skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, this was pretty much solved in 1949 with the the Sunbeam Radiant Control toaster: http://www.automaticbeyondbelief.org/

Unfortunately this amazing, simple, elegant solution was discontinued in the 1990s.
Now it's more like 严格立法 普遍违法 选择执法

abusive laws, mass violations, selective enforcement.
Yeah we moved from Sydney highrise hell directly into Melbourne highrise hell (we thought Melbourne might be better... Oops) and received a flooded 10th floor apartment in a 1 year old highrise because they "forgot" to seal where the wall concrete meets the floor concrete, and an exterior ledge pooled water until it seeped through the cracks and flooded our apartment.

Multiple weeks with 2 adults and 2 kids and all our belongings in the single dry room while they stripped the inside and outside of our apartment to bare concrete, sealed it all, and rebuilt all the interior, drywall, carpets, etc.

Because we rented, we received no compensation or assistance. Yay Victorian tenants rights (or lack thereof).

We're now in a 30yr old double brick house (with all new high quality interior) in a rural city and never been happier. We'll never live in an apartment or major Australian city again.
Hulu doesn't auto-play.

Their horror is an awful text heavy interface with 5 inch size font on my TV.
I don't actually recommend it but Matlab is annoying good at a lot of things you want for data science.

I'd only recommend Matlab for data science if you already know it (say you're studying engineering) and are looking to start with data science.
You haven't lived till you've used a toaster to accomplish this... IoT is here
This must be the article so interesting it landed on HN Front Page Four Times :)
We have decided to cancel a few streaming services and Netflix is the first to go. It literally gives me anxiety to open it as I feel like I have to flip through it so fast to avoid the previews.
What if I need to store binary data like images or PDFs? Is storing them as blobs an acceptable method?
> That is exactly what comparative advantage implies. The US cannot be great at Silicon Valley and Detroit (well, the manufacturing bits) at once.

Why not? On another continent, Silicon Valley and Detroit would be in entirely different countries.

Labor arbitrage doesn't reflect a real comparative advantage.
Just tell me what is a free market exactly defined!
C) Christmas movies can also be a theme where some moral achievement occurs that is in the spirit of Christmas. Scrooge realizes being an asshat is not a good way to live his life, or realizing that your presence in the world has definite impact on the lives of other people a la Miracle on 34th St, etc. Kids movies usually involve being good so Santa will bring presents. There's also the family coming together (whether that's good or bad, but still overcomes to good).

The conversations I've had about this with people that do not think Die Hard movies are usually based on this more than a release date or a winter time setting using Xmas deco in the movie. They don't know that's what they are getting at, but it's what I've come up with to explain it.
Sure, that seems a good example, and brings up a point I didn't mention: practicality can be a very contextual quality.

Generally though I think it's fair to interpret any question of "why should I bother learning X" not as a statement that nothing should be learned unless there's a direct benefit, but instead as the question "what are the practical applications of X". I think most people here would agree that learning for learning's sake can be fruitful & rewarding, so there's no reason to assume otherwise in response so such a question.
He's very active on Twitter, and goes around giving talks about the impact of technology. I'd guess that doesn't stretch to the impact of lousy customer service.
Just for context, Sydney is growing by about 100,000 people annually, due to massive immigration from China and India. With this tower having 300 units, and assuming 2 people on average per unit, we would need to build 3.2 of these giant towers weekly to house every arrival...

By 2067, Sydney is projected to reach 9.5 million people from 5.2 million currently, whereas with net-zero overseas migration it would fall slightly to 4.8 million over the same timeframe.

Additionally, Australia's laws on real-estate money laundering are lax, so foreign criminals will dump their ill-gotten cash into Australian real-estate.

Many of these apartment buildings are sold to Chinese syndicates, not Australian families, which is why so many of the apartments are tiny one-bedrooms (allowing a cheaper cost of entry). I've walked into some of the sales display offices of one of these developments before, and all of the marketing material is in Chinese.

There are other failings at an institutional level, where building inspections have been outsourced and can now be conducted by private certified individuals, not Government officers.

So in this case excessive immigration is literally destroying Sydney... And the NSW State Government agrees, as they are requesting the Federal Government reduce immigration numbers.
And I don't understand the economics of this at all. Don't they pay for bandwidth? Shoving out crap that no one asked for costs Netflix money, doesn't it?

So why do they do it? What's the business case? I know they aren't idiots over there. What do they know that the rest of us don't?

Are the content producers actually paying them to force-feed those previews?
> I've witnessed it repeatedly, and I have never seen it succeed in convincing those witnessing it to adopt the view of the person doing the mocking. Nor has it succeeded in leaving a positive impression on me when I have witnessed it.

You are in a bubble of like minded people, your anecdotal experience does not apply to all people.

> The only kinds of people that react positively to witnessing mockery are the types of people that political movements would do their best to avoid: people that take pleasure in witnessing the denigration of others.

That's well near half or so of the voting base; try and step outside your own limited experience, everyone isn't you. Trump supporters for example very much respond to mockery, they liked that Trump mocked the other republican candidates in the primary and were swayed to vote for him based on what appeared in their eyes to be a strong performance in the debates with his peers.

Frankly, you're giving people too much credit and failing to recognize that much of the population isn't very mature. Of course it's childish, that doesn't mean it doesn't work. You don't live in a country full of mature adults.
Believe it or not some people would prefer to be let go in a text message

I would rather not have the Face to Face conversation, I would rather not have to drive all way into the office just for them to tell me I no longer have a job, I would rather save that time.

Of course I also view employment different than most people as I do not have an attachment to it, I trade my labor for money, that is all. I do not have personal effects in my office, nor do I intermingle personal things with work things (i.e having personal emails sent to my work address, or signing up for personal accounts with my work address, or using work computers to store personal files)

If I am let go this week, I have ample savings to carry me until my next job, and I have nothing at the office I need or want to retrieve.

I was looking for a job when I found my current job, and if they no longer desire my labor some other company will.

Send me a email detailing any Severance Package, and any other details, and save me the trouble and awkwardness of having to talk to you in person.... Of course Introverted personality with almost no emotions
90+% of PV modules sold are mono or poly crystalline silicon. There is no cadmium involved in that. There are CdTe thin film cells, but they have a small and declining share of the market.
Fast economy then.
Percolation, Predestination, and Freewill
In case anyone reads this, I submitted a PR to support exporting Markdown cells from Hydrogen: https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen/pull/1498
> brain damaged writing style

Can you think of a better way to express this criticism?
Nothing drove my adoption of prime video faster then the auto play on Netflix. To their credit I contacted them asking if there was a way to turn it off and at least spoke with a friendly person about how awful it made the experience.
Failed at discourse != Failed at traffic
I don't understand what you're saying. If the OP's question was "what are the practical applications of X", then obviously he didn't consider it that learning for the sake of learning is useful.
"And whether they are true or false "in reality" is another question, to be determined empirically."

Mathematical and logic truths have highest apstraction level.By definition they can
't be proved or disapproved in reality they exist only in apstraction.
This is a really great answer, thank you.
This is a gross misinterpretation of Gödel's actual theorem that helps perpetuate irrational superstitious attitudes against science, mathematics, and logic.

It is, it really is. Yet is also an interpretation that Gödel himself would indulge in.

Consider his most famous quote: "Either mathematics is too big for the human mind, or the human mind is more than a machine." (I remember reading this statement in the Time-Life book on mathematics when I was a kid).
There is one, yes, as well as browser extensions and a web vault.
3. USAF requires the upper stage do a deorbit burn to avoid long lived high altitude space debris.
No, I didn't do anything that fancy even if it's what I really wanted in the first place :-)

Full story: initially I wanted to do SLAAC with different subnets for the different physical computers.

To do that and use the MAC address of the containers in a "standard" way, I would have needed a larger subnet that what the provider even had for sale - but then everything would indeed have been much easier and automatic.

In case it's not clear, imagine having W:X:Y::/48 like the xmas tree example, then using Z to identify which physical computer the container is on: then A:B:C:D are automatically derived from the hardware address of the (here virtual) interface.

It's also very handy if you have multiple networks - say a wired and wireless setup: use a different value for each network on each site say Z=1 for your wired netword, Z=2 for your wireless, etc.

Then you can automatically populate AAAA records like computername.connection.site.yourdomain.com. Why is it cool?
Then if you need to check connectivity or push updates or whatever, you can ping6 ceolaptop.wifi.nycoffice.yourdomain.com- but don't worry, that IPv6 address will not be leaked if you are using the privacy additions (lft=0 aka deprecation): this laptop will use a "throwaway" IPv6 access so it can't be tracked (well, at least the mac address part, but good luck finding the needle in a haystack!)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Stateless_address... : A 64-bit interface identifier is most commonly derived from its 48-bit MAC address. A MAC address 00-0C-29-0C-47-D5 is turned into a 64-bit EUI-64 by inserting FF-FE in the middle: 00-0C-29-FF-FE-0C-47-D5. When this EUI-64 is used to form an IPv6 address it is modified:[1] the meaning of the Universal/Local bit (the 7th most significant bit of the EUI-64, starting from 1) is inverted, so that a 1 now means Universal. To create an IPv6 address with the network prefix 2001:db8:1:2::/64 it yields the address 2001:db8:1:2:020c:29ff:fe0c:47d5 (with the Universal/Local bit, the second-least-significant bit of the underlined quartet, inverted to 1 in this case because the MAC address is universally unique).
Like bad enclosures in rain.
DOOMBA
It's a Hollywood story cliche. There are so many continuity problems in that movie, but if I recall, they were designed to be that way. Here's a decent write up about the whole preposterous nature of the movie: https://film.avclub.com/why-last-action-hero-failed-and-why-...
Yup, see no reason why not. This is answered in the post:

> Any application state that can be recorded in a pile-of-files can also be recorded in an SQLite database with a simple key/value schema like this:

CREATE TABLE files(filename TEXT PRIMARY KEY, content BLOB);

> If the content is compressed, then such an SQLite Archive database is the same size (±1%) as an equivalent ZIP archive, and it has the advantage of being able to update individual "files" without rewriting the entire document.

Also look at the related post which suggests doing precisely that - storing images inside SQLite blobs: https://www.sqlite.org/affcase1.html
Two Roads for the New French Right
LOL, you might be right about that. I am guilty of treating my laptop like a desktop with a built-in UPS.
This article does a great job of explaining why you should question that consensus.

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/5553
I understand that "Most stories about politics" are off-limits, but this one "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" (I would argue) and goes beyond the typical headlines. Mark Lilla, the author, also wrote The Shipwrecked Mind, a highly recommended book about the history of small-c conservative thought. The book itself is also not stupid and analyzes a wide range of ideas in a non-doctrinaire way; the chapter on Houellebecq is especially notable.
Designers don't cause terrible designs like this. MBAs and marketing droids do.
> When is the last time a celebrity gossip magazine inspired multiple mass shootings?

The news media does a damn fine job of that all by themselves: https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2016/08/media-contag...

Also, I mentioned candy bars for a reason. The leading cause of preventable death isn't mass shootings, it's obesity. And, while Facebook doesn't really have an incentive in inspiring mass shootings (unlike the mainstream media!), 7/11 has an incentive in inspiring you to drink a soda and eat a candy bar, and you're orders of magnitude more likely to eventually die from doing too much of that.

> Surely it is not radical to expect Facebook's editorial algorithms, which by the way, are already changing the rank of material based on the effect it will have on readers, to draw some sort of line between "typical well sourced stuff from a well established and respected paper" and "some anonymous dude on the internet spins a tale of how the Democratic Party is actually a sex trafficking ring operating out of a pizza parlor".

Anonymous dudes spinning tales on the internet make for engaging content that a lot of people want to read. Conspiracy theories are a time-honored tradition ever since the CIA had Kennedy assassinated because he was going to reveal the truth about the alien spacecraft that crashed at Roswell and was being held at Area 51. Everyone knows that.

Setting aside the obvious nutjobs, you're literally calling for Facebook to enforce an oligopoly of "well established and respected papers" by making it harder for independent journalists and bloggers to get their message out. Or, at the very least, you're expressing an unwarranted level of faith in Facebook's ability to distinguish normal bloggers from nutjobs. Especially when you and I both know that the words "nutjob" and "conspiracy theorist" will be defined and used in ways that are equivalent in meaning to the words "dissident" and "whistleblower".

> Every other media company is held responsible for the material they spread, and are expected to curate it with editors.

When I go to Facebook, the only "material" I see is from other Facebook users whom I follow and from advertisers. It's bad enough that Facebook ranks this stuff with their "special sauce", but if they "curate" my feed by making "editorial decisions", they have stepped out of their lane. If I want to follow someone on Facebook, I want to see what they post. I don't want Facebook hiding it from me because they don't agree with who I follow, or with what the people I follow choose to share.
> You are in a bubble of like minded people, your anecdotal experience does not apply to all people.

Ask yourself this: Have you ever been on the fence about an issue, but upon seeing that one side heavily mocked the other you decided to side with the former? So far in this thread:

* I have repeatedly stated that I have not witnessed this.
* I asked you if you have ever experienced this, but you have not provided a response.

If this is a bubble, then it seems like we're both in it. Or, perhaps more likely, this judgement is incorrect.

> Trump supporters for example very much respond to mockery, they liked that Trump mocked the other republican candidates in the primary and were swayed to vote for him based on what appeared in their eyes to be a strong performance in the debates with his peers.

Yes, but the only people who responded positively to this are were other Republicans. In the grand scheme of things, Trump has been a disaster for the Republican party. They managed to secure the presidency, but as an immense cost in terms of Republican reputation. They have become so unpopular that they lost the house in the midterm election, something that rarely occurs given Republican advantage in the midterms.

And the reason why is largely because of what I described: people look at Trump's mockery and general behavior and find it difficult to associate themselves with what the party has become. Plenty of high profile Republicans have become alienated from the party. If we actually think critically about US politics in the last 3 years, the Trump campaign and presidency actually supports my conclusion about the lack of efficacy of mocking behavior: Trump's mockery rallied the subset of Republicans that support his behavior, but alienated those that did not, and stimulated Democrat opposition on top of that.
Nice goal post moving.
The Shrinking Middle Class
Yes they do enforce it. Just because you haven't been called to defend one of your fake accounts does not mean they don't enforce it. See:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/29/facebook-real-...

and

https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/15/facebook-makes-changes-to-...
The daily min vs max power output variation for wind is huge, but the median daily power output over large areas vs the min daily power output is far less so. Even more so when combined with solar which again has a significant minimum output.

If you look at 20% over capacity as adding 20% to the cost of wind and solar it’s still cheaper than coal. But the minimum is now 20% larger reducing the gap very significantly especially over several days.

Hydro naturally provides long term storage, so you can generally over any remaining gaps before looking to multi day battery storage. Plus your dealing with that 20% over capacity so the next day is very likely to be a net gain.
i came back from a meeting at 3pm.

3:07 - guy in the cube next to me said "wtf, my email to you just bounced back?"

3:09 someone came with a box to escort me out of the building.

3:19 main client calls me on my mobile asking why emails to me are bouncing. i was the only contact and worker on the client's project. HR person wanted me out so bad they just cut me off without transitioning the client services to someone else.
> There is plenty of evidence

Such as?

> but that's not the only kind of evidence of a historical figure, and lots of historical figures are accepted as such without that form of evidence

This argument has been debunked pretty well: https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/7924

> It is really strange and anti-academic to adopt a higher standard of proof for the existence of Jesus than other ancient figures.

See above.
The building is about 100m high. If it were to topple, and then somehow spread debris 500m away in every direction, a safety zone of 1km radius still would have over two square kilometers for “a certain amount of free access”.
So we can solve global warming?
This article explains why quite well: https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/7924
ad-driven
The original remote was intended to serve as a gamepad which is why it had a D-pad instead of a five-way.
I got the same backpack this year, and that's my choice for best purchase. Worth every penny!
The case is not as clear cut as you suggest.

This article explains well why the current consensus should be questioned: https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/5553
What We Wished For
> WWV is the oldest continuously operating radio station in the United States. It's been on the air since 1920. It's signal provides a frequency standard for receivers. The time stamp is regulated by an atomic clock. But a 2019 budget proposal for NIST would close WWV, WWVH in Hawaii and WWVB, which syncs up the time for about 50 million radio-controlled clocks, wristwatches and appliances.

Classic example of the government providing a pure utility, a utility with no profit motive, which private enterprise could never justify.
No Good, Very Bad UX Writing Mistakes
It's going to bring in more users than it alienates, and those that are upset about the change can always easily switch controls to "Blender Classic" in the preferences.

New users don't know how to fix the behaviour. They just leave.
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Good example. Also, Bad Santa.
This is typical, but especially in 3D. The interface you know is amazing. All others are "objectively terrible".
Docker and had a new found appreciation for it. Then went to doing a cluster set up for kubernetes (Funny story : Did not know how to stop kubernetes cluster :) Tried to stop the cluster by killing my images, kept respawning) and eventually settled on a simpler architecture with nginx on front and zk for coordination. It was a lot of fun :)
Have you never seen a comedian, George Carlin perhaps: a professional mocker? Yes, he's changed people's minds. You're wrong, we're done, you're just repeating yourself and denying what you haven't seen while ignoring that others have. You have a closed mind. And yes I've seen mockery turn people around and frankly I think anyone's that intellectually honest with themselves will admit they have as well if they sat and thought about it enough.
If it ever becomes a problem it'll be ported to Metal.

Annoying but not fatal.
In Emacs, you can start the GUI version and use the menus, and it isn't modal so you can just start typing and it'll work like it does in Notepad. You won't get the advanced features Emacs has, but there's no standardization for "text editor advanced features" anyway, especially if you don't distinguish between text editors and word processors and think a ribbon bar is a UI standard.
FYI, these passages are far from rock solid. Both the words Christianos and Christus are shown to be forgeries. Among other issues.
It's in many ways 80% as good as commercial offerings like Maya...from three to five years ago.

It trails behind the leading edge in many regards, but if you're not pushing the limits it's actually really great. If you don't need that 20% you won't even notice.

Blender can do almost anything Maya can do, but it can often take longer or a ton more fussing because of a lack of tools. It's like using a really great IDE for coding versus being stuck with vi. Both get the job done, but your workflow might be easier in one.

For example, Maya can do a lot of things for animation with driven keys but Blender's equivalent is really weak. It "works" but it's quite clunky.
Oh boy, you are in for some treat if you try Clojure. But be warned, love for Ruby will be gone.
Disabling autoplay completely is a better bet. They aren't the only ones that will do that to you and you'll be fighting it the rest of your life.
Points for trying to reclaim the word crypto.