skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes - it's a genuine concern in the US.

In fact, looking at many of these public transit vs. car threads on HN, on the topic of safety, I feel transit advocates are not understanding the issue properly.

Most people that dislike using public transit in the US are not afraid that the train or bus will derail or get into an accident. The odds of that happening are definitely tiny.

What they're afraid of is some psycho on the train/bus committing anything from nuisance harassment to outright murder.

It doesn't help that many of the people that most advocate public transit are the ones most resistant to making transit free from being terrorized by such potentially dangerous individuals.

Even outside of that psycho scenario, you also encounter a lot of benign, but otherwise annoying or otherwise less-than-desirable-to-be-around people whether it's someone with horrific body odor or someone blasting loud music or someone coughing their lungs up.

I never felt afraid, anxious, or even annoyed in any way getting on the subway in Seoul, Tokyo, or Hong Kong.

I always feel at least some degree anxiety and annoyance, and sometimes outright fear, getting on the subway in NYC.
Next to the $B that is a modern fab, running an electrical generation station is a minor investment. I also wouldn't be surprised it Samsung has a division which builds power plants, given that in SK they build apartment buildings and air conditioners.
I don’t think HN will give you a clear picture on this. Depending on where you ask the question, you will be told it’s a non-issue, or that it’s a very serious issue. I tend to believe it’s a very serious issue for the top-end of the talent chain, but I also believe Texas has never relied on having top-end talent, so maybe it won’t impact them like it would impact California.
I learned a lot of neat stuff about this process and other things around it as a side benefit of some of the tasks I was given at a job.

It was fun to learn, and to see how they solved some of the problems that would come up that you might not think about.

Of course the side effect is you also learn just how insecure older CC tech was. I think almost everyone sort of notice that at this point, but once you start learning the details… it’s bad. Basically electronically writing down CC numbers like they might have in the ‘60s, assuming people are good and trustworthy.
Comments pointing it out are good. I'm replying to you though because this is the first time I've ever heard anyone say that not wanting to look at marketing/PR/astroturfing is censorship. Lots of people disagree about what is or isn't that stuff, but never that blocking it would be censorship. Interesting take, thanks for your contribution.
Indeed, the problem is the lack of accountability of one coupled with the ingenuity of the other. Some might even go as far as believing that they are doing something positive when in reality they are blind.

Congratulations on balancing your career with social good; that has been the quandary of my life so far.

I also agree 200% on your statement about contributing to the commons, and pretending that the technology somehow "knows" better than democracy. These two irk me personally, just didn't otherwise have much to add.
Didn't stop Samsung from building a huge fab business in South Korea, where abortion was technically illegal until last year.
Ask HN: Are you using voice commands via Siri or Google Voice?
I wonder how many folks here are using voice assistance or issue commands through their mobile or Desktop "AI" like Siri or Google Voice?

If so, for what purpose?
An alternative interpretation of the psychotherapeutic use of psychedelics
I think they block anything outside the US.
Yea I almost mentioned it as I have that phone. Perhaps it's a happy medium, but to me it's just a step in the right direction, and I'd love to see the concept pushed further.
The devices I’ve seen all have signed firmware.
So at 4-5 acres per MW for solar farms, each one of these will need around 500 acres of land covered in solar panels (almost a square mile), or about 10 of the largest wind turbines you can buy (a Haliade-X @ 13MW) - to be actually "renewable" powered. (Or 1/3rd of those numbers if you "only" want to run it at 40MW instead of the full 120)
For one, the peak price of electricity was ten times the usual low point (~$36)

I'm not sure what to make of the frequency drift; federally operators are supposed to balance it out for timekeeping, among other reasons.

Taking a week to get on-frequency is...not good.
It's a bit tricky with different payment flows possible for all kinds of scenarios.

While at some point the transaction will get to "a giant mainframe somewhere" to get processed, it may or may not be during the process that a customer sees. It may be a "online" transaction where it's essentially that the terminal prepares a transaction message, the chipcard signs it, and then forwards it to issuing institution for authorization (including but not limited to checking availability of funds); or it may be permitted, within certain limits and depending on configuration, to have the chipcard sign the transaction and then deliver it for processing some time later (e.g. at end of day) so that either you can enable transactions in places which do not have internet access, or simply for processing speed for small amounts, taking on some limited risk for customer convenience.
This is like a 2005 hack. I'm sure you could come up with at least one good solution to this problem.
yeah but i cant imagine you put Getty Images' watermark in your code
It’s the boobing frog effect.
Doesn't malloc return a pointer? Sounds unsafe
For an obvious counterexample, caffeine is incredibly safe for people of any age and demographic at almost any dosage level.
Self driving cars don't exist.
Engineering is great. I guess it just wasn’t clear to me that GP didn’t mean science older than 100 years or that physics and chemistry didn’t fully count as science when I replied to their blanket statement that 80% or 90% of science was wrong. If you define science to exclude anything that is in practical use by engineers and/or has become “settled” over time then the statement is less surprising (but also perhaps less provocative and interesting).
That’s very interesting! I use a very simple shell script plus git rerere [1] to keep PR stacks up to date with the bottom element’s base branch.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rerere
TCP would suggest that the answer is yes, though it may not always be obvious how.
Oooooor maybe they're not publishing notices when they should be.

The grid being under-frequency for days at a time shows they didn't have enough generation capacity.
> but I wish we had coast-to-coast and Mexico-to-Canada tunnels

Like the Alameda-Weehawken burrito tunnel?

https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...
Both the law and ordinary folks want to treat "land" in the delta as static.

Reality, even without hurricanes or sea level changes, is that the whole thing's dynamic.

There are probably plenty of indigenous social & legal systems that are a decent fit for the reality. But I'll guess ~0 nation-state social & legal systems are.
The same reason frontend and backend teams exist. At a certain point it makes sense to have centralized teams focus on specific verticals than requiring everyone to learn/know about everything. As with any tools, there are right and wrong ways of using it and using the wrong tool for the job can sometimes be more painful than not using it at all.
lolno, artists aren't getting replaced any time soon. try getting something with a transparent background from it or more than 2 layers of composition. it falls apart when you try to do anything with a complex prompt and you have to describe the prompt, let alone the fact pretty much everyone who buys art likes to finetune it which would be awful to do here
That doesn't strike me as "bashing", it strikes me as contrasting different focuses.

PG is going for breadth—as many public domain books on as many devices as possible. Standard Ebooks are going for depth—a very quality of typesetting for each book.
Flare gas recovery systems do burn the excess gas to power the refineries. I’d guess the generated heat is used directly without conversion to electricity.
the question is clearly asking how not to do this on Amazon.
I worked in IT at a state university and they were quite competent overall, many had done computer science research at a graduate level.
A lot of people seem to think they're a bit gross here (New Zealand). It probably differs by country.
Another 1 minute lookin... multiplication on every byte.. really?
If this is supposed to be fast, get one big buffer for the words. Get another if you run out.
The hash function can be the word itself for words up to length 8.
Longer words would need a mult per 8 bytes.
You can do branchless strchr.
Roll your own memmove - just always copy 24 bytes and terminate at the length you already know.
The whole point of using C or C++ is that you can do non idiomatic things when you have to.
Given roughly equivalent line waits, I've found human checkers tend to be much faster if you have more than a handful of items - they know where the barcodes are on the items so they don't have to play the game where you try to figure out which side of the soda bottle or cereal box has the barcode on it, and they already have the codes for produce memorized. Sometimes you get an incompetent or new checker, or you get stuck behind the morbidly obese lady who has to pay for $5 worth of Gatorade and cookies with an EBT card and $60 worth of cigarettes and dog food with a credit card, oh that one didn't work let's try it again, yeah it didn't work again, well now let's try this card this one will work for sure NO TIMMY I DON'T CARE IF YOU'VE GOT TO USE THE BATHROOM YOU SIT YOUR ASS DOWN AND SHUT UP OR I SWEAR TO CHRIST I WILL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT, but just on the average I find self check-out machines to take much longer because the person doing all the work has far more experience and competence at the task in question.
In a functional free market customers who need reliable electricity would specifically pay for the reliability or guaranteed capacity.
Thank you. This inspired me to read the ripgrep man page. I think I must have been confusing ripgrep's behavior with the earlier ack (or maybe ag) tool which only searched known extensions by default. I see now that ripgrep only does that if explicitly given a --type option.
I was under the impression that drilling multi-km deep wells was still a very expensive proposition. Why would materials be a problem ? I wouldn't think the physical conditions would be more extreme than in, for example, a nuclear reactor.
To tack on, how could one join as a volunteer?
The hypothesis that there was a rolling outage invisible to everyone except one guy on a forum doesn't strike me as being very likely. Just an ordinary power outage seems a lot more likely.
How could it do this without having ever seen or processed photos of real people?

That is both shocking and amazing.
Lee Felsenstein, for one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Felsenstein
That is very sad to see.
Michael Shermer occasionally refers to his experiences with Race Across America on his podcast and for him it seems more to do with personal drive and pushing himself to go further, longer and faster. It's also community and being a part of something special and bigger than yourself rather than being an adrenaline junky.
Oh definitely USB ports is more important than fan noise. About on part with battery life.

For me though, the primary thing I look for is whether or not I can do with it what I want. More specifically, whether the company that made it is actively trying to prevent me from doing that.

I care about that stuff most of all. I realize I am one of a very few people though. :)
I recently bought an iPhone from Apple. They literally suggest you purchase a case during checkout online, along with other accessories like chargers, etc. I was going to get a case anyways, so I grabbed one with a tap. Apparently their left hand doesn't know what the right is doing.

I probably wouldn't use a case as it definitely adds bulk, but my bathroom has tiled floors, and I'm clumsy. The phone has hit the floor at least twice since I got it like a month ago. As tough as it may be, I highly doubt an iPhone would survive a drop from standing height to hard tiles. (Though, I will admit, usually it's dropped from sitting height, for obvious reasons.) Maybe I'm wrong, but I really don't feel like testing it.
The surprising inference from me, as an energy layman, is that solar output coincides with periods of peak demand. Obviously this is seasonally adjusted, but in an era when the Saudis have solar contracts being supplied for $10USD/MWh [0], the potential profits for a solar provider at periods of peak demand seem more than sufficient to encourage investment, especially with interest rates still at a historic low for big capital projects.

So, what gives? Where's the solar?

[0] https://reneweconomy.com.au/saudi-solar-plant-locks-in-new-r...
>>But, it's common around here to have multiple unions in 1 company.

that is not the US system and why I personally get sooo frustrated with Europeans commenting on US labor relation, and US Unions. Europeans look at the issue from their lens, of their laws, and their unions which is completely different from the US. You can not compare the two at all.

At best in the US if you happen to be in a right to work state you can choose not the join the (and I mean THE, singular) union that represents the work force at the company. that is a "labor" union

The closest we have to EU style unions would be a trade union, but even then normally there is a single union that represents a trade, like the "Screen Actors Guild" for actors. There are not multiples.

>Specifically for Amazon, we've never heard much about Walmart or anti-walmart rhetoric over here.

Anti-Walmart rhetoric started to die off around 2010.

>Things like the bottle peeing are new around here, and confirmed by other parties than the unions.

It is in the US as well, and i take these stories with extreme skepticism.

>The underlying general idea around Amazon seems that it tries to import an US-style no-rights-worker model into Europe

Again the US has plenty of labor laws, the primary difference between the US and Europe is the amount of required paid benefits an employer must offer, but abusive actions (such as forcing an employee to pee in a bottle) is no more legal in the US than in Europe

> If that takes root, we're all worse off.

I have no problems with US Labor laws, remember the US is very individualist, and for the most part, most of the population prefers this. I have no desire to have the government dictate to me and my employer how many vacation days I have must have or things like that. I am not soo extreme as I to say all labor laws should go away, I think laws that prevent true abuse (like requiring an employee to pee in a bottle, or requiring employees to stand for hours off the clock at security check points unpaid) are area's where the government can and should step in, but that is where it should end.
Have you reset the printer?

I had a different brand printer go bonkers in a very similar way - it would show me the yellow ink was empty, even on a new cartridge, and thus wouldn't print anything. Don't get me on about why this colour printer won't print black text if a colour module is low! They aren't even the same cartridge!

I googled the reset method and it worked on the first attempt, and even managed to continue using the original "empty" cartridge until it was factually empty. I still have that printer today and it's been years since I had to reset it. I'm convinced it was a software driver fluke because it's never happened again.
Seriously: don’t you have to be just a little obsessed with breast size to even notice that the depictions are getting larger?

Perhaps the increase in size is all down to how little we care— the size increase is a reflection of how it takes more sex energy to get us to buy things. We’re jaded.
in v2 you should be able to upload either your linkedin contacts by downloading them from linkedin and uploading them to jackfruit, or uploading a spreadsheet into jackfruit. Curious to know how you are storing your current contacts?
But if an attacker owns the touchscreen, they can do nefarious things like adding a "Please re-enter your PIN on the touchscreen to confirm your purchase" dialog, then match that PIN against a separate leaked database of card numbers and user identities. It's not just whether the card reader can be pivoted to; it's the entire notion that the kiosk itself carries the trust of the overall brand.
As a lefty my response is - “and yet Texas is growing and California is shrinking”

Texas seem really good at making places people like to live (lower property crime, lower taxes, fewer homeless, lower income inequality at least compared to CA) even if they lack some of the rights those of us on the other side politically take for granted. Why liberal cities can’t do both is beyond me.
You had me in the first half ;-)
All I have is anecdata myself.

But it's not just the younger generation, you can go back a ways. I'm no youngster either.

My old uncle was a hypochondriac. Mom said he just acted that way to get attention.

One time he called and wanted her to fix him some chicken soup, and I ended up bringing it over to his apartment.

I asked him how he was feeling and it was headaches, tiredness, foggy mindedness, and overall malaise.

Doctor couldn't find a thing this time.

I asked him how long had it been going on now.

"In three weeks it'll be a month."
TX is not a federal operator, correct? And what is the problem with drifting a bit? I know back in the day lots of peoples' clocks used it as a time reference, but that can't be very true today.
The State of Fortran Generics
That's not the point. It's perfectly safe and there's nothing else in C.
The point is you don't have to call this function for every single word. It takes time and pointer increment doesn't
Porn's main customer historically has been men, so it predominantly has fulfilled male needs.

In broad brush strokes : Women know what arouses men from watching porn. Men know what arouses themselves from watching porn.
An aggressive opening!
So, like, what can be done here? Is this just due to a prolonged lack of heavy winters/snow pack (whether climate change related or just a warm period) and will self rectify? Do we need to figure out how to get water piped to the lake?

I live in San Diego, which basically has no water at all. I was visiting Portland a few months ago and it rained every hour. The whole time I was just wondering “surely a big pipe from here to So Cal, given the dire straits of the drought, has to be doable at this point”.

What am I missing?
Literally all the time. Just had exactly this scenario with a technology switch. I spent an hour reviewing their api. We had a meeting with their sales engineer, I asked them a bunch of questions. Estimated 10-12 days to finish phase one integration, was working in single sprint. Larger projects get more upfront investigation and larger error ranges.
https://www.super-agent.com/ does it for me automatically, snout 80% of the time.
Pistachios certainly don't. They are desert trees native to Iran.
From the creator:

All good, it's just a ton of numbers without explanations. Here's a couple very basic insights tho:

Grid frequency below 59.8 is always bad, 60 is perfect

Capacity should be at least 1 GW above demand

Demand equaling capacity is bad

https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/lktl07/comment/gnn0...
The self-checkout navigation is intentionally hobbled, probably because old people will 'press' a button about six times with shaking hands. Feels like they're putting button presses into a buffer for a half second or more.

Watch next time an employee has to "help" you with self checkout: they scan their badge and then can press buttons as quickly as they like.

I've noticed recent iterations of self-checkouts are much easier to use. Feels like they've relaxed the weight-on-tray requirements.

And at self checkouts with the option of a handheld scanner, use it. Often the handheld scanner seems to bypass the place-item-in-bagging-area thing.
Ok you convinced me that you're approaching this in a reasonable way. I also eventually check out from helping people who I become convinced are unwilling to help themselves.
Christopher Alexander (of “A Pattern Language” fame) wrote at least one of his other books, “The Timeless Way of Building” in this way with bold headings being sufficient to grasp all the key points of the book, and non-bolded paragraphs under the headings to provide the full detail as needed to suit the reader.
> you can screw up the EMV slot so people must swipe

I think that outside of USA most banks would configure their systems to automatically decline any transaction from a chip-capable terminal for a chip-capable card (to prevent cloned cards from being used with just the mag-stripe data), so swiping would be possible only on terminals that never had a EMV slot in the first place, and IIRC even that is limited to certain regions as in many countries it's expected that all terminals must be chip-capable; a damaged EMV slot should result in the bank returning an error code effectively saying 'broken terminal, repair or use another' instead of permitting to swipe.

Alternatively, I think I have seen contracts (for merchants who really wanted to keep swipes longer than the expected transition) that say that any fraudulent swiped transactions are fully paid for by the merchant.
TLS Anvil: Testing for TLS
I'm curious where you'd draw the line. Would you work for Sevmash? How about Purdue? What about a small business that is supporting the owners addiction? More generally, how do you determine where you would and wouldn't work? Do you have a set of rules that I can use to determine the suitability of a given venture?

Personally, I think responsibility for action terminates at the actor, and that economic transactions do not carry with them moral responsibility for the prior or future actions of the involved parties. You should be able to use those axioms to derive quite a lot actually.

> empathetic harm

I've not hear this before, can you elaborate? Surely if you don't believe that you know better for people then you have no reason to feel empathy that they're not asking for, right?
Curious about this except butt sizes instead.
Reproductive cycle for humans is about 15 years. Dogs: two years. Cats: one year. So they have had a few times as many generations to evolve.

(All numbers approximate.)
That's kinda how the Idaho Property tax deferral program works. Prop 13 from my understanding applies to businesses, landlords running apartments, people with multiple properties ect... A tax reduction that only applies if the owner is living it seems fine in my opinion. Most other states property tax relief programs require that property to be the owners primary residence.

Property taxes are weird as they are basically one of the few taxes that continue to happen even without any transactions. Almost all other taxes happen when there is a transaction. For example sales tax, when you buy something; Income tax when you get paid; Tariffs when something is imported ect... Property taxes can also can increase without you doing anything so if your income is fixed or does not increase fast enough you could lose your house due to a tax lien.

If your worried about generational wealth that's why we have inheritance and estate taxes. The federal estate tax can get as high as 40%. However, a home is a productive asset if people are living in it. It may not be as productive as some other uses of property like running a business from it, farming the land ect...
The OP was referring to A/B tests that were "perhaps not up to the standard of science", not ones that were already science.