skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could also be due to the product being aimed at touch typist audience with lots of muscle memory of traditional keyboards?
> Does the standard set of restrictions not do what you want?

Separate accounts have separate data, not just restrictions.

> You don't have to use Google…

That's the point.
This is a lot like the conversation I had with that group. Assume it's just management being oppressive for their convenience. But oh, didn't think about maybe those seats are needed. Hey, why can't they sit in a windowless office; my plants need some daylight. What's the big deal about plugging in more stuff, everything's a fire hazard anyway. Sure, computers and office equipment are required to do our jobs while lighting for my hobby isn't. But so what if it causes a problem, disrupts work or someone gets hurt. No big deal, the company can cover it.
It doesn't work if you keep zooming in, eventually (after a lot of zooming) it gets pixelated, maybe there's some floating point rounding going on?
I am a keyboard fanatic. Two soldered, one repaired, two custom builds, QMK, 60%, 75%, 96, TKL, you name it. It’s a total disease to get hooked on this stuff. I use both AHK on Windows and Karabiner on MacOS to map all my shortcuts with more than 3000 lines of code to get them all working. CapsLock is my Fn key and every key (literally all of them) have secondary functions with Caps held. I also have hold macros, double taps, tip taps, two button simultaneous combos, it’s crazy. I’m bragging about the awesomeness but also complaining about the time spent on something so out there.

Back to UHK. The build quality is amazing, and allows me to rebind many of the shortcuts so they work in HW instead of the OS, allowing me to use my favorites on any computer.

If you’re looking for a starter, map your UHK Fn + hjkl to arrows (see Vim), b to home “beginning”, n to end, d to page down, and u to page up. After a week you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it. Bonus points if you map another to “delete word” by Option+BS or Ctrl+BS depending on your poison.
Well, I will just not buy devices with no analog audio out.

Saved those adapter, charger, hassles and all my existing gear works great!

Same for ports. I will not purchase one of these all in one port devices.

Charge and listen happens all the time in cars, BTW.

MIDI is not comparable to the charge and listen case.

Besides, a whole lot of people hate dongles. I am one of them.

And yes, I stepped right off the Apple train the moment I heard these things were coming. Did not look back.

I have things from the freaking 80's, like great headphones, that work just fine. Got other things to spend my money on, and chasing adapters down really is not one of them.
This is a laughable argument, considering most Communists/Socialists I see on Twitter love using hammer-and-sickle (one could argue it's a pre-Soviet symbol, but so is swastika. most people associate it with USSR, it was on the flag of USSR, so it's a symbol of USSR). Most of them would rush to defend Soviet human rights abuses when called out on it. Hell, we had Goldsmiths student body defending Gulags a few days ago. You aren't fooling anyone.
Totally electronic balloting is bad news, period.

Paper ballots, electronic tabulation. Can be recounted by hand if necessary.
And you now have to trust this random 'someone else' to have done a better job than you can. My intuition says there's more FUD around uptime and availability than it deserves. If anything, the hard work of maintaining uptime and security is a great learning path that should not be missed by beginners and small teams alike.
> jump down one 7-semitone step and up 5

A (440 Hz), down to D. A, up to E, up to B, up to F#, up to C#, up to G#.

Sort: A B C# D E F# G#. This is the A major scale.
What can counting cost? A dollar per vote? I think spending a few hundred million every couple of years is not that big of a deal in exchange for much harder tampering.
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True in part but there are still a significant number of employers that do not do this and expect you to comply to their whims and directions.

In terms of a mandatory closed day, how does the historical information align with the current information in relation to unemployment or under-employment?
> No. People are human at all times. They are not machines

The people I interact with certainly can be. People are very willing to cede their "personhood", to act according to their "role". This is an idea I've stolen from philosophers, but it seems to be how the world works (in my experience); for better, or worse.

> You've taken a very closed minded approach to business operations, and somehow elevated it to a responsibility to act unethically.

No, this isn't my argument at all. The idea was never that the decision was "purely" ethical, just ethical from a perspective that is often taken in the business world. I'm trying to criticize this perspective. Also, I don't think businesses, especially publicly traded ones, have the ability to act ethically. The incentives and philosophy are too perverse, which is why we need regulation.

> Is management acting in the company's best interest by paying minimum wage and ignoring these risks? No one with any sort of management training would agree with you that there is a duty to pay minimum wage and risk incurring consequences that may out weigh the costs of increased wages.

I agree wholeheartedly, and made the same point in this very thread. I don't think it's "smart management" to have employees that want to leave at the first opportunity, and hate the companies guts. Seems shortsighted and stupid to me. I was just commenting on a perspective that is very narrow, and in my opinion dangerous, but extremely common. Just a bit of frivolous, socioeconomic commentary.
It depends on the job and mostly on your level of experience relative to their requirements. When I was very first entering software engineering, self taught, most of my interviews went like you’re describing. I had built a few apps which I was proud to demo, and usually they’d ask me to build something in 8-12 hours according to their spec.

I wouldn’t do it NOW, but just starting out it was actually a lot of fun and I learned some neat tricks along the way. That kind of interview landed me a great first job and launched my career.

So I wouldn’t consider that a red flag all by itself.

However I would push back if the scope they ask for is unreasonable, ie if it would take more than a Saturday or so.
Feels like I’m there already.
This quote from the article makes no sense: “Mitochondrial DNA is probably the most sensitive thing in your body,” says Douglas Wallace.

He's not talking about the DNA being affected (as if it were sensitive to something), he's talking about it _causing_ effects.

If I'm missing something, please correct me. Otherwise I'll assume he misspoke.
Wouldn't the optical-scan ballots listed as the best option in the article still have that benefit?

To me it seems the benefit of full electronic is avoiding paper both for environmental effects and physical annoyance of moving it around.
I think you're correct on the first part; "It does have humans in remote operations centers who can communicate with passengers and guide the car in complicated situations—like a cop sending cars the wrong way down a one-way street—but they never take actual control of the driving; it’s the car’s job to stay safe." https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-self-driving-car-service-p...

But yes, if a human has to get involved, I think it's correct to say it's not self-driving. In particular, what Wired describes is either SAE Level 3 or Level 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-driving_car#Levels_of_dri...

Until it's Level 5, it's not really driverless.
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That sounds like a far better set of priorities than commonly gets raised in discussions like these.

Another benefit of electronic voting systems that mark and/or verify voter-verified paper ballots with the voter is allowing the blind and illiterate to vote alone and retain their privacy. Sighted literate voters take for granted that they don't have to reveal their vote to anyone else.

This doesn't get any discussion or support in the article (quite the contrary, there's some language about how such machines are second-best to voters marking their own ballots). The paragraph discounting "BMDs" (ballot-marking devices) contains no pointer to evidence to back the assertion that voters don't check their machine-marked voter-verifiable paper ballot. This is solved with voter education -- tell voters to verify their ballots no matter how they're marked. By the logic of this claim, it's worth pointing out that humans make mistakes writing on paper too. So better to have the voter verify their own ballot. There's also no evidence given of "the dispute-resolution mechanism" for a malicious or errant machine mismarking a ballot. This excuse seems particularly reaching to me as all roads lead to the same outcome -- the voter should spoil the ballot and get a new ballot. No proof is needed to justify spoiling the ballot because in the end they're not committing fraud. Even if the voter spoils multiple ballots, that's not a big deal. I'll need evidence to see that this is a serious concern but the article presents none.
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I'd use a push scooter up to 5 miles if it's convenient. One can fold it and take it on a bus or train.
You could swap out the DVD drives for a second hard drive. But that era MBP was a bit underpowered IMO. I had a great 2012 before the keyboard started failing. Now enjoy a 2015.
What is left to tax are the rich who pay nowhere near what you do. They are also why you are both dissatisfied with your post-tax income, and, to a lesser extent, underwhelmed by what it buys for the government.
"believe in Jesus"

It's not sufficient to simply believe in Jesus...as in a mental assent that he actually exists. The demons believe in God and shudder (James 2:19).

There must also be an entrusting of one's self to him, a yoking, whereby you give up "rule" over yourself and submit to his rule instead. To believe in Jesus but refuse to submit to him is rebellion. That's the state of demons and why demons are not saved even though they believe.

It is, unfortunately, the same state that many humans are in.

In addition to a trusting belief an attitude and acts of repentance must be present. Repentance is turning away from sin to God. This is a continual war for the genuinely saved because their sin nature is still present. They desire to serve God faithfully, but their nature has not yet been fully redeemed, so there is a constant battle going on to live to the Spirit and not the sinful nature (aka the flesh, see Galatians 5:16ff).

This is why most Christians really are hypocrites, with some being worse than others. They know the right way to live but do not do so perfectly themselves. Even the apostle Paul struggled with this:

"For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me" (Romans 7:15-20).

However, if they "believe in Jesus", then no matter
how much they sin afterwards, they're good for Heaven,
scot free?

Yes. But I think you have an implied context that is wrong. The genuinely faithful are grieved over their sin. They look forward to the day when their sinful natures will be removed so that they are no longer even tempted to sin. Those who say they believe in Jesus but live open lives of rebellion to him and show no sense of remorse or repentance do not fit the biblical definition of someone who is saved and likely aren't. In 1 Cor. 5, Paul instructs the church to remove such people from it's midst which is where excommunication and church discipline come in today.

Also, as another commenter noted, it's not "scot free." Jesus suffered the punishment for all those who would come to believe. That is, God put their sin on Jesus and is now satisfied with the payment Jesus made. This idea is known as propitiatory atonement if you want to read more about the logic/justification behind it.
Oh, you were an admin of C2? That's cool!

Yeah this new service is definitely a wiki.
Wouldn't it be like if the U.S. first annexed Cuba, and then had a civil war where one side retreated to it?
Yes, it’s common. But it should be something simple - a toy app that you could build in an afternoon and that isn’t useful to the company.

If it looks like something they’ll actually use in production or if it would take more than a day to complete, those are big red flags (trying to get free work or just not respectful of your time and work-life balance).

The idea is to demonstrate that you’re able to do the type of work the company will want you to do using the technologies you’d be using on the job. It provides a sample of code to discuss in technical interviews to get a sense of our ability to communicate about technical topics. And because everyone gets the same coding project, it allows the hiring team to compare candidates’ skills in an apples to apples manner.
Depends on what you mean by "domain", I suppose. But driving is a very broad domain. One has to understand human custom, human psychology, and human ethics, for example. As well as the behavior of wildlife, some applied meteorology, and a fair bit of understanding of both law and police practice. To a computer, these might be unrelated domains, but they aren't if you put a computer behind the wheel.
When you say Airware I think of two things: they seemed like they could fall into military contracting or whatever, and -- perhaps related -- they had job ads on Craigslist SF for years, which was another kind of signal about them.
Do the first two at a comm. college.
Where did Swedish schooling go wrong?
AWS CloudFormation became a programming language
Yes, they are operating in secret right now, and are extremely hazy about what "operating" means. And they have said they'll be in open beta by 2019. But it wouldn't be the first time that a software project is late.
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although Taiwan is a rather healthy democracy today and the current ruling faction, the Pan-Greens, have historically fought against that legacy.

you must be kidding yourself. just looking at news happened in the last 72 hours

-A Dupty commissioner of ROC's Transitional Justice Commission openly instructed his men to launch political attacks against a key KMT party candidate, he also urged MPs from his own party to assist him. He further pointed out that his vision for the ROC's Transitional Justice Commission is the Eastern Depot [1] style secret police. His passionate speech was secretly recorded by a member from his own party and released to the public. Your favourite pan-green forces want Eastern Depot [1] style secret police to be re-installed, yet you choose to troll here that they are progressive and better than KMT. What a bloody joke!You have to wonder what happens if the tap was not released to the public.
I miss working with Sarah. So talented, very patient with engineers who aren’t remotely web-savvy (cough, me).
Trivia: Someone in a hiring position once told me they no longer hired self taught programmers because such people didn't understand essential architecture. They had tried it and it never worked out.
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The website https://captainfact.io and the browser extension are very useful! It would be nice to see more content in English on it.
Is McDonalds radically inclusive because they welcome the stranger with open arms?
> It only works good if you know exactly what you want

It's worse than that, though. I already know exactly what I want (as did the parent commenter, I'm sure).

For their search to work well, you also have to know exactly how the seller happens to have described it.

Except, it's even worse than that, because, even for slightly different versions of the same thing, the description can differ significantly enough to confuse Amazon's search. This is particularly true if there's more than one seller, but I've seen it happen even with the same seller.

Usually, I find their search works, in that, with enough attempts and brute-force, manual perusal of the results, I can find what I wanted to buy (assuming it's there to be found), but I would not characterize it as working well, not for the use case of parts (or even computer/electronic components).
This is how much VCs are paid
This editor is kickass: https://michelson.github.io/dante2

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The real spyware company is Microsoft.

1. They own part of Facebook.

2. They operate an ad company

3. They target their users

4. They steal data from their users Windows PC's and call it "Telemetry"

5. They advertise in their own OS

6. They preinstal bloatware on their own OS

7. They own Linked In (the Facebook of resume's) and data mine their users.

8. They were the first to sign up with the NSA in 2007

9. They operate data centers in China operated by state run companies that give their users data to the Chinese government.

When it comes to spyware, Microsoft has you covered.
Yeah wire gauge fasteners is definitely weird, not something I've used, but from a quick look they exist, although I'm not sure if they get much use.

Castle nuts are a bit of an oddity too. Id assume your friend is possibly using them for trailer bearing retainers or possibly some really old suspension items. Not even sure there is really even a specification the ones available here seem to adhere to.

They are something I've generally gone out of my way to engineer out of a lot of applications as there is better options available.
> when making chords

Even nonmusical people can almost always tell that, for example, 110 Hz, 220 Hz, 440 Hz, 880 Hz etc. sound like the same note.

So if you take an A major chord:

A (220.00 Hz), C# (277.18 Hz), E (329.63 Hz)

and then switch to

C# (277.18 Hz), E (329.63 Hz), A (440.00 Hz)

or also

E (329.63 Hz), A (440.00 Hz), C# (554.37 Hz)

and also something like

A (110.00 Hz), A (220.00 Hx), E (329.63 Hz), A (440.00 Hz), C# (554.37 Hz)

it makes pretty much no difference. People will hear and feel it as the same chord, the same notes, the same musical meaning.

There are some nuances in color, especially about which note is the lowest. And other concerns, like at which frequency ranges the other instruments (or your other hand on a piano) are playing at the same time, and if you want to spread out to avoid the others, or make the frequencies more crowded to put more emphasis. And also purely mechanistic concerns, how you are able to reach the notes with your fingers, for example, on guitar fretboard or piano keyboard.
Yup. The modulo operator simply always returns the remainder after division.

5 % 6 = 5

11 % 6 = 5

12 % 6 = 0

13 % 6 = 1

837 % 6 = 3

It’s especially useful for repeating sequences:

> for x in [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]:

print(“odd” if (x % 2) else “even”)

even

odd

even

odd

even

> for x in [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]:

print(“pah” if (x % 3) else “oom”)

oom

pah

pah

oom

pah

pah
Mind sharing the reassurance dance with the rest of us? I'd love to have one handy so I can preface all debates of those topics with one of these and, hopefully, defuse the barrage of incoming accusations of moral violations.
How is this possible? I can't even produce "Hello World" program as short as that, do you not use ELF format?
I find this position to be woefully lacking in cultural perspective.

What is it about we Engineers that we want to put everything in such mechanical terms, like 'handling admin' and 'congestion'?

There are considerable advantages in having most people off on the same time, not the least of bit the inherent deeper relaxation of knowing the rest of the world is off. It's completely another experience when everyone else is down, than when 'just you' are down.

I think a better solution to 'handling administrative stuff' would be to have days for this, and for some things to maybe be open a little later/earlier.

And if congestion is a problem with people on normal hours than this has to be dealt with.

I have this terrible feeling that if we let the cultural secularists at it, we'll all be waking and sleeping at different times, and everything will be 24/7 - after all, 'hey minimal congestion if 1/4 of us are rising at 11pm and going to bed at 2pm!'. Consider the great opportunity for GDP growth!

I think it might be a lifestyle thing ... from 18-34 I too would have felt limited with everything closed Sundays, but now I prefer it. Ironically it was living in France (outside Paris) that made me a 'believer'. It changed my whole view of living.
That's a ridiculous rumor that is perpetuated by windows phone fans that can't accept the reality of their favorite company failed so miserably in mobile. There will never be another Windows phone because no one would buy it and no developer would develop for it.
Taiwan's GDP counts for around 4% of the Chinese GDP, to give you more context, Chinese GDP growth slowed down to 6.8% pa, that is still creating 1.5 times of the entire GDP in Taiwan every 12 months.

using your logic here, please don't argue further more, otherwise you'd be arguing with yourself - who care about the tiny island called taiwan.
Ah yes, very expensive... God forbid you need 10-20 people per district for a couple of hours to count the votes, the costs, someone thinks of the costs!

I'm not even convinced that at face value the development, manufacture, distribution and protection of these voting machines are remotely close as cheap as just counting votes the good old way.
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> can be better audited as a process

What could possibly be better audited than a public count that any concerned citizen can visit to oversee? Digital machines are as opaque as it gets for auditing.
I am sorry, could you kindly explain what you mean when you say that you’re Jewish, but not religious?

I thought that if one did not observe certain tenants of Judaism that they were longer Jewish?
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"If nothing else, in the US this would be seen as a pretty gross abrogation of separation of church and state to make it Sunday"

No. It's as cultural as it is religious, and there are 0 'Social Democrats' against the notion of Sundays off on religious grounds.

"People should absolutely have time off, but I think being more flexible is generally preferable."

And no, there is generally no movement for this nor will there be.

The last thing we need is everything happening 24/7/365.