skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run OpenHAB at home (and have tried HA), but setting all this up is not in the wheelhouse of the majority of people. Doing the in-home setup is difficult enough, but safely exposing it to the internet is not something I'd ever ask a non-technical person to do.

Meanwhile, you just swap your old thermostat with the Nest, tell it how to get to your wifi, install an app on your phone, and you're done.
Moore's Law says you now bug every restaurant table in DC.
> TurboTax on the other hand, is a relatively nice experience.

For this tax year I used TurboTax. I have a relatively simple return, but editing stock sales was extremely tedious and I was constantly upsold on random products when I just wanted to go to the e-file page.
Poland also has this system
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Reasons unknown? For starters, they were conspiring to covertly spy on their employer.
agreed. I'd been going steadily more fp in my style for years while working in c/c++, php, C#, scala,coffeescript etc. before finally going all in with elixir for the last few years. It makes many, but of course not all, things more straight forward compared to imperative programming.
My limited interaction with those was that they were pretty universally terrible and would not be acceptable today (and were bad enough to be annoying then even).
This is a strawman argument. Being "government run" does not automatically equate to being irresponsible or inefficient. Your complaint holds no water: Social Security and Medicare are incredibly efficient programs for their scale, and both wildly popular with their participants (per Pew Research as well as direct survey data from SSA and HHS). If they can achieve such results, why would other large orgs such as the IRS not? Rhetorical of course! They can, with proper political and logistical support (as has been seen with USDS/18F executing at the IRS, DHS, and VA).
Booking.com also tells you that "no really, there's only one room left", undoubtedly influenced by their endless A-B testing.

It's an incredibly convenient site, but for some reason leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I expect you can model this analytically as well to some extent.

IIRC queueing theory suggests that a single line feeding into two sides of multiple buffet tables would work reasonably well.

In practice this also seems to work well, although head of line blocking can occur on each table side.
> core part demands efficiency

what about development efficiency? maintenance efficiency? developer onboarding efficiency? there are many efficiencies companies care about.
Out of interest, how would you do this, and how much power do you expect to generate?
This is a thing I've noticed in all the very successful people I know. It's a sort of schlep-sight[0] that they have. Something is wrong, and instead of pushing it to the back of their mind, or letting this critical thing be ignored, they put it in the front and worry about it. And prod it. And attempt to deal with it.

I don't have this skill automatically so I'm trying to cultivate it. Ironically, I'm here on HN because I'm dodging a fear.

0: As an antonym of the famous schlep-blindness http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html
It's the US government, so you're far more likely to have to "suicide" someone else than kill yourself
> Oh - and why not pass a function in and return one back

The "function" in "functional programming" is a reference to mathematical functions. Mathematical functions do not have side effects, and consequently are referentially transparent (the result doesn't depend on the evaluation order or on how many times the function is evaluated). Code with side effects is not a function in the mathematical sense, it's a procedure. The defining characteristic of functional programming is the absence of side effects. That isn't something you can just tack on to an imperative (or "multi-paradigm") language. No matter how many cosmetic features you borrow from functional languages, like closures and pattern-matching and list comprehensions, you still have the side-effects inherent in the support for imperative code, which means your program is not referentially transparent.

Haskell manages to apply the functional paradigm to real-world programs by essentially dividing itself into two languages. One has no formal syntax and is defined entirely by data structures (IO actions). This IO language is an imperative language with mutable variables (IORefs) and various other side-effects. The formal Haskell syntax concerns itself only with pure functional code and has no side effects. IO actions are composed by applying a pure function to the result of one IO action to compute the next action. Consequently, most of a Haskell program consists of pure code, and side-effects are clearly delineated and encapsulated inside IO data types at the interface between the Haskell code and the outside world.
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We Must Ban Facial Recognition Software Now
Fundamentally the problem is not with Prop-13, but with the whole ballot proposition structure itself. It's become nearly impossible to balance the state's budget when individual propositions can dictate both expenditures and limits on the tax structure.
Beam thread handling is vastly different than node, I'd be deeply shocked to see node handle as well at load on the same hardware as a similar configured elixir/erlang stack.
Single queue, multiple server seems to work well in theory and in practice.

I'm often disappointed at computing or networking conferences or meetings of some sort where the buffet is strictly serialized with head-of-line blocking, resulting in massive, slow queues that waste most of the lunch break time.
what are some active programming boards? (not reddit)
The issue with fentanyl is that it's much more powerful than heroin, in the sense that the dose to reach a given effect is much smaller. This makes it much harder to prevent the smuggling of, but also means that insufficient mixing can give you a fatal overdose much more easily.

I don't know if heroin has a safer therapeutic index than fentanyl. Possibly. The Grauniad article is correct about the relatively low risks of properly prepared heroin and the dangers of adulteration. I wouldn't be confident that fentanyl in properly prepared doses is equally safe; it might be safer or less safe, but the major difference is in ease of smuggling, which is associated with lack of accountability.

The article mentions amphetamine briefly in an unjustified aside: "It is the same with black-market amphetamines: speed alone may not kill, but speed with a blindfold is highly likely to finish you off." The truth is that amphetamine is fairly safe at therapeutic doses—safer than many common psychiatric drugs, anyway—but at the much higher recreational doses, it reliably generates progressive damage to multiple organs, including the brain. This is not a problem shared by the opiates, aside from the much milder constipation problem.

I had seen somewhere an empirical study comparing deaths from prescription opiates and black-market opiates. I'd like to find it again.
ADP is still using flash for their web app. Their entire business revolves around it.
My wife likes to sit in what she calls 'the Mafia seat', the seat in a restaurant that is best-protected by walls, etc, from behind, and that gives the best view of the rest of the room, so you can see what or who is coming.

She's not in the mafia or allied professions, AFAIK, but I'd wager that similar metrics are used by the professionals.
How are miniproteins any different than just peptides?

The article references "miniproteins"as being the same as "minipetides"... as though these are both different from regular peptides.

Wikipedia states that peptides are "approximately 50 or fewer amino acids" [0] while minipeptides are "a length of less than 100-150 amino acids" [1].

Is this article really just saying that "peptides are upending cell biology"?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptide
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropeptide
I'd disagree with this. Frequently they look through peoples records. Whenever someone dies it is the first thing they do. They also on one hand talk about holo decks being a private space but how often do we see them walking in on peoples' sims. You could totally just shut down the sim from the outside if the person inside is not responding and that would more readily respect that person's privacy (but isn't good for entertainment nor shows that Star Fleet is also composed of "humans").
Which is exactly why I'd quit.
> How does a 'free' government company respond to competition (since they have no pressure to be profitable)?

The leadership of government organizations has pressure to get re-elected, or to get someone from their party elected.

I'm not sure whether you are simply ignorant how representative democracy is supposed to work, or whether you're feigning ignorance. Is it really so unfathomable that people might be motivated by something other than financial gain? Are we expected to take anything else you say seriously if this is the starting point of your ideology?
Can you give an example for the online game store?
I wonder how much profit they make from fraudulent transactions that people don’t notice.

Question: when there’s a chargeback, does the customer|fraud victim’s bank lose out, or do they get a part of the chargeback fee that Visa/MasterCard levy into the merchant?
While I agree personally, I am comfortable letting others experiment with new drugs and take on that risk with the potential to discover things a bit faster than traditional medicine. Regardless of what you think of CBD, it has garnered steam because of non-medical use and I think brought it up to popular culture which researchers are then hearing about and interested in researching more.

At the end of the day, in the USA, we tend to avoid telling adults what to put in their bodies. I like it that way and I see this as just an extension of the same thing.

That being said, they shouldn't be selling their solutions or misleading people with non-existent medical data. You are hacking your biology, death and injury are very real potential risks you can only accept for yourself.
It’s even in corporate training to prevent revealing trade secrets accidentally.
Reminds me of VanillaJS: http://vanilla-js.com
Does having an algorithm memorized help anyone in their daily jobs at either Microsoft or Google?
A quick Google search shows that your anecdote, doesn't match the broader statistics...

https://www.investopedia.com/news/facebook-google-digital-ad...

Between Facebook and Google. Facebook has about 34% of the ad spend (36.2 + 19.2)/19.3.
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I grew up on Ghibli movies, so I will probably get a free trial of HBO Max when it launches to rewatch/binge them.

On a different note, I hadn’t heard of HBO Max before this announcement. I’m kind of reaching “peak subscription” at this point: I have Prime Video, Netflix, Hulu, Showtime, and now I’ll have to decide whether to add Apple TV +, Disney+, and HBO Max?

I wish there was some way to “bundle” these into one monthly payment.. oh, wait. That’s basically a cable subscription! It’s funny how cyclical streaming has become.
I've noticed on MacOS (on two MBPs) that Firefox 69 (with ublock origin as only plugin) is noticeably slower to render / lay out sites and maybe download content than Chrome (with ublock origin as only plugin) on same machines. Battery life is noticeably worse as well compared to Chrome.

I've switched though to using Firefox despite the above on MacOS at least.

On Linux however, Firefox seems quite a bit worse than Firefox to the extent that it's approaching "painful" levels to use it - scrolling is very laggy (messed around with hardware accel, drivers, etc), downloading / rendering is noticeably slower, etc. (Same setup of only plugin in each browser on Linux being ublock origin). Even starting it seems much slower (with cold FS caches).
This is on several Linux machines, and seems pretty universal in my experience.

At work, we have to use the internet through a VDI terminal (main network is completely segregated from internet), and I've noticed that with this setup, Firefox is even slower than my "native" Linux comparisons. Also, as I can see the network traffic between the VDI and my machine, I've also noticed that a single blank page window in Firefox keeps sending updates (300KB/sec, like it's refreshing constantly in an event loop or something), whilst a blank page window in Chrome has no updates, which seems a bit weird to me, and indicates something's non-optimal in Firefox, as I don't see why a blank page should cause firefox to apparently re-render stuff...
Firefox Focus is very fast, not sure if its out for ios.
I dont use it as a daily browser, but I do use it often with sites with obnoxious popups, or incognito sites I don't want to give info too.
part of the Erlang Methodology is to write code that gracefully recovers from errors. it sucks for the user hitting the edge case until you patch it sure but the approach has it's merits and leaves the majority of your users running unimpaired.
> For the third time, the inverse correlation between gender equality and women's participation in engineering and technology hold true both when viewed over time within individual countries and when comparing different countries at the same time.

For the second time, that's not what the data in your link shows. It shows a single data graph of the modern day state. It is an interesting conundrum - but I don't understand how it supports what you are saying about the historical state.

Other nations who didn't participate in WWII were largely further behind the industrialization curve. Not sure what that means for interpreting STEM data other than there wasn't as much STEM in those nations then.
When two trails cross, there usually is a signpost listing some popular destinations in the region, which is enough to get you to B unless you don't know any popular destination close to B. At least that's the way it works in Germany.

It's not perfect, though. Sometimes you'll see a sign pointing diagonally past an electric fence and think that maybe the sign is slightly off and you're supposed to walk along the fence. But actually the path goes across the meadow and the farmer who uses it later decided to erect a fence. Other times the sign is really just slightly off.
The only part I miss about erlang is it being a little harder to shoot your self in the foot with types.
Speaking of correctness and performance, was Ada/SPARK ever considered before you guys picked OCaml? Hypothetically, would you consider Ada/SPARK now, especially that SPARK has safe pointers and whatnot?
just delete your .env file, that file should never be in a code repo any way. If it is, you're doing it wrong.
How else did you expect it to message him? Or let him turn it off remotely? Sure, could put a SIM in it and do an SMS that way, but then you have to pay for service for your thermostat, rather than just using the WIFI you already have.
His own words. His inability to have moral standings that interfere with his company's profits.

He not only runs FB, he owns it and has 100% control over it - he has the majority of vote share on the board.

If he goes bad or power gets to his head, there's nothing to stop him but government.
I use ~/hg with a big monorepo
Several companies and research groups are working on it. The challenge is a lack of priority, funding and even recognizing aging as a disease, at least in legal terms.

Look up the Sens foundation (Dr. Aubrey De Grey), Dr. David Sinclair (Harvard .. Some are skeptical because he has started several companies) and Dr. Bruce Ames as starting points.
The HTTP/3 spec has a CONNECT method, implying cross-protocol proxying
I think if you have ever actually run a business, his article hits home and has a pretty clear point.
> Woolsey recalled a sideshow exhibit featuring prematurely born babies whose lives were saved right there on the Boardwalk. Resting in new machines called incubators, the babies made medical history while serving as a prime attraction for gawking tourists.

I read that and thought "what in the world. A spectacle? Can you imagine such a thing today?" Then I finished reading and saw this line:

> Visitors were charged a quarter to view the babies, and the money went to their care.
Huh, blazor looks pretty good! Nice to know. Thanks!
You can run docker-compose.yml in any folder in the tree but it only reads the .env from cwd. Just CD into some place and run docker-compose
Really makes one wonder how a project like this can go on this long without this obvious problem coming up.

How many hours were spent writing an OS (not a trivial task), plus making this nice looking website and graphics, plus all the research papers cited etc? They even went to a conference!
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Read the report, it's 2 trillion of revenue for payments only, not all of finance. That report doesn't cover trading, derivatives, mortgages, etc... 1 trillion of payments revenue comes from credit lines, about 1 trillion is fees moving money around.

Bitcoin is just one settlement layer. There is no reason for my day to day transactions to settle there. My day to day payments can be settlement on a chain with much higher throughput and faster finality and different security assumptions.

There is also no reason why I can't lend my funds to 100m user credit cards directly without a middleman through software either.

So whats the cost comparison of moving $100,000 out of China into the the US via bitcoin vs the traditional banking system?
I guess they don't, but the hiking trail mark system isn't notable for it's color scheme...
I built a simple DNS (and HTTP headers, and SSL) tool that some may like - https://DNSApe.com
But USPS is focused on efficiency and profitability. They have streamlined many of their operations and created new profit making initiatives (e.g. Informed Delivery), all while having the mandate that mail cost the same from Alaska to Florida as from New York to DC. They just have the aforementioned budget burden to fund retirement funds no other organization, public or private, would ever bear upon themselves voluntarily. And they can’t set their own rates. And they have to deliver to every address once a day six days a week no matter what.
This seems wholly unenforceable and frankly kinda missing the mark...
I wouldn’t say that it’s a problem with the browser, rather the implementation of the site’s design. The browser could of course be helpful and increase the click target size to some minimum value, but it would just make the development complicated due to yet another quirk in how browsers implement the UI, especially in cases where you need a lot of small click targets.
Years ago--as you would judge by the names--we were walking along 14th or 15th NW and my wife overheard the following snippet:

woman a: .... Anyway, that's what Bill said.
woman b: But what did Hillary say?

A co-worker to whom I mentioned this suggested that perhaps the business improvement district hired actors to walk about and hold such conversations.
> what is running toward the fear?

Stopping and thinking critically about the situation, questioning assumptions, analyzing KPIs, analyzing risk levels... (or delegating the above to a capable team member with the understanding that you want the truth), asking thoughtful, open-ended questions of subordinates --- essentially, opening your mind up and allowing yourself to carefully consider all potential outcomes, even the nasty ones that you would rather remain blissfully ignorant of.

As a leader, you want to believe everything is going along just fine. Sometimes when it's not, you sense that as a fear-in-the-gut, and the temptation is to ignore it. The message here is - don't.
No kidding. Tensorflow/Nvidia GPU docker containers are an industry standard for AI. The security of frequent internet updates is scary.
Mmh intuitively, I would have thought that the proof would involve the enveloppe of points. If the line starts with a section that crosses inside the enveloppe of the set of points then it remains so, and hits all points, while a line that starts outside remains outside and so can avoid some points.

Any formal proof along those lines?
Actually just moved on to start a new startup. Which also YC rejected yesterday. But to be honest most of our success was because the YC and HN network. We got tons of value out of PGs essays, YC posts/videos and HN articles and comments. Hope to continue using those resources for the next one!!
I think the real challenge is mind boggling complexity of interactions. Suggesting it’s a question of funding etc is vastly understating the actual issues.

Curing cancer for example is a vastly simpler problem.
On behavioural economics being an odd term
I don't think so. In a convex hull, you only visit points on the hull of the set, not in the interior. In this problem, you visit points in the interior too (if I understand correctly).
Privacy.com can ban class actions without binding arbitration agreements, many companies already do this.

To go a step farther, waiving my right to a trial by jury and telling me I can go to a small claims court instead does not engender trust from me. That's not avoiding a class action, that's removing my ability to have a trial decided by my peers.

To go even one more step, I don't get the hate for class action lawsuits.

Class action lawsuits are one of the only really effective ways consumers have to punish companies that misstep. They're not perfect, and they often end up profiting lawyers more than consumers. But at the same time, suing companies is expensive, and companies bank on that fact. They commit small violations, counting on the fact that most consumers will realize that it's not economically feasible to file claims for a few hundred dollars.

Aggregating multiple claims into a single lawsuit (for all of its flaws), solves that problem. It's pretty much the only thing we have right now that helps solve that problem. We've seen that with Equifax, Verizon, Yahoo, etc... the class action lawsuits hurt those companies a lot more than any regulation or criminal probes or boycotts did. If high-profile mistakes like the ones these companies made anger you, there's potentially an argument there for making class-action lawsuits even more powerful, not less.

I get that our legal system in the US is messed up and expensive. I don't understand why the consequences of that have to fall specifically on consumers.
For some jellyfish at least.
I'm going to Twitch stream the Aquameta install and give a little demo, and answer questions folks might have. 5pm CDT. https://www.twitch.tv/events/j5MGrQ91TwSzRpo28wqGdw
HN mostly. There are a handful of subreddits I check periodically. /r/artificial, /r/AGI/, /r/machinelearning being some of the top ones. Some StackExchange sites, like ai.stackexchange.com, electronics.stackexchange.com, ham.stackexchange.com, and so on.
Only as likely as you are to lose your phone at the same time as your keys today, which as GP says depends on your habits / how you carry them.

It's not perfect, (and my Yubikey doesn't support it so I don't do it) but what is?
Mexican entrepreneurs keep low profile
23andMe founder says consumers need time to get used to genetic testing
isn't that what in this sitee is the maligned GDPR does?
Andrew Niccol is so good!