skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not exactly medieval perhaps, but I think you will enjoy this episode of Planet Money on cooking a Peacock - the traditional way: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/01/01/461504972/epis...
I'd like to highlight that knowledge of Java makes working with Clojure a lot easier. I think you can probably get pretty far by picking the right libraries and being careful, but eventually a mistake will be made and understanding Java makes it that much easier to track down the issue.

I can't go back and test my theory (I've been doing Java for what feels like a century) but I feel like it will be difficult for people without a Java background to get a production Clojure project off the ground.
I’ve found that Cree is very responsive for warranty replacement. I usually just email them with a picture of the dead bulb and approximate date of purchase and a new bulb shows up in my mailbox a week or so later.
And those of you who aren't in prison, probably had better parenting right? (and some luck). Anyway, I don't mean to hijack this thread but if the parent is saying he doesn't want kids because they are unruly, he might look to the parenting of said kids. Kids can—and should!—be bringing joy and lightness and laughter and learning. It's a tragedy that the modern person avoids have children because of economic concerns and perceived issues of losing independence.
cori uses Knights Landing Xeon Phi accelerators, not GPUs
There are standardized tests for all this stuff, as you might imagine. One in this case would be the LM80 test.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/LED-Lighting-Primer-Future/dp/1449334...
Idiots cant properly heatsink or design proper power drivers.

Which is why I run a bank of blue diodes in a bridge rectifier setup, drop in a tank circuit, and hook directly to AC power, and cover with a remote phosphor with high persistence.

10 years and still going. Zero flicker.

Every other company are simply amateurs when it comes to designing simple and functional solutions.
Why are these not upstream ? Are there patent issues ?
This has problems with Capital Gains being equally easy to evade for the wealthy (look at Mitt's $100M IRA[0] or the stepped up basis in estates] and many equity holders being in tax-free jurisdictions.

Eliminating the corporate tax would supercharge equity prices and since many corps don't pay dividends any more, it would be a very long time before any of the tax revenue is realized.

You're better off just taxing revenue based on company size if your goal is to collect reasonable amount of income and to limit the chicanery that goes along with corporate tax planning.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-campaign-romney-ira/h...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepped-up_basis
I think that's really the issue.

I've received some big breaks by knowing the correct people, but not a single one of them has been a 2-minute connection from some BS networking event. It's always been a preexisting, unrelated relationship which eventually becomes career relevant.

I'm shocked by the number of seniors/recent grads who contact me out of the blue (god knows where they got my info) asking for recommendations or a break. No, I'm not going to stick my neck out by recommending someone I've never met for an open position.
Perhaps not assume all commenters on YC are male if we want to make the community more welcoming.
> If, as in the comment, they were carrying over losses, then there's nothing really objectionable

I find that objectionable.
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It's easy to turn that dialog off 'permanently' (as long as you don't clear the cookies) on any Android browser: When the dialog appears, click on the hamburger menu at the top right of the reddit page, then turn off the "Ask To Open In App" option. The option disappears when it's off, so it's not possible to turn it on manually (not that anyone would want to). I've set it off months ago in my main browser and it's still off.
From an energy expenditure angle it's wrong when you could focus on upgrading washer/dryer/fridge, that sort of thing. But those are good points.
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So a Union could not lobby then in your world.
hmm so Z3 has a timeout option you can set.

In our experience we haven't really seen it hang or do anything out of the ordinary - unsat problems on average seem to take longer than sat problems (it probably needs to scan a lot more).

We've pushed it to about a million variables or so and it has handled it well thought we might only be a the lower end of workloads.
Agreed, but, in fairness, the personal income tax contains exactly this brain damage.

If I make $100k in one year and then $10k the next, I pay 19% of it in income taxes, even though I averaged $55k/year which should mean paying 14.6% of it in taxes.

(Using figures for a single filer from the 2019 brackets; assuming away the person deduction for simplicity.) https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/taxes/federal-income-tax-bra...
How much taxes did Netflix employees and executives pay?
> Or it's pretty obvious and some people are intentionally dense.

It doesn't seem at all obvious to me how you would outlaw lobbying - in general or by specific types of companies. Do you think I'm being intentionally dense?

Maybe most large problems aren't actually trivial, and the reason they don't get solved by message board suggestions is because those suggestions wouldn't work. Just a thought.

If you disagree, why don't you walk me through your proposal in a less handwavey manner. The devil is in the details - surely you can agree that there are a variety of challenges at each step of the way?
Yeah, there's a few places you can get out to the desert. The closest rural desert park is a place called Wadi al-Hitan (Vally of the whales because there are lots of fossils from when the desert was an ocean floor).

There are many tour companies that take you out to the White Desert in Farafra for some crazy rock formations.

If you have more time go to Siwa to see a real oasis city.

The train can take you down to Luxor for the Valley of the Kings and such.

You can spend as much or as little as you want here. If you are very price conscious get a flight from kiwi.com, uber to get around, there are some cheap hotels downtown, or airbnb, or couch-surfing.

Wish I could show you around.
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Don't outlaw lobbyists, outlaw accepting handouts of any form during, after or shortly before being in the senate or congress. They are already compensated for this by getting a generous retirement package.
Business expenses are deductible. For example, if you are a reseller, you can spend before the end of the year to increase your inventory (and decrease your profits for that year).
If large cap corporations refuse to pay researchers for finding security problems, then clearly they do not take security seriously enough. How else to publicly shame them for their penny-pinching?
> I do suspect that the survey is under-weighting how much beginners must struggle to navigate setting up CLASSPATH. If you don't come to Clojure from Java then the toolchain is a bit intimidating with whatever a Maven is, followed by a process of trying to follow what both Java and Clojure tools are doing. This is one area Clojure compares very poorly with, eg, C (similarly awful setup process, but usually all the burden is shouldered by the distribution provider) or Python (use pip).

The Clojure answer is similar to the python one: use lein. This basically solves all classpath issues. In the 3 years I used Clojure professionally, there were only small handful of times I had to deal with the classpath directly, and that was only for pretty exotic packaging issues.

> It is interesting coming at Clojure from a Debian background at how resistant Leiningen has been to being integrated into the Debian apt archive. I think the package was removed in 2014 and only came back in 2018; so still isn't in the most recent stable. Given that Leiningen is itself probably the first choice of tool to manage dependencies, this raises questions about the technical underbelly of the tools used to build Clojure programs.

What questions does it raise? Debian doesn't deal gracefully with any external dependency management systems, as far as I know.
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Being a resident of Earth is also heritable.
I suppose that's b)
Just outlaw legislation written by lobbyists. If Congressmen have to do the actual work of writing, it would end up being simpler than the specially crafted 500pg bills nobody reads. It isn't too much to ask elected officials to do the work they signed up for.
How much does it cost to make a LED bulb that runs no hotter than 45C at all times?
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I spent some time noodling with Buddhism. One of the interesting things there is that outside of certain places in Southeast Asia that means you are an atheist.

This gets interesting when talking to theists because, if you don’t point it out, many people will hear “he has a religion, he’s one of us”. Many assume Buddha is a deity.

If you do push the point, you learn that some people’s brains short out when you tell them there is a religion with hundreds of millions of followers that doesn’t have a God. The Venn diagram in their brain of Us and Them can’t process this fact.
Until you take a look at your spamfolder to see who's been selling you e-mail address.
More and more services recognize disposable e-mail domains and don't allow such addresses. Obviously they can't block the gmail.com domain.

I like the idea, but it probably is against Google's TOS, so there's that ...
How many genes have we discovered that determine your ZIP code?
This is in contradiction with the article, which says that the driver is the cause in 90% of cases.

EDIT: This was not entirely correct as the article says:

> The US Department of Energy (DoE)’s solid-state lighting program supports research and development of LED technologies, and their website contains volumes of data on LED lighting systems. Their Lifetime and Reliability Fact Sheet contains data on the failure rate of 5,400 outdoor lamps over 34 million hours of operation. Interestingly, the LEDs themselves account for only 10% of the failures; driver circuitry, on the other hand, was responsible almost 60% of the time. The remainder of failures were due to housing problems, which may not be as applicable for bulbs in indoor use.
The US is a democracy. It's not a direct democracy. it's flawed because the system is outdated and broken.

It was a system designed to consolidate power among white landowners and to be extremely difficult to change. It's not a surprise it's got issues.
This argument is facile. There's an obvious and clear difference between a person representing their own interests and a person paid by a corporation specifically to advance its interests.
I was an early adopter thinking it would save a bunch of money in the long run. I went all Cree and happened to have a few Philips. The Philips are still standing tall, one burned out of the two after like 7 years. However there's these eco incandescent lights I installed in my parent's bathroom that are connected to a standard fixture powered trough one of the Lutron Maestro dimmer switches. Those bulbs have never failed possibly going on 8 years+. I'm pretty convinced that their fade in fade out dimming when you turn on/off the switch makes a graceful ramp of current that the filament never gets shocked to suffer rapid thermal expansion that eventually fails the bulb.

Cree has a good 10 year warranty though, I've sent in boxes of dead bulbs to them. However many substitutes are dying out too and they're included in many of the replacements that are going back for my next batch.
What is the conversion rate on those ? Just curious as I have similar challenges with my B2B software.
Meta-question: Obviously, the whole thing is rotten because of the secrecy. But is is better to do what Australia is doing, by making it a law which can at least be talked about, or doing it anyway, but covertly, like certain other five eyes countries (and beyond)? I don't really have an opinion or answer, just curious.
It is happening across all “races” and cultures.
I feel very similar. But I still love Clojure. Sure, the hype has died down/moved elsewhere, but whenever I go back to Clojure it feels like going back to a beautiful place. There's currently nothing new or exiting and that's fine. Sometimes you pick your languages because you know what you can expect from them, because you know them so well.
Yeah the G9s we bought had nothing labeled. Going to give amazon a try.
TLDR: I think this guy just received bad customer support, and likely an actual defective device. Author seems to be overdramatic about a mistake by their support team.

Their Jabra Evolve 75's are actually solid. I have 2 of them in my office, and we recently just purchased another pair. They work with and without the USB dongle. The reason why the USB dongle is there is because the bluetooth spec for live calls are not in the HD profile. It's likely not in HD to reduce latency. Therefore, they originally created the Link 370 dongle to use their own proprietary connection to get HD microphone quality, and instant pairing; this is a MUST in a busy office environment. I'm 100% certain their support made a mistake and said the device only works with the dongle. I've also tested it's bluetooth with USBC Macbooks and it works perfectly fine. I suspect he had a defective unit.

Other notes about this 75:
- Connects with two devices at the same time, and switches between them over bluetooth ala Bose QC35 bluetooth.
- Does not charge over USBC, but over Micro USB.
- There are regular firmware updates for the Link 370, and their other Jabra devices.
Few plumbers or electricians with a license are going to waste their time replacing your dryer or light fixture. They probably will send their (unlicensed) employee who's paid a couple bucks over minimum wage to do it. Their time is better spent on jobs that actually require their expertise. You know, the kind of jobs where you'd pay extra for a credentialed expert anyway. They probably will never set eyes on whatever you called them for.

Those laws (especially when combined with licensing requirements that exclude all but those who have a full time career in that field) are a massive hindrance to individuals and many businesses. They usually amount to little more than a potential transfer of liability. If your house burns down maybe you can try to point the finger at the licensed professional (good luck at that). The only thing it accomplishes is making it (slightly) harder for people who are habitually grossly negligent to keep working in that field. This is a non-benefit IMO because so much business is based on reputation anyway. The downside is that by artificially raising the minimum price access to access skilled labor you cause all sorts of work to be forgone because people can't afford it.

Plenty of house fires have been started by people who couldn't afford to pay an electrician but could afford an extension cord.

Edit: Since I'm apparently so wrong does anyone want to explain why. A down-vote without a reply is roughly synonymous with "your opinion is inconvenient to me but I cannot refute it"
Nice summary! You touched on it briefly with real(ish) time uses for comms, but there’s another segment below this with even tighter latency constraints - in room signal transport. This is a world that’s migrated significantly towards to streaming based distribution over the past ~5 years.

Gear in this space has to hit sub-frame latency (best in market at the moment is around 0.02 milliseconds), maintain extremely high signal quality (4K60 4:4:4 or 4:2:0) and provide perfect sync across all decode endpoints.

Due to the these constraints it’s a world that lives exclusively in the dedicated hardware space. Some main players that are worth checking out are SDVoE and their associated implementers, Crestron NVX, SVSI, Atlona Omnistream and Lightware UBEX. Dante have also just released their new board that handles all the sync and transmission but let’s inplementers pick there codec of choice too which should be interesting.

Most gear shipping at the moment uses either JPEG2000 or VC-2 based codecs or hand wavey “proprietary” ones that chip vendors refuse to give info on. There some interesting work being done in the form of the JPEG XS codec too. It provides low latency, but also super low quality loss over multiple encode / decode steps too.

Given some of the engineering constraints, it’s a super interesting area to watch.
That wouldn't really be cutting out the middleman so much as it would be becoming the middleman though.
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Use the Context API introduced in 16.3: https://reactjs.org/docs/context.html

This is the same API that or anything that "teleports" state around your tree uses internally.
Thanks. For the lazy... it's explained here:

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1280235
It's socially acceptable here to low-key look down on certain luxuries or lifestyles over others.
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This was studied a couple of years ago, it was suspected that 5-15ms could be shaved from start time by removing doc strings entirely.

https://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Improving+Clojure+Sta...
> We also shouldn't pretend that the EU justification for fines is purely about citizen protection, they see this as a "tax" as well (though that is of course not their primary motivation). Otherwise, they would work harder on non-punitive approaches towards combating the ills of Google and the like. One would hope education and encouragement of alternatives and other positive-leaning approaches might be prioritized over a gavel.

The fine exists to remove the profit gained from the illegal behavior, otherwise performing the illegal actions would have a positive expected value. The company is also required to provide a list of remedies to ensure that the behavior is not repeated.

As for "non-punitive" approaches, the encouragement of alternatives would have to be non-financial since state aid is barred under EU rules [0]. I suppose they could recommend alternatives, but if it were really that simple to avoid a consolidation of power in the tech industry we wouldn't have such monopoly/duopoly issues.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_aid_(European_Union)
But does it solve the diamond inheritance problem ?
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I've always wanted sort of the opposite. I'd sign up to a website, and they wouldn't ask for a password. To login, they would email a link to click and I'd be logged in for however long that cookie lasted. Why don't sites do that?

(Is email still considered slow? I remember having wait times in the hours back in the 90s, but I'm not sure I've ever waited anywhere near a minute in the past decade.)
> Is an outcome not the other side of the decision-making coin?

No, and that's the key. You cannot truly control outcomes, so judging your life and self-worth on them is leaving your happiness and fulfillment to chance.

> That is, how does one get good at making decisions? By seeing positive results flow from them.

Nope. You get better at decision-making by being reflective about your past decisions. Outcomes can be a factor in that, but only insofar as they can point you to the realization that you missed information that was available to you.

There are many decisions in life where there is no "good" outcome. There are some where the "good" outcome is catastrophic for you personally, and that catastrophe is avoidable if you compromise your ethics. If you see a child drowning in a river and know that there's a good chance that you will die if you attempt to rescue them, rational self-interest alone tells you to walk on by. Stoicism puts a layer on top of that - can you live with yourself without regret if you do that? Are you willing to accept the risks to live up to your own standards?
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You should read notacoward’s profile. I think you are the type of person he or she is talking about. If OP is offended by being called Sir then let them say so.

Why are you passing judgement on behalf of someone else?
Perhaps don't assume GP is assuming. For all you know, we're RL friends. AFAIK not, but I'm sure I've also said many things here before that indicate I'm male and some people do have memories.
Thus once again revealing -- to those who believed otherwise -- that the police do not exist to "protect" the citizens.
I mean in this case you literally want them to track your purchases so that you can return defective bulbs without keeping the receipts.
You have evidence of Netflix paying-off corrupt IRS agent, right?
Some fun reading on the topic of long-living light bulbs: https://www.tildedave.com/byron.html

Edit: the source is not mentioned anywhere. This is an excerpt from Gravity's Rainbow.
As an amateur radio operator, LEDs have been the absolute bane of my (and thousands of other city-based hams') receiver. Those same modules not only produce ungodly amounts of heat, but also loads of radio-frequency interference that has been contributing to the increase of the global HF noise floor over the last decade.

And it's not only hams, but also other radio spectrum users, like mariners -http://www.professionalmariner.com/December-January-2019/Onb...
Zero, that's the point ;) !
It seems like that might be difficult for you to believe, considering the bias inherent in your own statement, but I've never seen anyone on the "right" side of this debate not at least make exception for "health of the mother" or rape. So, to my eyes, both sides of my statement were equally specious. I was simply trying to frame the opposite ends of the spectrum as far away as I could, for purposes of the point I was trying to make.

I think your reaction to this is the very problem you're trying to describe, but, to each their own.
Same. Most of the devs I know personally were immediately convinced and loved the API. I assume the usual feedback bias is at play here.

Folks who are into hooks probably talked to friends/coworkers excitedly about them, but have a lot less reason to broadcast their feelings about it than people who had complaints. I don't think any of the people I know who were into them did anything more than than thumbsup the RFC or like/retweet some tweets--if they even did anything public at all--even though we all followed the discussions. Personally I didn't want to add to the noise with a comment which would basically be "Yeah this looks fantastic, and all these alternative APIs being suggested seem clearly worse."

People who don't like hooks spent a lot of time writing about their issues with them and what they'd like to hear instead. I wish I could get that type of feedback on everything I wrote, I just wouldn't want to deal with that immense volume.
> Netflix says the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 _cost_ them an additional $79 million

$32 million of that was paid to repatriate foreign profits that they would have had to pay even more to repatriate before the tax cut.