skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many elevators have placebo ones. It might behoove you to test it out sometime - is the button actually working immediately or is it taking time after pressing (or multipressing) the button? Many elevators ignore the button and close when they want but people still think/feel like they were the cause.
Also submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24035203

Edit: different article with exact same title. A bit confusing at a first glance.
You just have a shitty rail system in most of US. The solution is to fix it not fly more.

Also trains are a lot more then 40% more efficient in terms of pollution. Eurostar for example 6g per km traveled while airplane is 100g (long haul flights much worse for short ones). Though electric train powered by coal can get to around 40g per km and even worse for diesel trains.
Portland here too (well aloha really) and I’ve noticed the same - even at Safeway which was really bad even a month ago.
Yes, I believe man are placebo buttons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo_button
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If millions are evicted and there are no jobs for them to find, and there's no safety net from the government (the one group that can print money), the destruction won't probably creative, unfortunately.
They don’t come in the box anymore, but are fairly affordable at $9.

Also, they’re quite effective devices: https://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/lightning-adapter-audio-qu...
And you can't charge the phone while it's plugged in.
That's what I tried to say in my last sentence. For way too absurd things, if you're obliged that time, do it, and the next time simply refuse and go elsewhere.
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For those who weren't familiar with the acronym as I was, SOTA = "state of the art."
Except that for any questions or disputes you should contact Shenzhen.
I use noun project or flaticon. Though in order to get full advantage you got to pay. So yeah, I'm actually looking through tons of icons trying to find some with similar styling
I wish they brought back original quality photo uploads. I guess I could understand dropping that in the "A" series, but for the flagships, it really set the pixels apart.
There's always money if they want to spend it. For what they pumped into the markets earlier this year, they could have given $7.5k to every American adult (or $4.5k to every single person inc children)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhansen/2020/03/12/fed-inje...
Also the CDC: https://phil.cdc.gov/Details.aspx?pid=15874

That's why the wikipedia page I linked says "between 34,000 and 100,000" -- it cites the CDC.

P.S. The fact that you completely ignored everything else I said is duly noted.
Does the OnePlus Nord or 7T have a headphone jack?

(No, they don't, and it's been a dealbreaker for me for several generations. That plus low price plus stock android is the attraction of the pixel 3a and 4a for me.)

All that said, I'm happy using a Samsung phone - manufactured in Vietnam, has a headphone jack and sdcard slot, minimal bloatware, cheap.
I remember those dark days when everyone was using a different icon for "share" and you never really knew what icon did what. The icons even changed across Android/iOS versions, and there was Microsoft in the corner tooting its own horn on Windows Phone.

I'm hardly tech illiterate, but the way apps use icons these days makes me almost go into "those darn kids" mode.
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I installed the (OEM) European headlights on my car.

It's, well, a night and day difference. It's been 8 years and no one has noticed.
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Even more idiotic is my truck. I put a camper on it. I can't drive it at night because the weight of the camper tilts the entire truck back just a bit so that the head lights are aimed right at driver's eyes even on the lowbeams. Everyone flashes me and gets pissed off. Hopefully Adaptive headlights account for things like this.
It’s unlawful to protest violently as well, I don’t see the point in obeying ham radio laws there.
Commercial bonds carry risks (even very unusual but not unprecedented risks such as a global pandemic). Maybe the bondholders should have thought about this?
I had bought a new Nest thermostat and was going to install it at about the time that Google went from having different things Nest-integrated to having them be Google-integrated. I chose to sell my thermostat to somebody and buy an Ecobee specifically because Ecobee wasn't owned by Google or Amazon.

So far Amazon seems like its treating its acquisitions better as far as customers are concerned. Ecobee does make a model with Alexa built-in but I got an older one that doesn't have that.

I am really tempted to buy some Eufy 2K cameras, which I hear are decent quality and integrate with Homekit. Apple has tougher security requirements than Google or Amazon and the products that meet it seem better, even if more expensive.
How to Teach Programming to People in Prison (Without Computers)
I don't think it's "reckless and inconsiderate" for people to frequent outdoor restaurants/bars now. NYC has had outdoor dining open for 6 weeks, with low and stable COVID infection rates throughout. A scientific consensus that COVID spreads the most indoors is emerging. Aside from allowing people to enjoy their leisure (with social and mental benefits), we support local businesses and their workers. Is it great that people are even working with the virus around? No, of course not. But with government aid not coming at all, the next best thing to do is to make sure the restaurants have enough money to pay staff and other expenses.

The real "reckless and inconsiderate" people are the politicians who are trying to impose austerity, cut benefit checks, and let businesses fail without a care. The elites are presiding over a 30% annualized decline in GDP without a care - mindboggling.
Linus Torvalds once told this about C++ :

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Pine.LNX.4.58.0401192241080.231...

" any compiler or language that likes to hide things like memory
allocations behind your back just isn't a good choice for a kernel "

This was about C++ . So,given that Rust is similar to C++ , How does this quote applies to Rust?

Edit: I am getting downvoted for this post. Downvoters,any reasons?
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> If you think about it, this is the opposite scenario of today: our second wave is gaining momentum

No, it's not..we're still in the first wave. Second wave is an illusion due to NYC’s high and early peak.
Reducing friction is a good idea but I would argue that asking folks to generate and send you a secret is likely the same amount as them getting an API key that you generate for them. You’ll also run into uncertainties in secret key formats that are used by disparate clients.

If you really want to: One alternative would be to generate a random JWT while the developers are on the website and ask them to secure a given JWT by adding their email, doing on boarding that way.

Addendum: In terms of reducing friction, if this is going to be a paid API, I would suggest adding a free tier that allows N requests before you either rate limit or cut off, and send an email to ask for a conversion
self-leveling is required on bi-xenon headlights even in the US, so this is quite strange. if you have older-style headlights, there should be manual adjustment screws on the lamp housing you can fix this with in a matter of minutes.
Who else would/could buy it? I don't see Facebook or Google getting government approval. It doesn't seem like anything useful to Apple or Amazon.
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In my state, you would not pass the yearly safety inspection.

Can't you just adjust the headlights?
Banks can’t weather it that easily. They’re levered up at least 10 to 1, in many cases more. If they’re levered 10 to 1 and expecting 5% mortgage payment, in one year half their equity is wiped out, and in two years they’re insolvent. It gets worse... if the value of the mortgages goes down by 10% because people become worse credits, they become insolvent. This is why the govt is propping them up. (Same is she and solution in 2008)
Wasn't it shown that TikTok (and LinkedIn to be fair) was accessing camera and/or clipboard when it didn't need to?

I have no dog in this fight, but isn't there at least a little evidence that TikTok may be collecting data on a large scale? I haven't been following it all that closely, but I thought that's what the original bans for military members was about.

Edit: So, yes, but that’s ok because others were too.
Tell HN: the word "Niger" (the country) seems blocked in Venmo memos
Was donating to a charitable cause in Niger and was able to use the word "Niger" in late April ("sadaqah" = charity in Arabic): https://imgur.com/a/yq1tWCq

I no longer can. Two examples with the word "Niger" in it: https://imgur.com/a/pDunMej

Reproduced on someone else's phone as well.

I suspect it's because 1) of recent USA events and 2) "Niger" is one letter away from being the n-word. Contacted customer support but they didn't seem to understand I was trying to file a bug report. My goal isn't to get a customer service rep in trouble, so I won't bother posting the transcript unless people think it would be helpful.

Ideas on how to inform Venmo of this? Wanted to create an Ask HN, but couldn't figure out a short enough question for the title character limit.
Ammonia vapor has the pH level to carry the SARS-CoV-2 like a very very long time.
Does your truck not have self-leveling headlights? Or is the change outside their ability to handle?
Stretch. When I maintain flexibility, I can always jump back into whatever physical activity I'm interested in (running, biking, hiking/climbing, kayaking, swimming). When I've lost my flexibility it's much harder to get back into any of these activities. Also, taking the time to stretch makes me think about how to get back into these activities when I've gotten too busy to do them regularly.
Remembered old university days when I was learning C/C++. By that time I felt like a hacker.

Right now I'm making sites with HTML :)
I don't understand why this is being downvoted. Bankruptcy is a tool to encourage efficient risk-taking and solving otherwise tricky collective action problems for creditors.

There's an unfortunate stigma about bankruptcy in the U.S. which leads to _far_ fewer people/businesses filing bankruptcy than should be.

No one is better off limping along under unsustainable debt, not businesses and not individuals. We need to get rid of this stigma and let people use the tools we put in place to solve these problems.
Do you have inspections in your state?
I want to replace my current OnePlus 5T, as I want to switch from my custom LineageOS build to GrapheneOS[1], and thought the Pixel 4a would be the one to replace it with, but why only one color option? I really wanted a black, and white version.

The regular Pixel 4 does have a black, and white version that looks gorgeous from the back, but then the front design is an abomination, with the top being much bigger than the bottom.

Maybe I should just stick with LineageOS, I do not put sensitive information on my phone anyway.

[1] https://grapheneos.org/
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Here is the secret: Teslas factories already are built out of machines mostly out of the European car manufacturing ecosystem. Tesla is already a European success, quite the opposite of being a threat.
Even in countries were Pixel phones are distributed, they are "hard" to get. Google is doing something wrong. I don't know anybody who owns a Pixel phone, despite Android market share being something like 70% here in Germany. It's all Samsung, OnePlus, Huawei, Oppo
Still using the Nexus 6P :) Had to replace the battery once which gave it an extra couple of years of life. I was reluctant to replace it with a newer flagship because of the price (getting close to $1k) but the 4a price is looking very tempting now...
I once read a very interesting, barely-upvoted reddit post titled "I suck at Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu". It was written by a black belt, himself a formidable combatant and instructor, who no one would accuse of "sucking at BJJ". His rationale was that compared to world champion BJJ athletes, he was barely a blip on the radar of the sport itself. Although he had achieved significant mastery relative to the everyman, or even the average advanced practitioner, he was still woefully far off from the true limits of the sport.

This can a tremendously valuable mindset to take up in mathematics; especially when one is a student learning under the factory model of modern school, where one is evaluated relative to their peers and the institution itself, rather than relative to the limits of what is possible. Countless "gifted and talented" students have been done a tremendous disservice by being informed at a young age by the system that they are "good at math" or "good at English" because they show relative aptitude in memorizing and regurgitating simplified models of advanced material.

Terry Tao is lucky to be so smart that he was already somewhat well-known and successful by the time he learned the truth that these administered tests of ability are arbitrary; it would be tremendously helpful for modern students to learn the same, much earlier.
Is this a standard feature in all European cars? It seems like a premium feature that might eventually trickle down to the average cars.
I had an appointment recently where they took my temperature upon entering the building and the receptionist scribbled the thermometer reading down and circled it at the top of the forms I had to fill out: "28C". Which made me wonder whether she didn't notice that the reading she took was wildly inaccurate or just didn't care.

Future historians will wonder why various medical records show people with acute idiopathic hypothermia in the middle of July 2020.
It's not all for naught. Eventually the books will end up in the public domain, and if Google exists then, can choose to make scans public.
I didn't know this was possible! Something to keep in mind if I ever buy a nice car.
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I think what he's saying is that you can push people towards "natural" conversation but if it doesn't really work well, people will get frustrated. Which is sort of the problem with voice assistants today for the most part. You really do have to get the right wizard incantations a lot of the time.
The Netherlands PPP conversion factor is less than 1, and was in 2009 as well. This means that each Euro spent by the Netherlands goes further than the exchange rate equivalent number of dollars would go in the US.

Wouldn't adjusting for PPP bring their healthcare spending up, not down, making Sanders less correct, not more?
Part of discipline is not allowing 'in the moment' you to disagree with 'careful planning' you.

I know one or two people who have a lot of chaos in their lives who cannot do this. One in particular gets positively defensive if you ask in the car what you plan to accomplish by going into this store.

You can hardly call it 'buying extra things' if you refuse to articulate what the expected set of things was in the first place. She spends so much time de-cluttering and often doesn't have money for group activities despite being in essentially the same income bracket. Ten seconds making a plan doesn't have to turn into a whole avoidant 'ruining the experience' vibe of the trip. Also, no store is designed to make you enjoy it. It's merely designed for long- versus short-term ROI, and certain kinds of enjoyment can benefit one or the other. Enjoying a trip to the mall is expensive as hell.
They’re adjustable.

Mechanic should be able to adjust them for you or search for a guide online or the device manual.

May need heavier duty springs in the rear suspension to accommodate the weight.
does that mean that if one starts a new julia kernel, and imports a package, something different happens each time they do that? if not, then it would seem one could at least save on those super long imports.
Reading about this a bit more, it almost seems like whatever PackageCompiler.jl is doing could be automated and baked into the the core julia executable with simple options/flags.
If you asked any given person on the street whether they'd like to see the Earth from space, I'd be willing to wager serious money they'd be more likely to say yes than no, given that it were easily accessible and the money would be taken care of. Those activities you listed have quite a bit of money and time needed to do. But the desires are all absolutely there.
> Most businesses while closed could have very minimal costs.

For me, my mortgage on the property is my biggest expense and my bank offered my no forebearance. So, no, most couldn't have minimal costs unless you can address lease/mortgage payments.

Edit: If you disagree that mortgage/lease is the biggest expense for many businesses and doesn't need to be addressed, I'm really interested in your point of view. I may be using anecdotal evidence for me that doesn't translate to other businesses.
iPhones have had wireless charging for a while though. Not as convenient of course.
For anyone wondering: Pixel 3 had a fingerprint sensor for unlocking the screen, but Pixel 4 removed it and replaced it with a face unlock. Regardless of whether face unlock works - sometimes it's inconvenient to position yourself for it (e.g. if you have bags in your hand, are driving, browsing/reading with phone on a surface, in bed, etc).

Some skipped Pixel 4 due to removing it. They considered fingerprint reading to be one of Pixel 3's most helpful features.

We still don't know if Pixel 5 will have it or not.
Regulation or Rent-Seeking?
Jeremy Howard on programming environments (Access, Delphi, APL, J, k, Python)
Looking at the output of a compiler is a great way to quickly learn the basics of assembly coding for a particular platform, but learning the principles of programming in assembler and machine architecture is an entirely different story. Knuth's 1st volume remains the best in that regard.
Not "full" enough to give an answer to this question.
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Quite the contrary: it’s illegal to not share data with government if requested:

> Two pieces of legislation are of particular concern to governments — the 2017 National Intelligence Law and the 2014 Counter-Espionage Law. Article 7 of the first law states that "any organization or citizen shall support, assist and cooperate with the state intelligence work in accordance with the law," adding that the the state "protects" any individual and organization that aids it.

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In wake of Apple acquisition, Dark Sky ends Android support
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