skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
History suggests this is not correct.

Long-time Mac users have a term for this: Sherlocking[0]

It seems far more likely that a company without an obvious business plan might run out of money trying to sell software that seems to be an unnecessary duplication of features built in to the OS than for Apple to eliminate a feature they've only recently introduced and promoted.

I'm hoping neither happen, and I wish the f.lux team the best, but I definitely think you have the odds the wrong way around.

[0] https://carpeaqua.com/2013/10/18/stop-sherlocking-yourself/
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But again, like USB1/2/3, Cat5/6 is one additional parameter, not a matrix. You look for a single number and you're done. That's much more complex for USB-C, in a context where the industry is often (maybe even willfully) opaque on reporting correct specification. I hope they will come up with a simple way to signal all these combinations (maybe a standard color-coded label like you have for calories/salt/etc contents in many European supermarkets) but at the moment it's definitely an issue.
This fixes the wrong problem. Has anyone seen a whiteboard managing interview for IT managers?
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It's the conflation of education with job training that is pushing America down the drain and Trump is only one consequence of it.

The purpose of education is not to prepare for jobs, but to produce knowledgeable, reasoning, civilized, compassionate human beings capable of critical, independent thinking, which is what America most needs, not ignorant coders who can be manipulated to blindly program everything in sight, totally unaware of the inhuman, oppressive and exploitative implications.
That's downright a scam. I've applied once to a JPMorgan dev team. The verbose application process required me to "register" to some "applicants network". Alas, the registration form had the infamous "I accept the terms of service AND allow you to send spam to the email address you've just forced me to provide" bundled checkbox.

Granted that was the end of my attempts to work there.
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Looks nice. Can sync to all devices where you've installed it, via Dropbox.
I'm not trying to defend the people at your former org, but from an etiquette standpoint, it's a lot less awkward to give money to people in the wake of death or sudden grave illness (like cancer) rather than to give money to people suffering an ongoing condition like poverty or chronic illness.

Imagine a company holding fundraiser for Joe in accounting because he's poor.

That is simply not culturally acceptable, though it's likely the right thing to do.
It's a EU standard, and it effectively stopped the crazy situation where every produce had its own port and charger.

Except for Apple, which doesn't offer any low-margin phone and thus can still use their custom charger and bundle an adapter.
I think in the past that may have been true, but they are now pretty anti the current admin. If we evaluate on their rhetoric then we should be on the verge of war with Russia rather than N Korea.
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If that were the case I wouldn't have an adjacent subthread telling me that they are pretty much the same ;).

To be clear, I have no beef with Julia, I'm sure it's a fantastic language. I take issue with people thinking they can get the same level of performance without explicitly controlling their memory access patterns/allocations.

98% of developers will never need it in their careers but when you do there is no substitute.
Totally agree goo! I do something more or less the same as you, just to not the same extent—but I will be soon when I export my 'to watch' list from IMDB and 'to read' list from Instapaper.

Since 2013 I started creating a text file almost every day in a directory structure of '../daily/2017/17-10-14.txt'.

I use it as a journal (I put the current time and wrote whatever it is down), a scratchpad, a temporary todo, habit tracker, etc. It's been super useful for me. I've thought about formalising it, using tags, etc. but have found myself getting along fine.

I used to use Day One (macOS/iOS) religiously but have found that this daily txt log mostly sufficient. What I would like is to expand my macros from getting the current time to getting my current location and weather.

For work, I have a 'log.txt' in which I have a section for each day and copy-forward the previous day's section. While we have our own company tracking tools, etc., this is purely for me and has helped me keep better track of everything I need/want to do without letting anything slip out.

I've found that doing each of these things takes up very little time too—partly due to not formalising it or making it fancy. I've thought about using a vimwiki which I'm a big fan of, and gave it a go once, but I stopped. It was no fault of vimwiki itself, but so far have found the text files sufficient.

For my phone (iPhone), I use https://ia.net/writer/, and I keep all these text files in Dropbox.

Another reason why I've stuck to text files is because of the fatigue of different apps and services disappearing due to whatever reasons.
> And, of course, there’s usually no way to tell at a glance whether a given cable, charger, battery, or device supports USB-C PD or at what wattages.

Forget wattage -- voltage is also a big deal. Want to charge a Dell laptop? You need 20V. Charger support for PD at 20V is somewhat related to wattage, but it's easy to find 40-odd watt chargers that can't supply 20V. And there is usually nothing in the specs that tells you this.
My first notebook entry is a file called 2011-01-20.txt. I just opened it and had a look what I was doing on that day - really interesting!

These files have useful commands, todo lists, debugging notes, stack traces, useful links.

Don't overcomplicate things - just make a text file each day and dump everything in. Don't bother too much with structure or tidiness. If you need info from the previous day, just copy it across.

Once you've got enough stuff in your notebooks to be valuable do remember to get an automated backup going.
I've read good things about these (Etymotic ETY-Plugs High Fidelity Earplugs) at a $15 entry-level:

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Is there anything recommendable between the $15 and $200 ends?
Soviet Union was a prime example of that: constant lack of people to do work, third-world living standards, and colossal inefficiency.

It ceased to exist mere 26 years ago.
You can’t really have a nice atmosphere with so little incoming solar radiation, and at 10g you’d be talking about a truly THICK atmosphere. Moons though, could be “squeezed and stretched” from the gravitational interaction with the planet, but again they’d be coooooold. You’d have activity, but probably cryogenic volcanoes and the like.
Similar traits show up when other species are domesticated.

It's been theorized that this has to do with the neural crest, which is an embryonic structure that the adrenal medulla develops out of. The adrenal medulla produces hormones involved in stress and fear, and so an animal with a less active adrenal medulla would probably be more amenable to domestication.

Several other things also develop out of the embryonic crest, so it could be that which ties together domestication and those various other traits that seem to go with it across many species.
Why would you only consider only applicants who made research about your company before ? What kind of skill this task is proving you ?

If I'm right, you are trying to find people who have the rights skills and the ones who match the culture of the company, right ? Then not doing any research doesn't mean anything

I do the same, if the application process is longer than 2 minutes, I skip, if the cover letter is mandatory, I skip. But when I get an interview I prepare a lot.
> Now, as many other people have mentioned in this thread, they've largely fallen into another same again steam sale outlet.

Except that a large chunk of the proceeds still go to charities. That's always been a selling point to me. Whether the games are indie games or older games, knowing that some of the funds are going to a charity is a large incentive for me.
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I use sublime text and imported a directory of journal files as project. These files are of markdown and you can search sithin the project.

But this setup is somehow clunky because there is no tracking if a ceratain topic/headline already exists, linking is not possible, etC
If AI scientists actually believed that the general public will believe the talk about existential threats, they would be afraid of activist groups sabotaging and occasionally firebombing their laboratories. Like sometimes happens with GMO research. Clearly they are not.
Unpaid time off is fine. You'd be surprised how few employers are willing to accommodate that. My current employer is a tight knit software firm, so it's not such a big deal if I take long unpaid leave at the end of a major project or milestone. I have a skill set and background that's difficult to train up.

Edit: I should add that this may be an unreasonable expectation but it's the expectation I need to have in order to be stably employed.
I am not arguing for corruption, I am just saying that corruption appears for certain reasons, and can be the least painful mean to motivate individuals and raise a system out of its mediocrity. I don't really think it's a good thing, it's just a social phenomena.

The war on drugs is born out of the fear of citizens not being able to regulate their consumption of narcotics, just like during the prohibition.

If you remove your moral compass, you quickly understand a lot of how the human world works.

Corruption is a form of currency, and always has been. It is the norm. It makes thing much easier for a leadership system to work fast within a tight loop of trusted insiders. It is evil, but at the end of the day it reflects the will of voters if they don't try hard enough to stop it.
It also got far fewer upvotes. It was almost certainly TLDRed by half the people who scrolled passed it. It lost thousands of readers in the time it took to write (it took ten times longer to write than the origonal comment). And since it doesn't contain an abstract opinion that people will upvote simply because they agree, had I posted it to the article directly, it would almost certainly appear near the bottom of the page.

I have a feeling this upvote system might need some work.
I just replied to the parent agreeing with their method, because I do something more or less the same, but I also try and keep a balance between this and what you just described.

The importance of the 'reset' has helped me a lot too, and calling a lot of recorded things 'baggage' is very true. If everything I had recorded was wiped would I be disappointed? Definitely! But life would go on. :) I'd re-discover things, my tastes and personality would change so those recorded things aren't relevant, etc.
Imo it makes all the sense to have all ports provide the power necessary for fast charging. I really hope you didn't mean no power at all.
Some animations are even outsourced to North Korea. My argument isn't that jobs won't be outsourced but that the impact is different.

The idea is that the industry will stay where the innovation happens and for innovation to happen well understood part of the work will be outsourced to a place that is willing to do the hard work for cheaper.
The issue is as much a cultural one. I used to work with an editor of one of the worlds most prestigious chemistry journals, and she oft remarked how Chinese scientists didn't think accusations of plagiarism were sufficient grounds for rejection of a paper.
>> Nightshift won't get nearly as warm as I prefer it

> Configurable in System Preferences -> Displays.

The whole problem is that it isn't configurable to get as warm as many people (myself included) prefer.
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>Why not state, county, city, neighborhood, or block?

Because nobody is arguing that. You're inventing an absurd position to argue against a pretty reasonable one.

>you're throwing away comparative advantage, wasting time and capital duplicating others' work (so this time and capital is no longer available to unsolved problems), etc.

Is this supposed to be a problem? Efficiency gains have simply gone into ballooning corporate cash stockpiles rather than demonstrably better purchasing power for consumers. Paradoxically, this is weakening the economy as more capital concentrates in fewer hands and consumer demand begins to falter.
The strangers would be foreign interests.

Of course corruption has a cost, but it doesn't mean one can bring a more virtuous alternative to work. Frankly you can't really measure and evaluate how the world would be without corruption. It is called politics, management, regulations, policy enforcement, etc.
Angry recruiters and managers who don't want the truth exposed :)
Gigabit Ethernet does not require Cat6. Cat5 is capable but Cat5e is recommended. Cat6 and Cat7 can be used but are overkill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Ethernet#1000BASE-T

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/gigabit-ethernet-needtoknow,rev...
> it makes no sense to have all 4 ports on a 15" Macbook Pro (for example) support power

I actually see this as a feature. What would be insane if only one special port supported power. That would just be confusing.
Two words: washing labels.

Just have a rough industry agreement of which features should be represented and what their symbols should be, then put them on connectors (which are pretty long, there is plenty of usable space) and on packaging and listings.
Bulverism is a poor substitute for actually thinking about the future. See Scott Alexander's excellent recent essay: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/09/in-favor-of-futurism-be...
The old CFO at my firm was awarded the first year of annual cost-cutting savings as his bonus. Executive comp can be weird, but at a public company it's probably not a loss-leader.
Who is "we"? Idaho can only make laws binding on Californians if it's in concert with other states. Just as the United States can control just about any country it trades with if it's in concert with other UN/WTO members.
Contra sibling comments, it technically isn't a legal requirement. It's entirely voluntary, a memorandum of understanding between manufacturers, facilitated by the EU.

Obviously 'voluntary' here deserves some scare quotes since the EU had made it very clear that it was willing to swing its sledgehammer and formally regulate if the manufacturers couldn't agree on a standard amongst themselves. Which would have been less good for everyone (including the EU), e.g. since formal legal regulations are a lot harder to change with the times, So they were pretty incentivized to work something out, and happily they did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
I've always used redshift on android. It's in the playstore.
If you are the CEO you should not take on the task. It’s great to be able to talk the talk but you need to sell your business. Focus on selling.

You probably need a great technical partner to help drive your intellectual property development, but any time you take off growing your business is time wasted.
And this is the same Macbook Pro that for reasons that I can't fathom moved the headphone jack to the right side despite every (single) headphone cable going to the left can.

Go figure.
Not sure if this helps but I hacked this together the other day to avoid adding
a real queue to a very simple application. It uses event queue ordering
semantics to get FIFO behavior.

The read/write combinations to the semaphore variable need not be atomic since we know
that if this thread is running there are no other threads that can be reading
and then modifying it.

MyObject.queueSemaphore = N;
MyObject.emitter = new EventEmitter();

MyObject.queue = function( ... ){
// if this run can take place go
// otherwise wait for a run-complete to try again
if(this.queueSemaphore > 0) {
this.queueSemaphore--;
} else {
// must return a promise that resolves and possibly requeues
return new promise((resolve, reject) => {
this.emitter.once("run-complete", () => {
resolve(true);
});
}).then(() => this.queue( ... ));
}

this.promiseBasedProcess()
// ... work
.finally(() => {
this.queueSemaphore++;
this.emitter.emit("run-complete");
});
}
I've tried everything including wikis. I've been using a mind map for the past ten years (freemind/freeplane). Nothing beats it. It's fast and a screen has two scrollable dimensions so why not use them. Easy to start disorganised and refactor later. Really easy to just hide noise without losing it completely. Second to a mind map is plain text but its limited if you want to embed diagrams or cross-link.
Why, because they did the same thing as every single other connector before it?

There should be a cutoff point for "designed for idiots" - if you can't plug in a USB cable, you should not be touching anything electric really.
Hang on, I thought there were only two main axis for a USB-C to USB-C cable: maximum protocol (3.1 Gen 2, 3.1 Gen 1, 2.0) and maximum current (3A, 5A). Also, wouldn't most USB-C cables be passive, and the choice of alternate mode be left to the endpoints? I don't think a passive cable cares whether the wires are being used to carry DisplayPort, HDMI, or something else.
which does fall under "interesting synthesizer experiments" umbrella

I suppose Web Audio API is just badly named.
It's also in GNOME3, or at least I think it is. I got it when I installed the GNOME group on arch via pacman.
I don’t have a problem helping the people in Houston relocate and pay them what was fair market value for their homes.
How many 10x ego people work there, how blame-oriented the company and the team I'd be working on is, how much pressure there is to always go faster and how much time is spent prototyping and researching things, will my manager actually manage as necessary, is there a lot of clearly defined work to be done and/or a clear mission or are they pivoting constantly, is compensation/benefits reasonable and standard, etc.
I completely agree with you, these companies are not showing enough interest to make the life of applicants better, it is highly probably the same with their employees

And I skip when they ask for a cover letter (or send a blank pdf page)
> You're inventing an absurd position

Why is country less absurd than any other level of government?
If you think you have unfairly much resources, you can always donate some! There are excellent charities that operate in worse-off countries.
"I joke that I know all 50 Clojure programmers in the US, and sadly, that's not much of an overstatement"

yeah no i'm pretty sure that's a drastic overstatement
Don't even bother... if you're not designing for morons, you're not selling anything these days, apparently.
I don't get why Node.js is looked down upon in respect to other server technologies. I have worked on Rails and Node apps, and just started a new job working with Scala/Play framework. Node paired with Nginx has been the easiest to start new projects on, develop on, and it is more performant than the other two.
This is an error Eliezer has also written about: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ph/youre_entitled_to_arguments_but_...
While there's definitely signs of geographic stickiness nowadays, I wish someone would age-adjust those statistics — above a certain age people tend not to move at all, and we have way more people above a certain age nowadays.
That's a horrible story that made me feel sad.
Do you commenters have any concept of property ownership?
MORTGAGE LENDERS REQUIRE FLOOD INSURANCE IN THESE AREAS.

They require below market value flood insurance that is heavily subsidized by taxpayers.
> More or less, assuming you can predict it. But there's a penalty for misprediction.

Yeah, no, that's not free.
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Right, exactly as Eliezer says. There are plenty of examples in all four quadrants, so as a way of working out how near a technology is, this works less well than you'd like.
I never cease to be amazed at the sheer complexity and precision required to make analog electronics work. There are so many parts to a CRT, and about half of them seem like magic (directing electron beams with electromagnets!), and the first was built in 1911. LCDs seem downright simplistic in contrast.

It's kinda the same as the move from internal combustion engines to electric. The discrete parts count drops to a tiny fraction of the former. (Though, I guess if we were to count transistors in an IC as individual parts, LCD trumps CRT.)

Then again, one could build a CRT without a billion dollar fabrication facility. The same can't be said of LCDs (AFAIK).

Regardless, I really enjoy these posts. I don't understand half of it (though I understood more of this one than usual, as my dad owned a TV shop when I was a kid and I got some hands-on experience with CRTs early in life), but they're very satisfying. I wish I could play with cranky old computers more often.
The difference is that if you use Cat5, it still works, just slower. With USB-C, some features just won't work.
Lesser divisions of government don't run militaries that might prefer autarky in the event of large conflict.
Enjoy that headphone jack while it lasts!
Those are good challenges to bring up.

In terms of usage, I think publicly available data can provide a useful enough picture:

- downloads

- upvotes (ex. github stars)

- homepage traffic

- forum activity (ex. stackoverflow)

- reported corporate usage

- etc.

Finding out current funding is more difficult, and seems to rely on self-reporting and trust.

If the site also accepted donations for projects, it could display which are most underfunded on its platform relative to their utility.
I lived in China for 8 months while I worked on a project in Shenzen. Unfortunately, cheating is endemic in Chinese culture. They have many idioms about cheating and the one I heard the most from Chinese speakers is "neng pian jiu pian" which translates roughly to "if you can cheat and get away with it, then cheat". I've seen business deals fall apart and contracts being withdrawn because Chinese factories would scam people out of some quick money instead of collecting a large sum at the end of the project.

Whatever changes they plan to enact to stop this cheating will take several generations to eradicate.

South China Morning Post has an article on academic cheating:

http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1974986/...
Get a Samsung Note 8. Use wacom pen to take notes. Carrying around dead trees is archaic.
Well, if the moderators are enforcing "on-topic" questions in an Ask Me Anything, then it seems reddit's transformation into a marketing and brand promotion platform seems complete.
As long as HN doesn't shadow/hell ban me when these subjects come up and I comment like I did above, I'm always going to fight for workers to maximize their earning potential.
There are multiple reasons why companies don't list out salaries. e.g., it often attracts the wrong talent, it can create distrust with candidates who think "Wait, you're offering me X when you listed X-Z"

Some firms won't list it also for legal concerns as well.
I mean org-mode is just easily readable plain text for the most part... Only has the potential to get ugly when you do odd or advanced stuff. The basic structure is just asterisk prefixed text.
Really? So exactly who is deciding where the US goes to war with? And who pulls the strings to control the media to align the people?

It seems like that would be quite a conspiracy if it were true...
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