skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-google-and-everyone-else-g...

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207056#:~:text=If%20Locati....

TLDR Android & iOS Location Services will automatically contribute wifi data and correlate it with GPS. This can be audited to prove it's anonymously uploaded but it does happen.
HelloSign is a viable alternative for various applications. We use it and have expanded over time.
The bigger the vehicle, the less fatalities overall for passengers/drivers of that vehicle in car accidents in the US. This has lots of compounded factors, but the increase in size is easily a survival factor against other large vehicles. I'll take the trade for the pedestrian death increase, which is a fraction of total car-related fatalities. I also feel that the number of pedestrians has increased due to various factors, which has led to a predictable increase in accidents and fatalities.

This study feels like a lot of hand waving on a slow news cycle, when those numbers aren't alarming in the slightest.
Dismissing a professor's essay based on the rank of his department is a weak argument.
I believe this is the paper referenced[0].

[0]: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xlm-a0036577.pdf
just a lone voice from the outside world but perhaps programmers could just call themselves programmers and stop trying to take on terms that already have meanings? it's surreal at first reading silicon valley discourse - you have to learn that when you guys say 'engineer' it doesn't mean an engineer. it means a programmer. Likewise I imagine a researcher who actually engages in research would be similarly lost trying to find you guys theorems etc. when you start calling yourselves researchers
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We offer college students a platform to efficiently form meaningful bonds based on shared interests/identities.
>Which also suggests there are bigger reasons not to use such pumps in AC. As any Japanese manufacturer will know of such pumps.

Yup! This reminds me of a similar pitch from a few years ago. When a Kickstarter went live for a small, quiet window air unit called Noria, people signed up in droves, thinking a startup in Philadelphia had somehow solved a physics problem that Johnson Controls and the companies it's sucked up over the years somehow whiffed on. This new device would chill the whole room, it would be quiet, compact, and most importantly, it wouldn't be heavy. It would easily slot into your window, and store under your bed in the cooler months when you don't need it. They raised nearly $1.5M USD in 2016, and in the last year finally started to deliver window units that were ... big, heavy, and noisy.

The physics of heat exchangers are very well established. It's wise to take any wild claims of higher efficiency with a massive grain of salt - someone missed something in their equations and it's going to come out during manufacturing.
Why would Americans be offended? I’m fairly certain it is common knowledge that we used to be a British colony.
Or alternatively focus on smart safety features like automatic radar-triggered braking and pedestrian recognition.

Unlike the general self-driving that needs to be 100% accurate, "brake when on a collision course with what appears to be a pedestrian" will save lives even if it works in 50% of the cases. And if you only engage it on straight road when the driver is not actively maneuvering, it will nicely cover the "got distracted" cases and won't cause any new crashes by braking when you are changing lanes or passing.
i can't seem to find it in my notes right now. i came across the study when looking into the increase of kawasaki syndrome post "asymptomatic" covid infections in children last year. i do have this paper in my notes that speaks of a 30 fold increase in kawasaki diagnoses: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0959-4

since then, we now call this post-covid complication MIS-C and there's increasing coverage and study into it. i do recall coming across another study looking at a more broad range of age groups and noting a 20 fold increase of cardiovascular diagnoses.

overall, we still have a lot to learn about this virus.
The US gov already has access to all the photos on iCloud, can already force Apple to seed backdoors here and there and forbid them to disclose the request. We had the FBI case where Apple refused to cooperate, but it only stops there because there was other ways to do get to the same result.

So the basic premise of this discussion is that the US gov isn't already abusing its power to snoop on everybody all the time. If we give up this premise, all the discussions make a lot less sense and we're just arguing about different ways to access the same data.

(credits to John Siracusa on ATP for wording very clearly this elephant in the room)
Those are all great reasons. I guess I'm more looking at it this way: What is the motivation and intended uses for this engine, in light of existing engines? For example, Jon Blow created a new engine for The Witness because he felt it would be easier than bending an existing one to his work. A Plague Tale uses a novel engine to deal with the massive amount of rats. What's the equivalent use case here?
Not even just retail.

Call centers are like that too.
> Everybody who drives pays taxes towards road maintenance.

If I sold my car I'd still benefit from the roads.

> Right now, gas taxes apply roughly based on usage

They apply based (roughly) on miles driven, not usage. Everything I buy was someway or another on a road in order for it to reach my house.

> Basing directly on weight + mileage accounts for a world where EVs/hybrids exist

I'm saying the instinct to further this line of thought is furthering the error. The benefit that I derive from roads overall is much greater than the benefit I get from them by directly driving on them. They basically make the economy work.
If buying from ebikes.ca, be sure to write them with your planned purchase and ask them to verify that it makes sense and if they're seeing any issues with it.

Some parts/combinations have known issues that you're just better off avoiding.
> by keeping the ruling particular to Trump's government account.

From the article I cited:

"The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University on August 10 sent the Justice Department a list of 41 accounts that had remained blocked from Trump’s @RealDonaldTrump account. The seven users who filed suit had their accounts unblocked in June."

aka Not his government (@POTUS at the time) account. Once again, misinformation from you. :(
Not related to the topic but it would help if you (the website owner) make the font bolder a bit

I think it's too thin, make it harder to read
The larger point is that its impossible to objectively value other people's lives and any reasoning based on doing so is faulty.
I'm not convinced about that legal theory. There's another precedent in motorcycle ABS: unlike cars, not all bikes have it yet, so you can buy a Ninja both with and without ABS. The feature is even more decisively important for bikes than cars because it keeps them upright and stable under hard braking, so it's not just stopping distance. It adds several hundred to the price.

Or maybe you're right and we'll see an "admission of defect" suit sometime soon.
Fatalities per mile driven have been trending down over time, drifting over the years towards 1 fatality per 100 million miles driven. It will keep improve automatically based on the standardization of various safety tech like blind spot monitoring, collision detection, collision avoidance, automated braking, sensors for cross traffic when reversing, and so on. Many of these features are increasingly becoming a standard feature rather than an option.

Like most urbanist blogs this one also ignores that these vehicles, large and moving at high speed, deliver massive utility to all of society. For the low fatality rates we experience overall, I don’t see a problem. It’s worth the tradeoff to me and most others. We don’t fear everyday life due to rare negative circumstances, and we shouldn’t unless everyone is going to be consistent about it and just permanently remain indoors in search of perfect safety.
engineer made sense to me after reading this, but researcher is laughable for most

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/
It's my understanding that "hacking" involves breaking into or altering an existing system or piece of software, as opposed to "development" or "engineering" which is the creative process of addending or creating new systems or software. This article discusses neither: it's just a rambling life story and social critique sprinkled with light misandry and self loathing.
I wonder if a modern descendant of that credulity is a cause or an effect of the boggling dominance of UK tabloids.
Will you get that back, or is New Zealand's quest for zero Covid lost?
Known by whom to contain legal images? The "reviewer" might well be a retired Pediatrician who can identify the age of the subject by looking at the photographs and will be extremely accurate.
Where is the chart stat from ?
The complete lack of hard data and game-able statistics made me curious, so I went to the cited journal article.

> It analyzes all 231,675 pedestrian fatalities recorded between 1977 and 2016 in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database. Over 40 years, most pedestrian fatalities occurred in darkness (65%) and involved male pedestrians (70%) and male drivers (67%). They were commonly in roadway lanes (90%), away from intersections (80%), and involved vehicles traveling straight (83%). Most occurred on roadways with speed limits of 35 mph (56 km/h) or higher (70%) and four or more lanes (50%). Trends were compared across eight 5-year periods. Between the earliest and latest periods, there were significant decreases in the proportion of pedestrian fatalities among children younger than 15 (from 18% to 5%) and involving drivers who were drinking (from 15% to 8%). There were significant increases in pedestrian fatalities during darkness (from 63% to 73%), involving large vehicles (e.g., pickup trucks, vans, and SUVs) (from 22% to 44%), on roadways with speed limits 35 mph or higher (from 60% to 76%), and on roadways with four or more lanes (from 41% to 58%). [0]

That comes out to around 5,792 pedestrian deaths per year. And note that the "think of the children" motif of this post is totally undermined by the cited data: whatever increase in fatalities can be blamed on SUVs and pickups, kids are apparently much less likely to get hit as pedestrians today, for whatever reason.

Just for sake of comparison, in 2016, the total number of highway fatalities tracked by the NHTSA was 37,461, (of which 5,987 were pedestrians, quite close to the 40-year mean).[1] Thus, the ratio of non-pedestrian highway fatalities to pedestrian fatalities is roughly 5.25:1.

"Smart Growth" endorses this recommendation:

> "Cars can be designed to be safer if they strike pedestrians by using softer materials on lower bumpers and hoods and incorporating more space between the hoods and engine components, and automakers that opt not to do this will suffer lower safety ratings.

Yet, hard materials that crunch and break off are used in bumpers because of the conservation of momentum, and the fact that people in other cars are clearly at a much greater risk than the average pedestrian. Other recommendations like making the front ends longer run into problems with fuel economy standards.

The auto industry is not immune from criticism, but automotive engineers are stuck between a rock and a hard place. It seems utterly insane to me that they should be expected to optimize for this case when auto-auto collisions are much more common and deadly, and when the pedestrians personal choices are clearly a factor.

[0] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0361198120933636

[1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/usdot-releases-2016-fat...
Yeah so fun to have to figure out a way home, how to get to work the next day, having to deal with the police, retrieving the bike, hours spent on fun
Government is an organization
I never even really hear the term "hacker" anymore. I'm not sure what's driven it out of the industry. I've been programming since I was nine and I was never called a "hacker", even to date. I was called a "nerd", a term which used to be a pejorative for young boys who spent a lot of time on a computer and had a-typical interests and attire. I was made fun of for reading programming books when I finished my other work, I was chastised by teachers for playing video games, etc... I was young and old enough to watch the crypto-anarchist videos and understand that hackers were something different from what I was. They had a mission and an objective to their sense of curiosity that often resulted in chaos. Then console gaming came about and everyone started using the term in some flowery sense.

That was how I viewed it, anyway, until I realized that around that time is when computing became professional. CS and CE became a degree at major colleges and "nerds" were making serious money. It became desirable to refer to yourself as a nerd out of style. Basically, nerds took the word back.
I think it's completely reasonable to require it but also mandate that the health insurance companies pay for it, and all cartridge replacements. It's in their best interest to prevent accidents, and the cost is miniscule compared to even a single ER visit.
According to the article, some of ASML’s hugely complex supply chain is located in the US so I suspect that plays at least as much of a role.
If he knew they were going to kill him why did he let them visit?
Why America keeps building corrupt client states
I have no idea what's allowed in HN recruiting terms, but I'm working at a company that is very much worried about making sure we deliver value, and we have several positions open.
> more deaths of people walking

I genuinely found it difficult to understand. Why not use “more pedestrian deaths” instead?
For those interested, I recommend reading about "Clever Hans", the horse that could supposedly do math: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
That exactly what was happening here in Thailand. We even had a saying "who needs lock downs when no one wants to go out anyway". Despite many people here being young and healthy not many would care to risk covid exposure just to have dinner or to shop around.
> Just disconnect the light

Thanks, I'm cured.

1) A lot of laptops are sealed with glue. "Just disconnecting the light" would involve prying layers apart.

2) Companies may frown upon that if you should try to modify a company issue laptop.

3) Disabling a recording indicator may be illegal where you live.
If we look at the data Sweden is still one of the top countries in the world regarding health care.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/healthcare-access-and-qua...

https://www.ghsindex.org/

https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/countries/country-details/...
>The rise of newspapers and magazines meant that tales of the bizarre and the outrageous could circulate widely and quickly, while the rapid increase in printed advertising made it easy to promote stunts and shams.

Yeah I gotta say I think we know how that might be.
They aren't talking about client->server connections but about server->DB or server->other server connections.

With CGI, any connection you create in your script is going to close at the end of the request when your process shuts down.
what costs?

some lawyer is picking this up on contingency. They'll have a confidential settlement at some point that will not be binding nor set precedent.

It'll be cheaper for Amazon to do that, than keep sending lawyers to court.
By refactor do you mean rename across the project, or extracting a chunk of code out into a function/method?

Rename across the project is introduced by lsps.

As for renaming, I don't use it particularly often, but it's documented in microsoft's code action documentation[0] to include: Extract method, Extract function, Extract variable, Extract interface from class (some of those might be language/server dependent).

The neovim framework[1] at least does provide a wrapper for the code action.

VSCode gets most of its capabilities outside text editing from language servers. So the rule of thumb is that if VSCode has it, vim/neovim/emacs usually have it these days.

[0] https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifi...

[1]https://neovim.io/doc/user/lsp.html
Personal accounts can be configured to simply not have access to those apps.

"Oh, I don't use Whatsapp."
> Saying Covid response is the only thing that could possibly explain the observed differences between Sweden and (let say) Norway is simply wrong.

Nobody has claimed that it is, and in fact in this very thread you've seen it correctly noted that Sweden's approach to old age homes was responsible for a significant part of the fatalities -- although here too there's a lot of debate about whether it's the percentage of % in age homes (a bit higher in Sweden), the Swedish tendency to have larger homes, or the Swedish COVID policy decision to treat people at the homes instead of hospitalizing them.

But, again, if you have alternative hypotheses or factors that you think differ greatly between the countries, let's hear them. Because as a native of the region, I'd struggle to find many, at least when it comes to factors a virus would care about (as opposed to, say, preferring sweeter jam with meatballs).
I agree with that as precisely stated, but one can reasonably make subjective judgements (and indeed our politicians are doing so at the moment).

If we could live on average 6 months longer if we permanently stopped all gatherings, closed all restaurants/bars, and wore masks all the time we were outside our house, I think most people would say “screw that; it’s not worth it!”

It’s a subjective judgement rather than an objective calculation, but it’s still valid.
People are political.

Science is a method of confirming/ dis-confirming / finding truth.

You are conflating the problematic statements of people who believe truth is on their side (using scientific finding to confirm their biases) and the process itself. I suspect you are correct except in your overloading of the word “science”
In the days of lore, a "hacker" was someone that physically altered PCBs, components and maybe even code to alter the behavior of a device.
Diagnoses are almost never revealed on accomodation requests, only what aspects need to be accomodated.
>> For me, it’s about being curious, not taking any technical solution for granted and having the inner need and energy to explore, to experiment, to be skeptical and feeling the drive to improve things …

I agree with this. I like to learn how things work, and to experiment with all kinds of crazy ideas (some of which end up not being so crazy after all).

I grew up in the 90's where I always heard the term "hacker" used to refer to someone breaking in to a computer or network somewhere, like they were the digital equal of a "cat burglar" or something. Not the usual positive meaning that it has today.

I've been coding for as long as the author of the linked post, and would as result of the above, never refer to myself as a "hacker".
All disasters have physical parameters. Fires need flammable materials and a level of dryness. Tornadoes and hurricanes need atmospheric pressure differences to propagate in a given direction. Earthquakes happen near fault lines. COVID has to be transmitted (somehow, physically, whether through air, aerosols, water, contact, but something).

There is almost no way that lockdowns did nothing. It may have been overkill, there may have been a single aspect of lockdowns that far outperformed everything else, and we could have just practiced that. But this fatalistic view is lazy, unscientific and reductive, and in a societally harmful way.
> Your position is exactly what the lawyers hope for at this stage.

My dread is complete. The avenue disgruntled employees have to air out injustices also lines the pocket of lawyers.

Jokes aside, I appreciate your analysis. There's always another layer to the onion. There's definitely someone at Amazon corporate weighing the scales as you so astutely elaborated. In the end though I am interested to hear about the disability protections afforded by NJ legislature and if they apply here.
What was recommended? AFAIK pandemic plans were always social distancing at their core right?
The missing component is curiosity.
That's fair. The article invokes NVC, though, which is a guide to general conversation - not just difficult ones.
Stockholm has over four times the density of Phoenix.
1) Put a tiny dot of Black 2.0, not very noticeable and blocks the light very well.

2) Don't do personal stuff on your company laptop. If the company doesn't let you modify it, joke's on them, only company files will get leaked. Your personal stuff shouldn't be on that laptop.

3) Fuck that, if there are photons you can collect them

Worst case just do the microphone only.
There are multiple resources, which you would have found with less keystrokes.

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-...

Play with the dropdowns. Vehicle safety is pretty serious business with millions of injuries per year. I'm not citing everything that's casually available.