skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Probably some fraction of "trucks/SUVs" are professional drivers who usually have a much lower crash rate than private drivers.

I read the crash rate as already factored-in. Here's the fuller quote from the report linked [0] by the article that I'm referencing:

The majority of fatal pedestrian crashes involve light vehicles. About one-third of pedestrians who are injured are struck by an SUV or pickup truck, which corresponds closely to the make-up of SUVs and pickups in the U.S. vehicle fleet. However, SUVs and pickups account for closer to 40 percent of pedestrian fatalities, which suggests that injuries may be more severe when sustained in collisions with these vehicles. Results from a meta-analysis of 12 independent injury data studies showed that pedestrians are 2-3 times more likely to suffer a fatality when struck by an SUV or pickup truck than when struck by a passenger car.

So, they're saying the accident-rate is proportional—i.e. maps to the percentage of SUVs and pickups on the road. It's only the fatality rate that is increased. And, sure, 40% would be disproportionately high vs 33%, but it doesn't represent a rate that's 2x-3x higher.

>there isn't much reason to expect the type of car has a causal effect on the chance of a collision

Well, the original article actually suggests that reduced visibility in SUVs/trucks may contribute to higher crash rates. That's exactly the kind of thing I found sloppy. Just a statement with no data to back it up (in fact, the gov't report they linked contradicts it, as noted above).

The article itself opens with this beauty:

You don’t need to read a research paper to know that more people are driving trucks and SUVs (sport utility vehicles) compared to 20 years ago, that today’s trucks and SUVs are significantly bigger than they were 10-20 years ago, or that they’re more dangerous for people walking, biking, or getting around with an assistive device. It's intuitive.

It's actually not intuitive that they're more dangerous for pedestrians. For instance, they could come equipped with more sensors and other tech that accounts for their size and actually makes them safer than other vehicles. Or, drivers of larger vehicles could be more cautious. Or, their increased size may make them more visible, hence, pedestrians are less likely to step out in front of them.

And, what's the point of noting that "it's intuitive" anyway? Not the best way to start an article that should be (and purports to be) data-driven. In general, the article suggests a series of loosely assembled "intuition" and facts, then draws these hard conclusions that I'm not sure we're certain about yet. I'm not disputing their claims. Just saying it could be much tighter and reads a bit like an agenda loosely packaged in data and appeals to "intuition".

I think the real answer is that we need more data and are still figuring this out, especially if we're looking for actionable solutions.

[0] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/12/16/2015-31...
Yes, they could be linked to other causes. In fact, those things ARE linked to other causes. But it seems like they are ALSO related to long covid. That's what the research is trying to prove or disprove.

It does this by looking at data from people who do have covid vs people who don't. And the research find that people who have covid, are more likely to have these symptoms. And they had more of these symptoms vs non-covid people 30 to 250 days later.

As with all research, this is just one study of 300 patients. So no one should be "confident" based on just this study. That's why other researchers will try to do similar studies.

That's also why studies explain a lot about who they studied. For example, in this study 70% of people who had covid were women. Could these symptoms be caused by their gender? Probably more likely the covid, but maybe that's something to consider for studies in case it shows up again in the future.

Others have linked to the study. It's worth at least reading the abstract. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
But do you really need to see things immediately in front of you? How would they even get there if they didn’t approach you from the front or sides, where you can see them? Most new vehicles also have sensors warning you of objects behind or in front of you, that beep loudly and warn you.
It will be fascinating, and I agree the vaccine rollout has not been the speediest. However, one thing on our side is that we have experienced the benefits of elimination, so our lockdown compliance is extraordinary.
You can be accommodated for a suspected condition, or without a definitive diagnosis.
Ugh… I have been through so many notes apps and half of them look like this one… boostnote, quicksilver, apple notes… all offer just the basics. I’m with Notion right now because I can add files and images easily, and can create some more complex layouts that you can’t achieve with markdown, but I’m still not satisfied… Notion biggest flaw for me is trying to make every table a relationship database.
*several british colonies
Yes, though from what I can tell that's mostly been defended by the unions now?
I had not seen it the previous time. Thanks for posting it.
“A search engine for medical specialists” would be a more accurate, and thus more useful, title.
Eric Jorgensen on how to come up with ideas
In one state where I lived, part of the car tax was a property tax based on some estimate of the value of the car.
This is about user-mode QEMU, for which the question of "board" doesn't even apply - it runs on your host computer. https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/user/main.html

Since the author's goal is to test userspace applications on Linux, not kernels or entire OSes, the choice of board should be irrelevant even if you're using full system emulation. For instance, there's the "virt" board: https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/arm/virt.html
Just because there were no government mandated lockdown doesn't mean that everyone was living as usual. There are plenty of people that are still working from home today, and have been since spring 2020. I don't have any numbers, but my impression was that pretty much everyone that could worked from home most of 2020 and the first half of 2021. There were (and still are to a certain extent) heavy regulation on restaurants. Cell phone network data showed a marked difference in people's mobility [0]. Grocery stores ask people to shop alone and have separated entry and exits. Universities and highschools have had distance learning for months at a time. Etc. Swedes were not unaffected by the pandemic, but they weren't fined by police if they left their home more than once per day, or other ridiculous rules that way too many seems to be ok with.

One thing to note in the near time is how the infection rate is low at the moment [1] (the data for spring 2020 is inaccurate due to lack of testing). This is not because of some government initiative or similar, in fact it was very low last summer as well before it got really high during winter. This shows the enormous difference it makes when people are spending less time indoor, and pretty much everyone has a month off work. The infection rate is currently rising, mainly among young people that has chose not to get vaccinated. My attitude about it is that in about a months time everyone will have had the chance to have had two vaccine shots, so if people want to put themselves at risk we should let them, and not force the rest of us to protect them by limiting ourselves. At least as long as the hospitals can manage.

[0] https://www.telia.se/privat/aktuellt/hemma-i-folknatet/covid...

[1] https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6...
Your argument is that a language shouldn't have a feature, because that feature can be misused in order to make the program hard to understand.

But this is a bad argument, as it could apply to any language feature. E.g. I could write a program:

def add(a, b):
return a - b

Here I've called it "add" but it does subtraction. By your argument, we should ban functions having meaningful names, as people could use a misleading one.

> Pyret doesn't bind anything more tightly than anything else

So all dyadic operators have the same precedence, like in Smalltalk? How horrible.

> You parenthesize to make your intent clear.

More likely I write my code in something other than Pyret, to make my intent clear.
there is no way to make an EMP of useful effect without high explosives
'can use Cloudflare Tunnel.'
- Most secure way to run Nextcloud?

since cloudflare posted they are going to spy on things they connect to and send info to men with guns about what they see, [1] I would not put them in a list of 'most secure' anything.

[1] along with helping govt's create legislature to encourage and allow more of the same... https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/

its a longish ramble - but you can ctrl-f "us cooperating around monitoring potential hate sites on our network and notifying law enforcement"
My dad was making circular screw compressors back in the 70s and 80s...

I would think most of this stuff would have prior art...
Calculating the battery as given feels a bit like cheating for the 200$ number: A cursory search on Amazon puts the cheapest battery at 100€ and most in the 300€ range. Quite unfortunate, as I had hoped the author found a cheap option.
What??!! What I'm hearing when you say "If you factor out all those deaths" is "Old people don't count". Economically they may not have as much impact as younger people, but they provide richness to family and community life that can't be replaced.

So I guess my point is - you can't factor out those 10x people. Because they are dead.
In my opinion the best thing about HN is that I am never told when someone responds to me. I don't sit there refreshing threads to see if I get a response, and there's no obvious/easy way to check up on my own posts later on without losing too much context. At first this galled me because I couldn't hold a conversation, but now I generally just say my piece and hope it helps or intrigues someone else. Sometimes I might search myself a few months later to see if I triggered more info, but it's not a real time thing, AND THAT'S OK.
Would be nice. The majority of US states don’t mandate safety inspections.
sigh

I did not say there were "acting as an arm of the federal government" to quote myself: "makes a case that Facebook was acting as an arm of the government"

"Makes a case" means literally "make an argument in favor of" and not "definitively is"
> Depending on the legislators is what most people have to do since not everyone has the time to focus on their privacy…

Not to mention the knowledge. The "everyone for themselves" approach doesn't address the actual problem, which is why it's important to think about this issue beyond our own personal networks and defensive capabilities.
For me, it's the ability to have Firefox Sync, Firefox's tracking blocker (although ad blocking isn't available unfortunately), and the familiar visual UI of Firefox.

It's not literally a "skin", Firefox on iOS is actually a separate Apple-approved app. It's just that they're forced to embed the Safari engine rather than using Gecko for it.
I listen to lectures on things that have nothing to do with my day job, and I love every minute of it. Listening to something you find interesting while walking is a delightful match.
Ivermectin has been on the market for decades, it's side effects are well understood. It's used all the time around the world.

Toxic controls was very unfortunate events of people consuming veterinarian formulations designed for animals that weigh 1000+ lbs and overdosing. That means only that there is enough desperate people, and very few physicians willing to supervise the treatment.

I would be far more concerned about it's efficacy and people getting treatment that they think will help, when in fact it does not.
To add to that: light trucks imported from other countries are also subject to a 25% tariff known as the the "chicken tax"[1], and if I understand correctly, light trucks are subject to more stringent MPG standards to the point that auto manufacturers won't make them. Whether this latter is "environmental regulation gone too far" or just a matter of regulatory capture by an industry that doesn't want to compete in a market where small, cheap trucks are a thing that exists is a matter of interpretation, I suppose. I lean towards the regulatory capture interpretation myself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
The proximity sensors make a loud sound that’s hard to ignore so I don’t think the zoning out is as much a problem in newer vehicles. In many vehicles the car also takes action automatically to brake.

As a frequent pedestrian I also show some caution around vehicles. For instance I don’t charge out in front of a vehicle unless I’ve made eye contact with the driver. I don’t walk right behind vehicles while they’re pulling out in a busy parking lot. And so on. If you’re worried about safety there are many strategies to keeping yourself safe.
4 hours seems like a dream. The typical process seems to include:

20 minute chat with recruiter to introduce yourself

2 40 minute phone screen

5 hours of "onsite" interviews

1-2 15 minute recap chats with recruiter

Possible additional 40 minute interview with hiring manager to sell you on offer

It's almost impossible to do more than 3 of these in a week because companies all have times that don't work for them, and quite often have certain days of the week that they don't interview on.
As a NIMBY opposing a 32 (revised down to 24) storey build in an area where the town plan said 15, I think about NIMBYism a lot.

It's very contextual. Australia is renowned for historically high levels of home ownership, and the dream of the quarter acre block. In the present reality a quarter acre is beyond most peoples pocket, or else located two hours out of town. We're on track to continue Urban densification and I'm completely OK with that in principle, but not at 32 storeys high. We'd get to the right place if we built 5-10 levels dense cityscape like most of Europe.

Towers surrounded by parkland is a bust model. Towers are an antipattern.

Build human scale you can walk inside of, have lots of shared private garden spaces, and parks. Keep skyscrapers for the city core and a few transport hub developments. People need human scale architecture.

All those Dutch 4 and 5 storey streetscapes, and the Victorian ones in Edinburgh and parts of Glasgow, they "hide" significant private green space inside the streetscape. These cities are greener than they look on the pavement.

Australian cities are pretty OK. We can go denser without loosing the trees, and without becoming Hong Kong.
The other countries will catch up. Pay your own way. Make your own decisions.
> Safety features are not free and no one should expect them to be.

There's a difference between the cost to provide something and the license fee. Note the Moderna licensed its covid patents for $0.

> a fair price

What's a fair price? What is the rule that says one party is greedy and the other is reasonable?
Modern turbos more or less killed off superchargers. Largely thanks to advances in computer fuel injection managing all of the tricky parts of turbos.

(Superchargers are simpler, but cost ~10% engine power to drive)
> conversations usually start with claims that are hard to believe, and completely unsubstantiated. Like Occam's Razor points in the complete opposite direction. Requests for evidence to back the claim up are usually deflected

In public, you just have to put a stake in the ground as delicately as you can. Something like: "All our research showed that A is the best way to go. We have not seen this data that B is better, so we continue to recommend A." At least then baseless assertions aren't standing entirely unchallenged.

Privately, you may be able to gently escalate the issue... Reminding Mr X's boss or another interested party that you never received the information Mr X promised, and hint at your doubts of the veracity of Mr X's claims.

> it's then applied in a non-sequitur argument of "unsubstantiated claim A, so we should do B" where there's no logical reasoning that A should lead to B.

Any chance Mr X is very familiar and comfortable with "B", and much less with "A"? I have seen this kind of behavior with some people, who don't want to put in the effort to learn something new, or are deathly afraid looking incompetent. The result can be an extremely unpleasant personality.
Are you using one of these exclusively? Which one have you chosen and why?
I haven't used notion, but isn't that what they market as their biggest selling point?

It's basically a modern pretty Access in some ways. Can you explain why you dislike that part?
Why limit the comparison to nordic countries?

We don't limit comparison of Italy to Mediterranean countries, or England to British Isle countries.

Sweden is a European country.

On a European scale Sweden was right in the middle of the pack in deaths per capita.
This is a good point. I bought a used bike for about $100 online and have now done about 5K KM using a cheap conversion kit online, with minimal maintenance. However, I was lucky and also bought a low power kit (250W, while 1000W kits are available). It is a great way to get around but some caution is required. In the wost cases, front wheel drive motors can bend/break the front fork on a ride - not a good situation.
> If language standards indeed cause discrimination, please demonstrate how. Otherwise this is a baseless claim.

That wasn't my claim. My claim was that prescriptive approaches to language facilitate and magnify discrimination and have historically frequently been used to justify and enforce discrimination. You can look at how regional UK dialects affect employability and education outcomes. You can look at the way speakers of the ebonics dialect have been forces to learn to change not just their dialect but their accent to get jobs. There is such a wealth of examples of the roles that language plays in descrimination that suggesting otherwise seems odd to me.

> So you think if a standard English did not exist, then people would no longer judge others who speak differently from them as stupid?

I think if we encouraged people to gain more exposure to other dialects in school and didn't teach people that those dialects are wrong then there would be less judging of people based on how they speak rather than what they are saying.

> Right so you support the idea of a language standard, likely for all the benefits I’ve listed, except when people use them to make other people feel bad.

That is not what I said. I might support a standard, depending on how that standard is determined, how it is promoted and how flexible it is to change.

My concerns with linguistic standards has nothing to do with "making people feel bad" and everything to do with denying opportunities to people. I've stated this repeatedly so I'm not sure why this isn't getting through...

> The term he is looking for is “normative” and all standards, language or not, must be normative to a degree.

No, the term is the one I used originally but then mistyped in my last response "prescriptive" ("proscriptive" is the opposite, telling people what not to do rather than what what to do.)

"Normative" and "prescriptive" are similar but distinct terms. When you tell people how to speak, that is prescriptive, when you judge people based on how they speak, that is normative. So in my view, prescriptive linguistics encourages normative behaviors around language.
This statement is a bit broad and thus debatable in overall accuracy, but it is based on something real. It is probably overly centered on the western and white-centric world, since being white or not doesn't even come into question in many other parts of the world. But in the US/Europe...

Women have been, for valid reasons and patriarchal overprotectiveness, been trained to feel vulnerable and exposed when walking outside. Always half-focused on who may be looking at them or tailing them, it takes away the mental freedom needed for perambulatory reflection.

Black men, brown men, immigrants, similarly, have over time faced a variety of hate crimes and false incarceration, that they must again often pay attention to their perceived "suspiciousness" factor, such as wandering around late at night with a hoodie on, or idly staring into a park where kids may be playing, lest they be mistaken for a latent criminal and get apprehended or worse.

So "walking has been the privilege of white men" is a bit of an extreme, but "justifiably walking thoughts free with impunity" is indeed the privilege of white men in the lands of white men.
Small nit - drivers are only about a third of the cost of shipping. Adding 10 hours to remove the driver probably wouldn't make sense in a lot of cases.

PDF page 20 - https://truckingresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ATRI...
Only in very simple games. There's a reason that there's not more AI multiplayer grinding bots.
>The simplest example is asking “Do you know why I pulled you over?”. Typically, people spontaneously confess to speeding, sometimes they break down and admit that someone is wrapped up in a rug in the trunk.

I was asked this once, after I read a hilarious reddit comment, and found myself in a similar situation. I looked at the cop and said "it's not because of the pot in my trunk is it?". "Step out and open your trunk, sir". He opened the trunk to find a crock pot I had just purchased. I could tell he was flipping through emotions from stifling laughter to being highly annoyed. They eventually let me go and told me to slow down with a half smirk.

I don't recommend doing this, and I have zero plans to ever do it again as it wasn't as simple as stepping out and showing my guilt/joke. I was detained, backup units showed up, even a K9. They didn't search the inside of my car, but they did inspect other items inside the trunk to make sure I wasn't pulling a fast one on them.
In California it’s 15’ from a fire hydrant/station, 3’ from a wheelchair curb cut, and don’t block a driveway/crosswalk/sidewalk. If they want no parking at a corner they mark it red.
Who says no to free money if they agree to interview you?
My Dad made the screws for screw compressors back in the 70-90s... He primarily worked for joy/lovejoy, but also made screws for ingersall and a few others.

It was amazing to me how small the screws were for say, a shopping mall unit.. and how PRECISE the machining was.

The math behind the profiles was insane to, it was a 'self generating' curve.. You calculated a point on the curve, and that was fed in to generate the next point. Generating a new profile shape was a HUGE process... Wonder what it would be like with today's computers :-P
New York city had the same problems in nursing homes as Sweden.

As they learned more about the virus and adapted their death rate per capita dropped to be on par with Europe..while still maintaining looser restrictions.
While I don't doubt you have Swedish family, I would like to see your data for the French economy being "killed". Certainly the economy contracted somewhat, but they seem to be doing just fine now.