skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it took until 2003 for NHTSA to put [a female dummy] in the car.

> female dummy either rides as a passenger or doesn’t participate in the test at all

> Currently, there is no physical crash test dummy that represents an average adult female anywhere in the world.

A thorough article on it: https://news.yahoo.com/crash-test-bias-male-focused-14022684...
The things you listed look like a random collection of things that happened where there was some controversy.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say, looks like you attribute all scandals to #metoo agenda.
I still believe that all those "second brain" solutions lack an essential feature: spaced repetition, which I built my solution[] around.

Spaced repetition is a way to automate the reviewing schedule of the notes you took, which is essential if you want your knowledge to linger. It allows you to iterate and improve notes on the topics you probably know better now than when you wrote them.

https://rekowl.com
1. you don't need to own your house as an asset to have housing

2. yes, people should be expected to pay the time discounted expected future value of the thing in order to own the thing. speculation is what prevents people from buying shitty houses for dirt cheap in areas that are ideal for apartment development and then refusing to move - that is a good thing.

2 -> Yes agreed, it is bad how it distorts the incentives and when the people on one side of the transaction (usually the homeowners) have all or most of the political power, that becomes a large problem.

The reality is that we have to have a mechanism to encourage people to sell their homes and move when more valuable uses become available (like moving in 30 people into an apartment building where there were previously

Speculation, in the United States, is that mechanism. There are probably alternatives (as a sketch: devolving eminent domain authority to local govt & non-profits -> obtain financing for compensating owners -> eminent domain-ify vacant lots/unused parking lots -> build housing -> sell housing -> pay back creditors; this would probably do a ton), but currently speculation & financialization is the best engine for resource allocation in the US.
Unless the panels you describe can't rotate and always face up, there is no change in the amount of sunlight you get per area between the pole or the equator.
Rich Harris, Svelte's creator, joins Vercel
There's another post here that links to the actual announcement by Vercel:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29189144
K.I.S.S would be no loading bar at all. The least amount of work and also not baldface lying to users.
Unfortunately, the answer is sometimes: yes.

Some students get a managed device from their school - and are allowed to take it home.

There have been already some scandals revolving around those devices. From school accessing their webcam - and trying to discipline someone for taking drugs when they ate jelly beans.
Yes - anything which breaks “save as” is going to hit backlash. However, as a counter example Apple’s HEIC deployment has been smoother since it works for users when it transparently transcodes shares outside of the ecosystem with HEIC support.
It's close enough. I would probably go the scenic route to describe Zapier etc but I wouldn't pitch a fit over someone using the term.

I know what it means, they know what it means. Communication has succeeded.
I agree completely. IPaaS tools are bad programming languages with awful tooling. The logic you need to transform some data, say, can become very complex quickly and you're stuck manipulating it with terrible graphical tools. When you inevitably find a bug, it's a huge pain to deal with.

For making a website with a store though, it can be great.
All win32 functions that accept or return strings come in two varieties, with A and W suffixes, MessageBoxA/MessageBoxW. The A works with the system default 8-bit encoding (cp1251 in case of Cyrillic), the W works with unicode in wide chars. There shouldn't be much of a problem with string handling if you stick exclusively with W functions.
Also, one can use checksec to confirm that the protections are actually in place. https://github.com/slimm609/checksec.sh

I happened to be looking at this for Go binaries last night and it seems that -buildmode=pie gets you part of the way there. Was trying to see if full relro was possible with CGO_ENABLED=0 but it seems only partial was achievable in the few hours I spent.
It is useless to say, but Haskell is a modeling and domain language, it is a sunset of math and highly sugared logic.

The proper place if Haskell code is Fastcgi and batch processing.

It should FFI everything infrastructure related and should be called by nginx or whatever.

Using it as a Java EE with monads is plain, well, let's say "over-engineering".
Needlessly long parameter/command names and the bizarre insistence on capital letters are the #1 and #2 reasons I detest PowerShell. Like GP, I resent that Linux tools are moving in that direction.
Maybe it's from back before Windows had a built-in TCP/IP stack? If it were a third-party/optional driver, having files related to it in a path under system32\drivers would make sense.
True: For image CAPTURE on portable devices a lot of ML-based image processing is done.

Unknown but unlikely: video PLAYBACK on iPad to use AI upscaling. A Google search does not provide a definitive answer to this, but in all likelihood linear upscaling is used. AI-based upscaling does exist though, look at the many plugins for MPV for instance. Surely, if Apple has implemented this in Quicktime video player it would be all over their marketing.
My problem with the cost is that it is still cheaper to get a 125 cc scooter than a proper E-Bike.
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Yeah, this is definitely batting higher than your average engineer(ing manager); cfr.org is the initial giveaway.

Let's see if I can replay what I read concisely: AI code generation is here and has longer term potential to improve software security by automating integration of security tests and by reducing attack surface through deduplicating code, but in its current state, its security success hinges largely on the models used to train it (copilot being the main example). Future developments/target state will probably include generation of code based on abstract requirements and app architecture/design, but we're a ways off.

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...yeah, that seems on point. Though I'd point out that copilot is far, far too nascent and risky to use in any even moderately risk averse environment (due entirely to licensing). Even the metaphorical smell of copilot, let alone something more brazen such as thankfully non-existent "customer success stories," might get an enterprising and litigious contributor to go crawling along a firm's published code and attack surface looking for indications their code was reused.

On the one hand, I'm glad copilot is a Microsoft thing; tons of dollars will probably be dumped into it by the truckload to advance it, which is probably necessary because on the other hand, I can't think of very many companies for which copilot wouldn't be radioactive for the licensing reason noted above.
Let's not forget return carriages in filenames within apps...
Maybe it's just me, but it always seemed like prohibiting spaces and other special characters was a reasonable way to avoid unnecessary complexity (and the bugs that accompany it) when parsing and navigating directory trees and files.

I'm old enough to remember working with 8.3 filenames in DOS, and while the length limitation was maddening, the space part never was. Then Windows 95 came out and all restrictions were thrown out.

Why couldn't we just have a file system that robustly supports long filenames, including variable length extensions, while prohibiting certain special characters - namely spaces, slashes or any directory denoting characters in files, and characters that have special meaning in regex context? (brackets, asterisk, etc.)
"Red Dragon" was supposed to be capable of missions to Mars, but it was a significantly different design than the current Dragon, and it didn't get past the proposal stage.
Unlikely. If we have the technology to render dead worlds habitable we have the technology to render even a post-apocalyptic Earth habitable: a fraction of the difficulty, and you save a lot on rockets.
" smaller than 95% of women in the world,"

No, smaller than a majority (don't wish to state 95%) of USA women, sure. But of the world, no.

https://www.worlddata.info/average-bodyheight.php
This is an imperfect analogy, but consider for a moment the role Microsoft Excel plays.

Excel allows non-coders to do many useful things, and provides a relatively gentle on-ramp to actual code via formulas. If you take that on-ramp and keep going, towards VBA and add-ins and other pieces of Microsoft technology, you might wind up becoming a full-time software developer, leaving Excel behind and using “real” tools.

Now, there’s a happy path and an unhappy path here.

The happy path is that you use Excel for what it’s good at, but recognize when you are operating at its limits, and at that point pivot into “real” software engineering tools.

The unhappy path is that you stick with Excel too long and become mired in the world of VBA and advanced formulas and attempts at shared workbooks, and build pseudo-database application-contraptions.

No-code can be like that early Excel usage: it can grant some limited but useful powers to non-developers. But no-code can also evolve to become like those contorted, unmaintainable spreadsheet monstrosities that stretch the technology far beyond the point where some “real” software engineering would have been the right answer.

Short version: use the right tool for the job.
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I don't think it's a paradigm shift. There's always been a desire to have some sort of magical tool or platform that would eliminate the high cost of a developer. The problem that these companies encounter is that these tools are quick to improve the baseline but they come at a cost of making their baseline the same as other peoples baseline. If they want something unique, or compelling, that's above and beyond then they would need custom work and that means some form of development
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You can bring 100 of something and still be screwed if it turns out to break because of a common cause. You'd think people on this site of all places would understand that reliability engineering is hard.

2. There is no specialized lab for it that works in space. It has to be invented.

3. Astronauts can't survive on ship's biscuit and space MREs. Malnutrition is already a problem on ISS.

4. There are no glaciers between Earth and Mars, and by the way you're not allowed to touch the Martian glaciers because of contamination risk.
Pork doesn't mean literal pork- in fact, as far as I know the infrastructure bill doesn't spend a cent on subsidies to pig, or any other, farming, though it does include improvements to rural roads, water supplies and broadband which will help farmers.

Pork, short for "pork-barrel politics", is a US term originating in the 19th century which refers to the practice of spending money in a legislator's district to get their support.
I think loading indicators fall into two categories:

1. full page

2. unobtrusive

Those 1px progress bars are unobtrusive because you can partially render data you've already received while still conveying that more data is loading.

To make a JS progress bar correctly show precent of data loaded over a network you would need to first know the total data size. That's why JS progress bars are always auto-incrementing and don't represent actual loading progress.
This seems like a huge positive step forward for Svelte and the community. Big congrats to Rich!

I've been excited about Svelte for a while and recently chose to use it as the UI for a cross-platform video editing app (https://getrecut.com), with the back end in Rust. I've found it a pleasure to work with -- Svelte Stores and the Context system are especially great for sharing state, and the app feels snappy. Last few weeks most of the focus has been on the Rust backend but I'm really looking forward to building out more of the UI soon.

I've also been happy to find that its generated code is pretty readable. On one little performance-tuning side quest, I was profiling to figure out why the app was performing a Layout on every video frame, and I was able to step through the compiled Svelte component code and narrow it down to one of my own functions. I also briefly went down a path of trying to manually set the text content on an element, to see if it'd be faster than letting Svelte do it. Turned out the answer was no, but it was nice to know that level of control is available if I need it some day.

Excited to see where the Svelte community goes from here!
>On one hand if you can't afford to pay your employees and provide them basic benefits like paid time off, sick leave etc, then you don't deserve to be in business.

I guess this is why lots of startups use 'contractor' services because things like cleaning are not their core competency but what you describe could apply to many early stage startups. In that stage many companies are in a vulnerable position and death is likely. What you describe would only further reduce the chances of the company surviving. If all we have are entrenched businesses that can afford these additional expenses we end up in stagnation over time. Maybe thats one part of the reason why we don't see many big shot companies coming out of Europe today? I don't know.

On the other hand, €170 a month seems very reasonable. From a quick search it seems like in the US the average monthly healthcare cost covered by an employer is around $1,100 or around $13,200 per year. This is in additional to the portion that employees may have to pay. This varies depending on employer and plan.

How would pensions work? That is actually what I really wanted to know about. Pensions would be an additional added cost and it seems like only the big established companies can afford to offer it.
My understanding is that in a car, CO is normally a concern only if exhaust gas is somehow leaking into the passenger compartment.

Unless your car has the fans off and the windows rolled up for a really long time, I'd be surprised if CO2 was something you need to worry about. Maybe if you're sleeping in it with the windows rolled up?

CO in the house is definitely a concern. If you have a fireplace, woodstove, or furnace with a properly functioning chimney, you're unlikely to run into problems AFAIK. But people die every winter because they used a propane grill, or kerosene heater, or gas stove/oven in their house without proper ventilation. Or used a wood stove with ineffective / blocked chimney. So in colder climates having a functioning CO meter seems like a no-brainer.
Personally, I find local logs and tracing super useful. It allows you to debug tests and ensure you have right instrumentation to troubleshoot similar issues on production. Design and write code that you can debug later.

E.g. we troubleshooted slow build times or analyse adoption of different internal tooling.

Minor nitpick, these days I would use OpenTelemetry for instrumentation instead of OpenCensus. Even on OpenCensus website (https://opencensus.io/) you can read "OpenCensus and OpenTracing have merged into OpenTelemetry!".

Disclaimer: I work at Sumo Logic (https://www.sumologic.com). We do logs, metrics and tracing.
Looks higher than the rate of death from Covid for children currently estimated by University College London at
"2 in a million"

"Covid: Children's extremely low risk confirmed by study"
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57766717
They don't do anything against rain and snow.
I know this is completely tangential. But you can Win-R and just type Documents and it will load your documents folder. Same for downloads, pictures, temp (windows temp), and I'm sure many others.

Works from File-Open dialogs and address bars and even in the command prompt you can even do "explorer documents".
Can we use big batteries to power our trains?
This is a Reuters article. They don't do that. They are also not really into "engagement", they get their money in other ways (subscriptions).
This is dangerous as well, especially in enterprise deals where the prospects say they like the product but it lacks one feature, and someone on the team goes "Sure, we can add that" with the delusion that they'll close the deal if they just add this one feature. It rarely, if ever, is the case. If the "feature" is not about some specific security or compliance concerns but an actual feature, questions need to be asked during that meeting.

One common pattern is "Your product does not have X? Product Y has that feature", and one common pitfall for people who don't "get it", as you said, is "We should definitely add the feature X that Product Y has". One better approach is to ask "How long have you been using Product Y and how is it working out for you?". The answer is invariably "We don't use Product Y". Of course they're not; we probably wouldn't be meeting in the first place if they were.

Sometimes people tell me about products of my "competitors", or people from these companies make jabs or passive-aggressive snide remarks about me or the product: I'm building an MLOps platform; my competitors are people's laptops.

That pursuit of listening to prospects' features and solutions, or looking at what others are doing and following it is not a good way. Asking people what they are trying to do or accomplish and extracting problems is effective. What's the current state, what's the desired state, how they're trying to bridge the gap between the two, why they're failing to do so.

I wrote a bit about this here with the following example: a friend of mine asked me how to solder a thick wire to a thin metal plate. I asked him what he was trying to do. It turns out he wanted to solder a thick wire to a fuse because the fuse couldn't handle a stronger current and melted. I told him the fuse did its job precisely upstream, and gave its life so more important and expensive appliances downstream could live. This is one example of XY Problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
I'm a programmer who does a lot of "no code" development and find those tools very productive for many of the problems I deal with. And I observe every day the people who know "programming" can use those tools far more effectively and come up with far better solutions and solve far harder problems than the people who cannot program, but just learned the tool.

The hard part of programming is computational thinking, and coming up with novel ways to string the right algorithms together to get the result the client needs, not typing vs dragging and dropping.
Also important:

> Almost 95% of vaccine-linked myocarditis cases were mild, but one fulminant (sudden and quickly escalating) case was fatal. Surveillance occurred from the vaccine's market introduction, Dec 20, 2020, to May 31, 2021.
Is there any way to view past "Ask HNs" or "Show HNs"?
Yes, drunk drivers are a nightmare. For many of us, dying or getting severely injured on our roadways is the number one risk we face every day.
Thanks! Yes, it’s very competitive environment. So we’re trying to stand out as a data analytics tool for developers.
This explains a lot. I have a 2021 Lexus, and there are a few questionable design choices. Forefront is the infotainment system interface - way too complicated, prone to error, way too distracting. (You navigate the system with a touchpad on the console, while glancing over at the screen.)

A better test would be to unfold a cat origami, and figure out a less complicated, durable design from it.
As a side note, in the good ol' times of ISO9660 level 1-4 and the various mkisofs parameters, an underscore _ which is a CAPITAL -, may have given issues, only for the record/as a curiosity:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151007005513/http://www.911cd....

P.S. should anyone want to see/run the actual batch, a copy has been uploaded here:

http://reboot.pro/index.php?showtopic=18962&page=29#entry204...
Microsoft actually offers Windows 10 for free, with some cosmetic restrictions until you pay for the license.
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You're comparing death to cases.
Just like Cathedrals in Absolution Gap.
I find http://animalswithinanimals.com/generator/generator.html much more controllable.
I'm vaxxed (Moderna), my county has a 97% vaccination rate plus indoor mask mandate, and I just got over covid. It was basically a very mild flu. The idea that we can control this is fantasy, and I do not plan on getting vaccinated again for covid.

I think what people are missing is that getting covid is inevitable, it's not a choice we can make anymore, whereas getting vaccinated is. That throws a monkey wrench into this risk/reward equation where even if the vaccination benefits outweigh the risks, people are worried about the possibility of an own-goal and how stupid they would feel knowing their personal risk profile to covid is basically zero. It's this notion of the possibility - no matter how remote - of self-inflicted harm juxtaposed with the unavoidable outcome of getting covid that messes up the equation, and I don't think it's really that irrational for many people.
Canadian here - personally it very much depends. If I'm buying something it definitely makes a difference, especially if it's a physical product. The .ca tld tells me that the pricing will be in Canadian dollars, the shipping will probably be reasonable, I won't have to worry about import duty, etc.

For other sites it probably doesn't make a huge difference, but there still may be a slight subconsious bias towards the local tld.
If I am not writing all of my installation scripts by hand, because that would be really intense, then every folder gets filled with random bits of software.

Offering too many similar choices leads to mess. There's nothing fundamentally different between using one or more of these options and using the only option, except that in the second case there isn't any opportunity to make mess.

> You can do `configure --prefix=/Program\ Files/<app>` if you want.

Thanks for the tip! Can't do that with distro repo software though :-/
Regardless of whether the health insurance coverage resumed/not, this whole acquisition has been so shoddy to look at as an outsider. The company I was working for got acquired earlier this summer and I felt we were kept in the loop about every single development, in addition to the good news that 98% of the employees were retained and are happy to work in the merged company today. Communication is key, and Intuit imposing weird rules like no messaging goodbyes or asking question on Slack etc only furthers the mistrust the employees come in already might have.
But doesn't insurance usually pay for the catalytic converter?
This guide is stupid. They recommend not using “janky.”
It's not the article but the bill itself: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3684...

Combined with an understanding of the technology involved, executive rule making, and the most probable implementation for liability and profit on the part of the car companies. And this federal mandate will deny citizens abilities to disbale telemetry or the network functions of the car. That is how it will play out.