skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know when you wake from a dream by hitting the bed from falling? That happened to me in the tank. It was either that, or I felt like I started spinning. Was like my gyros were being re-calibrated or something.
Trouble with your const there as written is that you don’t have a type that’s equal to "GET" | "POST". Fortunately, this can be done without repetition or too much bother:

const HttpMethod = {
Get: 'GET',
Post: 'POST',
} as const;
type HttpMethod = (typeof HttpMethod)[keyof typeof HttpMethod];

Maybe wrap the `{…} as const` in Object.freeze(…) for good measure.

It’d be really nice if they’d improve the ergonomics on this in some way (`type Values<T> = T[keyof T]` would reduce it to `type HttpMethod = Values<typeof HttpMethod>`, which is a start but not enough), to make it a genuine and suitable alternative to enum (minus the other frippery that’s generated) and const enum (because it’s pure JavaScript, not an extension).
It's a badly named and irresponsibly advertised lane assist system.

I recently rented an Audi Q5 and a Toyota Corolla that both had vision-based lane assist and radar distance-keeping systems baked into the cruise control. It's clearly just cruise control, slightly more sophisticated than the hand-operated throttle lock in my dad's restored 1940s antique truck, but just cruise control nonetheless. That's obvious from the engagement mechanism on the steering wheel, from the way it tugs at the power steering when the painted lane lines bend near intersections, from the "Please take control" alert and disengagement when it hasn't felt a sufficiently strong override from your hands on the wheel in 10 seconds... Is that experience anything like the implementation inside a Tesla? If so, I can't imagine why any driver would be confused, if not, that seems pretty negligent on Tesla's behalf.
Agile or not software projects are normally .. projects, with an expected budget. Much of that budget gets 'used' figuring out what the point of the project is, requirements, managing the project deliver, stakeholder management and reporting, working with other teams to access, integrate and understand systems ... then the building of the system is built with what left, which leaves no room for your 'gold plating' ...
Yes. Also, I think Tesla should be on the hook for some of that guilt for their misleading marketing around the "autopilot" feature.
a bizarre case of cherry-picking

One man's cherry-picking is another man's apples-to-apples comparison. If you want to compare the base mortality of two diseases in different times, you do need to correct for differences in lifestyle and healthcare standards, otherwise the comparison is meaningless.

I have no opinion on the merits of the chosen comparison, but if your position is that it is fair to compare the baseline mortality rate of a pandemic that occurred right after a devastating world war with the baseline mortality rate of a pandemic under 21st-century health care and information systems, then I would also accuse you of cherry-picking your statistics: you need to include both the differences in healthcare and the differences in case numbers in your comparison.
I gave it a try couple of years ago. Did not experience anything special. All I remember was that it was very boring to just lie there for an hour without doing anything.
Remote + 4-day would make more efficient worker + happy person
> a comfortable safe environment, a bed and uninterrupted silence.

Luxurious!

No but seriously, a lot of people don't even have access to a quiet and dark bedroom. It was only when I bought my house some years ago that I had that, and it's not even perfect - I prefer to sleep with the window open, frequently there's background noise from the nearby highway (white noise). But depending on wind and atmospheric conditions it can also be deathly silent. Until I start snoring anyway.
If the drivers must be always in control of the vehicle (according to the manual and the activation of Autopilot), what's good in this feature? Couldn't the driver sue Tesla for bad marketing? They are selling a feature which is a lie, aren't they?

PD: I don't own any car and I have nothing against Tesla.
The 2021 Feb cold was very tramatic but rare. I live in Austin. Since 1927 we has only gotten into single digits in 5 years: 2021, 1989, 1951, 1949 and 1930. 1949 was coldest at -2 F.

And it wasn't just the cold that was the problem -- it was the cold over 5 days and unprecedented amount of snow. It is rare for Austin to ever see snow.
Tesla's marketing is admissible in court as evidence, and probably will carry more weight than any warnings. Marketing is designed to be clear and easy to understand, so courts tend to assume that people understand the marketing intent more than the letter of the legalese warnings.

I have no idea what courts will do. It tends to take a lot of cases going opposite ways in slightly different situations before they settle down to something where anyone will attempt a prediction. We are still in the early days of this.
It's a minimum of $6/m per inbox so if you have just 10 emails it's $720/year. That's not a small chunk of change if you're just using the email feature.
A gif just loaded[0]! That means that the computer is alive, and the floppy still somewhat works. No luck in trying the homepage.

[0] https://old.bigcat.space/278062.gif - here it is for the curious: https://imgur.com/a/AfcEnRw

edit: the website just loaded, but not the images. It's still alive.
Ultimately yes. You are the driver of the car. It is involuntary manslaughter.

Even if it is a software error, even if the brakes stop working, even if x, y or z (etc)

It is always the responsibility of the driver to accept the consequences of any forseen or unforseen actions of any kind of outcome.

Depending on the unfortunate event, any mitigating events might be taken into account.
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Car was a 2016 model. Up until 2019, Tesla still said each car came eq with FSD hardware.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190131055138/https://www.tesla...

PPL see that and think it's true, that their car can drive itself.
It may come down to deeper analysis that looks at both root and proximate causes. If Tesla's design was considered faulty from a safety standpoint and substantially contributed to the accident, I would imagine they will have some portion of responsibility.

I also think the generalized caveat that it's always the drivers fault is a dangerous one that can incentivize manufacturer's to take unnecessary risks (e.g., less testing/quality in favor of delivering on schedule because they can always push the risk - sometimes unknown - to the end user).
Is it Yevegny Lifshetz?
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> some issues on their property

Nah, it's more like how you are responsible for a loose animal that leaves your property and causes harm.

/ianal
Very cool, and super good use of your time
How does it compare to previous proposed hw assisted ways to bolt memory safety onto C? Like Hardbound, In-Fat, MPX for example.
> You're pointing to a dynamic of urban decay and "broken windows effect", which is the exact opposite of gentrification.

Both go together hand-in-hand, you cannot have gentrification without an area that picks up those driven out by it.

> and the lower-skilled end of the labor market is the one that bears the greatest burden by far from the kind of onerous labor regulation and taxation that is especially common in France.

> Germany used to be in the same boat, but they enacted reforms in the early 2000s that provided for some degree of much-needed flexibility for these marginalized workers.

When comparing the employment sector in France and in Germany where the Schröder government introduced the infamous "Hartz IV" reforms in 2006, one clear thing pops out: France has a significantly lower rate of ultra-low-wage employment (8.6%) compared to Germany (20.7%). The "flexibility" only helped the ultra-low-wage employment sector to explode, a trend that only got reversed in the last few years before COVID hit [2].

[1]: https://www.destatis.de/Europa/DE/Thema/Bevoelkerung-Arbeit-...

[2]: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/161881/umfrag...
Height is associated with a lot of things including mortality, yes. But more importantly, as mentioned other easy to measure metrics like distance would ignore that it takes different levels of exertion (due to different height and stride length) to cover a given distance while steps accounts for that to a larger extent.
There is not a single mention of FSD in the article; neither did the article ever say that the driver was using it.

Did you just prove that you read as far as the headline and not the entire article itself?
Yes, as it should be. There are no enums. Instead, you can pass in any of the documented strings (or whatever the base type is). Even inside TypeScript, an enum is really just a union type on steroids.

When you expose TypeScript code to JavaScript consumers you absolutely must validate all incoming data anyway, whatever type you declare.
Same, although I learned about Bitcoin here before it had any value, and most recently, I heard about Wordle before there were news articles. I imagine HN is what kickstarted Wordle's popularity.
> it's THE Google account for some people, which includes all their purchases and data and there's no way to move it.

In these comments (on HN), I've seen claims that we'll still be able to login to Google with our old accounts, like how it's possible to have a Google account with an @yahoo login.

I've also seen people disputing that, though.

> Using G-Suite as your personal email has always been hell anyway.

I've not had "hell"-level problems. It's all been working pretty well for me.
Include descriptive comments for each method
The root of your argument relies on your assumption that Bitcoin is useless. Obviously, I disagree with this assessment, as a decentralized network that is permissionless to participate in, can be interacted with from anywhere in the planet, is censorship resistant, and more private, has value. Creating a digital store of value that can give stability to money and maybe even replace fiat currency is valuable to society.

> Shouldn't we be capturing co2 or warming up children in need instead?

Your suggestions on how to spend electricity (aka resources or money) are great, but whose paying for it? Are you suggesting governments commandeer the electricity/power generation market and become responsible for rationing electricity to the public?
Happy Fastmail customer as well. If you want to leave gmail behind, this service is the way to go. They have a great Web GUI, and accounts have the latest security features. Fastmail supports CalDav/CardDav which works great IMHO.
Why do you find them self documenting?

Usually it's just

enum Method {
Get = "GET"
// ...
}

I usually always put doc comments on enums and their variants.

Regarding why numeric ones are (only sometimes) more useful than string values: bit flags comes to mind, faster comparison of numbers than strings (not always tho... unless this is a misconception, but I don't believe so), you mentioned smaller bundle size already.

As for "auto" enums: the fact they're numbers now is an implementation detail. They could be unique Symbols in a future versions of typescript. You can do that manually now too, but I'm talking about the automatic (without assignment) syntax.

Regarding article: I... Half-agree. But I'd not completely disregard/avoid enums. At the very least, they can be useful to help model some behaviours/states in more readable, accessible, and coherent way (Other comments went into a more in-depth defence of enums, thought).
Why can't you use a laser with a relatively high power? Should be easier to differentiate that from background and star light? Or something more exotic like sweeping wavelengths.
This is a very interesting opinion, however, I don't think it works like that in any jurisdiction.
Who borrows money from babies?
It doesn't support one variant of them, const enums for example. That ties you to tsc emit. Its pretty clear that if the tsc team could they would remove enums and favour literal unions.
Yep, that's exactly what my thoughts were. One time I had a headache on the way driving there. All gone within a few minutes of stepping into the tank.
I didn't walk away with a clear picture: Was it "data integrity issues at 3 out of 153 sites [no idea about the remaining 150]" or was it "... [the others were fine]"?

The FDA audits were at some other sites of those 153 and reportedly did not find any incongruences. Which need not mean there were no issues, but it's certainly a prior.
Yes but it's an option (the incorrectly named full self driving package). https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot
That intoxicatingly calm space between awake and not-quite-awake-yet is about the best drug there is. The difficulty therein is knowing that the day's remainder will, at best, and rarely in sobriety, only approximate this magical state of bliss.
It would be a bad lawyer who didn't try to drag Tesla into court for this. Tesla has more money than whoever was driving (well I didn't look into the background, maybe the driver is filthy rich, but odds are against it), and lawyers always look for the deepest pockets. The victim's lawyer and the driver's lawyers (more likely his insurance company's lawyers) both have incentive to pin this on Tesla as much as they can, and marketing is admissible in court.
I think one could conceivably both criticize FB for enabling the spread of false info and for their censorship via fact-checking.

The argument would be that FB optimizes sharing false info, and the proper fix is to either get rid of it completely, or fundamentally change it. Not tack on some "fact checking".
> on the whole there are no concerns about about the Pfizer vaccine trial, only the three sites administered by Ventavia

Like, the numbers for hospitalisation were very very small indeed, and while I (personally) don't believe that the entire trial was flawed (the extensive real world evidence would suggest otherwise), clinical trials are super important, and fixing flaws in them and reporting on them is exactly what I want the BMJ to do.

Additionally, the Lead Stories people are engaging in politics over this report, which kinda sickens me, to be honest. Both them and SBM are using ad-hominems to avoid engaging with the detail of this report, and that's concerning (particularly the fact checkers).

More generally, fact checking being done like this is very worrying (like the Cochrane collaboration got banned from IG for a while, which is nuts).

I guess my meta-point here is that standards of discourse are dropping everywhere, it's all explosions of rage in defence of a pre-determined outcome (which I mostly agree with, tbh) and this is very, very sad and bodes badly for humanity's ability to solve the problems in front of us over the next few decades.

Sad.
> It's not THAT infuriating that the product is so thoroughly _NOT_GREAT_, until you find out that the budget for it exceeds by orders of magnitude anything you've ever seen.

I once interacted with a private government contractor. They did an adequate job on a project. It worked, and it wasn't terrible. But they billed $5 million for a project that could have been built for $50 thousand, or—once you put up with a drawn-out sales process, endless client meetings and the occasional change request—more like $500,000.

The simple fact is that many large organizations, public or private, couldn't do a $50,000 software project. It costs more than that to close the sale and negotiate contracts. As Joel Spolsky pointed out, once you need to put salespeople on airplanes, even shrinkwrap software costs $75,000: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-....

> I have no doubt that many, many private corporations have the exact same problem. (I've seen the inside of the average insurance company, and my god are those places bloated).

Yeah, that has often been my experience. Sufficiently large companies tend to be deeply inefficient about small things. Partly this is because they're optimizing for different needs than you might think, and partly because $1 million is basically pocket change if it actually solves a problem.

But also, once a company grows beyond a certain size, it operates internally like a centralized command-and-control economy. Internal politics matter far more in the short run than any market feedback.

If anything, governments can have a slight advantage if they keep things in-house. Government employees are often slightly more idealistic than their private sector counterparts, and they're definitely paid less. So an organization like the US Digital Service can outperform the original private contractors who built healthcare.gov. The USDS was staffed by idealistic FAANG developers working for the common good at below-market salaries. They did a better job than CGI Federal, the original private contractor.
I had a few OBEs while falling asleep in the afternoon while maintaining awareness, and it is seemed to me that they were hallucinatory experiences triggered by sleep paralysis kicking in. And yes, they are likely a specific form of lucid dreaming.
It could potentially work under Pharmacopeia / Value-based healthcare model, and as a service it's less like a drug and more like a "process"; more like surgery, less like a pill. "Surgery wouldn't work under the pharmaceutical industry either"

We're working with the Australian government to make this happen: https://www.westmeadinstitute.org.au/news-and-events/2021/we...

The difference we have now vs. 80 years ago Soviet Russia, is that we have tools that speed up lab work and the pipeline of "finding/getting/checking/manufacturing/using" the right phage for the right infection.

It's still going to be mighty difficult, though. And not sure if the economics really would make sense, but still — do the economics of surgery make sense? (I actually don't know the answer to that)
Ah, thank you, I was wondering.
This is remarkably different from how a previous employer of mine treated HN. When we were on the front page, the most frequent internal response was to quote from https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1279277/ to encourage people to stay away.
Tesla markets their software as "full self-driving".

Their page on their own website[1] for the autopilot has a video which starts with the words "The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself." Followed by a video of a tesla driving itself on public roads with other cars around while the person's hands are not on the wheel.

While they have those disclaimers, they are only there to try to protect themselves from liability. But their marketing, and especially the words from Elon's mouth, are 100% geared towards making the consumer believe that the system is capable of driving itself.

They can claim they told the driver to always be in charge, but there's no way (in my eyes) that they can do that with a straight face. "You gotta keep your hands on the wheel and always be in charge wink."

[1]: https://www.tesla.com/autopilot
if isnt regulated, the politians are guilty. they have to create laws and regulations on time (sorry my poor english)
you forgot to remove some of the Lorem Ipsum
Totally fine with me. I won’t bat an eye paying the new price; I think the content is well worth it!
It may appear inauthentic but is it really that unlikely that rich people can take on the global wealth mechanics from the position of the poor?

I once saw an interview with a switzer "Tax Me Now" supporter who inherited her wealth without ever having to do anything for it. I guess it's that disconnect to the own wealth, the missing feeling of having deserved it, that enables this stance. Unfortunately, on the other side it means that "geniuses" like Bezos, Musk, etc. may even have a stronger conviction for their good will in human history and project it onto the world.
Have you ever seen those signs on the back of dump trucks on the highway that state something like, “Stay Back: Truck Driver Not Responsible for Cracked Windshields”?
Is this a joke, or do they actually think there's a market for this?

I see ads for emergency rations and even saw an ad for a while marketing a rugged USB memory stick that contains all of Wikipedia on it in case the Internet and society breaks down you can still look up how to do stuff.

If people are buying that stuff, they'll buy this I guess. Doesn't mean it's practical but they'll buy it.
Tesla gives out conflicting messages.

For years, and even today, there are Tesla-produced videos that say:

> The driver is only in the seat for legal reasons. The car is driving itself.

So while there is a disclaimer, there's also Tesla's not so subtle nudge nudge wink wink implications.

They did the same with Summon. While the fine print said "Do not use while distracted. Pay attention to the vehicle at all times", the rest of their copy said:

> Have your car come to you while you deal with a fussy child.

Tesla and Musk (and remember, Tesla told the SEC Musk's Twitter is an "official company communication channel") have even linked and re-tweeted videos of people driving entirely hands-free.

Liability lies with the driver, but it would not be hard to argue that the company's under is "Bah. Pesky regulation. All this shit works, but we're just waiting on the law to catch up".
My thoughts exactly, I couldn't believe how completely I failed to parse these as dates just because of a tiny leading zero.

I guess it's because dates aren't numbers any more, but names. It would be like adding an "O" in front of every name, like "Ojohn", "Omary".
> No, they won’t send you to a labor camp or come after your family. And, yes it’s a private company and if anyone doesn’t like it they can leave, but the mechanics of censorship are exactly the same.

If you have to ignore 2 mechanisms by which authoritarian regimes enforce censorship in order to say that "the mechanics of censorship are exactly the same", then they're not _exactly_ the same.
Why can't you just take it 30 minutes before?
It sounds like you're comparing an over the counter supplement with a unique designer drug from a pharmaceutical company specifically targeting Covid-19. A brief search did not pull up much regarding the product you mentioned apart from the company itself.
I'll leave it to others to go into technical details, but the most obvious answer is that this effort has major industry players behind it, meaning it might actually make it into production.
Solar panels needed and battery backup to power Germany?
> If you've been working in tech for more than a year and don't have a year's living expenses saved up/invested in liquid assets, you might want to reconsider your spending habits

This is probably the most detached-from-reality thing I have ever read on HN.
Here is an interesting question I recently came upon, does the driver of a Tesla need consent from their passengers before turning on FSD? I would argue yes, because I don’t want to unknowingly beta test software with my life, but I am curious what others think.
What startup hiring looks like in 2021 – and during a pandemic
Even if you want to be anal about this. Phil saying the words sustainable doesn’t mean it’s profitable or not. It is just him saying stuff to the public. As if any corporate exec is ever going to be truly honest in public.

Taking away PR words as fact is not sustainable. It doesn’t work.
Ha! That last sentence slaps.
I'm with you on Silicon Valley being a grift, but be wary about mindless content consumption - even if it's not doomscrolling, you're essentially putting yourself in stasis and numbing yourself with a constant dopamine drip-feed, which can lead to not actually enjoying life. Basically, internet addiction is real.
I've tried sensory deprivation tanks twice and fell asleep instantly both times, though my goal was to hallucinate. It was really restful, pleasant sleep. Probably means my normal sleep is low quality, which makes sense since I have sleep apnea.
Not in 2019. That feature was added in 2020.