skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does anyone have good data on comparing deaths per mile driven between various auto brands?

Not really. Most of the data is based on comparing all sorts of cars against all sorts of other cars.

Even ignoring how many years other brands have been making cars compared to Tesla, car models have very specific demographics they cater to.

Take the Corvette for example, one of the highest deaths per mile, and it's not because the car is inherently unsafe... it just attracts a very specific type of buyer with a very specific purpose in driving.

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Adding in Autopilot makes the comparison even more hopeless since it works best in the absolute easiest situation (basic highways) doesn't work in the hardest ("stroads") and limits speeding.

You could try comparing only cars that have AEB/LKA/etc. but no one seems to have done that (Tesla certainly won't since it doesn't sell their narrative)

FSD would be slightly more interesting, but again, will work best on highways (so people will enable it there more) and also Tesla hasn't shared FSD numbers separately
This isn't "the smoking gun" because guess what: wet markets have persisting rodent infestations. This basically just says covid could pass via mice to people.

Sure, it could happen in a lab too. I don't see strong indications that genetically engineered weak immune covid bearing mice are needed or prove a theory.

(Just trying to head This off because I expect a deluge of AHA responses)

Also china-taiwan. Politics.
Is there anything more dystopian than the richest man on the planet having his own newspapers gaslight the entire world?
Ok, still, try to compare it to equivalent brands and socio-economic groups.

My point is that anti Tesla self driving sentiment is almost exclusively driven by emotion, not hard data.

Show me the data that justifies why I need to be afraid of public FSD.
Manual curation was why Berners-lee's Semantic Web failed. Unlike ARIA annotations which is required to serve certain clientele, the semantic web offers no inherent value to the developer. There is an entire field of machine learning dedicated to automatically generating knowledge graphs, I would start there rather than trying to manually curate and annotate.
We can start using less pcie lanes for gpus and ssds at the minimum
Room example, https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipM0GkLosTlvxisP4s4DfueX...

Windows = RF-blocking conductive mesh: copper (expensive) or nickel-copper-polyester.
https://archive.is/uxUGD
Do you really want that? You would skip useful knowledge, wouldnt you?
Isn't that something my organisation needs to support before I can use it? (I don't think it does).
I suspect you've locked onto the specific denotation of "source" as being an individual article. That is not the only denotation of the word. It can also refer to, as examples, persons or journals.
This argument amounts to "cosleeping babies are not noisy" which is only partially true. They are less noisy, but they still do cry enough.

> Dozing while nursing .... and enjoying/enduring some thinking time.

Nah, it is just brain fog from slee deprivation. It is not free thinking time, it is "Jeeez I want to sleep" time.
The quality and style is mindblowing! What data did you train?
Using those containers might be making your firefox experience slower. The very reason you use it might make you think you shouldn't use it for anything else. If you used it without containers I wonder if you would think it's faster. Each container has it's own resources.

How can it be less secure and the browser you choose for privacy reasons only?
I was going to write this in the rant article about React and how everything is rewrapped bloat.

Yeah I think it will be the opposite in the medium term future.

Moore's law can't last forever, the slowdown has already occurred, and then you'll need two things for a couple generations to get better:

1) code optimization / stack reduction / api efficiency / less abstraction

2) moving software to hardware to get that sweet speedup and efficiency
> One of which was TWO BLOCKS from where the wet market from where the original Covid-19 virus which started the pandemic has been traced to

TWO BLOCKS? Or a 40min drive? This is why the lab leak theory feels conspiracy-adjacent. Too much exaggeration.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/640/cpsprodpb/D961/production/...

> The institute is a 40-minute drive from the Huanan wet market where the first cluster of infections emerged in Wuhan.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57268111.amp

There’s plenty of valid scientific inquiry to be had regarding the theory once you get past the misinformation. But the political showmanship and the attraction of conspiracy theorists doesn’t help.
What is a graph database? A miserable little pile of joins.

Though to be serious: what do you expect a graph database to provide that sqlite cannot / does not do efficiently?
The majority of homeless people in Seattle are not from Seattle. The point in time surveys aren’t real data because they rely on unverified self reported claims. The reality is that homeless are coached by activists to respond falsely on these surveys as former locals, to generate sympathy.

Personal responsibility is a thing still, and people can live anywhere in America instead of trying to do so in an expensive location. And yes I expect not to have to look at open drug dens or bike chops shops, not experience property crime, not have parking spaces occupied by trashy RVs, and not see taxpayer funded amenities like parks taken over.

It has nothing to do with appreciating property prices and nothing to do with right wing politics. That’s just your inaccurate editorialization. Most people have a common sense expectation that a city be clean, lawful, and operated for the benefits of its legitimate tax paying residents, not drug addicted vagrants or irresponsible nomads.
HF-GCS (High Frequency Global Communications System) uses a variety of frequencies, but if memory serves, the two primary frequencies that are always used are 8992 kHz (better for night propagation) and 11175 kHz (day propagation). If you're using one of the receivers listed at websdr.org you might try those for a start.

If you're in northern California and in need of a day trip, drive on Interstate 80 to the town of Dixon and head south on Highway 113 towards Rio Vista. Eventually you'll see a pair of very tall antenna towers. I'm pretty sure those are the "West Coast" HF-GCS transmitting towers, with the receiving antennas located further east near Lincoln.

(And if you're up for a great burger and shake, Dave's Giant Hamburger in nearby Fairfield will set you straight. (Be sure to ask for the hot sauce.))
The carbon argument is so weird to me because if people understood blockchains it would actually bolster their argument.

Proof of Work Blockchains use the same energy whether there are any transactions or not. The idea that your participation or lack thereof deters demand in protest of the carbon footprint is just … wrong. Inaccurate.
Few people are really answering the question, and I can only assume because everyone knows that the answer is "nothing". Western thought doesn't really work well when it's dealing with a non-Western entity that can defend itself. So while people are up in arms about the lab-leak hypothesis, they can't think past just being upset at China. We can't press China militarily without the Western way of life being threatened, we can't threaten them economically without the Western way of life being threatened and we can't blackmail them because the first two methods are nonstarters.
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Hopefully light-based networking gains mass-market traction.

First Li-Fi tablet was announced at CES 2022, https://electronics360.globalspec.com/article/17597/first-li...
Beyond that, the original SARS escaped at least once from a BSL-4 lab in Taiwan:

> The scientist had been working on a SARS study in Taiwan's only biosafety level 4 lab since June, the Taiwan statement said. [...] A chest x-ray showed pneumonia in his right lung, and polymerase chain reaction tests of throat and blood samples were positive for the SARS virus.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2003/12/taiwanes...

The idea that "BSL-4" implies "negligible risk of accident" seems to be empirically false. In any case, the WIV was creating chimeras of novel coronaviruses with much looser precautions, at BSL-2:

> The Chinese work was carried out at biosafety level 2 (BSL-2), a much lower tier than Baric’s BSL-3+.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-...
> We have limited problem solving resources, which means we need to be smart about how we use those resources to solve the problems that legitimately have the biggest impact on human suffering.

Sounds great in principle, but how do self-driving cars fit into that picture?
> I think there's already more than enough quantity

That's just not true though. People need so much software, I've written more than one mediocre electron app for niche use cases that saved users multiple hours a week of mind-numbing work. That software that they're so happy to have in their lives would still not exist if it weren't for electron.
No. I know that my total expense in a given year will never exceed $X (Premium + out-of-pocket max). Worrying about every single transaction is not worth it.
> With the exception of Adversarial attacks on particular algorithms, no human is creating new Chess theory, discovering new openings, for example.

That's not true though? Human chessplayers are constantly exploring new lines, and engines are a useful tool but by no means the bottom line - indeed lines that were neglected because engines gave them low evaluations have been a fruitful source of ideas lately, because humans play differently from engines and may not be able to find the refutation.
It’s a new technology which no one else is testing in the real world with actual drivers at such a scale. Onus is on Tesla to provide data for others to verify the claim that it’s safe.
That’s why I said, “for example”.
I don't have the time to go through lawyer-speak arguments. The cables from officials regarding WIV safety have been verified. Just because it's on the opinion page doesn't mean it's false. It has way more credibility than some random virologist's claim about WIV safety on Reddit. Period.

Just few points:

* There's no agreement that this virus hasn't been engineered. Ralph Baric has said that just looking at the DNA it's not possible to distinguish whether a virus has been engineered or not. Alina Chan had raised this point and Vox has even made a correction on their article [1]:

> A previous version of this story stated that SARS-CoV-2 had been definitively proven not to be a bioengineered virus. While an August 2021 US intelligence report concluded, “Most agencies … assess with low confidence that SARS-CoV-2 probably was not genetically engineered,” and many scientists agree with that assessment, it was an overstatement to claim that the theory has been definitively ruled out. The introduction and conclusion of the story have been updated to reflect this lower level of certainty. (h/t to Alina Chan, biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, for her critique and input)

Please don't spread misinformation.

* A bio safety expert has weighed in and also expressed his concern about possible lab leak of SARS-CoV-2 [2].

* Viruses escape labs on regular basis [3]. Someone else on this thread also posted a link of a recent virus escape from a Taiwan lab.

* This is not the first time a lab leak happened and virologists tried to cover up. It happened during Soviet era in the 70s [4]. The truth came out after the fall of Soviet Union.

[1] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22734496/genetic-engineer...

[2] https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1479170984343064579

[3] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/3/20/18260669/deadly...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/20/world/europe/coronavirus-...
> it's very a very fundamentalist/extremist one

This is C++'s moto and core feature.

Don't think it's for you? Then it's not for you.
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It's more complicated than that. Here some links that explain.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902490

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Americans Reading Fewer Books Than in Past
A gossip-style failure detection service (2009) [pdf]
It's a trade-off. If you are unwilling to provide a phone number you can choose any other XMPP provider and still can communicate with friends who use Quicksy/Kontalk. You simply don't have this freedom if you use WhatsApp or Signal.
> Data on the web will only be "semantic" if that is the default, and with this technique it will be.

Not going to work unless imposed by some external force. The semantics of the web can more practically be extracted with neural nets, but it's a long tail and there are errors. Lots of good work recently in parsing tables, document layouts and key-value extraction. LayoutLM and its kin comes to mind.[1]

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=9435785928704193879...
My school provides a way to "test out" of a given course by exam. Basically you contact an instructor for the course and make arrangements with them for what the test will look like, and submit some paperwork.

The big downside at my school is the fee for this approach is the regular cost of taking the course, paid before you take the test, and nonrefundable in the event you don't pass. But not passing doesn't appear on your transcripts, so it only dings you financially

Also, you're only allowed to test out of a handful of requirements for your major. It was explained to me this is so no one can effectively "buy a degree" over only a semester or two.

But I've found most instructors willing to let someone in their classes who doesn't have formal prereqs who has relevant work experience

I'm in a similar boat in that I'm in my 30s now back in school. when I was 18 I dicked around for a couple semesters and dropped out. Thankfully my old community college has a system for expunging bad grades that are more than 7 years old, and I don't think that's very uncommon
The DMCA was introduced in order to ratify the WICO Copyright Treaty[1]. Every signatory of the WIPO Copyright Treaty has similar laws on the books.

Though really you could argue that the Berne Convention already covers the most obvious copyright violations you get from torrents which means that effectively every country on Earth has laws against bare-faced copyright infringement. The WIPO Copyright Treaty is most notable for Article 11 which effectively prohibits the circumvention of technical measures (DRM).

It may be practically difficult to litigate someone in another country, but it has happened in the past[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIPO_Copyright_Treaty
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial
Who is "we"? And if it's a weapons lab, what makes you think China is going to allow geopolitical adversaries to poke around to make a more secure and safer environment? This idea works with countries that can't defend themselves against the West such as Iraq, but it's always backed by an invasion. No such option exists in the case of China, so their sovereignty will remain unsullied.
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Indeed... And in creative manners. Here is the report from the visit: https://twitter.com/thejohnsudworth/status/13972233747457065...

Someone really really didn't want anyone near those mines.
It fits because humans are objectively shit drives who cause massive amounts of death, suffering, and property damage through car crashes all the time.

Unless there's hard data that FSD is worse than the status quo, attempts to curtail it's use is not only a waste of time, but potentially actively contributing to unnecessary suffering if in fact it's contributing to fewer accidents.
I agree. That one can e.g. lift every binary operator at once with just a few lines of code makes even python overloading feel heavy—but readers can still understand it easily.

My point isn't that "D doesn't meet that bar", but that the GP picked strange points of comparison: the steelman argument for C++ templates would focus on power (e.g. Eigen) instead of principles, and those for Template Haskell on safety instead of practicality. And of course, no macro comparison would be complete without gesturing vaguely in the direction of Lisp while muttering something about parentheses.

It's like the "Always Be Closing" speech in Glengarry Glen Ross: Dlang macros as John Travolta truly do kick ass in that scene—but why not have Al Pacino there to represent as top dog of the local branch?
Please make your substantive points without getting unduly personal. Your comment would be fine without the first sentence.
Dear HNers, please consult the post history of OPs account. It is a newish account which has been used daily to post controversial ideological and political flame baits, mostly related to COVID conspiracies, pandemic denialism and low-key misinformation.
In other news, coming to your local bar, high school, and nursing home parking lots: The 2022 Hummer EV with 1,000hp capable of propelling its 9,000+ pounds to 60 mph in 3 seconds or less. Legally operable by anyone with a pulse[0].

I'm not sure its the AI drivers of the future that worry me.

[0]Just about.
https://www.gmc.com/electric/hummer-ev
> However, it is clear that despite scientific success in advancing understanding about various aspects of global change, notably climate change, scientists have been spectacularly unsuccessful at bridging the science-policy interface. For climate change, the science-society contract is irrevocably broken.

Climate scientists broke the contract when they chose to cross the bridge from science to activism. This gives zero credibility.
Is there a demo or paper somewhere?
The more interesting question: What about the sources for the AI to train? How are those artists paid? Do we need to pay them? Or if it used by an AI as train data, we just say: Its like a human learning?
Cars are the primary cause of death for certain age groups! Technologies that meaningfully change the fatality rate (up or down) are of extreme importance to reducing human suffering
I got off FB by redirecting all traffic to mbasic.facebook.com. I still got those dopamine hits initially but the inconvenience of the UI eventually made me use the site less and less.

Twitter killed itself for me when it started sending me non stop notifications for tweets from people I don't even know

HN's noprocrast mode is pretty useful
I doubt it, given the absolute plethora of dystopian fiction content and real-world push back to technology that we've seen for centuries.

Personally, I find it to be exciting. As the site mentions, this could be absolutely massive for people whose interaction with the world is non-default, ie: those with disabilities. The physical and virtual interfaces we have are often inflexible and designed with 'the norm' in mind. Having an adaptive interface for those people to help them bridge the gap seems huge.

I recall a spoon that would avoid shaking, allowing someone with (as I recall) Parkinsons to eat without spilling their food. I would love to see that same sort of intermediary interface for all sorts of things.

Personally, I have pretty bad eye sight. I can't drive because of it. The premise of self driving cars, or even just street signs that I can read at night, would be immensely helpful, and I'm pretty close to 'the norm'.

There are maybe some valid concerns. Technology is power and power can be abused. We see that today. But ideally we'll adapt and regulate that power for societal good, as we have done with power historically.
> because they couldn't keep up with competition

I think you mean because they couldn’t be monopolized and monetized as effectively as a proprietary solution.
the name is for the excuse to drink, the effect is totally uninteresting at that time :-)
In 2013 Mozilla spent $197M on software development and $30M on general/administrative.

In 2020 it was $242M and $137M.

The future-focused servo team was not the place to cut a couple million.
Not only that, its follow up system SACCS, gave birth to JOVIAL, one of the first system programming languages, in 1958.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOVIAL
I'm not a fan of SQL, but I do think exposing your original source data in its original form is valuable (though it has little to do with being semantic). I carefully set up my blog to expose the raw markdown that is the source form of my blog posts in the source HTML itself, with the minimum necessary cruft around it to render it as a viewable webpage.
It happened when Mozilla laid off 25% of their staff. Servo was probably part of that because it was more of a research project than part of the core business.
This is a twisted way of seeing it.

E2EE is mandatory in Messages.

Backup is optional - my phone has never seen an iCloud backup (all local backups).
are there any articles interviewing relevant staff from the wuhan lab, in the last 12 months?

have they issued any statements?
Is this a mask testing company or a mask selling company?

How could I possibly trust one company to do both?
> BTW: Has anyone got a good, working recipee for pot brownies that a) don't taste terrible and b) don't require lab equipment? I haven't had much sucess in the past

Use a crockpot to make butter first: Add 1 oz ground up bud, 1 lb unsalted butter, and 2 cups of water. Set it on low for 8 hours, stirring occasionally. When it's done, use a strainer / cheesecloth to filter out the plant matter, pouring the butter / water mixture into a tupperware container. Squeeze as much butter as you can out of the cheesecloth into the tupperware, and put it in the fridge overnight. The (green) butter will separate from the water and solidify. Take the solid chunk of butter out of the container and place it on a paper towel to dry in the fridge.

You can melt the butter down in the microwave now that the water has been removed, and pour it into 4 oz containers to solidify into 3-4 sticks of cannabutter. Wrap each stick in foil (if you want) and freeze any that you don't plan on using right away.

Then just use some standard brownie mix that calls for 1 stick of butter.
Free-Viewpoint Rendering of Moving People from Monocular Video