skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can be fixed by adding little randomness into builtin shutter sound. Or by adding a LED that is physically connected with camera voltage supply.
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Based on trying Hyper out (a version from April), and the web-site, I can list these differeences. (I could be wrong about them, and I'm sure Hyper has other nifty features, perhaps as an extension.)

Applications under DomTerm can "print" general html including images and rich text.

Hyper does worse on xterm/vtNNN compatibility, as indicated by running the vttest program.

Hyper does not re-flow long lines on window resize.

Hyper does not remember if TAB was used in output. (I.e. cat Makefile, then copy-and-paste contains spaces, not a tab.)

Both support splitting the window into panes, but hyper doesn't seem to support re-arranging using drag-n-drop.

DomTerm can run in a browser (as an alternative to Electron), and has buitlin session support (a la tmux/screen).

DomTerm has a builtin input editor (similar to GNU readline, but with mouse/selection/clipboard integration). By default (in "auto" mode) this is selected by on the pty canon/raw state.

DomTerm keeps track of "logical" structure of the output, aided by special PROMPT escape.

DomTerm lets you right-click on an FILENAME:LINE:COLUMN in an error message, and can open your preferred editor.

Hyper has an extension mechanism, which DomTerm does not (yet) have.
Curious if there are any benchmarks against Fasttext, Elmo, etc..
--noImplicitAny isn't quite equivalent though. What type inference provides is the ability to define the type of something somewhere and propagate that contract throughout a complex system such as a DI container.

The playground examples are just an oversimplication to illustrate the core difference between TS and Flow, but the screenshot gives a better idea of how it actually plays out in practice. In our case, we tie the type to the DI token and a plugin receives something that is guaranteed to be of that type.

This means someone migrating doesn't need to explicitly add types to their code, but can still get better gradual type coverage than `any` or the break-the-world `--noImplicitAny` flag.
> You'd have to use a 6" nail to manage to hit a wire or pipe behind the wall

Nope. There's a type of wire called "Stegleitung", essentially a flat cable. Often enough it's simply nailed into the wall, then a thin coat of mortar is applied on the wall, and then paint.

Source: zapped myself once by hitting such a cable.

In addition, the usual injury liability is a problem.
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I just missed the dawn of smartphones, so my boredom remedy all throughout school was tossing a cheap paperback in my backpack. It was downright comical to get yelled at for pulling out a book and reading when you'd finished your work early though.
Yep, absolutely true. No free lunch.
What is the best way to learn SQL for job interviews?
I'm fresh out of college and need to learn SQL, what's the best way to learn it?
There is no Nobel Prize in Economics.
Also tells you where the rain is.
Then why flying business class if you care about that sort of cost? I've heard horror stories about economy class in USA, but I've flown 9h flights European-level economy and that's quite bearable (though not so pleasant) experience.
Forgive my ignorance in advance; is there any viability to a system that pumps water uphill to a storage tank then it flows downhill later to let the current run a generator?
UBI frightens me (in a dystopian underclass kinda way) but I can't agree more about universal healthcare.

Living life knowing you can at any time be bankrupted and homeless from an injury or disease in your household is not the kind of "freedom" we should value.
Inflation happens anyway. Unless wages rise faster than inflation, you can't really argue they drive it.
It's hard, these apps are built by a huge amount of people to maximize attention hogging and addiction. Fighting addiction without going cold turkey is nearly impossible. Awareness usually doesn't help.
Further more, it is hard teaching people to think critically while their faces are stuck to their phone.
The issues are orthogonal.
Fuel economy standards kill people, Trump administration claims
Big difference between these things and no process at all.
Ok, here's he full story: We have a product (https://www.xltrail.com) that makes git diff and all that work with Excel workbooks. So you get a lot more out of it than dropbox/drive/sharepoint etc as you get to inspect content changes.

90% of our clients/prospects are in financial services (heavy workbooks with VBA, think applications, not spreadsheets) but today I spoke to a prospect from a different industry which made me think that there might be people outside banks, hedge funds going down the same path.
>It's a 21% price increase, assuming the buyer would have been fully eligible for the credit.

True, but not until 2020. In H1 2019 there is still a credit of $3750, and in H2 2019, there's a credit of $1875, so it doesn't fall off a cliff.
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Tesla PowerWall is only an Apple-level premium (and not a Vertu-level premium) for what it is. I would probably just go with 1-4 of those for residential unless getting something more capable. I don’t own a house yet, though.

My ideal situation would be a microgrid with 10-20 homes (in a compound/neighborhood or condo building) and some commercial/office, which pushes all the electronics costs down to something more reasonable.
Almost 70% of Millennials Regret Buying Their Homes
Physicists’ simple spanks economists’ complex in economic growth forecasts
> Boredom is a fact of life, and learning to accept it without forcing yourself to depend on a smartphone is an underrated skill.

There is a whole book on that topic:

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06VTZYPTF
Hello there :) You are absolutely right. Thank you for your suggestion, I will be updating the landing page soon with a video showing how it will be changing day by day with the normal usage for a team.
And my point is that it's not just about experience-years, it's also about the breadth of knowledge. When driving, humans do not use just the experience acquired from looking at things from behind the wheel. They also use their general understanding of physics, of materials, of concepts related to visibility, traction, not to mention expected behaviour of other people and how to read face expressions.
The exception that proves the rule.
Ya it's all exactly this. The rationale for all these things seemed somewhat sane, but in practice they ended up being irrational when applied in the extreme. It's totally CYA stuff that's typical in public/government settings.

RE the wall they also said that nails and tape were also damaging to the paint (and repainting the walls was another union's thing), so the wall-hanging guy would have to log the "damage" to the wall caused by the hung item, presumably for cost/accounting purposes when it came time to repaint the wall.
When I was a student I didn't care about the ban in class - seemed reasonable to me and generally fair.

The rules that bothered me were the ones I thought were unfair or didn't make sense - not being able to use the phone in the hallway or between classes to call a parent/organize something later in the day. We had teachers that would grab it out of your hand and take it from you.

Our school also had an 'upstairway' and a 'downstairway' though where you'd get yelled out for going down the upstair way and have to lap the building to get to the downstairway though so they weren't really about reason.
GPL requires you to supply sources together with binaries. Is he distributing binaries to anyone?
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Thanks!

And wow. Even more simple than mine!
Just finishing reading "Why We Sleep" and it talks about a lack of sufficient sleep being chronically linked with dementia. Alcohol is a major inhibitor of REM sleep, so if you go to sleep intoxicated, you may be technically asleep but you loose a lot of its benefits. So, I wonder if it's the alcohol -> limits effects of sleep -> induces dementia.
ah, gratuitous obscenity. the sign of someone that really knows what they're doing, from whom we should take advice.

it's still worth reading, not for what it says but what is between the lines. "how not to do sprints". admittedly this isn't (must not be, i guess) common, but at my current $JOB we do dedicate entire sprints to tech debt. remote people phone into our sprints and are well included. it actually HELPS remote contact as there is at minimum a daily interaction with the entire team. (@tapvt had a similar comment.) his comments about changing the course on a daily basis is another example of likely abuse of sprints.
As for how they’ll get the chips into existing Teslas, Elon says: “We made it easy to switch out the computer, and that’s all that needs to be done. You take out one computer, and plug in the next. All the connectors are compatible.”

I'll believe it when they successfully install it to the previous gen car. More often than not it turns out that some other hardware is incompatible with software improvements or has bugs and full system is not functional anyway without full upgrade.
I'm a fan of naked-feeling 2000s sites.

https://patrickcollison.com/

https://tomual.com/

http://halvor.work/
Jon Hopkins university is conducting research on psychedelic. There is a whole universe of medical applications from what I saw but they need more funding to safely prove those.
Isn't the East Cut referring the old name for the area (Second Street Cut) when it was the location of all the mansions before the cable cars enabled them to move to Russian Hill?
I'm not thinking about screwups, I'm thinking about reckless behaviour and endangering people. For example, treating speed limits as suggestions instead of hard constraints, overtaking in places where it's not allowed.
This needs a NSFW label.
you're basically describing a gravity battery

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_battery
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That was not overreach. At the time, laws limited how much wheat a farmer could grow so as to maintain the national price of wheat. (Wheat hasn't been a purely local product in more than a century.) The farmer in the case grew more than his allotment. He sold the allowed amount but then used the excess to feed his own cows, rather than buying it from the market (or taking it out of his original allotment). If allowed, at scale this would render the crop controls meaningless and would have destroyed the price of wheat during a time of war, driving thousands of farmers into destitution and eliminating a potential resource needed for the war effort.
There is no Nobel Prize in Economics. There's only the "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences" which was established in 1968 by a donation from Sweden's central bank.
I disagree with "no practical difference" (since I demonstrated one), and layered approaches to security are usually encouraged, not dismissed as "bad engineering".

Regardless, I will keep this 2FA difference in mind going forward, since it is interesting to me; of course, you (and others) are free to ignore my thoughts if you so choose.
Async standups do well only if the engineers have the discipline to actually go through them. My past experiences have shown a couple devs paid attention to the standups to look for issues and everyone else just typed their own up without looking at what other people wrote.
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Inflation provides an incentive to not hoard cash. As long as it's under control, it's not a bad thing.
XMLTerm was an inspiration to me, and you can think of DomTerm as my attempt to combine the ideas of XMLTerm (graphics, logical structure of output, smart interaction) with a solid xterm-compatible terminal emulator. The most important difference is that XMLTerm is long dead! (However, XMLTerm's author more recently wrote GraphTerm as a more modern take on XMLTerm - however, that too is unmaintained.)
Kindly help me understand my error.

Is there anywhere where (1) prices aren't fixed (2) one party decides which healthcare services to receive (3) a different party pays the bills and (4) cost is significantly less than in the US?
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In Australia all work carried out by an electrician is required to be certified. That is to say, the electrician must, on completion of the work, hand you a certificate stating that all work is to the relevant standard. They can't reasonably withhold the certificate, and it must be provided on completion not on payment.

An organisation called TechSafe[1] is charged with carrying out random inspections.

1. https://www.techsafe.com.au/
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Inverters have to be replaced as well.
> In weak teams,

Agile is largely about managing weaker teams.
Rust could emit LLVM range metadata for ranged integers. IIRC, it already does so for enum discriminants.
I can totally see an argument for that if you need gradual type coverage, which I guess is needed on large code bases. I have only worked on smallish ones of a few thousand lines of code, and it took maybe an hour to type everything, although most of it was really fun and exciting :) but in cases where that's not realistic, I could see using Flow to help transition.
We made it easy to switch out the computer, and that’s all that needs to be done. You take out one computer, and plug in the next.

Will existing Tesla owners be able to swap the computer? Or is the swap happening only inside the factory, to the next generation of the Teslas they're building?

This may be one way in which Tesla's approach differs from Apple's.
For instance, a four-year public college in 1977 cost $8,000 vs. $20,000 today, while median incomes have stayed flat at $34,000 over the same time period. Median debt has risen from $10,000 to $33,000, while the percent of those 30-year-olds who own homes has dropped from 48 percent to 39 percent since 1977.

So many questions. At least there was no mention of Oregon Trail!

* Comparing distributions of income would be useful.

* The lower rate of home ownership could indicate increased time-preference. I’m curious to know the categories of debt in both time periods.

* The article shows the increase in state-school tuition but not private. Are millenials who attended college more or less likely to have attended State U?
Its mean but its like they had one job... If it doesn't work start over and make it work.
The issue of unaffordability of universities if loans were drastically reduced would be a painful transition, but only a transition. Universities are unsustainable from a customer perspective as they are, and something needs to give.

A 4-year degree should also not be as widely required as it currently is, which is something else that needs to correct, which would happen with a collapse of graduates.

But as mentioned upthread, if we simply keep things as they are and throw good money after bad, people are going to have to be in school until they're 30 in order to meet the minimum requirements for mediocre jobs. Better to have some tough times to weather, given that you can always enroll later in life after things have settled, assuming it's something around a 5-year correction.
I don't know; it's not really surprising that a polymer has a name reflective of the metalloid that is the key element along with oxygen in its backbone chain.
>But then standards were lowered

Standards have never been higher. Students face pressure from college admissions and teachers face pressure from national standards bodies. Policies that have enriched standardized testing companies.

The real issue: Labor power has never been lower. Wages have been stagnant for the past two decades. You need a college degree now because safe middle class lifestyles that were previously available to graduates of high school are now limited to those with certain bachelors degrees.

Whether this is due to political collusion with capital, increased automation, globalized labor or a combination of the three is up for debate. The middle class you're imagining was fueled by an economic engine tooling up to rebuild Europe and a political climate that taxed the rich at 80-90%.
Unfortunately this is likely correct. The race to the bottom with credentialism will continue until we break the game. The answer isn't more credentials (free college, etc), but to make credentials worthless as a social signal. Educational backgrounds should be made a protected class, much like race or religion is. Then employers will have to rely on examinations or merit (see: Bar exam for attornies), rather than pedigrees. If you can't judge or ask about your college degree or lack, the job market becomes a vastly more level place.
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I like to think that between AAPL dividends and Apple hardware resale value (not even counting the value of the stock I’m holding on to) my spending on iPhones and MacBooks and Apple Watches has all been free.

Also, I sometimes I buy put options before a big product reveal in advance of the frequent stock price drop when all the analysts say “Is that what all the hype was about? That’ll never sell!”. Of course the stock prices pops back up again after Apple can’t keep up with demand.
Ok just tell me which coin is that and where do I buy it :)
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I wish there was a way to compare Google searches of today with Google searches of years ago, I feel like they've been declining in quality and relevance even as I'm sure they've improved their algorithms and even with me letting them know more about me via remaining signed in when I search. Using the "date range" tool to set a maximum date on search results (in this case I just randomly picked "2006", which Google interprets as the end of that year) I get two CLOS results as the first two items and a third one a bit further down, so that method helps me sometimes, but it's not the exact comparison I want...
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As a relatively healthy someone who has experienced both universal and US healthcare (Kaiser) I can tell you that KP is far superior to any experience I've had in Canada.

So whilst Canada has a far better "average" I would say that for proactively healthy people the US system appears to be superior. The main issue in the Canadian system is that even if you can pay cash for something you cannot have it done and must join the long universal wait list. This includes simple things like finding a GP, getting standard lab work...

This was the first hit on google that agrees with me: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wa...
And commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics.
I am on the opposite side, Given Gitlab is a Ruby house I was secretly hoping some innovation coming from Ruby Data Science.
ah, no wonder they are completely unresponsive to pre-sales inquiries. they have been busy getting acquired.

good on them, since their product is largely uncompetitive today. (they had their moment but it has passed)
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Please don't take HN threads into pointless flamewars, like the below, regardless of how wrong some other comment is.
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No, your story clearly is not.

That's one, singular, not "admins", plural. And xe blocked you. Xe did not ban you. An "experienced editor" knows the difference. ("Bans are different from blocks" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Banning_policy)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Adminis...

All of the mistreatment that you allude to ("actively canvassed on another board", which was in fact the BLP noticeboard) was not by that administrator, and not by anyone who was an administrator. Indeed, one of the people who was a Wikipedia administrator opined somewhat differently.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Letsbef...

The story of chris_wot versus the Wikipedia administrators doesn't stand up upon investigation.
> Our school also had an 'upstairway' and a 'downstairway' though where you'd get yelled out for going down the upstair way and have to lap the building to get to the downstairway though so they weren't really about reason.

It may seem like no reason to you, but I've witnessed a much higher flow of people when the direction is set and nobody goes "against the current".

This is one mistake I made the first time I went to Japan: I was going "against the current" at the train station and clueless me was wondering why it was taking so much effort for me to make progress...

Even entrances to some public bathrooms now have a divider that splits people entering from people exiting (you can see this at airports sometimes).
First of all, your post shows that you think that education or going through a school is a social signal rather than an educational experience. I disagree with this.

Secondly, you seem to imply that no improvement in the education level has happened because of the normalization of high-school education. I disagree with this also. I have no numbers to back this up, but by looking at the world around us, at all the inventions and the added complexity and our increasing ability to handle complex systems, I think we have become smarter.

Thirdly, maybe social mobility was hijacked by some rhetoric or became a symbol for this or that group. But at its core, social mobility means allowing people to rise to their potential and not stifling them. How can we be "sacrificing our schools on the alter of social mobility" when social mobility is supposed to be _more_ meritocratic, not less?
> you know why Spotify's engineering team does well?

> Stripe's? Netflix's? Because they have money

No. Some places have too much money, others enough and then there are those that may have to shut down in half a year. Seen them all, and "engineering aptitude" is completely independent of that.
Could you please elaborate? I don't feel like "like this" and "thoughtfully" are constructive pieces of feedback for comments.
Exactly — this.

There is a major difference between what Microsoft was doing back in 90s and what Apple is doing today.
Has anyone ever tried requiring an application fee to help with the bombardment issue?