skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are a perfect example because of that. They are in controlled environments. Life is the testing ground of everything. To think we can trust a computer to have reasoning skills in our environment ethically is absurd and a total affront to freedom.
I appreciate the suggestion. I checked it out at the same time as Standard Notes.

It seems to break the Simple + Plain criteria. For example on the main nav, pressing "+" prompts to either New Note or New To Do. And all the references to "notebooks". Too much for me.
Large-scale power plants burn fossil fuels more efficiently than ICE engines. Electricity transmission and charging losses aren't that big, so I'd expect it to be still a net emissions win for EVs. Plus they don't emit NOx right next to you.

If your grid sucks, consider installing solar panels and charging your car yourself.

Lithium batteries are already used to aid power grids. Mass adoption of EVs and smart grid could actually help by providing storage for wind and solar.
You mean the Korean War?
I don’t mean this rudely — have you been around many trucks recently? They’re fucking massive. The newer F-150s, while maybe not 6ft tall at the front, easily obscure a child or a short person.

I have personally seen extremely close calls at gas stations/grocery store parking lots multiple times because of this.
Privacy Concerns with Social Media: Is Your Data Safe?
> The U.S. has incredible, unexpected power over global companies and trade.

True, but the more it uses it for self-serving purposes the more the rest of the world tries to find alternatives, weakening that soft-power in the long-term.
The Death of Behavioral Economics
How would doors in livings rooms save power?
Speak with an accountant. People cut 1099-Miscs very frequently.
#1 rule people forget is how fast you can stop isn't determined by the brakes as long as they're already strong enough to lock the wheels or cause loss of control, which they always are on cars and often on bikes.
Hm? Double the voltage means twice the wattage for the same amperage, i.e. the same copper requirements. If the constraint is heat that it is indeed how it works.
Doctors are a completely invalid comparison. Is your healthcare system hurting people? Yes, of course it is.

With a doctor, the patient and their family is highly motivated to ensure the doctor is doing their best to avoid harm in a high stakes and high cost transaction.

When you get doctors more removed from patients (say large commercial medical organisations or vaccines or medicines), then “doctors” can often make the same selfish decisions against the diffuse interests of those they affect.

And the implication that engineers are the only vital part in an organisation that has the agency of choice is amazing. Equivalent statements could be:

* The only way it stops is if managers start refusing

* The only way it stops is if shareholders start refusing

Those statements are clearly ludicrous, yet somehow it makes sense that engineers are responsible for choice?

I do believe us engineers need to try and act responsibly, and I do think using social pressure against unethical engineers is valid. But some anarchistic belief in self-policing is totally unrealistic. Likewise ethical guidelines do not seem to really help much in other professions like accountancy, legal or journalism. Our legal, regulatory, and political systems are there to help mitigate these types of issue.
It depends on the timeframe. 30-40 years ago there were cars like the Caprice. You can't even get a car with that size and capacity today (look at how small the modern caprice is). I would say the general trend is cars are getting smaller and people are opting for larger types of vehicles like SUVs.
> will try and force it on jurisdictions by various means of legislation

Have they said this is their strategy?

There are IP licensors (like ARM and the Fraunhofer Society) that sell licences to their IP without trying to force jurisdictions to adopt their technology.

> Incumbents will resist choosing to continue with current public domain technology

This would depend on the pricing of the IP licences and the competition within the market. If the licences are cheap enough and the market competitive enough that using this tech would provide an advantage, then incumbents would license it.
I have no doubt that being a spy is harder, the biometrics on border crossing sounds legit, but I don't imagine needing to have a different phone for different cover identities is particularly onerous.
Sure, but ramoz's argument seems to be that rural is safer than urban and that thus we should encourage more rural living instead of urban living.

If we increase rural living, that will increase rates of car ownership and miles driven per day per owner.

In trying to decide whether to promote rural or urban living, we should not adjust for dependent variables, we should only adjust for independent variables. I see 2 independent variables: land type (urban vs rural) and population size. Miles driven per day per owner and rates of car ownership are largely dependent on urban vs rural.
On bathroom breaks:

https://coreyrobin.com/2012/03/08/lavatory-and-liberty-the-s...
The only thing better than Feynman paper is encrypted paper
We deserve privacy because data bout you can be used against you by malevolent actors, whether government or non-government. It's not about whether you have done something wrong or not. The data about you can be used against you.
I keep location services off unless I'm actively using Google Maps for navigation (you don't need to turn it on to just look at a map of an area). I'd be more comfortable if my phone had a kill switch for GPS, but it doesn't.
Aquaplus P/ECE (Vs Panic Playdate)
I have a friend who was hit by a car doing around 25 mph. Those plastic bumpers do prevent damage. If he got hit with an older car with steel bumpers, it would be a different outcome.
I keep thinking back to the theories before relativity and quantum mechanics. Practitioners had to grudgingly accept they were fundamentally wrong after decades of useful results. Even Einstein was troubled by QM after proving relativity.
It’s fair to assume that every single interaction you have with any major website is logged and stored, and disabling any “history” features etc is only for yourself, eg if you’re on a shared computer.

There’s absolutely no way any of the FAANGs would let you use their service without harvesting your data. It’s their reason for existing and any other “features” (like search, maps, video) is just the carrot to get you there.
Yes and no, but I think mostly yes. Asian and European regulations on pedestrian safety for autos have an effect on design worldwide as most makers want to sell their cars into most markets. Many of the cars you buy in the US meet those pedestrian safety regulations, even though there’s no US regulation requiring it.

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15118822/taking-the-h...
And then becoming versed in Ayn Rand
The trick is that in Rust the implementer chooses which Traits to implement for their Class while in C++ the Concept chooses what properties it will require and then applies to any classes with matching properties whether that's desirable or not.

So in C++ the fact a Mouse is food::LovesCheese doesn't actually tell me whether the Mouse's programmer has any idea what it means to food::LovesCheese or whether the food::LovesCheese programmer knows about a Mouse. I need to carefully read the documentation, or the source code, or guess. It might be a complete accident, or at least an unlucky side effect.

In Rust the fact a Mouse has the trait food::LovesCheese always means specifically that either (1) the Mouse programmer explicitly implemented food::LovesCheese as part of a Mouse or (2) the food programmer explicitly implemented a way for Mouse to food::LovesCheese. Rust requires that nobody but them can do this, if I have a Mouse I got from somewhere but alas it doesn't food::LovesCheese and I wish it did, I need to build my own trivial wrapper type MyCheeseLovingMouse and implement the extra trait.

Either way as the user of any Mouse, you can be sure that the fact it has food::LovesCheese in Rust is on purpose and not just an unfortunate behaviour that nobody specifically intended and you need to watch out for.
The application of VR/AR technology to creative office work is generally underrated (with too much emphasis on games/entertainment). SimulaVR is making a portable Linux VR headset which will have an "AR mode" (using cameras), scheduled for Kickstarter release early next year: www.simulavr.com

We have plans to eventually release a proper AR headset also, though not on first iteration.
Subreddit mods have a way to set whether new accounts or accounts with less karma are allowed to make posts. I think you are running into that.
I suggest just creating an account solely for this purpose and gaining a bit of karma and then only use that account for this purpose.
I've been using Zoho's signature service as part of Zoho One.[0] It's an incredibly good deal for solopreneurs in that model. Signatures is one tiny part of a huge suite for less than $400 usd/yr

https://www.zoho.com/one/
It still makes sense when you consider the increased internal space. You can see this in single vehicle crash tests that do not rely on a second vehicle's size.
Cue the amazon defenders with their “it’s not that bad amazon is better than working in a coal mine suck-it-up softie”. Humans are not AWS instances. We need bathroom breaks, conversations, time off when a family member dies, and high enough wages we can build our lives and care for the people in them. If your company is not doing that, then it is actively harming the people who make you money - and should be driven out of business.
The problem is probably the battery. They worry about a battery fire int be luggage compartment.
I think you should strap a GoPro to your belt some time and walk around a city. It's not think-of-the-children, not being able to see past vehicle fronts is what life is like for children.
Switched to FSNotes after trying several alternatives including just Apple Notes.

I wanted to use Typora since I love the writing interface but it doesn’t have many of the organizational conveniences of a dedicated note-taking app.

All in all I’ve been really happy with it and paid for the iOS/macOS versions. I love that it’s not subscription based (and actually open source in that the AppStore/dmg versions are basically identical).

Most importantly for me, it’s super fast and everything is saved in a TextBundle (or markdown) format so I’m not locked in.
> According to the filing, when she told a manager in November about her IBS and that she needed to use the bathroom up to six times a day, the manager told her to get a doctor's note. It appeared from the filing that Olivero didn't get the note.

> Olivero then said in the filing that in January her manager said she was going to be written up, and that she'd need to get a doctor's note within five days.

That seems... reasonable? Two months is a decent amount of time. How long should Amazon have waited?
i mean, leaf collection for street trees is like 10-15 minutes of work a week during growing season? you could give a neighborhood kid $5 to do that along with the occasional watering (we actually have a volunteer organization in my neighborhood that does this, though not weekly). artificial shelters need cleaning/maintenance too, so it doesn't seem to be a significant net difference.
So what about a barrage of death and rape threats to women who dare to make youtube videos that are critical of sexism in video games?

What about the racial abuse hurled over twitter at the black soccer players in the Euros who missed their pens?

If you argue that people need to just suck that up, then you'll find that most people won't buy what you're selling. We're going to see freedom of speech curtailed because of problems like this where people won't self-regulate their bigotry at all.

And I don't think its a good thing and you don't have to convince me that after they're done with the bigots that they'll come after the socialists. There needs to be a better argument than Absolutists-vs-Censorship though because I'm pretty sure censorship is gonna win that one.
Electric cars of the era were capable of 25-50 miles worth of range. That is the same range that the first generation of modern electrics had between the 90s and early 00s.

Electrics were pushed out for many reasons, but not being an ideal commuter vehicle wasn't one of them.
For the right, conservatism is their schtick so there's no criticism to be made. One can (and should) disagree with their beliefs but the contents of the box is exactly what the label says it is, so to speak.

It's the new left who claim to be on the side of liberals but whose continue to espouse illiberal beliefs that need to be called out as to what they are.
> ...which harnesses a temperature difference within the device to allow an adsorbent material — which collects liquid on its surface — to draw in moisture from the air at night and release it the next day.

Device harness water from "dry" air ... by collecting from "wet" air and dispensing water when it detects a camera. What a crock.
I use an authentication PGP subkey for SSH so I have to unlock it with a passphrase before using it. Normal SSH keys can be encrypted similarly, and either gpg-agent or ssh-agent can save your passphrase in memory for an amount of time.
Jabs mostly fend off the Delta strain but breakthroughs are infectious
"The newer F-150s, while maybe not 6ft tall at the front, easily obscure a child or a short person."

Which is not what the parent is claiming.

Edit: people are really downvoting factual statements now?
Oh look, an Econ professor doesn’t understand technology or real markets and can’t even make a point in his essay.

Maybe that’s why Clemson’s Econ program isn’t even in the top 50…
At the risk of killing a sacred cow or two, and being murdered myself in the process:

Cryptocurrencies have no intrinsic worth. They have no material existence. They are backed by nothing at all. They are merely numbers in a machine. I believe that in time the cryptocurrency craze of today will be looked at in the same way we look at the Dutch 'Tulipmania' of the 1600s.
https://archive.ph/nVxiD
What’s crazy to me is there’s still no inactive virus, normal vaccine option in the Western world.

Ok - if you’re going to ban me from restaurants, gyms and events, if you’re going to make me lose my job… but I’m willing to take a normal vaccine like Sinopharm why not just approve that? Why not let me import that vaccine for $10k so I could save my job? Or even better let me prove I have better protection than vaccinated because I had prior infection. That proof is also meaningless because the vaccine is somehow magical - even though there are a ton of breakthrough cases and boosters will be needed after 8 months.

Give people alternatives if they don’t trust RNA. Is that too much to ask? Apparently yes it is - to whoever really runs the US Gov.
The pavement replacement won’t be free either, I suppose.
I’ve never heard of a government cutting trees as a cost saving, however I didn’t look for that either.
I think that, once trees are there, people will be happy to pay the few dollarcents per year for their maintenance.
What about the Financial Times and Bloomberg?
What's your definition of "immigrant into the USA" here?

You aren't required to get immunized for H1B and a number of other visas, but for green card (aka permanent resident card), you are absolutely required to get a general medical exam + screen for TB + get up to date on all your vaccinations. You need to do it shortly before the green card interview, because you are expected to bring those papers with you for the interview.
It's hyperbole, but not by much. For example, a current model GMC Sierra HD Denali straight from the factory floor, before even considering aftermarket lift kits, has a hood line about 55" off the ground. Someone in a wheelchair or an average 10-year-old would be completely hidden from the view of the driver.
I admire your agility in missing/ignoring the point - the chance of death for children under 12 is NOT ZERO, and every infection provides another opportunity for mutation and contagion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/health/coronavirus-childr...

The CDC recommends that children 6 months and older get an influenza vaccine every year - but testing is still ongoing for the covid vaccine

clearly you do not care about unvaccinated adults either "they had their chance so f*ck 'em if they die now"

ah...I glanced at your comment history - sorry for engaging with an anti-vax troll, folks
This is a very common dismissal in these circles (as referenced by many previous NVC and related HN discussions). I am saying the following to ask you to think a little more about this:

First off, "manipulative" is not an emotion. You could exchange "feels" with "seems" because language is important. It is not slightly ironic that programmer types can tend towards imprecise language when discussing EQ skills :-)

And sure, If by my words I am trying to avoid triggering your flight/flight/freeze response, I am technically "manipulating" you. In this context though, the manipulation is not obviously coming from a place of trying to get you to do something you don't intrinsically want to do (which is really the connotation you imply in your dismissal).

I had a coach teach me a valuable EQ skill that helps in these situations:
You made up a story in your head that the speaker was trying to manipulate you into doing something that you didn't want to do. That's one story. Now come up with 5 more stories that could also be accurate. Sure, the 1st story could be the right assessment, but the other 5 have possibility as well. Why are you jumping on the 1st story as the only real one? By making that assumption, you have changed the energy of the whole exchange into a negative one unnecessarily.

Another perspective you could take when confronted with stilted language is that the person is trying (however ungracefully) to communicate with you in a way that shows they care about your emotional reaction. No matter the reason, it at least shows that they are taking your perspective into account, which is inherently better than not.
Looks like an ad-hoc dependly typed language, but dynamic.
Be careful with this approach, I’ve run into a problem where this causes macOS to spam your system logs with errors.
> Just it's the opposite: an Orwell quote in this context makes no sense.

It makes complete sense. Something that is "offensive" literally falls in the category of "don't want to hear". Thus the quote seems to be explicitly on topic and should need no explanation, regardless of if you agree.

> If the University had forbidden a professor from ever using that term, i.e. reading aloud in class, banning all books with that term etc. - that would be Orwell.

> This has nothing to do with Orwell's concerns about newspeak, thought police, language, controlling minds by controlling words.

Firing someone for using a word isnt "controlling minds by controlling words"?

Even so, Orwell did far more than just criticize goverments and autocracy. He was a complicated person (e.g. both an athiest and a dedicated curch goer), so I don't see why you think you can so easily decide on a "definitive" Orwell.
I've become increasingly aware of news articles spending many paragraphs advancing a particular thesis only to apply significant caveats to that thesis in the closing paragraphs.

I assume this is done with the full knowledge that the final paragraphs are the least read in any article.
Trees also affect weather on a larger scale by transpiration - I'm just pointing out shade structures are not directly comparable.

Note that buildings are also shade structures but they contribute to the heat island effect.
I’m in the 98% not feasible category for a few reasons. I’m open to new information or arguments, but I can’t see a way over a few very large hurdles.

1. Pavement is a very poor conductor, energy doesn’t move easily through it.

2. The Delta between ambient air temp and pavement temp low. Generating power would most likely include moving energy between the higher temp pavement to the lower temp air and capturing some of it during the transition. This is possible at any delta, but were really talking about a maximum of about 30 degree C temperature delta.

3. There are more efficient ways to generate power. Build wind turbines, solar panels, dams, etc. These are all very good ways of generating power.

4. There are more efficient ways to keep pavement cool. Change the pavement materials, plant trees, build shade sources for the pavement.
People forget that nuclear MAD works both ways when they write these power tripping comments.

If China takes control of chip supply the US will have to play along and try to apply soft power, never war, because China is a nuclear nation with 4 people to every 1 in the US.

It hasn't even been a month since Afghanistan proved (again) that even when you have overwhelming force you might not have a favorable outcome.
I kind of lost the thread with this comment.

The White House can make pretty much any request of Twitter and Facebook.

Twitter and Facebook, in turn, can decide whether to act on those requests.

The social media aspect is new, but otherwise, this is bog standard big corp <-> fed gov politics. Every prior president has used the bully pulpit to encourage very large companies to do things, and followed up/paired those requests with a concert of relevant activity within the executive branch.

FB/Twitter are not "acting as an arm of the federal government" except in the most sensational and hyperbolic foaming-at-the-mouth-talking-head sense; in the same sense as, for example, saying that Carrier was an arm of the federal government during the Trump years.
I don't know where you live, but in north america, trucks are getting ridiculously huge. They aren't sold like that, but aftermarket lift kits are extremely common; I fear that there's nothing sensationalist about GP. I live in Vancouver and trucks like this are quite frequent. In places like Texas and Alberta, they're downright common.

Speaking of children... little ones can walk directly under these trucks without bonking their heads
I think the downhill started when Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation bought it. Anything they touch turns into ... bad things. Why is that? Because there are people who crave propagandists news. It is good business, tell us what we want to hear ..
People didn’t have access to calories the way we do now. Lectins might play a role, but the number issue is too many calories. Until a person recognizes that and takes action on it they will never lose weight.
>I'm curious, how does it work in reality?

the same way gravity works, you don't start floating through the room even if you don't actively believe in it. The financiers of these papers know the editors and managers they hire, they set the tone, they dine in the same circles, their kids go to the same schools, they live in the same neighborhoods, for ideology to proliferate there are no 'mechanics' required.