skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pokemon Go players don't look like normal people looking at their phones. They look weird, all grouped up ignoring each other.I happened upon some sort of event that attracted like 30 of them and it was unsettling - some people had 2 phones and it was silent except the sound of tapping.

After watching the HoloKit press, though, I should be thankful for silent and grouped up as opposed to running around in a crowded area being an annoying jackass.
> make myself vulnerable to assailants

Also be a nuisance to everyone
This is how consumer products fast track into pivoting into enterprise product lines.

Disregard for culture and obvious social media reactions.
> everyone who mined Ethereum on a 3090.

Most 3090's used for ethereum mining used reduced power load and temperatures. https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/q2v061/comment...

e.g. this guy:

> That’s pretty terrible efficiency. I can get 120 with only 290W. For me the extra 4MH/s does not pay for 60W.

Some individual enthusiasts were trying to get every last "megahash" for benchmarking bragging rights, but anyone who had a bunch of 3090's would minimize power consumption because the marginal profit on the last 50+ watts was negative, which had the nice side effect of lowering temperatures.
It's worth discussing. The likelihood of you being creamed on a residential street or main thoroughfare is much higher from the passenger vehicles. How many crashes are there between semis and passenger vehicle per year and how many passenger-to-passenger are there?

Mind you, I agree about the importance of good and more-utilized rail transit.
I understand it is just a usb dongle, shipped together.
For some geometries, you can also 3D print plastic and then cast in sand.

That won’t get you the full power of 3D printing, but you can get many geometries you couldn’t otherwise.
Why? Learning to use AI tools properly will be far more valuable to these students in the workplace than any personal knowledge or skill they accumulate.
Because companies don’t actually give a shit about employee happiness? That’s my guess. I’m not saying this angrily, either. It’s business, all decisions are a means to an end.

I really like the idea, though. I would love to get an extra paycheck at the end of the year.
There are multiple reasons why the two situations are not comparable:

1. The elevator does not belong to you. The building manager setting whatever policies on its usage that they want does not violate your right to use your property however you like. For it to be analogous, during a blizzard the road would have to refuse to let your car onto it.

2. While you use the elevator, no one else (such as fire crews) can use it. You driving your car does not prevent anyone else from doing the same.

3. In a fire, there are alternative routes of escape other than the elevator. I suppose the same is not true in a skyscraper. Do elevators shut down in those too? If you're several kilometers from, say, a hospital, you may not have any reasonable alternatives to driving to the hospital in inclement weather.

I wouldn't think that the idea that hardware should obey its operator would need to be defended in HN of all places.
It’s pricy drunk and high food. I would never seek it out sober but they disperse oil throughout the slice in a way that’s really satisfying if you’re under the influence.
I’m that person. :P
> In the overnight hours of Tuesday into Wednesday, FAA officials decided to shut down and reboot the main NOTAM system -- a significant decision, because the reboot can take about 90 minutes, according to the source.

90 minutes; this certainly appears to be an advertisement about Windows OS.
Bringing <marquee> back, I love it.
Great but still not worth the hype
(Disclaimer: I live in EU)

I have an office chair from a Swedish company, RBM-765.
It's quite adjustable and worth all the money that I paid for it.

The quality is lot better than the usual Ikea chair.

Watch https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cslQsqSalqc to see the different adjustments.

I got it recommended by mech engineers who worked on chairs for disabled people.
Where is the forbearance in an execution?
I've read that a single-payer system is very unlikely in the USA, due to political forces. The tremendous inefficiency of the American medical system increases costs, but also provides more jobs, and those job-holders vote.
I’m not sure that those two processes are as distinct as you believe them to be.
https://www.design-reuse.com/news/52544/starfive-risc-v-jh71...

The interesting part goes:

>As for power consumption, JH7110 is separated into 8 independent power domains. CPU frequency can be configured through software. To achieve a balanced PPA, customers can set the most optimum SoC frequency based on their application scenarios and performance requirements. In sleep mode, the static power consumption of JH7110 is 120 mW. When working on an SBC, with all the main modules under full load, the dynamic power consumption of JH7110 is 4,100 mW. In the application scenarios of soft routers and NAS, where you don’t need GPU and video processing, but only require the dual Ethernet port operation, you can configure the modules on/off through software. And the actual power consumption decreases to 3,300 mW.

So, to summarize:

* 120mW when completely idle.

* 4100mW on full load.

* 3300mW on full load w/o GPU or video processing modules.

This is, I have to say, crazy good relative to rpi4.

>For longevity 60C is better. I'm talking multiple decades at constant permanent full blast here.

Yes, I will at least put a stick-on passive heatsink on mine.
I seem to remember it was firebase, for some reason.
Yet VR is extremely fun and provides a set of experiences unmatched by traditional gaming. Especially for the Wii/casual crowd. Much like TikTok-hate on HN, it's probably another example of adult nerds who fail to grasp the value in early-adopter zoomer heavy tech (even though adult nerds have plenty to love if they actually spent time investing into trying it, just like TikTok).

> It's not something you can do with kids around

Whenever I played multiplayer Quest 2 games 99% of the voices were kids/young teenagers. Apparently it doesn't need parents to care, the kids in up their bedrooms is good enough.

If anything the problem is that good VR isn't cheaper than it already is, to hit the market for parents to buy it for their kids. The current selection of games on Oculus store is basically glorified Android games. But PC/Steam VR games I've tried like Half Life Alyx were mind-blowing.

Maybe when $2000+ PC VR setups finally mainstreams adult nerds will care. I highly doubt that's reliant on AR.
China is sometimes proactive on weather, e.g. for large events like the Olympics, https://www.cma.gov.cn/2011xwzx/2011xqxxw/2011xqxyw/202112/t....

> The Artificial Weather Impact Center mainly participates in the formulation of technical standards and norms related to artificial weather impact, is responsible for the construction, operation and maintenance of business systems, equipment research and development, test assessment and support, and the promotion of new technologies, organizes major national scientific and technological projects and large-scale scientific experiments, and is responsible for the program system of large-scale aircraft operations nationwide.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2022/01/24/ol...

> China has been ramping up its program to levels seldom seen, either there or around the world. In December 2020, government officials announced a major expansion, setting as its goal triggering rain over more than two million square miles — an area larger than 187 of the world’s countries ...
These efforts could have major consequences for both China’s 1.4 billion people and neighbors like Myanmar, India, and Nepal, raising a kind of ethical-meteorological tension between national sovereignty and global responsibility.

What would happen if two neighboring countries attempted to influence the weather near their border?
Maybe diagrams made in, say, Visio, draw.io, or Inkscape are fine when you're the sole author of them, and you create typographic quality documentation, a business presentation, or otherwise need eyecandy.

In my practice across a few companies, diagrams made in code-oriented tools like Graphwiz, PlantUML, or Mermaid were vastly more useful for documenting real, evolving engineering projects.

* You can store them along with other documentation texts. Their source is always obvious.

* Version control! You can diff them and make sensible pull requests when updating some small aspect of a larger diagram, along with text, and possibly as a part of a code change. You can review, discuss, and approve the changes using tools familiar to every engineer.

* The amount of visual tweaking the language allows (graphwiz, quite some; mermaid, minimal) prevents bouts of bikeshedding and keeps the diagrams focused on their essential parts.

* Since the language is open, and no special tools are needed (except a text editor and a renderer on a web page), the diagrams are now everyone's concern and purview, as opposed to the person who happens to be good at graphics.

* The formats are not locked up; you don't need an authoring license, a subscription, a particular OS to run the editor, etc. You own your diagrams.

* Sometimes you can generate these diagrams from other data you have, pretty easily, and with consistent results.

These considerations appear to overweigh whatever visual imperfection issues these tools have.
This is hardly the "passing lane," it's just following a left lane exit onto treasure island. the entire bridge is a splits into three different freeways when it touches down in Oakland. You pass in whatever lane is moving fastest.

The tunnel is not curved. it's straight.
I don’t know much about this stuff. But Khadas has some stuff. They provide quite a lot of docs. Even cad model so you can design cases for their stuff.

I just got an Edge 2. Damn so much faster than my pi4. The downside is I think it’s hard/impossible to get an OS on it other than the ones they provide. ubuntu/android.
Seraghina is great, the sourdough crust is sooo good. I like Speedy Romeo a lot too but I think it’s on the wrong side of Classon to officially be Bed-Stuy.
It doesn't seem procedural to me, as there is no rebinding. Such a sequence of assignments would look just as home in a functional language like Lisp, ML, or Haskell as Python. In procedural languages, idiomatically, you have mutation, in which variables are re-bound to new values, and side-effects, in which the external environment and the program can interact with each other in ways that are unconstrained.
Everyone knew Obamacare would cause this (or make it worse), but no one could do anything about it because there was no alternative plan acceptable to a large enough majority.

Obamacare dramatically increased deductibles, in the name of providing "coverage" to everyone. What ends up happening is people don't pay the deductive.

What should have happened is politicians should have worked on costs, not on payments. They should have worked on dramatically increasing healthcare supply not availability. Trump tried, a bit, by forcing hospitals to release price lists, but I have not seen lower costs as a result.

And I don't just criticize, I have two ideas to help:

1: Encourage capitation[1] - people should pay a fixed amount that covers everything* no exclusions, no co-pays, or anything else. Care is gated by lower cost professionals who escalate to higher cost general practitioners, and then specialists, as needed. The Doctors are paid a fixed salary that does not depend on how many people they see or how many procedures they do.

2: Gut employer healthcare. Just give everyone cash (in a tax controlled way) that can only pay for healthcare. In a two person household they can pool the cash and it should be enough to pay for coverage, with complete competition. People with lower income would automatically receive subsidies that would help.

3: No more special Medicare coverage - it would be routed via the identical path that others use, except the subsidy is higher. I've helped people on Medicare - the government coverage is terrible, the only good coverage is Medicare Advantage which is private care paid for by the government, which works well.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitation_(healthcare)
You would still need to conceive ahead of time of the possible values that the enum may take.
Spent 1 paragraph telling people they are doing layoffs, immediately followed by a long bullet-point list saying that almost every leader is keeping their jobs or getting more responsibility.

Who reviewed this?
> Serialized transactions don't work fine. That's one thing Postgres itself struggles with. Your xacts will conflict and both fail, and you might even exceed queue limits as you retry.

Of course they work fine. You’re getting hung up in optimizing for scale when you’re already way beyond solving the two threads one file issue.
Not hard requirement, but prefer simplicity and lower cost.
> Is it more than a premium version of Google Cardboard?

Cardboard is VR, not AR.
So much nerd catnip in one title. It’s perfect for HN.
I have a question, which you may not know the answer to, but I'm just asking it to everybody these days.

Let's say hypothetically that all the medical providers suddenly all decide to stop being evil. They increase staffing to safe ratios. They even have extra staff so people can take vacations and have days off without it being a problem. They give everyone very good compensation and the big time administrators stop being unfairly overcompensated. They only make people work a maximum of 40 hours per week like normal humans.

If they decided to do this, the question is, are there enough staff available? Are there enough humans who have sufficient training in medicine, who are willing and able to fill all of those positions in every part of the country? In every part of the world?

Surely capitalism and greed are the immediate problem. But is it masking a deeper problem that there just are not enough medical resources to go around? I don't know. It might be, it might not be. If there is enough, then ok. The only problem we have is greed, and we're already fighting to solve that. But if the deeper problem is there, is there any short term solution? Sure we can start training people and make lots of incentives for people to enter the field, but that will take years.
The English word for the capital of the Ukraine (not ‘Ukraine’!) is ‘Kiev,’ just like the English word for the capital of Italy (not Italia!) is ‘Rome,’ not ‘Roma,’ or like the English word for the successor state to the Ottoman Empire is ‘Turkey,’ not ‘Türkiye.’ There’s no need to use a foreign language’s words for the names of places where that language is spoken.

Using the correct English word ‘Kiev’ in no way is any form of support for Russia’s evil war; it is simply a form of support for … correct English.
There's a joke in there somewhere about what they will radio in and what you will make of their reports...

Bezos - it's wonderful! Something something wage suppression..

Musk - something something free speach...

Branson - My God! It's made of stars!
Do you think that those invasions went well for the people of Afghanistan and Iraq? Do you think there were no armed gangs in those countries? Do you think the U.S. has any prurient interest in repeating or revisiting those operations?
Is Pokemon GO still popular? My impression is that it was a fad that came and went.
Did I open reddit by mistake?
There doesn't really need to be any legislation. It's handled via NHSA regulation (or whatever alphabet soup it is).
If autopilot starts braking even slightly and it shouldn't, I immediately take control. For this to happen, the driver clearly was not prepared to take control in any way. It's like driving on cruise control with your legs crossed.

The automated cruise control and lane-keep on my previous car, an Audi, would occasionally do crazy things too. The hyper-focus on this being Tesla's fault continues to baffle.
I strongly disagree.

First off, this tool is still a new tool so "properly" does not exist yet and even if it did it likely won't be the same in a few years.

Second, we should be actually teaching programming and how to solve problems (and how to search for them, even if you do just copy and paste from stack overflow you had to understand enough to find it in the first place).

This is a shortcut that you should be using once you understand what you are actually writing.

Edit:
Or are you prepared to make the same argument that using something like chatGPT is perfectly fine for any papers students turn in because they are "learning to use AI tools properly"
If your code panics, your process should probably just crash (unless you're abusing panics to pass state around to yourself, but that's another story). The overall program state could be invalid and continuing to run may be dangerous. Your program needs to be able to recover from an unexpected termination anyway.

Not recovering panics goes extra for generic packages that are executing user code. You have no idea how badly broken things are.
Every single adaptive cruise control system I've seen allows the driver to set a follow distance that is far too short. For example, on my Subaru, 4 bars is really the minimum "comfortable, relaxing" amount. But if traffic starts to get a little heavy, 3 bars works a little better, but you do have to be more vigilant. If you are down to using 2 bars or a single bar, you had better be hyper vigilant. I can't imagine a safe way for the car to operate with those settings, unless perhaps they are useful for stop-and-go interstate traffic.

To make matters worse, every single car salesman I've encountered has the feeling that doing everything to the extreme is the best way to sell cars. Which means that is is totally, completely believable that the OP with his Golf had the salesman set it to a minimum follow distance and then not explain that they did this or how to change it!
Errors don't have stack traces so they're unusable. And I see nothing wrong with handling panics. They're the same exceptions. I got SQL exception, I panic, handler catches panic, logs its stacktrace and returns HTTP 500. Awesome and no boring error handling.
> I am saying perhaps shoplifting is not in fact any worse than typical trends, as Walgreens suggested for their stores.

That's what I said too, "Walgreens overestimated and overstated how bad shoplifting was". Anyway, it's not important.

- - - -

> In arguments I've seen on HN, people get really excited about shoplifting, especially in relation to Boudin, and use Walgreens as their evidence. If Walgreens isn't that evidence... maybe there is not unusual shoplifting going on?

Counter-propaganda is still propaganda.

I want "my side" (to the extent that I'm not apolitical I'm left-leaning by USA standards) to do better than the opposition. We don't need propaganda because we've got truth on our side! (In case it's not clear that was meant tongue-in-cheek.)

> maybe there is not unusual shoplifting going on?

It would be nice to know. I wish NYT had printed that data.
Either it's extremely unusual (once in 21+ years), or happens more often than that but only this time did they decide to ground all planes in response to the glitch. In the latter case, then they must not be telling the whole truth, because they're omitting whatever is "different" about this time that changed their response to a glitch in this system.
There has long been an unproven hypothesis that an ancestor of Tocharian was spoken by the people of the Tarim Basin mummies [1].

The mummies appear to have a mixture of ancestry from West, South, and East Asia, but there is nothing beyond conjecture to link them to the Tocharian languages, which are only attested several thousand years later than the mummies were interred.

Tocharian itself is an Indo European language, but despite its written remains being largely Buddhist translations from Sanskrit (another Indo European language) in a Brahmic script, it isn't particularly closely related to Sanskritic languages, nor to Western Indo-European languages (Greek, Latin, Germanic, Slavic). It has a very different nominal case system than Indo-European languages of similar antiquity [2], and is thought to be an early offshoot from Proto Indo European, similar (and perhaps contemporary) to Hittite.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarim_mummies

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocharian_languages#Nouns
Chilling out and watching youtube is still a huge issue though. You lose situational awareness and, drunk or not, you cannot react to sudden urgent issues that confuse the system.
Compiling Black with mypyc, Pt. 1 – Initial Steps (2022)
CTEs still give me anxiety due to their inability to be potentially not be optimized. I know many database engines today optimize for this type of thing, I'm thankful for it, but there was as time 10+ years ago when CTE expressions could take down databases. I also blame DBT for convincing people that CTEs are good. CTEs are only good if used correctly.
What's with the gas stove stuff over the last few days?

The combination of the suddenness which which it has become a news topic and the high polarization potential of the topic would seen to hint at an inorganic factor at play.
This looks handy, but then I saw this:

> Read-only, a feature not a bug

> Grila can't and won't modify, add or delete events in your calendars and reminder lists.
You can go fast and reckless with your typing, there's nothing to break.

I hope this changes in a future release (perhaps with an additional keyboard shortcut), since managing calendars and viewing calendars using multiple apps doesn’t seem seamless. Over a period of time, users may just go back to the app that allows the creation of calendar events.
End of life counseling became a political third rail when it was rebranded as "death panels" by Sarah Palin in order to delegitimate the ACA. Since then, it has been avoided as a topic of public discourse by the media.

Discourse around death in general makes people queasy. We tend to avoid the cognitive dissonance between the idea that supplying less end of life care would dramatically reduce medical expenses and the idea that all people deserve the best chance at life[1]. We are similar avoidance when MAID is discussed specifically because we know incentives and values clash.

1. this could probably be phrased better. sanctity of human life and dignity if human life don't quite fit because those are meager at EoL and value of human life sounds a but off.
I agree. There are so many crappy pizza places in NY, especially in Manhattan. It’s a risk trying some random place. NJ has better and more consistent pizza and bagels. That said, I don’t even try to get pizza elsewhere, I’ve had some really extra gross greasy pizza in other states. For some reason, I’ve never been to a mountain town that can get it right.
Watching the Simpsons on a 4610 Thermal Printer
Well, like I said, I've seen it for myself. E.g. some folks broke into the house across the street and were squatting. My sister's car got broken into and some stuff stolen.