skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Fender succeeds more because their product lines are a broad rather than a steep pyramid. Gibson makes most of their income from a smaller number of manually intensive instruments. Leo Fender’s genius was to design for manufacturability which enables a large, quality product line that’s mostly CNCed at lower per unit cost than Gibson (and typically sold for less with higher margins).
I know it is an unpopular opinion, but I'd prefer everyone to switch to the same language. That would greatly simplify a lot of real-world situations, and increase culture proliferation.

Along the same reasoning, the less active languages there are out there, the better.
It's not just CLOS. All general classifications like this are doomed to fail when you start looking through different languages.

I think one very clear example is hybrid sum types like Scala's case classes (on sealed trait/abstract class), Kotlin's sealed classes and probably Swift enums too. They can all be used as a pure sum-type, but they don't forego inheritance and polymorphism.

I think the more important distinction relies on how you use it, regardless of whether the language allows you to do more. Do you make the data layout a contract (in the case of sum types: commit to closed set of cases) and make changing the "schema" harder? Or do you make the provided set of functions a contract and make it harder to add new functionality that will be supported by all data types?
Older TVs also use more power (and put out more heat).

You'll eventually find your game consoles, Blu ray players etc no longer function with the TV as it doesn't support whatever the latest HDCP standard is.
Irwin tools, Klein tools, Blaster Corp products, John Deere stuff, K-Bar, Leatherman, Ogio backpacks, and Patagonia. I'm sure there are others but these brands have held up well for me over time. It's definitely a short list. Lowe's Kobalt brand seems to be good for now but Craftsman is junk now, most major appliances are garbage, every television manufacturer I can think of has garbage QA, aside from Samsung and apple I can't think of a reputable phone brand sold in the US but even Apple quality has lessened a bit and Samsung has the exploding battery issue. It's gotten really hard to find quality that isn't hand made.
I'd assume privacy concerns are not the only thing being measured with this sort of experiment. People also worry about their accounts being somehow used for spam.
"the american dream"
They dropped the original product long time ago.
Don't forget literally switched the product to another product and kept the old reviews including pictures of the old predicts.
In my experience, the dogs ive been around dont generally look sad. The totality of their facial expressions show their emotion.

Ive a one year old pup, border collie/labrador mix. I can take a quick glance at his face and know exactly how he's feeling. Probably 80% of the time, its pure joy. Happy to run around, chew on toys, jump on the furniture and try and play (unrequitedly) with our cats. About another 10%, he's scared of other animals he can see out of the Windows of our townhouse and barks incessantly. The other 10%, I have no idea.

Eyes on a dog don't tell the whole story. Need to look at eyes, ears, back position, tail and legs to tell.

As I write this, my dog is laying against me, calm amd near sleep. Depending on perspective, I could see his face as seeming sad, but I know he's just sleepy. He's only awake because I am and I've not put him to bed yet. But his face says to me he's calm and content. His breathing is also slowing. His favorite chew toy is inches from his mouth and against my arm and he's content to let it stay there; that's how I know he's tired. If you were to just look at a photo of my dogs face right now, he might appear sad, but I know hes just calm and sleepy.
Plant Viruses Produce Differing Effects in Aphid Vector
With the grounding pin absent, even a small amount of leakage can result in the enclosure of the tool being anywhere between mains and ground potential. I'm neither an electrician nor an engineer, but I suspect that the newer "double insulated" standard is a worthwhile improvement.
Well the reason for the existence is pretty straight forward if one looks at the climate of US foreign politics and its treatment of China at the moment.

And that's not to say that the discrimination against the Uighur minority isn't real, but language unification policies have been practised by pretty broad array of countries, for example France, where Corsican or Breton and many other dialects were eliminated from education and public life, and where the official language is still nationally administered.

The reason being that it's essentially seen as anti-republican and communitarian and that someone who does not speak the national language cannot participate in affairs of the state.
yup, which also necessarily needs to cover both the medical care and the legal fees. And interest on loans needed for medical care, etc, etc
One thing I've seen smaller companies do some times to attract the same type of talent from FAANG is to bump up the level of candidates. So L5 (or whatever equivalent) at FAANG would go in at L6 or L7 and get a pay bump that way that's somewhat close to FAANG comp levels.
This made me go back and re-read, and I could find no place where your parent made even a half-hearted defense of the CIA, never mind a full-throated one. I believe your passion for this topic might be leading you to misinterpret people. That's to your detriment, the comments are insightful.
> we're considering coming up with a standard leveling so that we can provide industry-wide granular information easily.

Please do! Thanks :-)
Thanks for this. Drives me crazy that LA Times hard blocks all website access if you’re in incognito mode
Pedal powered farms and factories: forgotten future of stationary bicycle (2011)
It's fair to criticise an article that says "Levittown served two or three generations very well and that should be celebrated." without even mentioning that it only served one population well: whites. That's who it served. The same exact piece could have been written and it could have at least made passing mention of the explicitly whites-exclusive founding of the project. The history of projects like these is important, the modern state of them is important, and pretending that they didn't also intertwine with race in America is just being (un)intentionally blinkered.
That is the "boil the ocean" solution to the problem.

Basically, "update all roads on the planet".
nah. Buy a used old 1980s era Japanese bike from craigslist for ~$300. It'll be fine and good.
> As to why buses come to the mall? Really?

This is a good point, and one not well-explained in the article. I agree, what's the big deal? The Columbia Mall in Howard County, MD (the 3rd wealthiest county in the US) has the Mall as a primary stop for many buses. What does a bus coming to the mall have anything to do with the quality of a neighborhood?
Were there any black people already in the military in Dec '42?
These Bruce Schneier Talks at Google try to explain this:

Liars and Outliers: https://youtu.be/m3NJ-Ow2Lvg

Click Here to Kill: https://youtu.be/GkJCI3_jbtg

Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World: https://youtu.be/GhWJTWUvc7E

Highly recommended it since you seem interested.
> it's hard to separate race from white migration to the suburbs.

Here's an entire book dedicated to discussing the government policies that drove separation: https://amzn.to/2Zz4Zeh (or get it from your local library!)

It's tough reading because a lot of things that happened were pretty ugly.
You replied to a comment stating that rental car companies picked 25 as the age below which people don't always act like adults actuarially speaking. That bet is a literal charge in this case, weighing loss of business from higher prices against increased risk of loss from un-adult behavior.

You said that is not true in Tennessee and, as I explained, you are wrong about that. While I'm sure you knew what you meant, given your lack of explanation it is assumed you were directly replying to the central tenet of the previous comment (i.e. that persons under 25 are less adulty and should be treated as such).
In its current state the telephone system is unusable. Whatever emerges from the ashes of our current system, we will have to judge on its own merrits.
How much do mechanical switches cost?
Structure Node.js App – Fractal Pattern – 2019
I'm just thinking how an attacker could disrupt e.g. IoT devices. Pretty terrific.
It turns out this guy has a really excellent blog, and a good lead-in to it is a talk he gave on how to get started developing Roguelikes:

https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2018/10/how-to-make-a-rog...

This talk came dangerously close to derailing my 2-week work-cation plans; if libtcod-go had actually built, I might have been in serious trouble.
Brookings is funded by billionaires, corporations, and petrostates. Nobody would read “Billionaire Corporate Petrostate Magazine” but tart it up as an institute.edu and you might fool some suckers.
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There seems to be a major difference in you trying to make a good, quality product which have yet to have benefited from economy of scale and cheap knock offs that are often dangerous, misleading, or just plain cut corners. For a large number of people and products this isn't actually a problem, like you say. Harbor freight had an excellent business model in just this but they are very up front about it. You're not buying the best wishlist quality, you're buying the best quality they can find at a specific and accessible price. That's adding efficiency to the supply chain, which is most of what Walmart does. Don't sell yourself short that your first product iteration isn't there yet. You'll find ways to improve and lower the cost of the product in safe and efficient ways over time.
I have a Samsung smart TV and the best thing I ever did was not accept the EULA and never plugged it into the network
I think Elon Musk is basically correct when he made that statement. It probably wouldn't change the way current cars drive.

He was also right because, I believe the LIDAR units on say a waymo car probably cost more than an entire tesla vehicle.

But I couldn't help thinking if one of these LIDAR startups comes out with an "automotive pricing cheap" chip, it would be a great sensor fusion thing to add.
I’ll take the other side and say some of the newer (literal) bells and whistles are more a distraction than a life saver. Properly adjusted mirrors should have no blind spots - I don’t need lights on the mirrors constantly flashing on the highway. My last rental would beep whenever it thought I was drifting out of my lane but suffered from so many false positives it was infuriating.
I recently submitted Why do Children abuse robots? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20195120) which links this research https://rins.st.ryukoku.ac.jp/~nomura/docs/CRB_HRI2015LBR2.p... which has some relevance to this.
Climate can be controlled by steering wheel too.
> strong possibility of it succeeding in the developing world and failing in the developed world

It could work pretty well in the developed world, too, if transactions are instant and cheaper than credit cards or PayPal.

But whether it succeeds or fails as a payment system has nothing to do with any blockchain tech, or whether they call it a cryptocurrency.

This is not a competitor to Bitcoin, because it cannot be what Bitcoin is -- open, borderless, neutral, censorship-resistant, and public.

Maybe it will be better at buying coffee than Bitcoin. I couldn't care less, because buying coffee isn't the purpose of Bitcoin.
I hope so - it could also mean an unknown number without caller ID.
> This is for basic tuition at a no-name university, obviously the numbers are far worse for ivy league.

It's worse, but opposite of the way you're thinking. Harvard/Yale/Princeton are basically free if your parents make less than about $65,000 per year. So, a smart ambitious kid with non-rich parents can graduate from a top school with an extremely strong network and have no debt. But an "average" kid with non-rich parents will have to work a side job or two, and graduate with substantial debt, all for a not particularly useful degree.
It’s 90 degrees plus 4 months of the year in many parts of the Bay Area, such as San Jose. So yes, you need air conditioning.
I tried that - a file containing that many numbers is way too large to work.
Mission Pie Is Closing
This is how capitalism works. At some point, companies need to buy laws to enforce their growth stratergy. This is exactly what Google and Facebook are doing right now. Buying laws. And if people dont think stuff like this isnt part of negotiating, they are not even having the same conversation.

Real laws get created over lunch. They dont come out of steering committees.
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With the recent trend of stopping plastic usage, and using compost for organic waste and maybe shared glass containers too. What would still remain to dispose ? (honest question)
This is certainly a helpful resource but quite conflicted on whether Theranos' deck should be in here (along with the disclaimer) even if it's just for historical purposes.
I've synced 10 mw 900 rpm hydro units as much as 7 degrees out of phase. There is a bit more of a thunk as the unit snaps in to sync but it's not the end of the world.

Diesel units in hospitals will sync to each other as much as 30 degrees out of sync because just get thing online because it the load is critical.

I've also been told two second hand reports of the breaker closing drastically out of sync. One was a person closing the breaker manually when the unit was stopped. It essentially just puts a fault on the machine and it trips right away. Another case the close circuit was poorly designed and has only one relay, whose contacts eventually failed but happened to fail welded closed, and in conjunction with a poorly maintained breaker that developed a variable delay between the close coil being energized and actually closing. It made a big boom like faults do but the unit synced after the relay was replaced and breaker maintained and is fine.

Maybe medium and larger units with more inertia have tighter tolerances. Over certainly heard of broken shafts and generators being ejected through concrete walls.

A nice party trick is to do phase matching instead of syncing with slip so I can keep the unit exactly in phase with the grid as long as the grid doesn't wobble too much. This keeps the sync scope needle exactly at 12 o clock so you can close the breaker to put the unit online at will. Unfortunately i don't often get the budget for The additional inputs to get the nice phase difference signal so I can't perform my trick.
Spot on. Multiple dispatch avoids the whole issue because methods are external and don't live inside of classes. Lisps, of course support multimethods, which is great. There are some down sides, though. They are opt-in (defmethod) and tend to have a significant performance hit associated with them. Someone needs to anticipate your need to add types and/or functions and think it's worse sacrificing performance for that ability.

Julia, builds on this tradition but allows you to have your cake and eat it too. It has multimethods/generic functions and they are the only option—all user defined functions are multimethods. They also have excellent performance (they're used for everything, they have to).

Of course, there's no free lunch and you do give up traditional separate compilation, but the degree composability it gives to the ecosystem is hard to comprehend without experiencing it. Simple, reusable data types are shared across the ecosystem with anyone adding whatever (external) methods they want. Generic code that handles a literally exponential explosion of argument types "just work"—and the compiler generates fast code. All without doing anything special, since multiple dispatch is the default and only way functions work.
Just be careful so you don't get sued for trademark infringement by 2 Chainz.
On iOS DND turns off all other notifications from all other apps so I can’t use it for this.
To confirm I understand (and I think this is where I was at originally):

If a graph contains K_5 then it requires at least 5 colours to colour, but if a graph does not contain K_5 then it might still require 5 colours.

The example given by OscarCunningham is a great one.
Lots of people make that argument, but when asked "What are we under counting?" no one's been able to come up with a story that remains consistent when applied to multiple industries. Computers got much, much faster, but everything else stagnated.

It's fairly easy to measure how much money is produced per employee. That number grew 3% to 4% a year for most of the 20th Century, till 1973, when it collapsed. Since then it's average 1.5% a year (again, with a few good years in the 1990s, and with some up and down wobbles during the Great Recession).

The central fact is the big push towards automation in the 1930s and 1940s and 1950s simply had a bigger impact than the kind of breakthroughs we've had in the last 40 years.

The automation of the telephone systems, and the removal of all the women who worked as operators, was huge in the 1940s and 1950s (and a fantastic boost to the computer industry). The later boom in multiplexing made capital investments more profitable, but did not increase the amount of money made per employee.

The introduction of the modern combine tractors on USA farms lead to a fantastic increase in agricultural productivity in the 1930s and 1940s and 1950s and 1960s, and nothing since then has had a similar effect on agricultural productivity.

The introduction of digging robots transformed the coal industry in the 1930s and 1940s and 1950s. Mountain top clearance was another huge change in how the work was done. Nothing since the 1960s has had anything like a similar impact. In fact, the opposite is true, increased environmental protections have, if anything, decreased productivity in that sector, or at least slowed the increase.

And on and on.

The transformations in the early to mid 20th Century were huge. The more recent transformations have been small. The Great Boom gave way to the Great Stagnation.

Check out:

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-American-Growth-Princeton/d...
I think it’s interesting just reading this thread how everyone gets different types of calls. Mine are almost exclusively either: 1) Hilton/Marriott/Hyatt scam calls from Mexico trying to get me to give up a credit card for a “free vacation”, or 2) lower your interest rate on your credit card scams from India. Every now and then there’s a social security scam from I’m not sure where.

Sometimes I just google “test credit card numbers” and read them off the dev documents for various processors. They almost always hang up the second it validates. I wonder if they realize the transaction won’t actually go through.
I think it would be nice to have a heads-up display (or other status system) that shows what the AI is seeing. That way it would actually be "assist".
That's a good point.

It could be argued that, for a person being blackmailed right now, one is a very real present threat, while the other is a hypothetical future.

Fortunately there are enough of us to go round, so we can collectively advocate for protections against both possibilities.
It's a greater injustice that a minority had even the meager crumbs offered by the system stolen by white people kicking them while they're down.

You're focusing only on the raw numbers of people rather than the the effect on everybody of that community. You can bet if 10% of white people had the same discrimination visited upon them that police, lawyers, and legislation would be involved tout suite.

Read up on mortgage redlining during the most prosperous period of the 20th century keeping people out of the progress enjoyed by the majority. Injustice is not zero sum, don't use arguments from proportion when there is a fraught history and politics that makes continuing the discrimination much, much worse than if it was one white person against another white person.
Compiler that compiles flow diagrams in SVG to JavaScript code [pdf]
Yes! That’d be amazing, do you work at Apple or are you using the beta (or both)?

I haven’t seen anyone write about this yet.
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They are shipped without oil and full of nitrogen gas to reduce the weight.
Would that include you being willing to switch to a completely new language that takes you a good decade to become fluent in?
Sorry, I would suggest its being (un)intentionally blinkered to inject race (or any other "identity") into every issue. The article didn't mention anything about how we slaughtered the Native Americans, and stole their land, either - or they would still be living where Levittown was. That happened, and it was terrible, but its not all germane to the subject at hand. This article is about the crumbling of Levittown, which would have been exactly the same whether or not people were discriminated against during the initial building of the town 60+ years ago.
Title changed from "Why do dogs look sad", thanks.
That "extensive oversight" apparently involves the CIA spying on a Senate committee investigating CIA torture, and the CIA deleting documents in order to hide them from the Senate:

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/213933-cia-admits-to-w...
They got him some two years later.

Beyond that, it really goes to show how much the university system is now simply a credentialing system for certain individuals, so long as they maintain the correct group affiliation it have individuals that can make the necessary donations (and make sure it stays discreet, unlike the recent Hollywood elites). Is there a place where individuals can study, and question, and learn? Unfortunately not at the university.
This doesn’t matter - voicemail works fine.

Services that cared could change behavior to call from a single number.
China ships us tons of plastic rubbish and we actually buy the crap, because it's cheap.
The nurse practitioner should have sent the patient to the ER. This result is reasonable. They made a serious mistake in sending the patient away.
If I'm going to sit in a cramped, poorly ventilated space, I'm doing everything in my power to avoid sweating beforehand, including taking the escalator.
> never getting flustered from being cut off.

But sometimes it would be nice to have a 0 below the 1-7 following distance setting. (sort of like going to 11)
> So, a smart ambitious kid with non-rich parents can graduate from a top school with an extremely strong network and have no debt.

Or the kid could win the lottery, with effectively the same odds of success. That does not make this a good system.