skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great question, not stupid at all! There are tons of people with devices reading for wireless charging that are now going to be looking elsewhere, now that this has officially been declared dead.

Just got my wife an Apple Watch and I was telling her about how cool the AirPower product would be... yesterday. Gotta break the news to her when she gets home.
that last little statistic she dropped was misleading.

Money does buy happiness, for most people. Think about it. Would you be less happier if you made half your current salary? Before you answer the question, think about all the life changes that would occur, should this happen: maybe you have to move into a bad neighborhood in a smaller apartment, no more eating out, no more vacations, no more dental procedures, etc.

Okay, sure there is a threshold, perhaps at 800K or more your happiness wouldn't increase greatly. The point is, the vast majority of people are below that threshold.

And, I've seen a number of happiness survey that show there's a pretty good correlation between happiness and earnings both at a macro level (comparing countires with high gdp per capita to low gdp per capita) and individual levels as well.
I will try to make it crash again, it's like half a year back so my memory is little fuzzy on where exactly it did happen.
> There’s a huge difference between the “I’m a young single college grad making $50k a year and billionaires are the reason I’m poor” narrative and literally stepping over potentially dead unsheltered people on your way to the office of a multi-billion dollar company. How can we make sure that people don’t have to sleep on the street and suffer from poor healthcare? Because currently income inequality is creating developing country, slum-like conditions in the US.

How, exactly is income-inequality creating those conditions? It seems to me like the issue you're describing is one of a floor that is too low. Which is exactly what I said.
I bought the wireless charging version, but I also had it engraved. I'm guessing that will prevent it from being returnable. Hopefully Apple issues a blanket refund of the price difference for everyone.
https://riscv.org/risc-v-cores/
+1. It’s pulled me out of a few jams, and the GUI is simple and without bloat.
The property taxes aren't especially high and prop 13 means they can't go up more than 2%/year (but can go down if the market drops).

I wouldn't live in SF if I had kids (before and after OK, from my experience) but Silicon Valley is OK if you have kids.

edit: 2% rise, my incorrect number was corrected by dragonwriter.
How could one find posts like this without a direct link? Is there some portion of your posts that are public? Every action I try prompts me to sign up, but I do not meet the sign-up criteria. Just wondering if there's a still a way to passively view/read some portion of your content, without attempting to comment/participate.

Cool AMA, thanks.
Not sure if there’s truly measurable ROI here, but anecdotally I can say having a view really makes a difference to morale when the going gets tough...
The example of Agnosia cited in the article indicates that there wouldn't be any degradation. Proprioception and physical interaction seem to have their own dedicated pathway.

If not being able to tell vertical from horizontal didn't affect the patient's ability to interact with the world, why would not being able to tell if a face is "happy" or "sad" have an impact?
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So you're saying the Lyft investors took a significant, almost irrational risk, but should not be rewarded for that?
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If you thought this was interesting, it's worth looking up other argots/cants. Here are some interesting examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thieves%27_cant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padonkaffsky_jargon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelta
Wow this is a library of conspiracy theory ads.

Surprised I didn't see a chemtrail one in there.
Air superiority is the defining aspect of modern war. Whoever owns the skies wins. Whatever one's opinion on the FXX planes, the goal of maintaining air superiority into the future is completely obvious and necessary.
https://www.cs.montana.edu/courses/spring2004/513/resources/...
Rainmeter gave me a nostalgia trip back to Windows Vista widgets.
The factor they kind of glossed over is the bumpy stock market last year. People who are looking to buy something in the bay area are going to sell all that company stock they've gained over the years to buy a place. So if the tech sector drops for a year then people are less likely to sell their stock to buy a home.
Worth linking to the most famous of these authors, Erik Dermaine. More or less a prototypical child genius in math / CS. MIT Professor at 20.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Demaine

Also highly recommended basically any filmed class he’s teaching on MIT OpenCourseware
IANAL but I'm 99% sure they are not legal. They are just too tiny to be sued into oblivion. At the moment.
Extreme inequality does not benefit society. It's a sign that people aren't able to improve their lot, at least not without access to money. In a society where the poor can realistically improve their lot, you don't get people stuck in poverty.

Of course finding a gold nugget doesn't hurt society, but if you own the ground on which other people find gold nuggets, and that means they have to give half of their gold nuggets to you, then they benefit less from their luck, while you benefit from other people's luck. That's how you get extreme inequality.

Of course there's always going to be some inequality. Perfect equality is not something that's realistically possible or desirable, but taken to extremes, it does become harmful.
The risk and effort are not spread "equitably" so neither should the profits.
Actually 7 people out of 19.
If only they cancelled their laptop keyboards.
And what is their duty cycle?
Here's an experiment which could be started relatively inexpensively, but which would yield significant results: Start with just recycling water. Build a similar facility, or build a new one, but at first, just try to completely recycle the water. This could be done through greenhouses completely enclosing an artificial wetlands, which would be used to recycle human wastes. Pure water could be recovered by running dehumidifiers.

Such a facility could be built in the desert, much smaller, but incorporating the lessons of Biosphere 2. (For example, that conventional glass blocks too much sunlight, and that curing concrete releases CO2.)

Next, just completely recycle the air.

Only after that, see if the ecosystem could be expanded and food grown for the inhabitants. That should also be staged, with the 1st part involving just supplying enough calories, the next parts working towards complete nutrition.

Instead of sealing the system from the get-go, first build it "leaky," then prevent the leaks.
Methinks HWEng made a breach in Industrial Design's north flank, and provoked a rout. The tide is turning!
AI Ostritches are taking over!
That's not even on the box it's on a sticker on the box. Buy some new stickers and bin the old rolls!
Gaming addiction is a systemic problem that’s impacting the social stability of several Asian nations, and possibly Western ones — your argument isn’t principled, merely special pleading.
> Ya, the EITC is a negative income tax

EITC is a hybrid normal and inverse means-tested, and also behavior (by source of income) tested, welfare program managed through the tax system that was loosely inspired by negative income tax, but it is not actually a negative income tax.
I'm getting ready to list my house in Palo Alto next month; the real estate agents' recommendations all cluster about 3X the Zillow price (I have a very large house by Palo Alto standards). And we chose not to talk to the agents who only market to overseas buyers -- they typically overprice and then tolerate a longer period on the market.
I like how Boston Dynamics decided to monetize this YT video. Those robots don't pay for themselves
Not really.

Amaze is a decent file manager, follows material design, free/open source and available on F-droid.

It also includes an ftpd so it's pretty easy to connect to it even from computers you can't install stuff on.
No punishment for the trigger-happy cop who actually killed the man. Or to the idiots who made the police procedures deadly to the public.
I mean is it?
Please, let's not ever find out how a hungry mob fares against a emotionless robot army. I don't think it would be pretty.
One could try to turn it into a nonstop zero-G orgy. But that would become lots of tedium too.
Only about 5% of the Sun's energy, as filtered by Earth's atmosphere, is ultraviolet. You can block it all with negligible efficiency loss at your solar panel.

I'm not sure about UV filters that will be stable for 1000 years. Regular glass blocks most UV, but lets through about 25% of the frequencies close to blue.

For museum and artwork protection time frames acrylic is popular. It blocks almost all UV and is still stable after 25 years. I don't know how that extrapolates to 1000 years.
The notion of "value" pursued and optimized by our economy is proportional to wealth. Feeding a starving poor person has no economic value, but helping a rich person drain middle class retirement accounts has enormous economic value.

To the extent that the wealth distribution is unequal, our economy will ignore real, pressing issues among the poor in order to focus on the increasingly esoteric "needs" of the wealthy.

That's why absurdly lopsided wealth distribution is a problem.
The weird thing is it used to be less of a problem, because people used the damned height and width attributes in the img element. So the browser could calculate the dimensions before and lay the document out correctly before the slow loading images came in.

Now people largely ignore them, use publishing tools that don't bother, and dynamically build pages with garbage scripts instead of having a sane document already marked up.
>There were a lot of "online writings" about WMD in Iraq, too.

...what?
You have to look at what both Joe Rogan and This American Life do in a larger context, which should clarify the differences. I do think that TAL should not have given airtime to Alex Jones because it really is that dangerous to give him (and people like him) a platform.
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The people who would be responsible for prosecuting the officers are the same people who prosecute everyone else in that jurisdiction. Through all those other prosecutions, they tend to develop a strong working relationship with the police force and are typically on the "same side." It's also very rare for police to testify against their colleagues — as you might imagine.

That's not the only reason, nor is it always the case, but it's one of the big ones.
The difference is that WinForms uses some of the actual higher-level UI widgets and layout system from Win32/USER, WPF just uses its message pump and other low-level windowing/IO routing mechanisms, and builds all its own bespoke composition, layout and controls on top of that.
The banning of dissent under the pretense of radicalism has harmed more people than terrorism — Stalin’s purges, Mao’s purges, heck, even Hitler was just clearing out the seditious members of society who were undermining a strong Germany.

Your arguments, however you mean them, are also those used by tyrannical oppressors to justify the powers they use to commit great evil.
Scary sign. The house across from us sold in 2009 after six weeks on the market and most of my neighbors were terrified the market had completely tanked (the ones who'd been here since the 80s had seen it all and didn't seem fazed).

The last two houses I sold in Palo Alto (past couple of decades -- I'm no speculator!) sold in less than a week, tour -> cash in hand.
Yeah, thats easy to digest.
Why should they? It works fine on the bog-standard industry charger.
I used to work at a used computer store that recycled lots of e-waste. Got to see a few different SPARCbooks but sadly none of them worked.
yeah, my damn error, I thought NDA was included, but not so. Non-compete for non-exempt is a good start.
It's what they promote themselves as to the public.

I don't get out of my obligations as a public accommodation just because my hotel makes money by also having billboards on the property.
> How can we make sure that people don’t have to sleep on the street and suffer from poor healthcare?

The first step is a cultural change. I believe the ball is in the court of the writers, musicians, philosophers, poets, celebrities ... people involved with shaping culture. To give an example of how how toxic our culture has become, I'll recount something that just happened 30 minutes ago.

There's this nice old lady near my hackerspace who operates a small food cart. Not many people visit her because where she's allowed to be is laughably secluded, so she mainly sits there all day waiting for customers. Another member of the hackerspace said he was going to Wallgreens to get a candy bar and asked if anyone else wanted something.

I said: "Hey, there's the food cart lady who has that stuff and she's just a 1 minute walk away, instead of the Wallgreens which is 10 minutes away."

Upon hearing this, another member grunted with disapproval. I asked what was up.

He said: "She sold me a disgusting sandwich, you shouldn't support a business that is run that poorly."

I replied: "She's an old lady! Did you give her any feedback on the sandwich, maybe she can improve?"

Him: "A business run like that is beyond help."

I'm still shocked how this person couldn't even see past the business into the person. This is a huge problem I see: we forget we are dealing with people because we classify them simply as objects of utility. Our consumerist abstractions are causing us to be quite nasty to others.
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yes - great points! Now that I've gotten into the routine of using Anki, I basically end up taking notes in it. I'll cram a whole lecture in a card. I can always figure out how to split it up properly into multiple cards after a few reviews.

in general the trap of "letting perfect be the enemy of good" is so easy to fall into
Wireless charging is still supported though, that’s the mind boggling part. Nobody says “Ok I bought this wireless charging pad what am I going to do with it now?”
Could a “Smart Pill” Ever Make Your Brain Young Again?
Much of learning is repetition. I don't have the best long term memory so I solve this by regularly keeping an engineering journal. I designed a Django app to help me with this at work. Should it be of any help to you feel free to use it, hack it or build off it. Cheers~S

https://gitlab.com/shanedora/bornstellar
> The property taxes aren't especially high

Capped at 1% of assessed value, California property taxes under Prop 13 are notably low. You-might in theory in SF, or some parts, have high Mello-Roos fees (which are parcel taxes not tied to value), though I don't think that's he case.

> prop 13 means they can't go up more than 1%/year

Assessed value for tax purposes is limited to 2% annual increase under Prop 13, not 1%.
I think that's a very unhelpful way of putting the matter.

There is no direct confrontation standing at the origin of the conflict. Hence it being a 'Cold' War. It emerged from an accumulation of strategic moves over time. Each power worked to advance its interests, while watching other powers (namely Germany, Japan, and the British Empire) fade. At some point, they recognised that they were in direct geopolitical competition. When they did, it was clear that the Soviet Union was the lesser power. Its actions reflected that reality.

If you did want to identify an 'originary' moment to the conflict - which again, I think is an unhelpful way of approaching the subject - then it would have to be the US intervention in the Russian Civil War against the Bolsheviks.
I think editors just demand a certain percentage of "X having sex Y" headlines for traffic purposes, and leave it up to the writer to fill in X and Y so that the headline can be justified.
Where does that info come from? I went to school with people whose wealth can be traced back more than 20 generations. They didn't seem to getting poorer.
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TLDR; "I feel butthurt about mozilla letting me go."

EDIT: Or, "Look all I did for the rust community, my work was not appreciated enough and can't get over it."
Money buys happiness up to a certain point. I believe it was around $70,000 per year; at that point, you live a comfortable life where you don't have to worry about basic necessities and have some money left over for fun stuff (obviously this depends on the basic cost of living where you live; it's likely to be higher in Silicon Valley than in Thailand).
Wow. This is an excellent thought experiment to picture being super rich:

> PERSPECTIVE. The wealthiest person I have spent time with makes about $400mm/year. i couldn't get my mind around that until I did this: OK--let's compare it with someone who makes $40,000/year. It is 10,000x more. Now let's look at prices the way he might. A new Lambo--$235,000 becaome $23.50. First class ticket internationally? $10,000 becomes $1. A full time executive level helper? $8,000/month becomes $0.80/month. A $10mm piece of art you love? $1000. Expensive, so you have to plan a bit. A suite at the best hotel in NYC $10,000/night is $1/night. A $50million home in the Hamptons? $5,000.
It looks like the warehouse needs to be redesigned not just the robots inside it. Warehouse lighting is likely unnecessary, heat can be reduced, sensors everywhere... its now a machine environment. The floor markers, etc should all be part of that environment. Build the environment to the automated worker and you'll get a more effective result. I think Amazon has gone this route already.
What's it like when the 1st Saturday of April is April 1st?
> The notion of "value" pursued and optimized by our economy is proportional to wealth. Feeding a starving poor person has no economic value, but helping a rich person win the game of thrones / bank accounts has enormous economic value.

If you feed a poor person so that they can get a job and contribute to society, that generates quite a lot of economic value. But yes, you're right, giving away food does not increase GDP on its own. But then, neither does zero-sum wealth transfer.

> To the extent that the wealth distribution is unequal, our society will ignore real, pressing issues in order to focus its energy on silly zero-sum pissing contests among the few individuals that matter according to said distribution.

Is that so? That must be why our technology looks the same today as it did 100 years ago. Or 50 years ago. Or 20 years ago. Or 10 years ago. All those zero-sum pissing contests.
This seems both ill-intentioned and incorrect.
It's easy to think not being an asshole is simple. But if you look more closely, what defines an asshole is subjective. For example, does not offering water to your guest make you an asshole? In some circles it does, in some it does not. What about offering food?

On top of that, one also should not be TOO nice, it raises suspicion, make you a doormat, and most likely make your social interactions more difficult.

So when the goal is walking along a subjective line of being reasonably nice, you'll see why so many people cross to the asshole side, according to one person's standard.
> I suspect that they've migrated these databases to versions that don't require as much heavy oversight.

I think you're giving the bean counting process too much credit. AFAIK they go by abstract criteria (organization/location/job role/performance/etc.). I doubt they go by (or even know or care) how much actual work is being supported by the person.
Judging from the photos that display is obviously not 1280x1024.
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This is a recipe for disaster.
It depends, if you want to have a language that is used and supported a lot you should chose OCaml or F#. SML is not used a lot anymore but there are still a few places using it. I personally think that F# feel more modern to write for example ocaml have differnt operators for integers compared to floats. But it is mostly an opinion. As I said there is not a big difference between the two languages. So you would with a very short notice be able to move from one language to another.
In other words, the only way to stabilize capitalism is for those with the money-piles to spread it around just enough that those without don't try to take any extra.
Did those events not happen?
Interesting. Could this perform even faster if you (for large files) took a random sample of bytes before doing the search, to get the best distribution? Or just update the distribution as the search progresses.
Note that the events of this post happened and were happening before I left Mozilla. I wasn’t let go; I quit. And I’m not upset about it at all; I feel very positive about my future.

To respond to your edit, if anything, my work has been over appreciated, since I’m often the one who is communicating externally. The success of Rust has a lot more to do with others than me; that’s the nature of working on a team with over 100 people, and thousands over a project’s history.
I'm not a lawyer (and I'm not the other guy, despite sharing "Dragon" in the name).

The way the law was described to me, is that most crimes have approximately 3 levels:

* Criminal Negligence (Negligent Death / Involuntary Manslaughter)

* Criminal Recklessness (Manslaughter)

* Criminal Malice (Murder)

Things may get more detailed (Murder 1st degree usually has a "premeditated" clause), but that's the general pattern. The argument is that a Police Officer who shoots an innocent man would likely be either Criminally Negligent, or maybe Criminally Reckless, in his job.

Negligence is obviously the lowest bar for a crime. It is clear that the officer was negligent in confirming whether or not the suspect was reaching for a gun (because the suspect in this case was unarmed).

Recklessness might be a case if the officer drew the gun too early. Hard for me to say if this case fits the bar, especially because the prank caller would have biased the officers.

We all understand that there was no malice in the behavior. But guess what? A mother who leaves their underage child alone too long can be held criminally negligent if the child gets hurt. As a society, we expect all citizens (officers included) to do their job.
Wireless is a huge deal for devices that require frequent charging.

I won’t argue with that, I just can’t square the lack of “Apple branded” wireless charging as a pain point.
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I would be interested in hearing more from freelancers about tax tips they've found useful. One interesting thing I learned this year is it's common to setup a S-Corp LLC & then pay yourself a fair & reasonable wage. Anything over that you can pay yourself as dividends every quarter. Besides dividends being a huge tax savings (in the US) they also act as a sort of bonus. This also seems to help a bit with budgeting.
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