skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha! Good one ;)

Yes, it’s meant to say something like us unlicensed folk aren’t permitted to hardwire anything to the mains supply.

In Australia you’re not even supposed to replace an existing power point outlet thingo unlicensed. If course, the hardware stores sell them, and we do. But there ya go.
It's more ergonomic and an Unix UI feature, that has been there a long time.
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The pricing is way too high. The price should be compared to a car sharing program, not with a taxi service.

The trip to school for my kid would cost, when using a car from a car sharing program around 4€. This is quite a difference to the mentioned $19. Even DriveNow, which is maybe the most expensive car sharing service in Germany, we are talking about maybe 9€.
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>> They are putting so much effort into AutoML because it just works.

It just works, provided your dataset can be solved well enough given AutoML's pretrained model. Which is not at all guaranteed.
Redundancy and fail-safes are important but can also be inexpensive. Most of the expense comes from being a niche product right now.

How is being off by 1% going to hurt anything? I'm quite sure my mains voltage is already more than 1% off.

If I get solar it had better not explode every time my air conditioner kicks on.
Yes, it’s also the predominant view of the inexperienced, incels, sex-shaming dogmatics or losers whom don’t want others getting any either. If the “logic” of forbidding prostitution held, consenting adults exchanging money happening to involve a camera wouldn’t be allowed either. Prohibition never works. Ensure the safety of sex workers, not by driving them to require pimps and street-walking as FOSTA does. Most of the world came to this inevitable conclusion and decriminalized it. It’s about damn time magical-thinking snobs don’t get to have a say about how other people live their lives or make a living, because there’s no protecting of human-trafficking victims involved, in-fact, it put them in greater danger and further in the shadows. Government and religion should stay in their lanes. If they want to find human-traffickers, go ahead, without threatening whole industries or people’s livelihoods.
Win95 and Win2k where in my opinion the high water mark of Windows UI, everything since has mostly been different or worse.

Though with touchscreens I can see why that pattern would have dated badly.

That said, 16 year old me would have zero issues with using Cinnamon how I have it setup 22 years later.

Well after he stopped pointing at the screen in amazement and trying to get his head around a laptop with 4x2.8GHz cores and 8 threads.

Hell he’d even recognise a thinkpad in 2018 mostly because 16yo me really wanted one.
But, apart form installation costs, a low voltage DC power network inside homes might make sense (e.g. 12V or 24V). There's a lot of modern electronics that doesn't depend on the regular powerline voltage anymore. Unifying their power supplies into a central unit should have some benefits.
If so, does this contradict the original statement? Just because one group is acting overzealous, it does not imply, that the premise is false.
Thanks, good to know how much time I need to apportion.

I'm trying to find a way that I can fit it around work/family schedules and not let my concentration go too stale. I'm thinking of trying for an hour a day, but that feels so prescriptive...
It makes sound only when start recording. Small cams are actually regulated by the government (you need to get a permission to buy one) but of course there are black markets.
Last time I was hanging out in the xubuntu dev irc channel I think there was some chat about how they were short on x86 hardware to test on. Emulation is useful but isn't enough, if you need x86 consider running tests or donating hardware.
"Inauthentic behavior" is not intrinsically offensive by itself and could mean almost anything or nothing at all.

"Disinformation campaigns to induce people to vote against their own interests", that's more precise, much better. What? Are we trying to conserve words here?
Ask HN: Why 2nd factor entries are not treaded as a password?
I mean, why when you type them, the form is configured to be clear text?
To be fair I recently upgraded an old PHP install from 5.5 to 7.2 and it sped up the site tremendously. My workflow while troubleshooting is now always going to involve upgrading software.
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We don't allow everyone firearms in Scandinavian countries. We're quite strict, actually.

Finland has a very high number of (hunting) weapons. It is significantly harder to get a pistol or a semi-automatic weapon.

Switzerland, I think, allows semi-automatic firearms for almost everybody, and has more liberal gun laws in general.
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I don't think I've reached the limit of how many files Nuclide/Watchman can handle, everything is perfectly smooth with very large codebases.

However, things don't work as well with an NFS share and I think you get an explicit warning when you try to do it.
> Affecting history doesn't make it a "historic process" in the sense we are talking about where people have no choice but to follow along. History isn't something like gravity, it's us recording descriptions of what happened (volcano erupting) and what people did (politics).

Well, no. "History" is both an academic discipline (humans narrating what happens), and the process of events itself. That process involves a lot of non-human factors, which are deterministic. And human action itself is arguably also deterministic, especially in democracy, because the masses can most certainly be manipulated, and respond quasi-mechanically to mass stimuli.

> Which is an action on their behalf, not some kind of magic force. If people in turn ignored such politicians, many politicians would struggle to find even basic constructive work, and none would enjoy power over others.

But they know people won't take action against them. Why? Because their attention-span, taken as a crowd, is too short. They respond to immediate stimuli, not longer-term phenomena, and to emotion, not reflection. Democracy takes place on Twitter, not in the reading room of the British Museum.

> Nations, corporations, and history don't do shit. People do, and then we cluster and group and view it in abstract ways that are easier to handle, and sometimes useful, but putting the cart before the horse is overdoing it.

Sorry, not buying it. All the classical political theorists agree on this one point, that once you establish democracy, you're catering to the lowest common denominator, and that mass of people is very easy to direct with the right tools (mass education, mass media, mass incarceration,...).

> Hitler was a very crazy, very driven person taken over some fourth rate right-wing... club. It's not like history would have created someone similar if Hitler had broken his neck on the way to the first meeting.

Wrong. Historians agree that Germany got a very raw deal at the Treaty of Versailles, which led inexorably to the Weimar Republic, and therefore a European war of some kind was on the cards from day one. If it hadn't been, France would not have spent two decades building up the Maginot Line. It's Hitler's very mediocrity that best illustrates the strength of the historical forces pushing him along.
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Thats almost unusual.
> I was speaking of testing broadly to include manual QA and running benchmarks. A continuous benchmark will give a graph of the system's performance for certain actions. It's typically not pass/fail, but if the developers notice a regression they can investigate. These slowdowns just aren't correctness bugs as commonly understood and many places don't notice performance issues until after the code goes live and it's noticed via monitoring. (Benchmarks are tricky to write, tricky to run consistently, don't generalize, and miss a lot of things, but nonetheless measure things that static analysis doesn't even try to do.)

Well we've got to compare similar levels of effort. I think most "normal" teams would find it easier to adopt a more detailed type system than to set up a continuous benchmark and use it effectively. I could be wrong.

> "Vast majority": I guess this depends on what you put in the denominator? I can certainly believe that Agda programmers don't see performance issues. But I'll confess ignorance: is this used for anything other than doing math?

> I'm thinking more along the lines of: if a more mainstream language had totality checking, what bugs would this actually find in the code that runs in data centers? Plenty, I'm sure. But I can think of lots of things it wouldn't. It's one method of bug-finding among many.

I don't know so much about Agda specifically. I agree with thinking about mainstream code that runs in data centers. My thought process was: of the code-runs-too-long bugs I've seen in my career, how many of those could have happened if I'd been working in Idris with totality checking on? I can only think of one (which was due to regex catastrophic backtracking), and I can think of several that would have been caught (the case where the test used the wrong overload of the function being the most production-impactey one).

My experience is that while other methods of finding bugs do exist, the cost/benefit for type systems is just so much better than anything else that I wouldn't even think about using any other technique until I'd tried type systems first.
For wheat, sure. Soy less sure, gluten and milk only on consumption.
If you want a quick at a glance visualization a bar chart of your calories per dollar amount would help users directly compare two items.
Only because the whole process is a lot of hassle and work for everyone involved, so it can be used with a primary purpose of chicanery rather than actually getting your legitimate claim.

If a lawsuit could be resolved quickly and fairly with little effort on both sides, I'm sure the limit for when it would be worth it would drop. I'd consider that a feature, not a bug.
In the SpaceX and even the whole aerospace community this is basically assumed because of years and years of her interactions and conduct.

Generally the theme is, if she says it the likely hood of something happening goes up 300%.

That said, I don't necessary think that you can assume a direct causation of the difference between SpaceX and Tesla based on her alone.
It is definitely challenging and I'm not sure it is appropriate for beginners unless they are geniuses. But the challenging part is not learning Scheme (which is even simpler than Python if not quite as nice to read), the challenge is it works through a lot of computational topics (implementing an interpreter, lazy evaluation, an object system, a logic language, etc.) in a quite compact format.
Haha thank you!..
Clearly there’s still demand. Maybe there’s a need for something better.
If you've not managed to recover a sufficient wage for your work in 1972 from 46 years of publicly enforced monopoly then I think the public should have a right to cease offering you that monopoly. If you have, then why do you need this protection?

20 years at most IMO, anything longer damages cultural progress.

Copyright is nothing like a natural right, so it's not really the EFF's place to make a convincing argument against it, more the proponents should be convincing the public to extend this favour.
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I use the online web client for Skype and Google Meet. I want to capture my tab audio and mic audio. If possible tab video/desktop video too.
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Thanks for sharing! Kaggle is a treasure!
I'm not sure if Disney doesn't own some record labels with old recordings (music from Oz etc)

But yeah this has nothing to do with Steamboat Willie expiring
Lubuntu 18.04 has/had a blank/corrupted display issue with Virtualbox, if you run into it try enabling 3d acceleration:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Lubuntu/comments/8g7t8u/lubuntu_18_...
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I tend to turn on subtitles when they're available, because I wouldn't understand all the speech in a film, unless the film only features middle-class characters speaking standard British English, which, to be honest, might make a rather boring film... Even a British film needs some Glaswegian psychos...

It's interesting to see how much the subtitles diverge from what's spoken. Sometimes you can see they've apparently just simplified it a bit, not losing anything important, but sometimes the differences seem gratuitous, or somewhat creative. Do the subtitles come from the original script, perhaps, while the lines were adapted by the actors on set without anyone updating the (tran)script?
Well he suggest himself it is due to annoyed students. Since apparently the book is not used as much in introductory classes anymore, less people are forced to read it before they are ready.
To answer my own question: it seems it is based on donations.
Was that sarcasm?
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Or not. This is the essential process that any place name goes through (really any name), someone starts using it and then others adopt it.

Whether the first someone is an official isn't that important.
Any other API you are aware of ?
Can you please point me to your research/rationale on why you think it's for the second rate?
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If I were to go with C I would have to reimplement OOP machinery required for an object system. OOP also makes memory management a non issue. Functions are first class citizens in Lisp so functors/lambdas makes it real easy to create closures. std::atomic combined with Clojure semantics makes sure there no race conditions. std::thread / std::future makes multi threaded programming much easier. Templates help with picking and choosing which components to include (i.e there are multiple memory managers to pick from.). etc. etc. Non of the above is essential and can be done in C but why bother, GCC/LLVM people are much better at this then I can be including platform specific tricks for different architectures. Modern C++ is very close to Lisp after all it only takes 6 passes over the Clojure code to generate C++ code. (Compiler makes more than 6 passes but others are for optimization.)
I meant more on how that is relevant to free speech. The case you cited seems to be about cannabis.
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The official documentation is here: https://nuclide.io/docs/features/remote/

One of the steps is to install Watchman. If your remote server is on Linux, make sure to read that part of the docs: http://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install.html#linux-i... (In my case I just set the three settings to 999999)

Finally, you may need to create a .watchmanconfig file at the root of the folder you're working on.
In my country, it's required by law for every employee to have a certificate even for plugging in a toaster. The training is easy though and serves mostly to prevent injuries.
Huh? Is the pronunciation given at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sequoia#English incorrect? It's exactly what I'd expect of a word spelled "sequoia", and I'm frequently baffled by the inconsistencies in pronunciation that plague English otherwise ("ough").

Although vowel centering makes it difficult to distinguish the pronunciation from that of a hypothetical "siquoye" or similar, a quick look at the list of translations indicates that most languages use equivalent vowels, unless they have an etymologically completely unrelated word.

As far as names go, that one seems to be of the easier kind.
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Your mains voltage cannot be 1% off it's own phase since it's the primary phase here and in terms of voltage a 1% difference doesn't matter.

However, if you have your own generator it matters a lot.

If your phase is off by 1 degree then that 1 degree will burn roughly .2% of the incoming power of the grid at the inverter (which is unlikely designed to handle this). If you're off by 1% you burn 20 Watts on a device not designed for it.

If your voltage is off relative to the grid by 1% then you burn the difference, at 2kW that's about 20 Watts. And that's per volt. You'd be burning somewhere around 300 W if you happen to have the grid on the higher end of the tolerance and yours on the lower.

A grid-tie inverter gets around this by simply following along the sine wave of the grid, this can be done relatively cheaply and safely with analog components so the error can be much smaller than 1% and deep into random noise territory.

If you generate your own sine wave and compare it to an existing one it's much more difficult since you have to match amplitude and phase almost perfectly.

So with grid-tie nothing will explode. With an autotransfer nothing explodes either. Wanting to seamlessly couple back in requires a lot of care and expensive components.
Zoom (comes with automatic text transcriptions).
See this Quora question by a research engineer at Google Brain:

https://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-learning-algorithms-are-u...

It doesn't look like they are using a classifier to do object recognition, although I confess I've never heard of the "sequential composition of cost funnels" the post is describing, neither do I claim to have understood it at any depth just from that post.

In any case, it does look like most of their AI (if you would even call it that) is hand-crafted. I understand that this is the done thing in robotics, in general.

Note also the various announcements by prominent deep learning groups, like DeepMind and OpenAI, about teaching robots, or robot hands, to manipulate various objects of limited shapes and forms. If deep learning and deep reinforcement learning was particularly successful in training robots to interact with real-world environments, you can bet you'd see a lot more announcements advertising this, with titles like "We taught a robot to peel potatoes using deep learning" etc.

It would be interesting to see if other machine learning techniques are often used with robotics. I am aware of one paper [1] that uses Inductive Logic Programming for robot vision, but robotics is really not my field so I'm probably missing lots of other work.

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[1] Meta-Interpretive Learning from noisy images

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~shm/Papers/logvismlj.pdf

Full disclosure: one of the authors is my PhD advisor
I'm no electronics engineer, but don't regular home UPS units already do all of this? I'm talking about the type of units sold by computer and office supply shops to provide backup power for home / SOHO IT devices.
I am surprised to know they exist. As an occasional visitor to the US 15-20 years ago, I used to be enamoured of this catalog and would often read it end to end (and a similar one present on some flights - though, I can't recollect which one). I used to wish I could buy some of the cool stuff in there. Some were fantastically drool-worthy; at least as I remember the then me feeling.
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NTFS was NT 3.1 -- in 1993.

Win 3.1 (1992) used only FAT.
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I am interested in this opening.
And we would need 730 of such factories to provide all of 73 million annually produced cars with a 200kWh battery.
EOS raised $4B but booked everything as non-dilutive revenue
I'm not really sure. But the ever-expanding scope of the commerce clause is presumably what he refers to as weaponization.
I'm developing. It's useful whenever I need to work on a machine with a specific environment and/or more bulky hardware than what's available on my laptop.
Always remember this when reading a psychology paper:

http://www.iflscience.com/brain/most-psychology-papers-cant-...
I think you are only half right. I don't know him, but from his online writings, he seems to be a guy who does have a clue, has been around, and has some good insights. But you are correct that he is hero-worshiped more than such things normally deserve. Like everyone else, he is a person whose reputation online might not be in sync with who he is on a personal level. But that is the nature of the internet, and not a reason to lash out at him personally.
This is a short page urging you to contact your senator, their full argument is linked to on the page. I doubt it will change your opinion though, as your opposition seems to be based on the idea they're hiding something from you.
My proposal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17463018
That recipe may only work with a specific target audience. I know a few grown-ups who are highly allergic to whining. With them, you'll achieve the opposite effect.
Because they’re single-use, thus it doesn’t matter if someone looking over your shoulder sees them being typed in.
If you're using PayPal, they support proprietary one time key and SMS, a guy came up with a method to use any 2FA app with paypal: https://medium.com/@dubistkomisch/set-up-2fa-two-factor-auth...

Just tried it myself, it works.
Please explain how using this API is "[using] a VPN profile or root certificate."
Meh. Apple is known to milk every possible penny from its customers and companies that develop open their platform as well.

I know this doesn't help, but: this is what you get if you decide to depend on Apple.
Some here are old enough to remember "emacs: eight megabytes and constantly swapping", back when a stick of RAM could have been 8 Megabytes...
>>The point of Python was to create a language which was simple, readable and maintainable, easy to learn for beginners, but not limiting.

Adding limits to programmer thinking and creativity is the fundamental design principles of Python.

>>It was the first mainstream language (I believe) where the design was informed by actual usability testing rather then just subjective opinions.

That's actually BASIC.

Python and BASIC come from the same Philosophy.

This is what Edsger W.Djikstra has to say about Basic:

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
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