skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same experience here. I film all the led bulbs I purchase in 240fps to see if they flicker at 60Hz. I discovered that Philips bulbs NEVER flicker. Occasionally I stumble upon other cheaper brands that don't flicker, but there is never any guarantee. I might buy 2 batches 6 months apart of bulbs from the same model from the same third party seller on Amazon, and they slightly changed the product (updated packaging and markings on the bulb) and one batch doesn't flicker whereas the other does... So I end up nowadays just buying Philips.
It’s Not Worth Camping Out in Front of Stores on Black Friday
Shuttle Computers Navigate Record of Reliability
Narrow gauge is a good solution for mountainous or rural areas, but infrastructure intensive solutions require government investments.
An interesting cryptography game would be to present you one of the many protocols mentioned here and ask you to break it. You have 100 points, and you can buy hints for various amounts.
Airplanes fly high and have tiny porthole windows. You can't appreciate the beauty of the earth.

Zeppelins can have huge windows and fly relatively low. The experience of flight would be amazing -- focused on the beauty of the natural world.

Zeppelins offer a low-carbon earth-conscious luxury good that the superrich should spend money on -- so that eventually it's affordable to the rest of us.
Does anyone report on eMMC wearing out in phones, game consoles, TVs, laptops, etc.? What makes Tesla special? Are there really no other car manufacturers using eMMC btw?

Easiest hardware fix would be to replace the part with a larger one which would only be a BOM change. But that doesn't help the units already in the field. I'm sure they've figured something out by now.

>Tesla’s firmware size over the years went from a paltry 300Mb to a full 1Gb over an estimated four year period, which consumes much of the storage space in that Flash. Add on the constant vehicle log updates, and the failure rate of those chips increased exponentially.

Does it really increase exponentially or does 'exponentially' just mean 'a lot' now? Genuinely curious. Also I think I'm allowed to be pedantic when the source is an electrical engineer.
These would play into Trump's hand, with his trying to decouple US businesses from China.
Using parser combinators to parse ingredient amounts in JavaScript
We're truly doomed as a species if the image of someone eating a sandwich is the death of a politician's career and not all horrible shit politicians actually do.
I think it's a restriction on your license and applies to any car you drive. The company car won't have the device so the driver would not be able to legally drive it. This would be similar to how some locations make you do a road test with a standard transmission or you are only allowed to drive an automatic.
If you have the ability to moderate and modify posts on your platform, everyone and their mother is going to come after you and try to force you to exercise that power. It looks like Facebook gets to find out what happens when governments try to make you do that.
Exactly correct, which is why wealthy nations converting away from fossil fuel electricity production to nuclear baseload generation and renewables for peak load is critical. It’s the only thing which is feasible, has clear outcomes, and is obvious once the problem is broken down.

Unfortunately being anti-nuclear is more emotionally fulfilling for people.
I dealt with burnout as a startup founder and wrote out my thoughts:

https://www.nemil.com/on-software-engineering/beware-burnout...

Each burnout situation is different, and happy to chat (my contact info is in my profile). One recommendation: don’t make any decisions without taking some time to get yourself back into a good headspace. I was terrible with making decisions when I was burnt out.
About API versioning, the problem is the same as any web API. It's possible to add backward-compatible changes, otherwise, you need to fork the backend into a new endpoint.

About interoperability with non-JS environments, I wrote an article about that: https://liaison.dev/blog/articles/How-about-interoperability...
Should people be allowed to say and write lies in a "real" democracy?
The US, and even the EU, already subject foreign companies to their power.
Boundary Layer Technologies is developing small cargo hydrofoils to compete with air freight. This may be a viable niche market. But their design looks like it has only about 1% of the capacity of the largest displacement hull container ships. Hydrofoil technology doesn't scale. And the cruising speed won't be much over 50kts.
In case anyone is curious, Catholics actually do have similar concerns about bodily integrity. In contrast to Hinduism, cremation is discouraged. It’s interesting that the same justification has been used both for and against cremation. However organ donation is permitted on the grounds that God approves of life-giving generosity
But why, and how not to?
I hadn't even considered that. You could blimp all sorts of things that won't fit on the road. Houses, windmill blades, HVAC units, pods for modular buildings, extremely large pianos, ...
I get it, it's like two bad things (out of pocket health care for preventative medicine, and optician profit lobbying) have combined to make it worse for everybody, to make sure rich people have regular eye exams.

But the solution should be eye exams every 12-24 months; for everyone earning above a tax threshold, the Govt takes $50/year whether you have an exam or not (okay, with an exception for those without eyes/sight). When you go to get lenses you can get an exam without any extra cost. If you want to get lenses with an old prescription you can.
I don't think it's about space in general, but rather the vision of making humanity an inter-planetary species (at least that is what Elon Musk talks about a lot). I think the idea of expanding humanity beyond our single planet inspires a lot of people, myself included.

Fundamentally that is how it is different from colonizing the ocean floor.
>If Singapore why not every other nation on earth?

What's likely going to happen is that Facebook complies, but only for visitors from Singapore.
Or Asimov's The Relativity of Wrong: https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html
What exactly does conquering mean to you?
I'm thankful that people want to pay me ludicrous sums of money to do the thing I love.

I've seen my friends who have the same passion for art, or literature, or even STEM fields like biology and psychology, struggle to make a living "doing what they love." Many of them end up as baristas and uber drivers while they try to make it in their chosen fields.

Me? I went to school for something I found fun. I didn't choose programming because it was a wise career move - I chose it because people told me if I do what I love, I'd never work a day in my life.

I've certainly made some decent career moves. I moved to where the jobs were, I learned some hot technologies, and I learned a bit about the business side of things. But overall, my very comfortable position in life is due to luck.

Luck that I was exposed to programming early on.

Luck that I was able to take a traditional, safe path from "I like coding" to "I have a job coding."

But most of all, luck that when I got out of school, there was ridiculous demand for the thing I would have done for fun anyway.

I'm thankful that the job market is great for devs in SF, and that I love software dev. As a result, I try my best to be aware that most people are fighting a much more uphill battle than me.
> Should people be allowed to say and write lies in a "real" democracy?

Yes. In democracy, the public are the arbiters of truth. Particularly political truth.

Free speech doesn’t mean consequence-free speech. Cooling-down periods, mandatory preservation and disclosure requirements, et cetera are both prudent and commonplace. Court-supervised anti-fraud statute, which punishes for the harm done by the lie, not the speech itself, also helps.

Governments should not have the power to silence their critics. It’s a conflict of interest between the rulers and the ruled, and historically marches towards poverty, misery and instability.
Yes.

Follow up question: should a real democracy have a Ministry of Truth?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening

EDIT: you may be thinking of this article specifically http://www.ediblegeography.com/strange-and-beautiful-seeds-f...

> For example, a mutagenic Ruby Red grapefruit grown without the use of pesticides can be labeled as organic and thus be sold for a premium, despite the fact that organic foods by definition cannot be genetically modified.
I don't think this is possible for any constant y that is not between 0 and e.
I got a dumb idea. Permanently stationed blimps around the world that never land. And cable cars for moving between them, on pulleys.

Pros: Energy efficient: no need to generate lift. No need for fans to move the cars as you are on pulleys, which are more efficient. Minimal noise! You could go as fast as you want but your efficiency will start to drop due to drag.

It can't be any worse an idea than a hyperloop can it?
Great, it really sucks that people on work visas can basically be threatened with deportations by their employers like this because of all the ways unemployment can go wrong. Good look with the new job :)
hahah yes
Except that you do. Python is a form of OOP/Iterative programming, involves memory allocation, pointers, references, and the like. Pandas requires the skilled application of a general purpose language coupled with a domain-specific vocabulary for your problem space.

I maintain that APL isn't fundamentally more difficult. If there is something that you have as an example that you think is just too "hard" to do in APL that is very "easy" in Python and Pandas, please do let me know via email (arcfide@sacrideo.us) as I would love to make sure APL has a good answer to such things (I want to make APL accessible).

Since you are talking about statistics and data analysis type things, you may find TamStat of interest:

http://www.tamstat.com/

Additionally, don't forget that Dyalog APL also has a full Chart/Graphics system (two, actually), and a large suite of idiomatic expressions for computing many classic analysis problems. There's a number of other integrations that people seem to be unaware of often enough.

I very seriously would like to receive from you one example of something you have done that you find too difficult in APL, because if it really is, then we can do better and I'd like to make sure that we do.
These books almost always give that experience. It's great, until you realize they're all contradictory...
I am very impressed with the clarity of presentation here. I usually link to The Matrix Cookbook[1] when I need to cite a reference for matrix calculus theorems but I might reference this instead in the future. I particularly like the section on the vector chain rule (which is very clear) and the section on element-wise operations (which uses novel notation to present many results in a compact form.)

[1]: https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi/matrixcookbook.pdf
It sounds like the team lead is trying to establish dominance and belittle your contributions and probably wants to take the credit for your work.

Keep a documentation trail and a running summary of what you've accomplished and the value of it.
NARS2000 is always doing some interesting stuff. Morten has said before that if he had to recommend an open-source APL, it would be NARS2000.
> Isn’t using this much power bad for the planet? Coal has a carbon intensity of about 1 kg CO2e / kWh (source), so one coal-powered lamp-day produces 2 kg, approximately one-third to one-half of a cheeseburger (source).

I don't think the author gets a cheeseburger everyday! And even if it is true, it adds on top of the cheeseburger.
How about a Department of Truth to censor all your ideas, posts and ideologies? That should prevent fake news, right?
Syslog is a plain text protocol. Sending that over the internet kinda defeats the purpose of security logging. The problem isn’t with syslog (although like the post says, syslog is still a problem for security). The problem is syslog over the internet.
It also sucks for locals because some corps will strongly preference people on work visas since they basically own the employees.
Is there a factsheet or written definition for what actually constitutes 'Fake News' or is it "news I don't agree with?"

There were perfectly reasonable legal words available to describe fraudulent, false or factually inaccurate statements, it's sad that 'Fake News' has caught on so well as though it is a meaningful term.
The FP future we all need to be in? Objection, your honor. Assumes facts not in evidence.
Liaison allows inheriting layers from each other. So, you can easily separate your API layer with your model layer, and you don't need to build a web API for that.
Pretty sure they'd want people in the prime of their life, not people with grown children.
Definitely the government shouldn’t be able to stop criticisms, but for outright lies, wouldn’t libel or slander laws apply?
This concern has held me back from becoming an organ donor: there have been concerns [0] [1] for many years about use of donor tissue in plastic surgery. I'm more than happy to get turned into life-saving donor parts, but am not okay with being turned into lip fillers for someone to sell to some diva. How can I make sure that my organs go _only_ to life-saving causes?

[0]: https://www.chron.com/news/health/article/Some-donated-tissu...

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22822698
Most people replace their phones and laptops every 2 to 5 years. Too fast to see any problem under normal usage.

Most game consoles and TVs are unlikely to do enough logging to wear out their storage. But if they did, especially if they cost as much as a car, it probably would make the news.

Cars tend to last a decade or two. They shouldn't stop working because of something as silly as excessive logging.
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“Oracle had put in place an entire system to bring men from India over to the US on work visas and pay them less while rejecting qualified people from everywhere else.” - when people complain that the immigration system needs to be fixed, I hope they’re including this in their todo list.
It's a poorly designed shader with horrendous performance... almost reminds me of...
And just spelling it out because "people should be allowed to tell lies" is terrible marketing:

There is no way to deduce the truth using the tools in the Government's toolbox or in public discourse. The more questions systems like the courts have to answer the more mistakes they will make; they aren't for discerning the truth instead only checking that standards of evidence have been met. There are a bunch of things that are untrue but that can be demonstrated to a high standard of evidence.

When governments try to do things that are impossible there are unwelcome side effects. Since they logically can't police the truth any attempt to do so will not have the intended outcome.
I'm just happy to be here.
I'm thankful for today. For laughter and company.
Would you say that Singapore's elections are faked? And the results invalid?
And it was accomplished in 1969 — engineering with a slide rule. I wonder what was different with American culture 60 years ago that enabled such an achievement?
Firmware doesn't update as often though so it'd have to be static wear-leveling. I'm not sure of the safety of doing this with firmware files though - could it actually decrease the life expectancy by moving critical blocks more often?

In any case, if 90% of the space is filled with static firmware files then wear-leveling becomes difficult. Probably best to turn it off and let the physical blocks with the logs fail while keeping the firmware blocks intact, or just stop writing logs after a certain point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_leveling#Static_wear_leve...
Helium is scarce in much the same way that crude oil is scarce: there are plenty of reserves still in the ground, but we are consuming them orders of magnitude faster than they were produced, and as the reserves dwindle the costs of extraction will rise.

Helium is a chemical element, and aside from nuclear reactions (which are economically infeasible for non-microscopic quantities) we can't produce more of it.
> for outright lies, wouldn’t libel or slander laws apply?

That would require the slandered party (a) prove it’s false and (b) demonstrate harm. There is also good reason for most slander and libel law withholding many remedies from public figures and politicians.

In this case, a department of a single-party city-state issued a takedown notice against allegations of election tampering. It is as illegitimate as it is Streisand-effect inducingly stupid.
Why? EVERY temporary work visa I have ever had has had a declaration section where I acknowledge that its temporary and in no way entitles me to residence. Its not a hidden suprise.
I once connected my vizio tv to the wifi. ended up having to change the wifi password, since there was no way to forget the network on the vizio.

haven't had an update since, and not upset about that.
> Content is published in a variety of formats including but not limited to images, sound files, videos, Google Drive docs, diagrams, long-from paywalled articles, PDFs, powerpoint presentations, and base 64 encoded blobs.

One of the great disappointments I’ve had working in tech for 20 years now has been the way we’ve transformed the entire spectrum of human expression, which includes wildly different forms of art and media each of which we used to engage with in its own unique way, into an undifferentiated slurry of “content.”

Every time I hear a child say they want to grow up to be a “content creator,” I die a little inside. Aspire to be a musician, or a painter, or a dancer, I want to tell them. A filmmaker, a poet, a sculptor. Dream of finding your art and mastering it, not just extruding more gruel to fill some corporate pipe.
So if I go out posting "JumpCrisscross is a child molester" everywhere (only, say I found your real name somehow), you're good with that? No, that would be defamation and you could get a court order to get it taken down, unless I had enough evidence to prove the claim.

> But governments should not have the power to decide if criticism is truthful or not

They do, though. And for good reason, too. You wouldn't want to lose your job over a fraudulent hitpiece.
Your second link mentions that alcohol is a factor in 1/3 of fatal traffic accidents and that traffic accidents are the leading killer of adults under 25. I think dropping the leading killer of young adults would be worthwhile.

Your third link says accidents will be the cause of death for 1 in 77 people and compared it to 1 in 276 people dying of skin cancer. Does this mean I shouldn't bother wearing sunscreen?
How to fix San Francisco in next 10 years
Thankful for living in a peaceful country.
Thankful for a loving wife and a daughter and aged yet active parents.
Thankful for a life where I dont have to struggle for my basic physiological needs and safety needs
> Burning out as an early stage start-up employee

I was an early employee in a start-up, I worked hard and got caught in all the startup distortion field/changing the world/impact kind of bs. The CEO kept saying for years that next year they will go IPO. Eventually I left no one gave a s..t , the company never went IPO.

The only positive thing was that I learned a lot of things because I had the chance to work on a lot of projects.

So make yourself a favor, stick around only for as long as it benefits you and your resume. But don't stay a minute longer founders won't give a s..t when you leave and you will never become rich anyway.

I later joined a big public company, amazing work-life balance, higher base salary , stocks, bonus, amazing 401k.

Bottom line, startups is overall bs. Don't buy the hype and if you do always keep in mind your own interests.
I don't know - FP vs OO as a "comparative mythology/religion" course might be interesting...
If you have to teach programming I would consider focusing on a 3GL (like BASIC) instead of a 4GL (like Java).
Also, this blog had a warning post, posted just before this that address this point in some detail that's worth looking at https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/20/book-review-all-therap...

It's also linked from this post as the last line of section one.
http://www.opac1.com/bank/detail.php?bcd=5960 yeah according to this it's owned by Mitsubishi Trust, Nippon Life Insurance, Meiji Life Insurance, Touyou Trust (which became a chunk of UFJ Trust), and ... I think Deutsche Bank?

So like a bunch of fingers in this pie. A good or a bad thing depending on your perspective.
Pointed Thoughts about AI
1. The threat to jobs is in the air upon us, UBI or not. Watch its landing, the Gini is out of the bottle.

2. Current models will make good enough general AI, not hard just tedious. They will not make genius AI that change paradigm due to optimizing for local maxima. ie Averaging responses to find truth doesn’t work when your answer set doesn’t know truth.

3. This will be a revolution — you only need to glance at the surface of implications.

Title should’ve read: ‘Deep’ thoughts about AI

Happy to debate
That is not a 100% accurate statement...I’ve had a DUI for over 3 years and I’ve travelled to and from Canada at least 8-10 times without any issues. Initially, I was scared to cross the border solely for the reason you mentioned...but after talking to a few others in the same situation and learning that they didn’t have any issues, I took my chances. Seems like they might utilize a risk factor along with your driving/criminal history...or maybe solely at the CBP agent’s discretion.
In fact, this blog has a warning to exactly that effect, posted a few days ago, and linked from this post.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/20/book-review-all-therap...
What I find interesting is how the discussions change based on who is involved.

For example, everyone seems to agree that ISIS videos should be removed.
When the same party has won every single election since 1959, you have to wonder if they mean anything.
The economy of sunshine: Solar boom in Alaska proves prosperous (2018)
>Wondering if I should just quit?

>Founders are very please[d], but getting poor feedback from team lead.

>Lots of others have take issue with my team lead as well, so its not just me.

It's almost certainly the case that if you quit, the founders would be surprised and wish they had known this. Seems like it would be pretty reasonable to share this with them, and say, "I don't expect you to fix this, but I wanted to give you the opportunity. Perhaps there is some way to replace the team lead."
Liaison doesn't expose anything by default. Only the allowed attributes and methods are exposed.
I wonder if it would be possible to write an app that could do it using the camera in a smart phone? The idea is that you would take some photos of some reference objects of known color under sunlight, and then take photos of those same objects under the lighting you are testing, and then figure out from the differences in the photos what the CRI must be.

The reference objects could be well known, easy to obtain household items, like a Pepsi can, a plastic bottle of Tide detergent, or box of Arm & Hammer baking soda. If the app included a reasonably good sized database of such items, there would be a good chance an average user would have a suitable set of color references already on hand.