skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a headline - "protecting everyone from Teslas".

Does anyone look at statistics or actual data when ripping out headlines like this? I'm actually curious.

For example, emergency responder struck by vehicle fatalities SHOULD be a top concern for everyone!

We have good data on these fatalities.

https://www.respondersafety.com/Download.aspx?DownloadId=04e...

Instead of the outrage machine factory, anyone feel up to actually going through this data and figuring out how many of these fatalities were caused by Tesla's?

Might help get some real data into the conversation.

Could also do 2019's as well 21's, probably get coverage across maybe 130 fatalities?

I'm serious - for folks just tired of the endless outrage / clickbait type stuff - how about a tiny shred of data in the mix.

Or anyone work at an insurance company? Ie, doing bodily injury claims for hit by vehicle? Run the data of Tesla vs other drivers? It just seems we should be able to get some kind of actual data.

Who knows, maybe Teslas are the big risk. Or maybe headline will be protecting folks from tired truck drivers by getting them to use Tesla partial automation.
> What more could one ask for?

An independent audit for both the secret secondary perceptual hashing algorithm and the chain of custody policies/compliance for the "US db" and the disconcertedly open ended "not yet chosen non-US db"?
So in short author left Facebook because he didn't have anything to talk about with friends because they followed him on Facebook, so already knew what he was up to.

Okay. Maybe one should look for a more interesting life than the one that can be reduced to few posts on FB? I do many other things than I share.

I think the reason why someone could consider leaving is ethical one. FB is just a bunch of scummy salespeople. Judging by how much money they have, they certainly don't even pay workers properly (market rate doesn't reflect the value workers bring in)
This. You have to keep at least one hand on the steering wheel and apply some pressure to it. Fairly significant pressure at that, given that a lot of people were complaining about keeping the hand on the wheel, and the system still yelling at them to put their hand on the wheel (their mistake was squeezing it tighter, instead of applying pressure counter to the rotation of the wheel; the tightness of the grip doesnt matter at all).

If people intentionally do tricks to beat the pressure sensor (by using their knee or some wild contraption), that’s kind of on them. What do we propose, make Tesla record the interior of the car using a cam that prevents driving every time the camera cannot detect driver paying attention? No, thanks, I dont want to be surveilled on video in my own car.

There is already a reasonable safety check with the steering wheel hand pressure, and if people intentionally trick it, that’s their fault and they should be charged for that with something like reckless driving.

And no, i dont need to be “protected” from buying a Tesla. Even if it didnt have autopilot, i would still buy it again, because it is a really fun and speedy car to drive with minimum maintenance costs. Autopilot is a cherry on top, and if you try to circumvent present safety mechanisms, that’s on you. Especially when the alternative to the existing safety mechanism is video surveillance of the interior of your own vehicle.
There is literally no demographic where the mRNA vaccines are risker than COVID-19. None.
They have to come from the intersection of two databases from two jurisdictions. So already that’s out as you suggest. Then you’d have to match _nearly exact photos_, which isn’t a vector for general photos of some random minority. Then you’d need 30 of such specific photos, a match with another secret hash, and then a human reviewer at Apple has to say yes it’s CP before anything else happens.

I think there are plenty of reasons to be concerned about future laws and future implementations, but let’s be honest about the real risks of this today as it’s currently implemented.
Does someone need to write an essay titled "What Colour is your whitespace?"?

ref: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
And IMO it would be better the faster they all give it to each other. The longer it circulates between the non-vaccinated, who are interacting with the vaccinated, the likelier a variant arises that isn't affected by the vaccinations.

We don't want vaccinated people constantly catching covid, even if right now the symptoms are mild or nil 99.9% of the time.
In scandinavia, there exists almost only electric and heat-pump boilers.

Denser metropolitan areas have "district heating", which means water-transported heat that can be generated remotely by boilers, but there are also heat-pumps on these networks. For example, buildings can "sell" heat into the network with heat-pumps. Data centers do this.
Steve Blank's "Secret History" leaves off the first 20--30 years of this (where not much happens), but is far more comprehensive and informative:

https://steveblank.com/secret-history/

It's made several appearances on HN:

1 yr ago, 48 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23569184

3 yr ago, 42 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17600305

7 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8980498

10 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2254064

(Among others.)
That sounds like a good start. I hope more hospitals will follow this example.

In general, I think it’s very unhealthy to attempt to take away people’s agency and treat them as children. Don’t want to get vaccinated? Your choice. But there are consequences of this choice and we should make this consequences clear. Other than that - let people do what they want to do.
Harrison Bergeron would never have ascended so high, were he not so greatly weighed down first.
After the EFF lied about the system in the first place, does anyone care what they’re asking for now? What they’re really asking for is donations.
It's funny, where everyone else seems to have the problem of "ideas are a dime a dozen, but time to execute is scarce", I just have zero ideas. My only true passion in the world of software development is gaming (the one area where I, like everyone else, have lots of ideas), and, well, being an independent game developer is an even worse crap-shoot than lining up for leetcode interviews! (I won't argue that it's not a self-defeating attitude to have in regards to considering indie game development, but the numbers certainly don't lie here)
The H2 embedded database has compatibility modes for other databases, which seems helpful for testing, but ends up being incompatible in various ways for anything non-trivial. You end up fighting the compatibility and skipping useful native features of the target database, while still not having confidence that the code works on the target database.

We now use the awesome Testcontainers library (available for multiple languages) that makes it easy to launch the real database in a Docker container. Testing applications against multiple databases is now trivial.
As the parent post says, Firefox on iOS isn't really Firefox. It doesn't run Gecko, it's barely more than a skin on top of Safari.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_for_iOS

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#2.5...

> 2.5.6 Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript.
The Magic Room – Atari computer camp movie – long-lost 18-minute version
6% interest paid by who?
> Please stop spreading misinformation about a serious subject.

That's pretty harsh. They are referring to the case fatality rate ("CFR") while you are referring to the estimated infection fatality rate ("IFR").

Edit: OK, I usually don't do that but please tell me in which way parent's comment is possibly better than a comment like this would have been: "Looks like you are referring to the CFR. That's a bad way to measure fatality rate and the CDC has an estimate for the IFR anyways. You can find it here."
Right there with you.

I think it's an attempt to make the text 'feel' chipper, optimistic, and newbie-friendly.

Julia writes some really good stuff, but that particular quirk in her writing has annoyed me for a long time.
>Consider the labeling by some news organizations of the teaching of a more accurate, nuanced and complete version of American history, a version that includes the genocide of Native Americans, and the transatlantic slave-trade etc., as 'un-patriotic' and 'un-American'. [2], [3]

Oh, that's a perfect example if you actually look into the details of what is being taught. It's not about calling out specific behaviors that used to be norm decades/centuries ago and making sure we won't repeat them. It's about dividing the classroom students into 2 groups based on the factor they cannot chose (race) and claiming that:

1. The majority needs to feel guilt for the actions they have never committed, and cull their ambitions accordingly.

2. The minority should feel entitled to steamroll over the majority as a retribution for the actions committed by people that are long dead now.

This is exactly how you introduce division in the society and make sure that instead of cooperating, people will spend their energy fighting against each other.

My favorite example here is the actual text of the Trump's executive order [0] banning it:

(a) “Divisive concepts” means the concepts that
(1) one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex;
(2) the United States is fundamentally racist or sexist;
(3) an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously;
(4) an individual should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment solely or partly because of his or her race or sex;

It was combating these specific divisive behaviors. Except, the order was presented by the media as "racist" and was quickly reversed by Biden. Most of the people supporting the reversal never did the actual research, they trusted the media that portrayed a very single-sided picture. Because someone decided anything pro-Trump is "misinformation" and everything pro-Biden isn't.

If you want an example of the media bias, try searching for "trump executive order critical race theory" on Google [1] vs DuckDuckGo [2] and compare the effort needed to find the actual facts.

[0] https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/ex...

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=trump+executive+order+critical+rac...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+executive+order+critic...
What about water rationing?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/pledgetimes.com/orlando-declare...

You're healthy. What about immunocompromised people for whom the vaccines have only had a partial effect?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/immunoc...

Like it or not, we live in a society. Our decisions affect everyone else and we can't fully account for externalities. Solving these sorts of tragedies of the commons is exactly what public policy is meant to do.

Personally, I think vaccine mandates need to happen yesterday. People who don't believe in the vaccines can suck it up. Facts don't care about their feelings.
Exactly this. Productive use of IDEs (or vim, or emacs, or vsc, or …) is the opposite of cargo-culting: one knows exactly how to decompose the abstractions presented by the IDE. Should they fail, or prove limited, one grumbles a bit and then goes and does it by hand.

Using or not using an IDE because good developers use but don’t need an IDE misses the point. It’s never the choice of tool, it’s knowing how to use it.
HN doesn't seem to do phrasing
> I'm a tesla investor and deserve to know.

I'm not an expert in securities law, but I don't believe being an investor entitles you to demand arbitrary proprietary information you want from a company. Otherwise people would buy one Apple share and find out what specs the new iPhone will have.
What did the EFF lie about? Missed that…
I'm surprised there is no Encyclopedia Dramatica entry on Hacker News.
Just semi related: I find it curious that 3 out of the 4 universities have the same percentage of minority students (12%). Is this figure a coincidence, or is it the result of some specific policy?

( I'm not American so I lack the context).
> I’m sick and tired of people saying “the science is settled” or “trust the science”.

Or "I follow the science". Nope, that's not how this works. Science doesn't tell people what to do. It isn't a book of instructions or a fixed set of truths. It's a process to learn how things work. What you do with those learnings is a squishy human meatspace thing involving values, politics, social norms, traditions, emotions, etc.

Anybody who says they "follow the science" is not doing any such thing.
Sometimes I wonder if I could be interesting to have a 1bit desktop. Not necessarily lowres, but 1bit. (Or maybe 4grays). That kind of light, simple desktop (maybe resembling next step maybe more modern) could be pleasing in a way.
Libel? It's directly from the material referenced by the tweets that we're talking about:

> 'After another meeting between Apple and Google senior executives, notes showed that the execs agreed: "Our vision is that we work as if we are one company."'
Working in information security means waiting for the disaster to strike. When there is no disaster we do not exist.

This drove me to burnout at some point and I decided to carefully distribute the fucks I give (this comes from the book "the subtle art of not giving a fuck").

I never check anything work related outside of work hours. My phone is silenced during the night.

I am actively trying to be assertive in meeting hours, refusing the ones outside of work hours. This is probably the most complicated part.
No idea how old this command is. Most of the AIX/Linux admins I knew were very bad shell programmers, skills end with awfull for-loops, useless use of cat, and awk '{print $3}'.
Are there any significant languages that do parsing with derivatives?
Then you're sacrificing consistency guarantees. If less than a majority have committed a write, it could be lost while the cluster still has a quorum up.

Waiting to report success until a majority have committed allows you to make guarantees with a straight face.. "it will probably be committed in the near future" is not the same thing.
This is much repeated, but has never actually happened.
The attack has to do with animated GIFs and CSS, but I don't understand how
Yes, I do not bother eating out much since the pandemic, because while I can still afford it, it just feels like too much compared to the inconvenience of cooking at home.

Plus I can guarantee the home cooked meal is going to be awesome, whereas the eating out is a gamble, I have no idea what financial constraints the restaurant is under and what corners they are cutting.
I have yet to make the final push towards leaving, but have thought about it many, many times. Still, there were some new things here that I didn’t realize as a ’con’. Thanks and consider me still considering, but harder…
This makes SQLite even better than it already was. I am 100% onboard with this effort.
I am sure it will happen, but the cost effectiveness and efficiency will drop so dramatically going from 1 wafer to just 2 wafers.

1 wafer, doing X work, in Y time

= 1 wafer, doing 2X work, in 2Y time

= Two wafers, doing 2X work, in something still close to 2Y time

I.e. the slowness of between-wafer communication, vs. in-wafer communication, will dwarf the computing time. Obviously there is some N, where N wafers would be worth clustering, but it might be quite high.

Maybe the company is working on ways to cut down cross-wafer communication too. Vertical optical connections for instance would be awesome.
We're actually not based in the US right now as we had to return home for covid, and we're building a remote co.

To be honest we sadly don't have any useful advice for US visas: it's not a fun system.

Only thing is it's now more possible than ever to soak up US culture, run a US-focused company, but not be based in the US. But that's not what you wanna hear if you've built your life there. I'm sorry we can't be more helpful
I knew leetcode style interviews were popular, but I had no idea quite how prevalent they were. Almost any job I wanted to apply to seemed to use them in some capacity.

I tried to search the sites that aggregate roles that specifically do not use them, but your options become really thin when you filter for remote. I’ve already been ATS screened out of some of the better looking companies in that category.
Stablecoins are the main pricing mechanism in the cryptocurrency world. Tell me more about Bitcoin when Tesla prices their Model 3 at 1 BTC regardless the market fluctuations (AFAICT, it is currently priced in USD and you can pay with BTC with a floating exchange rate).

To decouple from USD (or USDT / USDC), you need to price things (commodities and life-essentials) with "true" cryptocurrencies, no matter it is PoS, PoW or autonomous stablecoins (as oppose to USDT / USDC, which are centrally-controlled).
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children intersected with a not yet determined db in another jurisdiction, and then human moderators at Apple.

So what you’re describing is something that is a concern for the future that could exist anyway (and maybe already does at places like Google that have _zero_ auditable processing of data that already scan for CP from the same database above). But let’s not pretend that’s today.
> Google also pays Apple 7 billion annually^ to be its default SE.

It's actually between $8-12 billion now. [1]

> Yahoo & MSFT's experience as 2nd place in that market was working very hard and earning $0 profits.

This is an exaggeration though. MSFT made nearly $8 billion in revenue last year from search (mostly Bing), and the business has naturally high margins so it would be extremely surprising if it was unprofitable on an operating basis. [2] The reality is that search is so huge that it's worth competing in, even if the incumbent has 30X your market share.

[1] https://twitter.com/jowens510/status/1428416856038072321

[2] https://backlinko.com/bing-users
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> It only weakens privacy for iCloud photos if you have CP or photos in a CP database

Or if someone hacks your device and uploads one of those photos to your iCloud.

(I still have no idea why people aren't pointing this out more aggressively -- phones get hacked probably every minute of every day, and acquiring those actual photos isn't that difficult once you're willing to commit felonies -- hash collisions are a distraction)
It seems strange that in an effort to solve a common problem that 80% of the success stories opt to not use the automation. Perhaps, there is ground for another toolkit
Not to suggest anything about your personal experience, but note that in general pretty much anyone can follow pretty much any diet for two months and lose weight if they try. The seriously hard bit - and the way you know you've found the right diet for you - is if you can follow it for the third month (and then all the months thereafter). Two months is roughly the upper limit for the "any diet will work for anyone" effect.
Looks like they reversed the decision: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2021/08/19/if-north...
It was $2.5 for 2x4 pre-pandemic, so still has a room to go down :-)
For sure. Malicious actions will always be malicious, no matter how you talk about them.

I see Nonviolent Communication as a useful tool for people who genuinely want to be kinder and more empathic but don't know how.

It's not going to magically cure human nature.
What would be good resources for this?
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I had the same issue until I went to therapy. I would suggest trying that out. They can help you think differently (in my case I grew up in a very dysfunctional family, look up adult children of alcoholics, we're often workaholics), and in some cases you might want to consider trying a medication for anxiety like Zoloft.

It may seem weird, but I didn't realize just how much it affected me until I got on medication myself. Now I feel free. I can still do great work and focus, but I'm not compelled to. I'm happy to focus on myself as well.
This is the forth or more piece about the EFF objecting to Apple's work.

I was just mentioning - maybe it's worth reading the comments on the FOUR prior articles about this EXACT entity complaining about Apple (ignoring the other 30+ HN posts on this) for this specific issue.

This is not "suppressing the news".
They did do both. From the linked abstract:

> Both of these factors are tested through analytical means and a 3D physical model supported by moveable abutments

http://congress.cimne.com/formandforce2019/admin/files/filea...
When you're operating at the level of a government setting policy for an entire country, you're no longer in position to view the world in terms of "personal responsibility". People, as a mass, are a fairly deterministic blob. "Reopening" sends the message that the pandemic is over. If you want to reopen, you need to accept that this will - directly, as a result of your decision - lead to avoidable deaths.

As for the other half of your proposition, I can see why it might seem appealingly logical - why should people who refused vaccination be entitled to medical care? - but I think it's ultimately inhumane. You don't know why they're not vaccinated. Maybe they weren't even offered it. Maybe they were in a disadvantaged life situation - there's a suspicious correlation between economic class and vaccination rate. Maybe they were prevented from getting it by oppressive relatives or partners. Maybe they were just being honestly cautious, and badly misjudged the relative risks. It's not fair to condemn people to death for those things.
Do you ask for the same audit at Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Dropbox, and countless others who are already doing this and have been for years?

I do not share your same concern of some abused db _today_.
We need more honest and direct leadership.

You will be exposed to Covid. You can’t do anything about that at this point. You will probably be exposed to it many times in the remaining decades of your life and will probably get sick a few times from it too.

So your decision now isn’t about avoiding it or not. It’s about staying healthy, maybe losing some weight and getting vaccinated so it’s not a huge deal when you’re exposed.

Pretending you can wear masks and stay home and this will end is a fantasy and has been for months. But leaders are living in a fantasy world.
UK retail electricity has suddenly risen from about 12p a kw to 18p. So even if you achieve a real world COP ratio of 3x you will be paying twice the price of mains gas and a little more than oil. Ironically this is partly due to a levy to fund green subsidies that seems to apply to electricity but not gas? I'm not sure people have factored this in yet, if electricity does not come down in price it rather ruins heat pump economics.

The other mystery is why we still buy night storage heaters not mini split air conditioners? Do they not work?
Compound is a lending protocol so people take out collateralized loans out and pay an interest rate on that loan which is paid to the lending pool the money is deposited into.
>punitive hospital policies

Why not also put fat people + diabetics at lower priority? Why is someone killing themselves by being 350lbs and having high-fructose corn syrup blood somehow more forgivable than someone waiting for FDA approval?
Linux wasn’t a viable alternative to windows in 2001 and I don’t think a Linux phone would be considered a viable alternative to google or iOS. There are 2 mobile OS’s, which admittedly is twice as many as desktop OS’s in 2001. As for hardware, there were a ton of options on 2001, probably more major brands than what phones have today, that’s not even including mom and pop custom built PCs.
If you delete your own post it will show up as "Posted by u/[deleted]"
If a mod deletes it, it will still be linked to your account.
So it is possible to fake the records.