skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Over a million dead every single year, 40k in the USA, and 3 every day in Australia.

No one is contesting this, and it's good context for visualizing the supposed 100 deaths/year reduction that this $88mm investment would achieve. We'd still be at ~1 million dead per year.

> Such a meaningless statement.

I gave a precise example immediately following the introduction of the high-level concept. I'm not sure how that's hard to grasp.

> People shouldn't even be in cars most of the time that they are.

Ok, but not an argument that this is an effective use of 88 million taxpayer dollars. You could probably prevent more deaths by spending that money campaigning for people to drive less resulting reduction of overall number of drivers, compared to these ridiculous cameras.

> Cars are killing machines, and should be constantly tracked at all times.

I prefer a proactive approach to safety (better, safer, smarter cars) than a reactive approach (better punishment). Besides, the overwhelming majority of auto incidents are accidental. How will surveillance prevent those? It's solving the wrong problem.

Think of the end game of either option. With true self-driving cars, mobile phone use won't be an issue. But if we make this monitoring acceptable now, the cameras and surveillance will remain. Don't let the Overton window shift.
My preferred alternative to electrical tape is a piece of aluminum foil stuck on with painter's masking tape. Aluminum foil (or any metal) is really excellent at blocking all the light, and painter's tape doesn't leave residue.
Fastest-rising and sharpest-declining tech skills of the past 5 years
Any serious research to back that up? But even then I have to ask so what? What does that have to do with anything? I never claimed that alcohol isn't killing people or that this is a problem that must reduce attention to other problems
I think GaN transistors are a major thing in the next decade. Designed a GaN FET based small vehicle motor controller few years ago and similar size/speed/efficiency is currently not achievable with any other mass produced transistor type. There used to be only small players on the field (GaN Systems and EPC) but now Panasonic and Infineon have started offering their versions. Expecting the prices to go down and volumes go up.
I strongly disliked the puzzles that quickly devolved to correctly handling a ton of corner cases. 15 and 17 were both in this category.
What's the fun in that? This is like the boring part of being a developer. Without the payment that goes with being a developer.
Learning new environments can be painful so it’s good it starts off easy.

I’m trying to solve them with Swift Playgrounds on the iPad, for example. And I can’t figure out how to create a simple text file for the data.
Actual t-shirt. Not uncommon under $5, sometimes $1, at Walmart. Yes clothing can be disposably priced if you search a bit.
Cool interface! What did you use to build it?

Does anyone know of any JavaScript based tools that let you explore graphs in a similar way?
These are daily programming puzzles? How long do they take on average?

Also, I know somebody who is just starting out at coding. Would it be too hard for them? They are brand new, learning about loops
SPF-aware greylisting and filter-greylist
We probably ate the smartest animals.

We know we ate mamoths to extinction. We ate a lot of whales.

It stands to reason we ate other animals of karger physical bodyband brain size. We ate some ostrich species.

Shame
We're just talking about two copper-lined holes next to each other for each power connection. There were two of those spaced closely together in a recess in the wall. They were close enough I could have touched the metal of one outlet while grabbing onto the power plug inserted into the other outlet. Since my power plug adapter is two copper-plated pins that mated with the holes and had no electrical break like you see on a tip/ring headphone jack I assume the exposed metal is live and the pin is live when inserted.

Perhaps there's a hidden mechanism that enables power after insertion? There was no switch for each outlet. I no longer remember if there was a switch for the pair of them but I don't think so as I was worried about getting shocked. This was in a Belgian hotel I visited a few years ago. Sorry I didn't take a picture.
Isn’t AWS fairly widely reputed for having lowered its prices dozens of times since first launching? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/new-research-from-tso-logic...
That is controlled in the phone, not in the charger.
That's an interesting point. I worked in QA for years and was out of the country for a few years. When I returned my old role (QA and process development/project management) didn't exist. The industry had moved on and those roles were handled by SDET/automation engineers and product managers respectively. I had to do a bit of retooling of my skillset.

Every QA person I've worked with that is still in the industry has moved on to almost pure test automation. A few years ago that was more like 30% of the role. Now I rarely do almost any manually testing, except for exploratory purposes and to design the test plan. Also for certain things that don't automate well. These days I do more pure development than I have at any other point in my career. It's been super fun, but still quite a change. I've seen colleagues that were more the business analyst flavor of QA get pushed out of the industry when they couldn't/wouldn't adapt.
I'm pretty sure they mean fitting as in not unnecessarily blocking adjacent outlets. Not as in mating securely.
> Why shouldn't it be for revenue?

because it creates inappropriate incentives for the state. it incentivizes authorities to knowingly create unreasonable laws for the purpose of increasing revenue. a fine can be a good deterrent against breaking the law, and I'm certainly not saying they should just burn the money, but it's something you should be wary of as a citizen.

the rest of your post indicates a very trusting attitude towards government, so I doubt we are going to see eye-to-eye here in general. I really think you should reconsider the yellow light timings though; it is quite an egregious abuse.

a yellow light needs to have some minimum duration to be useful. you can't have a 1 second yellow on a 50mph road; there's no way anyone can stop that fast. yellow light timings are usually set so that drivers who are too close to the light to safely stop can pass through before it turns red and the cross traffic gets the green. shortening the yellow for one direction usually advances the green timing for the cross traffic. it's not just a "gotcha" fine; it actually increases the chance of collisions in the intersection.
It’s not comprehensive but I really like betterexplained.com. Everything is available online for free (I think) but there are print books and ebooks available now too.

I am also finding desmos.com (and their app) helpful for getting insight by visualizing and playing with equations and functions.
Scrolling through the thing: I'm pretty sure not many (possibly not any) people are going to have experience using this thing in the wild.
Monoculture is not good. Positive changes happened after LLVM/clang rose up to challenge GCC. LibrePCB cannot hope to be a drop in replacement for kicad like clang was for GCC, but a file converter tool seems plausible.
Electrically I don't see how that works since there's no interruption of the metal pin inserted into the socket like you see on a tip/ring headphone plug. Unless there's a mechanical process that energizes the live side of the inserted plug after a certain depth?
> So your analogue doesn't really hold

I think you miss the idea of how analogies work. If I say "the Moon is affected by Earth gravity just like an apple that falls down is" then if you way "but if I put an apple underwater then it'd flow up instead!" that doesn't mean my analogy didn't work. That means you are talking about different things that are outside of what analogy is about.

The fact that EU didn't choose equal representation for member countries and as the result minor countries are powerless is exactly why minor states in the US do not want such arrangement. Just as with an example above about the apple, your counter-example does not disprove existence of gravity - or flaws in proportional representation between sovereign states - it in fact supports it, you just fail to see how.

> Or how would you feel if some rural area in your home country got the same amount of votes than the whole capital?

If that's the arrangement that is the condition of the union between the rural area and the capital - perfectly normal. I know Bill Gates has much more shares of Microsoft than I do and I don't feel bad about it. Why should I feel bad about those things?
Why?

creat(/dir/log);
write(/dir/log, “2,3,foo”, 7);
pwrite(/dir/orig, “bar”, 3, 2);
unlink(/dir/log);

and not?

creat(/dir/new);
write(/dir/new, “foo”, 3);
rename(/dir/new, /dir/orig);
> Fido 51 is an extremely busy system; they receive 125 messages a week through FidoNet alone, so please be patient.

cute.
Ruins of ancient city discovered in southern Thailand
They aren't addictive to the vast majority of people.

In this respect it's similar to alcohol: only harmful to a small group of people, but for them very harmful.

I think the key is looking for commonalities of the people at risk of addiction and finding alternative therapies for them.
Last year I started out using elixir, but I got filtered due to the goblins...
That's such a vague standard - every single big company has people claiming they make the world a worse place, are we going to break up nestle, every oil company, every agribusiness and pharmaceutical and car company along with google? That could make the world a much worse place
> Calling anything from Arthur "vaporware" is really laughable.

kOS?
There are certainly cases where opioids should be prescribed as painkillers. But in the US, when weighing two bad things (pain, and adverse effects of a drug), pain seems to be considered more important than elsewhere, since doctors prescribe more of it.

It must be that elsewhere doctors more frequently say “yes, your condition is painful, but if normal painkillers don’t help, the next alternative is worse than the pain”.

It’s not clear to me why this discrepancy exists. Pharma can’t be the only reason. Maybe the private insurance system is a factor (“I paid a lot for this healthcare now fix my pain or I’ll take my business elsewhere”)?
> or about $205 in a currency we're more familiar with

A currency you're more familiar with. Many of us are familiar with multiple currencies, including GBP, EUR, and, yes, USD.

To whit – you're comparing decimal GBP to predecimal pounds, shillings and pence. You might as well compare drachma.
They definitely suffer from a grass ceiling.
`snap install http` gets you the latest httpie, fwiw
Your comment has little to do with the article.

This article is about posting news stories to make a site look "real" while your bots go to work doing click fraud on the ads.
I’m pretty sure it won’t, at least not tensorflow-gpu. Tensorflow-cpu will though. There’s no ROCm support for MacOS and obviously no CUDA support.
My source cites numbers for opioid and and alcohol deaths according to the Center for Disease Control. Anchoring opioid deaths against alcohol provides a frame of reference for many people, since alcohol is so ubiquitous in human culture.

I tried googling for the odds of becoming addicted to those substances and couldn't readily find anything for either. Hopefully someone else sees this and can shed some light, because it would be interesting to me as well.
2029 predictions based on the events of 2019
Live and learn, that seems to be the exception. That sounds like it might be an accident though?
JC penny printed t-shirts $6 us. But, to your point, they are "terrible".

You can still find high quality fabrics that have been turned into garments but it is rare and costly. I, as someone who is tall, am mostly locked out of these markets. Interestingly however I am more often then not forced to buy more expensive and better formal items (suits in particular).
This might have been added since your comment, but for me it had a popup that told me to double click a node to expand it on first load.
And as you likely know, there is a 200% penalty for self-dealing.

If you extract a billion dollars from a non-profit for self-dealing purposes, you owe the IRS $2 billion.
I would love to know as well how they are getting a $100 cpm when google says the average is less than $3
That is not smaller than an Atom PD1. The Atom is 1.61 x 1.37 x 1.50 in. This is 1.18 (x 1.18) x 2.36. The shorter dimensions don't matter because both approximate the outlet dimensions, but the Innergie will stick out nearly 50% further. Also, 88g vs. 59g. Not smaller by any reasonable definition.

As it happens, I have the Atom. Yes, it's true that it can barely keep up with my MBP while in use, but that's not how I use it. It's fantastic as a more convenient option overnight, or as a second charger for my phone, my Switch, etc. I already have a bigger four-port, and any single-port can only be an adjunct to that, so a single-port that can do 60W adds no value. I suspect people in situations similar to mine far outnumber those for whom a single 60W port would suffice.
"nobody is suggesting that opiods shouldn't be used to treat pain, are they?"

Many doctors and pharmacies in the US have swung the pendulum to that end. Probably for liability reasons.
Something that is often missed is that the number of lives saved numbers are often low - eg NSW apparently had "only" 354 deaths in 2018; but the under-reported number (imo, as an Australia) is the number of injuries (whether serious or not) which are not talked about.

Apparently NSW had ~10950 serious road injuries in 2018. That's a lot more. And, at least to my perception, the impact of serious injuries is under-appreciated (wrt it be under-reported) - in some ways it can be more impactful to those around the victim than death.

Then there are minor (or unreported) injuries which can often align well with the mobile-phone-usage/distraction type cause. Anecdotally, about a month ago I was nearly hit by a car that went through a very red light (ie had been red for a long time, it hadn't just changed) at a pedestrian crossing in front of me and I could see that they were looking at a phone. Luckily they didn't hit anyone. But depending on timing; they may have hit me (probably a non-serious-but-not-fun-injury) or they could have hit a child (probable death to my very untrained eye - it was after-school time and there were a lot of (young) primary school students on the same street).

I don't see how 88 million dollars is going to stop cars from injuring or killing the things they hit.

Who knows the actual efficacy of the 88 million; but the costs of car injuries/deaths look pretty expensive on the after-the-fact side (just found some US stats):

> On average, each crash-related ED visit costs about $3,300 and each hospitalization costs about $57,000 over a person’s lifetime

> There were more than 32,000 crash deaths in the US in 2013. These deaths cost more than $380 million in direct medical costs.

Of note, I'm very anti phones-while-driving, because to my (biased) perception, whenever I see a car doing something that seemed dumb/unsafe/ill-considered, I very (very) often see them using a phone or playing with a gps etc at the same time.

https://www.budgetdirect.com.au/car-insurance/research/car-a...

https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/crash-injuries/index.html

https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/motor-vehicle-safety/index.ht...
If you don't need 60W, I find that the CA4-Pro [0] is great – it has the travel adapter built in (so you don't have to carry attachments), it can act as a travel adapter for plugs for other appliances, and it's got three USB-A ports as well.

[0] https://www.card-tec.com/ca4-pro.php
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It starts with an oscillator circuit producing an alternating current sine wave at the desired frequency. The oscillator circuit often involves a crystal in order to generate an accurate and stable frequency.

The alternating current is then feed down a transmission line, which in the most basic case is just 2 wires side by side. Being side-by-side, the current going "up" in one wire is balanced by the current coming "down" in the other so that at a distance from the transmission line, the radiation from the two wires (mostly) cancel each other out. Often instead of side-by-side, one wire is often wrapped around the other with an insulator separating them (coax), but the same principal applies.

The transmission line then feeds into the antenna. A basic antenna is a piece of wire exactly 1/2 wavelength long. Electric pulses "bounce" off the wire's ends, sort of like how if you tether one end of a rope and then shake the other, the "waves" going down the rope will "bounce". The length of the wire being 1/2 wavelength is key because it takes a wave exactly one cycle to start from one end, bounce off the other, and return to the start. Just as the first wave is bouncing off the start end, it gets a new "bump" from the transmission line. This allows a lot of current to build up in the antenna, sort of like how a kid on a swing can use several small well timed kicks to swing himself much higher than just a single big one could. Of course, antennas can be much more complicated than just a dipole, for example, you could place several dipoles in a row and feed them in phase so that their transmitted signals add together at points perpendicular to the row, and cancel each other at points in line with the row. Or, you could use a parabolic dish to concentrate the signals in one direction.

In radar, the radio waves travel out, bounce off objects in the their path, and a small fraction of the original signal comes back to the antenna. Depending on the design the radar might have a separate receiving antenna, or it might receive on the same antenna it used for transmitting. From a radio perspective, a receiving antenna is exactly the same as a transmitting antenna, only, it's the radio waves coming in through space that cause it to resonate instead of the other way around in a transmitting antenna.

Finally, the signal comes down the transmission line and into a receiver circuit which analyzes and extracts whatever data (in the radar case, it deduces distance and speed by looking at the elapsed time and frequency shifts).
FWIW we had to move away from python in the project I was working on because just waiting for the help took more than 15 seconds (IIRC) on a beaglebone black.
> You could just say "this is the US."

I could. The best model of any thing is the thing itself. It's also the most useless model because the point of modeling is reduction of complexity for better understanding. Reducing US complexity to democracy, however, misses important aspects, namely federated sovereignty and complex power sharing arrangements between states and federal government. This gives people misleading impression that the system was supposed to work as majoritarian democracy and the fact it doesn't work that way is some kind of flaw that needs to be fixed. On the contrary, the system was explicitly designed to include elements of majoritarian democracy, but only as a limited part of it, counterbalanced by other arrangements as to protect from the deficiencies of such model. Thus, saying "it's not a democracy" highlights the deficiency of modeling the US as a simple majoritarian democracy.
The more common ones I hear are "PCB board" and "MCU microcontroller". "CAD design" used to bother me too, but I think it's become its own legitimate term for the sub-genre of CAD, since we're used to also using Solidworks for stress analysis or simulations.
Re custom crypto: random searches in github show plenty of it. I have no idea if this is an experiment or used in main code, but it is certainly present. Here is one example: [0]

> This raw interface is vaguely modeled on the haskell aos-signature package, but is written in terms of ed25519 primitives instead of general ECC and changes how linkage tags are computed...

Re command line: I was based it off the public docs. Go to "https://urbit.org", click on "install". The very end of the instructions say:

> Type (add 2 2) into the Dojo.

Maybe "install" is wrong section? I went to "docs" instead, from that "operators manual" seems most user-friendly. But it is text only as well:

> Let's join the ~dopzod/urbit-help channel. Use ctrl-x to switch from the Dojo prompt to the Chat prompt. Then:

> ~sampel-palnet:chat-cli/ ;join ~dopzod/urbit-help

The only reference to web UI I found was in "Using Bridge" section, but that seems a pre-requisite to set up the system, not part of the system itself.

If there are web UIs, you really need to document them better. Some screenshots would be great, for example.

[0] https://github.com/urbit/urbit/blob/7ce50ad75e23fcec0c8cb6ad...
> constantly wondering how people without access to these medicines continue their will to live

They often don't.
Check the update at the bottom:

> Update: many people have read this post and suggested that, in the first file example, you should use the much simpler protocol of copying the file to modified to a temp file, modifying the temp file, and then renaming the temp file to overwrite the original file. In fact, that's probably the most common comment I've gotten on this post. If you think this solves the problem, I'm going to ask you to pause for five seconds and consider the problems this might have.

> The main problems this has are:

> rename isn't atomic on crash. POSIX says that rename is atomic, but this only applies to normal operation, not to crashes.
> even if the techinque worked, the performance is very poor
> how do you handle hardlinks?
> metadata can be lost; this can sometimes be preserved, under some filesystems, with ioctls, but now you have filesystem specific code just for the non-crash case
etc.

> The fact that so many people thought that this was a simple solution to the problem demonstrates that this problem is one that people are prone to underestimating, even they're explicitly warned that people tend to underestimate this problem!
question: can we have such a network with conventional internet , if we all run a number of web services on our home routers?
W3C/Khronos liaison to discuss possible use of SPIR-V as WebGPU shading language
Do you have any example of what you're describing? I've used SQLite for years, written many migrations and never had such issues. A reasonably popular app I'm working on has so far 25 migration steps [0] and I've never encountered something like a new schema being different from an updated one. I'd expect whatever mistake was made to get to that point could be made in any other RDBMS.

0: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/805a5399b5288b4a282...
This is called a lie by omission.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie#Types