skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except the tests you have to scan a QR to register, get the result by email etc.

Sure it's "possible" but then you have to take a photo of all QRs of all the test centers you might want to use, register for those at home, go there, go home to print the email. Rinse and repeat every day.

So you could do that and waste 3h a day doing it, or you carry a phone.

The registration in restaurants a lot of restaurants don't accept paper registration anymore either.
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> taking responsibility is one of the reasons management exists in the first place

Yet how many times do we hear a senior manager or politician claim they "take full responsibility" but not resign, and then attempt to carry on as before?

"Taking responsibility" has become a meaningless phrase.
> People keep telling me this, but I keep beating the market. It's been 20 years or so of applying very basic reasoning and getting ahead.

Remember, you don't have to beat those super smart well resourced AAA-grade investors. You just have to beat the average schmuck with some skin in the game.
How is it that 700 people were accused, but only 70 have had their names cleared so far?
Indeed. It's a very strange argument - sidewalks require significantly less to sustain.

For a start, the build quality can be a lot lower - a sidewalk doesn't need to support lorries with 13t loads.

As for maintenance, the damage to them is far less, and repairing a sidewalk would usually be a small diversion rather than the drama of a road closure.

I'm not quite sure why anyone would think sidewalks are an unthinkable burden.
While this driver appears to be facing homicide by vehicle charges in addition to fleeing the scene, it is very common in the US for a driver to kill a pedestrian and face no criminal charges or loss of driving privileges as long as they stop and dial 911. While out walking I often think of a quote from a Freakomomics podcast that goes something like 'the best way to get away will killing someone in the US is to hit them with your car'.

The high rate of pedestrian deaths is a result of policy regarding road design, pedestrian infrastructure and lenient criminal charges. The driving culture is also to blame. Driving is a god given right. Cars equal freedom, and the bigger the better. Pedestrians are a nuisance and cyclists are the enemy.

Vehicles sold now are too fast for their intended purpose. You can buy a Toyota Camry with 300 HP and a 0-60 time of 5.1 seconds. Twenty years ago that was Porsche 911 territory. The upcoming Hummer EV touts a 3.0 second 0-60 and weighs in at 9000 lbs. Insane
You should visit other countries.
I have a similar system, but mine is just a Python script and a text file. I hardcode people in the file in different categories and the file stores the recently contacted people. Once the file is the same length as the hardcoded people, the script clears it and we start anew. It emails me an idea of an opening line that I can expand upon so I can streamline the contacting, since I could sit down for 5 minutes without thinking how to open a conversation.

I really like systems like this. Some of my favorite things on HN are about automating life, but without removing the "you" part of it, just making it easier to manage.

PS: if anyone has any examples, I'd love to hear.
Cool, I guess, but I don't want Google or Microsoft to the layer between me and my computers hardware. This will just continue the e-waste problem as bad actors would still control the hardware.

I wonder if this is because the Linux phones are really starting to shape up?
as a pedestrian I've just found that the result of those in Georgia, USA is that drivers ignore pedestrians more slowly.
Why is this a reckless driving question and not a reckless pedestrian question?
Are you actually in the crosswalk when people don't stop?

I imagine most people don't know the law this well, but... the vehicles don't have to stop unless you have at least one foot in the crosswalk in most states. So they could just be assuming you are letting them go, or they're jerks.
I am wondering what is the size of .Net ecosystem compared to Java and JVM? One tenth? Are .Net shops still mostly on Windows?

Just wondering as someone who doesn't have a clue about anything .Net.
The Spanish manage?
Just one more idea about the subconscious thing to the comment that made that: it's not that, nor fear, nor other emotion.

It's a distinct cognitive process, and impression. First I percieve the signal, it feels like an energetic pressure (to those who can sense the energy of other people... The energetic pressure sensation is like that but not exactly the same). Then I can look into it to resolve details, which involves interpretation.

I can also go looking for data in a given place or time, instead of just waiting to percieve a signal. While some of my previous reports on Twitter, including involving an Indonesian air crash, were made after actively looking for signals, most of my recent work on Twitter has been receptive to signals rather than looking for them.

This whole process (sensing a signal or looking for one, connecting to and looking into the data, interpreting the information, then recording what I see and so on) is completely distinct from any subconscious thing, or fear, except in the way I'll outline just now. Because at the same time when I'm looking into the data, I will percieve many things: including emotions, sounds, visuals, smells, sensations, ideas (and so on) and the interpretation of the signal and these data also depends in part on my subconscious, in terms of my wide accrued experience giving me a way to interpret a wide variety of things... So the subconscious is there, of course, just like in any other thing that people do, but the role it plays seems mostly interpretive, and the signal certainly doesn't arise in the subconscious at all. So that's to clarify some things, and I think these are very important misunderstandings and it's important to get it right.
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Isnt YouTube premium like 10 bucks a month?
1930s machine guns, short barrel rifles and shotguns, destructive devices and AOWs got a $200 tax, cost prohibative at the time for most people. 1960s more restrictions on FFLs and on types of guns especially imports, both raise prices and reduce availability more. 1980s new transferrable machineguns banned so now existing ones cost more than a car. 1990s handgun age raised to 21. And you steppers keep saying "it's not enough". If the cost of freedom is school shootings then so be it. We could cut down lots of other crime with a police state but don't because it's wrong.

You may as well support banning E2EE because nobody needs it.
Such active traffic calming measures can be combined with more passive ones (lane narrowing, visual obstructions) to create a psychological slowdown effect in addition to the physical ones.

This works especially well combined with pedestrian and cycle passthroughs and such, including to avoid “drive-through” neighbourhoods without having to make the neighbourhood entirely impassable and a pain in the ass to residents.
Odroid N2s can use EMMC storage which has worked out pretty well in my experience. For larger data sets I use a network filesystem anyway.
It’s bullshit. There is not even a 2x factor between high level languages when it comes to productivity (and lines of code is a shitty metric to begin with. Typing speed is most definitely not the bottleneck for programmers)
You keep mentioning carpal tunnel but I don’t think that was his main point.

It’s true that white and blue collar work have ergonomic and health hazard mitigations. I saw from another comment of yours that you mostly had to work on unsafe and inconsiderate commercial crews with no decision-making ability, which understandably colors your view of physical labor. You’re also right to point out a novice would likely fare similarly, especially if approaching a career change romantically.
Let your local police department know, they will gladly sit there and ticket offending vehicles.
Your comment is what I was looking for in the article – it answer the question!
I am very worried (UK) that the government retirement safety net may not be there for us, as the retirement age is being pushed up beyond 70 but I am not sure most people can work full time that long without health issues.

Nor can we assume that the exceptional stock market returns of the past 15 years will be repeated, which means we need to save more for the same result.

I feel great pressure to earn a high wage in order to save a lot of it into a pension. This feel like a matter of survival.
I'm old and I don't like IRC. It's so annoying to use. It's almost as bad today as it was in the 90s.

> Go help build a better alternative

Yeah, people did that. It's called Discord.
> there are places on the internet that do the bare minimum of moderation and only remove illegal content. Unfortunately, only the worst members of society seem to frequent these types of forums

Could you link to worst examples? I think that finding these with search engines might be difficult.
That's insane. I'm in Scotland and this sort of maintenance is just part of my council tax bill. Shared with everyone else in my county.
Coinbase is the exception --- not the rule. They also fully comply with KYC so there is no pretense of anonymity with Coinbase.

If the majority are colluding to game the price of USDT, Coinbase will be forced to either go along or not trade in Tether. And since Tether is used in more than half of all crypto trades, refusing the Tether fraud would place them at a serious disadvantage.
Isn’t dollar cost averaging fundamentally valuing “timing the market” over “time in the market?”

I’d need to do a Monte Carlo to provide hard evidence but I’m fairly sure that lump sum investing is, on average, going to provide the greatest return. For people just starting out in investment, whose appetite for risk is high, that seems the way to go.

Edit: Leggio and Lien (2001):

> We find DCA [dollar-cost averaging] consistently remains an inferior investing strategy to Lump Sum investing using the risk-adjusted performance measures.

> The failure of DCA as an optimal investing strategy for all assets and portfolios considered is likely because DCA is a conservative investing strategy best suited for investors interested in a forced savings plan that avoids the consumption of earnings.
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If I ever give you an idea worth stealing, please do. The more people steal it, the more likely it will be successfully followed through on.
Yes, I think the generous interpretation is that it isn't the sidewalk, but perhaps the sewage, water, electricity, comms, and maybe garbage collection that become expensive in less dense areas. All stuff that is related to the sidewalk, but not actually the sidewalk.
Yes, those existed at some level, but once GPS was built in, it became “free” and easy to get location. Assisted GPS (using cell position and downloaded ephemeris) also meant you didn’t need a couple minutes for a dedicated GPS to go from a cold start.

There wouldn’t have been Uber, Yelp or Pokémon Go before location was just an API call.
7-segment letters look significantly different from regular letters. No curved lines, for one.
Or even monopolies. Even Smith acknowledged that regulation was necessary to curtail anticompetitive behaviors which are inevitable. 250 years later we've somehow forgotten these lessons and perverted our markets so that there's plenty of regulation, but most of it's designed to keep the winners on top.

What is Facebook buying Instagram?

What is Google buying Doubleclick?

What is Microsoft buying Activision?

These may be products of a market system but they are not conducive to a free market.
Because I already own an iPad
This is very fascinating stuff, but it's not really that relevant for the question posed in the title. Our Latin letters got their shapes from the Greek alphabet, by way of Etruscan. Greek in turn is based on the Semitic abjads (consonantal alphabets) which in turn likely go back to Hieroglyphics. B comes from Beta, from Beth/Bayt in Semitic languages, going back to a Hieroglyph for "house". Of course beth also means house in Hebrew, as in Bethlehem.

This is not a mystery, and since the modern letters ultimately got their shapes from pictographic drawings, there is no real connection between shape and sound anymore. At most it may have influenced how the letters have been simplified over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bet_(letter)
Can you start it without ruining your finances, or you must quit your job and sell your home?
But they did spend a long time saying that they were providing services "at cost", which was eventually removed.

https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/john-bogle-vanguard-scra...
If tech heads valued convenience enough we would see some solutions in the space. Instead they spend their free spare time on a million other things - and that is okay. But they really shouldn't be surprised when non tech people use Discord over IRC, or even when young techies do to work on other things they find more interesting.
Having different styles for elements in ligatures makes sense in some other situations too.

E.g. you want to emphasise the accent on a letter when you are teaching the language, I found myself doing exactly that with Hebrew and punctuation, and I stumped upon this problem
I like to just mention some bit of news or even weather and ask for their take, bam instant convo that says you thought of them while living your life and now you can take the convo in whatever direction.
It was on the News Quiz and In Our Time FWIW.
> No, it's people.

It really is not just that. The netherlands didn’t fix their traffic by telling people to drive better (in fact they did relatively little of that), but by redesigning the entire driving conditions around the results they wanted.

Properly incentivising, and taking advantage of human psychology for other reasons than exploitation, is much more reliable than scolding people.

Getting stuck on “it’s people!” will be largely ineffective, because it’s not how people work. Though if your only goal is to have something to moan about, carry on, that’ll certainly keep.
They were called seashells in the book I believe. One of the better books I have read.
We should amend the constitution and then make permitted ownership of single shot bolt action rifles the only widespread form of personal gun ownership. Plenty capable enough for sport hunting.

That would be enough.

There would be people made less safe by such a restrictive regime! Of course a much larger number would be safer. Tradeoffs are exactly what they sound like.
> America are so fat now they don’t imagine people would ever walk

It's got nothing to do with obesity. The personal auto is the US government-dictated and subsidized default transportation method. Anyone not using a personal auto is "less than". In other words, if you're walking, you're a subhuman.
HFCS is basically sugar.
I briefly worked in one of the statistically worst states for bicycle safety, but I was still surprised to learn how many older people fantasized about running over cyclists, or had a "they probably deserved it" attitude whenever a cyclist was struck by a car.

One time, a couple of coworkers were riding single file in the generous shoulder of a wide nearly empty multi-lane road in the early morning when they were both run over from behind in a hit and run. One had to have his spine fused. I still saw the same attitude of contempt, even from coworkers who otherwise liked them.

I switched to mountain biking after that.
He actively now pushes for a libertarian style government so it isn't much of a stretch to think he doesn't want women to vote. And yes I think someone who uses there power and political connections to exempt themselves from the things those they fund wish to do to others aren't decent people.
>The alternative is if you really understand valuations, diversification, risk and market psychology, like I do, then you can consistently beat the market. Most people cannot and most people you pay fees to do it on your behalf won't.

There is also a catch: Suppose someone reads this, thinks "I think I could be as good as it as this HN user" understanding valuations and market psychology and whatnot.

Maybe you can. I am not sure if I can. But one thing I learned while trying, studying some companies and trying to find out where I could have relevant domain insight and then somehow coming up with an estimate for correct stock price when to buy/sell is a hugely time consuming hobby which isn't super fun.
My personal opinion is blaming a spike on a things that have not changed recently (car sizes, pedestrian friendliness of cities, human nature) is not logical:

The most likely candidates (again, in my opinion) are:

changes to driver psychology somehow due to the pandemic (empty roads, then full roads again, greater anxiety or stress related to traveling back and forth to work, or something like that)

changes in enforcement of driving laws (the protests of 2020 caused changes in police budget allocations or how police enforce minor laws like traffic laws OR staffing issues due to the pandemic with law enforcement agencies, or both)

A near universal change in how drivers are certified / licensed (could be due to changes in the pandemic or some other factor?)

OR this is a statistical fluke someone hooked onto and we are all drawing far-reaching conclusions from.
In Netherlands, if you throw a stone, you will hit a house in neighboring village. Not so in US.

(European here; but I've spent some time in US. You seriously underestimate the distances in US).
Matrix would be a pretty good "modernized" IRC.
I found it to be true in most cases, and when it is not... well, we can vote with our wallet.

Case in point: I had never heard about Onyx. Coincidence or causation?
tldr version:

Principles are like rules:

you are either compliant or you are not. This gives rise to “bounded sets” of rule-followers and rule-enforcers rather than “centred sets” of people with shared values.2

Instead, I started thinking about properties:

qualities or characteristics of code rather than rules to follow.

Properties define a goal or centre to move towards. Your code is only closer to or further from the centre, and there is always a clear direction of travel.

.....

and then he gives a list of five properties that good architectures can aim for.
> Our standards aren't _that_ low.

Sorry you're right. I don't mean to dump on my fellow coders. I've
actually done some safety critical stuff in my time and still have
nightmares 20 years later as to how its running in production.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that the distance between what we
understand as the probable correctness of code, and the fantasies of
regular folk in management or politics is enormous and widening.

The difference between our informed standards, and most uninformed
expectations, is dangerous.
Rules for these things vary by state. Personally I view your take on cleaning sidewalks off of snow (again which vary by state) as really concerning and antisocial.

The other issue here is that you still pay for the roads, maintenance, police patrols, rest stops, expansion, environmental degradation, snow removal, insurance for cars, gas infrastructure, and all of those things related to roads but since you don’t get a specific bill in the mail with the line item for roads that you don’t think you’re paying for them or a huge cost for them. How much does it cost to have car accidents as the leading cause of death of teenagers? Who knows. But it’s gotta be more expensive than shoveling your sidewalk off.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... is probably the best you can do.
I would recommend also reading "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler.
Half-Life: Alyx does not advance Gordon's story and doesn't really provide all that much new to the Half-Life universe. Yeah, we now have some more backstory on some characters and a few bits here and there but it is nowhere near what Half-Life 2 brought over Half-Life 1.

This goes for the gameplay and physics too - yeah, VR makes more things possibly but there really isn't anything revolutionary in in HL:A compared to other VR games.

Meanwhile player-initiated exploration has been replaced with an in-game currency that you need to collect to upgrade your weapons which makes it a chore rather the excitement of coming across a lambda cache. Speaking of weapons, there are far fewer than in previous HL games and the ones that are there are hardly anything new. Even the gravity gloves are not much more than a VR-adaption of the gravity gun - going as far as bringing back the supercharged version from EP1 for the final part of the game which is really fun but nothing revolutionary or creative.

Instead of level-specific puzzles, the game is filled with same-ish hacking minigames that while cool at first are overused and as a result are just an annoyance towards the end.

The choice of making the player character voiced in a medium that is all about immersion when previous games already had established the trope of silent player characters was also puzzling - it doesn't help that the Alyx's lines are pretty meh in this game and often directly contradict what the player might feel/want.

Graphics are impressive, but they are also cheating here by having many dark corners that you can't inspect because your flashlight only magically turns on where the game wants it to.

HL:A is a decently polished experience, a good game and certainly better than no Half-Life game, but hardly anything worthy of being called Half-Life 3, which is why it isn't called that. I won't go as far as calling it a soulless sequel that you might expect from a big publisher trying to milk a franchise, but I am also not calling it the opposite of that.

Finally, HL:A is also a VR exclusive requiring an expensive PC, additionall HW and physical space to play it in, which means for most people it might as well not exist.
Most Chinese characters consist of a radical (out of 200 or so) and a sound part. So it's not like Hangul or some other systems where you can definitely break them up into many smaller parts.

It's true that visually speaking, some sound parts consist of for example boxes or lines that are also used in other characters, but they have no independent sound, or even deeper meaning.
West Virginia is near the bottom and Maryland is near the top, I’m pretty sure I’d much rather live in West Virginia though.
Framing your argument in terms of "fat people" weakens it considerably. There are plenty of lazy skinny people too, and the biggest problem is people's sense of entitlement. Pitting pedestrian/cyclist entitlement against driver entitlement is IMO less effective than treating transportation as a matter for sharing and cooperation instead of competition. As competition, non-drivers will always lose. And no, I don't think that's right, but the universe doesn't care what either of us thinks is right.
"Sidewalks are not a significant additional expense"

Depends on your definition of significant and sidewalk. It does add cost, so it's not insignificant (you can observe it with confidence). For states that are already struggling with infrastructure costs, it would not be feasible (look at PA and it's bridges).

Most states or municipalities actually have codes that the sidewalk has to follow. So it it's not legally possible to build something low quality. Technically a sidewalk doesn't have to be paved at all. In many places, you have a 3-6 foot right of way on the sides of the roads - aka a sidewalk - that does not have to be paved. This can vary by state and municipality though.
You can also choose not to write. If the reminder email names someone you don’t feel like keeping in touch with anymore, you can just delete the email and go on with your day.

It’s a system of personal reminders, not a Jira backlog to burn down.