely skeptical about its missing guardrails. Obviously anecdotal, but I have many years of experience working with academics and statisticians and I know to be wary when they suddenly like a new technology. Usually it's because it makes it easier to swallow errors somehow, or because their friend wrote it and sent them an email about it.
"That still seems like it'd be extremely useful, even if it means some wasted man hours."

I think the least wasteful approach would be to build rapport with the community and rely on their reports. Probably not an easy thing, but the most valuable things rarely are.
`map[string]interface{}` is just a map with string keys and `any` as a value, and is commonly used as the type for a JSON object. Unless you have a completely specified type for your JSON object (at that point might as well use a `struct` with all of the fields defined), the best you _could_ do would be something like a recursive type `type JSON = bool | string | []JSON | map[string]JSON` in some hypothetical version of Golang with recursive types and unions.

Also, if you're making a set, use `map[string]struct{}` instead of `map[string]interface{}` as `struct{}` takes 0 bytes whereas `interface{}` takes 8.
He Toyota Way
> and even 200+ mile range can be a real limit

If your daily commute is 200 miles, your lifestyle is unsustainable anyway. Fuel consumption, greenhouse gas and particulate matter emissions, and even with electric vehicles you're still losing 3 hours of your life in traffic.
> "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”

Great wisdom from Gandhi but I prefer the Silicon Valley way of saying things. More inspiring.

"This is what happens when you work to change things. First they think you're crazy, then they fight you, then you change the world."

From Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos.
As an R user, my issue with Julia: what niche is it filling? R is established in statistics and data analysis, Python is established in general-purpose and data analysis and ML, so why should someone learn Julia?

The "main advantage" of Julia being faster than R seems irrelevant to me, R is plenty fast enough for my one-off statistical analyses. Further, I can't justify spending my attention on learning yet another language for analyzing data, given I already learned SAS, SPSS, R, STATA, Excel, and Python.
What is the breakdown of electrical power generation in your area of Canada? Your EV may still be mostly/entirely fossil-fueled.
I think the idea that they’re struggling isn’t exactly accurate. It’s mostly a matter of scaling up manufacturing capacity and they don’t want to do it for a market that’s the size that it currently is. They also know demand for ICE & hybrid vehicles isn’t going to go anywhere when you can’t buy a decent EV for less than $40k, so that’s where their focus is in the short term. This is just them asking for their hybrids and PHEVs to get similar treatment as EVs and get a subsidy because it would both benefit them and further lower emissions vs only subsidizing EVs
Seriously. Just say “wild pigs destroy $X of crops per year”. Tying them to carbon output is either ignorant or manipulative.
Just call 4 days per week "full time". It's no more arbitrary than 5 days a week, but it would dramatically improve the lives of almost all working people.
Just out of curiosity - could you work from home pre-fast internet/laptops/remote desktop? That was a struggle for me, especially when debugging things that required several PCs.
Depends on how you see proportionality.

Let's say I do a really hard physical labor job, and I work at it 40 hours a week for 50 weeks a year. As a result, I make $45k (or $60k, or $80k or $100k - at this scale, the numbers don't really matter)

Is there any possible rationale for how any amount of succesful "business-ing" could ever justify why a person doing that for a year should end up with an income in the tens or hundreds of millions?

We could concede that perhaps the business-ing has results that affect far more people in a positive way than the manual labor ever will. But the notion of people "taking disproportionately from society" could really be stated as "I don't care what you did last year, there's no possible activity you could have carried out that justifies you earning US$200M". That's a position that could continue to be held even if every cent of that US$200M arose from conscious, voluntarily, beneficial transactions. You don't have to agree, but there are people (I suspect I am one of them) who just don't believe there can ever be a justification for incomes at this level.
All languages make compromises and Julia has decided to not compromise in execution speed. I say this not because I don't think compilation time sucks but because 10 years is not that much time for solving a complex problem. How many years in Python without proper parallelism (I don't think the answer is the multiprocessing lib)?

I think Julia package system is good but since I come from Python maybe it doesn't mean that much.
I'm probably an outlier, but I love the concept of Citizen and dislike the implementation.

I don't have public safety anxiety, but want current data and public safety updates where I live and travel. Decentralized, unfiltered, and non editorialized news reporting is also a huge perk.

When there is a lot of police activity in my neighborhood, I want to know the cause and act accordingly. For example, if there is a gunman on the run (as has happened in the past), I would want to make sure my doors are locked.

My city and state does a terrible job of providing this information in real time and their retrospective data has been filtered extensively by law enforcement and politicians.

Areas where I wish Citizen was better are data presentation and selection. Incidents they present seem arbitrary and are a subset of the actual events. I would be more interested in average data over time and all current events plus filter options. Opt in notifications by incident type and proximity would make it a true public safety app.
That comment is genius: "When your sarcasm is so advanced that people actually think you're stupid". I saved it just in case.
Physical attributes are not particularly important wrt promotions in the military; you just need to pass that baseline fitness bar to not be flunked out on medical.

Indeed, the higher up you go, the more your job becomes about leading and the less it becomes about individual feats of strength. I think you're thinking about the military a little bit wrong here -- this isn't the Roman era (when centurions led from the front and had to be legitimate physical badasses). Being higher up in the military nowadays is a lot more akin to being a paper pusher director at a company.
The US is not England.
> No need to launch a criminal probe against an overseas firm led by overseas founders harming out-of-state residents.

There is definite need to launch a criminal probe against an overseas firm that defrauded NY state residents, which she did not do.
> I don't even agree with vending machines at work.

I agree but still, Jim would have missed a great opportunity to troll Dwight !
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27952640
that’s not really for you to decide by fiat.

toyota clearly believes in it and they have billions at stake. it wouldn’t be that hard for them to pivot to fully electric.

only time will bear it out, not just arbitrarily saying stuff like that and locking us into one approach

>> you can't put a hydrogen station in every garage

i assume we’d just have gas stations which already exist?

i’ve heard equally compelling arguments against electric