skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Add economics and psychology to that list. Pretty easy to come to a politically convenient conclusion when there's no way to reproduce the results of your "study".
Does a single DB query qualify as research?
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Are they profitable?

They’ve also had rounds of VC funding. So basically, by definition they are looking for an exit strategy. Statistically, that’s not likely to be an IPO.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ecobee
So, lets talk numbers:

Let's assume we have 100W (typically 12V) solar panels in ~1m Square space.
How many litres of alcohol/syntfuel will it generate during an (expected) 8hours of 100% power capacity in a day?
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Smart home stuff is really cool, if you build it yourself. Other than that it just feels like keeping up with the Joneses, with the notable exception of the disabled, for whom mass-produced smart home stuff must be a Godsend. So I guess all the geek/tech-posturing does have an upside.
CLOS is a part of Common Lisp. Fully integrated.
Non-vegans are always trying to do this smug "checkmate vegans" bullshit. It's incredibly tiresome.

There's this bizarre, illogical trope that doing some good is pointless if you can't be absolutely, impeccably perfect in every way. Again, it's just obvious bullshit from people who don't even really believe what they're saying, they're just playing a stupid gotcha game.
I don't know why, but Scott's comments in here came off pretty condescending.

If you're a developer on Twitter, it's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that the only developers that matter are front-end engineers. Just because helping develop the kernel, or integrating a new product on an already existing, proven stack that runs Angular for the front and Spring in the back, does not provide shiny things to look at doesn't make them less important, and it really comes off as if he's saying the "famous developers" should feel bad about that.

I don't know, maybe it just rubbed me the wrong way.
We never went back after 40+ years. We destroyed the telemetry data. We have moon rocks made of petrified wood.

We never burned up passing through the Van Allen radiation belts both going and returning. We never went in the first place.
There's a bunch of comments in this thread from people who did not read even the abstract of the study.

Those 3 data points were used in a graphic, which is not relevant to the actual experiment performed. Their experiment focused on cohorts of "parents who were (just) entitled to the new paternity leave" and "(just) ineligible parents". This design provides quasi-randomization so that any prior "downward trend" is not relevant, and clearly there are more than "3 data points" at play.
That depends entirely on the implementation (and leaves open the question of ABI and binary file format).
"Vegetable" isn't a botanical word, but it's culinary. The term "fruit" is both botanical and culinary. A fruit can be considered a vegetable or a culinary "fruit".
Do vaccinations cause autism? Welcome to answers we may already know, where peer review are made up and only feelings matter
Touché. Or should I say toupee?
Lyft (and Uber) are essentially borrowing money long term, and selling rides at a less than market price short term. Some of the drivers are getting stiffed - many of them, did they but know it, are getting an income where otherwise there wouldn´t be one with higher prices.

The trick is essentially that at the end, the loan (or the shares that replace it) goes into default(become worthless).

This is an old, old game, and one that can be run for a few short years, before it all ends in tears, and "whocoodanode" (to coin an americanism). Let´s just hope there isn´t too much pension fund money tied up in all this.
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RE agents get a lot more than that.
I would suggest using another app like Authenticator+ that has encrypted cloud sync. It's saved me a ton of trouble over the last few years.
Snarky but inaccurate reply. They do if you're a resident of Phoenix. Prices are equivalent to Uber but it's still too early to conclude what's behind those prices. Are they sustainable at scale? Is it just to avoid having the price floor drop out from them if they're viewed as purely a discount option? Is it to dissuade having too many users on the system all at once?
right, but it means the existing traffic can potentially spread out more so you don't see each other.
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Linux although some were going to go with android
Reminds me of The Savage Bees (1976) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Savage_Bees
This is implying the best & brightest drivers are driving tricked out super cars.
Not sure about the vegan part but I've just discovered that avocados require lots of water during production and as such are not very natural-resource-friendly.

https://old.danwatch.dk/en/undersogelseskapitel/how-much-wat...
Apparently everyone decided I was proposing letting it all burn down. I was only wondering if, by letting the landlord have a key who could be used in an emergency, the tenants where reducing the risk of being on the hook for those extra $200. Of course the emergency must be dealt with.
Freelance doesn't pay much at all. When I was doing it for real (many years ago), I'd get paid 20 cents per character (yes, print media pays by the character, not the word -- and no, don't use long words).

More recently, famous tech blogs only pay around $50 per post. Think about that. I was lucky in tech there are other options.
Those type annotations are on clisp? I probably should get a project to test them :)
So this code is from Go's big.Int documentation (slightly adapted):

func main() {
a := big.NewInt(0)
b := big.NewInt(1)

var limit big.Int
limit.Exp(big.NewInt(10), big.NewInt(99), nil)

for a.Cmp(&limit) < 0 {
a.Add(a, b)
a, b = b, a
}
fmt.Println(a)
}

I can't say I'm particularly keen on having to read

a.Cmp(&limit) < 0

instead of

a < limit

The question is whether it's worth it to write code like this in order to prevent others from misusing operator overloading. I guess it may depend on how much math code you write and how disciplined your coworkers are.
instead you pay for context switches in the scheduler and suffer an order of magnitude slowdown in production. and when you profile and find the performance issue, you rewrite the portion of code to use mutexed shared memory to hit your performance targets.
You keep the lights you have now, but you put in a smart switch. I prefer wave, like this https://www.amazon.com/Leviton-DZ6HD-1BZ-Decora-Dimmer-Techn...

Then you can program anything to turn the light on/off. Like for example I also turn off lights even if there is motion if the luminance sensors say it is plenty bright inside from the sun.

Or leave the shower light on when the humidity is really high and there is no detectable motion. I might not be moving enough in the shower but if the humidity is 90% you can assume the shower is on and I don't want to be left in the dark.

Another one of my favorites is in our kids play room. On a school night, if the xbox is on, and there is motion, Alexa will announce a warning about bed time, wrap up the game play. Then in a couple minutes the xbox turns off, and then Alexas tell them to brush their teeth, and eventually turns off the lights in the play room (they would never turn them off on their own). If the xbox turns back on, my wife and I get an alert on our phones so we can manage screen time.
There's a very vocal minority that views any attempt by the government to make any ID proof that the New World Order exists. There's also a pretty decent sized part of the Evangelical movement that sees those IDs as potentially the literal "mark of the beast" from revelations.

Additionally a part of the Republican strategy is to disenfranchise via selectively reducing access to valid existing IDs while cranking up voting requirements of those IDs.

This combo basically means that both Republicans as a whole and the Blue Dogs see it as politically nonviable, which is more than a majority at the federal level.
Even the most ridiculous of militant vegans (and they get pretty ridiculous) would consider things like almonds, avocados or figs vegan. Stop with the perfectionism and the nitpicking. It's bad for the movement and bad for the animals/environment.

"Veganism is a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose."[1]

1. https://www.vegansociety.com/go-vegan/definition-veganism
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I am not sure what you mean: why take a loss if you don't need to?

You don't mind a loss if that is the only way to launder money but if you can launder money without the loss, then why should you take the loss?
You can be genuinely well off, making over $120k a year, and still get medically bankrupted because of an unforeseeable condition and some capricious bullshit by your expensive health plan
A dead language doesn't mean no one speaks it. That's why I included Latin as a comparison. It means it has no native speakers and it stops evolving.

By definition, the Hebrew language was totally a dead language for centuries.

A live language is a continuously evolving thing, with native speakers.
And inefficient in some others. It all depends on the use case.
Why can't I prove summation identities without guessing?
If we're being pedantic here, it's botanically a fruit, but botanical fruits that we interact with in common parlance as vegetables are often considered vegetables legally.

At least in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden
Appreciate the measured warning, as you mentioned there's a lot of strong opinions either way so it's hard to find the more practical advice among it all which is what inspired the original question.

I'll take all the advice here and get better understanding of the overheads and pain myself (and hopefully a few other interested folk) so that when the cracks do start showing properly there's a working containerized solution to roll out more smoothly.
Combine the AV system with the variety of places on might have audio or video, and it is even more confusing.

I'd like to see a web site or an app that lets you input what you've got and how it is connected, and then answers questions about that setup for you.

For example, I'd be able to tell it that I have:

Denon AVR-1913 receiver
Comcast X1 cable box
Sony BDP-S390 Blu-Ray player
Nintendo Switch
Samsung 55U7000 TV

I'd be able to tell it that the receiver is connected to all the rest by HDMI, and that the TV also has an optical audio connection back to the receiver.

I'd also be able to tell it that I have an iMac, iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch 4, Surface Pro 4, and a Windows 10 desktop. I'd be able to tell it that I have WiFi that the all of those are on as is the Nintendo Switch, and an Ethernet that the iMac, Windows desktop, receiver, cable box, Blu-Ray player, and TV are on.

Finally, I'd be able to tell it that I have an iTunes library on the iMac, an iTunes account, a Netflix account, Amazon Prime, and Spotify.

The site would then answer questions based on that. Typical questions might be:

"I bought movie X from iTunes. How the heck do I watch it on my TV?"

"I don't own a copy of X. What are my rental/buying options using the services I currently have?"

"I have a photo gallery on the iMac. How can I view the photos on my TV? When doing so, how can I control the viewing while not at the iMac?"

"I want to listen to music while sitting on the couch. The music comes from a playlist on my iMac, and I want to be able to play/pause, and to skip tracks. How can I do this?"

Ideally the site should also be able to suggest improvements. For example, for the setup described above it might suggest that I connect the Comcast X1 directly to the TV, because they both support 4K. The receiver does not, and so my current setup can't do better that 1080p.
The idea (urban myth?) I've heard for discussion's sake:

The long term bet is on them becoming THE way to get around and monopolizing the market (or a chunk of it at least) and THEN jacking up prices.

If you undercut cabs and public transit long enough, they'll have to react to lower ridership and reduce availability. Sorry, no late night buses, most people are taking a very inexpensive and convenient Lyft home. Now that there's no late night buses, we can charge 3X the cost.
22% is really high for what's effectively a dispatch fee.

If you factor in the way Uber can dictate price, you may actually be "paying" a higher fee versus what you could've made on your own. If they force you to accept a 40% discount that's got to be factored in, too.

Apple takes 30% but they don't tell you what price you can charge.
>> Why do I need WIFI on my lights, coffee maker, or dishwasher?

Well, you don't. WIFI is definitely one way to go, but Z-wave is a better way, imo.

Here's a use case for me -- I think last year DHH did a podcast where he talked about air quality and the effect of CO2 on cognitive function. After listening to it, I got a CO2 detector and wired it to a Pi. I had it set up to fire a webhook to IFTTT to turn on my HVAC fan via a NEST connector when a certain CO2 threshold was hit in my bedroom (it would get quite high overnight).

I have since found out that my ensuite bathroom fan is more effective than the furnace fan in lowering the CO2 in my bedroom, so having a smart wall switch on my ensuite fan allows me to automatically turn it on or off based on the air conditions.
Interesting. I'm wondering what the benefit of infinite scrolling would be for the site owner. Wouldn't an article site like this want the user to click as many links within the site as possible to re-generate ads?
Rebase is a way to provide what you're calling "change management", and so is git stash. The rest of git is what you're calling "version control". I don't see any conflict. I don't love trying to differentiate those terms either, FWIW. Managing changes and controlling versions are "literally" the same thing.

> Then I force push and the mess begins.

That is your problem right there. Force pushing over published history should always be avoided. Don't do that, it is very unfriendly to others you work with. Just always pull, resolve any conflicts, then push your changes without forcing them. If you need to force in order to fix a serious mistake, then notify everyone first and have people hold their changes, then pull everything, resolve the problem, force push, and notify everyone again to "force pull" by first fetching, then reset their branch to what's in the origin verison; using reset --hard will let them avoid having any conflicts after you force pushed. Consider carefully whether the mistake even warrants a force push, or if you can make do with new commits on top that fix the bad ones.

> Regarding centralized repository [...] Seven potentially different versions of the same exact file.

You're conflating multiple different topics. The existence of multiple copies of a file isn't related to which repo is the central one, nor is it some kind of problem.

The origin repo is your central repo. Your downstream repo has to copy from the upstream/central repo if you even want to work on the code. What you called "copies" in origin/master and master are branches, not copies of the file. The only single copy on your machine from your point of view is your local workspace, which expanded from your "master". stash is something that happens behind the scenes to your git database, it's not making more working copies.
wc2 is another repo or computer, it's not even relevant. None of these copies you're talking about are visible to a user except the one working copy.
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unfortunately, it doesn't just come from non-vegans. There is so much infighting within the community because so many demand "perfection" or else you are a "fake vegan".
no, free markets are an illusion that don't actually ever exist because they're immediately distorted by various things like market dominance. property developers exist to make money and use real estate to extort poor people. regulations don't fundamentally change that one way or the other.
Check out the coal and diesel haze over Mongolia in winter. This first video is brutal: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/mongo...
My first impression was "D'uh", but then, from the article:

> Vegans avoid animal products. For strict vegans this means avoiding honey because of the exploitation of bees. That seems to imply that vegans should also avoid vegetables like avocados that involve exploiting bees in their production.

I'm not vegan, so I don't know how deep they are involved in "not animal exploitation" even is not obvius nor direct
Doesn't help you now but I can highly recommend AndOTP [1]. It's an opensource OTP app with support for encrypted backups/restores for your 2FA codes.

[1] https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP
I wouldn't say it's your fault for not going through the exact UI logic, but more for not scoping the project properly from the beginning.

If there is a clear scope laid out in the initial contract it's more clear who is on the hook for anything outside the scope, and easier to recoup losses when the client fails to deliver the requirements properly.
Yes, but that's not relevant here. Culinarily, they are not a fruit either.
How do Delta, United, American Airlines, and Southwest all operate within the same market and not have fare wars constantly leading to bankruptcy? If you were correct, it seems like it would be impossible for several airlines to operate within the US. Yet, several airlines somehow manage to set prices that allow them to operate. I'm not saying Lyft and Uber will ultimately be successful (I don't know), but it wouldn't unheard of for multiple players to operate in the ride sharing market and not constantly have a fare war.
Correct. Also, avocados are vegetables:

> 2. A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, or spice in the culinary sense.

> 3. The edible part of such a plant.

The culinary sense of fruit referred to above is:

> a sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary

Note that avocados are not sweet, so they are not fruit in the culinary sense, and therefore are vegetables in the culinary sense.
It's not a binary thing, though. When my IoT smart lights don't turn on from a voice command, I can always walk over to the switch and flip them on. My IoT smart home makes things more convenient, not unusable.
> But that would require them to implement a new file system from scratch wouldn't it? VolFs in WSL1 relied on NTFS to do the heavy lifting.

You are correct.
When does one start counting oneself as a dinosaur? I'm pushing 15 years.
Salient points, but even Java is a regional thing. In Texas, if you aren't using .NET then you are in the minority.
Here's the definition of veganism by the Vegan Society: "Veganism is a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose."
The environmental externality must be internalized strongly and consistently throughout the "developed" and developing economies [1]. Participation from the two groups is a necessary condition for addressing the air pollution issue.

Meanwhile, the situation in London is similar in South Korea [2]. Most likely, worse: South Korean government is afraid of further regulating the domestic industry, when it should. Over the past decade or so, Chinese government has moved a lot of their factories to the East coast which faces SK in the West. Both SK and Chinese citizens must acknowledge this is a mutually-interested issue and take concrete steps to collaborate while minimizing finger pointing. I am convinced this is a tractable scientific and social/diplomatic problem. One proposal is to set up a joint government-backed venture/think tank that incrementally tackles this issue at a tech/policy level. Such a small step but no where near it...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/13/social-d...
It's still not a per-ride cost.
Information density is not hampered by the presence of proper negative space, on the contrary, using the right amount of negative space actually allows for very information dense layouts to still be readable. A good example is a traditional paper phone book
>Should they?

Probably not for the reasons you mentioned.

That doesn't mean it's not a damn good thing to say if you want to be popular on the internet. Hard-line opinions about Bad Things(TM) always win virtue points regardless of whether or not those opinions are well informed.
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What’s wrong with fixed-fee if a fully specified statement of work is made with clear, objective test criteria?
I guess my main concern would be his bus factor. What guarantees are there that his estate will provide the same gentleman's agreement to focus on archiving rather a money grab?
A little bit of a tangent to the main topic but...

>I'm a little uncertain about how much of their hobby is built on communal agreement, anecdotes, and personal experience as opposed to scientific data.

Scientific data, which we interpret to mean a more thoughtful hypothesis and data gathering mechanism, is not always more correct than anecdote and personal experience. For example, it turns out we'd have been better off taking nutrition advice from our great-grandmas in the old country, rather than the mid 20th century scientific analysis (gathering data and running regressions) on the optimal way to eat macro-nutrients.

In some cases when knowledge is generated by a complex non-linear system, the default human approach of building anecdotes and personal experience is stronger.

Similarly, I'd sooner trust the sage wisdom on code readability from some 50 year old open source hackers, then a team of PhDs in their 20s or 30s, who studied a bunch of teams and summarized their results.
The medallion restrictions and lobbying goes back decades before Uber. There would be no Uber without the taxi lobby backed, government enforced, artificial restriction on supply.
And it's much easier for that person to mishear/miskey that ID and work on the wrong record. With a random UUID you will not have that mistake unless you have some seriously huge data. Base64 encode it everywhere and it's 22 characters.
> portals can be pre-loaded while the user scrolls through a page

Let's be real here. This can already be done though <link> "prefetch" and "preload" [0].

This is just Google introducing more pointless tech that will make webpages clunkier for no good reason. Honestly, I can't think of a single purpose this serves that isn't already fulfilled by existing web tech.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49491193/how-can-i-preem...
I have a Hue setup, and you only need to signup for a developer account to use their cloud API. If you're on your local network, the bridge has a REST API exposed and you can just start issuing requests to it without any signing up for anything.
I know not getting up sounds like a good thing, but the logical conclusion to that are the couch potatoes shown in the movie Wall-E.
"It's a whole different game when you have to switch from man on man coverage to zone defense."
Supply is a barrier to entry. These 2 sided market places require having a large supply of drivers and riders to be viable. A new competitor would probably need to come in with a managed fleet and be ready to operate at a loss for a really long time.

At their current scale uber and lyft don't need to have huge margins, they just need to break even and can make up for it with volume. Like amazon they could undercut any new competitor and play the long game. Their marginal costs are so low that they could win out any city with competition by aggressively cutting their 25% of the fare.