skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too think of these analogies buy my favorite subject is the early power industry.

In the early days you had a multitude of frequencies and voltages. Higher frequencies were desired for flicker free lighting but low frequency was desirable as you could directly run commutated DC motors on low frequency AC without brush arcing. This was important as AC was displacing DC in distribution. Frequency selection was a compromise between motor reuse/longevity and lighting flicker. In the end Westinghouse settled on 60Hz and GE moved from 40Hz to 50Hz, then finally to 60Hz. German AEG which was a licenser of Edison Electric/GE patents stuck with 50Hz and the rest is history. The competition between AEG and Westinghouse is also why part of Japan is 50Hz, the other, 60Hz. Little known fact: California was 50Hz until 1948 as GE was more popular on the west coast.

And to add to your original thought: If you watch Star Trek, everything is ran by LCARS and everything seamlessly integrates. I wonder how and where the industry will settle. Right now it feels like we're partly moving into a post OS ecosystem where the applications have been abstracted from the underlying system. I feel that it's a stop gap between something more akin to LCARS or real life distributed systems like Erlang or Plan 9.
Point me to a truly wireless, charging-from-case set of earbuds released before AirPods.

I'll wait.
The improved connection times are nice. My airpods have been a bit buggy with connections recently, and I suspect that the improved chip may help reliability as well as speed.
If you consider the amount of public funding that goes into higher education, degrees for 'rich kids that never need to work' is not a good use of taxpayer dollars. In effect, the liberal arts degrees themselves are the problem.
nuxtjs and webpack4 are actually automatically bundling dependencies so that libraries are automatically included only on pages that use them.
Imagine if the punishment for stealing was to be fined for 10% of the amount you stole. Like, you get to keep 90% of it.

You'd rob a bank and then drop by the police station to drop off their cut just to avoid the hassle of "getting investigated" later.

So obviously the punishment has to be worse than the value of doing it. But not 1:1 either, if you know you'll only catch 50% of robbers, then the fine would have to be something like ${amountStolen}*3 so that the equation makes the Expected return of robbery sharply negative. I.e. if you expect to get caught 50% of the time, and only had to return the money you stole when caught... then robbery would be very profitable. If you had to pay twice what you stole, then the Expected return is actually a wash, and wouldn't necessarily deter potential robbers. However if you have to pay a fine of 3x what you stole and you think you'll get caught 50% of the time then it's a money-losing venture.

This is all ignoring jail time, of course, because no one can send Google to jail... so from the corporations point of view it just comes down to money.
The legislation you're talking about is the "Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act". After failing to defeat it with constitutional challenges, the Republicans gutted it in 2018 with the "Financial CHOICE Act".

The banks are going after stuff again because the protections were removed, not necessarily because they've found a new way around them.
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the airpod case actually charges with conventional contacts. bottom of an airpod has two conductive polarities that contact with the polarities on the case. Like plugging the airpod into an outlet, it's a "wired" charge, where the airpod is the actual wire/plug and the case is the outlet.
There is more to it than that. Did you know about `git pull --rebase=merges` as well?
What is "old enough"?
No? Not as far as I can see. This is better:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...
Lots of folks seem to like Yargs: https://github.com/yargs/yargs
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> i honestly cant go through all the links

Yes you can. Believe in yourself.
Or knock-offs in general. For example: every Android user is basically using a knock-off iPhone.
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I can't tell from looking at the examples, but can I do things like pass around arbitrary expressions:

Person.Get(p => (p.Age > 65 && p.Sex == "M") || (p.Age > 63 && p.Sex == "F"))

and have a method

public List<Person> Get(Expression<Func<Person,bool>> expression)

and have that expression interpreted correctly at run time by separate providers?

You get full compile time checking and IDE supported autocomplete.
The zeitgeist of 1923 during Trotsky's statement, and the idea of unifying Europe, since 1923 was also the year that Paneuropa was published by Coudenhove-Kalergi. I don't read 1984 as a roadmap, or with literal parallels to the EU, but only as a cautionary tales against large super states. It is not too clear how the world arrives at this scenario in the book. Warring is a distraction to keep the public in line. I have lived in other countries, and the USA is not my waking nightmare, since in older age, I am more moderate in my response to things. I don't like labels, but I am more of a free-market anarchist than a socialist, and I am not someone who sees the formation of super states, no matter how you label them, optimistically. I guess living in the US, I would be part of Oceania, and not Eurasia anyway ;)
Oh, sure. I just enjoyed the combination of the example being a bit off, because it sounded like a hypothetical, but also a perfect real-world demonstration of the idea.
We did the same thing. We told my inlaws that before she was born and my mother-in-law still posted my daughter's birth announcement before my wife was done with skin to skin. She would not stop taking pictures in the post-partum room.
I watch WebRTC streams from California in Germany with 100ms network latency. Speed of light has never been an issue. Latency within the same continent or within the same city is much lower.
That's why the cloud providers are building higher-level services that ultimately speed up development and increase laziness. They're already higher than k8s now so ultimately that too is an unnecessary time suck from "just programming".
Extremely useful, thank you.
the expert crowd doesnt like admitting that commoditization means a shift towards non-pro parts, and where less features and less complexity is a feature.

and with everybody, youll always have crowds of people with "the old way worked fine" who are more vocal than the "ill give it a try, it looks cool i guess. i didnt even know people where complaining about thing thingers deficiencies."
See my other comment above[1]. That company is rebuilding existing tanks on existing buildings, not building new tanks. That might sound like hair-splitting, but it is significant in the context of building codes.

I'm not defending the code as written. However, there are a lot of complexities involved in retrofitting newer things to older buildings that are difficult to encapsulate in codes, hence the reason grandfathering provisions tend to be more generous than some people would like.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19442493
The reason android exists was to allow OEMs to compete with Apple.

Google could shut it down and only publish their own phones, but they don't have the chops to become a premier customer goods maker. The field would be free for Apple until Samsung catches up. In the end Google lose negotiation power in getting their search engine, browser and services on Apple's and Samsung phones.

Basically they would be the main loser in the move.
You can always steal something if it can be seen. I think it's more of to clearly express that they don't want you to screenshot whatever it is. You can subvert it but you know you're doing something you shouldn't.

I don't use AirBnB so I can't actually think why you'd want to disable screenshots in certain places. I'm curious now though, can someone tell me?
This is exactly why it's better to get earphones that are designed to and come with the attachments. They have no problems charging and are more likely to fit your ear from day one.
As in: didn't happen, and Google was fined correctly:

"Evidence shows that even the most highly ranked rival service appears on average only on page four of Google’s search results, and others appear even further down. Google’s own comparison shopping service is not subject to Google’s generic search algorithms, including such demotions."
How many WSJ journalists come from elite college? How many of them are sending their children to elite colleges? I bet most to both categories.

Elite colleges aren't worth it if you want to live an average life. If you want to be a 9-5 corporate desk jockey, then going to an elite college probably doesn't matter.

If you want to excel - a prominent businessman, politician, journalist, scientist, etc, then going to an elite college is most definitely an asset.

I find it strange how the elites are telling the masses elite colleges isn't worth it. I bet they don't tell their own children that. But that's understanable. Why would they want more competition to power for their own children.
> it wouldn’t be very hard to add a few gigabytes to them and then they would work even without your phone and it would be the iPod all over again

If you want to listen to music/podcasts without a bulky phone in your pocket, you can use the watch. It allows you to sync music/podcasts to it.
I actually bought these. Yes, it's a pile of money, wireless charging for AirPods probably isn't all that useful (though I may grab a new wireless charger for the desk where my AirPods usually sit anyway), etc.

But, reality is: AirPods are by far the most convenient way to casually do anything with apple products and headphones. Stick 'em in a pocket, and if you want to listen to music or be on a conference call, pull them out and pop them in. And my old ones are having the battery wear-out problem. And I'm in the apple ecosystem.

So I'll happily pay a premium to have new AirPods with better battery (and cleaner!). And then I don't need to feel guilty about the old ones to the gym and ruining them further with sweat. (The one thing I'm mad about is that there's nothing about sweat proofing on these.)
Not really, the amount of quality studies done in relation to climate change dwarf those done around cannabis. Cannabis studies are still incredibly rare due to its legal situation.
Netflix streaming actually has a huge latency, it buffers several seconds of the video before actually starting playback, that buffer is what makes it seem like the video is "smooth as silk" as it has time to wait for slow packs and to re-request dropped ones.
Higher interest rates would disallow for a world where so much corporate debt is out there (RTFA and Janet Yellen's quote), and thus disallow for a world where an exploit for higher gains is to buy out insurance policies on investment instruments in companies with too much debt and attempt to force them to go bankrupt.

Sure, other problems will exist, more around the lack of easy credit.

> Small negative rates are probably required to suck some money out of the speculative economy.

Please explain, as this comment comes off as purely speculative.
Code hacking like that is almost a sport in South Florida.
This poem seems appropriate: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43118/for-the-anniver...
"A lock only keeps honest people out" is ancient wisdom and this is not a new debate.
How about extending it to removing FDA oversight of medicines?
Feels so fake, to be honest. I don’t know, may be she surely is that gifted or developed, but internet made me skeptical and doubtful about everything.
Just a counterpoint: The decade after undergrad is probably not when the network gained by an elite undergraduate education is most useful.
It was exactly the same plane.
We haven't decided that yet (she's only 3 months old at this point). We'll discuss that when/if she decides she wants to be on social media. Hopefully by then there will have been more studies into the effects of social media use with age, and we can make an informed decision :)
> The fact of the matter is, most small business fails. The rates reflect that.

OK but if you look at only the small businesses that are going to go on to succeed and be around for the next couple hundred years, they still can't borrow at the same rates as Apple or whatever.
Exactly, some rules are meant to be broken. If the user is believed to be in northern California and types 'San ', then "San Francisco" should probably be higher up the list than "San Diego" despite that not being alphabetical order.

Determining whether or not the autocompletion should work like this is a matter of common sense applied by the developer, there is no hard and fast rule. In some hypothetical circumstances it may make more sense to sort by population size, rather than geographic proximity (let alone alphabetically.)
`if` has two distinguishing features:

- It selects between two possibilities

- The non-selected possibility isn't evaluated/executed (i.e. the evaluation of the possibilities is delayed until after one has been selected)

This is very important for imperative languages, since executing both branches would have observable effects even if we only returned one result.

This is also true in functional programming languages, even pure ones, since it's needed to e.g. terminate recursive calls. For example, if we define factorial by branching on whether the argument is 0 (base case) or not (recursive case), then evaluating both branches before selecting one would cause an infinite recursion for all arguments.

In the case of your Lisp code, we couldn't implement a recursive function like factorial unless we delay the evaluation e.g. by using macros to do the selection, or by switching from Lisp's default evaluation order (call-by-value) to something non-eager like call-by-name or call-by-need.
Obviously it's subjective and up to them, but if they're in the US, 13 seems to be a reasonable benchmark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...
Somehow that post has more comments, but a lower score.
First off, I just want to be clear - not trying to sound confrontational, but I want to respond because I'm having fun reading and thinking about your comments.

>Compared to what, your "over-ear" set?

Yeah, that's the comparison I was making. The airpods didn't provide any functional upgrade over earpods (or any set of cheap wired headphones with a remote/mic in them) for me. The airpods made things harder. The double-tap to skip tracks was far from ideal given that it just resulted in slamming this little headphone into my ear, and that kind of hurt. The inline remote/mic was better for that, and it also allowed me to change volume - the airpods not having volume adjustment on them meant I had to keep my device in my pocket, so now the advantage of bluetooth (device set further away, not in the pocket) is gone. The over-ear set has volume controls and a play/pause button.

>Put them in the case, they're charging. The case stays charged for days of casual use. What exactly is "finicky"?

Charging my over ear set is uncomplicated - everything I have charges off of microUSB so I always have that connector around, and to charge the headphones I just plug in the charger. I can use them while they're charging. Airpods require me to stop using them to charge. Nothing else I have is like this - phones, iPods, laptops, or other bluetooth headphones.

I don't worry about the over-ear set coming off. They're comfortable and sit nicely while walking. I always wear a hat when using airpods because I worry about them falling out. When an earpod falls out, it dangles off the other one, and I put it back in. Especially useful while biking (helmet makes wearing ear-covering hats harder).

I get that airpods are probably the best in the category of tiny little 'true wireless' earbuds. I get that 'put them in the charging case' is really the only way to do charging for this type of headphones. I understand they did the best they could, and that with this style of headphones there's severe limitations. But after having owned a pair, I don't understand why anyone would want to use them over something 1/3 the cost that offers much more convenience.
I don't disagree that incentive structures drive poor long-term decisions but that's separate from "omg complex 100000 page prospectus". Misaligned perspectives exist whether there's a prospectus or not.
That's really not relevant.
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> As a result I suspect these days the elite universities must be filled with really dull people who wont achieve the same "success" as previous generations at those institutions.

Trading your conjecture for a bit of anecdata here: this has not been my experience. The most interesting (and kindest!) person I ever met went to Harvard after placing in their national speech and debate tournament.

I don't think any meaningful conclusion about the personalities of elite college attendees could be drawn from standardized tests and extracurriculars.
I do not buy that inadequate preparation is the reason some people aren’t able to handle college. Sounds very naive and idealistic. Some people are simply not intelligent and/or disciplined enough to handle the courses and never would be - that’s harsh and I wish it weren’t so, but it doesn’t make it untrue.
Is it akin to "open definition" on methods? Does it summarize the call graph for you or just jumps you the calls?
I believe Gmail already has that feature for corporate gsuite- greying out the forward button or something like that. Could be wrong. I know for sure Outlook has it.
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Music major here, played in Carnegie Hall. Now I'm a code monkey. Yes, the arts have economic value to society. But even someone majoring in them in a grad program isn't usually going to be making money directly on that stage, much less someone who takes an elective.

I'd argue the real value of the arts in education is that they enrich the lives of those people taking them. This is particularly true in grade school, because it's usually free. Once you start to get into debt for these enriching passions, it becomes a calculus of worth. The best way to enjoy the arts is to have sufficient stress-free time to enjoy them, plus a small amount of discretionary funds depending on the art. If you don't have that, you can be an amazing artist with no time, energy, or money left to enjoy your own talents.

I think also a major problem in our society is the centralization that easy and prevalent media access causes in the arts. Instead of hundreds of local artists, you only need one Lady Gaga. She's great, but there's also a huge amount of value in taking in the arts of local people who you know or who are part of your community. It fosters diversity, local community, and a sense of pride and identity in a place. It also helps ensure that there will be more quality superstars in the future, as everyone has to start somewhere.

Anyway, all this to say I agree, and then some. People just often focus on the extrinsic value of the arts - economic or their side benefit to STEM performance - when the intrinsic value for each person who partakes in them is the most important. Sing in the shower :)
Archive.org version since we brought the site down:
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Wireless audio still has latency.

It is very noticeable in games and movies. Until they solve that problem first, wired solutions will always be needed.
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Wasn't saying it was a full bytecode jit (that's a full on big project in itself) I was just doubting the numbers.

Here's the (old, apparently before I figured out how to translate gcd2) file:

https://github.com/eponymous/libjit-python/blob/master/sampl...
Your statement was not that the maritime transportation sector is roughly equal to the US passenger vehicle fleet. Your statement was that "The world's 6 largest shipping tankers produce more CO2 than all the world's personal vehicles combined." Those two statements are several orders of magnitude apart, and the second one more than qualifies as "completely wrong."
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Indeed, really impressive. It also impressed me to see what she's involved in at school:

> Sonia Bokhari is an 8th grader and a persuasive and narrative writer. She is also the leader of her middle school’s Gay-Straight Alliance and a member of the school’s Environmental Club.

She might not be the average 14yo :)
Aw that sucks! We had a similar thing. Told everyone during the pregnancy that we didn't want it on facebook, and MIL still posted information on Facebook.

We deliberately didn't tell anyone when my wife went into labour, as she didn't want anyone else there.
It's undeniable that these schools are attended by people who materially benefit from the current economic system.

Then the question is, did the startup founders get successful thanks to their status (which also helped them get to "elite" schools) or was it thanks to the school.
But questions asked in interviews of tech companies are similar to programming competitions than mcqs.
Impressive! At the time, France was the world's leading power and accomplished great things (the tallest building in the world, advances in all scientific fields, etc.).

The two WW (both originating from Germany attacking) changed that and after 1945, the world order switched in favor of the US which had the immense advantage of not being impacted on its own territory by the wars.
Before they had a huge, modernized army that would easily win a land battle for Europe.
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I'm in a long distance relationship with girl I met on online.
I've been holding off buying the Airpods knowing an update was incoming. The question is...will there be AirPods 2 announced in 5 days at the keynote? Much like Murphy's Law, any time I buy an Apple device, it drastically accelerates the space-time continuum and somehow causes the new version of the product I just bought to launch right after.
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Thanks, I hate it. :)

Why use arrays to represent singular values? Also, singular names for potentially plural results is bad form, however you want to sugar coat it. This might be cool for an API provider, but it looks like a nightmare to deal on the API consumer side of things. I like the basic GraphQL results better (still not sold on GraphQL as a whole, but alas). This offloads needless complexity onto the consumer.
No, you don't. Look at the Alfie Evans circus. The only sane people there were the physicians because they are trained in medical ethics.
One of the reasons I left Facebook was the amount of web presence people give their young children.

It's not that I don't think children are adorable. I'm talking about parents who have a baby and then spend every day posting photos about every event in the child's life. I know 3 people in my relatively small circle who have been posting on behalf of their children for years.

Maybe I'm a freak, but I think there's something seriously messed up with having one's life broadcasted to strangers. I'm not saying that it's bad to include updates about/with one's children occasionally in social media posts, but I think it's wrong to make a child's entire life an open book without their consent.

Worst of all, it's not really about the child. I mean, it kind of is, but it's mostly for the parents to feel good.