skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How often does this happen? Not all 270 railroad crossing deaths are similar to the specific accident mentioned caused by confusing a railroad crossing with a road.

At the same time, there must be billions of railroad crossings by vehicles every year. If map apps do anything to announce/mention railroad crossings, I would expect there to be some number of people that make this mistake because of confusion about the announcement/indication instead of preventing it.
>Because patients often insist on medication because they do not accept that the ailment can't immediately be diagnosed.

Not my experience both personally and with those I know regarding mental illness. Doctors are quick to diagnose mental illnesses (correctly or not) and prescribe medications for them (even if the patient is hesitant). Some health systems even make it nearly impossible to get a therapist (we can see you once a month starting in two months...) but not a psychiatrist.
Don't ever bother with an automatic rifle, a semi-auto is much more precise and easier to build.

That horse has already left the barn.
They caveat their comment with "casual investors".

To win, you'll probably have to have a quite wide basket or get lucky and pick the right companies.
I was thinking the same thing when I first read the above comment, I just assumed that he meant Vicodin.
I did something similar quite often in my aikido classes. There was also a twist exercise - start with your fingers together palm parallel to the ground facing down, and rotate the forearm rapidly so the palm is facing up, and then back again. Repeat until you can't. Go back to the open close motion. Do those pairs 3x daily.

I stopped akido due to a knee injury, but yikes were my wrists strong for a while.
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I've found that most office desk & chair combinations I've had don't have enough flexibility for me to get in a completely ideal position for my wrists. In particular even with the chair maxed out, it's still an inch or two shorter of what I would need for my forearms and wrists to be parallel to the ground and at the keyboard height, so my wrists are always bent a little bit up. I've had occasional wrist and hand pain creep up, but luckily have always been able to manage it by typing a little slower and making an effort to sit up a little straighter and hit the keys a little softer, and it has always gone away in a week or two.

Desk and chair heights seem to be pretty standardized so even if there is a hodge-podge of chairs around they're all the same height. I'm definitely taller than average, but a quick search says only by about one standard deviation, so I can't be that unusual.

In general, it does seem like there's a stigma against office comfort, at least in small to medium startups that I've worked at. Usually everyone is using the same shitty, half-broken desks and chairs that came free with the office lease, and the already independently wealthy founders will brag about how scrappy the company is and how proud they are of not wasting any effort or money on something as banal as office comfort. In that environment if you ask for special equipment you're really made to feel like you're being difficult.
> If California's laws prevented some but not all of the shootings then it still should be considered a success.

If California's laws decreased the frequency of shootings, we'd expect California's shootings per year per person to be better than Texas.
The Problem at Yale Is Not Free Speech
I think it's supposed to be a combination of upvote speed and how quiet HN is at the given time.

Given that most of the front page articles have been around most of the day I imagine prioritising things with fast upvotes becomes more important.
It's an Allpowers 80W portable panel, which includes power circuits for two USB ports and an 18VDC output.

My laptop accepts the 18VDC input directly. It works fine when the sun is high and sky is clear, as long as I'm not doing anything particularly CPU/GPU heavy.
This mostly makes Yale sound like an extremely unpleasant place to be.
> Beach goers believe they can get there faster if they drive through the streets of Los Gatos.

Google Maps directs them there -- I doubt any human judgement would really find those residential cut-troughs plausible in the slightest.

I'm sure that absent the mapping apps a few antsy drivers would try diverting through the neighborhoods just to keep moving, but it takes mechanized stupidity to direct enough traffic there to congest the neighborhoods.
Too bad the compass still doesn't know which way I'm facing 90% of the time.
Nah man, Total Annihilation punished computers of the day.
I have lost multiple close family members in the last decade, including a sudden and unexpected death of a relatively young person.

The ad hominem adds nothing to the discussion.
How far do the Teslas fall in terms of seconds when you accelerate over and over again?

Otherwise very cool that Porsche has achieved this!
Welcome to modern (i.e. post-WW1) infantry tactics.
Learning to play the guitar is a surprisingly good way to increase your hand strength - mostly the left/off hand, but not exclusively. Learning to play the piano has similar hand strength benefits. Obviously overdoing it in both cases can lead to it's own RSI issues. But just getting past the beginner stage really adds a lot of strength & dexterity.
Mueller’s FBI Used Jeffrey Epstein as an Informant
Deterministic Usenet Vault
The whole point of AR directions is that it uses data from your camera to figure out your orientation
The closest thing I've found is called a "Fist Flex," so I just call this a "Rapid Fist Flex." I adapted it from a rehab exercise I was given after an injury, which instructed you to only do 10 to 20 slow repetitions. Once I was largely recovered from the injury, I found that doing 20 repetitions at a slow rate did little for me, so I experimented and determined that just increasing the rate and exercising to fatigue allowed me to continue to strengthen as effectively as any weight-bearing exercise I had done. I think of it as using acceleration/deceleration to generate force rather than using weights, which is similar to what sprinting does for the legs, core, and arms. Take a look at a 100m sprinter. Rapid movement is very effective at strengthening and it works your full range of motion. If you want some extra resistance, just put your hands underwater in the bathtub when doing it.
A reduction gear is really not all that much of a loss, wind on the other hand-- that's a big one.
Telegram wins for me, because desktop is a first class citizen.
Because Java’s if does not return a value,
you cannot say:

return if (x < 0) "-" else "+";

This would have been a nice place to make an analogy to the question mark operator, since a java programmer would probably be familiar with it and it allows you to write:

return if (x < 0) "-" else "+";

as

return x < 0 ? "-" : "+";
The E-Tron specs aren't up to par, so the Taycan looks like it will be the first real contender. At least in some aspects. It will be interesting to see what Audi's semi-autonomous stuff is like in the real world. If it's on par with Tesla's, then they may be able to fix the e-tron specs in v2.

I was convinced my next car was going to be an Audi, but maybe a BMW. I had a string of VWs and loved German cars. Then my 2.0T blew up with the faulty timing chain (prior to the recall, but we it was obvious there was a systemic problem). VW didn't fix it.

I now drive a Tesla Model 3. Currently there is nothing else close on the market. The Germans definitely lost at least one sale to me.
So what is special to mean here? Uncommon as to be noteworthy? Based on what data?

It is also worth pointing out you assume the man is guilty and deserving of death, but this is arbitrary lynching. Even our most heinous deserve their day in court. Innocent until proven guilty is more than a multiple choice test answer.
At the very least, it's a lot harder for criminals to cash out of compromised bank accounts in a way that doesn't lead law enforcement directly to them.
You are required - ethically, perhaps even legally - to sort out the hypochondriacs/nuts from the bona-fide-condition cases using sound diagnostics. Now, for the person who complains about a couple of days or sore throat or a headache, you might dismiss them with something mild and symptomatic - but the person who tells you "I've had excruciating pain in my wrists for a year and I can't type", with the medical history to prove it, is definitely someone you should put through a battery of tests.
The main thing you offer is order book replay, am I understanding that correctly? I have been interested in something similar, but I am not sure how to justify the extra data actually.

Could you give a scenario where order book data at this granularity might come in handy, as opposed to say a single measure of liquidity (however that would be defined)? Thanks
They are mostly iron so it seems plausible.
I am not interested in frameworks generally.
I'm not sure long term storage will ever make sense since the capital costs are amortized across far fewer cycles. Once a year rather than once a day means 365x the capital cost. Instead over-provisioning of green generation and increasing grid capacity (to avoid risk of local week long lulls in generation) seems a much better bet.
Analyzing the Facebook ads placed by the US presidential candidates
Hey, that reminds me of me as well!

I still use DragonDictate for Mac to do all of my dictation, whether that is writing Hacker News comments, writing emails, having meaningful discussions (okay arguing) on Twitter or writing code.

One of the most useful features of DragonDictate for Mac is the Auto-text feature where you can use single words to trigger larger blocks of text, this is great for filling in empty functions et cetera. There are also some really great Sublime Text plug-ins like auto complete all which makes writing code so much easier.

I mainly like to work in Python, but also have a huge library of Bash scripts to iron out lots of the little wrinkles that pop up when you cannot use your hands and you're trying to use a computer efficiently. Honestly there are so many of them that I have been using so long that I am not sure I could enumerate them off the top of my head!

I have played with Talon a little bit but never really got to grips with it, I don't know whether that's because I'm too used to using my method or that Talon was a little overcomplicated. I am however so pleased that there is work being done in this area, I am really happy that developers and industry are starting to understand that Accessibility does not just mean "works with a screen reader" as it has in the past.

One of the main problems and trying to solve at the moment is how to write mathematical notation using the tools I have at hand, which is a Mac, Sublime Text and DragonDictate for Mac.

Anyway, I am a coder who cannot type, AMA!
I mean, your choice is between an app owned by Facebook or an app owned by the creators of the largest social network in Russia.

I'm surprised more aren't using Signal, open source, and I believe funded by a non-profit organization. With founders that are known to care about organizational transparency and user privacy.
The funny thing about places where @ mean a unit of weight, is that the word is kept for reading emails out loud.

You spell emails as "me arroba domain dot com", which sounds to the native ear almost like "me kilogram domain dot com", but is completely normal nowadays.
I really like Telegram. Only end-to-end encryption by default and in group chats would make it perfect.
I've certainly read this before, however are there any studies that back this up?

I played guitar before I got RSI. Now, I can't play for more than a few minutes at a time without ending up in pain - despite my RSI being under control for work purposes.

Actually, there's nothing quite like playing guitar in terms of causing me pain well after finishing the activity. Certain things like lifting heavy furniture, or using a screwdriver cause pain quicker but it also goes away pretty fast. 5 minutes of guitar will result in pain and weakness until the next day. Granted, it's not an enormous amount of pain, but it's certainly enough to be annoying. It sucks, because despite not being very good, I've always enjoyed playing guitar.

I should add that I also certainly never overdid playing either; I've never played a live show in my life and have never taken it too seriously, was just a hobby.
> the best way to get a doctor to listen to you is to listen to (and follow) their advice first.

No. Because sometimes their advice is "nothing can be done, you'll need to manage." Or - "Wait for a few more weeks and if it doesn't go away, we'll rethink things".
There's still a very large enterprise market for monolithic software that isn't going anywhere anytime soon. These are not legacy customers.
The modern version - planetary annihilation kills modern computers still.
0-60 is exactly what makes interstate on ramps a blast. With a wide open ramp, it can be more like 0-80+.
Definitely interested. I’ll check it out.

Same boat, software engineer, my index and middle finger main knuckles on both hands inflame from the slightest use even after years of therapy, doctors visits, etc. Also tendinitis in both elbows/arms.

Note to those who are pushing off fixing your ergonomics, don’t. If you feel pain, numbing, tingling; do not ignore it. Listen to your body, don’t be like me.
How do you know? And even if it doesn't for starters, there's no telling it'll stay that way.

Very legitimate concern.
The event horizon is not a shield from gravity. It's the theoretical shell/radius inside which light cannot escape no matter what direction it's travelling. Photons sort of accumulate around the event horizon of a spinning black hole[0], because it takes them more orbits to escape the closer they get to the horizon, but without any matter/photos to observe, the event horizon is just a theoretical shell/radius limiting observation.

A black hole without an event horizon is a naked singularity[1], a concept in theoretical physics resulting from looking at the mathematical equations that describe black holes and observing that the event horizon's radius becomes undefined at certain angular velocities[2]. It's not clear if it can exist in reality.

AFAIK (not a physicist), gravitational force of a specific object (as a function of distance) cannot be discontinuous, can it? It's definitely not under the classical F=G(M1)(M2)/r^2 equation. Force can't be discontinuous unless mass changes discontinuously or space changes discontinuously. But I don't know if there are extreme conditions (and a naked singularity might qualify) where that equation breaks down, or is thought to break down?

[0] to support the movie Interstellar, several people worked on an accurate rendering, based on known physics, of a rotating black hole: https://astronomynow.com/2015/02/14/interstellar-technology-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_singularity

[2] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/147034/rotating-...
Small production sizes are cool, but you still have to factor in yield of course.
I mean, if millions of New Zealanders (and Germans, and Brits, and...) feel like that, why would we expect the US to be any different? (compliance rates for previous gun confiscation efforts overseas have been laughable - like, "I don't think there's been one with over 50% compliance" tier laughable)
True story: he lived in the same dorm room all four years, and only got 2 A s as an undergrad; the rest were A+es, which were incredibly hard to get.

Fantastic lecturer, advisor, climbing instructor, and really brilliant person. Can't believe he's gone.
They were joking, and you're being needlessly hostile. Plus you're wrong on multiple counts. Most of the counter examples are historic, but still.

Yes, barrel is not a unit of rounds, but there are situations where it would be appropriate. Superimposed loading is where multiple rounds are loaded in the same barrel and are fired sequentially. This is a very old idea, but for a modern take on it look up (the now defunct) Metal Storm. Terrifying stuff.

There have been guns with many more barrels than 7 or 8. Volley guns have been made with anywhere from just a few to nearly a hundred barrels. They weren't always big platform mounted monstrosities either. A famous example would be the nock gun: a 7 barrel, shoulder-fired flintlock.
It's not a lie if you believe it ;)
> That's very unicausal explanation that puts all blame for Fed.

That's a fair point and that wasn't my intention, but you can only fit so much context into a comment. I'm not even saying they're "doing it wrong", but that they are in a pickle. Of course interest rates are low globally and it's not just domestic capital bidding up prices.

> In the US the amount of money in mutual funds, hedge funds, ETFs, insurance companies, 401Ks etc has exploded while supply has decreased.

Well alright, but why has it exploded? Why do all these allocations into riskier asset classes take place? Is it all just greed, or is it the interest rate environment?
The Life and Death of an American Indie Press
I think it is worth noting that the creator of VK (Russia’s Facebook equivalent; overtaken by the Russian state), is actually a known libertarian dissident.
A few tips from my RSI journey. I had developed a severe case ~8ish years ago. It took 1.5 years before I could code full-time again. Was a very painful period. It's still difficult for me to code beyond 40 hours a week, which makes side projects difficult.

The most effective techniques for my (partial) recovery, and for keeping the severe pain at bay for the last 6 years:

- I never ever use standard computer mice, and try to avoid the trackpad as much as possible. For me, they were worse than the keyboard. Instead, I've been using a Wacom tablet (with pen) for years. I've gotten several colleagues who were experiencing pain to use pen tablets as well, with uniformly good results.

- Further reducing the need to leave the keyboard by switching to vim and also using spectacle for window management. I found vim-adventures.com very effective for learning vim - not affiliated with the project in anyway, just a very happy user.

- Always coding with my elbow a touch over 90 degrees. I find that placing the keyboard on my lap is the most comfortable (although that maybe dependant on body proportions). In my opinion most desks are way to high for comfortable ergonomics, my lap happens to be everywhere I am, so that's convenient.

- Plenty of exercise developing back muscles (which I had completely neglected prior)
I don't know how it is in the IBM-level sphere for an acquisition like this, but in the financial world there's often a 12 month retention bonus. I'd look for staff hemorrhage in a year.
Are there any other decent options available?

I am not interested in giving money to Amazon due to how they treat their warehouse workers, and I'm not interested in trying to get itunes to run on linux.
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If I have to I use WhatsApp (Using Signal's encryption framework) over Telegram as I don't like to use a russian chat app that came up with their own encryption and doesn't even enable encryption by default.

It's not just about UX or not doing research.
> I feel like human behavior will change as culture evolves.

In some ways it will but in other ways it won't. There are many patterns of human behavior that have not changed, ever, as far as we know.

> How do you conduct science when whatever important truth about human behavior you find invalidates the same findings once that knowledge enters popular culture?

I don't think this is the problem.

I think the problem is that we don't have a theory of the mind and therefore psychology is a field where only erudition is possible. I don't consider psychology, or other "social sciences," scientific. These fields generally lack predictive power and tend to be necessarily qualitative. That's not to say that they're useless but it's an important distinction.

I don't think it's clear that we'll ever have a good theory of the mind. Maybe understanding your own mind is like jumping over your own shadow. How can you understand the thing that allows you to understand?
I had this idea a while back. I was in a group with just too much useless conversation. So I listed a few things I would like:

- customizable posting limits (per day, per week, etc);

- timeouts;

- time windows (no posts on Sundays, for instance);
That's incredible! Does it work with any programming language?
Does your office or property management company hire someone to do parking enforcement or security? It would not surprise me to learn that they’re subcontracting the task of identifying cars which aren’t on a list somewhere.
I hope the truth comes out, risk of it getting buried along with Epstein.
Great games..... I really feel that peak gaming was in 90s/early 2000s.

You had C&C, Total Annihilation, Age of Empires, Quake 1/2, Half Life, Pro Evo Soccer, and so many more in the PC side, and probably a SNES or a N64 around. Super Mario (all of them), Golden Eye, Mario Kart, Street Fighter 2, Final Fight and more

Online gaming was crude but fun (Age of Empires, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Half Life, had a great online implementation). LAN gaming parties were coming in my dorm.

Games had a well defined start, end, and progression that was dependent on your skill.

Now games are just a way for you to spend money in loot boxes, dcls, and cosmetics, or 'upgrades' so you can escape the artificial grind. Tutorials everywhere, handholding to the point that destroy any type of mystery or fun of the game.....

Or maybe I am just getting old.....
I've heard some to map esc to capslock too, or even ctrl _and_ esc (tap for one, hold for the other). I don't think I would have learned the new mapping if it weren't for the pain.
I have driven one. It’s nice for cruising along but in corners it’s too soft and you just feel the weight. Definitely not a sports car. That’s ok since it’s not designed to be one.