skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It varies from state to state, but on average Type 1 (the most important) signs are replaced every 7 to 10 years.

If you tag each one with some sort of RF beacon, not only do you tell the car "this is the spot to stop" you also have an absolute fixed reference point and can correct GPS or other navigational systems.

At the point you know where everything is, and cars begin to share their location with each other, you have an absolute map of everything in the environment. If LIDAR detects anything that isn't part of the gold standard of what the world looks like, _that_ is an exception and handled as a danger (the person Uber should have detected had they had all the sensors turned on).
My analysis paralysis prevents me from any kind of decision making. Perhaps it's for the better!
Before you get on one of these, it’s good to check your perspective on safety: https://youtu.be/wM8Xli2KTzI

As a motorcyclist, electric bicycles make me very nervous.
More like a boardroom full of landlords, I guess.
Understood and agreed. This depends heavily on what the investigator expects to find. If the duress key removes information known to be present ... out comes the wrench.

Or you could just be dealing with someone who DGAF. This ultimately seems to be a chief characteristic of many situations in which strong crypto is proposed. It's the breakdown of civil liberties, rights, and rule of law which might be the true ur-problem here.
I’m working on bringing my org tasks to iOS (iPad included). https://www.reddit.com/r/plainorg Available on TestFlight now.

Edit: Email me for invites "plainorg" + "@" + "xenodium.com"
Don’t apologize! It’s another chance for folks to see it. Thanks for sharing.
Well then, I guess his golden age of free speech never actually existed anywhere. Go figure.
I didn't say unnecessary paper-pushers don't exist. I said corporations make gigantic efforts to eliminate them.

Management isn't and never will be perfect. But just because some small percentage of existing positions are actually unnecessary doesn't mean that's a primary or even secondary explanation for preventing mass unemployment, which was the original topic.

Obviously corporations aren't perfectly rational. Nobody is. But the fact remains that rational profit-seeking is a systemic incentive pushing corporate behavior in a particular direction -- e.g. to eliminate useless jobs. There is no similar general systemic incentive that rewards keeping useless jobs around.

Contrary to your personal notes, capitalism absolutely seeks out efficiency. It isn't perfect, and it isn't the only force. But it is by far the strongest force. In other words, there is an extremely strong trend where the most efficient companies stick around, and the rest go out of business.
> “cool pavements” [..] reflect more solar radiation and emit less heat than conventional paving surfaces.

Darn, I thought they were going to talk about using heat pipes driven deep into the ground to turn the pavement into a heat sink and was wondering how they were going to get the pavement to conduct heat to the heat pipes. Now I'll never know. ;)
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod...
this article goes into some details about Stephen Wolfram's walking laptop setup.
Ok, what I'm learning is a lot of different sci-fi writers REALLY like this poem
> Platforms that have grown into de facto public squares are large enough that there is a public interest in how they regulate speech, given that the vast majority of people are on the big tech platforms while the others are negligible and are choked out by network effects. They are now a gray area between state and what is typically understood by private entity.

In the lawsuit against Trump for blocking people on Twitter, the court ruled that Twitter was a public square for the express reason that government policy was discussed and promoted there. Therefore, Trump (as a government figure) could not block people.

Further, the current Press Secretary Psaki has described how they're directing Facebook to monitor and remove both people and content which was otherwise legal but simply unacceptable to the Administration.

The first situation demonstrates the gray area but the second makes a case that Facebook was acting as an arm of the government.
What are some of the things you have won awards for?
Assuming that most rich people are college educated or tech people (both overwhelmingly left wing), then it makes perfect sense.

A lot of people have an attitude that politics is just politics, a corrupted game that can't be changed and don't spend much time researching the topic.

Whatever gets propagandised in their environment becomes their belief. It happens gradually; when talking to people with a clear view on something the person who doesn't have counterarguments will just start accepting those good points - and eventually he will start repeating them.

As a kid I didn't care much about soccer and yet, when asked, my favourite soccer team was the same as my friends.

In terms of companies, it also makes sense for big tech and big business in general to be pro regulation and pro taxes: regulations just stifle their small competitors and taxes are mostly hitting people (either as income tax or as increased cost of goods).

This is quite a futile exercise anyway, whether it was republicans or democrats, whenever they're in power they start spending like crazy (on different things).

If it's republicans you can hope they won't raise taxes and won't wreck the economy, if it's democrats you can hope they will give some freedom back to people (eg. drugs legalisation, gay marriage).

There are no mainstream defenders of small government anymore, unfortunately.
> Just go google supreme court, 1st amendment cases, and reach the actual primary sources.

Such as the case that gave rose to the "shouting fire in a crowded theater" idiom

The reason why it takes a lifetime of study to understand what sorts of speech are actually protected is because the Supreme Court has had some very inconsitent decisions (such as the one I mention above) that require tortured reasoning to align with the first amendment and other case law.

Id there are indeed some clear criteria, you should be able provide a reasonable summary of them; it should not require a lifetime of study. If the average american can't be said to understand what their free speech rights are...can you really say that they have thoae rights in prqctice?
I think part of it is that different conditions that different societies exist in affect what's morally right and wrong. For example, in a secure stable country, the need to fight wars may seem unimportant and you might even think war is morally wrong. But in a country that's constantly under threat of being destroyed by enemies, war is essential to survival, and a conscientious objector would reasonably be seen as morally wrong.
Peripheral knowledge (worked in Taiwan earlier):

I suspect the following might be a big part of the secret sauce:

a) Having a culture where EE work is more prestigeous than software work, leading to smart people going there.

b) Having spent decades on scaling up the national university system for engineering educations, starting from the 80s electronics design/manufacturing boom.

c) Having a low salary level, internationally speaking.

The combination of a large, smart and affordable work force for something like this is pretty hard to beat.
In this case the neighbouring countries arent great comparators. Population density has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread. Large swaths of the country is empty with the populace being very urbanised. Stockholm has a population density on par with London, and Oslo is about half of that.

Also households look very different in Sweden compared to it's neighbours. The average household size is among the lowest in the world with a very high variability (in particular in poorer areas where large family groups live together and were also disproportionally hit by COVID). That probably had an outsize effect as to why Sweden managed as well as they did. Social distancing and personal space is also pretty much the norm in Sweden even during non-pandemic times.

The Swedish CDC also says they believe they've fared worse than Norway and Denmark because the last few flu seasons were very mild in the country. Looking at the excess mortality numbers for the last few years that does indeed seem to at least explain some of the difference (although the claim has been disputed by their Norwegian counterpart).

It's also notable that Sweden tends to do a little worse than their neighbours through every flu season when it comes to excess death. Maybe COVID also just exacerbated that effect somewhat?

I think that the factors influencing COVID spread are so complex that it is impossible to disentangle how effective any political measures were in all but the most general terms.

In the end I think it mostly came down to luck, where those countries that managed to avoid clusters and super spreader events or more infectious strands early on fared better.
> US is already blocking them from exporting to China

This might actually be a good thing for China. In a "necessity is the root of invention" kinda way. Ultimately this might be good to the world too, competition is generally a good thing.
Try use predictive texting
So, just like any rich company really.
Your argument is that we should ignore news media with an “anti lockdown” agenda?

It may come as a surprise but not every smart, well meaning person supports the lockdowns. You can look at all the publicly available data and come to the conclusion that they were a colossal public health blunder.

I would argue the pro lockdown crowd have a huge bias toward ignoring any bit of data that demonstrates lockdowns are a bad idea.
This law is really cancelled by Wirth's law
Herein is described the most convenient manner to generate the precise wavelength of light required to print on EUV photomask:

- A molten tin droplet drops into a vacuum

- It's pulsed by a high-power (25kW) laser

- Tin atoms are ionized, creating plasma

- A precision ground concave mirror captures EUV radiation emitted by plasma

- The Mirror transfers EUV to wafer (wavelength=13.5 nanometers, basically X-ray level, through a series of reducing lenses...)
Global Data Protection Laws of the World
And yet many ICE cars have caught fire in unattended "off" condition. did that 'sink' their movement? the car makers ARE taking big steps to address these things, much more so than in the past for ICE vehicles.
Yeah this is a meme that surfaces every few years spontaneously irregardless of the field or discipline. "Oh no we are being oppressed for not following the [current mainstream boogeyman idea], only we the true freethinkers are aware of the danger and must warn blah blah". Usually too it is some former soviet person.

> Whereas in 1950, the greater good was advancing the World Revolution (in the USSR; in the USA the greater good meant fighting Communism), in 2021 the greater good is “Social Justice” (the capitalization is important: “Social Justice” is a specific ideology, with goals that have little in common with what lower-case “social justice” means in plain English).

It's just astonishing that it's so reliable even in 2021, so far removed from the cold war, that the journal editors still feel the need to stir the pot this way. Younger scientists don't care about this, lmao.

Science is inherently a political process, and this author seems to lack the self awareness of how her own bias has influenced her.
heh. just now figuring this out? that's good...
Detailed location history for personal reference is one of the conveniences that I miss since having minimized my usage of Google products. Any recommendations of alternative solutions?
The core issue isn't education, but that as a user you have little to no control over the recommendation system and the rest of the Youtube experience. So even if you hate clickbait and want to get rid of it, there is nothing that you can do to make it disappear from your Youtube. Google fully controls what you get to see and they don't care if you feel happy or educated from watching videos, they only care that you keep watching so that they can show you ads.

To have any hope of fixing this we'd need to separate the curation of content from the hosting of content.
> I see people praising leadership from places like New Zealand and South Korea, but maybe it is just easy to keep people out of these places.

There's two components to this. The first is indeed that both countries are relatively isolated islands. Yes, South Korea is technically a peninsula, but the part that connects it to the mainland is separated by the best guarded border in the world, so...

But the second component is how the situation was (and still is) handled: instead of waiting for exponential growth of the rate of new infections, both countries went into full emergency mode immediately. South Korea in particular applied lessons learned during the SARS crisis about a decade earlier and invested heavily in automated testing equipment, etc.

In Europe, one of the critical failures was the inability to quickly and cost-effectively ramp up testing due to the lack of automated lab equipment.

Other critical aspects of disease control included traceability, which worked exceptionally well in South Korea due to the excellent cell coverage and prevalence of smartphone app usage (plus permissive and practical data protection laws) and willing participation and support of the population.

New Zealand is quick to order measures even if a single case is being reported. This prevents exponential spreading and keeps measures such as lock-downs short and reduces the overall negative impact.

So it's really not just the location, but a number of measures that most other countries simply failed to take.

The geography helps a lot, though, no question.
Or it'll get split up. The point is that people shouldn't be allowed to own more property than they can steward responsibly. That said, if everyone in an area gets rid of all their invasive plants, then it'll be vastly easier to keep them from coming back.
Have you ever noticed that the people who reject model-derived predictions for things like pandemic and climate are extremely confident about their economic forecasting ability? If only some of these super-geniuses would share their unquestionable brilliance with other fields, not to mention eliminating recessions and financial panics.
What if the twiddle wasn't obscure and the article was unwarranted?
Define hardcore

If I’ve been playing Smash Bros since the 90s and I need to play the latest one , I’m buying a Switch. I consider myself hardcore, I probably play( or make ) games at least 30 hours a week

Of course I have a PC as well. I’m personally looking forward to Metroid and Advance Wars later this year.
>In my experience the ideology of the left has a lot of appeal among the rich who want to just feel they are good.

In my experience, you have the left (which is interested in addressing class issues and income inequality), liberals (who are interested in corporate-friendly non-threatening issues that don't threaten the economic status quo such as identity politics) and then you have the right which seems to be made up of nihilists of one form or another such as the Alt-right and Evangelicals (Christians making policy on the assumption that Jesus is coming back is a form of Nihilism imo).

I'm not honestly convinced that there is any kind of substantive left wing in the United States. You can point to Bernie Sanders but his policies are solid, mainstream New Deal Democratic -that might pass for left today, but it wouldn't have a few decades back.
Yes it’s an issue client side. I’ve never uploaded a photo to iCloud. I have no plans to do so. Getting scanned server side is effectively opt-in. Them putting the scanning client side has measurable, though minimal effects, even if I continue not to use iCloud.

Not to mention that within a decade they’ll be scanning every image that passes through people’s phones.
In this case, I would argue (like the NCLA) that it is George Mason University that was being "science ignorant". Presumably the underlying thing they are trying to optimize for by requiring their employees to be vaccinated is immunity against COVID amongst their faculty, which is perhaps reasonable, and vaccination is an effective way to achieve this. But it is also possible to acquire immunity by having had COVID and recovered from it; and in this case the litigant had even definitively demonstrated that they had antibodies.
Of course James Bond would have an unlock + wait 10 seconds + explode option ...
Something can both be an asset AND a liability. These are not mutually exclusive.

That's precisely my argument, as I've expanded elsehwere in this thread.

What (gold|data) (is|are) an (asset|liability) is not, however, is offsetting assets/liabilities in the double-entry bookkeeping sense, as some here seem to think / be arguing (especially: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28268433 ... my correction follows).

Your usage is that gold possession becomes part of ones threat model, and is thus a liability. That's an actuarial, not an accounting, concept.
what would be the moral of your story? Learn a toy language at the time, it would become the de facto data science pl in 20 years?
Then what? Probably a fight that will result in one of the greatest blows to the global economy ever, as well as the collapse of China as we know it today.

The Taiwanese will destroy all the fabs before China can take them. We already have a chip shortage, can you imagine what it will be like to cut current supplies by another 40-50%? The resulting sanctions alone would cripple China.

Hence, status quo will remain, and Taiwan will continue to be a prop for nationalist speeches in China and the US defense industry will continue to make a mint off selling them old gear.
It would be more of a fools errand to try and halt (or slow) the inevitable world-wide transition to electric cars.

Japan were world leaders in electric drive trains with hybrids like the Prius. A perfect way to gracefully transition from ICE to all electric. This was almost 35 years ago (1997). But they squandered that lead by focussing on the dead end technology of hydrogen.

Why put all your eggs in the one basket?
License aren't computer code, they are social code. That matters more, not less, than computer code, at least until we're all disembodied brains in a large VR matrix - because usually people run code for people purposes, not the reverse. Coders frequently ignore this aspect, but not everybody has this luxury.
I have ADHD and without my medicine begin walking obsessively. In college, i would walk from one end of campus to the other over and over. When i lived in downtown Dallas i would walk from the West End to Deep Ellum (that's petty far on foot) and back over and over as well. It was good exercise i guess but took a lot of time/energy. Plus, on weekdays i would do it at night which is not the safest thing.

Now on medication, I still walk but not near as much, maybe a mile a day. And, like others have said, i've solved many problems while walking so it's not a total waste of time.
I'll second the poster that this is not "trying to engage in debate".

There are some members of TPUSA at the university my wife teaches at. They specifically chose to, as a group, take a course taught by a transgender teacher. They, clearly through some training, determined that they'd be able to write deliberately transphobic hate speech in very specific portions of the course because their writing in these locations is protected by privacy laws and other such things. When called out on this, they responded by claiming that their intellectual freedom was being snuffed out and proposed lawsuits.

That's the shit I see. Organized attempts to use the levers of the law to harass and intimidate people from groups they don't consider to be worthy of their respect. And as soon as people resist, an unpaid army of free speech advocates leap to their defense.
Good question, I haven't tried it on one that recent. But on my older ones it worked fine. Even gestures. Not as smooth as on macOS though.
Other people posting crap comments doesn't make it ok to post crap comments. That just leads to a downward spiral. We moderate these things where we see them; if other people are doing just-as-bad things and I haven't replied, that's because we only see a cross-section of what gets posted here. There's far too much to read it all.
> I'm curious what behavior you'd expect from a git file system then?

I never thought about or considered a “git file system” before today. While a neat thing conceptually and even technically, I can’t imagine a situation where I would want a git file system. I never want to auto commit to the remote repo. I want to make sure my local changes aren’t complete shit before I committing to the remote. For me this is a solution to a problem that I don’t have.
Apple’s “Quicknote” feature in iOS 15 is great, being able to highlight and link to specific text on any webpage in Safari, and other apps as well. I guess a lot of people will stick to the stock Notes app just because of this feature [1]

Unfortunately no 3th-party Notes app can implement such a feature due to Apple’s walled garden :’(

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/22/quick-note-may-be...
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If you're part of a small group of people, it's easy to call your buddy when something bother you or a point of view you don't like gets published
Somewhat irrelevant in places where motor assist is limited to 25kph (EU for example).
Sadly PCR tests for COVID also test positive for flu and half a dozen other causes. That's why CDC/FDA are seeking proposals for a new test that actually works!

https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert...
Algorithm:

1) Decide to take over Domain X.

2) Hire a bunch of people from Domain X. Don't hire anyone who doesn't agree that you can take over X.

3) Make them report to the people whose idea it was in the first place. If they say "Hey, maybe this wasn't such a great idea" then push them out, as an example to the rest.

4) FAIL.

Note that #1 is the key. The decision to do it precedes the hiring.
Easy solution: switch to C++, use std::copysign
I actually think these are all engineering problems. I mean they literally made light bulbs break when it's easy to make them last decades.
I'd like an option like this for Password Safe
Europe includes a lot more water than the USA (North Sea, Baltic Sea, half the Mediterranean Sea), which is obviously a barrier to a land journey, and makes a direct comparison difficult.

But otherwise, something like Lisbon to Moscow is very similar to the distance of LA to NYC.

Google's driving directions for these are 45 and 41 hours, respectively.
USD 5-10 a year
If the Seuss estate pulling three books is censorship, then surely the government telling faculty what they cannot teach is censorship.
> 0/(-x) would return -0, for all x > 0

I find this one a little weird, but it seems to be true.

The more normal way to get -0 would be to divide a positive number by negative infinity, or a negative number by positive infinity.
Using someone's preferred pronouns is not "ideological control".
How does perl -T protect against XSS?
> this wouldn't influence me much

It's not about influencing anybody. It's about valuing people's time and paying them for their time. (this isn't corporate bullshit - I made the policy and that's why I made the policy).

> could indicate a relatively mercenary culture.

no idea what that even means

> that's a lot of incentive for goofs to lie their way into an interview.

I'm happy to report we've never let any "goofs" in through the process! But it might actually make us a little too selective.