skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The estimated percentage of the US population that died to the 1918 flu is 0.64% (using the estimate of 675k from the 1918 flu) vs 0.23% for COVID so far (eg 770k US deaths)

1) 675k in 1918? make it 1M, perhaps more. Also every COVID death is a COVID death, a flu death back then could be ascribed to anything. People say Nigeria and Brazil and India COVID figures aren't reliable, how is 1918 US stats reliable?

2) But the most important statistic is number of years trimmed off the life of every victim. 1918 flu trimmed as many years as the WW1, perhaps more as it attacked the same cohort. How many months is COVID trimming off the lives of people who perish?

In 99% of instances between 12 and 48
These things don't/can't get updated instantly. I was doing some work as of ~5 minutes ago and it was working fine, and is unavailable now. If it is a major outage it will likely be updated shortly.
A Plan 9 user yelling at clouds.

He does have some valid points, but his insults don't help.

And no, troff is neither elegant nor capable ;)
I think what happened is they had a bunch of orders they couldn’t deliver because they couldn’t get shipments of the radar part in 2020. So, they decided to go vision-only for autopilot and now they’re scrambling to get to parity.
Rented my first Tesla from turo recently

Super impressed with the range, performance, the modernity of the interfaces and thoughtfulness of features. Feels like the future.

Sort of shocked by the build quality including a latch that got stuck and wouldn't allow the door to close. Managed to get it wedged open with a tool on hand, but could see it being a showstopper / tow truck moment for many.

The quality / bs issues seem fixable so it's hard not to still feel optimistic about the platform on a whole, but one would hope between the record debt / demand / and liquidity of that org at the moment that they are briskly addressing.
ech. I used to wear redwings. i could only get a year or two out of them.

I've been switching off between two pairs of wescos for 20 years now and while one of them is finally about to go, the second one is still in solid shape.
The dollar holdings that were seized were used by Venezuela for purpose of purchasing imports and also funds squirreled away by various government officials. My assumption is that it was the latter that was the main motivation as the U.S. is trying to squeeze the government. This is similar to freezing assets of certain Russian officials.

Venezuela has shifted to a semi-barter system sending oil to Cuba in exchange for doctors and military personnel/secret police who can fight the domestic rebels - even the enforcement of authoritarianism is being outsourced to more competent nations.

Venezuela is a poster boy for technical incompetence - a warning lesson to any nation that thinks they can eliminate their professional and managerial classes while still remaining a functional society. This should serve as a warning sign to many (myself included) who think the PMC class is the heart of our current troubles.

Cuba, on the other hand, still maintains technical expertise in several areas. They still have a functioning medical/biotech/military complex, at least when it comes to small arms and intelligence. They can still provide electricity, roads, schools, and they are not starving, either.

Yet Cuba has been the subject of much greater boycotts than Venezuela, so it really does boil down to human capital and effective administration. Cuba still has some, but Venezuela no longer does. I think understanding this difference is very important.
https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/1464696434645741574

Got one after you posted at least
I never got WeWork because it looked like they onboarded all of a 10-year lease's duration risk and then hoped to make up the difference somehow?
They have a banner "Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded performance for GitHub Actions. -- Nov 27, 20:43 UTC" which should suffice for a start.
My coworker and I just reviewed and merged a PR, at 12:38 Pacific
This is Hedera hashgraph blockchain (HBAR)
Hey, thanks for your interest!

The footage in the trailer shows what the music videos look like. All of it is recorded directly from the app, and there's a section where the UI is hidden and it's mostly effects and transitions going on (that's the music video part). In hindsight I might not have made that part clear enough.

Also, the old winamp style visualizations were super badass! They played a huge part in my interest in audio visualization :-)
[WSJ] It’s Time to Get Rid of the IT Department
I think it’s a paradox of choice and, in a family setting, trouble finding something that fits the taste/mood of a few people.
Devices, SIM cards and identities must be matched in Turkey, so that nobody does anything naughty. They also make the service providers keep tower signal logs worth of many years, so it's common to prove your whereabouts in courts by requesting these logs.

On the plus side, you can see and manage all your data from the government portal. It's rather convenient to be able to see all the subscriptions(GSM, TV and so on) on your name and cancel them from there if you wish. Totalitarian control has its perks.
GitHub status is still showing green, but the site is down and most links to uncached content within repositories are either taking forever to resolve, returning a 404, or returning a 500 error.

https://www.githubstatus.com/
Max average Miami temp: 88F
Max average Phoenix temp: 106F
My examples were chosen, of course, to be ridiculous. "Compromise" is a major point of the work done by the political philosophers who are identified with Pragmatism. The fact that the word compromise is so liberally used in modern political discourse is likely due to this influence.

However, as is the case in some governments, the very idea that one would compromise with their enemies is an anathema. This is especially true if one side believes they are fighting against evil. It is also the case that some people are just trolls; bad actors delighting in bad faith.

It also starts getting into game theory. For example, one could forward a totally absurd position that tries to force a "legislation such that it would be reasonably acceptable no matter ..." which is actually what I wanted in the first place. That is, demand that the opposition compromise with an absurd position in order to get what I really wanted all along. It could be argued that the polarization we see in modern politics is partly attributed to this.

Pragmatism has a lot of problems which the philosophers have wrestled with. I suppose some of that complexity just goes away if you refuse to deal with indeterminate positions as a rule.
There is a point. Even two.

1. It clearly indicates that automatic systems are failing to detect the outage.
2. It also indicates that no one is aware about the incident to manually signal the outage (or that there is no manual override).

Basically, it makes a difference between "yeah, shit happened, we know (and maybe working on it)" and "hah, they don't even know themselves".
Right in the middle of replying with a lengthy comment on a code review, too :). Guess we'll find out if the server persisted it or not!
The cameras in a Tesla are not 576mp (which is the closest approximation or estimate of our eyes), and nor do they have 21 stops of dynamic range (same).

And they also don't have 16+ years, minimum, of 24/7 "non-machine learning" to augment their judgment.
Let's suppose that in a country far, far away, there is a holiday called Givingthanks where instead of turkeys, dogs are eaten. Your alter ego in that country could then write the exact same comment than you did, replacing 'turkey' with 'dog'. We would read things like: 'It could be argued that our abstinence of industrial dog consumption is the ethical way to justify the one I eat on Givingthanks' or 'Givingthanks dogs are raised _to be food_ from the beginning'. You don't see anything problematic with that?
Fucking imagine that.
The instructions on the packaging tend to produce a dry result. Dry turkey is safe turkey in the same way that a dry well done hamburger is recommended for food safety.

I think I understand the basic science of the approach. There are, practically speaking, three mechanisms for heat transfer. Radiation, conduction, and convection.

Scientifically, to a first approximation, all heat transfer in the universe is via radiation. It is the only form of heat transfer that can occur across a vacuum.

However, metal foils (or in this case a metalloid foil of aluminum) provide effective radiant barriers. Metal foil based radiant barriers are what made Eagle so shiny.

The foil over the bird makes heat transfer inside the oven less efficient by eliminating most of the radiant heat transfer.

However, where the foil touches the skin, it can serve as a conductor and crisp the skin relatively quickly. But that doesn't go bone deep. It is analogous to searing a steak, it helps keep the moisture in.

So that means convection does all the heavy lifting. In the beginning it is only via hot air. But as the bird heats, some of the moisture turns to steam. The steam cools as it rises when it hits meat at lower temperatures. The foil somewhat contains the steam...so a lot of the moisture does not evaporate and the effective cooking temperature is much lower than 450F.

In particular the convection cycle uses the thermal mass of the pan at the bottom. Juices flow down into it, evaporate and rise until cooled by uncooked meat above. Some of the uncooked meat liquifies and flows down along with the condensed steam.

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But anyway, while I haven't cooked a hundred turkeys this way, I have cooked several dozen due to a period where I was eating low carb and cooking a small turkey about once a week for meat. It's worked for me a few dozen times less the few times before I used the foil method. Last Thursday's bird is among the successes.

I don't have an ideological dog in the method. The recipe produces great results with minimal additional effort (using foil, turning the oven dial a little further, and removing the foil).

I use the method because it is idiot proof. Alas as HN shows, it is not genius proof. Then again nothing is.
Thanks, and great questions!

1. Where can I help?

We have a range of volunteer opportunities for frontend and backend engineers (React/legacy Backbone.JS/D3), as well as data scientists (python / clojure). We also have a range of opportunities to work with organizations around the world that need but don't have the data science background necessary to properly implement the tool. There's manual work to do here that usually means getting on video with people in different time zones.

We have some refactoring needs that are still in flight as we are still in a long transition from startup codebase to 'easy to deploy' generalized OSS repo.

2. Where is this going?

We're excited to see people deploying this around the world, (a process that has been eased by community volunteers along with investment from governments). Because of Schrems II, OSS platforms have a degree of competitive advantage in Europe as those governments that need to own their own data, and there are also big pushes for deliberative democracy there.

https://twitter.com/ICesnulaityte/status/1463426562783694857
https://participedia.net/
https://netdem.nl/en/projects/pol-is-in-nederland/

While we've worked around the world, bringing the methods / deliberative democracy to the United States is still something we're working out. The 501c3 is presently pursuing a strategy to 'compile' online deliberations to ballot propositions in places with small amounts of signatures needed, with the idea that if we take a known issue area (say opioids) + population sample + emergent discussion we'll discover a solution space, as the tech has elsewhere (like Taiwan), that won't then kick off the kind of adversarial advertising campaigns referendums usually attract. Potentially multiple zeros cheaper, and hopefully better outcomes. We're presently working on our first of these. Follow https://twitter.com/compdem for updates.

My writing about the future of democracy (working on a book) is presently focused on whether or not we can replace political parties in practice and compile a better high dimensional space to a legislature of independents. https://web.archive.org/web/20190629035125/https://civichall...

3. Any big deployments?

UNDP has just concluded what they think may have been the largest _online_ deliberative exercises in the developing world in history, in Bhutan, Pakistan, and East Timor. The full report will eventually be posted to https://twitter.com/compdem
>May I ask how you figured out what products to build?

I built products that I wanted. That probably isn't a commercially optimal approach.

Probably better commercially to pick a market, embed yourself in that market and learn what they want. You might end up building something you are less interested in though.

>Did you stick to the same business domain, learned about their problems, and then built a product?

I have 3 products now. In each case I released something bare-bones that I thought was useful then iterated like crazy on user feedback. I didn't know that much about each domain when I started (but I do now!).

If you are interested I've written quite a bit about my experiences at:
https://www.successfulsoftware.net
> Viruses evolve to become more mild because very sick or dead hosts are bad spreaders.

This need not be true. There are many ways a virus could spread more while simultaneously making people sicker and causing more death. For example, a strain evolving to cause people to be contagious and spread for twice as long as now and then killing everyone could very well spread more than it does now.
There's another way to achieve this in a more malicious way. Granted I haven't tried it in years, but it was possible back in 2017 when I tested it.

The idea is to fake the image that's being displayed in the IMG element by forcing it to show a `background-image` using `height: 0;` and `padding-top`.

In theory, you could make an IMG element show a photo of puppies and if the person chose to Right-click > Save Image As then instead of the dog photo it could be something else.

For some reason I can't Oauth into Codepen so for now I can't recreate it publicly.
those two are the ones i can recollect right now, but there were definitely other issues as well
Tunnel where people pay to inhale radioactive gas
Peru effectively didn't do anything at all and it has the highest death rate of all countries.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/27/1057387...
There’s no mystery, the median age in Africa is 18, the median age in NA/Europe is 40. Africa has a *very* young population and we all know that covid afflicts the elderly orders of magnitude more.
Or perhaps the Texas people view the unborn as first class citizens.
>Autopilot works great.

I don't think anyone claims otherwise on the older models. The problem is twofold:

1. They promised "Full Self Driving" and delivered ordinary driver assistance.

2. The vision-based approach just plain does not work.
>E.g. F-150 vs Cybertruck.

I'm in Texas, and there are stereotype supporting large number of truck owners around. Of the ones I've spoken to about Cybertruck, not one of them are interested in the body. People like how their Fords/Dodge/Chevy trucks look, so taking the design so far away from the norm just seems like an odd decision. Worse than the original Prius design.
I right-clicked and pressed Open Image in a New Tab and then pressed Escape to disconnect the browser from the server. No infinite download here.
During the Asian economic crash from 1998s, things like PC parts were priced in USD, and to get the local price, the shopkeeper would multiply the day's USD rate with the gadget's price, and show you the price on her calculator... but 2 decades later the currencies of the region have stabilized enough that this is no longer the case.
The real question is why TIOBE numbers keep showing up here. Who is up-voting these absurd things?
My status page for an open source multiplayer game updates the status page for each server on a minute by minute bases.

They can do better, they just don't want to.
Most of these over arching status pages are manually run, intentionally by design.
Github.com does not work properly (borderline on "at all") in a browser, and I cannot download a release of one project via curl. This sucks. And is definitely not just "degraded performance for GitHub Actions".
My company does. :)
Some rare alignment of planets

I can probably find the 2019 video on it. Not that anyone predicted a virus, but they said it meant heavy changes to how society works during the next 5 years

Even if just coincidence it is interesting enough to mention on a post about astrology
They are currently updating it one by one
You have to buy sim at airport, there is an exception from this registration, it is easy.
Covid is going to end up killing a lot more people too.
No issue downloading it on iOS.
> We're at 5 million deaths worldwide and counting (you call that a firecracker??), it could have been a lot higher.

How many months were trimmed off each COVID victim lives?

In 99% of the cases it's between 12 and 48 months

1918 flu attacked the youth, it trimmed between 48 and 68 YEARS off their lives, as I said: firecracker vs. nuclear weapon
zelda64.com was also the official website when Ocarina of Time came out, presumably because, at the time, the zelda.com domain was already taken by a porn site. That was an interesting discovery for 10-year-old me.
Rails is hard to scale.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjb8av/constitutiondao-after...
In countries where you can’t trust the local currency, this is normal, yeah. You wouldn’t want your work suddenly devalued by 15%
It's widely thought to be due to the chip shortage. Tesla made numerous other adjustments due to chip shortage too.
This article egregiously misrepresents the views and actions of the folks on the other side of the political fence from the author.
I’ve seen alerting based on the number of Twitter mentions too
It is already hard to make people vaccinate with 1 year vaccine, imagine how many will die refusing 100 day vaccine. Natural selection in progress.
There goes my docs PR for `drf-turbo`.

Guess I'll work on my stuff.
Beware of the Covert Narcissist
> The problem was Typescript and their lack of concern for typesafe metaprogramming, so it didn't feel worth it to keep attacking this problem for such little promised improvement.

This resonates super strongly with me. It is so so so unfortunate that TypeScript sends such a strong message, that types are for compiling, for static checking. There's so so much awesome terrain that is un-thinkable in TypeScript world, so much metaprogramming that is impossible to consider. TypeScript is such a wretched dooming small-world version of types.
The poster needs the ability to terminate any unplanned pregnancies that may occur
Tesla’s makes me happy that I don’t have a lot of money nor a drivers license.

They are SO desirable and yet so flawed.

It’s really nice not having to contemplate ownership of one.
Focus on understanding the financial aspects of the business you’re in, not just the ground under your feet.
PHEVs make more sense to me anyway. For the majority of trips they run off the battery which makes them just as good as a BEV, but they have no problems with range and they are a whole lot cheaper.
I would largely agree, in the cases where I've needed something pinned I just drop to Box'ing to, keeping the box internal and managing the pinning directly. It's annoying because you lose some classes of things that you may want to pin(values on stack for short durations) but I found similar complexities in the API.

For instance if you take a pinned Arc(ex: Pin<Arc<T>>) there wasn't a way I could determine to get out the mutable interior pointer(ex: via Arc::get_mut) since those APIs require a specific signature and you would need to un-pin the value to make those calls despite them being by reference(safe from a pinning perspective).

Most of Rust is incredibly well designed but so it's pretty jarring that Pinning is so much harder to use. I've found work-arounds for the cases where I've needed either via boxing or dropping to unsafe but would have been nice if it had worked for my use cases.
> Guess I'll be setting up a local git instance very soon...

The incorrectness of this highlights how useful DVCS can be — a git server going down doesn't affect working locally at all.
lolol. Clearly it's just degraded service. It seems The Management hasn't approved declaring it an outage, that would just ruin uptime metrics!
Ignoring where crowds are is a touch silly.
I would ask a specialist, anyhow here my 2 cents

I learned that:

* having a lot of space behind your monitor helps a lot: you raise your head and you focus at infinite: this way I relax my eyes (I read about it, it is not just my sensation)

* the above works also with your desktop's background image: choose one that let you focus infinite

* enable auto dark mode into your laptop (and in your phone)

* be 100% sure your graphic card is set well: I am not talking about Mac or Win, of course, but a Linux with maybe a stupid proprietary video card without proper drivers: this is may not the case anymore, but many years ago was a pain to work with Nvidia (I hate it!) and Linux: drivers where not available, and what apparently was working was a real disaster: I even feel sorry for having given my old working laptop to a friend: I still think the anti-aliasing and other setting on chars rendering makes a bit of a difference.

* select, of course, dark background and gray chars while coding :)

* try the so called "blue led" glasses: I do, but do not really know if it is just a trick to ask more money for your spectacles (btw, you do use spectacles, don't you)

* distance from your eyes to the monitor is important
waiting for a feedback from others: I am so scared to harm my eyes :)
Same. Oddly, the page itself remained in a loading state even after downloading succeeded.
Yup. It was Austin first.
In my last job our main “is everything okay?” monitoring dashboard had RPS, latency, 500 rate etc and a line for the number of user issues reported per N requests served. We didn’t alert on this but it was a useful way to detect issues that were subtle enough not to trip up our main alerts.
The biggest news, of course, is the addition of the long-awaited STRICT mode which fixes SQLite's biggest shortcoming (at least from a particular perspective) by turning into a proper, strongly-typed datastore.

https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html
The error message for me, when trying to push, was "Make sure you have the correct permissions" and also something about repo not found ...
Yeah I noticed because I'm trying to pull down a protobuf release binary.
I would not be impressed if they hear about the down for a trending thread on HN.
The trailer contains footage of the music videos produced (the part with the fancy effects and transitions synchronized with the music). It's basically a real-time video that plays within the app alongside your music - it doesn't output videos as files. I need to probably make that part clearer somehow.
I don't think OP's goal was to get this done in the most efficient way possible, but rather to solve a problem using the tools that they were already familiar with and have access to.
I mean, "phantom braking" seems like a pretty obvious term for such behavior. Never had it on my laser cruise-equipped Golf R, nor on our radar-equipped Tesla, but it's immediately intuitive what they mean by it.

I will say, the Tesla needed to have the "brake warning" moved to 'late' from 'medium' to not making annoying alerts from time to time, which is something my Golf did also, but even more rarely. I only had the Golf for about 30k miles because I somewhat-unexpectedly bought the Telsa 3, which is now up over 53k miles.