skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I built a walking desk. And funny thing is that, I have tested this that my dual n-back scores are marginally better when I do them while walking at the speeds of 1-1.5 km/h.
The front end of a truck is designed to be directly proportional to the size of a man’s …. ego.
The Australian indigenous peoples walked 9 miles a day (men) and 5 miles a day (women).
> SawStop is or was trying to get the government to ban the sale of saws without flesh detection technology.

Yeah, that's bad. When you resort to lobbying, you're no longer on the good side of the ledger.
Really? That seems like the worst situation tbh, being put in a position where you are suing people with legal expertise, and in a scenario where you could be afraid of being blacklisted for any future prospects. IANAL, but the law field seems to be very prone to elitism and group cohorting.
Most HVDC lines are not going near the passenger compartment at least now (you have it in the battery compartment, but those tend to be relatively well armored now). And 800 isn’t especially worse than 400 since you need to avoid it regardless, I think.
This is where it’s more open to interpretation. Wet leaves on pavement are a significant fall hazard and should be removed more frequently, but that’s optional.

Tree trimming and eventually removal can cost 500-1000+$ for older trees which you eventually need to do to avoid having limbs and eventually trees fall on nearby cars. Roots damage local pavement again if you let the trees grow large enough. They also start taking up significant space requiring much wider sidewalks.

Of course you can remove them and add new trees regularly, but that’s another cost and tends to upset locals. Etc. granted his is usually in comparison to an empty sidewalk as it’s unusual to have other forms of public shade.
Mental models to flex your mind
Pro riders can do 30mph at around 270-300W on a flat surface as they’re typically very skinny. I need about 350-450W to do 30mph as an 88kg/1.88M male.
I have a friend who is in the patent office and specializes in lithography. He knows this company :)
So… par for the course among formerly reputable news outlets?
Conditionally setting your gitconfig
I built one, too. The only problem is it never remains where I left it. One time the police brought it back, as it had wandered into somebody else's home. Another time, I found it lying in an alley in a pool of machine oil and stinking of WD-40. I'm going to have to stick one of those Apple tracker thingies on it.
Yes, generally speaking when I'm reading something I'd hope that my mind is doing some interpretation. It would be a rather difficult activity otherwise.
I think you need to check your math. 5'9" comes out to 69", giving you about 12" visible inches (more dpending on driver height and distance from vehicle).
Scott Alexander has a great post on this

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/lockdown-effectiveness...

and a follow-up: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/things-i-learned-writi...
Ask HN: What is a day in the life of a Q/A role like?
I’m not sure Q/A analyst is quite the correct term for the position I’m interested in, but I was technically a Q/A dev for about three months at one place I worked, the first one actually. After 15 years in the industry I realized that I could care less about “making” things; all I care about is “fixing” things. In other words, I’m only interested in pure problem solving, such as fixing bugs—the harder the bug, the better. But I’m not sure this is all Q/A roles do exactly in practice, so before I apply to a position, it makes sense to understand what I would actually be doing, day to day.

In a perfect world, I would be content and at home if all I did was clear out the bug backlog and nothing else. I don’t want to “maintain” software, I don’t want to “build” software, I certainly do not want to be “rockstar” messiah.

I’m really not the best judge of code quality to be honest, it’s way too political a subject in my opinion. Once the puzzle is solved, I could care less about the quality of software in general, and move on to the next mystery. As a typical engineer, I found myself at odds, on one hand developing software from end to end satisfied my creative side, but I always found myself over engineering things. Eventually I got fired for this reason, after eight years at a company I helped build, because I was only interested in getting to the root problem of software in general, not the task at hand. Furthermore, I became furious when I was asked to solve the same bug twice, and realized that I was working in a feature factory, yet I was always the person everyone turned to last, when all else failed, but always the first person to blame for not doing my job. There was never a bug I couldn’t and didn’t solve—my track record was flawless.

Now, I look back to that Q/A position, and ask myself had that not literally been my first job as a developer, would my life be any different. I haven’t written a single line of code in a year and half. I’m not sure how I could justify the past year or so during during an interview other than that I learned that software is a losing battle and a cause that has lost its way. I may be better suited in another industry such as mathematics, but for the meantime, I don’t mind occupying a company’s underworld as satan, damned to blasphemy, doing thankless work the rockstar gurus are too important to do. Credit doesn’t matter to me anymore, I’m not even in it for the money, it’s simply a matter of principle. So long as I get paid to solve a problem and not code one, that’s all I ask.
It may not help much to pay off debt. The government borrows a lot in short term markets. If rates go up to account for inflation, that rolling debt will get rolled into higher interest rate bonds.
I'm by no means a Marxist-Leninist; I meant communal in the normal everyday sense of "belonging to this community". Again, they talk about wanting to help their colleagues and not wanting to be too mercenary - values most of us will sympathise with - but their actions are actually opposed to those values.
I agree with your conclusion that turning off location history will not protect you from inclusion in these warrants.

Another quote from the article:
> In 2018, the Associated Press reported that Google could still collect users’ locations even when their location history is “paused.”
> the proper solution is to leave more following distance if you can't see.

The article is about collision with pedestrians and cyclists. How do you leave more distance with them?
Riches of empire extracted from the 'colonies' plus the industrial revolution led to a huge increase in fools with money - with predictable results...
Text messages, maybe photos
An actual connection is not necessary for wifi to contribute to location accuracy. It just uses signal strength to available access points to triangulate. How folks like Google/Apple/etc. are able to get accurate location data for those access points is unknown to me.
It shows that he doesn't practice science, despite his profession.
How are they sure that what they built is identical to the one Apple built? Too much self-confident?
As soon as the analysts making judgments about the evidence are in communication with the prosecutors or police, it's junk science. You wouldn't do a psychology or medical experiment without at least single blinding, and certainly not with the experimenter telling the subjects what result they want!

Look at this damming quote - "ShotSpotter strongly insisted it had not improperly altered any data to favor the police's case". That shows they don't have a system in place to prevent data being altered or to prevent themselves knowing what the police want, so all their findings are suspect.
That's all great but it's of little help with a driver that is zoned out looking out the window in the wrong direction. About once a week I have a close call stepping into a crosswalk while a driver is in a hurry to make a right turn but is looking out to the left at the (stopped) traffic and ignoring people trying to cross the street. I live near a freeway on-ramp and as soon as the light goes green many drivers seem in such a rush to take off that I wonder if they are already mentally imagining themselves pulling onto the freeway.
The bigger concern on cars is, how many times can you apply the brakes before experiencing fade or overheating. But yeah - there's a reason old guys use expensive tires too!
QA is really dull. Life becomes about regulations.
I think you are getting downvoted because (hopefully) people recognize I didn't question their efficacy. Just that 90% of people know what that means.
That's fair.

The syncing is bit janky if you're careful. But having a self-hosted option is what attracted me.

I don't trust anyone with my data anymore.
For finance, is it that simple ? I agree I would see that for families that have a decently balanced budget but need to build assets to get out of the borderline red zone.

For people straight in the red, more often than not the advices I've seen applied IRL are akin to talking to one's bank to reevaluate the situation, checking with local institutions how they can help, reviewing tax declarations, giving up on too low paying jobs to completely change their status etc.

To me these changes are often more structural or complicated than just deciding where the money goes or to how much extent.
Privacy isn't dead if you don't want it to be.
This is actually totally false.

Sawstop dropped blade below table. Bosch also dropped blade below table. So the invention was very fast acting sensing and then dropping blade. Sawstop added brake.

Sawstop ALSO did a brake. The brake made a pretty reasonable difference in terms of damage.

Plenty of youtube videos exposing this saw.

"SawStop uses a different mechanism to drop the blade, but also employs an aluminum brake. In our testing on both top and front strikes, the blade stopped with less damage to my hand than Bosch’s Reaxx."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3JsUGwt_Mg
Yes, it would depend on, based on ramoz’ links and the link we are discussing, whether the urban victims would become safer as drivers or not. Non-driving risks of urban and rural life and potential lifestyle changes would also need to be factored in.
Thanks for the pointer. I thought this was quite interesting without realizing it had been created in 48 hours. Remarkable.

This language has been encouraging me to ruminate on data provenance and traceability tonight.
> a painful option

Yes.

> many don’t really care enough about the enterprise’s overall success

Or they are unwilling to do what’s necessary because it is very painful or scary and they are exhausted.
You don't have to ban new technology, just impose standards on it.
One idea would be a "Privacy Bastion" business that proxies transactions for people.

Maybe I'm authenticated with several, and distribute transactions across them.

When they get hacked, I'm jacked, but still.
No, this is not correct. I drink a gallon of water each day and go 3-4 times.

Also, this isn’t for pee breaks as the employee referenced a bowel issue.
> retroveillance

This is the first time I have seen this term, could you explain exactly what you mean by it?
I’m confused why you’re so willing to ignore mileage. A Nissan Leaf driven daily as a commuter car will do a lot more wear and tear on the roads than a Ford F-150 driven occasionally to the store.

We have the data to track mileage. Odometers are regulated and DMV already records mileage at various checkpoints. Why wouldn’t we use it?
USA, USA, USA!
It's OK to point someone is being hyperbolic but you are nitpicking many posts on the topic, with 16 comments so far. Maybe just ease back the reply button a bit.
I've never been to LA so let me try.
Rolling hills, Park estates, coastal san Pedro?

That's all I got after 5 minutes on Google maps.
Imperfect comparison but still valid. All lives are eventually lost causing some grief.

(If I may summarize what you've said) Saying that a large number of coincident deaths causes a collective grief that wouldn't have happened otherwise is rather subjective. I have felt nothing of the sort. I don't think it's enough of a concern to justify such an overreach of government power.

Quantifying the value of life as a number is icky but necessary if you're making decisions of this scale.
Nice. By the way, what I also want badly is HN posts to be categorized/tagged by subject.
I like to see my photos if I browse google maps. So that's one thing you'd lose.
Tell that to the kids whose hands are saved.

https://www.swnewsmedia.com/shakopee_valley_news/news/educat...
The same freedom that allowed the Nazi party to spread their message allowed LGB groups to spread theirs.
The handling of the bike with weight added on the frame (especially if it is high) is quite different under a hard stop than just adding a heavier rider with the same weight.

You can shift towards the back of the bike with your body for instance.
> When is this coming?

Well, there's Nreal Light, with nice 1080p.

But it may not fit your face well. I use it without the nose piece, and with the temples down around the middle of my ears. The recurring "we didn't design it for you" China HMD fit problem. I've no idea if the EU release was identical. And some complain of its weight.

It's been variously available in Asia for years, more recently in the EU, but not yet in the US I believe (there was talk of maybe this year). In the US one has been able to ebay it from elsewhere, but US Customs duties have been highly varied and sometimes quite large.

[1] sunset silliness: https://twitter.com/mncharity/status/1397553615372529668
A diagnosis of IBS requires a physician, right? It’s surprising that a letter wasn’t obtained on diagnosis in the first place.

Any time my doctor says something affects my work, I ask her for a letter in my medical record and keep a copy for myself.

This seems pretty straightforward and odd that a letter didn’t exist in the first place.
Maybe keylogger was too harsh of a term.
My current admin told me that our Teams essentially tracks everything you do.

For example: if you use a macro tool to stay "online" on teams, the admins/managers/etc know.
I patented a couple things just for the lulz, but in general I'm opposed to patents. I should have patented a couple others just because I kind of resent others claiming they invented it years later. But I can't complain too much, as I've also invented things that I later discovered I was late to the party.
And the Guardian has been shifting inexorably to the neoliberal position as it has started to rely more and more on US and Australian readership. Their rampant bias against the only viable socialist, anti-imperialist party (Labour under Corbyn) was notable and they've followed this up with a disgusting lack of activism around the torture by imprisonment of Julian Assange. In short: the Guardian is anything but left-wing.
This is a variation on a long-established linear-motor compressor design, for sale in these products:
https://engelcoolers.com/collections/powered-fridge-freezers

Google "Sawafuji Swing Compressor".
I disagree with you. These kinds of open-and-shut defiances of the law are easy for an average employment attorney to negotiate reasonable compensation (I.e. an elite lawyer doesn’t need to be found) and the circumstances are obviously bad enough that they don’t mark the employee as a troublemaker, and that’s assuming the case even makes the news.
Also think registration fees shouldn't just be based on a year of a car. If someone has a 2020 Toyota Corolla why is registering it just as much as registering a 2020 Mercedes S63. I think generally economical cars should cost the lowest amount to register regardless of age.
How to write rescript bindings for a react library
Hey, you said it! I’ve been waiting for a comment like this. I always have to go back to Frederic Bastiat, the “seen and unseen”: Covid deaths are visible. Effects of lockdowns, not so much, especially as they play out over the ensuing years (observable effects on children can be particularly delayed).
This is similar to a frustrating pattern of my own behavior over last year. Would you like to know what is behind it?
If the issue led to termination it's at least conceivable that it's a little more complicated than the staffer is letting on. If the person took six 5-minute breaks and got their tasks accomplished, no problem. But if they took 6 20-minute bathroom breaks, that's 2 hours out of a day in the bathroom, on a daily basis. That's an employee who's away from their workstation fully 1/4 of their day. Are they really able to fulfill their responsibilities. Are they sincerely trying to fulfill their responsibilities?

While most people who have chronic conditions are absolutely willing and able to perform up to task if given a reasonable accommodation, in some cases it's staggeringly apparent that the employee has no intention of ever putting in a full day's work, and is using the claim of an illness as a shield while they coast through the day. Manage a large enough number of people and you will inevitably come across such types on rare occasion.
> begins recording your microphone and webcam video immediately upon login

If your camera has an activity light, this might inadvertently worsen your situation.
Which countries do this? I am pretty sure TSA can only ask you to demonstrate the device functions as intended, usually by powering it on.
'ShotSpotter' employee deposition raises questions in Pittsburgh police shooting
> If you try to restart rotary compressors too quickly after stopping, the high head pressure will stall the motor. This causes it to effectively be a dead short minus winding resistance, pulling much more current than average (known as LRA or locked rotor amps)

Inverter based heat pumps and ACs that are already available on the market today have low LRAs as a consequence of their ability to operate at continuously variable speeds.
The scenario becomes weird when you take a step back and realize that she is a human being and bodily functions are even being monitored in such a way. I go to the bathroom sometimes more than her and the reasons are extremely defensible even outside medical reasons. Drink water often and see (although I would say perhaps with electrolytes mixed in as not to flush them out). I would not even doubt this was an excuse and they just wanted to get rid of her. It just feels icky, why does your manager need proof of your medical issue? What if it's a more private issue and you really don't want your medical privacy to be known to your manager? Perhaps a sexual organ is involved, and you are just not comfortable being pried into that way. Yuck.

I want to honestly ask you, how would you feel if someone monitored how many times you got up to stretch, how often you went to the bathroom, chatted with a coworker, or even just paused in thought and stopped touching your keyboard/mouse. Like a fucking human with diginity does. Would that not feel weird in your perspective? I certainly get vibes that this type of managerial practice is draconian and dehumanizing, and although my information about her day to day is limited, from the article, it seemed like an excuse to power trip and fire without justified cause.
The biggest inefficiencies come from combining heating and cooling in the one unit.

if you buy a airconditiiner that only cools (or only heats) it can be aything from 3 to 5 times more efficient than a reverse cycle type.
Isn’t it kinda weird to simply charge more money to allow people to be more dangerous?
They are fine at 45-50 km/hr. That keeps pace with car speed on residential roads fairly well. Any faster and I agree you could look at scooter or moped.
Missing from title: " - and how to change the game".
Out of curiosity, why not just use Notes?

(I’m aware there are legit reasons, but I’m curious about your scenario.)
I genuinely can't figure out what thought your first paragraph is trying to convey.

Other than an admittedly convincing demonstration that your Philosophy professor wasn't a great teacher, what is your point?

> proponents of... Cancel Culture

What in my blistering critique of 1980s Cancel Culture gave you that impression?

> proponents of... various version of Critical Theory

You have me there. I will fess up to a fondness for the elementary theory of dynamical systems. The identification of critical points is a particularly important piece of mathematics. I have no clue what my fondness of the theory of the identification of critical points in dynamical systems has to do with this thread, though.

>> I grew up in a smaller town (but not tiny), where teachers who were fired or otherwise quietly left town after coming out as gay.

> It's almost as if things have changed.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/scott-maxwell-commen...
You all live much more interesting lives than me
> If the plan is to create policies based on "the science", then people will lie about what the science is in order to get their policies into play.

Or, in my opinion, more frequently - sincerely adhere to, but not actually understand the science and still push those policies anyway.

I've been more concerned with people who claim that some viewpoint is based on "science" while they actually don't even have a surface level understanding of it and whether it's been twisted to support a particular viewpoint. For the sufficiently hardheaded and ignorant, "science" is another form of religion and one-word conversation stopper.

More of a comment, no suggested solution.
> Belated reply, because I like your posts, and I don't want to be argumentative with you. :)

Quite alright. I don't mind having to defend my positions--downvoters with no comments, however, piss me off. :)

> The most successful of those then matured out of dealerships and formed their own VAR rackets.

Yeowch. :(

I didn't know that Autodesk sloughed off the tech support. I'm not surprised.
> to me 6 times during working hours is frequent by any measure, but that's hardly the important thing here.

I'm so glad I'm work from home so I don't have to debate with people if I go to the bathroom too often are not.
On the other hand (!), maybe the onus for the lost fingers is on SawStop for demanding those licensing fees.
Search for reddit/stackexchange/whatever pro forums, but on Google.

BTW I wish any stackexchange sites are under single domain.
>If the platforms are deliberately fostering this dynamic or exploiting it for profit at the expense of their users' mental health, that's of course unethical.

They are. Some platforms do this, most notoriously Tinder. Did their engineers sit there and say "Aha, let's be evil!"? No, of course not. Things like this happen via a combination of apathy, and focusing primarily on business metrics. It's a black box with every aspect built for monetization. Whether its ill effects satisfy the definition of deliberate is semantics at that point.

The tragic part, is these dating apps have become so widely popular that they've nearly monopolized the dating scene. Most non-technical users don't care about the nuance of this stuff, so that's how they get away with it.

The crux is this: these systems have created conditions where desirable people fall into the cracks for reasons that are purely algorithmic, and there's nothing those people can do about it.
But it's very gratifying to the person who re-invents the wheel for the millionth time and feels good because of it.

The Unix command line is the Candy Crush of interfaces, giving us a little dopamine hit every time we solve a problem that didn't need to be solved.