skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Are they policing what they do in the booth?

I have a close family member that works in an Amazon warehouse, and from what they tell me, Amazon polices everything you do in their warehouses, with the assistance of the same camera system you see deployed at Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores. Stats regarding your movement and where you spend your time inside the warehouse are tracked. Things like standing idly for <arbitrary and opaque period of time> can get you questioned by management, who supposedly receive automated reports concerning worker behaviors that meet certain patterns or thresholds. Workers themselves have metrics shared with them concerning not only obvious things like pick rate, but also their pace of movement and aggregate duration of movement ranked relative to peers.

Even if the booth itself isn't being monitored (which would be surprising), the booth's usage would certainly be scrutinized.
I have seen Postgres between 2014 and 2018 at one specific customer, everyone else to where I go it is either Oracle or SQL Server.

It depends pretty much where one bounces around.
I bet they all went to Berkley U.
Been using PopOS on my DIY version since last July. The battery life isn't what I hoped for (I haven't done exhaustive testing), but otherwise I've had a great experience.

I might be doing something wrong, but using integer scaling at 2x results in a UI that's a bit too big for my tastes, but if I use 1x I feel it's too small, so fractional scaling seems to be necessary for me to get the right balance. It drives an external monitor at 1920x1080, and was just looking at buying another HDMI adapter, but I haven't yet been able to determine whether or not it's capable of driving two 1920x1080 displays in addition to its internal panel. That would be my ideal setup for WFH, I think. In case it's not obvious, my vision isn't good enough for me to feel strongly about HiDPI. =)

But, to echo what others have said: this laptop is a clear winner for my use cases. I'm very pleased that they managed to nail modularity without sacrificing build quality and aesthetics.
I loved the QC35 headphones, because their introduction led to the fire sale of the older QC25 series, which I scored new for just under $150.

The QC25 uses a user-replaceable AA battery. And they're still going strong.

Someday I may even buy one of the Bluetooth adapters for them: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MTQGY69
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This was my immediate read of it as well, and left a bad taste in my mouth. Didn't help that the FAQ mostly addresses variations on "how do I disable the default behavior of letting people join me to meetings without asking."

Honestly I get the intent, but I think the parallel to "open door" in a physical space needs to be made more explicit. Even in meatspace it's not an acceptable practice for a group of people to walk into someone's open office and start a conversation without asking if they are free, first.
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>Alice respected personal preferences of people wearing respiratory protection,

I've found that a lot of people think of the masks like a gas mask - supposed to keep everything bad out. They are more like the breath guard at the salad bar - keeping you from exhaling droplets six feet in front of you.

Bob's mask protects Alice more than it protects Bob.
Hi, I’m a product designer and back in 2016 I came up with a concept for an AR/VR keyboard for one of my classes https://imgur.com/gallery/TomSq. Granted, the idea, including its description on imgur, are unrefined but even years later I think the concept, or at least some version of it, has got some potential. Let me know if it catches your fancy or if you have any feedback.
It feels like an insane amount of money for something that I cannot imagine anyone talking about in a few weeks.

My understanding is also that this is not a particularly new game, that there are other games just like it that have come and gone. If that is the case than all NYT is really buying is the name, which, admittedly, is pretty good.
5.6mph through a stop-sign is just ludicrous.
> That’s a very hard task to deal with.

Not really though, you could just assume there are kids and do 15mph. Not everything is a hard to solve machine learning challenge.
It sounds like the "recall" is an over-the-air patch, and you can't opt out.

I suppose "recall" may also be a legal term, but it doesn't seem to fit well in this case.
> My Tesla will allow me to engage autopilot in a school zone

https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1478802681141645322

Just a reminder at how awful Tesla cars "self driving" cars are at actually stopping.

Please do NOT rely upon autopilot, fsd, or any other "Tesla-tech". They're incapable of seeing objects like small children in time.

This was a test done at CES on January 6th, 2022.

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In contrast, the people who setup the demo were showing a more advanced self-driving car who could actually stop when the child suddenly runs out onto the street.

https://twitter.com/luminartech/status/1479223353730756608
Hello HN! C++ interop is a project I've been working on for a year and a half now, so you have no idea how cool it is to see this on the front page. Really made my day. Anyway, there are some really great questions in this thread (and some slight mis-understandings), if you want your questions answered, feel free to post them as a reply to the announcement on the Swift forums (linked above). I'd be happy to answer them :)

(To keep things organized, it would be great to have all the Q&A happen in one place, that's why I'm asking you post it in the forums. And remember, every question is valid, so don't be shy!)
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They certainly used to have regular meetings.
https://www.youtube.com/c/RustVideos/search?query=core%20tea...
shows meetings up to 2020-09, though I don't see any since.

(That's about the time of the big Mozilla layoffs, so maybe the person who used to upload the videos moved on then.)
> That problem lasted just some minutes. I’m back logged in in Safari.

You were probably rate limited. I've gotten the "We're having trouble serving your request" thing many times when I accidentally open 20+ HN bookmarks.
The Drought in China’s Subtropics
What an awesome article - from Japan to the shores of Jamaica.
If you use multiple profiles (e.g. i have a "personal" and a "work" profile), the experience is pretty bad -- if you close all windows of one profile, it considers itself as "exited" and overwrites the program files. And then your other profile windows no longer work: any page navigation results in "We're sorry, we just need to do one small thing" and a required restart of your browser.

It's still my favorite browser though.
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Each editor can choose how they want to moderate incoming edits. So I expect most editors would delegate most pages a service who aggregates other editors, and focus on just their core interests.
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I hope they also launch modular tablet.
I am also more familiar with the term "california stop" than "rolling stop", and I was taught it by my parents who have never lived west of Texas. Looks like this admonition did a California stop all the way to the east coast.
The link above is corrupted (by multiple repeats of the URL) so for the convenience of anyone wanting to view it, it's here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60156257
"California Stop" is an insult, implying that people drive badly in California.
Not the person you are responding to - what about NYC made you get in touch with non-tech people that wasn't possible on the west coast? Is there something different about NYC's culture that helps in mingling with more people?
I think a few DAOs are so divorced from physical concerns that they can remain on the internet and direct resources there without needing a corporate shell.

But, as soon as money flows into the real world, they will need to figure out how to create and interface with traditional entities, or...like you said, it's very ICO-like.
>At the end of the day, these behaviors have been made explicitly enabled by the law.

Politicians set the law. If the only thing we can rely on to bound the actions a politician will take is the law, then we no longer have a politician. We have a crook.
Interesting. Chapala is a major gringo enclave and it’s got a rep for being safe.
I can attest that this works. I did this for my headphones and keyboard/mouse until I plugged the keyboard into my work mac with the USB cable to charge. I didn’t know that Apple sees this and creates the connection via Bluetooth (Yes used a spare Magic Keyboard). I had no desire to to the whole setup again and now have a cable keyboard and a KVM setup.
> and human drivers don't follow the law.

You need to design the road to the speed you want, not the other way around like it mostly happens in some countries. That solves quite a lot of problems.
How about 1. stop

It's wild they even put this into a NHTSA filing, not to mention rolling it out in the first place.
I don't get push notifications. If I don't have time to poll your service, I don't have time to respond to a notification. Besides, I'd rather not have my priorities determined for me.
I'm not a fan of the "release early" montra, but if I build something interesting I'll let you know.
The bigger ones, yes. Not boutique/niche firms, but large ones tend to churn.
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No, they fail spectacularly at ad-hoc road work lane setups or setups where the "official" lanes are temporarily blacked out. I think that was the cause of the Tesla smashing into a freeway median a couple years ago.
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28228348/

Carbon dioxide in carbonated beverages induces ghrelin release and increased food consumption in male rats: Implications on the onset of obesity
Ask HN: Switch to Medicine or Push Through?
I'm currently a freshman at a difficult 5-year math & CS program in some European country. For the past two months I've been contemplating switching to medicine/medical school but have a very hard time coming to a decision.
I applied to this math & CS-program due to my interest in research in computational neuroscience/machine learning. Unfortunately, the workload has been very high (60h/week inc. lectures) and I feel that I'm at the brink of a burnout. Simply put, grading here is quite non-lenient and I've lost most of my interest in pure mathematics. Having said this, things will probably become significantly easier and more interesting during the final 2 years of the program as I can specialize in CS/machine learning. Finally, while the program is very selective, it’s quite obscure internationally. Combine this with the non-lenient grading and I think I’d be at a major disadvantage applying to US PhD-programs. Basically, I don’t know if this path is realistic for me anymore.
On the other hand, my interest in medicine and neuroscience are significantly higher than pure math, but a little less than machine learning. I’m therefore considering switching to medicine as the workload is significantly lower (40h/week inc. lectures) and international reputation being much better (top 10 worldwide). In fact, the medical school is very well known in academic circles, and I could definitely do a PhD in neuroscience here as research is very good. If everything fails, I can still work as a physician which is something I’m interested in too. I do however feel like I’d be wasting my “talents” by going into medical research instead of machine learning.
To conclude, would I be making a good or bad decision by switching to medicine? Although both neuroscience and machine learning are very interesting, I think I prefer the latter and see more potential in it. Having said this, my probability of success by aiming for the former is way higher.
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I mean if the kids are in the bushes I'm not sure a human would be able to figure that out either. It's been said before: self driving cars don't have to be perfect, just better than humans. And humans are super flawed.
are you not worried about running over small children?
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Yes, at least from what I've experienced, you can have "resume in 2 seconds" or "sleep for a week" but not both. (S0ix and S3 respectively)

To be fair, I don't think this is Framework's fault. My understanding is that this is a limitation of the current generation of Intel CPUs, so pretty much any current-gen Intel-based computer will have the same issue.
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There are a few companies who are focusing on sustainability/repairabilty, you just have to look (sometimes very hard) and then take the risk that the company won't be in business in 5 years.

One example I came across recently after hearing how hard Dyson vacuums are to repair is Lupe
https://lupetechnology.com/

"Someone" should make a list of these companies, or maybe there is already some site or place which focuses on quality-repairability-longetivity?
The problem isn't the language, rather the volume of contributions.

Last year, LLVM has reached Linux kernel level of contributions from researchers and compiler vendors.

LLVM in Rust won't have that, and no one is going to rewrite such a massive compiler building infrastructure.

Then we have all the companies that building tooling on top of it, and everything related to the development process that relies on how LLVM is implemented.
The prefixes with Joules get bigger. 1kWh is 3.6MJ. G and T are rare outside data sizes, it's nice if everything can stay in the milli through kilo prefix range.
> basically have to cease all economic activity

I'm sorry, but that's the same bullshit argument that the Danish online retailers are making. So apparently it is absolutely impossible to do business, of any kind, without violating users privacy? Sure, some business can't function under the GDPR, that is true. The question then become, do we actually care? I don't. Those who can not deal with the GDPR are either extremely shady, or they are based in countries where the governments do not care about violating my privacy at all and will use creepy laws to force them to hand over information and shut up about it.

The GDPR is very aggressive, and rather broad in scope. Ideally I do agree that it should be a bit more forgiving, but given that business didn't even want to pretend to respect the privacy of customers, it's forced to be very restrictive.

The business that rely on user tracking, sell and reselling user data are directly to blame for the GDPR. They went WAY to fare and the GDPR is the EU reacting to an industry that failed to play nice.
Good eye
For what it’s worth, the one thing my Tesla has been consistently good at is picking the correct lines out of a jumble of nonsense on the road.

I’ve used AP heavily in highway construction zones, and at night with bad visibility, and in inclement weather, and in combinations of the above. AP does better than I can manually do at picking the correct set of road marks to follow, even in cases where the construction has left partial incorrect marks underneath / conflicting_with the right ones.

AP has a ton of other issues of varying levels of severity, but if you’re asking “can I trust it in a construction zone”, I’d say yes based on my usage.
I don't disagree. It was the comment about the California plate - almost like it was supposed to validate the practice - that I don't understand.

I commented as I have a concern that an uneducated reader may walk away with the idea that it's legal in that state. It most certainly is not.

Apparently, though, Idaho does have some provision for bicyclists and rolling through stop signs. So, there you go - an "Idaho Stop" is a thing for any potential bicyclists in Idaho.