Readit Newstntn commented on U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018) smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/EL_Loco
tntn commented on U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018) smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/EL_Loco
The title is fine, and reflects the factual subtitle immediately below the headline. There is no requirement to post the article headline as-is on HN.
But it doesn't reflect the factual subtitle. The title here says 1918, but the true trend is 1915-1918, which had a bit of a war as well.
> There is no requirement to post the article headline as-is on HN.
There is. From the guidelines:
> Otherwise [i.e. not excessive clickbait] please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
tntn commented on U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018) smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/EL_Loco
HN title is not good. Original title is "U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row, Reflecting Rising Drug Overdoses, Suicides."
The comparison is between the last three years and 1915-1918, but the Spanish flu was just getting going in 1918.
EDIT: folks just arriving, the HN title has changed since I commented. It previously said "worst trend since Spanish flu," or something.
tntn commented on Writing a small ray tracer in Rust and Zig nelari.us/post/raytracer_... · Posted by u/cyber1
> I wrapped my objects in atomic reference counters, and wrapped my pixel buffer in a mutex
Rust people, is there a way to tell the compiler that each thread gets its own elements? Do you really have to either (unnecessarily) add a lock or reach for unsafe?
tntn commented on How and why CPUs do “branch prediction” (2017) danluu.com/branch-predict... · Posted by u/majke
It seems like AMD has been doing something similar for a little while already: https://chasethedevil.github.io/post/the_neural_network_in_y...
AMD switched to TAGE for Zen 2, so I don't know if neural networks are "the future of branch prediction" or just a neat diversion.
tntn commented on Reset C by GE Light Bulbs [video] youtube.com/watch?v=1BB6w... · Posted by u/starman100
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20242805
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20244885
what is the point of linking to submissions with no discussion.
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"Everything is a file". Except ioctl. Except mmap. Except the shell makes it a huge pain in the ass to hook up arbitrary graphs of streams between processes.
EDIT: I'm too old for this. Think what you want about mmap and ioctl.
Pretty bold claim there. Seems like you could run a pretty big study just based off that one hypothesis.
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.2017....
> Conclusions. Male firearm use drives the increased rate of suicide in rural areas