skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They never became decent. They were always loaded with toxic mercury that became a hazard if the glass broke, and they had short life and though some good one existed, the market was overrun with bulbs with long warm up times, bad color, and buzzing.
> You have a corrupt agent and then you expect another corrupt agent to do you justice.

I don't expect anything. I am just saying that regulators are the only ones in a position to stop tax avoidance. Corporations might be corrupt or they might not, and it would have no impact on the issue either way. The corruption of regulators is the sole cause of tax avoidance, not the corruption of corporations. Even morally sound corporations are forced to use tax avoidance to be competitive, since it is legally permitted. If they don't, they will be outcompeted. Therefore whether or not a corporation is corrupt has no impact on whether it will use tax avoidance.
> If you don't like the law elect different politicians.

lol, you are being hopeful. (for example, I voted for Obama because he promised to repeal the "PATRIOT" Act and instead of doing that, he made it worst)

(But I agree with you that the laws are the problem...)
An average middle-income family with two kids spends more than $200,000 to raise each child to age 17, followed by college costs (and/or any other support). In coastal cities, the number is more like $250k. That price is rising faster than inflation at about 3%, and college costs are rising 4%+. To begin with, let's just ignore college and just annualize it all to $15,000/year.

Merrill Lynch claims that an average retirement 'costs' about $740,000. Demographic breakdowns are much harder here, since they depend on both luck (health, mostly) and post-retirement location, so let's just use it as is.

The average age of first motherhood is 26, and fatherhood is 31. However, to my surprise, that's a bimodal distribution; let's use age 30 for our coastal/urban parents. The average age of retirement is apparently 63, so childrearing costs arrive 16-33 years before retirement costs. A stock market index fund held over the long term can reasonably expect perhaps 8% returns after inflation. Investing that $15k annually for 17 years should produce a retirement nest-egg of a bit over $2,000,000.

I tried to be pretty generous with my math here; paying for college, going from zero to one kid, or adjusting for cost growth all worsen the picture quite a bit. (Having >2 kids or living off the coasts improves it somewhat.) But the really damning part is that kids may not take care of you at all (it's a pretty heavy expectation), and even if they do most people face needs and expenses family can't take care of. If you have health needs that require regular care from a nurse, much less costly surgery, your kids are only going to be able to help by putting up money. And quite a few health problems like severe dementia make living at home with family nearly impossible by requiring full-time monitoring.

Living with family is probably a much better experience than living in a nursing home, and of course it's inherently rewarding for a lot of people. The data is irreparably confounded, but I wouldn't be shocked if people with kids are healthier and even longer-lived than comparable people without them. But there's really no salvaging the idea that having a family substitutes for an expensive retirement.
Companies are not people: they never pay taxes. Either shareholders, employees or consumers pay taxes.
I've started doing this. Bought a large panel fixture and a separate high-quality LED current source and it has been absolutely great. Next time I build a house I'll probably run all the lighting circuits on a hefty 24VDC main power supply with small DC/DC regulators on every fixture. There's no reason nowadays why lighting circuits should be 120 or 240VAC.
As others have pointed out, speech therapists ("speech language pathologists", in the US) cover a broad area, most of which has nothing to do with tasks like correcting speed impediments.

Many SLPs work in medical and rehabilitation settings, often with older patients. (And indeed, this work generally pays better than school settings.) Swallowing is a major topic, since not being able to do this competently can have fatal consequences.

Beyond that, SLPs deal with a number of practical cognitive issues. Some of these are related to language specifically, others with related processes. If you've had a stroke, you might have severe problems generating spoken language, even though you can still generate written language without trouble. Or, you might have difficulty with basic planning tasks that we usually take for granted (e.g., what exactly do you need to do to mail a letter?).
You may have a contradiction in your perspective. Well off people living #vanlife aren't going to live in squalor.

It sounds like you have something against poor people living in vehicles?
Not as true when you include replacement costs for expensive shoddy bulbs, and mercury toxicity.
They were decent 20 years ago. In my experience, the quality dropped sharply around 10 years ago or so. I've seen at least one CFL fail within a few weeks of buying it.

LPT: Don't buy the globe ones that go over your bathroom mirror. They are practically pre-burned-out for your convenience.
You should actually try AirPods. The wired Apple headphones do not work for me at all (they don't fit, they fall out, etc.). AirPods fit very well and almost never fall out.
No, but all my LED bulbs give off a yellow light instead of a white light.
Using Alterant to Add Istio to Your Kubernetes Cluster
The breadth of products like this [1] tells me you're far from the first person to think of that problem. Distributed circuits for DC is already a reality. Now we just need more light USB LED lighting solutions for around the home.

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01BYO79UE
Yeah the "any imagery" laws just fall into the absurd so quickly that it seems unworkable.
Google DNS (and likely others) doesn't really work that well for this unless it's a very popular domain because of the sheer number of servers that they run and the short TTLs on most records. Even on subsequent lookups, you're likely to hit a different backend server that doesn't have a record cached that you just looked up. Google's servers don't seem to share their cache between one another. Even reddit.com often has to do the full lookup.

For a full local resolver, you can configure it to use and serve expired records, with a 0 TTL. In the background it will then lookup all records used, so that it's refreshed for next time. Cloudflare does this. Likewise, you can configure it to prefetch frequently requested records before they expire.
Maybe business networking isn't overrated, but the way you form connections (shallow vs deep) that is the problem.
They don't make much of a difference. Like recycling, it's a way to feel like making a difference with Puritan work ethic, without regard for results.
> That, and enact term limits for Congress. That will fix even more.

Doubtful. Then they are incentivized to secure a lucrative position after their term. Guess who can provide lucrative jobs for some consideration?
unlimited freedom and unlimited possibilities

Unless you become a lackey of a powerful group, you can't set out for a new frontier without the expectation that another powerful outside group will come along and wreck and/or steal what you've spent time and treasure to build. Wormhole space was designed to break this pattern. However, people have recently figured out how to invade and break those places as well.

The only way there could be unlimited freedom and unlimited possibilities, is if the in-game world were truly unlimited. I've been thinking about how to build that. (Basically, Eve with a No Man's Sky sized universe, and an equally vast forest of procedural tech trees. Throw in in-game coding of player-owned assets.)
No kidding. I used to fly with a bunch of close friends, but that was years ago. We were all a bunch of carebears, though, and I never got into PvP. In fact, we had our own corp, mainly because someone wardec'd the corp we were flying for, and one of my friends got ganked and got mad enough to make the jump.

But if you have the time, I do think it's quite rewarding. o/
Race, Genes, and IQ (1995)
> When you think there are simple answers to big problems it's generally because you don't actually understand the problem.

Funny. Most complex problems have simple solutions. It takes lot more effort to do it, but the simple solutions tend to stick around the longest. This is based on 10 years of work exp in top tech companies :-)

The only place when simple solutions don't work is when people have other vested interests.
Really rather not read a bunch of content marketing on this site. Could we stick to news?
Oh I thought it was imaging in the radio spectrum but actually it's not.
Coal production may have reached a point of no return, per projections
I agree. I like using classes for stateful components, and functions for stateless components.
Burn out from my experience comes from a lack of autonomy for an extended period of time. You could be restricted by deadlines, toxic coworkers, a workaholic culture, group think, not having input on your work, or other circumstances.

The solution is almost always to change your situation. Before you do that, you need to do some introspection and identify what it is that is burning you out. The causes aren't always big and obvious, they could be as simple as interpersonal dynamics.

The fix depends on the cause but some examples could include getting a new job, switching teams, switching projects, working from home more, etc.

Once you've determined the cause of your burn out and you have a plan to change it, take some time off and take care of yourself:

- Spend time with friends and family

- Go for a run

- Meditate

- Cook a good meal from scratch

- Hang out in nature (go hiking, sit by the water)

- Take a day trip

- Read (Stoicism can be really helpful)

- Journal

- Improve your living space

- Get a full night’s sleep

- Laugh (a lot)

A common mistake people make when trying to heal burn out is to take time off just to return to the environment that caused the burn out in the first place. Change is absolutely crucial.
You either haven't read the book or you you misunderstand how much of the book is Austrian economics. Yes, modern Austrian economics is considered fringe. However, historically the foundational results of early Austrian economics has been fully integrated into mainstream economics. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School):

> Among the theoretical contributions of the early years of the Austrian School are the subjective theory of value, marginalism in price theory and the formulation of the economic calculation problem, each of which has become an accepted part of mainstream economics.

Hayek was considered partly Austrian and he got the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974, well after this book was written. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek)

The core lesson of the book is fantastic:

> The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

This is not fringe at all.
Did you have sex with that lady, or did she just give you a blow job?
Good luck for your startup with no website. It's very simple and clever.

I started my startup with a website to do a disposable emails service: mailcare.io
It's also available in open source.
Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) [video]
>If I spend a few million to get some lawyers to work out a legal loophole

You seem like you are privy to some inside information. What legal loophole did Netflix got their high-priced lawyers to exploit?

>I can murder someone and get away with it that wouldn't make it OK to actually do it.

Because murder is the same as following the tax code to the letter.

>The same applies to tax avoidance. It might be legal but it's still wrong.

Again, what are we talking about here? Why did Netflix owe no taxes this year. I would think that would be the first step before determining the morality their actions.
It is our moral duty to be bad faith actors and to see that the tax code becomes as complicated and unwieldy as possible. Then it is our moral duty to vilify it as inefficient and burdensome. It's just the right thing to do.
Seattle Surveillance Technologies Up for Public Review
The story could be more vivid if it involves the business motivation why China chose this mid sized company(compared to other giants)
Bad probability calculations show up a lot in the court room. A lot of probability theory is counterintuitive so people can get away with making an intuitive sounding argument that is fundamentally wrong. Two high profile cases that I like to bring up are OJ Simpson's murder trial and Sally Clark's trial.

I don't remember the exact numbers used in OJ Simpson's trial but the rationalization used is more important than the numbers. His lawyer argued that some very small percentage of men who beat their wives later go on to murder them. Therefore, the fact that OJ beat his wife shouldn't factor into his trial at all. The fundamental flaw in the argument is that there was no question on whether or not his wife was dead. We knew she was dead, so the correct statistic to look at would be, of women who were beaten by their husbands and later murdered, how often was the husband the murderer? And the answer was some large percentage, like more than 90%.

Sally Clark's case was even sadder. She was eventually released from prison but committed suicide not long after. She was on trial for murder after her second child died from SIDS, her first child having died the same way. The prosecution brought in an "expert witness" to give the probability of one woman having two children die from SIDS. All he did was take the incidence of SIDS at the time, 1 in 8500, and square it, coming up with 1 in 75 million. No other evidence of murder was found, she was convicted because of the statistical argument. This argument has multiple flaws. It assumes that the two incidences of SIDS in this case were independent events, which is not necessarily the case. On top of that, even if you could assume they were independent events, a 1 in 75 million event doesn't mean the event is impossible. A person should not be convicted on that probability alone with no other evidence.
Most fonts are vectors (font scaling is mostly just simple vector math) rather than bitmaps. Additionally, the vector format fonts use internally is highly optimized for usage performance (think about how much text is rendered on a screen at a time or in a document), and to a lesser extent storage size, and not always particularly useful in reverse engineering (reverse designing?) the designer's intent for a given glyph.

Some open source fonts you can see every source control change of SVG documents or similar, which eventually get fed into a font processor for "compilation" into the final font formats.
> But if the same CEO hires a lobbyist to say the exact same thing to a politician suddenly it's "free speech" and we're expected to believe the government can't do anything to reign it in.

This is not what happens during lobbying. If you have any concrete evidence of this sort of exchange happening, please report it, since it's a blatant violation of federal law.
This sentiment is in direct conflict with all of the data in the survey, which shows increasing use and importance of that use. I know of more than one company that has bet big on Clojure in the last year and is succeeding where they have failed with other stacks at business-changing levels. I know of companies with 100s of Clojure devs. Download stats continue to trend up. Etc.

The core team is rocking right now and feel like we are on the tail of lifting spec to the next level (and out of alpha), and interested in finding ways to work better with the community. Some many great ideas in the hopper for REBL and other things too. 2019 is going to be a great year for Clojure.
Probably my favorite short story by Chiang.
The point is the power delivery system we have does a good job for 99% of real power consumed (or whatever the number really is).

I hate waste; my mains-connected smoke detectors (1% efficient) and garage door opener (15W standby) gnaw at my soul. But that's scope for improvement, not an efficiency crisis.
There exist some secure schemes where keys are not exchanged, and those would be effectively outlawed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-pass_protocol

Nevermind that increasing the parties being attacked almost always makes the job easier not harder. See the TSA master key debacle for an example of how adding a third party master weakened the security and allowed statistical analysis to break the lock.
I’ve started to only buy from companies who are know for customer service. If you know your buying from a good place it’s worth paying a few percent more. Just in case something happens. Trying to get off Amazon as well even if it means driving to Fry’s or Microcenter and paying more.

I will also try to buy from places who are known for treating their employees like human beings, REI for example.
> 0. Lobbying is a right, but one that can only be exercised by individual citizens, not corporations.

So charities and environmental groups can't lobby? Lobbying for them means designating a representative. How is that any different from what corporations are doing? They just happen to have deeper pockets.

Furthermore, the fact that they have deep pockets is actually important. It means they reflect an important aspect of the economy, so ignoring their interests could also have detrimental economic effects.

It's not nearly as simple as you're portraying.
Very true. A favorite tactic in the 2000's, was for one side to just harass the other over a period of many, many months, denying any opportunity for decisive battle, until they became demoralized -- only then to bring out their big guns.

The alliance I was involved in kept almost winning battles, when the server would crash, then the devs would come in and reset the node, undoing all the enemy damage we'd caused. I think there were some shenanigans going on.
> Each of these accounts is associated with a different stolen identity, but all email from these services are received by the same Gmail account. Thus, the group is able to centralize and organize their fraudulent activity around a small set of email accounts, thereby increasing productivity and making it easier to continue their fraudulent behavior.

I'm sure there are creative & compelling uses of Gmail dot addresses to commit fraud out there, but this one barely counts as fraud. I'm not sure what the point of the article is.
Pro tip: Home Depot recently started to allow receipts to be pulled up and items to be returned with just a credit card. Ikea does this too if you always scan your Family Card.
HTTP/3 hopes to improve flow control.
Whoops. Yes, a 100kW bulb would probably be pretty bright.
Now we can finally have completely clean data loaders:

Create a data loader hook that loads your data in a one-shot effect (you pass it the identities array), and which returns either a valid view (an error or loading view) and no data, or no view and valid data of type T. Then you can just do:

const loader = useDataLoader(async () => {
const a = await getDataA();
const b = await getDataB(a);
return b.data;
});

return loader.view || <MyView data={loader.data} />

I've been using this for a few months and it's amazingly clean compared to render-props. I hope this gets pulled into the React standard library.
This seems to be an unpopular opinion, but I generally agree and see latency (within reason) as a UX problem more often than not.

A lot of the folks I talk to that think they desperately need sub 5 second latency would most likely be completely fine with ~15 seconds with a few minor UX/UI considerations. Since true low latency is fraught with scaling issues or is obscenely expensive, I think that leads to a lot of folks never actually getting ideas off the ground when they could have just hacked something together (cheaply) using off the shelf technology with "normal" latency in a few hours.

That being said there definitely are use cases for low latency and a lot of products/projects would benefit from it, but I don't think it's the hard, upfront requirement a lot of folks see it as.

Edit: For the sake of disclosure, I'm one of the Mux founders and we're currently working on low latency, but haven't released anything yet.
But then the next generation of languages needs to make sure that you can actually do what you need to do. With C/C++ I am pretty sure that whatever problem I have can be solved. It may be ugly but you can go very deep down to the last bit. So a safe language should allow you to do that if needed.
> 0. Lobbying is a right, but one that can only be exercised by individual citizens, not corporations.

A "corporation" isn't a thing that exists in the world. They don't have mouths, and can't speak, so it makes no sense to outlaw their ability to use the mouth that they don't have.

There are people in the world. As well as groups of people.

A corporation is merely the pural of person. Each person in that corporation, whether employee, or owner, should have the same speech rights as any other individual.
Power loss (I^2R loss) over distance is not caused by DC; it's caused by the combination of low voltage and high current. If current usage and distance are both small (as they would be in an LED-lighted house), wiring a house for DC is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
The last I looked at them, Ikea bulbs ran hot the packaging advised not to be used in small/enclosed fixtures because they could overheat. Do you find that to be the case with the ones you're using?
> When you think there are simple answers to big problems it's generally because you don't actually understand the problem.

Or it's pretty obvious and some people are intentionally dense. For example, why are people still being imprisoned for possessing a harmless plant like marijuana?

Colorado showed some "complex issues best left to the adults" are a societal level fabrication rooted in ignorance and fear.

People who claim an idea is too complex to comprehend almost never comprehend the idea.

> How would you outlaw lobbyists?

"Regulation"

> What about a small business that is being unfairly impacted by regulations

What about them? Are they going to buy some high powered lobbyists with their small town budget?? That's the whole point. Lobbying unfairly distorts regulation.
Integrate Google reCAPTCHA v3 in your site
Yeah, it's a time saver for the fraudster, but that's really about it.
There are entrepreneurs whose primary income is serving as 'glue' through networking. They are constantly tapped to connect companies and bring projects to life. Typically they make themselves available to solve problems for you and make introductions.
Well don't be too excited about it, because laws like the one this article is about makes that kind of response impossible (as in you WILL be thrown in jail for the rest of your life if you attempt to do that).

And even in the US it still isn't a sure thing that Lavabit's response would work again if someone else tried it. I don't know the details, but I believe there is still some uncertainty around if the FBI just kind of "allowed" them to close down by not pursuing it any further, or if they got what they needed, or of secret laws were changed because of this instance.

In Lavabit's case, there was a lot of FBI involvement, a lot of secret court orders and gag orders, and a lot of accusations from the owner of Lavabit that he was brought to secret courts without legal representation and no chance to appeal, and even he says that there are things he still can't talk about.
Agreed. You could write the same article about catchall forwarding services or disposable mail service.
So, why do LED bulbs seem to last not as long as they should?