skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A short list:

1. fonts too small

2. buttons that do different things depending on how long the button is held down

3. chording - needing to hold down more than one button simultaneously to do something

4. blink speed - slow blink means one thing, fast blink means another. Is that LED blinking "slow" or "fast"?

5. labeling buttons with icons that have no deducible meaning

6. modes

7. having to do the next step within a certain number of seconds or it fails and you have to start all over again
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VSCode was also born cross-platform, which enables developers that didn't consider Visual Studio.
"Embrace, Extend, Extinguish", Microsoft's 1990s playbook for eliminating competition by creating a proprietary fork of some open system/standard, then locking the industry into the Microsoft version of the product.
So the plan is to only use excess renewable energy that otherwise wouldn't get produced and consumed? If not wouldn't you be a net carbon generator, as you would be burning fossil fuels and releasing carbon in order to capture a lesser amount of carbon in your process?

What steps are in place to prevent the process from displacing other renewable use? Take the fact that it is less than 100% efficient to store renewable energy as gasoline. Others might make more efficient use of this renewable energy by immediately using it to displace fossil fuels, with no or lower storage losses. Under this scenario Prometheus is again a net carbon generator. (edit: The same dilemma is faced by any other type of storage.)

It strikes me that Prometheus will come into its own if it can guarantee that it doesn't displace more efficient users. This will happen when fossil fuel usage becomes negligible or we (as a society) come up with a sophisticated energy scheduling algorithm that can take account of efficiency.

It comes back to that fact that whilst it is green to replace fossil with renewable energy, it's even greener if we can increase efficiency and avoid consuming that energy in the first place.

Don't get me wrong, correctly used it's a great thing you are doing.
yea, this better turn out to be the most genius thing ever or they're going to piss a lot of people off.
What do you dislike about edge triggered mode?
Give’m hell! That’s how you get things done.
Looks very much like a hack to me. What with the weird grammar?
This isn’t going to let us electrify the transportation decrypt. Here’s some back of the envelope numbers. An ICE is about 33% efficient at converting chemical energy to kinetic. I don’t know how efficient this process is, but to be generous, I’ll guess 75%. (I could be way off!) Factor in transmission losses of about 2% to the refinery and 5% losses to distribute the fuel, and you get about 6% of the generated electricity making its way to kinetic forward motion. Contrast this with an EV, which has a battery roundtrip efficiency of 99% and motors of around 85-90%. The end result is about 80% of the generated electricity getting used.

Now, I hope we can electrify the transportation sector, but our current generation and transmissions systems are inadequate. I am did he calculations for the state of California, and found that they would need to be roughly doubled in size. An immense undertaking, but a doable one.

However, I do not see us increasing the electricity generation and transmission systems by a factor of 25, which would be required for this technology.
But that’s how everybody uses it. That’s the default mode when you start a new document. Who even knows that the other mode exists?

Surely they could make it performant in the default mode that everybody uses now that it’s 2019 and we have megahertz to spare? There is no excuse for Word’s atrocious performance.
yeah sounds pretty straightforward /s
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Well that is what I think if it's on the first case I mentioned. I see it contained inside a comp function and I move on.

If I see it "on the wild" (as part of a bigger function), however, my train of thought goes "Wait, why is this piece of code here instead of a function call called `comp`? Is this a comparator or is this something else? Ok geez time to do the javascript eye dancing thing. You know what? I'm just not going to approve this and demand that this piece of code is at least given a proper name and put somewhere. Possibly with unit tests"
I'd call it an analogy rather than a straw man. The formula is [now thing] is safe in [now context] but [future context] != [now context] so is [future thing] safe?

It's fair to say my concern is potential abuse of any system in a fluctuating context.
Both riders had a conscience and were trying to be honorable. That is admirable, but for a one day race like a National Championship, both riders had an obligation to win for their team, not to appease some unwritten code of honor.

A deal in a stage race where both riders win is different because both riders are winning for their team (i.e. Weaker rider gets the stage, stronger rider picks up time in the overall standings).
There will be a non-zero number of people who will have purchased those games precisely due to there being a linux client available for them.

Pulling support for a client of a competitive online game like Rocket League is fundamentally closing the game to those players - as they will be unable to compete online with other players (be it on PC or on the other platforms).

I really don't like Epic's change in behaviour here - It's quite disheartening since when they used to release first party Linux builds of their products ('Unreal Tournament 2004', and the recently cancelled upcoming 'Unreal Tournament' had Linux client releases), and they were one of the few big name game dev houses to actively support Linux clients.
This is interesting, but is it really as simple as "laptops are now using SSDs over HDDs"? I'd like to see some more detailed analysis of this prediction.
How about a Premium feature list on the pricing page?
I was seriously so confused my this e-mail. I've found great deals on B&H in the past but getting e-mails telling me about a neat trick to evade taxes leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Your instincts are excellent: using heat directly is always and everywhere better than turning it into a fungible commodity like electricity, only to convert that electrical energy to some other form later. (Creating liquid fuel is no different in this regard.)

The reality is that there's almost never a practical direct use of the heat at the facility where it is created. It is too low quality for the onsite processes. Economizers and Regenerators are two common pieces of equipment that suck out what heat can be used - what's left is too low temperature for whatever they're making onsite.

Sometimes there's an opportunity to broker a deal between two adjacent facilities, where one can use the heat that the other considers waste. But those are rare.

Happy to talk about this until you wished you'd never asked. Feel free to email.
First, it's hard to imagine such a world. Under normal circumstances as productivity/automation increases worker labor will always be an increasingly smaller part of the value added, which means capex grows relative to opex which drives r.

The way r can get suppressed long-term is through (1) wealth taxation, (2) depreciation of an important asset class (eg as birth rate falls further below replacement housing can start to depreciate), or (3) high inflation.

If it is (1) then there really isn't much to be done, although hopefully the redistribution will be administered sufficiently well to help everyone achieve a high quality of life. If it is (2) then you can avoid the depreciating assets. If it is (3) then you once again avoid depreciating assets (don't hold cash/bonds/cash-like assets).
Let's be clear, they have no arguments that rely on any sort of rational discourse. No "strategy", or clever approach to the problem will convince them they are wrong.

I'm honestly not sure you're actually arguing in good faith here. You've offered no path that would address the issue other than hand waving and saying "fighting will make it worse", and "we should let it run its course". I'm saying that there is no "run its course", they aren't gonna just give up and go home if you stop fighting, and they aren't all gonna just die if measles either (thanks to the above mentioned herd immunity we all protect them with).

You say you've vaccinated your kids. Lucky you. Maybe realize you're privileged to have been able to do that and stop telling those less fortunate they'll just have to let their loved ones die from preventable diseases lest we make a bunch of crackpot conspiracy theorists' "arguments more plausible".
Sorry, Visual Studio Online? AKA Azure DevOps a few months ago? Surprised someone decided to pick the same name up that quickly. The name makes a lot more sense applied to this team, though :)

n.b.: MS employee, interned under the org f.k.a VSO a few years ago.
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You don't have to live in Manhattan to work in Manhattan. Or at the very least, if you value your walkable commute that much, then why the hell do you need $10K/yr in luxury car expenses?

Also, you can recoup up to $3K of that $5K mortgage by cutting the other luxury goods in the budget.

I guess the point is: any one item on this list might be justifiable. At the very least, each on its own is a totally reasonable luxury to indulge in after decades of not just hard but also smart and stressful work. But the budget, taken as a whole, is hard to describe with any word other than "luxurious".
BR has 100 and 128 GB sizes now, which I use, but doesn't change your calculations much.
It's nice to see a civil protest. Both sides seemed interested in compromise and moving the company forward.
Erik Naggum, Comp.Lang.Lisp, 1997:

"what makes _me_ sad is the focus on "most folks" and "Joe Sixpack".

why are we even _thinking_ about home computer equipment when we wish to
attract professional programmers?

in _every_ field I know, the difference between the professional and the
mass market is so large that Joe Blow wouldn't believe the two could
coexist. more often than not, you can't even get the professional quality
unless you sign a major agreement with the vendor -- such is the investment
on both sides of the table. the commitment for over-the-counter sales to
some anonymous customer is _negligible_. consumers are protected by laws
because of this, while professionals are protected by signed agreements
they are expected to understand. the software industry should surely be no
different. (except, of course, that software consumers are denied every
consumer right they have had recognized in any other field.)

Microsoft and its ilk has done a marvelous job at marketing their software
in the mass market so that non-professional programmers pick them up and
non-programmers who decide where the money should be wasted will get a warm
fuzzy feeling from certain brand names. I mean, they _must_ recognize that
nothing else they buy for their company is advertised in the newspapers
that morning and they aren't swayed by consumer ads when they buy office or
plant equipment, are they? so _why_ do they swallow this nonsense from the
mass-marketing guys hook, line, and sinker?

they don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products,
and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows appliance
_near_ my desk or on my network. this is my _workbench_, dammit, it's not
a pretty box to impress people with graphics and sounds. when I work at
this system up to 12 hours a day, I'm profoundly uninterested in what user
interface a novice user would prefer.

I'm reminded of the response to how people of little or no imagination were
complaining about science fiction and incredibly expensive space programs:
"the meek can _have_ the earth -- we have other plans".

no, this is not elitist, like some would like to believe in order to avoid
thinking about the issues. this is just calling attention to the line
between amateurs and professionals, between consumers and producers, that
is already there in _every_ field. I want people to wake up to this
difference and _reject_ the consumer ads when they look for professional
tools. if it's marketed to tens of millions of people, it is _not_ for the
professional programmer, and not for you. if its main selling point is
novice-friendliness, ignore it unless you _are_ a novice. (and if you are
a novice trying to sell your services in a professional market, get the
hell out of the way.)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.lisp/HCMKe...
This is probably a dumb question, but what essential products use plastics and for which no other material is an adequate substitute for the plastic components?
But even their own example was UI related, I wonder if this is just a way for them to fork "window console" to allow modern UI.
xamarin.forms has support for uwp/wpf (windows), linux (GTK#) and mac (https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/xamarin/xamarin-forms/platf...) it's not highlighted that much and for some stuff you need to create native views. but it works smoothly and you can do a lot of stuff. for some stuff you still need to configure native views, or call into native apis, but still it's pretty nice working and looks better and is faster than most electron stuff.
Ok that makes sense. Then, in the OP story, isn't the guy who won the weaker rider? So the type of deal we're talking about here is irrelevant - the stronger rider just made a bad deal.
The bug is here, if you want to follow it: https://github.com/tokio-rs/mio/issues/923
> "good"

Yes. Plenty of perfectly accessible public schools are good even though they're not nearly the best.

Again, access to the elite educational institutions in the country with most of the elite educational institutions in the world is... a luxury good.

Also, as someone who tutored those kids, IMO you're not doing them any favors in the long. If you have to work for a living, then at some point way before "the best public schools in NYC, $50K/yr private schools, or bust", grit >> prep. That sort of prep also has the effect of disabusing them of a clear-headed understanding of their own limitations; which, again, can be a really terrible thing for them in the long.
Very rough calculation:

* 60 kWh / gallon of gasoline
* 100,000 gallons / year
* = 6 GWh / year
* = 3.5 MW solar array (from on-line calculator)
* ~ 18,000 m^2 of solar panels (500W, 1.9m * 1.3m) (roughly 3 football fields of solar panels).
>We are not using parchment anymore, there is nothing to be gained by saving a couple of lines.

Parchment, no, but do you not value vertical terseness when evaluating a function for code clarity?
So you paid sales tax to your state every time you purchased an item out of state before the supreme court ruling? You know you were legally obligated to pay even though the company didn't collect the taxes right?
I don't know how you define datacenter. An AZ could be a different building on the same campus. These are Google's main locations. As you can see there are only 9:

https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/in...
epoll (and even kqueue) is not aio and was never intended as such. While epoll had some early snafus, those have long been fixed (offering ET and LT) and it works well for its intended purpose (io readiness). This (io_uring) is more for a thing like Windows overlapped IO and "unix" (incl FreeBSD) aio. AIO on linux is yet a separate set of syscalls (io_*) and has since day one in the 2.5 days been pretty much a useless joke, very limited in scope (O_DIRECT only).

kqueue is neither epoll nor aio but a common queueing interface for events, which includes io readiness and aio completion as separate types. Linux prefers to split these as different types of fds. FWIW, this wasn't due to obliviousness of the existing design - https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/event_queues.html.

Honestly your comment sounds very like a regurgitated old and somewhat outdated Bryan Cantrill rant.
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“Internet threatens print industry” would’ve been a less interesting headline.
Raymond Chen had a good explanation for why the've been very hesitant to modernise cmd.exe but I can't seem to find it.
Screen and Tmux can help a little, but not much (if my work involved stable configurations of tabs, I could save maybe 2 minutes of setup per reboot). Unless you're proposing running all command line tools only on remote servers, which won't work with local files.

I think the problem already has a solution: no automatic reboots. Tell me it's needed and I'll sigh, do what I need to to save my state, then do it myself.
Clementine is ridiculously laggy for me and uses a lot of CPU, even when idle. Maybe I have too big of a music collection for it? I'm baffled. I've never had performance issues from a music player before.

SMPlayer's homepage says it's only on Windows and Linux. I only ever used VLC for playing one-off files. I never knew about VLC having media collection features, might have to look into that.

Rhythmbox on Ubuntu has been great for me. I just want Rhythmbox on other platforms. I've been using Google Play Music instead. (It lets you upload your music collection into the cloud, which is super useful as I can now use it from devices it's not synced to, though it's not open source or an application I can run offline, and it's pretty limited in how it can sort and display songs. I can't sort songs by date added, etc.)
Regardless of my ability to accurately account for my online purchases, I prefer online sites take the correct amount of taxes to reduce my liability in regard to accurately accounting for my online purchases.
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For example C++/CLI
I agree, and technically the university can cap the number of students taken this way and try to understand the first and second order effects. (If we take this 1 extra student we might be able to take in 25 extra regular students in 5 years due to the funding)

However, In this case, the spot was for a good student with a solid sailing sports background that was taken.
For example the rider with the yellow jersey won’t try to win a stage if other drivers are around that are not a threat in the overall standing. You see that often in mountain stages.
I hope it happens.

I rode in an Embraer E175 and was impressed at the comfort compared to a 737 even though it is a smaller plane. It literally was like Buck Rodger's spacecraft in comparison.

The A220 is a similar class of plane but even more technologically advanced. If Southwest doesn't pick it up, JetBlue will, and will put them out of business.
Really? It looks more like Riot is doing the absolute minimum to make it look like they are actually interested. They won't get rid of forced arbitration for current or past employees, and new employees only get to opt out(I wonder how many hoops they'll have to jump through for that). Current employees can't even opt out at this point.
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The four ingredients here (avobenzone, oxybenzone, ecamsule and octocrylene) seem to be specific to chemical* sunscreens, as opposed the sunscreens that are "physical" like Titanium dioxide/zinc oxide based ones.

They're like the ones in the Hawaii ban on some otc sunscreens (on oxybenzone and octinoxate) because those two chemicals appear to be particularly bad for coral reefs or something.

Then again, there is ofc the issue of nanoscale particles on your face passing through your own skin, but that sounds like it applies for a lot of modern makeup anyways. And for that, I take it cosmetics R&D people already have something on this...(?)

(*Chemical/physical sunscreens are categorized by their uv protection mechanisms: the former type generally uses organic compounds to absorb uv, the latter type uses inorganic compounds to generally just reflect/scatter, to loosely put it)
How many async io APIs are we up to now?
When you're working with sockets there's lots to think about that you can simply ignore with an HTTP library -- connection setup and teardown, buffering, serialization, byte ordering etc. But more importantly, you'll have to build your own status/error handling, cache control, content encoding, TLS etc. (Simply, doing TLS correctly itself is not easy.)

To be clear, I'm not saying that there's no place for socket programming -- there definitely is. I've spent a good part of my life doing obscure network programming on all kinds of platforms, so I try not to use TCP/UDP unless I have a really good reason. (It's kinda the same reason I won't use C or C++ -- too much to worry about for most general purposes.)
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All human processes can be reduced to slot machines if you go abstract enough. By extension that includes all games.

My criticism was that what this make the exchange so blatantly abusive. All those psychological mechanisms to "ensure engagement" and "pursue the whales" (or whatever soft term they come up for them) ... makes me sick.

I actually think I prefer a slot machine to this. It is less dishonest.
I support them 100% and I do not support paying taxes to out of state orders. Soon will be eBay and Amazon. California and New York keeping companies away with their rules and taxes so let them try harder to attract companies.
Just as a thought exercise, I would consider:

- Mailing encrypted USB sticks or messages on paper

- Some kind of steganography: hidden/encoded messages disguised in another form, like a painting..?
> Most people who go to ivy league are already from the top 1%

That's way off. Harvard is 15% from the top 1% [1], and that's typical for Ivy League.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobilit...
Appreciate you're sharing some of these details (thank you). I have been thinking about this same basic idea but with hydrogen and fuel cells but will need to evaluate the merits of electricity -> gasoline vs. electricity -> hydrogen.

Being able to work with existing infrastructure and vehicles and other components designed to work with gas is a huge advantage. And of course the simpler storage of gas vs. hydrogen is nice too.

In terms of efficiency we can do a little back of envelope calcualtions. Prometheus converts electricity to gas at 60 kWh a gallon (33.7 kWh) or about 56% efficient. Hydrogen production via electrolysis comes in at between 44.5 - 55 kWh/kg-H2 (I've seen a wide range of estimates) for a kg of Hydrogen (33 kWh) so about 60-70% efficient.

Of course then there's the reverse process of burning gas or using a fuel cell for electricity production. The Toyota Mirai gets about 68 miles per kg of hydrogen and the roughly equivalent Toyota Camry hybrid gets about 52 mpg.

So boiling this down (if I got this right and my data is good):

Gas method: 60kWh -> 1 gallon of gas -> 52 miles = .86 miles / kWh
Hydrogen method: 55 kWh -> 1 kg of h2 -> 68 miles = 1.23 miles / kWh

Of course this ignores all the challenges to building the hydrogen infrastructure, public fear (warranted or not) about hydrogen, capital costs of both systems, etc. It's also likely the hydrogen conversion gets more efficient than the 55kWh to product 1kg but wanted to keep this conservative.
I would fix your site design first. It's really hard to read your content. (the background is really busy and has contrast issues with the text) This is low hanging fruit though, but someplace to start.
One of their other books, "Thanks for the Feedback", is also reading I regularly recommend as a part of my mentoring program.