skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes from debriefs, it is clear that they at best skimmed. Therefore the job of the proposal writer is to make the evaluator's job easy and to make the reader eager to turn the page, e.g., no walls of text just like on reddit or Hacker News.
Companies aren't "evil" as such, but they can get complacent when not exposed to sufficient competition.

Power corrupts. Therefore, power in the market also corrupts.
Apparently you can't have crosslinking - the melt would be too viscous to be extruded from a tiny spinneret. You wouldn't use plasticizers in polyethylene, the "plasticizer" in LLDPE is a tiny amount of long-chain terminal alkenes that serve as domain breakers.

Fibers is truly where chemistry and engineering collide.
Well fuck that.
Maybe because Guam is near the international date line, and telemetry that turns on on a certain day is likely to come from there first?
> It probably would work for vehicles, however.

For example, electric cars with roofs that are already solar panels—I'm sure adding an antenna to the mix would be fairly trivial.
Is a cryptokitty illegal for non accredited investors to buy? Or is it just a “normal” good.
Stobie poles are used a lot in Italy and southern Europe. They all seem to be from the 1920s and have really bad "concrete cancer" and the underlying steel is rusting out. Quite picturesque in a "oh crap, there is 220v on top of this rusting pile..." kind of way.

"the prime of miss jean brodie" is set in pre-WWII scotland and an opening credit scene walks past two concrete lamp posts. My mother (who was an architectural historian) leaned over and said "anachronistic: that wasn't introduced until the 1950s" which goes to show fanaticism over street furniture and the poles is deep deep down...
> Its functions are to insulate, suppress corona discharge and arcing, and to serve as a coolant.
I would absolutely love a big writeup on how they're set up and what the components are, as well as all the real-estate stuff that certainly surrounds them. I'm also noticing a lot of new towers that look like big cylinders on a pole, sort of like a TACAN so I often wonder what's up with that.

I do know that the traditional ones are triangle shaped such that they each form the intersection of a hexagon tessellation (hence the cell in cellphone) such that you have three towers pointed into every hexagonal cell.
You can order McDs on a touchscreen at some locations in Cambridge (Massachusetts not England), it's already made it to America.
The thing is that compilers usually quickly go to SSA form and it is not the best IR to optimize loops in. Then you fight it to extract a high-level IR and this little process makes it very easy to lose high-level information. We don't do this so we begin from a friendlier starting point.
So, a $850 system will outperform a $350 system in terms of sound? I can't say I'm surprised.

If you need a $850 setup to get what you consider to be "good sound", you're not the audience for these kinds of speakers.

And yes, this is from someone who also has a Yamaha receiver and good speakers.
Was your bid on the recent SBIR/STTR solicitation by chance?
The reason people say "don't roll your own crypto" is not because rolling your own crypto is something reserved for super-intelligent elites, but it's because if you use a cryptosystem that's been around and running in public for a long time, it's "empirically proven" (as well as mathematically proven) that it can't be easily broken. Rolling your own crypto can work, and maybe it's even mathematically provable, but unless there's a very strong reason for rolling your own, all the risk that comes along with it is not justifiable.

This is why people criticize companies like Telegram for running their own crypto. They could have just used the existing cryptosystems for key exchange, etc., but they decided to go with their own, and since there are no other public systems that implement that specific algorithm, nobody can be sure what the agenda is.

Same reason why people don't trust certain algorithms released by NSA even though they're completely public and open source. No matter how provable an algorithm is, things are super subtle in crypto-land and you never know what might be hiding behind the scenes or what unknown vulnerability there may be.

I get your analogy about chemicals, but cryptography is its own special beast with its own inherent quirks which I described above, so I don't think the analogy fully translates to this context.
I was not aware being a customer is defined by availability of support.

You're a customer of X if you pay for goods/services from X. As customers, we're just not nearly as valuable as a big advertiser.
Neat product! I'm in awe of anyone who can make physical products. I think the kickstarter video hit a great tone. I'm a big fan of durable products replacing disposable.
Given that pantyhose are stretchy - your wife would likely be fine in one of our larger sizes, dependant on her build. I'm not 6'2", but I'm 5'10" and have found that as long as I'm buying a larger pair I'm usually fine. You just trade give horizonally, for give vertically if that makes sense. I'll also take a closer look at our size chat are see what extending the height range in the listed chart might look like.
Fire resistance is one of those complicated things. Its not necessarily true that wooden poles are a worse risk than other ones. Steel loses structural integrity under fire heat (ok.. please do not talk about jet fuel and planes...) so for some forms of fire, a wooden pole can survive.

I think most references to fire risk with electricity distribution are actually arguing for underground wiring in the longer term.
There are the good looking Bond villains and the bad looking ones.

Obama and Musk are good looking Bond villains. (The former had assassination sky robots, ICBMs, and a military. The latter has rockets, oceangoing spaceship landing pads, and huge enigmatic installations in the middle of the desert.) Putin and Trump are bad looking Bond villains.
That helped restore my faith in humanity. Also sending cars in space.
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I absolutely believe that engineers and product teams do care about their users.

That said, I also completely believe that Executives at Google are driven by what drives the majority of Google's revenue, i.e. the people that pay them the most money, their customers, advertisers.

Engineers can have the best of intentions but what Google or any company, especially a publicly listed company beholden to their shareholders, ultimately ends up doing is what ultimately benefits their shareholders as decreed by their leadership.

I'm not saying you should trust any corporation to ultimately have your best interests at heart. I'm saying you should trust what is on their balance sheets to determine what values they will hold and protect when they decide their lobbying budgets in Washington, Brussels, etc. for the year. After that, you can vote with your wallet, time, attention, or whatever asset it is you hold that a given corporation covets.

So can you say with certainty that if I pay for GSuite that Google won't mine my hosted data/metadata or other information any more or less than someone that doesn't? Does Google only track my purchases in the Play Store to keep track of what I have in fact purchased as a good storefront would, and not to store it in a larger profile they've constructed of me or just sell the info on to a broker? I pay for YouTube Red, so does Google not use any information from my YouTube profile for advertising purposes on its other properties?
I don't know why you're being downvoted. The article you cite is a legitimate example of a case where vaccines have caused harm, you're not directly advocating that people stop having vaccinations.
Thank you! Appreciate your support and glad you liked the video!
Threads still have PIDs! I have had an issue on some heavily-loaded systems where a process dies but leaves a pidfile around, then its PID is reused for a thread in another process. When i run a restart script for the process, it reads the pidfile, confirms that the PID is alive, and then kills it - so shanking some random completely unrelated process.

I have modified the script to make some more careful checks before killing a PID it finds in a pidfile. Really, we should just use a proper process manager, but that probably won't happen soon.
Honestly just charge for the services or take them offline I say. I want to pay for Facebook with money. I can’t.

I’d really like to see a complete attack - technical and legal - that goes even further than Apple’s on the current ad business model even if it means 90% of ad revenue disappears over night, and a similar fraction of “free” services do too.
Devs are constantly learning but there's a still a lot at tech jobs that you are paying people to learn once. Some of it is how to get around in legacy code bases that haven't been worth replacing yet, but even things like "this is how you file an expense report" add up in time and need to be repeated for every new hire
Makes sense - They're just worried about losing marketshare.
People pay $800+ for home entertainment systems which run no apps, for the singular purpose of playing music.

If the sound is as good as the Reddit comment said, I can see people thinking "yeah, that's worth it."
I respect that. Is there a better burrito to get than the one that comes in the $5 box, though? I might just not like refried beans as much as everyone else. I like the little breakfast burritos at McDonalds, for reference.
Who's spending $350 on an Apple speaker and has no other Apple products? How would you even get set up with Apple Music without at least an iPhone or an iPad, both of which get you into the territory of traditional entertainment center expenditures?
> It is possible, though improbable, to hit nothing but zero-crossing values if you sample at exactly twice the highest desired frequency.

Yup! You just filled in what I called a "detail"!!!
I mean who wouldn't want to be "agile". What's the opposite of agile? Lethargic?

It's double-plus good.

Although now that I think about it, there's something to be said for lethargic development. Move lazily and fix things.
Makes sense, it was a big deal to never use Huawei equipment in routing or cell equipment.
Same. I just have a nice little bluetooth speaker paired to it that I can move around my space whenever I like.
I actually thought that sounds like an elegant starting premise (on the part of Jian Wang). That is, instead of starting with the assumption that you can translate it, start with the assumption that you can't (directly) translate it (and ask, "well then what can you do?") I believe a consequence of Rice's Theorem is that the quoted statement is more or less correct. However the technique of translating it to a simpler intermediate language, and moreover factoring out data as an explicit and separate stream, changes an intractable problem into a not-quite-intractable one. I'm pretty sure I've seen a pure-theory computer science paper, recently, which applies a similar technique on a completely different problem, but I can't remember where I saw it.
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These products are about ease of use and convenience, not absolute performance. My father bought my grandmother a bookshelf audio system, and the only thing she actually uses is the TV to play music because it’s easy and familiar, though the quality is crap.
Fun fact - the reason outlets in new construction are installed upside down (ground prong on top) is that the groudn prong can stop this from happening if something falls on it:

https://i.redd.it/bm1gqw8hzppz.jpg

Of course that's an ungrounded plug so they're in trouble either way, but you get the idea.

Another option (which I've never seen in the US) is plugs where the first chunk of the line/neutral prongs are insulated:

http://www.liddellappliancetesting.co.uk/ESW/Images/insulate...
>How "clean" is the power?

I would be more concerned about the RF power going back into the USB hub.
There's a lot to what you say, but your "Only violence does anything" position seems quite vague and shifting, unarguable-against (unfalsifiable), and fortunately not borne out by the facts. I get a feeling of blood-lust masquerading as wisdom, but I think the world's not quite as bad or hopeless as you say.

A "fierce underlying movement"...you mean, without violent people in the same movement? No-one's saying "Gandhi was the full movement", whatever that would mean exactly. And sure, peaceful protests, civil disobedience and hunger strikes wouldn't have worked against the Nazis, but it worked against the British. (Although it doesn't sound like you would think that's right) You seem to be sweeping all situations into one basket. And in that basket, only violence works, peace never achieves anything. I don't think that's reality.

And I can prove it, I think: Watch the documentary on Gene Sharp, "How To Start A Revolution". I hadn't heard of him, which is pretty damning comment on the modern media (considering some of the people who are mega-famous). It seems he and his methods and writings were (in part) responsible for most of these peaceful revolutions sweeping the world in the last few decades, dozens of them. I'd be surprised if you can watch that (and read the associated literature) and not change your view. I found it super-inspiring. And without it, I might have been more convinced by your arguments. Although I think you in no way recognize Gandhi's actual importance in existing-order-subversion.
Buy American.

Buy iPhone.

Made in China*.
Three phase power is extraordinarily useful for electric motors. Mount three electromagnets radially and wire each up to a different phase, and you get a rotating magnetic field that spins on the axis. Electric generators produce three-phase power pretty naturally through the inverse process of spinning a magnet through the resistance provided by three groups of windings.
Correct, and more conventions in the US that are mostly true so don't bet your life on them:

hot has black insulation, neutral white

hot wire insulation will be smooth, neutral ribbed

hot terminal screws will be brass, neutral silver (chrome)
«Your competitors fall behind with each iteration»

I don't think so. Competitors will always try to catch up given how profitable it is to sell mining rigs. We certainly have been going through a phase over the last 2 years where Bitmain has been dominant, but today we have 3 manufacturers who have miners just as efficient as the Bitmain S9 (0.10 J/GH):

• Canaan who just released the Avalon 821 (0.11 J/GH)

• Ebang E10 (0.10 J/GH)

• Halong is promising a miner just as efficient in "2 months"
I use an Echo. I don't care a great deal about music quality. Inevitably the music being played is selected by my young children, or is background music when people are over or I'm cooking/cleaning. Convenience (I can request music by voice mid-task) and size (Echo sits in the corner out of the way) trump quality for me. I have large speakers and an amp in each of two living rooms, but they have sat there unused for years.
That sounds extremely centralized.
It's a sad state of affairs when one can't tell whether China really has backdoors on Huawei phones, or USA just wants you to use phones with their own backdoors.

Too much smoke and mirrors.
I'm not going to deep-address comments on this note, but I think some people got to the same place I did. pure speculation might have been a bad way of saying it. I think most people speculating in coins and cryptocurrency right now are not setting future value price for a use case outside that gain. They are not usefully informing the market of sentiment over real goods, or services. The banks and fintech institutions who continue to discuss blockchain based ledger models have no interest in ICO and speculative gains on coins, they are going to deploy use-tokens for a system which is definedly NOT for speculation. for instance inter-bank settlement. Or providing (etherium contract style) certainty in payment for farm-to-mill delivery of forward priced goods. (If there is a market, a CFD in inter-bank settlement rate I don't think it expresses in the SDO units used to do the settlement), The forward price thing in wheat futures, is dependent on measurement at the mill of the specific quality of the goods presented, and the farmers get 90 day or worse settlement rate, and are stuck behind ruinous loan rates. So there, use of tokens which lock in a price model and commit the contract on completion without 90 day settlement delay are really good for the farmer.

I certainly believe there is useful hedge functions in forward pricing expectations. Speculation on coins just doesn't feel like it has that dimension. Its gambling but instead of taking on "the house" its taking on somebody else.

"Gamble responsibly" is one of those "half pregnant" statements which raises a wry smile but the underlying message is "you can't"
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I find the thought of Chinese people complaining that Americans are racist to be very amusing. Doubly so if I imagine the American so accused to be black with epicanthic folds.

Did you know that a commercial once aired in China for Qiaobi detergent, where a black man is shoved into a washing machine, and when the cycle finishes, he comes out Chinese? It aired for months, and didn't get pulled until an English-language website made it go viral internationally. The US will always have its 1970s Calgon "ancient Chinese secret" advertisement, of course.
Sure, but the base is low.
Almost no one wins submitting proposals out of the blue, certainly the case with unsolicited proposals but also with responses to formal RFPs. Firing in a proposal with no agency contact, no familiarity ("customer intimacy"), no shaping, no premarketing, no office calls, no digging to understand their real pain points is even worse than a cold call because, as you noted, it is horrendously more expensive and painful to prepare a large proposal.
Is there any reason for these "intelligent" speakers to exist except novelty?
I just recently saw the SEC secretary say that ico’s are not illegal if they were to be done roughly behind closed doors, so to speak.

Meaning, don’t spam to the world your ico address and be diligent as to who you’re talking to about potential investments.

The SEC secretary wants a fine line distinction between a “private” and “public” raising of money. He’s right to point that all icos (besides filecoin) are trying to be considered as “private” while publicly share their address and don’t discern who sends in funds.

Here’s a recent SEC release:
https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/statement-clayton-...
Yeah I think that there is still some potential in the terminationGracePeriod strategy, but we found this other way that worked reliably and stopped exploring that path. If I can repro the issue I'll let you know.

One extra thing I remember that was sort of problematic was that when a pod was Terminating it'd get removed from the Endpoints, so any tooling that was using the API info to keep an eye on connections was basically unusable at that point.
Came here to say this. Do these 3-letter "agencies" still have any credibility left since they're now known to have repeatedly cheated "their people" (citizens, uhum tax payers, that to some extend keep these agencies in existence)?

Maybe Huawei devices are harder for them to "bug", and that's why they say this. I have no reason to believe they are not lying, after all the lies and cover ups that have been exposed.
People tend to believe narratives that mirror or support their beliefs.

Blame North Korea for Sony hack? Nah, no way. Blame Russia for election hacking (even though at most they bought some ads on FB and ran some twitterbots) oh yeah, those manipulative Russians.

You're free to ignore their advice, btw.
That, or instructions for controlling tongue positions and vocal chords.
That is single phase. The "hot" (or "live") wire has a nonzero voltage relative to ground, and the neutral wire is usually around the same voltage as ground (do not count on this).

The one-way plug ensures that the "hot" voltage stays in the wall when the device isn't on, so if you shove your wand into a toaster that's off you won't get electrocuted. Devices are always connected to neutral, and the switch connects them to hot.
How did you simulate the heartbeat, I am curious to look at that code or that method. Awesome job!
There's the 4D toybox by the person who's making Meigakure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t4aKJuKP0Q
Cryotpkitty is under the current existing Ethereum network. Like how you can still buy bitcoin. ICO are initial coin offerings, so it's an investment before the actual coin is released and on the market.
The HomePod is a redux of the Apple HiFi from 2006–2007.

It's a high-quality, high-priced speaker meant for the Apple music ecosystem. The first time they tried this, the Apple HiFi got great reviews for its sound quality, but failed in the marketplace.

The question is whether the HomePod will meet the same fate. It's got more functionality than the HiFi, but even less utility outside of the Apple walled garden. What's worse, they've got a fundamental mismatch between consumer perception (people think it's an Alexa / Google Home competitor) and what seems to be Apple's intent (it's an audiophile device for streaming music).

If they pivot quickly and release a small, competitively priced version that can compete directly with Amazon and Google, it could survive. But as it stands, it's a niche product for a small market that looks likely to meet the same fate as the HiFi.
No it’s just as trivial as a Pokémon card
> the voltage in those two power-carrying wires is constantly switching directions

I'm not buying this (in the USA). I've been in my breaker box. For a typical 110 volt outlet, the black (hot) wire is connected to the breaker, which is connected to one of the wires coming into the house from the street. The white (neutral) wire is connected to the same ground bracket that the bare (ground) wire is connected to.

240 volt connections (like my dryer and range) are taking a hot line from one of the lines coming into the house and another hot line from the other line coming into the house. You can see it on the bus bars in the breaker box. That's why dual breakers are used. Adjacent breakers pull for different bus bars.

*edit typo
Before Flu season. Or, I mean maybe the US does it differently but as somebody who apparently has a compromised immune system (it had cancer a long time ago, fixing that is bad for it but good for not being dead) I got my jab months ago as usual, letter in the post "come get jab" phone up, pick a time "sharp prick coming" all done.

The flu jab isn't very good, but, in most years it's better than nothing and it's pretty cheap for the government to give me a jab compared to hospitalisation if I get really sick.
I don't think that's an accurate representation of what the estimates are at the link. In particular, the linked page lists undergraduate tuition and fees at $45014/academic year, living expenses at $2100/month (x9 months, leading to $18900/academic year) totaling to $63914 combined tuition+fees+estimated living expenses.
Neutral is tied to earth ground at some point.
Can you _stop_ with asking the reader to mute/unmute/play with the tool?

It is a) patronising and b) super annoying.
Do you have a link to the class? This sounds really interesting.