skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only found one link in the article, https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/8117..., and the abstract begins with:

Aging increases a person’s fragility (likelihood of injury given a physical insult) and frailty (chance of dying from a specific injury). Young adult females are more fragile than males of the same age, but later in life women are less frail than their male contemporaries.

My impression is that this thread suggests the design of cars has a bias to male safety at the expense of female safety. This link doesn't support that conclusion.
And because it's federated, it will never work in any of the ways they are pissed off at Elon for changing in Twitter. You just can't make stuff like this up - it's amazing to watch!
Yes if we're talking about pure logic, but we aren't.
I am under the impression that they do because Europeans tend to buy phones unlocked up front at retail much more often than their American counterparts. Sadly a lot of phone manufacturers trying to break into the US market still don't know a vast majority get their phone in installments via their carrier.
The UK just set a landmark wind energy generation record
You know what always interests me about this is that life expectancy at birth is 74 in Delhi (3 years more than Mississippi). I wonder what a DALY-adjusted life expectancy looks like. Surely they must be all suffering from emphysema near the end.
So does that just mean they need to be paid for 60 days (which they are)?
I mean if your bathroom windows were on the other side of the house or had no street lights shining into them, you wouldn't be able to see...
I use signal for SMS. Is this an iOS thing? If so presumably it's an Apple restriction?

edit: ah, they announced recently that they are removing SMS support in Android. The reasoning is solid IMO, I've accidentally sent insecure messages before.
‘Woeful’ DfE blamed as betting firms gain access to children’s data
Have you got figures to back up your assertions that the entire supply chain is price gouging?

Or is this purely on the basis that you're experiencing high prices so anyone that passes on those price rises are defacto price gouging?
> The percentage is not the issue. The absolute amount is.

Do you expect profit margins to approach 0% over time?

> If you can increase gross margin number while maintaining operation costs at about the same proportional level, then you end up with more absolute profit. So 100 premium, 20 gm and 5 profit can become 150 premium, 30 gm, and 7.5 profit.

Sure, but because of competition, this is not happening. The premium payer will shop around and choose a different insurer offering 130 premium. If this is happening, there would be clear evidence, since all of these publicly listed companies have public financials.

> is an example of hospitals feeding at the trough.

This discussion is about insurance companies, not hospitals.

In any case, I will simply rest my case that a business with low single digit profit margins is, by definition, not “feeding at the trough”. Lots of competition, low profit margins, all lead to a pretty cutthroat business environment.

I suggest people direct their ire at drug manufacturers, healthcare providers, software providers, and others in the healthcare business with 20%+ profit margins. And increasing the supply of healthcare in general.

Or people can keep wasting energy on blaming the 3% middleman, which is beneficial for the 20%+ profit margin businesses.

Edit: final note:

> - My premiums pre-ACA to now have almost quintupled. There are some good reasons to explain a small part of that increase (e.g., I’m older), but 4-5x is absurd. Way higher than inflation, and way higher than the quality of care has improved (for me specially, but also in general).

Premiums pre ACA and post ACA cannot be compared due to drastic changes in laws about the terms is the insurance. Namely, the limitation of pricing insurance on only age/location/smoking status, and the implementation of out of pocket maximums. In addition, as of 2022, the no surprises act bill means out of network emergency costs are included in the out of pocket maximums.

Effectively, even though you feel you are getting less quality of care (and you very well might be), the insurance product is much different than before with much higher (nominal) coverage, much more expensive treatment options, and more subsidies for others in the insurance pool.

Based on aging demographics and declining labor force participation rates, I would not expect the situation to get any better. Healthcare, especially labor intensive, will cost more and more.
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They are both ultimately controlled by the CCP, however, the Chinese version is very restrictive. Having colored hair or tattoos will get you auto-banned. All the same evangelical-type restrictions apply of course.

The only thing keeping the western version from turning into a complete sewer are the advertisers. The TikTok Algo prevents people who are fat, wrinkly, too old, or unsemmterical (unattractive) from bubbling up. This is know from leaked internal documents supposedly.
The Black Death shaped the evolution of immunity genes
Summary

An international team of scientists who analyzed centuries-old DNA from victims and survivors of the Black Death pandemic has identified key genetic differences that determined who lived and who died, and how those aspects of our immune systems have continued to evolve since that time.
> If someone thinks that living in democracy alone makes you immune to propoganda that just not the case.

I think more commonly what people do is see propaganda that is ineffective on them and inaccurately conclude that propaganda overall is ineffective on them. Often citing their intelligence. In reality you just weren't the target of said propaganda. We're all vulnerable to it, no matter your IQ. If one wants to demonstrate their intelligence they need to demonstrate their realization of their (intellectual) weaknesses. This is what I see happen with HN users a lot: "Well I'm not vulnerable to it, but others are." (often in context of ads and discussions of surveillance capitalism. But that's the same tool as in this discussion).

> it's crucial to keep political discussion alive even if society is really polarized.

Importantly that said conversation is done with good faith. Meaning we try our hardest as the listener to interpret the intent of the speaker's words (and vise versa). These people will sell simple solutions to complex problems. Unfortunately complex problems require complex solutions and nuanced discussion. Because of that, it is critical that we discuss from different points of views.

> Disclaimer: I am Russia citizen

The difference between you and me is smaller than the distance between us and our respective leaders. An old cold war hippy saying, but still true. It is our leaders who cause good men to go to war. To live through atrocities that need not be. Atrocities worse than hell. But in the end we are accountable because we are the power that they wield. A sheep tricked by a wolf in sheep's clothing is still a dead sheep. We can't always rely on the shepherd to keep us alive.
Monsoons are pretty windy though.
This logic didn't work for Armin Meiwes, it probably wouldn't work for this guy either.
Maybe I'm the odd one but I haven't received an SMS in a decade. It's all iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram and the only SMS are transactional that I receive but never send.
Even though the Kickstarter campaign is over, you can buy the game (with alpha/beta access) here: https://www.patreon.com/TheStoreisClosed
As addendum, GDC is part of GCC on the other side.

So already plenty of platforms are already covered.
What's More Important Than Two Women Talking About Web Development? (The Void 4)
From what I understand opensnitch use ebpf to match where the exiting packets are going. TCP being TCP, it is easy to know where the incoming answer will be delivered to as well.
'Tech neck' and 'text claw' – what humans could look like in the year 3000
> If there is evidence the election wasn't fair, you should object.

So saying that you will "accept the results of an election" is just a chant or a ritual that doesn't mean anything, because you can still declare the election was not fair after the results come in?
> Malinformation

Thanks for a new word for my 1984 dictionary.
That’s not a code search engine, that seems to be a regular search engine.
In my opinion the Sackler family has cause a lot more suffering and they see no day in prison. And they're not the only lords who get away with murder. Yet a guy like Ulbricht gets to spend a lifetime in jail... This is a miscarriage of justice unless all monsters are locked up and all would be fair. It could be argued that Ulbricht caused no suffering but alleviated it by providing a service for people to buy their "drugs" by skipping meeting a shady dealer...
> Actually is Federated.

The site shows me

> Sign up for the Bluesky private beta

So is it already real and if so how can the beta be private?
In this dream, I imagine people like Selena Gomez would pay for a Mastodon account to be hosted by a 3rd party. She would gladly pay thousands of dollars a year for her Twitter account if that was the only way for her to keep it, and not even notice the cost. There will be plenty of Mastodon providers willing to offer five 9s for far less than that.
Nobody thought Kiev would last past the first 48 hours, least of all Putin.
Sounds like an Android thing: https://signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/
Firstly, thanks for posting this. Everything done to help alleviate poverty is wonderful, no matter how it is achieved.

I'm American, but of Indian origin. Our family visited many major cities in India when I was a child (early 90s) and it was heartbreaking. We just kept wondering -- how does anyone begin to fix poverty that is so vast? We gave a lot of charity (esp schooling support) over the years but it always seemed like just scratching the surface of a vast problem.

We havent been back since -- but i'd say every family helped is a positive step. Solutions do not need to be 100% comprehensive at the start. I look forward to more economic success for the people of India, and for people everywhere.
Hardly everyone. Just a vocal minority. The vast majority of whom will be back on Twitter and paying the $8.
Don't believe me? Let's just come back in six months and check.
This is why I often booked using airbnb.com.au - Australian consumer protection laws mandated that Airbnb had to show you the REAL end price upfront.

It's been that way for five+ years, as well.
Yes, thank you America for crippling your own economy for the sake of India. Please give Biden the peace prize for his humanitarian efforts.
That thing nobody wants is for some reason on a chat app now
Signal has already committed suicide by removing its most important feature, "compatibility with other messaging apps", from its list of supported features. It's a dead app walking at this point, though it will probably take a few years to wind down and die.
I think if it was any worse, it (Linux, BSD, etc) wouldn’t function at all. So it is maximally worse for the subset of things that function. It’s like getting all the worst medical conditions that don’t actually kill you. Sure, there are worse diseases: you could be dead. Is that any comfort? Probably not. Probably be looking for a cure.
I'm talking about homicide. An assassination or summary execution, like Ceaușescu.
I don't see anything wrong with "mastodon" but "toot" bothers me even more than "tweet" did.
You are misrepresenting what I am saying as well as the reality of the matter. Calling it a tax is an indication of having bought into a false political narrative. I don't really have much more to say to you. Perhaps one day you might understand just how much damage these people have done to this nation.

BTW, and because the accusation is always made, implicitly or explicitly: I am not a right-winger/conservative. Not even close. I am driven by data and facts, not fantasies. Pure and simple. If I had to classify myself politically I would be a classical liberal. In other words, socially liberal and fiscally conservative. That, I believe, is, for the most part, the balanced formula that lifts all boats, not the madness both political parties force upon us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism

Live long and prosper.
Mastodon Struggles to Keep Up with Flood of Twitter Defectors
https://archive.ph/XSyxX#selection-3265.0-3265.61
For a "niche product" like this it's probably not a big deal, but for larger platforms like Steam, Spotify, Netflix, etc. it kind of is. I used to live in Asia and had a lot of trouble with this. I ended up resorting to just buying the vouchers in the store than deal with "you used to be in Europe but are now in Asia, you're probably committing fraud!" stuff. I was earning local salary so the 4× price difference was kind of a lot.

Some companies even make a fuss when you move between Western countries with similar economies for some reason. Lots of businesses are stuck in a "you were born in a country, live your entire life in a country, and will die in that country", which to be fair is true for most people, but far from all and there is often no resort.
The Joys of Active Reading
> A lot of the time the people making these types of comments about McDonald’s are just plain bitter that their favourite $3_STAR_MICHELIN_RESTAURANT is mostly a rounding error in terms of visitors.

That's true too; what's your point?
Because China is the number one threat to democracy and the US.

They also are responsible for stealing hundreds of billions of dollars of IP from the US every single year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_intellectual_pr...

And masters at stealing R&D and tech from US companies for their own use

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_spy_cases_in_t...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-hackers-took-trillions-...
Here's an English one: https://sweden.postsen.com/trends/49453/The-YouTube-channel-...
One thing that doesn't seem immediately obvious with the HiFiBerry DAC+ ADC Pro I have is that input and output are separate devices.

I assumed it would be a checkbox or two, but I couldn't mix the input jack into the output without doing it in software, and PulseAudio would drop samples at lower latencies. I admit I didn't troubleshoot this very long though.

MPD, Bluetooth and an AUX input was all I wanted, and I could make it work for scenarios that didn't need the low latency part.
Lost the ability to actually reach people. Lost the ability to actually talk with people in your communities. Lost the ability for fucking anybody who isn't a wizard to know how to even read something. I mean Jesus, bulletin boards are easier than this.
Definitely the patent system has some issues. It certainly offers way too many protections with far too few checks. But there seem to be some strong assumptions here.

> patent trolls are pretty much the only way for a "small inventor" to monetize a patent

In the current system, yes, but in general no. The outcome is tied to the "litigation costs" precisely because the patent office is underequipped, leaving the burden of investigation on individuals. Strengthening the authority, and actively prosecuting and penalizing patent troll behavior increases both cost & risk, while cutting income. Your investigative authority doesn't need to be perfect - just better - to significantly change trolling economics.

> because IBM will either drown you in litigation cost ...

IBM is one of the longest standing patent troll companies and these are cookie cutter patent troll tactics. Good anti-troll legislation dilutes this by strengthening the investigations.
And all the Chinese got was 2.5x GDP per capita
This is what "market failure" means in practice.
Thanks! It's pretty modular so adding additional functions should be easy - just in case anybody wants to do that.
Yes, that is what many platforms do.
It also kinda sorta sounds like this tool the author wrote: https://github.com/Gankra/abi-cafe

> This tool helps automate testing that two languages/compilers agree on ABIs for the purposes of FFI. This is still in early development so lots of stuff is stubbed out.

...

> By running this natively on whatever platform you care about, this will tell you what FFI interfaces do and don't currently work. Ideally all you need to do is cargo run, but we're dealing with native toolchains so, expect toolchain bugs!
Some more I'd wish to see on the page:

- slotmap

- memchr

- bytecount

- rouille

- csv
<<because I didn't have an internet-connected device in my pocket at all times.

The worst part is that I almost completely agree with you, because I am almost certain I will be facing similar hurdles. That said, if the issue is the internet connected device, isn't an instant 'fix' to replace said device with one with no access and then take school to task to enforce similar ban ( the most common objections I heard was:'i need to be able to reach my kid in case of emergency'; dumb phones still exist so that could work?

Ehh, I can already tell local PTA will hate me.
It can make sense if you think about it in the game theory manner. Sometimes, deliberately limiting your options improves your overall outcome.

One theory is that by blowing up the pipeline, Putin is limiting Russia's options. With the pipeline in place, ending the war would immediately cause the flow of gas, and dollars into Russia to resume.

Without the pipeline, ending the war would not cause the flow of gas and dollars.

This might improve his ability to politically maneuver within the country (As other political agents, who care more about money than the war are less incentivized to push for an end to the war.)

It's a similar idea to why the US stations troops around the Korean DMZ. Their job isn't to repel a North Korean invasion, their job is to die in the first few minutes of it, and thus force the US to intervene in any resumed Korean conflict. This very clearly communicates to North Korea how serious the US is about maintaining the status quo. By restricting its freedom of action (Forcing itself to go to war if hostilities resume), the US accomplishes a political objective (preventing hostilities from resuming).

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Of course, this is all speculation. For all we know[1], the pipeline was blown up by Poland/Ukraine/Germany/the US/the Mossad/Morocco/Aliens.

[1] It's difficult to trust any information about this, as its impossible to impartially verify it, and everyone involved has their own agenda they want to push.
I came from PHP, Python, and Go (in that order) with very limited experience in both C and C++ and now use Rust for everything with one exception - a scraper for mint.com that uses https://github.com/mintapi/mintapi. That has a lot going on, including spinning up a headless browser, and my code is virtually trivial, so the benefits of porting it to Rust are limited, and the work would be pretty significant.

As far as things I typically make, database-backed HTTP APIs are probably the most common, and influxdb collectors second most common.
Where is the type theory for Rust's GATs for us to educate ourselves?
Yes. Why?

I'm going on a stretch here and say that the html part of the interwebs is transitioning back to simpler and less dynamic hypertext documents with a lot less UI fluff. The strength of html are it's textual hypertext capabilities.

Also, with Webassembly I do not see the point of expanding the UI capabilities of html.
India already has air quality laws. And an enforcement mechanism.

The issue is that local politicians are preventing the enforcement of those laws because the temporary economic inconvenience to their voting base (farmers) trumps the health concerns of people in another state.

And this is compounded by the economic reality of farming in much of Indian: in many years, the cost of chipping the plant remains, or even just preparing them to be chipped (assuming service is provided for free by government) instead of simply burning them can push many farmers into bankruptcy.
> So when a politician is yelling at his fans that the machines overturned the results of the election

This isn't what he was doing though. He wanted the voting machines to have a printer function so that an auditable paper trail was established. I've seen highly voted comments arguing for this exact same thing here on HN not even a week ago.

> and no one has found evidence of it, you should doubt those claims

I did doubt those claims. At first.

Some serious evidence has surfaced though: discrepancies in the election data set showing older less thoroughly audited voting machines clearly favoring the winning candidate by as much as 15%.

I was still skeptical, tried to reproduce the results on my own dataset... Then I watched the government's election website go down for hours, then come back up with the data set modified. Then I watched a supreme court judge censor anyone asking questions about this on Twitter.

It's not exactly inspiring confidence.

> In other words, through certification and audits there is a lot more evidence the machines worked properly than the feelings you are using for making your decisions.

The 2020 voting machine models seem to have been thoroughly audited. However, we're still using older models and I don't think they were audited recently. There were discrepancies in the voting patterns of the 2020 model and older models and nobody has been able to refute that at this time.
This is where reading both the "man" pages and the "info" page on a command really pays dividends. I would also recommend going back and revisiting the man pages for a command after every major OS update as new features sometimes get added.

For example on the df command there is a "-P --portability" option to have the output format changed to be POSIX compatible which isn't very helpful by itself. But if you look at what command options does with "info df" then it paints a more complete picture. I use that command option for bash scripting since it forces all the output to be on a single line and makes some things easier.

‘-P’
‘--portability’
Use the POSIX output format. This is like the default format
except for the following:

1. The information about each file system is always printed on
exactly one line; a mount device is never put on a line by
itself. This means that if the mount device name is more than
20 characters long (e.g., for some network mounts), the
columns are misaligned.

2. The labels in the header output line are changed to conform to
POSIX.

3. The default block size and output format are unaffected by the
‘DF_BLOCK_SIZE’, ‘BLOCK_SIZE’ and ‘BLOCKSIZE’ environment
variables. However, the default block size is still affected
by ‘POSIXLY_CORRECT’: it is 512 if ‘POSIXLY_CORRECT’ is set,
1024 otherwise. *Note Block size::.

Another favorite which I don't see getting used a lot(and isn't available on older systems) is "du --apparent-size" which calculates the disk usage with any sparse files fully expanded. Which is a niche use case but does come in handy to know.
Tesla shares down 50% YTD