skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are far infrared heater bulbs that just emit IR and don't get too hot, so you can keep them on the desk without distracting light or getting burned while also keeping power consumption low.

It separates the light and heat concerns.
How odd. In Ubuntu it's just a case of changing the Bluetooth audio codec from a dropdown in the sound control panel. I set it once for my earbuds and it's worked fine ever since.
I discussed how I live in a bus yesterday in the tiny home post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19085244

I converted a 25ft shuttle bus and have been living in it for over 20 months. I have everything you'd expect in a house, toilet, shower, 4 burner range, electricity, heat, AC, internet, etc. The difference is that I can take my home and dog with me when I travel.

I'd be happy to answer any more questions here.
I spent four months in a van this last summer with a proper black water tank. That makes the experience really easy.

When I was in Arizona & Utah, I was mostly camping out in the wilderness. The rhythm I got into was to pay for an RV park about once a month for luxuries: an uncramped shower, laundry, easy access to empty my tanks. Technically, you can empty your tanks at many gas stations, but I enjoyed the full service amenities of the RV parks.

When I was in a city, I almost always ended up camping at a Walmart and working from a coffee shop. So I used my tanks much less often.
i currently own a pair of jaybird x3s and i absolutely love them. they pair quite fast with my phone (standard galaxy s8), are sweat proof and have enough audio quality to block the majority of sounds while i'm walking around the city (and i live in really noisy city).

here's mkbhd's review of them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77aeW3bsCzc
I bought a pile of cheap LED bulbs[0] when they first became available on Amazon Canada, and replaced every light in my home.

They've run cheap and cold for years now, without a single failure.

I suspect that there's some planned obsolescence in newer products.

0: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B01EN9L8YU?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_m...
Just FYI, on reddit they call this type of post a sxxxpost, and rightly so.

What would actually be interesting is if somebody received a gag order and shared the info via OP_RETURN in direct violation of the order. And if the news wasn't years old.
This works. I did the same when I switched all our lighting to LED, and was able to replace two faulty lamps that stopped working way earlier than specified for free.
> Life is more or less meaningless.

Philosophy(stoicism) has helped me free myself from stress and helped me focus on the task at hand.

Mindset is huge.
It would have to be high voltage DC. Low voltage just can't send enough power - you need wires as thick as garden hoses.

High voltage DC is not useful for the things people use.
> The same applies to tax avoidance. It might be legal but it's still wrong.

how is a company supposed to determine the morally correct amount of taxes?

if they hire incompetent accountants who pay excess taxes, are they more moral?
Isn't that a function of voltage and not modulation? There might be a cost argument, I'm not sure if solid state step-down DC-DC converters are cheaper than good old cheap transformers.
Yes sorry I was mixing up some things. Here is an example of whazlt I was talking about, and yes you were right, it got a new serial number.

https://www.morphyauctions.com/jamesdjulia/item/52520-11-397...
That and the smooth hard plastic doesn't have grip either.
The carried-interest loophole was purchased and paid for by hedge funds.

Edit: From this[1] Bloomberg article:

> Under pressure from industry lobbyists and exploiting a split among White House advisers, the Republican Congress in December failed to fulfill Trump’s promise to end the tax windfall enjoyed by money managers. And lawmakers seemed to stumble in trying to narrow their tax advantage, writing the new carried-interest rule in a way that provided firms an easy escape.

Closing the loophole actually has bi-partisan support... except among those who spend a lot of time with industry lobbyists.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-14/mnuchin-s...
A current limiting resistor isn't ideal for LEDs bright enough for home lighting. It's not very efficient compared to a proper constant-current LED driver. Losing the terrible power supplies in most LED lamps wouldn't be a bad thing, though.
Javascript performance on mobile continues to get better every year.

For many of the informational based apps, it's totally overkill to create a native experience. One app, responsive views, and your small team is suddenly incredibly productive.
I can't access the article or the cache but here is Netflix's latest annual filing at the SEC
https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/viewer?action=view&cik=1065280&a...

They made 1.2 billion in 2018 income before taxes compared to 485 million last year.

The corporate tax rate was brought down from 35% to 21% in 2018.
So they should have paid 257 million in Federal, 33.6 in State and 63 million in foreign taxes

With the Federal and California R&D tax credits (140.7 million) and tax benefits on stock based compensation (191 million) and other odds and ends they brought it down to 15 million for an effective 1% tax rate.
"In 2018, the difference between our 1% effective tax rate and the Federal statutory rate of 21% was primarily due to the recognition of excess tax benefits of stock-based compensation, Federal and California research and development credits (“R&D”), and updated adjustments related to U.S. tax reform as a result of the U.S. federal tax return filing, partially offset by state taxes, foreign taxes, non-deductible expenses and the international provisions from the U.S. tax reform enacted in December 2017."

Netflix has also deferred tax assets - easiest to think of as tax prepaid but could also include taxes paid to foreign countries, losses from previous years, etc.) of 689 million. So they counted the taxes against it.

In the cash flow stateemnt the supplemental disclosure is 131,069 for Income taxes paid. So there was actual cash tax payments made.
Taking your last step further: Is any half illegal? Or only the one created at a later date?

Reminds me of the library of babel https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?wvlbf.j,qkfjo,wpyrd...
The tech story by NASA's chief knowledge architect is more detailed on https://linkurio.us/blog/how-nasa-experiments-with-knowledge... and https://neo4j.com/blog/nasa-critical-data-knowledge-graph/, with a presentation video on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwJyU9vsfmU

Disclamer: Linkurious CEO here, the tool used to explore the Neo4j graph database used at NASA.
I’m not sure what we are mad about here, that companies and individuals want good tax laws? I am not sure how Netflix’s alleged tax rate hurts anyone. Remember, 45% of Americans pay no federal income tax at all! How about we complain about that first assuming the goal is that everyone pay their fair share. There is no argument that is logical that can justify the top 20% of earners paying 70% of all income taxes. Nobody’s fair share is zero.
> In any case, corporate tax rates are often much ado about nothing because in the end that money ends up in various other tax brackets. It becomes a capital gain, or a dividend, or some other form that often gets taxed at the personal level.

Clearly corporate taxes are charged for a reason and presumably the additional revenue would be of benefit. However it seems to me that in our outrage we lose sight of the fact that the money doesn't disappear. If a company retains a greater portion of its revenue it has to do something with it. And as you say whether they payout dividends, hire more staff, expand their operations the at least some portion of the money comes back into the system. I guess the main difference is that the government doesn't get to decide how it is spent...
I suggest it's not as simple as just saying "vote" given the massive disparity in funding capabilities between the average citizen and the average Fortune 500 company. Money is powerful and greatly influences elections. Now due to media consolidation, Facebook, etc. it's also easy to manipulate at a grand scale. Politicians who vote the right way can guarantee very high paying jobs when they are out of office.

It seems to me that democracy has been hijacked in the U.S. From my perspective, regardless of reason or solution it remains that corporations are not paying enough for the maintenance of society. Given that we have had free elections for some time it appears that the answer is more complex than just saying in theory we can vote out the scoundrels. In actuality this hasn't occurred and this suggests that something is wrong with the system.
> until I'm reminded that DC power loss over a distance can hurt bad, even 48VDC telecom power.

If you had AC to your house, then a rectifier for a 100V/200V DC circuit through your house, the losses wouldn't be any worse.

DC losses are less than AC losses at the equivalent voltage, because the resistance seen by DC is less than the AC impedance.
Thanks. Why does it get you?

Is it different from martial arts people who are eloquent and informed about swords?
"Why?"

I believe your parent is trying to level a "all hat, no cattle" claim upon you.

I am sympathetic to this line of reasoning - it's difficult to to look upon American truck culture in 2019 and not have that come to mind.

I have no comments on your specific situation. Thanks for helping kids with scouts.
Why does WebAssembly need the relooper algorithm, instead of gotos? (2019)
And the confusion really starts when you hook up LED bulbs to a legacy dimmer.
As a counterpoint, I've fitted 6 LED lightbulbs in recessed fittings more than five years ago, they're used maybe 10 hours a day and they're all still going strong. It depends on the model, I suppose.
There was an artist that had these very low resolution pieces of at that up close looked like just some colored blocks.... but at a distance looked suggestive / pornographic (just gonna use that word and not worry about exact definitions here).

It was interesting.... so is the image suggestive then, or isn't it?
Clojure 1.10 targeted the #1 most irritating and requested fix to Clojure: Error messages.

It's not exciting if you're not a Clojurist, but if you are then 1.10 was one of the coolest releases recently.

It doesn't make for the best headlines or hypest hype: "Clojure improves on something people hated about it."
One may argue that if you expand "for society" to a worldwide "for humankind", it's perfectly sustainable not to have kids at the current population level.

I think it's a safe assumption that those with religious dogma and those in regions of high child mortality will continue to have many kids, one way or another. The "educated" non-religious class is probably the only one that has a real choice to make. If they keep up reproducing at 2.1x replacement level while everyone else exceeds that level, the worldwide population is just going to continue to grow and then we're in real trouble.

I'm perfectly happy to let "my society" be taken over by "the other kind" who out-reproduced me and my peers. One way or another, we'll have to stop growing as a species, and one group's excesses have to balanced out by another group's shortfalls.
Interesting. I think Jabra itself does not understand why the Bluetooth connection does (not) work.
Putting the “human” in human computer interaction
I first heard about this book a month ago, when an essay [1] tried to connect some vacuous dissatisfaction with social networking with deep insights about the powerlessness of people who work, in a pivot I found odd and unconvincing [2].

It's tempting to be swayed by the anecdotes of actual people describing the absurdities of their jobs. It's almost like a satire of pointlessness and dysfunction, despite being very real. But it's colored by perspective of people who expect some amount of self-actualization because of the nature of their workplace, when such an expectation is a unilateral construct influenced by their observations of social class.

Despite the author's elaborate taxonomy of the types of bullshit work, they're all cases of delegating the least palatable, most mechanical, and least intellectual aspects of an actual decision maker's duties and tasks. It's fashionable to pick on middle management, but they form a translation between boots on the ground and high-level business goals, and serve as a containment layer for the inevitable political turf war. It's common to scoff at rubber stampers, but this serves as a way to tie an abstract policy to a human who can be blamed, when process of the organization is brought under scrutiny. These are standard features of bureaucracies since forever, and while they provide insight into human psychology, they don't speak for broad implications about labor relations and the human condition.

And secretaries? They're vital component to smooth operations and screen for potential distractions. The underutilized receptionist is more than just signalling: by definition, they're there for times of need, the same way a security guard is. A security guard isn't pointless just because they never have to intervene: their presence is an effective deterrence against behavior that would call them into visible action.

It's difficult for me to derive a meaningful lesson from this book, other than people are prone to be dissatisfied unless they feel like their efforts impart meaningful good in the world. But in my opinion, the privilege of wishing for self-actualization through one's labor is a recent phenomenon. Not too long ago, it was common knowledge that work was drudgery to earn to living, so we didn't expect more out of it beyond that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18800421 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18802087
Netflix unaudited numbers for the 12 months ending 2018-12-31 were published on the 17th of last month. 15.216M USD in income tax paid, if I am reading the statement correctly. Income before tax during that period is stated to be 1.226G USD. Income tax rebate of 73.608M USD in the 12 months ending 2017-12-31, for comparison.
That's why I'm watching the new crop of Congresspeople like AOC, to see if we can spot if/when that change does occur.

I know for folks like Sanders, it might have switched early on, but he's getting more and more curmudgeonly about corporate thievery, eco-destruction, and worker rights.
Like most things, there isn't a magical number, and the notion that there should be (or that there is, but not codified) is a dream that tech people would have to imagine how the world works. They think they outsmart the law with various technicalities and hypothetical solutions - but in the end it comes down to a judge's interpretation, and no amount of "well actually"ing will get you around that.

So you might think "a 16x16 image can be illegal?! ridiculous!" - well tough, the law doesn't care about how many pixels the image contains, despite a hacker's incredulity.
I am sceptical of Alphastar. It's not at all like alphazero, it's lots of complex parts glued together.

In the third group (second of the human and first post-review) of games, against a slightly modified version, the human won. I don't think it was a version modification, I think it was because the human had chance to review the computer's play and think of gaps. Maybe it's stronger than I think or can get stronger, but it looked like the first time a human got to sit down and think about it they could find significant holes in it's understanding. The games it won it mostly just crushed with superhuman micro, that's different in a one-off series than being consistently pro strength.

That's fair enough because it's a complex game but it just didn't seem as "polished/finished" as the chess/go demonstrations.
Can you just stop parotting Bernie Sanders nonsense and have an opinion of your own?
> rationally trying to maximize your own profits at any cost

That sounds like a great plan if you're not going to be a retiree in a few decades. Maybe you plan on dying early?

> It's possible to seek evil ends in a rational way.

Teaching people how to kick someone when they're down isn't rational. It just means that you're going to get kicked when you're down, too.
That isn't exactly true, the whole reason IPFS and Filecoin exists is to supply this service.
From the article

> "In fact, the company reported a $22 million federal income tax rebate."

So if they paid 131 in income taxes, and received 141 in tax credits, then that accounts for $10 million of the $22 million the article mentions.

That's pretty cool, I was assuming their earnings were just debt fueled. Therefore spending more money than they made, which is always a fun way of not sending that money to the government but on something you feel is more productive.
Big Brother’s Blind Spot: Mining the Failures of Surveillance Tech
I'm not submitting my running cluster images to a rando website, sorry.
What would you recommend for a general history of India especially around British invasion? School textbooks are obviously biased.
WebAssembly as the prevailing cross-platform VM and used as the main distribution mechanism for most applications.
Moneyland by Oliver Bullough tells you exactly how.
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It's no problem to get 50,000 hour LED bulb but you going to pay $10+ for each one. Mainly due to the metal heat sink. American companies are still machining blocks of metal. The Chinese adapted other heat sink technologies to make thinner heat sink fins, when combined do the same with less materials. I'm pretty sure the next leap will come from LCD scale LEDs combined into bigger arrays which require even less for cooling since they can be printed onto various materials.
Dots cannot appear consecutively in the local-part unless quoted.
Well, I'm more interested in design than I used to be. For instance, my interest in flags is greater. I've entertained the idea of designing my own flag. A lot of the books Grey recommends I like to look into as well.
It is a double edge sword. The tax laws that help business fewer taxes help small businesses too. Companies are allowed to carry over losses for five years, and since a lot of the streaming business operate at a loss, they can subsidize their future. Ideally, this allows you to spend a lot of money to gain growth and then profit from it. Preferably, after you start to profit you pay your taxes, but a lot of these businesses are public companies and have to maximize their stock price or give dividends. Very few tech companies pay dividends so it is all about there stock price. Typically, the stock price is linked to the revenue/profit growth. Apple, for example, took a beating because iPhone sales are normalizing and not growing, over a billion devices sold and Apple is still making record amounts of profit/revenue, and that is still not good enough.
Unfortunately, it is a societal/human/capitalist problem, how do you keep the majority happy? That is typically through expansion, not contraction. Usually, contraction results in limited moral and over time that ends of cause governments and economies to fall.
Humans often aren't reasonable, nor are we computers with the capacity to instantly recall large sets of data (such as whatever billion digits of pi would be necessary to encode an image.) And U.S. law agrees: it's possible for numbers to be illegal, the same way certain speech is illegal, and in fact the same way certain images are illegal.

It's mildly annoying on its surface but that dissipates when you stop and think about why things are the way they are.

(It's possible I misread your comment and we agree.)
The solution is reversing Citizen's United, when the Supreme Court held 5-4 that campaign contributions represented "freedom of speech" and could not be limited. In a literal sense, Citizen's United enshrined the idea that your voice (and vote) are proportional to the amount of money you can bring to bear.

One of the lessons I've taken from this case and others related to gerrymandering and voter suppression, for instance, is how deeply the integrity our democracy depends on tactical execution of the broader ideals at stake. It's our ability to handle issues at the margin that will determine whether the whole thing works or falls apart.
> Economics, like all social sciences is nowhere near as sound as the hard sciences. You simply cannot have control groups for many experiments so you are left with case studies, which are often unconvincing.

You can say the same thing about paleontology, but do you seriously doubt the past existence of non-avian dinosaurs?

> For example, does a true free market really exist anywhere in the world? How about a 100% command economy?

You don't need perfect examples of things to observe what happens when economies closely approach those extremes.

> How can you honesty determine if the federal reserve helps or hurts the economy?

By observing how horrible the business cycle was prior to its existence.
As others have mentioned, it seems all backwards that each bulb is converting AC/DC internally, and does not appear to have much in the way of heat dissipation for the converter or the LED chip(s).

I've built a lot of LED lighting setups, and even with the most efficient chips and converters, extremely underdriven, the footprint required to run efficiently and dissipate heat in a way that will let them last 10-20 years is an order of magnitude larger than what would fit in a bulb.
How? I am stuck with 3 days for international transfers unless I use a 3rd party service with sketchy terms of use.
I bought one of these for my basement hallway when I was finishing it out. My only concern is that a normal fixture has few failure modes; just the bulb. But if this fixture fails, I have to find a new one that will fit in the same spot. Hopefully it will last til I'm dead.
Won’t matter. ‘They’ donate to both sides of the isle.

Lessig has a good video that breaks a lot of this process down. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PJy8vTu66tE
Yeah, this is worth emphasizing. Just a handful 100W bulbs running from 5PM-11PM can consume several kWh every day.
> the halting problem says nothing about security

It makes it impossible to say whether certain things can be proven to be secure.
> In Canada every single competitor has to charge a sales tax of 13%

Just to clarify, there's no 13% sales tax - that'll be 5% federal and X% provincial (which ranges from 0-10%).
> we'll be creating entire inheritance structures with one function definition.

Hooray, it's just what I always wanted. A deep nested inheritance chain that not even the original implementer really knows well.
This is weird. I'm wearing this headset RIGHT now it is the ONLY BT headset that works, with HD quality on both my mac AND my Pixel 2 cell phone.

It is amazing..