skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does this compare to things like PostHog or Mixpanel?
Claiming that someone doesn't pay taxes isn't opinion. It's a factual claim, and a false one. That's a smear.

True it's only one example, but surely you don't expect me to list every attack against him in a HN comment? You can find a lot more attacks if you want to investigate further.
Actually, the Hamburg-Berlin IRE should be covered by this ticket as well, which requires no changes at all.
Non-paywall: https://archive.ph/ArRLx
You know that's not how they sell autopilot. They sell it as something that is more intelligent than dumb cruise control, and they sell it as the safest driver on the road. They don't sell it as "equivalent to airplane autopilot."

In Germany, a court ruled that they misled customers on the capabilities of autopilot and banned advertising it: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/14/tesla-autopilot-self-driving...
> Although cardiovascular disease is widely recognized as the leading cause of death, a lesser known fact is that aortic aneurysm is the 15th leading cause of death over the age of 65 years in the USA.

I was not aware of this.
non-surgical interventions:
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/circj/advpub/0/advpub_C...

> This is just one of the reasons doctors grimace when people want to get such scans without cause, but there are many others beyond the scope of this reply too.

Great points. Is it legal for a doctor to hide informations to its patient? such as the fact he has a seemingly "minor" aneurysm ?

> I get a full MRI imaging every two years

You might wanna study radio-protectors such as NAC. I had read it is also a contrastive agent but it's unclear to me what it help to see and what it might inadvertently hide (if anything)
Man, civil forfeiture in the United States is really something else.

This seems like a nightmare.

Related video by John Oliver on Last Week Tonight regarding Civil Forfeiture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
> The German government did that to compensate for rising gasoline prices

In particular, the government reduced the taxes on gasoline due to the high gasoline prices, a purely populist insanity in these times of climate crisis. Then they remembered that they were elected on a pro-environment platform, and concluded that they also had to support those using public transport, and this was the result.
The obvious thing to happen next cycle from instituting such rules: the benefits program's dedicated budget gets adjusted down by the expected value of forfeitures.
What about the other extreme, let everyone do all the tests imaginable? Or course it doesn't make sense. The balance is on how mych evidence available before a test is suggested. Evidence is the incident rate among the population and the false negative rate(specificity). I'm using very loosely defined terms here because I'm too lazy to quote the definition. But no need false dichotomy.
That's an excellent guideline. I want to throw another example into the ring if folks are researching this space:

Planetscale does a good job at https://planetscale.com/blog

In particular "Generics can make your Go code slower"[1] which received deservedly a lot of attention here.

1 - https://planetscale.com/blog/generics-can-make-your-go-code-...
Agreed. I think the article and parent comment seem to be from the perspective of someone who has never had to, say, read or interpret a chest CT. Or had to tell someone that they have an indeterminate module that may be cancer but may be nothing.

The article also seems to imply that their is one entity or person who controls all aspects of diagnosis (hence the meme at the top), from taking a history and doing a physical exam to perfectly understanding the intricacies of all additional diagnostic testing. Of course, your primary care doctor may not understand exactly what percentage of people in a low (or high) risk cohort with this lung nodule with certain specific imaging features turn out to have cancer. Hopefully the radiologist does—but they didn’t talk with the patient to assess their risk tolerance and data-collection preferences before saying “consider further evaluation with tissue sampling” in that report.

At the end of the day, respecting patient autonomy matters. It sounds like whoever wrote this article would lean towards asking their doctor to collect as much information as possible. Others wouldn’t. In a perfect world, the patient will be well informed by their doctor, be well-counseled on the risks and benefits of a test / intervention, and will be capable of understanding things like statistics well enough to come to an informed decision that works for them. In reality, that often does not happen for a number of reasons.
Don't you know that two racisms in opposite direction cancell out and you have no racism left
It's not uncommon to travel through Germany using only the regional trains. There are several tickets tailored to this, like the "Quer durch's Land Ticket", which is valid for a full day.

I, for one, used to travel a lot through Germany using only the Wochenendticket, which is the predecessor of the "Quer durch's Land" - Ticket and was only valid on Saturday or Sunday.
Might be dumb question, but won't this configuration need admin ssh access to add required rules and local server to log that traffic?
DB always had weekend or summer tickets that were heavily discounted and only allowed regional trains. Especially young adults and teenagers use those every year, they’re perfect if you’ve got more time than money.
Linux is very cursed. It's the best OS with the worst desktop, 25 years on.
The more this guy talks and doubles down, the more he's eroding the floor he's standing on. His lawyers should just take his phone away.

I am very harsh critic of Musk and never felt for his personal or corporate propaganda, but if you asked me 3 months ago I was 99% confident that his net worth will never fall below 15B, no matter what he does or what laws he violates. His cushion and margin of error was simply too wide.

Now I am not so sure anymore. When your wealth and power is a function of how you make people feel, it's easy come and easy go.

People who were once on top of the world are today irrelevant: Carter, Bill Clinton, Bush 43, Obama, Merkel, Gorbachev. They were on top of the world because of how they managed to make people feel.

Sometimes it's way more convenient to own a piece of Metlife or Prudential or General Electric or Coca Cola...uncontroversial stuff which people will always need and doesn't need a social movement behind to increase in value.
How about updating GCC to do your optimizations?

I mean, let's be real: a needle and a steady hand hasn't been the key to getting the little man in the box to do your bidding for a while!
This reminds me of a professor I had on numerical methods.

The guy was an absolute genius. He helped write some amount (a lot?) of the FORTRAN compiler for at least one of its variants. And... we used state of the art numerical methods. We had a textbook on numerical methods, sure, but this was always just a starting place for what we used. (To this day, I've got some numerical algorithms I coded in FORTRAN that can crush those from common libraries.) If you missed a lecture, there was no making it up by reading the book. You were SCREWED if you didn't get a really good copy of the notes.

Another thing: When lecturing, he barely glanced at his notes even in the middle of complicated derivations of error bounds and things like that.

But here's the real point of this discussion: He had a way of testing that produced similar results to what this article is talking about.

We wouldn't be tested on a general survey of the methods we covered in the class. No. We would be tested on just one or maybe two of the methods we had learned over the entire semester, and the exam questions would be a DEEP, DEEP dive into that method. (I had this guy for 3 semesters, always the same.) When asked what the exam would be on, he'd basically just say: "The numerical methods we've covered thus far". So you had no idea which method you'd need to learn to the maximum degree of depth. This forced you to simply study the shit out of them all. I mean, you had to know some really subtle things about the method if you wanted to get a reasonable grade on the exam.

I actually grew to appreciate this as a testing method. It was the first class I'd ever had where I actually really needed to study. And study I did. Every other class would involve at most a cursory review of a couple of example problems I thought I might run into. This class though was always a minimum of like 3 full days of complete and thorough review, in teams with the other students.
The families of the victims are sueing Tesla and the defendant in a separate civil case.
> Tesla cars come standard with advanced hardware capable of providing Autopilot features, and full self-driving capabilities—through software updates designed to improve functionality over time.

The marketing is weird. They mix up current capabilities and future aspirations deliberately.

For instance, here:

> The system is designed to be able to conduct short and long distance trips with no action required by the person in the driver’s seat.

They actually mean that the system is designed such that "in the future" it will be able to do this. The previous sentence is "All new Tesla cars have the hardware needed in the future for full self-driving in almost all circumstances", and you're supposed to carry that context forward into the following sentence.

Another aspiration, which if you weren't reading carefully you might assume was a present capability:

> All you will need to do is get in and tell your car where to go. If you don’t say anything, your car will look at your calendar and take you there as the assumed destination. Your Tesla will figure out the optimal route, navigating urban streets, complex intersections and freeways.

It's intentionally misleading.

https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/autopilot

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PS. Yes, there are caveats: "Current Autopilot features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous". That doesn't make the rest of the marketing copy clear.
You don't really have to go much further than the source they reference multiple times - WXYZ Detroit.
Because of the huge downside should postoperative bleeding occur necessitating reexploration, there are numerous 5-10 minute "holds" while closing during which NOTHING happens: the neurosurgery resident simply stands there, looking for even the tiniest ooze or bleed and then cauterizing it.
There is an easy fix but nobody would stand for it: do full longitudinal surveillance of all tests. That is, the gent with the “narrowed” arteries could be followed to see if it becomes a problem (a lot of the metrics are, to simplify, fairly arbitrary and based on a small observational n). Perhaps he does have a stroke, perhaps not.

Of course no one would stand for such an intrusive system. But over time it would improve diagnosis.
Come on that’s not fair. Don’t the Dutch hate credit cards too?
> "this page loads faster in the app."

And then a link to "Open in App" which just sends you to the App Store and not the actual content, in the app, which I've already got installed.
> One of the things that didn't occur to me before I bought it was that _because_ of the modular design I can switch the side the power port is on.

I'm not really sold on the integrated dongle design of the framework. Doesn't this argument speak more to the design of USB-C than it does to the integrated dongles?
> What can I do to change things?

Tell your higher ups to hire above your level.
>Even though it's technically a line of credit that happens to have an insurance policy attached?

Dear god. If your federally insured bank goes belly up and the federal government doesn't fulfill it's promise to make you whole, what will make the federal paper under your mattress have any value? Libertarianism is a cult.
The warrant is part that makes it not a dragnet.
It is almost like 99.999% of the crypto people don't have computer engineering or computer science degrees or have never built a production system that requires concurrency and fault tolerance over a persistence layer.

A system that validates new entries into a database can either be "very cheap and very fast" or "very fault tolerant and very decentralized". The speed of light in networking and the speed of modern CPUs make this unavoidable.
> Just like how the right to a “speedy” trial somehow allows them to be delayed for over a year.

Generally, when trials take a very long time to happen, it's because the defendant has decided it is in their interest to waive the right to a speedy trial.
AMP is a transparent attempt by Google to evolve the web toward a Google-controlled walled garden platform. It was one of those things that I said "I hope this fails" as soon as I read a synopsis of it.
this is super nice.
Go address some of the posters "why is the front page worthy" - I'm not surprised that 3 letter agencies get all the data they want, but very often it's very covert and not so "official".
For those confused by the headline here: the trial is of the driver of the car. It's a routine vehicular manslaughter case. The involvement of Tesla is only that "the car was on AP so it's not my fault" is being (presumably) attempted as a defense.
UCLA used to have a tour for incoming students during summer orientation. At the beginning of the tour, the guide would inform the students that they were about to hear some pretty wild stories about the campus, but that only one of the claims was a lie. Over the hour-long tour, some pretty wild claims were floated (this building had to be rotated to reduce sunset glare hitting the 405, or that fountain was sabotaged during its design to look like a toilet, or that sculpture is entirely made of ear wax.) At the end of the tour the lie was finally revealed: that they were all lies, and the original claim itself was false.
> But isn't it possible to modernize the math syntax to use more descriptive names, variables and functions?

That's exactly what programming is. The issue is, programming languages do a lot of other things that are irrelevant to mathematics, and the syntax is so much more verbose that it doesn't make sense for pure math. You don't want control structures interrupting your train of thought every other line when trying to understand an equation, analogous to spaghetti code filled with gotos.
Cue the Greek chorus throwing shade at Microsoft for taking measures to not get their products banned in the largest nation on Earth.
In 2016, a video was published on Tesla's website "this car is driving itself, the driver is there just for legal reasons"

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/79991021385159065...
In what context can a law disagree with the Constitution and still be legitimate?
I've tried for several iterations until I finally gave up and moved on to Ruby, Racket etc. Moose is quite slow itself. I never use it or anything that depends on it. I use Moo or Mojo::Base instead.

Inline::Perl5 is quite an ugly last resort solution. And you still need a Perl intepreter as opposed to calling on C code from D where you just need the libs.
Suspicious crypto transactions in the adult webcam ecosystem
> The variation lies in different utilization rate, the burn rate, and all other variables, but within the limit of PHYSICS.

CICO is useful as an upper bound on calorie utilization, but unfortunately not relevant to the problem of obesity, which deals with the exact opposite end of the problem space.

CICO might be important if the problem was that people in first world nations were starving due to an insufficient supply of calories. But the obesity epidemic indicates that this is not the case. So CICO is relevant to the problem in the same way that a theoretical understanding of the gasoline-air reaction is relevant to understanding why my car's gas mileage has dropped recently.
Cool, then that should be in the title for that post. This is wrong.
VC backed startups are a Ponzi scheme? I believe all of the FAANG companies started that way (took VC funding in their early days.) How is anybody supposed to take you seriously if you make broad categorical statements that are factually inaccurate?
Employers are going to learn to their sorrow that WFH is here to stay. The emperor is still browsing his wardrobe full of invisible clothes, and it's not going to be sustainable.

Managers who can't handle a remote team are generally egotistical and shitty at their job. They need to adapt or move aside for someone who is capable of dealing.
The train will go independently of utilization so no matter how few seats are occupied, using a car instead will lead to more emissions (noise, particles from tires, exhaust gases incl. CO2).
Why do you think taking a taxi to/from a train station makes the whole trip take more emissions than taking a car for the whole ride?

Which other factors would need to be counted in?
I honestly can not imagine a scenario where using a car is better for the environment than using a train...

> Please don't push this EU green-madness.

Please make an argument that your position should not be considered madness.

I am myself not taking a train very often, but that is because it's often more expensive than using my car, less flexible and not as comfortable (mostly because I don't feel comfortable around strangers).
When you bought that airplane or the autopilot system, was it advertised like this?

https://www.tesla.com/autopilot

And note that this is the current marketing material.

Edit: It's not mentioned in the article, as far as I see, but it's likely the driver was on the cell phone. It mentions the data shows the driver had their hands on the steering wheel, but that can be easily thwarted, to my understanding. The fact that they didn't brake at all implies they weren't actually holding the steering wheel, at least in a way where they were paying attention. In my opinion, both the driver and Tesla bear responsibility.
My beef is with letting aesthetics trump accessibility.

If a site provides a widget where contrast can be beefed up, probably part of the dark-mode / light-mode widget, that seems OK.
> In London I live on a main road but only hear them a few times a day

Couple of hundred yards off Old Kent Road and yeah, similar experience - although they do tend to come in bunches around here, it's generally over in a minute or two.
Submitted for the 9th time:

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31440931

2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31441451

3) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31441771

4) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31442414

5) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31442356

6) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31442987

7) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31445932

8) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31446105

9) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31447116
There's no disaster as far as I know. This is a old, well understood Lisp idiom. Clojure specifically has a ton of macros, functions and patterns around this concept, such as if-let, when-let, some->, looking up stuff in a map, just to name a few, much this goes under the umbrella of "nil-punning" and "logically true values" etc.

Caveats and boundaries: It is typically clear whether something can return a nil or accepts a nil value one versus when it doesn't. A good example would be string methods and other Java interop, where you will make sure you don't pass in a nil value, you are crossing language boundaries here so to speak. Another boundary of nil usage would be sequences, which will not evaluate to falsy, even if empty, so you explicitly would call seq or empty? on them.

The bottom line is that you are very aware of nil values and their falsiness in Clojure and that you program with them rather than against them.
In Luxembourg, all public transport is free for everyone. I was just there, and as a tourist, it saved me a lot of hassle not needing to figure out where and how to buy which ticket. Jump hop on any train, bus or tram :).

And yes, I understand why this wouldn't work well in other countries.
The x86 emulator built into Itanium 1 was very bad, yes, but it didn't matter that much outside of workstation use. HP build Itanium 2 without it, and provided software emulators for x86 and HP-PA that worked apparently "well enough".

The real deal breaker was Itanium being ridiculously expensive and quickly destroying any possibility of increased market by pricing itself out of it - and even in the markets that had the money, it was considered overpriced (nicest thing I heard about Itanium was "overpriced DSP masquerading as general purpose CPU"). I remember reading intel's published roadmaps before news about amd64 landed - We would be running 32bit x86 much longer under it, with Itanium being kept at extra premium prices.

Even customers that had Itanium as the only upgrade path available - thanks to HP - found the performance so bad - on natively compiled code! - they effectively forced HP to produce Alpha till Itanium was pretty much confirmed dead and the customers migrated out of HP vendor-locked stack (at one of the largest mobile telcos in Poland we migrated from Alpha to IBM POWER, many OpenVMS customers kept buying/hoarding Wildfire and Marvel architecture servers).
Yeah it’s obvious emergency crews in London have been given some very stringent training on the use of sirens.

Only used for a short period on approach to junctions, turned off if it’s clear that traffic can’t create space for them (so they don’t just sit in traffic wailing away), alternating the siren tone after passing each junction so it’s clear to others you need to pay attention again as the vehicle has cleared an obstacle and is going to start accelerating.

They do an extremely good job of making sure that people know they’re there, without being unnecessarily obnoxious.
Ok, that's apparently a special case, that's an Intercity train (as can be seen from the "Operator: DB Fernverkehr AG" on the page above) that can usually also be used with regional tickets, but DB apparently decided that doesn't apply to the 9 € ticket. The trains are painted in DB's "long distance" livery, but I'm not sure how many passengers would interpret that as a clue that the 9 € ticket may not be valid...

Paywalled article in German: https://www.nwzonline.de/plus-wirtschaft/9-euro-ticket-gilt-...
For comparison:

- The Tailwind CSS framework’s popular “Prose” plugin defaults text colors to #374151.

- Years ago, designers told me that, for text on a white background, they recommended nothing darker than #333.
While I personally agree, I think the bar for readability gets slowly lowered over time. In the Typescript/JavaScript world a for loop used to be (and still is to some) considered more readable than using the functional array functions.

Our reasoning for readability is usually based on what the average programmer is able to read, so the more programmers get used to dense syntax the more readable it is. There's rarely any "real argument" to be had for or against readability.

Haskell and other languages that are inspired by math look very noisy to me, but at the same time I understand that math people don't agree.
Mid term stuff like full self-driving and robot taxis keep the valuation up. So it is working, in a way. A risky way, sure, but for now it works.
Let's grab a random page from a few years ago (before the court cases) http://web.archive.org/web/20180202042014/https://www.tesla....

"Full Self-Driving Hardware on All Cars

All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory, including Model 3, have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver."

Now, I can see how in a court of law you can make various arguments about what that promises, but I can see how someone would interpret that as it can drive better than they do.