skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm nowhere near that sanguine about this.

I've a device (Onyx BOOX) which apparently can only be password-secured if I create a vendor-based account on it. (I've been trying to see if this is bypassable, so far, no dice.) That's not biometrics, but it's a case of being strongly limited by a system architecture.

If you're using a device at the obligation of an employer, you may well find that it has, and/or organisational policy requires, biometrics.

It's increasingly difficult to find devices that don't include some form of biometrics-based functionality. The notion that that becomes the primary or only means of securing access is not entirely far-fetched.

Capabilities, possibilities, and dependencies have a really funny way of becoming hard requirements over time.

I could speak the Celtic of my ancient ancestors or communicate in cuneiform or ancient Egyptian hyroglyphics, if really wanted to. My ability to integrate and participate in modern life would be quite limited. The online and digital world are rapidly approaching this state.
Not clear. You can argue you were afraid for your life or property in the case you did not expect the agent or courts to react reasonably to the now-concealed information. As well, they would need to prove you concealed or destroyed information.

Similar case law exists in this context, but for actions like running from the police.
Lucky us who don't have menial jobs that we get treated with respect and trust.

It's not because it's "Amazon". I have a friend who sorts mail in a USPS facility and it's the same deal - human dignity loses out to inflexible management every time.
These people use powertool batteries: https://ebiketips.road.cc/content/reviews/electric-city-bike...
Covid-19 Vaccination-Associated Myocarditis in Adolescents (PDF; Aug 22)
Nushell has a 'to json' command. The tables are just nice to look at, it's not a data format they're expecting people to parse.
Simpler, don't do fiscal stimulus.
The federal government can and should suspend patent coverage for key climate-related innovations -- just like what was done for COVID vaccines.
"Results:

63 patients with a mean age of 15.6 years were included. 92% were male. All had received an mRNA vaccine and, except for one, presented following the 2nd dose. Four patients had
significant dysrhythmia. 14% had mild left ventricular dysfunction on echocardiography which resolved on discharge. 88% met the diagnostic cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) Lake Louise criteria for myocarditis. Myocardial injury was more prevalent in comparison to MIS-C patients. None of the patients required inotropic, mechanical, or circulatory support. There were no deaths. Follow up data obtained in 86% of patients, at a mean of 35 days showed resolution of
symptoms, arrhythmias, and ventricular dysfunction.

Conclusions:

Clinical characteristics and early outcomes are similar between the different pediatric age groups. There is evidence of myocardial inflammation and injury following mRNA COVID-19
vaccination as seen on CMR. The hospital course is mild with quick clinical recovery and excellent short-term outcomes. Close follow up and further studies are needed to understand the
long-term implications and mechanism of these myocardial tissue changes."
Since this was related to IBS there's a good chance her breaks took significantly longer than your typical piss break.
The person you dismiss as a "high school bully" is also a helicopter pilot. That may not make them an authority, but they have fair odds of being more knowledgeable than the average person...
“Google should not use badly trained beta ML to guess which person in the world with this name is a serial killer” is not “there should be no search engines.”

Google was very successful with the latter for a long time before they started in on the former.
Friction motors are not great in the rain. The tire tread type and width, the pressure on the tire and the material of the friction drive surface are all difficult to get right. These kinds of motors are very noisy too.
My current job, I started with 0 hrs sick time and accumulate 1.67hrs per pay period (2x/mo). I’m fortunate that I work in a cool place and they would have fronted me the day off if I needed it.
I just ignore the To Do feature, and have everything in one notebook. This makes it pretty similar to apple notes
The thing about trucks is that a taller fatter truck is not a better truck for truck activities than one with a reachable long bed. The gigantic noses do nothing to make the truck more capable. Ground clearance is helpful but even the S-10 pickup had 8.5” of ground clearance. Trucks today have 10-11, excessive, but that ground clearance doesn’t grow as much as the height of the trucks. It all started with the 90s Dodge RAMs, which today look very reasonable, and ever since then trucks have been in a fat nose arms race that nobody seemed to ask for.
Would any non-trivial population choose a self-driving car that would make the other choice?
Years ago, I did try to built on similar concept but instead using reluctance for further reducing hysteresis losses. Due to lower power density of such system the size of the compressor was increased by about 2 times.
You don't need a long train, you just need enough to cause most people to not drive, then the grocery store will come to you.

Seriously, though, check out the density of grocery stores in areas with good public transportation. Your grocery store is far away from you, and huge, with a giant parking lot, because of cars. I have 3 grocery stores within a 5 minute walk. I also have 3 bakeries, a general butcher shop, two chicken butcher shops, 4 convenience stores, 3 dry cleaners, numerous clinics, and too many restaurants to count.

Cars ruin your city and you're simply unaware.
Or it could just buy those patents, using eminent domain powers.
Oh they had a primary physician?
Meanwhile Apple don't need to do things like that because they ban alternative stores from a day 1. I wonder is both evil.
Speaking as someone with IBS, it took a long time to get a definitive "IBS" diagnosis from my doctor. IBS is a process of elimination diagnosis. They'll confirm it's not any number of other things, and only after definitively ruling out Crohn's disease and other more serious conditions will they settle on IBS (which I took from my doctor to mean "We don't know.")

Now for treatment purposes, they were giving me medications for it long before, when they just suspected it. So that fundamentally didn't change. But the whole process of ruling everything else out first took a number of specialist visits over a number of months, including a colonoscopy. I'm wondering if that had any factor into this person's lack of a doctor's note: that her GP could only say "I suspect she has IBS, but she'd need to go to a gastroenterologist to confirm" and the patient never got around to doing the specialist visits due to the time off they require.

IIRC the meds they give you for both IBS and Crohn's are pretty much the same. The crappy thing about them (pardon the pun) is that you're really not supposed to take them preventatively: ideally you should take only as needed when symptoms occur. By the time you realize you're having one of those days, you've already had like three or four bowel movements in the span of a few hours, and you'll probably have several more before the meds start to work.
general note, sheldon brown's site is one of the ultra-authentic genuine sites of the web. practically deserving a historical society award, utterly trustable.

figuring out wherr & how far to trust your front brake is a very real topic for bicyclists to figure out. i try to leave a little bit of balance for my back wheel to do some work with but yeah, it's really about that front brake. for a while i was riding these continental lugos that came with my (used) bike- pretty low end tires not sure what to say for them, what they are for, but thise things were skid city all over the place, and made both wheel skidding out much more regular & well known. but since getting back to decent tires (my grand prix 5000's are about toast) i've remembered: all about those front tires!!
Why is 'colonies' in scare quotes?
Are there any videos of the movement of windows? Trying to gauge if it’s sluggish or not.
If your threat model is someone that will even invest the time to sift through your logs, it might be wise to disable (persistent) logging in the first place.
Reminds me why I don’t miss working in an open office.
No, that's not a different topic at all. If tax is based on vehicle size, then that tax should increase with aftermarket modifications to the vehicle's size.

Likewise, if an aftermarket modification violates vehicle regulations, that should be punished accordingly.
How to cope with less autonomy in the office
I thought STUN uses UDP packets, as the name suggests (Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) through Network Address Translators), as well as standardized port numbers. I thought you could filter its traffic based on protocol and port number.

Enterprise routers sometimes allow only 80/tcp and 443/tcp egress traffic.

That’s why sometimes Tailscale falls back to relaying, which is pretty slow (unless in the future they deploy large number of relay servers around the world).
Nah.

Having dealt with this before, getting an actual note explaining things from the doctor treating you, or any doctor you attempt to go to afterwards because the first is literally acting like you don't exist, can seriously take 3-6 months.

I can only say, feel lucky or something that you've never had to personally deal with this.
So true. I spray painted my bike a flat black and put crappy looking fenders on it for wet riding. It looked like hell on the bike rack.
What is false? Did not Sawstop sue Bosch for patent infringement?
I think a lot of people don't even know it's a thing, because they don't pay attention to tech news or tech philosophy.

"Do you think Apple should install software on every phone that scans your device for files deemed wrongful to possess, then reports you to the authorities if such content is found?"

That's what Apple wants to do. And most people think that warrantless searches are pretty fucked up.

Today, those "files deemed wrongful" are images of children being abused. Tomorrow it's a video of a mass shooting that they think encourages copycats. The day after that, it's protest flyers or instructions on how to combat police during civil unrest.

And yes, the NCMEC is de facto an agent of the government.
And, early on it was not sure how Covid would affect children. Their lives and health are still more important than their education. Better be conservative in hazardous circumstances. Better safe than sorry
Canadian (Toronto) here, pretty much every air conditioner I've seen uses the same forced-air vent system as the furnace, and thus has outputs to every room of the house.

Definitely sounds regional, but also we air condition the entire house so we aren't winning the efficiency war here.
>with predictable results...

Yet here we are in today's third world derived resource driven rush, where billions of dollars vanish and appear in the blink of an eye, unicorn startups come and go in a day and a fool(VC) is quickly parted from their money with a buzzword and some marketing.
If you don't know why it is in quotes, you shouldn't assume they are scare quotes.
The "hacker" stereotype is just gatekeeping nonsense. Not identifying with it is a positive.
Do you believe the customer's appetite for more and more garbage is truly infinite? At some point, the demand growth will stop. Earth has a finite mass, after all, and humans only live for about a century at the longest.
On linux distros, at least before wayland, it was easy to make your account hidden from the gdm chooser (e.g. by putting it in a different group).

Then you could setup a dummy account that doesn't have too much of interest in it.

Combined with pam crypto to encrypt your home on login, the result is something that is reasonably private against casual inspection.

I used to use this back when I couldn't afford to travel with a disposable use laptop...
Sad part is while there are still people who prefer the data work in some fields, it’s not valued, since the model people have decided the data is a commodity!

Result: they too have to move to model work!
We have a SawStop in our space for exactly that reason.

However, I don't find forcing everyone to have it by law to be particularly palatable.

I will tell you, however, that it goes off about once a month like clockwork and, as far as I can tell, it hasn't yet fired because someone was about to get injured (this is a good thing--it means our people aren't being stupid).

It's a $100-$200 hit every single time it fires. So, we have an ongoing expense of about $1500 every year for SawStop. That's a new saw every year.

Should that really be forced on people?
Perhaps it would be easier to build tougher cars rather than better ML.
'I can't even drive a store bought car without a drivers license.'

If you are a corporation or business, that is generally true. If you are using a conveyance in your personal capacity, then you are not regulated unless you voluntarily sign up to be licensed. Your choice.

"For while a citizen has the right to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, that right does not extend to the use of the highways...as a place for private gain. For the latter purpose, no person has a vested right to use the highways of this state, but it is a privilege...which the (state) may grant or withhold at its discretion..."
State v. Johnson, 75 Mont. 240, 243 P. 1073 (1926)"
Are you joking? Lipo batteries in a carry on?
Indeed, this is one of the reasons I chose to pass on a full time offer recently and negotiated to work under contract instead. I get to keep the same healthcare provider.
It sounds like what's common is that your police do a lot of overtime: https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2019/alameda-coun...

From your source (for the rank of Sergeant):

Regular pay: $139,197.60

Overtime pay: $160,477.73

Other pay: $13,292.65

Total pay: $312,967.98

Benefits: $127,240.58

Total pay & benefits: $440,208.56

Based on Alameda county, here's some "living wage" stats: https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/06001

The way I interpret that is that they're paid with the idea that they'll have two kids or a Sergeant is a "Manager" (Management $124,884, from the living wage source). I'm curious what the reason for overtime is, but I suspect that it's staffing requirements.

Debating pay to danger ratios is a pretty fruitless effort. People don't get paid for danger.

See: https://militarypay.defense.gov/Pay/Special-and-Incentive-Pa....

TLDR: "Service members will receive $7.50 for each day they are on duty in an IDP area up to the maximum monthly rate of $225."

Moreover, I was a 4 year Corporal living in the barracks with the equivalent of two deployments under my belt raking in about $20k a year.

To my knowledge, this is a fairly standard rate. Side note, we used to crack all kinds of jokes around, "I guess I earned my 7.50 today."

I think what people do get paid on frequently is the availability of people who can and will do the job. A limited and capable talent pool will always make more, especially when demand is high.
Protected by patents = will get no traction whatsoever.
I think it varies, yes. People have smaller bladders, some have larger. It also depends on how reactive you are to the sensation of a full bladder, and how risk averse you are to having it full -- perhaps you have had bladder issues, infections, etc. in the past and are mandating a self policy of frequent urination. But it's just a reference range, and if you ever took a blood test, you realize they might not matter some times.

I feel like bowel issues are worse though, since you delinated them. You never ate something that went down wrong? The worst experience I ever had was eating shrimp that caused food poisioning. I practically lived on the toilet, and I think my understanding of what IBS from having a family member who has is gives me a perspective that only offers sympathy rather than criticism unlike other posters. I don't blame people from being doubtful that perhaps the lady in questions self diagnosed as IBS and didn't get a doctors note because it was balogne, but the invasion of medical privacy and heavy handed get-the-note or be-fired dialoge tree the manager has seems fucking bonkers. I suspect it's just an excuse to fire a system designated target -- as amazon does and they just quipped up a reason to fire her.
That's not my argument. I grew up on rural roads, where there are obviously no side walks or pedestrian crossways. Heard of some (vehicle-vehicle) terrible accident every other month, and at one point(s) knew a person(s) who had passed. Including my own close calls, as a dumb teen in any car, and especially on a motorcycle. I do agree that Campers/RVs are a legitimate threat... these vehicles have terrible turn radius and blind spots, and are driven by average joes or joe-granpa. They find their way onto rural roads all the time. 3 close calls with these vehicles, 2/3 the driver never realized.

Other than RVs, the greatest offender to motorcyclists were your average driver. It takes zero effort to not be aware of your surroundings vs music, phone, a race to not be late, etc. Riding in the city was always sketch, sometimes adrenaline-rush like experience. That's where the cars really seem like hotwheels. Its a lot easier to whip a sudan around then a large truck, but there are buses and those things seemed like they were floating on the city roads.

I know of one pedestrian who was killed on rural roads. It was a drunk driver. The guy was also a known drunk, but he would bicycle 10 miles every day as part of some grocery shopping routine. I saw him for years going back and forth on my way to school.

I have, and still do, drive trucks around. You're naturally forced into being on edge, and careful when driving. You do get used it, where your guard may go down or where you might want to crank a V8 out. Driving a truck in the city brings me back to the motorcycle days, back on edge with what seems like chaos all around. The last truck I drove in the city, a 2020 RAM, had sensors going off every 5seconds (road lines, bumper to bumper).
Do we have proof that the "societal costs" were immense, compared to what they could have been if more people died?
The pandemics is extremely complex. Fatality rates have looked very different in seemingly similar countries, and even within different areas of a single country.

Saying Covid response is the only thing that could possibly explain the observed differences between Sweden and (let say) Norway is simply wrong.

I do suspect Sweden would have had less fatality had they implemented a lockdown. Would it then be comparable to Norway? I wouldn't bet may life on it. France has almost twice as many covid death as Germany even though they implemented a much stricter lockdown.

It seems some people hate Sweden for choosing their way to deal with the pandemics. Could have they done better otherwise? maybe, but overall, no cataclysm happened there, they did ok in terms of fatality compared to rest of Europe, and much better for the other metrics, as stated in the article.
How did this get a patent? This is just an linear piston pump [1][2].

You can literally buy fish tank air pumps that use this exact mechanism [3].

The only thing mildly novel here is that they're driving it both directions via magnets & more complex drive electronics. Most of the commercial versions just use a steel piston, and single-direction actuation because they can then run the electromagnet directly off mains AC to get the cycling action.

1: https://www.techmagpm.com/en/linear-piston/
2: https://www.nitto-kohki.eu/en/operating-principles-en/linear...
3: https://www.jehmco.com/html/central_air_pumps.html
Ultimately, charging current through each battery is what matters. Too high and you will reduce life of the battery.

Best case scenario is to slow charge over a long time to increase battery life.

How those 800 v translate into voltage and current through the batteries is the critical factor here.
> Is it scaleable nationwide? Is it price competitive with traditional taxi and ride share?

Yes to both, critically you can use a hybrid approach for outlying areas and cities lacking regulatory approval. By comparison DC is only 61 square miles and San Francisco is 47 square miles so this is plenty of area for local service and a reasonable benchmark for expansion.

What’s not mentioned is the cars do need someone to clean them and fill up the tank etc, but that’s hardly an additional expense.
> 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.

That will be the case with any vehicle, no matter the size. All the visibility in the world won’t help if the driver is looking in the wrong direction.
Lobbying is simply the practice of petitioning the government to adopt a given policy.

That's a foundation of democracy, really: the right to petition the government. I think you might want to re-examine your view a bit.
You also have to be careful of mainlines and turning that into swiss cheese with the root system. Ultimately it takes a fair amount of research to pick the right location and tree.
Put a lojack into the frame and have fun catching them.
A list of logins available in the browser. Here's the support page for it: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1721977?co=GENIE....

Lots of screenshots around if you google "Google Account Chooser".

Pretty much everyone who works for a company that uses GSuite will be very familiar with it.
Customs is different in two crucial points:

1. The probability of your being in a stressful situation without the option to leave is high - you probably arrived via plane, so you can't simply go back, and you don't know the local laws well.

2. You usually know that a customs checkpoint is upcoming.

So, in that case, it's far better to prepare (i.e. don't bring things you don't want searched/compromised) and cooperate.
I thought walk in clinics were exactly urgent care.
Is it just the size of vehicles or the design of the streets and roads also to blame?

The "stroad" which we seem to love here in Canada and I'd assume the USA is dangerous by design.

Roads should be simple, medium speed, no traffic circles, few traffic lights, controlled access, no driveways exiting onto it, no bike lanes, no sidewalks, no crosswalks, no bus stops etc.

Streets should be simple two lane, slow speed, more pedestrian friendly.

But often the two are often mixed together meaning both pedestrians and traffic efficiency suffer.
It varies based on state. The more progressive states have a portion of their vehicle tax (aka registration fees) based on weight of the vehicle.
> Also, often we'll change such titles (as I just did above)

So it's ok to change titles to something that is nowhere near what the original title meant when posting a new url?
Alright but the files app is not a competitor to Dropbox. It supports all cloud storage and external storage setups.

It’s also a preinstalled app.
It’s the case of 2F+1 versus F+1. Paxos/Raft offer fault tolerance where as other replication algorithms don’t. If you have a node failure in Primary-Backup or Chain for example you need to reconfigure before committing more writes. However in practice and certain environments reconfiguration can be faster than or the same as a leader failure in Paxos that requires running Phase 1 again.