skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For some reason, GE decided not to install a physical reset button – you know, one of those tiny holes that you have to stick a pin or paperclip into.

Hmmm... Nope, I can't see a problem with getting people to stick a paperclip into holes around mains electricity! Sounds perfectly safe.

Seriously though, this is bonkers. Power cycling patterns are by far the best method for initiating a reset - and no, sending a reset command via apps is not feasible (what if you've lost the account password and you've accidentally paired it to your neighbours wifi?)

But all bulbs have a "first-use" setup procedure. So a simple power cycling routine (e.g. on-off 5 times with no more than 5 seconds in either state) - indicate with a flashing light when it's in the first-use state. Save the previous settings so that if the kids have done it (because they like the flashing lights) a simple power cycle will restore the previous settings.
Additionally when they treat managers as other engineers - meaning that they want to discuss changes or improvements without judging others for their ideas - just decide for them and announce your decision to show who is in charge.
The Portuguese spelling is Macau. Macao is English, and maybe other languages.

For Portuguese you are probavly confusing it with the -ão ending. The tilde makes a difference.

For example:
- pão / pau
- mão / mau
There’s not a single replacement that works for every situation, but plastic is far from irreplaceable.

I got a cloth shopping bag as a gift when I was in college; I still use it today 10 years later. Perfect example of a case where there is really no need for plastic in the first place.

I’m not against plastic, but its cheap price had lead to grotesque levels of overuse. Every time I order take out, I always make a big point that I don’t want any utensils, because if I don’t, they cram the bag full of things I don’t need. It’s no more convenient for me to receive or not receive plastic utensils, it’s just wasteful.

If you need a plastic thing, by all means, go for it. But that I can tell most use of plastic in our society is just out of habit. We could change our habits, use far less plastic and at no cost to ourselves.

Seems like a no brained to optimize this function.
no, you cannot. Not everyone can. At least, not in Germany. People pay 60% of their net income to rent while working 40 hours a week. How do you expect the rent to be paid with just 15 hours of work per week in Germany?
I don't know about the US but at least here in northern Europe on the broadcasting side this used to be true. Now the monitoring of what people are watching is done through the setup boxes as well as the web streams.
When it comes to what commercials being broadcast it's usually done through logging in the software that handles the playlist (for linear tv) and then reported back to the advertisers.
The advertisers probably have different systems in place to verify it as well however.
You mean without kids, not owning place you live in, likely sharing flat, without abroad winter/summer holidays, living in places with good public transport without a car, where employer can actually accept 2 days a week employments?
They have always taken offense to it, we just used to not care.
Let's see...

2024100 MW (2018) of coal power would translate to roughly 1,76 Gt of CO2 emissions (ballparking an average of 870g CO2 / kW produced). That's 1,76 billion tonnes of CO2 - a hefty environmental price for electricity.

If the same power was produced in nuclear power plants that figure would be something like 0,02 Gt of CO2 (calculating at 0,012 kg CO2/kW) a 98.6% reduction of emissions.

Sure nuclear is more expensive, but what is a global ecosystem worth?

Food for thought.
Does this procedure produce the morse-code for "Help I'm stuck in a GE factory"?
Actually flutter is based on this approach. The native widgets are completely recreated with this dart based runtime. Performance is indeed great, however it seems like a hell lot of work to create all these widgets...
Just wanted to share that I am a proud owner of a 2005 W211 E320 as well, gas however. 235k miles on the clock and it still starts up with the same 2 cranks and woosh as it did new and pulls on the highway just fine. Definitely a quality vehicle that has not only held up but hardly degraded since new.
A voice command probably (1) requires it to be connected to its hub, (2) which needs internet and be able to reach the voice processing servers of the vendor, (3) which needs to be still in business and running said servers.

The reason for needing to reset are likely to be the first and second requirement, so that wouldn't work. The third requirement just means you need to buy a new light bulb (at least that is the way the market seems to work for this gear).
Kotlin Native comes to mind - it generates binaries that can easily integrated with gradle and cocoapods, complete with headers/interfaces.

Do you also keep ViewModels or things like an AuthManager (incl Keychain) or view coordinators in Rust?
You're looking at this from an American perspective, which is great. You're relatively free to say what you like without consequences.

But now look at a place like China. You have to have an app installed on your phone that monitors everything, some families have spies actually living with them reporting on everything[0] (like a very low tech Alexa!)

If you say the wrong thing you and your family get rounded up and killed or sent off to organ harvesting.[1]

Now imagine having an Alexa in your home that listens and reports on everything you say and do, you criticise dear leader even in a passing comment and it's bye bye to you and your family.

THAT is why internet privacy is important. And maybe it doesn't affect you so you don't care, but what if people look through your comment history, see you as a potential dissident so take you out of the equation before you even know what's happening.

None of this is hyperbole, it's all happening right now. Check out EFF.org for more.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-uighurs-...

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/17/china-is-harve...
>Hmmm... Nope, I can't see a problem with getting people to stick a paperclip into holes around mains electricity! Sounds perfectly safe.

Assuming you would have to unscrew the bulb to get to the reset, which seems likely, yes it would be perfectly safe.
This is why I refuse to apply to pharma companies for work or war companies.

I think they're unethical and morally bankrupt.
See also:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170224-the-mysetrious-ori...
I don't think we'd in practice see people lying one way or the other about a particular name level being "public". If GitHub wants to track people across all *.github.io pages, it can, trivially. It controls the infrastructure, after all.
In Denmark, if you have a fixed-rate mortgage, you are always allowed to buy back the bonds at their nominal value. For that reason, you absolutely can save money by refinancing when the the interest rates go down (you still have to pay some fixed fees in order to do so). The funny thing is, that you can sometimes also save money when the interest rate goes up, because in that case you can buy back the underlying bonds at less than their nominal value. The savings in this case come in the form of tax savings, because you can deduct the (higher) interest.
The flutter approach is interesting, however i tried really hard to become friend with dart, which seems impossible to me... I only hope somebody is building a transpiler or something.
This. Fancy offices everywhere are an utterly unsustainable bubble. Remote work is growing strong and coworking places will become increasingly popular, but in the end people want a reasonably good place to work that is cheap, not a fancy socializing place. Wework would make sense if they provided this at large scale, instead they cater to a lifestyle crowd.
There's also a service called Azure ACI which is pretty much the same thing as fargate
The reason for the boom is that building skyscrapers got a lot cheaper in the last 10 years as the techniques and approaches have been worked out in the Middle East and China. It's not really anything to do with the economy - just the chance to create a lot of office space cheap. I think that the other factor is the Queen Elizabeth line which will bring a lot of commuters from the west of london and outlying areas into city of london range. I expect docklands to be the big loser.
It was way more than just the lights. He had originally something like 50 NT-servers managing his mansion. You could wear a pin that indicated your location. Light, sound system, climate would adjust to your preferences as you moved.
I've only recently purchased a Nest doorbell... but the comments here and some quick searching suggest I'd be far better off purchasing the remainder of my cameras from somewhere that is in the business of selling hardware like Ubiquiti, and then either using local storage (with sync to personal cloud) or something like this Camect thing.

At the very least, it looks like the lack of exposed onvif / rtsp on Nest cameras is an issue that will mean I can't avoid the high subscription price and bandwidth use (and it's the bandwidth that bugs me, I'd rather store HQ to disk locally whilst transcode to a lower def for the cloud, and then have it be my cloud accounts).
Why do I need to reset a light bulb ?
GKE, the equivalent GCP service, is free though. You pay for your nodes at regular Computer Engine rates, but the master is at no extra cost.
Ah, so you're thinking a switch that you depress, and stays depressed until you screw it back in? I guess that could work. I still don't have enough faith in humanity that someone might ignore the instructions and start poking around the electrical socket with a metal paperclip though...
It's not just about the religion. Pakistan will most likely use Kashmir as a terror launchpad against other regions of India. From India's perspective, the region is strategic than anything else.
Funny that both sides has its gripes with Fargate.

For a serverless proponent like me it's still too much config.

For a no lock-in proponent like you it's not enough config.
I think there are jobs where having the WFH option would be beneficial to both the employer and the employee. Some creative, computer jobs can be done from home or could be done half from home and half from the office. It allows for flexibility but should be considered a privilege - especially if work is not continuously done up to par.
I've seen this kind of thing everywhere, from startups to bigcorp. I've seen entire teams of otherwise smart people come up with the most idiotic systems, and swear up and down that there's nothing wrong. It's not a bureaucratic problem; it's a people problem. And it's not that they're stupid... it's something else.
OTOH setting up a coworking space is not risky for real estate owners. Couple of desks and a coffee machine. Wework may be setting itself up to be airbnb'd by everyone who has available space in the future.
"Port Out, Starboard Home" by Michael Quinion is a nice book about 'folk etymologies' that covers these and many more. He gives the real origin where it's known.
https://reddit.com/r/DesirePath
"For some reason, GE decided not to install a physical reset button" Well, there might be some good reasons not to have a reset button. Without knowing GE's reasons let's brainstorm:

- My first thought is that many light bulbs are not easily accessible. They could be high up, or in a casing that requires a tool to open. So being able to reset them remotely is a practical benefit.

- If you google "accidents whilst changing light bulb" it seems that it's not impossible to injure or even kill yourself whilst changing a light bulb. So minimising the amount of times you need to physically access a light bulb has safety benefits.

- It is possible that the bulb is turned off but the power to it is still on. In that scenario getting a consumer to reach into a powered on light socket to press a button on the bulb, near the electrical connections, is not considered safe.

That's my 5 minutes worth of reasons. Any more?
These projects exist, and are so easy that we don't even bother to use AI on them. As an example of high-level reasoning, Metamath has a body of theorems of ZFC using classical logic [0]. This body of theorems is written out using entirely formal (symbolic, syntactic) reasoning. Over 32,000 theorems are checked in total, at a rate of around 6 kilotheorems per second.

If we recall that proof search is (Turing-)undecidable, for the systems that we care about, then it becomes unsurprising that we do not put AI to the task, other than as a light at the end of the tunnel, since proof search is not only AI-hard, but as impossible for AIs as for humans. That said, there have been constant improvements to the automated generation of human-readable proofs, and the papers have the same shape as AI research papers from previous generations of AI, with expert systems and inference engines [2][3].

Your focus on IQ tests is a little unhealthy [1].

[0] http://us.metamath.org/mpeuni/mmset.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#History

[2] https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/15/Papers/172.pdf

[3] http://poincare.matf.bg.ac.rs/~janicic/papers/2014-amai-afta...
I like doing projects with ionic, which have the great advantage to be ported to the web and also packaged as desktop apps. From all the apps i have developed with web tech or even i know of no users are complaining about lower performance or similar. Why developers have this opinion?
Separation. Of. Concerns.
Ikea bulbs use a 6 on-off cycle to reset, which is pretty simple (no timing), although toddler can do it. Hue bulbs require either a bridge (if it's linked to them, is one click in the interface, if not, you need to get the secret code which is printed on the actual bulb and enter it), or using a remote (press and hold I and O buttons for about 10 seconds, while holding remote next to bulb). The remote also resets other types of bulb, but has a pretty short range, so unless you have a multi-bulb fitting with several bulbs within about 10cm of the remote, it doesn't cause problems. Still a pain to do compared to the Ikea ones!

Ikea smart outlets have a pin hole reset though, and absolutely no buttons other than that, which I've found makes them pretty toddler proof (the fish tank lighting kept getting set to random by our toddler when using a traditional timer outlet...)
One thing I'm keeping my eye on is the fargate virtual kubelet [1]. It seems to offer a way to use the familiar kubernetes tooling with a managed "clusterless" offering like fargate.

[1] https://github.com/virtual-kubelet/aws-fargate
Racial bias observed in hate speech detection algorithm from Google
That's a very interesting point. But tracking-free services won't really have a major mindshare with the general public because you really can't compete with "free."

And there's nothing preventing Google from leveraging Youtube/Gmail/Search to push out other browsers which have tracking protection. Youtube already plays less well with Firefox. Gmail isn't exactly snappy on Safari either.
..or a less lengthy procedure
there is a difference between Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms, one thing is just C# => ObjC binding / C# => Java binding (C# to AOT native shared libraries and binds it into the native things), which basically SUPPORTS ALL of the native features.

so basically you can either have one application on top of a custom ui framework (xamarin.forms) or you can only share business logic, and write controllers, which feels native in c# or the native language.

i.e. without forms you can build a controller with objc or you can have the implementation in c#, and call into a shared business logic library.
unfortunatly the docs are really really weak when you consider what you really can do with xamarin.

with forms you can build a ui that works on both platforms so basically you have 100% shared code.
Runtime Configuration Reloading in Rust
It is actually harder to produce in 4K/8K due to more details that need to be drawn to not make it looked too empty and need to make sure the lines are not too thick (e.g. by using a larger paper). TV series are usually drawn on an A4 paper with 1-2 inch margin while a proper theatrical releases are drawn on a B4 paper.

Another factor, I believe, is the know-how. In my opinion, despite anime being broadcasted in 16:9 for so long, it is only in recent years where the extra width are put in a good use during layouting.
Solved for me, the expert, but not solved for thee, the lay person.

Even if this was technically within financial reach, my personal experience was that the knowledge of how to do it was intentionally obfuscated because installers wanted to make money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_reflex for people interested in 'stapedius reflex' that the article talks about.
I actually love it! It's a great idea, simple clean, useful. well done
Yep, this is people we're talking about! They'd be balancing 2 chairs on each other whilst randomly stabbing a paper clip in the direction of the bulb's screw, with the power on to be sure it worked! Product designers have to design for the stupidest of us.
I don't think it would need to be that complicated. Just a hole to put a paperclip into that completes a circuit and, I don't know, discharges a capacitor or uses one to clear something.
how does this compare to Fast Fourier transform ?

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

Or the Discrete Cosine Transform ?

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

Or the Gabor Transform ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabor_transform
I Still Launched in a Crowded Market
If you look up a definition of lexical scope, you'll typically see something like this (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_(computer_science)#Lexic... but others are similar).

"With lexical scope, a name always refers to its (more or less) local lexical environment. This is a property of the program text..."

So as local lexical environment isa property of the program text, lexical scope is explicit in the language's syntax.
There were 4 removed from office with felony convictions last term alone.
Magnifier Engine Review, Work or a Scam?
If you want to get very technical it is questionable whether or not you really need air conditioning anywhere. It's a luxury item and if you view it as such it's not surprising that people in SV have it - it's already a super high CoL place, might as well install some extra perks.
I think he means if humans were rational and enlightened.

Note: the world started producing a surplus of food a while ago, and still we let many starve, and even today many people live with shortages and food insecurity.

Honestly, if you take a step back and look, a large portion of our economy are just bullshit jobs, or outright cronyism.

I mean, I worked in private sector fin tech (nothing fancy, more-pedestrian stuff) and I'm extremely confident we contributed close to nothing to society, while making good money. Some other work experience was with consulting government and that was just complete bullshit. Then there's books written on the "Rise of the Healthcare Administrator," which correctly point out their numbers have grown by 1-2 orders of magnitude while healthcare costs are up, quality is questionable and by the way, shouldn't technology have the opposite result? And finally, I'm not surprised to see GE as the culprit here. I know they have some brilliant groups, but that company is also infected with crazy politics and insanity from within.
The dual tree complex wavelet transform is approximately shift invariant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_wavelet_transform#Dual...
It's not a good story. Most slaves weren't even allowed to read or write, and flipping 's' to 'z' is a ridiculous "code."
I found a video of the episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLs8DeHVkec

around the 7 minute mark there is a pumping heart that was grown ontop of such a scaffold.
Another example is "fuck" which probably doesn't stand for "for unlawful carnal knowledge.[0]"

[0]https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/what-the-fuck/
It is a Google search away. :)
haha .. if you can see the irony in your comment.

So a resourceless Pakistan miraculously recovered from the bloody partition in mere three months to not only plan an insurgency, but also had the resources to execute it. Go Pakistan then? right?
This shows the thrown ball (from Freshman physics) should follow a parabolic arc rather than a straight line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_action
> As far as I’m aware, the current state of advertising is people either being too creeped out by ad suggestions to buy anything or still feeling like they’re getting bad recommendations.

Given the massive revenues that advertising generates, how could you think this judgement (which I'm sure accurately reflects how _you_ feel) applies universally?
When I was in school, most my usage for arduinos was to get/send data via serial port, through a laptop or an RPi and sending it to a server.

This kind of projects would have made my life much, much easier.

I would have loved to see a "setup" guide in your getting started page.
There will be at some point though. Fertility is moderately heritable.
An open-sourced anatidae-based alternative : what3ducks.com

Honestly I'm a bit annoyed by this article because it looks like an ad since it's a private commercial system.
Does a whale have more muscles to control than a human? Is its environment more complex to navigate - swimming through water vs balancing , walking running and jumping? Does it have more bones making its body more complex to maneuver? Are its eyes larger with many more rods and cones, looking at a more complex environment and requiring greater neuron counts to interpret?

I think the answer to most (though not all) of these questions is no. Just because a body is bigger doesn't necessarily make it more complex to control surely? For the most part large mammals have the same number of muscles and bones as a small one, and past a certain body size eyes don't get particularly larger.

I seem to recall that even very large dinosaurs could have comparatively tiny brains compared to mammals - did they control their bodies clumsily and observe the world much less acutely than mammals?

So I have always found this explanation a bit suspect - it is a "just so" story because we observe that whales and elephants don't seem all that smart yet they have bigger brains and bodies but that doesn't make the explanation true by itself. Has there been any actual research that supports the hypothesis that large bodies require bigger brains to control?
I think I've been spoiled by algebraic data types and pattern matching. I really miss them.

Non-nullable by default will be a huge win. It does feel like a huge step backwards having to deal with nulls again.
Really? Thanks for your comment, I really appreciate it.

I saw your Show HN post, but unfortunately, I don't know much about crypto to understand what it is. Thanks, friend!
IBV just is a contractor human resource pool.

Nothing can change the fact. HW vendors doesn't want to release the part of CPU bootcode directly. The most end-users wont care about the initialization detail but just want a working hardware product. Unfortunately, the hardware vendor never compromise and buyers won't have too much consideration about that as they are just selling products for the hardware vendor.

So they have to execute their plan B to bear another ecosystem. But it's hard to tell about how much difference between of them.
They didn't have to run the code, e.g. example.com just has to run a proxy that accepts payloads at analytics.example.com and forwards them to the third party tracking providers.
messagebender, great tool to delete slack messages in bulk