skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She just got accepted to medical school. She’s 13
*1,020,000 died in the US and counting.
https://archive.ph/s2t6Q
I suspect that most of the reluctance comes from people using gas furnaces, not people using electrical resistance heating. Compared to electrical resistance heating, a heat pump has no downsides other than a higher initial cost which is very quickly paid back from energy savings, since electrical resistance heating is staggeringly expensive.
Also, shout out to the team my Mycroft for Mimic3, their open source TTS model: https://mycroft.ai/blog/introducing-mimic-3/?cn-reloaded=1
I work for a very expensive electric utility consulting firm... and I guess now I'm impressed by how much work we can actually do for 50k. This is so silly that it makes me feel like an idiot too.
> Second, part of the purpose of the seatbelt is to keep you in the driving position for the entire duration of the crash so that you can maintain as much control of your vehicle as possible...

I largely agree with this sentiment, however, practically speaking I doubt it matters much. Any impact hard enough to significantly displace you would likely render you useless at operating the vehicle if you are wearing a seatbelt. The forces at work during crashes are stronger that most people realize.

I read hundreds of traffic accident reports every day. If you must traverse the roads, wear your seatbelt, don't ride a motorcycle, and avoid excessive speeds. A large portion of the reports I see with deaths are single vehicle excessive speed loss of control, with a significant portion of those not wearing their seatbelts.

Driving is dangerous. Stay safe.
What do you mean “phone home”?

Posting a signature on a public ledger does not give information about nonce k which I think is what you are referring to. Each time a new transaction is signed, the k value will be a new random big integer.

If your wallet is able to leak bits in this way it would imply the value k is not chosen uniformly randomly. This is my understanding of ECDSA at least.
The perception of politics is being skewed by the heavily extremist right-wing US, that's my best guess anyhow
I see Monarchs every day when I walk around in my San Francisco East Bay neighborhood. Some people do have milkweed growing in their front gardens, maybe that's why.
The continental united states is surrounded by two friendly neighbors that are not a threat to us. We are separated from our nearest peer adversaries by thousands of miles of ocean, and their entire military doctrine revolves around defending themselves from us.

We could get by with a tiny fraction of our 700B+ / yr defense budget. One wonders how much better a society we would be if we spent that on things that would actually benefit the average citizen, or did something unthinkable like actually paying down debt.
We never pushed for it politically because it wouldn't change anything but it would piss people off. You can simply buckle the seatbelt with nobody in the seat, then sit down, and the requirement is defeated.

On the other hand, a mandatory breathalyzer for ignition would be useful to prevent a lone driver from driving drunk. We already have them for people with DUIs, so we should make them mandatory for all cars.
> required a lot of hand holding from the devs who had been working on it from the start to teach me how to find/read and debug everything the "Ruby" way.

Yes. And even just _finding_ relevant bits of code is difficult and painful, because you can't simply `grep` for the names of these metaprogrammed methods. They're simply not in the codebase.
They are blinded by assuming good faith and competence.

Most scientists consider most of their colleagues more or less incompetent, and even where they accept experimental results, often reject the experimenter's interpretation of the result, often correctly. Scientists advise us to ignore the abstract, ignore the interpretation, ignore the conclusion, and trust only the data, at most. But we mostly don't get to do that for fields not our own.

High prestige is detrimental in that it short-circuits this skepticism. This happens not only in Alzheimer Syndrome work. It put psychology research in the grip of behaviorism, statistics in the grip of non-causality, political science in the grip of dialectics.
In theory, shouldn’t the cheap capital also caused explosion in salaries outside of tech? That didn’t seem to happen over the same time horizon
I've never heard of a truly successful project by these large scale consulting firms.

Even the so called success stories seem ... mediocre at best.

Has anyone been part of such a project at a firm like that?
That's why it was described as a "bedrock".

A lot of papers that came after were producing results in the framework it established.

Because of the nature of a disease like Alzheimer's not many studies can easily measure the final effectiveness of their addition to the space on patients.
> A ”best effort” summary of this article: if thousands of people die in once place, it’s one of the great tragedies in American history. However if thousands of people die in thousands different places, it is ignored and considered a fact of life.

But that makes sense statistically, because those are thousands of ostensibly independent events that don't necessarily have a single common cause, where the massacre of a thousand people in one place obviously has a single common cause. So of course the natural reaction is to shrug in the former case, because there's no obvious connection between them. Of course, if you can prove that those have a single common cause that can be tackled, then it makes sense to tie them all together.
From the HN guidelines:

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob[0] illusion[1], as[2] old[3] as[4] the[5] hills[6].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926703

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=633099

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=582513

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=289254

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=253657

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66057

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852
Software costs always grow exponentially. Having 1,800 IT systems sounds silly, but combining them into one system would not take X*1800 hours, it would take X^1800 hours.
> Many people die in car accidents they did not cause.

True, but that doesn't disprove the fact that most people are a party to the accident they are in, regardless of who was at fault.

For example, if someone is driving with an insecure load, I give them a very, very wide berth. There's a word for it - defensive driving.
Germany has a lower gini coefficient than Spain. Germany is higher on the quality of life indexes as well.

Also, you keep railing about "the lazy guys in the south". I'm sorry these stereotypes exist. I don't believe them.

Do you seriously believe the problems of the Spanish economy are all because of Germany? There is absolutely not even a single thing that Spain is doing wrong?
I have this theory that B2B is actually most of the economy; and, that, somehow, real people are only ancillary to that. Like a patina if human customers over a huge mound of B2B ... motion.
> Finally, there's no irony about this no longer being on the front page.

Sure there is. It's an interesting conversation to me and it's being pushed away from the front page. I didn't say it was foul play, I said it was ironic. The algorithms are so fearful of controversy they push away interesting topics.

Also, I've emailed the mods many times before. My experiences have been mixed.
Well we know the agency got well paid for the work. We don't know how much the people doing the work got.
I also think the redesign is way better, especially the product page and «buy frame» with prices.
Analyst reports, compelling demos at conferences, ecosystem of professional services partners with a relationship with the software vendor (implied promise of escalation of issues), 24x7x365 SLAs, competitor success stories using the same technology, existing training materials along with distant promise of developing in-house expertise by working along-side system integrators.
Same, curl spits out an error for me. "ST_CONNECT:tlsv1 alert protocol version"
I am opposite, I like limited PTO, because in my state your employer has to pay you for the unused time when you leave..
> but people are intuitively right to recognize that if they don't engage in risky behavior (like drunk driving) they're less at risk of being in an accident. To argue otherwise is basically saying driving drunk is no more risky than driving sober.

Sure, that’s why it’s important to know how risky automobiles are if you discard the cases of drunk drivers injuring themselves. I suspect drunk drivers injuring themselves accounts for a very small portion of automobile injuries, but we need to see the data.

It’s not enough to say “I don’t drive drunk, and driving drunk is very dangerous, therefore automobile risk estimates don’t apply to me.” You could make the same argument about driving blindfolded.
this reminds me a bit of the canadian federal government and the phoenix payroll system.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=canada+go...
I can only talk about computer science. The research papers in the past would probably not be able to get published in prestigious journals today. They'd need to get expanded from sketchy 8 page papers into very rigorous 25 page papers. I think we've overshot though. With papers in the modern style you need to wade through a lot of cruft to get to the key idea. As for the quality of the ideas...the older papers do win. I think that's because there was more low hanging fruit, but some part of it may be due to an incentive structure that rewards safe bets.
What would you say should be the threshold for increased mortality that would subject a given behavior to heavy taxation and regulation?
Elon pumped and dumped Bitcoin which is a scam in itself. His factories are bleeding money. His autonomous vehicle project is in shambles. All of the other car companies in world are going long on EVs (factories that don't bleed money). And the stock is up 10%. I don't understand it at all.
IMHO, going production also requires scalability, high availability, and tooling ecosystem (backup/restore/replication), etc, besides functionalities and performance.
The entire point of this discussion is that we should be able to discuss it, and discouraging it is not a solution. You're supporting my point, not refuting it.
I've tried various add-ons as well as modifying omni.ja (requires re-zipping it on Linux because zip is compiled with different flags on Mac making the omni.ja not work with FF).

This issue requires action from Mozilla, there are no user solutions as far as I'm aware.
Believing HR is like asking a barber if you need a haircut. You already know what the answer will be. I think it’s easier to get an accurate answer by asking tangentially related questions in the interview.
Median was 40%.
Not if you use litestream
Backups of multiple millions of files will take forever as well, even just figuring out the delta based on inode data.
I think it very much depends on the purpose of the diet.

For me, two weeks of plain potatoes, a little oil, and one piccolo per day was to reset my unhealthy relationship with food. I avoided common toppings (sour cream, bacon, cheese) and anything to flavour them up (salt, rosemary, thyme).

After a couple of weeks, I found I was no longer desperately craving the flavours I previously did. I attribute this solely to the blandness of the food - potatoes being the delivery method is just incidental.
Except it isn't. Every time a book was digitally lent, it became inaccessible to anyone else. A digital lend is the same as a physical lend. They didn't copy any books.
I imagine some of us are those kind of X persons in other peoples lives, where X ∈{Computer, Science, Internet}.
It’s impossible to overstate how funny the shenanigans get when you combine a technologically incompetent legacy big Co. with one of these big professional services firms.

The IT consulting firm will tell you they have experience with literally everything. They’ll dig up a case study from one of their 400 offices somewhere, claiming to be experts on whatever the topic is. Meanwhile, in actuality, your project will be staffed with a team of 24 year old kids where this is their first assignment. And it doesn’t matter anyways, because the people who worked on the original case study are long gone and would never communicate with other offices even if still around.

Meanwhile at the big company, you’ll have the opposite problem. A team of people with decades of experience, but who don’t really know anything about anything other than how to make their corporate machine not fire them. They’ll think they know what they want, and will confidently tell you…but in actuality, these people have zero understanding of technology or even how their business runs. And who can blame them, they’ve spent a 30 year career not doing or risking anything specifically, so its hard to learn how anything works with no feedback loop.

It then becomes a delicate dance, can the consulting team learn how to do the thing they sold the client fast enough, before the client does their best to try to ruin the project out of sheer hubris and incompetence.

This case is famous for being one where the dance went so bad it became a meme.
Thanks for the summary although it doesn't say _why_
> you could apply for a raise

You mean apply for a new job, right?
Yeah, of course this is probably the big differentiating factor.

It's part selection bias, part staying healthy, part not being exposed to accident prone environments.

Still though, as a lifestyle choice it's really safe.
I like the redesign, but it looks like any other template out there. I don't see how this could not have been done by 1 person within a week (excl. content - content can take more time). I sometimes do this for fun and would have charged 500 bucks + some theme/icon/graphics expenses.
There are so many correlations of vascular injury with dementia that it seems obvious that the fibrils would not be causative but rather correlated to dementia. I personally believe that dementia is related to or caused by repeated small vascular injuries that eventually cause degradation of the brain. That is, transient ischemic attacks that are completely subclinical aside from the injury that is visible after autopsy.
Am I reading the indictment correctly that they are actually being charged with defrauding Coinbase, and that they are not being directly charged with insider trading?
You're going to fall out in the direction you (and the car) are travelling/rolling.
Maybe make downvotes have a mandatory "and this is why" comment field that forces the downvoter to formulate grievance... Then you can show what kind of downvoter someone is. Even maybe have rationality check on these downvotes rationales?
You act like the basic research that darpa funded could not have been otherwise funded by a nation that didn't spend a large chunk of its budget on military spending.
I think peertube needs to stick to the basics: a self hostable tube site server that federates over AP for comments and subscriptions.

They've got a great API, they've done fantastic work on live streaming, they have WebRTC implemented to distribute server load, and they've figured out searchability across multiple servers with sepia search. I don't see what needs improvement really.

Personally I think the 1 click monetization ad driven model is going to die, I don't think a lot of work should be put towards implementing something like this. People are moving towards a sponsorship model or patron model, and we are seeing all sorts of problems with the 1 click monetization with regard to patent trolling, content policing and the like, it just doesn't work out well. Of course with this transition comes a move away from monopoly on tube sites like what YouTube has, if someone is basing their revenue on patrons or sponsors they don't need to keep all their content on one website, peertube pretty obviously fits into this business environment well.

So I think as far as monetization, peertube should focus on tools for creators that help them accurately count their viewership and active subscriptions, and integrations that enable people to hide content behind a paywall for patrons, a plugin system for different payment methods would be fantastic.

Besides this I think peertube is pretty much feature complete, although some work could be done on decentralizing search.
My parents were both in vehicle accident reconstruction for just such things and I don’t even know how to count how many times I watched a car accident reconstruction (dummies in crash test vehicles) end in a dummy being thrown in any direction you could imagine. It might not hit a person but it will hit a car in the other lanes and cause accidents.

You’re out of your element here, stick to compilers for once.
More power to her. I wish her luck and hope she doesn't burn out.
That's a fantastic insight - thanks for the link.
Centralized control of motor vehicles is tantamount to centralized control of all human movements throughout the country. Even if we could do it, I don't think we should.

Right now driving is a situation where you take your life into your own hands and have to accept some risk. But in return you have the ability to go anywhere anytime.

Centralized control inverts that. Now you need permission to go anywhere. Does the government approve people like you going to a particular neighborhood? It becomes trivial to enforce basically anything you want. Especially, since people will not have any other options.

Digitization enables new levels of control that we haven't really explored ethically. In the 1980s building a central automobile control system was unthinkable because it was impossible. Today it could be accomplished in a couple decades. So now we have to answer the question of 'do you have a right to go wherever you want on the public roads without government oversight?'
Well it said replace "Excel", not replace the "spreadsheet" ;-)

I can definitely see the appeal after watching the video. Not sure whether that would be enough to pull me away from Excel/Google sheets especially since that is "free" if you are in microsoft land or google land.
Chemistry, Colors, Images and Reality
I'm not attempting to refute you per se, just bringing relevant info into the discussion. It's instructive (at least to me) to look through those links to older comments. People as far back as 2007 were saying "HN is becoming reddit."

I get that quoting a request on the site info page could come across as modding you, but that wasn't my intent.
You mean YouTube Premium?
yeah but it was private and presumably a pretty limited number of people knew about it at the time which narrows down the number of potential candidates pretty considerably.
Yes, it is federated. You can search, like, make comments from one server to another so long as they are federated together.

Here is a pretty good search engine:

https://search.joinpeertube.org/

I usually try that if i'm trying to watch a video for free and I can't find it anywhere else. There are are servers that just re-upload documentaries and stuff.
Cars should have a regulator installed by the manufacturer to limit speed to 20mph on roads with people, and to 60mph on grade separated highways.

This maximum would barely change your time to destination, but it would save thousands of lives per year.

- 20mph: 90% survival rate

- 30mph: 60% survival rate

- 40mph: 20% survival rate

https://www.betterstreetschicago.org/blog/chicago-speed-came...
Never owned a car of my own until two years ago. Our car has been hit three times in the last two years. Once totaled on the high way (another drivers fault) and twice while parked. Roughly 50K in damages across the two cars and 3 months in the shop doing repairs. We spent 20K on a new car after the old one was totaled and insurance paid out a fraction of what a similar car would cost. We've paid close to 2K in deductibles, way too much for car insurance from a company that doesnt give a shit about us, and close to 1k on car cameras and backup batteries.

Thankfully we havnt been hurt but we got lucky. When the car was totaled it was in heavy traffic going 40+ mph and caused a 4 car pile up. I know people who have died in accidents or had their kids die. My immediate family was incredible lucky to not be killed by a drunk driver in a very bad accident early on in my life.

Driving sucks.
It sound like you're talking about, or at least brushing up against, prudential judgement[0]. Sometimes, the optimal move is not to seek the optimum.

An obvious class of problems is where determining the optimum takes more time than the lifetime of the problem. Say you need to write an algorithm at work that does X, and you need X by tomorrow. If it would take you a week to find the theoretical optimum, then the optimum in a "global" sense is to deliver the best you can within the constraints, not the abstract theoretical optimum. The time to produce the solution is part of the total cost. An imprudent person would either say it's not possible, or never deliver the solution in time.

[0] https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12517b.htm
This is one of the best socio-political analyses I've seen on Hacker News. Thank you for writing it.
I was doing an experiment with my raspberry pi, and I needed a joystick of some sort for input. Only thing I had lying around was a ps4 controller. Plugged it in, used pygame for input, all was good but I couldn't figure out the touch pad.

Eventually I noticed that the mouse cursor was moving. Turns out that Linux automatically recognises the touch pad on that controller as hid mouse like device, with pushing for clicks and all. Immediately my life got easier, it's much better than a touchscreen.

I don't know why I hadn't heard of this, because it's awesome.
Biological systems are so complex that reproducing results is extremely hard even if the authors publish their method in detail, simply because they might not know why it works for them.

This is hard to understand for software people, since code tends to behave reproducible as a default.

Basically the only way to reproduce a difficult finding is to learn the procedure at the original lab.

An example: A friend of mine could not reproduce his own findings in another lab. Turned out the precise type of the lamp build into the setup mattered.

Another example:
I could not reproduce a finding the was something I wanted to build upon.
Turned out the precise method to dissolve one of the chemicals in the buffer as the problem. It was even hinted in the paper, but who would describe in detail what he means by “ vigorously stirred” ?
You're right. According to https://www.bts.gov/content/us-passenger-miles , in the US in 2020, there were 4,935 billion passenger-miles on highways, versus 32 billion passenger-miles on transit.

The highway mileage includes 306 billion passenger-miles on non-transit buses.

Amtrak (6 billion passenger miles) isn't considered transit.
It sure would be nice if we could just "drive less". Unfortunately the cities we live in, at least in the US, are designed such that it's the only option we have. That's a huge focus of the website / book in the OP called, "Strong Towns."
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy, 1962

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/89101-those-who-make-peacef...
How much you paying for a python dev with 6 years of experience?
Don't kid yourself. It's been peaceful in spite of us injecting ourselves into matters that are none of our concern. We could have achieved the same thing with a few dozen nukes. You don't see anyone lining up to invade North Korea any time soon.
Not in a way that is relevant to a cloud customer asking what building their jobs are running in.
The trouble that many elderly face with smartphones leaves me a little skeptical that autonomous cars are really a solution to that specific problem.
Woot, thanks.