skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is indeed reasonable to careful since a motor vehicle easily outmatches a person, but if you look upthread my original point what many drivers are careless, and the cool technology like peripheral cameras does not always mitigate that.

I think that the trend towards larger vehicles may exacerbate the number of casualties caused by careless driving, and I wonder if all the safety features unintentionally foster a sense of complacency.
That is true, but the Bretton Woods agreement (which the United States signed in 1944) and subsequent System featured a gold standard.
Have you read Pat Flynn’s “Will It Fly”?
same :) came here to see if anyone else had commented on it
Is it just me or has Youtube screwed something up here? About 1/3rd chance that the back button doesn't do anything on the last Youtube page in Safari.
Or my personal favorite: The old tool that did exactly what you wanted, didn't need to start with the system, and didn't require login gets 'upgraded' to a more intrusive new version that has 1/10th as many features and doesn't work right anymore.
Repetition helps generate accurate receipt and understanding.
Looking at the link that was posted, people who said “probably not” or “definitely not” to taking a vaccine, if offered one today, were considered to be vaccine hesitant.
The good old "is unethical to do a double blind study". This one is by far the best invention of the Big Pharma PR departments, you basically cannot make the study that will prove for sure that their product is safe (and stick it to all those anti vaxxers once and for all) Talk about having your cake and eating it too...
No. It wasn't. The flu of 1918 was never successfully traced back. There are multiple possible origins (by coincidence, including China).

We'll probably never know.

https://www.history.com/news/china-epicenter-of-1918-flu-pan...
First of all I didn't own a car. You're right that it's several thousand dollars annually and that's why I didn't own a car.

> The cost of luxuriously maintaining a bicycle is about $100-$200 annually

That's if you fix it yourself. I spent <$100/year on maintaining my bike.

Changing brake pads at a bike shop cost upwards of $60. Wheel truing, probably >$200. Attempting to buy brake pads and refusing brake pad changing service usually involved a stupid long conversation with them to convince them you didn't need service, and they would price gouge you on the brake pads. With Amazon it cost me a grand total of $8 for the new pads, shipping included, and not having to convince anyone that I'm competent at fixing my own bicycle.

I once had a pedal stuck in my crank and just needed a longer wrench with more leverage to get it out. Damn bike shop wouldn't sell me the wrench. They wanted to do it themselves and charged me fucking $40 for TWO MINUTES of work. WTF. Needless to say I never visited that shop again.
There is still a lot of friction using Typescript for just about any Nodejs project. Things have definitely improved, but it is still a far cry compared to first class language support.

I’m curious what you think is the right direction Deno should have taken.
Lol, probably not. To be clear, these were people doing on-sites, which means they passed resume filter AND a TPS.

Uber's hiring pipeline was a mess.
I would put gain-of-function research on the umbrella of animal experimenting.
1933 was the infamous meeting in the backroom with not enough people to hold quorum that is what most of the conspiracy theory and illuminati types point to as evidence.

plus, whether you could redeem a greenback for gold or not is much less of an issue if the powers that be have already been acting as if the gold was no longer relevant in their policy decisions. that's the reason i point to '33 vs '71. i don't care about monetary exchange formats, but how the system was running.
Radio Shack Still Exists I Visit a Store Still in Business
BC announces vaccine passport; no religious or medical exemptions
How does this compared with using say lisp and relational data … strange to ask but to read hundreds of pages using a new language pyret need some motivation.
Of course :) There it is : https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
That's a distortion of what Harris et al said.
>> Battles have rarely been massive charges from two sides of a flat battlefield, as we see in war movies. Historically, it's been really hard to get soldiers to charge to their deaths, which makes sense if you think for a second. Most armies throughout history were nonprofessionals levied by their lords or seasonal opportunists, who fought for extra income. Sometimes, the leaders would get the soldiers drunk before they went in, and they'd retreat and have to be coaxed into running in again.

In some historical periods that was true. In others, not so much. The Zulu at Isandlwana were seasonal warrior-farmers, but they sure charged the British lines with their goat's hide shields and short, thrusting spears, and massacred the British despite the latters' technological superiority. Alexander's army comprised regular professional soldiers and they sure marched in a phalanx (the phalanx didn't quite charge as it was too slow moving to do so) and Alexander himself of course charged at the head of his Hetairoi. The armies of medieval feudal lords were in their majority levies, as you say, but the Crusaders, in the same time period, were for the most part elite knights who fought with unending courage (and commited incredible atrocities) against enemies many times their numbers. And so it goes.

As to bribery, sure, many battles were fought with money or politics rather than swords. Yet again others were not. Think of WWI for example, or WWII. No chivalric ideals there, but the battles were bloody and the corpses piled on high.

Btw, thanks for reminding me to read about the Khwarazmians.
It is effective, you just aren't aware of what it is trying to accomplish.
Policymakers play the hand they're dealt; disliking a policy because you dislike the conditions it's predicated on is a valid thing to feel, but not an argument that the the policy is wrong or suboptimal. It would be better if the healthcare system were less burdened, but 'dramatically increase capacity of the healthcare system' was not a feasible response to the acute crisis of the last 18 months. Of course we should work toward that (and in particular toward making a more elastic healthcare system) but that's a long term solution, and under-provisioned in a crunch to over-provisioned during slack is two problems, not none.

The naturally immunity thing is fraught. Accepting for argument that naturally immunity is exactly as good as the best vaccine, it's reasonable to equate vaccinated and recovered at a point in time. Covid has done all the damage it's going to do to the recovered group, and both are as protected as the other going forward (per assumption).

However, offering 'vaccine or recovery' as an option going forward is more harmful if there are any remaining unvaccinated/uninfected people. Some _will_ choose the 'recovery' option, at immense personal (illness, possible long-term damage, possible death) and societal (health-care over-burden, transmission effects, etc.) expense. Splitting the currently-recovered from uninfected/unvaccinated for policy-making purposes would require either faith in self-reporting or significant invasion into health records. Neither seem tenable in the US, for obvious reasons of culture and law. IIRC other countries are taking that route.

Which leaves you, I think, where your comment started. Are the external costs of assuming the risk large enough that policy should proscribe that option and mandate vaccines?
Gemini is awesome, but it's lack of ambition is what really kills it for me. I appreciate their minimalist take on the web, but if their implementation is less robust than what we currently have, I have very little incentive to host a site there.
I don’t know if that’s true. Case in point, the reason that Florida is drowning in COVID right now is that the majority of people there don’t think it’s a big deal. It’s the same thing and many other parts of the country. There are still a lot of people who are freaked out, but most ordinary people are starting to tune out the news and lose interest because the media calls to be scared and panic just make them numb eventually.
author here. Sorry for that, I got pulled into explaining my hack and I forgot to make matters clear.
The idea is to create custom tools to understand what you (in the sense of your past self and your ancestors) have created so far. We need to stop to reinvent the wheel: tons of people before us were smarter and we need to be able to understand and retrieve what they did.

Since there is a lot of useful information around us, we just need to extract meaning from it in better ways (for example, I mention climate change in the blog, because this goes further than just code in my opinion).

In this blog I show how I could visualize my interests (the notes I take). This showcases how I could make a tool on the fly (still a bit too expensive for my tastes, working on that). With such an infrastructure I can easily go into code bases and see patterns via visualizations. Potentially I could even apply refactorings from pictures (since I could run code in my editor clicking an HTML file).

If you missed it, my previous work on code-compass (https://github.com/ag91/code-compass) is just the first draft of what I have in mind.
I did this back in the late 90s (one xemacs with frames on two displays). I remember there was an issue when someone was in the minibuffer (both people got focus in the minibuffer), but aside from that it worked fine.

I also would leave emacs running at the (school) office, ssh in, and attach a tty to it from home (for reading mail/news).
Argh I misread the number of digits.
I'm using Capture One—I tried darktable (I think they like the "no capital d"), but on MacOS it is a nonstarter, or was when I attempted it.
Reading quanta magazine always makes me feel like a failure inside
. All these ppl doing cutting edge research about things that matter. Thank God for crypto investments , stock investments or else i'd have nothing going for me.
The connection at a technical level depends on the art project and token. For example ArtBlocks tokens are tied to a unique pseudorandom hash that is generated at the time of purchase, and that hash is used as input to the JavaScript software that is embedded within the smart contract in order to produce a matching visual. Autoglyphs does something like that directly in a smart contract without JS. Many 1/1 NFTs act more like hyperlinks to an IPFS hash with the media file for reference. Other art projects on the blockchain may use tokens and smart contracts in different ways.

At a conceptual level, I think the connection is more to do with “this NFT was minted by the artist’s hand (wallet), the same hand that created the artwork it points to.”
That's very interesting as well. Could you expand a little on what you mean by them becoming completely unresponsive?
Nope. Deep linking to apps is a solved area. Reddit completely drops the ball on this, and has for years. Their engineering is a complete shambles. The only reason they survive is their market share, not for any reason of 'good experience'
China speed?
It's not the mega conglomerates they are putting out of business. It's the bike stores, the hobby shops, the clothing boutiques. In the US with the purchase of Whole Foods, they are also moving more into groceries and everything else. After experiencing not being able at all to go to a high street and buy things and forcing everything to be online, I realized just how bad the experience is, and decided if I had to choose between the two I would choose the physical experience.

Once you do that you start to realize just how much of the consumer goods world Amazon has already put out of business. I live in silicon valley and there is no where I can go for electronics any more. My last amazon purchase was getting some 2.5A fuses because every store that would sell them locally has closed ( either before the pandemic, or because of it ). I tried to buy a video card, and the local computer equipment retailer literally couldn't get allocated any stock from the manufacturers, somehow Amazon managed to get first dibs on supply. I don't like that world, and I don't want to live in it.
> but it requires a very long answer...

The argument for is pretty compelling: consenting adults have the moral right to sexual privacy, and other adults do not have any moral rights to pry or interfere.

The argument against must be at least as clear and compelling, not "well, it's complicated..."
In retrospect I’ve semi-unknowingly done this, and I regret it.

The parent comment is right. There are two useful outcomes - they are willing to take their credit card out, or they are willing to give you direct feedback. Everything else is noise.
wonderful explanation! Thanks for making it so clear.
Elon is working on AI too, and Dojo is one of the most exciting things in the field if you ask me. Carmack has always been good at leveraging hardware to do amazing things on the graphics side, and AI hardware is not so dissimilar to graphics hardware.
This stuff absolutely works, but I would call it the opposite of painless.
Huh... so it seems. It appears that they only really exist in the UK, which is odd seeing as Specialized is based in the Bay Area. I see there are two locations in the Los Angeles area.
Yes, it's just less obvious since it's old.

And "Spanish flu" is called that because the Spanish discovered it, not because it was based in Spain. But most people didn't realize that then or now.
Nope. Decent programmers know how to deeplink into apps, it's completely possible.
Video would be much more impressive if it showed loading the cargo package -- can it pick up autonomously or does it need to be loaded by a ground crew? -- and also dropping it off within a designated space marked by cones.

Will the full-size model be able to lift a standard 40-foot shipping container? That would be very cool indeed, to have the blimp pick up from a truck or from a container ship.
I think every physicist thinks the same.

All of them want aliens, warp drives, an all that sci-fi stuff to be real, they are all super excited at the first anomaly, and then they work hard tearing all their own hopes up to pieces.
I know it's going to be unpopular here, but can those H1Bs go to the southern border, claim asylum and get fasttracked to GC without questions asked?
One of the few things which can reliably fuck up brains are (auto)immune events.

It would be impossible to collect the data but I would LOVE to see how longevity and mental faculty correlate with attractiveness to mosquitoes.
haha clone of my comment at the same time
Companies providing those services would exist anyways.

The profile of the person founding them would be different. You'd have istrionic risk takers, borderline gamblers carrying the company for the first say 5 years, then they'd be bought out and a more stable person would be brought in.

The VC model enables the economy at large to artificially skip the first step. It's artificial because Silicon Valley companies which basically start from zero and arrive in the S&P500 in 20 years or less, they have very low turnover in managment and executives.

It's like a Vietcong learning how to fly an F-35.
> If you answered yes then you just need to leap and iterate on the user feedback loop.

The question was how to get the users and their feedback in the first place.
If you're looking for cheaper, look into Dahon bikes, they're decent value and much cheaper. Especially if you can get a used one that has been kept well, you can often get it for less than half of the MSRP.
This appears to be someone Doxxing anti vaxers.

I'm not sure this is the best approach. These vaccines have legitimate risk, beyond traditional vaccines that have been around a long time. My calculation is that they are worth that risk.

I'm never going to convince someone that vaccines are worth it by coercive tactics. I do want these people to make better choices but if I try to make their choices for them I become the bad guy.

This is not the right way to deal with this.
I used to work in aviation. The police fly like they drive (i.e like the rules don't apply to them, because they don't). This isn't surprising in the least.
>I'd be especially curious to know what the good alternatives are.

Open Streets: https://openstreetsproject.org/
> it has every feature.

Not yet, but there is continued enthusiasm for adding more features to C++.

Bjarne wants it to have lifetime tracking. Wouldn't it be nice if your C++ compiler could point out that you can't very well return this object since you've no reason to think it will exist by the time you return?

Vittorio wants it to have Rust-style language version management through epochs.

Herb wants it to offer slimmer exceptions instead of the bulky mess that people often opt to switch off entirely.

All of them agree C++ is too big. However, before it can be slimmed down properly, they just have one more thing to add...
Ah, yep. The plane should have pulled over when the pilot saw the blue lights.
The problem with many of these is the security of them. Giving someone access to an emacs session gives them a full shell running as your account. I used rudel several years ago, which synchronizes changes between server/client emacs sessions, rather than sharing a single emacs session with multiple frames.
I miss stumbleupon too my friend.
I would like to think so !! Media & Entertainment brings joy & hope to a lot of people with movies and TV series.
(1) Validation via MVP for SaaS is very different to, say, a complex hardware product. (2) What people say they will do and what they will actually do are two different things. (3) Take in to account the potential for market shift (new competitors, technology change) during your delivery period and have risk mitigation strategies (eg. pivot/sale/exit). (4) Scratch a common itch. (5) Validate by proxy - see similar ventures gain traction in allied markets that demonstrate clients exist and investors have interest.
> that sense-and-avoid won't solve the problem entirely, since there's a fair number of aircraft that are not transponder equipped.

To be honest, I kinda hate the fact that DJI won't bring Airsense to the smaller drones. I love my Air 2S and I've seen it in action many times, helicopters often give you a 30-40 second window to get out of the way before you even see them.
It's randomly controlled within startups that apply to sponsor visas. That implies some level of initial success since visa sponsorship is a huge pain in the ass.
Yeah, but if I have a 10% chance of dying to Covid and getting $0 for my family... or a 0.01% chance of dying to the vaccine and getting $250K...

Well, I feel like the latter is a much better deal, even if it's still not ideal.
DuckDuckGo should add an ad / popup score to every article so that in the search results you could preview just how much crap you're expecting to see if you click. If there are no ads it could be a gold result or something :)
There are other non-ingredient things that matter: limiting sun exposure, cleaning the oil/dirt, and using something to maintain hydration (glycerin, aqueous cream, ... petroleum jelly in extreme cases).
I don’t really see a problem with this. Every bootstrap project I’ve worked on has entailed lots of nasty and buggy overrides that are hard get your head around.
That's great - there is a massive amount of overly simplified physics popular journalism.
I do a amazon glacier for most important data. but then I do have other cloud storage besides my home NAS. that said I wouldn't lose any sleep if all the FAANGs were to go offline for a while.
Did you read the paper or just the abstract?
Who was forced to work on the high speed rail? Do you have a source?
It just seems to me that the natural state of many LiIon chemistries (LiCoO2 in particular) is "on fire" and if you treat them very nicely and actively manage them, you can prevent them from getting to that state most of the time.

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Read the article more closely and the Bolt batteries are suspected to be NMC, which is apparently more prone to fire than CoO2?
Interesting it occurs to me that google search could do this, but they have a conflict of interest - adsense.
Sounds like you're using machine learning & computer vision. How much diversity is in your training set? I can see obesity, skin tone, and gender playing a role in this. Or, is it entirely trained on photos of the user? Even so... I see you're looking for users' ears. Can it cope with ears hidden by hair, or chunky earrings that change daily?
It's not exactly part of the webauthn standard. Or at least not a described part, it falls under the 'roaming authenticator' and 'backup credentials' mentioned in the spec, effectively it's a function that generates a crypto key where the key matter is the 24 randomly chosen words. It's basically just _another_ key that a service can setup and store for your, but encrypted with the secret they share with you up front in the form of those words.
> This gives these people and organizations outsized influence to manipulate our government into staying in wars in order to justify buying expensive munitions. This destructive feedback loop is the true cost of war.

Oh and you forgot the revolving door that exists between the military industrial complex and DC power Center. And how they influence the policy decisions. Our current defence secy for example is a former Rayethonian exec.
I was at Argos between 2012 and 2013. Fresh out of university. At one point during my time there, for around five or six weeks, me and another graduate were the only front end developers on the entire Argos website. At that stage I don't think I knew the difference between margin and padding in CSS just to give you an idea of our level.

It was truly chaotic. The amount of money they wasted on Accenture consultants should be criminal. I know it's a cliche to say money is wasted on consultants, but really, no work happened. A lot of energy was expended but nothing was built or created.

I was in a newly formed "innovation hub" which had a lot of very talented people but we were blocked from doing anything by internal and external staff at every turn.

One time we tried to have a QA environment set up so that we could demo and test our work. We were told it would take _9 months_ to provision a server for us. We were a team of about 20 in expensive central London office space and we didn't have an environment to test our work. It took about 8 hours to do a deploy to production, so if something was broken the BEST CASE scenario was it would take 8 hours to fix. I never saw the best case scenario.

The most talented and motivated staff in the innovation hub slowly left after we were told that the pace of change had to be "glacial".

Argos never stood a chance of competing against Amazon.
Since I've had two shots, and it's too early for a third, I would have to answer "definitely not".
Floats are really a poor representation for reals, float-intervals like Frink does are much cleaner but our FPU/SIMD sucks for these kind just think about changing the rounding very often..
I don't mind the stars, I wouldn't discount the resume based on that, but the changes themselves seemed useless. Having looked at many resumes of candidates, I scanned both with my "looking to hire" hat on and quickly determined, 1) is a grad and seems smart 2) is involved with open source projects and seems to enjoy creating software, on that basis I'd bring them in for an interview
> That vaccine knocked me down from hour 6 to about hour 54 both times

Not sure I understand this. Can you elaborate?
What about the Ebola virus? Is that racist too? If not, why?
I didn't realize we were exclusively talking about real-time systems? Do you think people you argue with on HN are so dumb that they would go around claiming high-level GC languages are suitable for real-time systems?