skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not your parent poster, but for me the external variable light is mostly a nuisance. It can be too bright and cause glare, or it's not enough and I need artificial lighting anyway. So I just blot it out, I work from home and I do the same across my entire home, blinds block external light and I use artificial light all day.

Sunlight is nice if I'm going to be outside admiring nature, but it's crap for reading, playing video games, any number of activities I want to do at home.

The cheap place I'll be staying on vacation in a couple of weeks offered a "free upgrade" to a room with a window and I was like "I don't understand - what would I in theory see out of this window?" because it's in a city centre, and obviously as a tourist I shall go out and look at museums and galleries and stuff, I shan't be sat there all day looking out the window, so it seems pointless. The other person I'm going with likes windows, so they'd already paid a little bit extra to have a window anyway. Crazy.
I would like that, my previous assignment was in a very old (>50 years) office building with broken HVAC, temperatures were always at least 25 degrees (C), also in winter. And of course those at the windows would leave them closed to avoid the draft, so us scrubs at the far end would have nothing.
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To make my writing tighter I sometimes take liberties by assuming that my audience can connect a thought (or observe a pun) without me needing to delve into the details.

So when I wrote "In the long run" I thought I could rely on HN readers to connect the idea that electric cars will fully replace fossil fuel ones and that self-driving will be ubiquitous.
Ahh thanks! I forgot about that. I'm guessing I didn't think about it because I'm used to the following pattern ,which is actually useful from time to time in my projects. And typically it happens in an object/class:

this[expr ? 'method1' : 'method2'](args)

So I have to add "this" as the methods are not global. Now if I overlooked something again I'm definitely getting rusty :)
Their desktop counterparts will more likely than not be the exact same shoddily thrown together heap of disjointed third party bloat, for the occasion bundled with the affront to professional developer pride and integrity known as 'Electron'.
That's the point of self-medicating with it. Sure, it won't cure anything, but if you don't have access to the cures (shelter, steady food, medical care), masking is the next best thing.

And that is the entire point. Not having access to the things "normal" society does makes things different.
How do we know that people who lived 10,000 years ago were happier and healthier than we are? That was pre-history.
You are right. As proof there's the game of chess.
I don't think people choose to be psychopaths, they just are.
> They exist

Not so sure they do. I came here to see if that was the case.

If they exist they are very expensive! Here's an example that cost $$$$ and I'm still not sure of the quality. http://www.coelux.com/

This has been a know problem for decades (longer?) the elusive light bulbs that create real light. Billion $ invention if you can solve it.
If used by researchers, for research. Not sitting in vaults of private companies, doing God knows what. I don't even know what they need that data for.

Sure, now that's there, it could be useful. But why can't we ever go about collecting such data the right way? Opt-in, and for the right purpose?
They all feed into the National ANPR Data Centre:

www.npcc.police.uk/FreedomofInformation/ANPR.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recogni...
That sounds like an awesome idea. I think I know what one of my first ever embedded projects might be...

One of the first things that comes to mind with such a system is security. After thinking about this for a few minutes I think the best general-purpose safe solution would be a button and a switch that requires the button to be pressed whenever a new TCP connection is accepted if the switch is "on", the idea being that you switch security off for repeated reconnects and back on once the device is shoved somewhere inaccessible.

The ESP8266 apparently offers TLS 1.2, and that would probably be the best production solution, but I mention the above as a dead-simple fallback that requires very little program memory, would be simple enough to implement in an hour even if you have absolutely no idea what you were doing, and involves buttons and switches :P
Have they also taken away your stapler?
With the amount of actual non "Original" content disappearing from streaming services, I've ramped up my BluRay plan to 3 Discs out at a time. It's the only way to watch 99% of movies anymore. This bullshit throttling makes an already poor streaming audio / video quality experience even worse.
I would look into graded readers.

Related : Do 20 pages of a book give you 90% of its words?

Link: https://blog.vocapouch.com/do-20-pages-of-a-book-gives-you-9...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673229
And the point is that troff is actually an excellent tool with very beautiful typesetting. The fact that Knuth didn't consider it good enough says a lot about him and his ambitious level of exigence.
On a long enough timeline, only human high-tech civilization will save the species of our planet.
We're going over the cliff, it looks like.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/04/19/half-of-t...

The planet is not taking kindly to our waste, pollution, poisons, and rampant destruction. We're knocking out the base of the foodchain that supports us.

Sadhguru put it well:

"One half of your breathing apparatus is hanging out there! If you experience this, do I have to tell you, don't cut the tree?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qnmaD6Kl1g
Animations being badly/over used aside, this is a bit of a straw man argument.

If you load megabytes of JS to do animations, as opposed to using CSS, then yes you are just doing it wrong.

Things aren't either exactly right and done one way, or else terrible. You can of course have bells and whistles like animations if your usecase requires them (HN doesn't!) and still have a fast loading site with clean code, if you do it right.
This reflects the sad state of modern journalism. It costs nothing to link to the original study, which is online somewhere, in some format.

Nothing, that is, besides lost advert views and potential clicks.
Sure. Go and have a look at GSM and friends. I’d say the cellular network in general is routinely being manipulated. The protocols and standards for over-the-air are demonstrably insecure and assuming the actual hardware is also insecure is reasonable as well.
It's not a bad idea if done the right way. Like, I am informed beforehand that this device is collecting all those data for use in medical research by those particular parties, and here is where I can follow this research.

Because otherwise, that data has no business leaving my personal watch<->phone network.
This is awesome and will save me a lot of time. Thanks!
> If you can silo off the EU feel free, but most companies won't voluntarily give up access to the largest economy in the known universe

What metric are you using because wikipedia disagrees with you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
Most LineageOS distributions aren't exactly "open source" due to hardware driver blobs. Check out Replicant.
> It's a crazy important quote and everyone should really keep it in mind when they set out to do something.

I don't agree at all. It seems to me that the most interesting advances of mankind have happened precisely when people were trying to do something else, and had to invent new tools. The tools turn out to be more important than the final result because they can be used by other people.
My favorite work site (outside of my home) was an interior office that I usually kept dark with the door closed. Time would fade away and I could focus on the problem at hand. I didn't keep a clock visible on my screen, and so sometimes I'd come out after 9pm. Other times, I'd be around 1pm or 2pm. I'd go take a walk if I wanted natural light or non-textual conversation. I would love for a similar setup at a future job.

If an employer doesn't offer remote work or a door, my rate goes up a lot.
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Seriously? I complain about not having windows to let natural light in and the fluorescent lights and people look at me like I’m crazy for being sensitive to artificial light.
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I made this to help with my brushing up for coding interviews.

I needed something like coderpad.io (that many companies use as a remote interview tool anyway) but free, and that I could use on local files to keep everything in a git repo.

Advantages that I see over the browser console you're suggesting:

* file persistence in a git repo

* uses an actual node instance

* capacity to use npm packages

* disposable environments for every execution (docker or node) so that your code is not polluted by previous runs
These days having an actual office is considered a perk, so...
Let me guess, you use dark themes right?
I'm curious why you are seeing such strong candidates from the physics department. Care to elaborate?
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I always give myself five minutes in which I can flip the coin as many times as I like, but at the end of that I have to go with the face that's showing. It's pretty interesting - I find myself hesitating when it's showing one face more and more. I'm sure part of it is just reinforcing an initial bias once I notice my own hesitation, but magnifying an existing bias is after all the point of the exercise.
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+1 I happily bought unlimited data. It still matters. My mobile bandwidth and latency still suck. It's torture.
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Fitbit is not a medical R&D company. It's a fitness gadget vendor. Is all this data used for furthering medical research? If so, by whom? If not, why does Fitbit need it, and what does it do with it?
And Spain judges a man for "offences against god", is a global epidemy.
People are different. You might not feel the need for natural light. Doesn’t mean others don’t. See typical mind fallacy.
Image makes the HTTP request without appending the Image to the DOM? TIL
I'm not a game dev, but a dev in a different industry and I am like your coworkers. I yearn for an office with no light but I am stuck in this awful open office with tons of light everywhere. My coworkers refuse to close the blinds and my desk looks right at the window. I hate it.
If at the peering point my ISP has two 1000mbps connections to Youtube and limits them both to 50% speed, that's "throttling". If they set one to full speed and unplug the other, that's "congestion".

From a customer's perspective, the symptoms - slow Youtube videos - are indistinguishable.
Woah. Is teleshopping back?
To be fair, Intel's recent offerings include 512-bit registers [1].

I highly doubt std::string takes advantage of them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVX-512
If they named it Translation by Machine of Noisy Text then the abbreviation would have been TMNT. (As in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.) Missed opportunity.
I strongly agree with the argument presented here. There's just so many ways to learn and create skills online that going to college is not the only option anymore. There's codecamps, MOOC's, even reputable institutions like MIT and Stanford post a ton of lectures and materials on the interwebs. There's more material than anyone could ever ask for.

The only thing you need is a PC, internet and grit (or "Sitzfleisch" to be HN-meta compliant).

Of course, if you have difficulties managing yourself and your time in a productive manner, then maybe staying on the railroads, i.e. college, is the better choice for you.
Thanks, that makes sense. It's not for me personally, I really like being able to look out and see the light change during the day. There's nothing worse that going outside after work and not having realized that it's gotten dark without me noticing.

On a side note I don't think I'd stay in a hotel/motel room without windows, that just seems creepy. For the same reason I don't book room on ferries without windows, even though I'd just see the water.
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Glad that helped ;)

If you want more feedback on my personal experience, feel free to reach out (will update my profile with an email address).
I usually read HN using w3m. It's entirely usable with no javascript.
> That would create an escalating fee scenario that would become unaffordable.

Never underestimate the power of capitalist greed. See also: education and healthcare costs.
This comment........Holmes is wasting her natural talent. Instead of running this fraudulent company, she ought to be voicing a young Darth Vader in the next two Star Wars movies.﻿
There's also this! https://github.com/magicbookproject/magicbook
Maybe they’re all desperate for good data scientists? The truly good data scientists that I’ve found have actually been scientists.

Literally all “data scientists” I’ve found in a corporate environment have been so useless it is depressing.
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Capitalism is one reason people have told me.

Then they bitch about their jobs going to a foreign country and really get offended when I use Capitalism back at them.

I still don't know.
> and they can use my data along with many others to get patterns and help improve the health of everyone.

Are they actually doing it? How?

I'm a big fan of Datensparsamkeit[0]. Either they actually use this data to further medical research (which is something that would be marketed loudly), or there is no basis to assume they maybe, at some point, could - possibly - do it. Beyond that, I see no valid reason why this data should ever leave my local watch<->phone network. All fitness-related functionality can be performed off-line. And guess what, when done off-line, you're not screwed if your hardware outlives the vendor.

--

[0] - https://martinfowler.com/bliki/Datensparsamkeit.html
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I’ve replaced jQuery on several projects with $ = querySelector, $$ = querySelectorAll (wrapped in Array.from if you need to support IE11 so you can use all of the new array methods which their NodeList implementation didn’t get until Edge), classList and fetch.

Beyond the code size savings, I find the newer standard methods are generally easier to understand when scanning code.
Hey, you can access the PunyForth over a TCP session (as implemented here: https://github.com/zeroflag/punyforth/blob/master/arch/esp82...). Not sure what you mean with "persistence", you can write to memory in one session, and read back in another? Or are you talking about the stack here?

EDIT: swapped for correct URL
That's not a perk, it's a requirement.
For many years a toolmaker was considered an extremely important member of a software development team.
Or that of some non-human species. If humans check out, perhaps someone else will take a turn.
Or even be refused insurance at any price.
I mean that I would like the running image I am building in Forth to persist in non-volatile storage (so if I power the device off and back on, the program remains). Is this possible?
Template names or code names are the way I do it too. Otherwise I spend much too long thinking of identifiers.
And let's not forget what happens when a fitness tracking company has a data leak, someone plots it on a map, and suddenly military bases pop up like sore thumbs...
> Who thought that was what people wanted?

You don't have to pay someone to mow the concrete slab, I guess. (And in the winter, don't shovel the snow, just make a sign that says: "warning, slippery!")
I agree with you. And the animations example was simply one of the bad offenders (merely one of the symptoms of the disease).

The disease is overutilizing buckloads of js scaffolding which is blatant in the majority of the websites right now. Even a small blog now "has to have" the latest xzibit framework which pulls 32 foobar dependencies, all gulped into one huge blob of minified compressed clusterfuck-pack.
> 50MB of free RAM

More like 500
Doubling down on this mean either Elon has finally gone completely nuts, or that he has some kind of new-found evidence to support that claim (it's slander if not).

I can't imagine any other reason. Really am hoping it's the 2nd option here, as I am hating seeing the downward spiral (at least PR wise) that Elon is currently located in.
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Oh yes, you're absolute right. I'm not saying that a a HR below 60 is abnormal or bad. I'm just saying that "low = good" isn't automatically true. AFAIK devices like fitbit have no indication of blood pressure (or heart block or certain kinds of arrhythmias), so they can't really make this bold claim.
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This is just one data point, but still...

Yesterday, my fitbit shows me I had walked 800 steps - I wasn't wearing it and it was just lying there on my desk. Bought it last Christmas, so it is not even a year old.

I didn't even bother testing the heart rate data
I do remember someone mentioning at some point that most video codecs were never intended for realtime streaming. That was in a blurb for a new video codec intended for streaming though, iirc in the context of video conferencing. Might be related, I'm not sure.
sidenote: does three body problem not translate well to English? coz I read an English translation and found the writing quite simplistic. the concepts used were great and I've never read anything like it in hard scifi but the writing wasn't as good as i'd expected for such a lauded book.
>Implying that your anecdotal experience represents anyone besides yourself.
Yeah, I also like to minify the code before reading. It makes up to 5 times less code and it's fun to guess which letter stands for which function.
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For sure Austria also.
[citation needed] -- but addressing your point without a citation, even if what you say is true, it doesn't change anything at an individual level.

If you're trying to write a book, and you want to write a book, write the damn book. There's an infinitesimal chance that the tool you're writing instead of your book will change the world.

If you're trying to write that tool, and want to write that tool, then power to you, but don't lie to yourself and tell yourself it's "for the book". Just admit you're switching focus.

A close friend of mine has been trying to create a game for .. a decade or so. Every time he starts, there's always something. Instead of using, say, Unity, he tried his hand at writing a game engine. A physics engine. A programming language. Because none of the tools are "quite right". Of course, none of those get completed either because they're a shitton of work. And his work didn't change the world, because it's never completed. At the end of the day, much like many in the software engineering world, he's a brilliant mind busy optimizing ads. And he doesn't have a working game engine, a working programming language, or a game.

I don't want to sound demeaning, because it's still very good experience to acquire. And in general I don't want to tell people "don't write your own a programming language". I think these things are super cool. But then if that's what you set out to do, make that your project instead, it'll have a much higher chance to actually complete, instead of sitting in an incomplete state, in a hidden unfinished repo with nobody to share it with.

The common thread between all of mankind's most interesting advances: They're finished. How do you finish a project? Well... start.
In the grand scheme of things, neither is our wired infrastructure in the US. Upload speeds are usually abysmal.

Comcast’s gigabit plan costs over $100 has 35Mbps upload speed and still I believe has a data cap.

But I don’t even bother getting on WiFi when I go somewhere. My cellular data is usually more reliable.
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Extremely good news: left unchecked, the "market" would let minority communities behind.
And I bet there are some people here using IE. And old browsers.
I thought it's funny to not see the roundtrips increase at all. All the other measurements exploding in size, the more you go back and then just the roundtrips stay the same.
I took AP Computer Science A in 2010 and while I'd agree that it was hardly a thorough curriculum, it did give me the knowledge to successfully skip Comp Sci 1 in college.

My case was slightly unique though in that we had probably the best comp sci teacher you could expect in high school. He got through the entire A curriculum in half the time and spent the rest exploring more advanced topics/projects we were individually interested in.
> And as for Pakistan, with the worst activity level and a sky-high RHR — get with it, people!

This is...insensitive, to say the least.
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But at Netflix' scale? I mean Netflix has a relatively fixed offering, something that will fit in a unit in a datacenter with content updates at most once a week, whereas Youtube gets 500 hours of video uploaded every minute.
If ass-covering is the goal, then the plan there is to loudly ask for information while quietly ensuring that they won't get it, then when the next attack occurs they'll have an easy scapegoat.

If they actually get the information then the next attack will make them look worse.
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As somebody who was deeply into Openmoko community back in the day, I believe that it would massively hurt their marketability.

I agree that this delay was entirely predictable though. Some time ago when I heard at their Matrix channel that "we're still targeting January" I was all like "wait, what?". A plan that gives you just 2-3 months from sending out devkits to final shipping simply has to fail; I'm glad they didn't stubbornly tried to deliver and just delayed, although I'd rather have them delay to May or June already, as it's IMO still a bit risky.
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As in beer.