skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And why does every single LED stoplight I see have large segments of unlit LEDs?

Seems like some municipalities got sold a pile of crap. At least they work even with the missing lights, but who knows how often they are having to replace those?
How basic is required to qualify as self-made in a meaningful sense? I’m not talking about “Should he have grounded up sand and made his own chips and boards?” stuff, I mean lots of people have similar circumstances to Gates and made nothing of themselves.

As it happens the high school I went to, as a kid from a mostly lower middle class family with severe issues being able to pay attention in school in the eighties, had a lot of kids of rich families. These kids had everything - expensive cars at 16, huge houses, nice places to live, etc.

I have followed them along. It’s been 25+ years and basically none of them did anything with their lives, though to be frank I think they could certainly have been much happier and have had more experiences. The other misfits and I have done ok.

So Gates started from a better place and did far, far better than his peers. Does he not get credit for that?
> And lobbyists aren't experts either, they're simply paid to bribe people to get a result.

This implies that the EFF does not have expertise in privacy and free speech. Would you agree with that?
This article is from 1995.
As one of the most active users of notabug.io: you're not wrong. There's no hypergrowth.

But the tech has real promise and that's the story here. Of course 'alternatives' get the scoundrels first so criticizing it on that merit is a bit generic.

There's value in federated systems with a p2p overlay even if they're not attracting the money driven crowds. You can't post sci-hub links openly on reddit. You can't even discuss how to handle DRM and bypass it.

Centralized systems are always going to go through the same lifecycle after they reach a critical mass requiring real money. It's not pretty. If anyone can self-host from home or even contribute hosting by visiting with a webrtc enabled browser it benefits a lot of groups pushed out for perfectly cromulent reasons.
Danish or not, it looks like the author dealt with North America support, a division likely build by people who have worked at other North America support divisions, and despite what corporate HQ says, will fall into North American support habits. 'cuz Danish or not, they still have numbers to meet.
your expectations are incorrect, unless you think that people living in late-model mercedes sprinter vans that have been camperized by custom van outfitters count as poor people.
Wonderful man, this Jessie Gill.

https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20180828d81
And all of them can still be easily outspend by corporate lobbying.
you can power an entire floor's worth of lighting

? Must be either very low current lighting or that's some pretty beefy Cat6. I think the average Cat6 cable is only 24 gauge and that won't carry a lot of current very far.
I have Sony WI-C400.

The battery life is incredible: Several hours of use each day for almost a week between charges. They hang around the neck, then the buds come up to the ear - there is no weight pulling on the buds to fall out. Decent sound.
Passwordless authentication exists, Medium has it, I've implemented it before, and I prefer it myself. The biggest issue being it adds an additional step, that most don't want to deal with. What if they don't have access to their email on that machine? Blasphemy, but it happens.
Looks like copy doesn't work in Firefox or Edge.
it's lots of complex parts glued together

Like a human brain?
> 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.)

Tumblr does this at the moment. It asks for either email click or a traditional username/password setup.
"Becoming a cheaper/faster/more convenient middleman" describes almost every technology business.
It is an important distinction. Contributions pay for employees, taxes pay for a successful society where companies can be successful. When companies end up not paying much tax, the feedback loop between successful companies and a successful society is broken. Society therefor no longer has an incentive, or even ability, to provide new opportunities for people. Instead you end up in a unsustainable situation where the incentive is to try and capture what is already there and not to creating new things.
Actually, if I would have a need to follow RSS feeds (are there any left?), I would greatly prefer a fast, well written native programme. With a proper toolkit (Qt/GTK/Cocoa/MFC or whatever is modern and native). My feeling is that the time for browser extensions which add other application logic is over.
I need to replace my Charter modem about once a year... does that hold true even in that case?

This has been true for at least the last 5 years running.
Al Gore got up and apologized for a funding policy theory he had. He thought if we brought the Internet to rural areas that the brain drain would stop. (I argue that with Seattle and the Valley getting so crowded we might be on the cusp of something like what he thought would happen, but with smaller regional cities).

What happened instead was that marginalized people all over the US found out they weren’t crazy or bad. There were people who thought just like them three hours away. So they picked up and moved to the city faster than ever.
I recently decided to upgrade to a pair of Bluetooth headphones for use at home and on flights. So noise cancelling and battery life were my two biggest features that I needed.

I ended up settling on the CB3 hush: https://www.cb3audio.com/products/cb3-hush-wireless-noise-ca...

For the price you really can't beat them. The bluetooth connection is great and I've never had issues since setting them up. They connect automatically to my phone (iPhone 8) as soon as I turn them on and can also connect to my laptop at the same time.

The noise cancelling is quite good, but if there's no noise playing from the headphones there can be a slight high pitched whirring sound heard.

Sound quality is quite good - comparable to the Bose headphones that I have at work. Additionally, unlike the Bose, the sound is also quite good without noise cancelling on which is really nice for battery life.

Overall I'm quite happy with my choice.
Fraudsters are taking advantage of email aliases to get other people to pay for someone else's account.

Example:

1) Fraudster create an account and put in a bogus card number.

2) Fraudster changes account email address to joe.smith@gmail.com. joesmith@gmail.com already exists in Netflix's DB - but joe.smith@gmail.com does not, so Netflix is ok with this.

3) Netflix emails joe.smith@gmail.com and says "hey your card is bad, please update it" by clicking here.

4) The real joesmith@gmail.com receives the email, clicks the link and is taken directly to a "update your card screen" and types in their credit card information.

5) Fraudster has their Netflix account paid for by the real Joe Smith.

Granted, Netflix could fix this by requiring a login before updating billing details. But the dot aliases in Gmail are a part of the scam.
>The answer is to outlaw lobbyists, it would fix a lot of problems.

No it wouldn't. Our current regulated lobby 'industry' is an attempt to control something that would happen ANYWAY if it was made illegal. Furthermore, lobbying is necessary and a core part of any democracy. You need to be able to petition your representative government for changes, regardless if you're a regular citizen, an activist, a business owner, or even a corporate entity.
From the article -- "The new $5 BR30 LED bulbs I just installed in the kitchen are amazingly bright and crisp: tests with a lux meter show the illuminance is more than 60% higher. Plus, they’ll more than pay for themselves in electricity savings compared to the old, inefficient LED bulbs they replaced."

This is what amazes me, I've been an early adopter of LED bulbs (Google even gave out a bunch at one time to employees) and have seen my share of failures, from color shift, to brightness degradation, to controller failure. That said, they nearly always cost less to operate than the previous incandescent lamps they replaced.

When the LED 'tubes' which replace fluorescent bulbs became cost effective I replaced all the bulbs in my garage. And when a credible can light with acceptable dimming came out I replaced all of the recessed lighting in the family room and living room. I now don't have a single incandescent lamp in the house and it has reduced by monthly energy by anywhere from 35 to 55 KWhr per month. That represents about a $50 a year in energy cost savings. The cost has come down to the point where the bulbs pay for themselves well within their lifetime range (my experience over a population of 62 different bulbs has been 7.5 years MTTF).

That said, I haven't been as diligent in figuring out exactly why a bulb has died, if it is just the power supply I expect they could be resurrected less expensively than a new bulb, caveat the reassembly of the light diffuser bulb.
> mains-connected smoke detectors (1% efficient)

Those aren’t a waste, they are critical life safety equipment. If their 1% efficient power supply lasts the full 10 year lifespan of a smoke detector rather than 6-18 months like a typical LED lightbulb, I’d say that’s the appropriate level of reliability.
The biggest advantage of LED over fluro for me is light quality. High quality LEDs can put out a pretty nice spectrum which for me makes them ideal to replace halogens or incandescent. I use 100W (actual) LED flood lights for my loft and I love them.
Until other browsers offer a proper built-in UI for managing multiple profiles as a first-class citizen, there's little chance that I'll switch from Chrome.

About once a year I give another browser a try for a few weeks. I go all in, utilizing whatever features are unique to the browser instead of trying to use it like Chrome. But I have yet to find anything that compensates for the loss of easy profile switching.

Unless Firefox adds a built-in profile switching UI or Chrome becomes literally unusable, there's just no way I can justify switching. The loss in productivity is too significant.
Medium actually does this.
Recover NSF ChecksQuickly
It seems the key problem that incites controversy is that when geneticists say "heritability," it doesn't mean what lay-persons think it means, and sometimes, even professionals in the field get caught up in defending the wrong arguments.

To the HN crowd, here's a simple but precise definition. Heritability is the extent to which variability (e.g., the standard deviation) of a trait in one generation can be explained by the variability of that trait in the previous generation. Note that high heritability does not mean that the trait is genetically based.

Fun fact 1: since most people are raised by their parents, religion and political party affiliation are also highly heritable, but no one is suggesting that there's a genetic basis for religion or political views.

Fun fact 2: number of fingers per hand is not very heritable. Since most people who have a non-five number of fingers per hand acquired that trait non-genetically (e.g., via an accident), the variability of this trait in the population correlates very little with the variability of the trait in the previous generation.
The point is to get as much money as possible duh.

The fact is, a company is a fiction and the idea that you can tax a fiction is just...fiction. But if the state didn't do it, then one or all of the following might notice that in reality they are paying quite more taxes than is actually leaving their account: employees, investors/owners/shareholders, suppliers.
Pushing more and more people to go to college isn't going to raise productivity. It will just lead to even more degree inflation. We've been seeing degrees pay out less and less as more and more people get them. This shouldn't be surprising. Look at the extreme cases in China. The amount highly educated labor is so vast that Seasonal workers moving to the city earn more than the average College graduate. Is this how we want to end up?

It would be much better to give students the right kind of education, and make sure that post k-12 training reflects the demands in the market. Right now there's huge demand for construction workers that isn't being filled, and there are many other niches that could use the right type of trained workers. And industry needs to get better at highering, and better at understand what they actually need, rather than continuing to advertise job templates for which no one's given any thought to what they actually need.
Well, I had a similar experience with... Coursera, a couple weeks ago, so I assume it affects the whole spectrum of customer support.

I was doing a course, and had to access a Jupyter Notebook that was residing in a different server. When clicking the URL, the page will appear with a loading circle, and would die out after around 5 minutes (I measured it).

I was using my laptop (W7 + Chrome) but have a server also running Debian, with Forefox as browser. Tested in both places before accesing the chat.

I put as much into in the chat before hand.

A person shows up, tells me to "clean cookies and cache".

Tell her about the different test (This was never acknowledged, BTW).

Tells me "must be your connection".

"OK, let me test with my G4 phone"

"That kind of connections can be what is giving you problems, try ADSL"

OK, this is getting funny now.

Tells me to test a different url that she sends me over the chat.

"OK, not working here, let me test in firefox"

"We advise to only use Chrome, our apps might not work in other browsers" (THEIR page stated otherwise, and it was not a browser problem)

Told her nothing works: Tested Chrome on W7 over G4, Firefox in Debian over ADSL, nothing.

"Coursera cannot take responsibility about the content, we can only support the apps" ???

So, I was having a chat with a support tech that couldn't tell one thing form the other, as it was obviously the server (Had tried other notebooks from the same course)

Finally, asked to raise this to 2nd level. Told me not to ask opther people to download the notebook for me, as in that case if I submitted my work this would be taken as if it worked.

A couple of hours later, I notice a "forceRefresh" parameter in the url, changed it's value, app starts working.

As a side note, based in my experience support people are not prepared to deal with people with a certain technical level on the customer end.
I have first.last@gmail.com and I've had people play poker and lottery and sign up for dating websites with my e-mail address. I've also received confidential information from insurance and building construction companies.

It's hilarious.
> it makes it possible to write UI components very fast

...until you happen to code something that doesn't follow the magical convention and everything breaks for unknown reasons. Then it becomes difficult - or impossible - to debug.
in theory (mathematically) it's more productive (in operating businesses that can put the capital to good use quickly), but in practice, that's not necessarily true. markets are not perfectly efficient, and have hidden losses as well (e.g., productive asssets being sidelined due to competition). governments are capable of putting capital to good use (hoover dam --> california expansion, at the expense of the environment, a hidden cost).

neither markets nor governments are perfect, and such superficial arguments are at best misleading. you can't just compare idealized markets to practicing governments to reach substantive understanding.
The law once mandated that you hire the services of a licensed electrician to replace a lightbulb. Imagine if the same laws where applied to tech. Need to update Microsoft office? No way arround it you need to hire the services of a licensed IT professional! You might get electrocuted in the process not being a professional. So it all makes sense.
That’s good to see Vic writing for RS, like to see him busy.
This kind of reminds me of the FMEA and its web structure, which is very useful.

It does share the big weakness with all the other such databases though, very hard to convince people to use it, specially to add and maintain content.
Doing it yourself.

As someone who personally grew up with and knows at least one relatively famous one of these, you're not going to replace him.
I think it is totally bizarre that the official getting started page just kind of throws a Maven invocation in, like it's no big deal. It's at the bottom of the page, but if you are going to mention additional software that needs to be installed, why not mention Leiningen instead?

git clone https://github.com/clojure/clojure.git
cd clojure
mvn -Plocal -Dmaven.test.skip=true package

https://clojure.org/guides/getting_started
Every job I've had since my first job has been through a personal referral, from people I have worked closely with in the past. Not from people I met at "networking" events.
Tumblr does that now.

I’ve never used the feature. I have an integrated password manager.
It's an interesting phenomena to look at from a language philosophy perspective. AFAIK, Rich Hickey has advocated for a very pragmatic approach to programming from coljure's inception, and I believe (perhaps excepting the introduction of Spec) the language has stuck to and reflected that philosophy. I believe Hickey has even gone so far as to say it's usually a waste of time to fiddle around with type declarations when you should be solving problems and transforming data (I'm paraphrasing, of course).

Contrarily, nearly every other popular modern programming language project (Haskell, Rust, Scala, Crystal, to name a few) hopes to provide nuanced, robust type systems and compile time guarantees--these projects focus less on pragmatics and problem solving and more on correctness and safety. Even elm, which is just a language for building frontends, boasts of its compile time guarantees and elimination of runtime issues using a type system. Clojure is the only recent language that I know of to go against the grain in this regard. That might factor into its decline in popularity--presumably all of these languages are going after type safety and correctness because they are perceived as features people desire these days and clojure never emphasized these properties (some of the things it emphasized instead, such as immutability, problem solving, and interoperability with an existing platform are still important features ,they just don't happen to be as prized right now as correctness/safety and perhaps noiseless/sparse syntax).

The introduction of spec can even be perceived as a sort of concession to this popular demand. Even the spec about page hints at the slight[1] incongruence between spec and the overall Clojure philosophy:

"However it has always been a guiding principle of Clojure, widely valued and practiced by the community, to simply represent information as data. Thus important properties of Clojure systems are represented and conveyed by the shape and other predicative properties of the data, not captured or checked anywhere since the runtime types are indistinguishable heterogeneous maps and vectors."

https://clojure.org/about/spec

[1]: Slight because the purposes of spec are not those of a type system or compile checks. What spec does do, however, is introduce some of the bookkeeping sorts of procedures that, in my estimation, the design behind clojure intended to minimize as much as possible.
What planned obsolescence do you engineer in to your fittings, etc.?
Have you filed CLJ jira tickets about those docstrings? If not, then we are not able to hear your concerns. We fix and improve a bunch of docstrings in every release: https://dev.clojure.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?rese...

Have you filed documentation issues on the Clojure web site? If not, we don't know what needs to be improved. We have closed 100s of PRs and issues on the site in the last couple years: https://github.com/clojure/clojure-site/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%9...
As far as I'm aware there aren't any public CDNs that support the sub-200ms approaches which don't involve buying a full solution from that vendor.

* Limelight's solution is only really accessible through their low latency streaming products provided by Red5.

* Fastly and Akamai are both chasing Ultra low latency through chunked CMAF delivery.

On a slightly smaller scale, Cloudflare supports websockets, so you could use a protocol like the one Wowza are using (WOWZ). https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-now-supports-websocke...

If you're interested in a toolkit to build out a webRTC style CDN edge, I think the best place to start would probably be with Gstreamer's new WebRTC tooling https://opensource.com/article/19/1/gstreamer
> We didn't give random people loans in your name, your identity was stolen.

When you shift responsibility from the provider to the customer, you play right into the security blame game.
Full time remote here: I love it.

Big pot of coffee I brewed ONCE in the morning and will drink from a thermos the rest of the day? Check.

Timer cube that sounds ever 25 minutes for pomodoros? Check.

Food in fridge ready to be cooked? Check.

Absolute golden silence? Check.

Adorable black cat sitting in lap? Check.

Yep. Can confirm. It's pretty nice.
Nobody is going to deliberately sabotage their LED bulbs because nobody really has a monopoly on them. They probably use cheap components that are only rated for the warranty period, but that isn't "planned obsolescence".
I agree. The content was in sync with the title. There were some decent advises and observations for example regarding how to be more tactful, but in general the book seemed to be about faking and manipulating your way to victory. It's very sad if people feel they have to cut corners this way by programming themselves to react certain ways, instead of trying to find genuine happiness that delivers the genuine smile and interest towards people etc.
I’m currently in a top floor apartment actually and we quickly hit outside temperatures in the winter if we don’t run the heater. This is Seattle where heat is mostly electric, radiators would probably be very different.
You made a claim that lobbyists are not subject matter experts. Another commenter refuted that claim with counterexamples. Now you are moving the goalposts and demanding quantifiable data about how many lobbyists have expertise in some domain.

I think it's time for you to counter by defending your thesis, that lobbyists generally don't have domain expertise, instead of demanding increasingly more evidence.
Sure, you would cite the name of the person you were quoting, just as the OP comment did.

But you certainly could quote bin Laden here if it were relevant and interesting. It doesn't mean you agree with him or the terrible things he did.

I don't know anything about Spandrell or what else the person has said or written, so all I had to go by was the quote itself. I found it interesting and thought-provoking.

Not that I agree with all of it. I especially do not like the concept of an IQ scale. Different people are good at different kinds of things, and I think IQ is a dangerous oversimplification.
I'm not sure the point of these articles is to make people mad at the companies. Nobody expects a large public company to break the law evading taxes because they have to release their numbers, so what they're doing must be legal.

The best way to highlight loopholes and broken parts of the tax system is to point out when they're being used and taken advantage of.
ProTIP: multicast

Been working like magic since the dawn of times. One downside, if you are not an ISP - bad luck...