skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were reasons for wanting to use an embedded scripting language in general. Ultimately the choice (at the time) came down to either Lua or JavaScript. There were pros/cons to each approach and in the end JavaScript was chosen mainly because many coming in from the outside would already be familiar with it. Keep in mind that this was before Chrome existed and browser wars had not begun yet... so things were a bit rocky at first, but really it's peen proven to be the right path. Eich's common line -- "Always bet on JS" and all :)
My point is, people's minds aren't caught up to the scale of data, and I don't think there is a technology solution for it. We now have more data and more technology but it's not solving the problem.

Hell I don't always know where I'm going to put all the groceries I take home.

EDIT - to add - too much data isn't really useful. When we are talking personal data collection it's basically a librarian's job, which is non-trivial
Absolutely phenomenal reporting. Take the time and read the entire thing in detail. It’s worth it.

Can any Navy vets comment or speak to these systems? I really worry about the proliferation of these digital interfaces. I’m curious to know how folks feel about them.
From the title I thought this was about Wikipedia.
This is a very simplistic analysis of these particular regulations, and not at all a way to extrapolate to regulations in general.

If we have no way of making up for the water consumption and pollution caused by appliances, then there is no tax that you can impose on it to make up for the externalities.

Regulating the way they function is the only way around the issues that you just can't encode in price.
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> Founded in 1933, American Institute for Economic Research educates Americans on the value of personal freedom, free enterprise, property rights, limited government and sound money.

(Source: https://www.aier.org/opportunities-at-aier/)

So a conservative, business-viewpoint think tank thinks a regulation is bad.

Who'da thunk?
A thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12694004
This would be a lot more compelling if he addressed what the upside of the regulations are. Obviously using less water means more water for everybody, but why are phosphates bad? According to wikipedia, it's because they degrade the overall water quality - if he wants them put back, he needs to come up with a way to offset water degradation.
If you look at Kashmir using Apple Maps, it will look different depending whether you are in India, Pakistan, or China. Is Apple recognizing one of those countries claims any more than the other?
That's the sort of tough-guy prepper-with-a-slide-rule speech that people (apparently) just can't get enough of. But does it mean anything?

There is no bright line delimitating what's on the "critical path" and what's not. Your servers? The electric grid? The datacenter? The backbone(s) it's connected to? The judicial system making contracts enforceable? NATO? Name any two that straddle the line, and anybody can come up with something in between them, because it's a continuum.
My very expensive Viking dishwasher has a cycle time of two hours and forty-five minutes. I regret replacing the old Kenmore that was here when we bought the house.
> creating a private market for space exploration is a huge waste of public money

Others have commented on how NASA has never built very much in-house.

But I'll go broader. American technological leadership, in space and other fields, goes back to its private contracting heritage. Contractors competed to develop tech. They then had an incentive to find other uses for that tech, thereby proliferating its benefits into the broader economy.

It's not a coincidence that while most countries have a tepid public space program, America has multiple launch vehicles under development for a diversity of purposes.
Hm. I have absolutely no idea what this writer is talking about. I had no dishwasher for about twenty years, then bought one about three years ago, and it’s magnificent. Not even an expensive one, just a countertop Sunpentown.

I’ve always bought “good” (not cheap) detergent and “rinse-aid”, so I wouldn’t be at all surprised if you’re right.
This is strange to me. I've always only had crappy apartment dishwashers, and they always get the job done. Beyond about a 1 second rinse, I do no pre-cleaning either. Is it really common for dishwashers to be ineffective?
Plus it's not like they are just handed out and you're on your own. A nice man or woman in a suit will spend many hours sitting beside you teaching you everything you want to know. And anytime you are confused you press the help key twice and you are connected with someone who will take you through step by step what to do. And this isn't outsourced IT support. It's a person in New York who knows the product really well.
Laundry machines, too
Yes, but in my experience they can be problematic. Servers do best in rooms away from people.
Seems like they just break down finical reports and the likes, which seems rather trivial. I don't read Bloomberg, so I may be mistaken, but that seems like an alright use case for automated articles.
And deal with all the organizational politics?
Curious, does it use Deep Learning techniques, and for what tasks?
Thanks. My current plan is pretty much exactly that: perpetual license for $ X including 1 year of updates, then $ 0.5X for additional year of updates/maintenance.

The main thing I'm uncertain about is the value of X :)
I'd be interested to hear from those that wrote up the regulations.

I assume, for example, that there was a good reason phosphates were banned. But that there has not been an effective replacement is certainly something worth talking about.

I don't know enough about the topic to know what to recommend, but this conclusion:

> If people knew the full extent to which government regulations have messed up our lives, there would be mass outrage in this country.

is as helpful as the headlines the author criticizes, and for the same underlying reasons.
The specific claim seems to be that if the capsule were manned, the crew could have intervened, when the problem was first detected, to correct the error. With no crew aboard, ground control was unable to make the correction because, at precisely that time, the vehicle was in a dead zone between communications satellites.

It is not entirely clear to me whether this would have been the chosen course of action had it been manned, or whether it is merely being presented in support of the statement that it would not have created a dangerous situation.
Also:

A think tank making simplistic arguments to argue for social policies with far wider repercussions than its essayists could ever be bothered to cover.

Who'da thunk?
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came here to say this. zotero also saves metadata as an extra. as long as it is used from within a browser.
We migrated Vault's storage with no downtime
Sorry, I screwed it up. The address is not the original one as required by submission guidelines, but media coverage.

But I don't seem to be able to delete my submissions.
Regarding Apple vs. Android, I have no interest in "tweaking" my phone. I used to like tweaking things when I was in my 20s and 30s and satisfied that need by hacking on Linux. I may have loved Android back then. Nowadays, I just want to finish what I need to get done as quickly as possible and spend all my free time with my family. Tweaking anything is a waste of time for me and I don't want to do it at any level. So, I ditched Linux for macOS and my Samsung phones for iOS. Both work exceptionally well for me and my purposes. I'm glad you found something that works for you.
Looks nice but you should make the bio window a bit larger so scroll ain't necessary
Some gcs are indeed written in C, often due to convenience of tooling. But Java's zgc is written in Java. Pypy's gc is written in Python. Go's gc is written in Go.
One of the best investments I ever made was replacing my parents' ailing Windows machines with Mac Minis. I no longer come home to a laundry list of issues that I need to fix.
https://web.archive.org/web/20191220180247/https://www.aier....
Right, most repair and reviewers note that if you buy good detergent and rinse-aid, modern dishwashers work great!

But if you're doing what folks used to do with cheap detergent, never cleaning out the filters, and such, then you're going to get bad results because of the changes in the industry over time.

And honestly it's not that much more to opt for detergent with enzymes. We personally skip the rinse-aid and haven't had an issue.
I think the grandparent comment is saying that you do not need your state to be mutable; that writing software where your state is immutable is useful and elegant.
Yeah, this -- the reason, why my answer to tech support outside of job is a firm "no". No to friends, no to family, no to anyone. I don't want to deal with panicked requests starting "you did something to fix my computer, now it ate my grant application, deadline is tomorrow, help!" And I don't deal with sudden stress particularly well.
> Do you know how many different variants of Markdown there are, how they affect the interpretation and appearance of the content, how they can break surprisingly much?

One plus a bunch of non-standard extensions. Do you know how many different variants of HTML there are, how rare it is for real-world HTML to actually conform to any of them, and how many different interpretations of that there are. (To say nothing of CSS, the standard so complex that it's never actually been implemented).

> And when it comes down to it, as soon as you want to do anything even remotely interesting in Markdown, you have to drop straight HTML in there

Just say no. If your goal is writing something intended to last, you should be able to convey it in mostly-plain text.
It's funny how the author's response to the dishwasher problem is not "we need to improve dishwasher regulations" but rather "regulations are bad." Do these "free enterprise" types really want to walk around breathing leaded gasoline spewing from cars without catalytic converters or seatbelts?
Thnx for the link. Found it to be more interesting than the main article.
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This just happened to me and I was kind of shocked. I haven’t taken a formal interview in a long time, but 0 feedback, not even a thanks for your time, seems potentially damaging as well. Especially in the long run. Word of mouth is a powerful thing and I’m definitely not going to say kind things behind closed doors after this.
Just put in a teaspoon of TSP with the normal detergent:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/SAVOGRAN-1-lb-Box-TSP-Heavy-Duty...
Generally speaking most people have no idea how integrated companies are into the "global economy" in a general sense. Just pick any random international company and they have multiple jurisdictions, currencies, currency risk, commodity risk, investor relation, internal portfolios and cash management, funds. All of this for one company, now imagine all companies and all the people, data, and connectivity required to manage it.
I wonder if there's eventually going to be appliance hacking projects to modify firmwares so they uses more water, heat & pressure to be on part with the older units in terms of performance.
In particular I’m thinking of architectural astronauts who get excited about a “system” they want to build (or god forbid, already have built) where “everything is a foo”. The hallmarks of these systems include: lots of very self-similar code - often recursive, very low inclusion of domain nouns and verbs, and instead substituting a new (impoverished) domain that is full of vague nouns and verbs (like “node”, “execute” or “handle”). In the worst cases, different parts of the code use a separate definition of the vague nouns.

Such people would (and at least one case that I’ve seen, have) rush to call their system homoiconic. I think because they’re more interested in looking clever than being helpful.

Not only is such code hard to follow, but as one smart person once put it, any time your code uses different concepts than those from the problem domain, there’s a place where impedance mismatches live. Those look like bugs to your users, and are often the hardest to fix.

As the other responder guessed, this is a part about lisps that I’m not overfond of. It’s easier for such frippery to expand to the entire system.
My cheap IKEA dishwater has a (non-default) cycle of 36 minutes, and it gets the job done.

However, I do agree it's getting harder and harder to find dishwashers and washing machines with short cycles
I have to agree, moved into a place with a dishwasher for the first time about 7 months ago. It was probably my favourite thing about the place. It always worked really well and I just bought the cheaps bags of Sunlight detergent and didn't really put that much care into loading it. I usually just filled it until I couldn't fit anything else in.
Mine is only a few years old and works pretty well, although it does take a really long time. The trick is to clean the filter once in a while. In my old house I noticed it was not cleaning that well until I found the filter was clogged with all sorts of debris. After cleaning it worked great again.
It's not obvious that everyone needs more water everywhere.
Let's compare the number of instances a timer has caused an issue and the number of instances it hasn't to determine the actual rate before we make a broad assumption about a field we have no experience in due to a single test case, yes?
They also made mobile device access free when they raised the price to $2, making the premium version less necessary though.
We should absolutely take the chance to engage and debate it since it is a POV that has some research to back up their claim. Disagree? That's fine! But do it in a constructive way - we cannot discourage this type of discourse in America, certainly not now.
Emacs and Atom also support interacting with running Jupyter kernels when editing scripts ([1], [2]). In a sense, notebook-less Jupyter kernels already are the "LSP for REPLs".

[1] https://github.com/dzop/emacs-jupyter

[2] https://atom.io/packages/hydrogen
>I'd say the internet helped people be less alienated.

Have you spent much time around teens to people in their early 20's? Social skills no longer exist or most of them. They can't look at you, they can't give you their attention, they can't carry a conversation in person. They stare at their phones, feeling underprivileged because their favorite social media accounts seem to have better, flashier, fancier lives than them so they too highly curate what they show to the world.

As a 34 year old I can look at the generation before me and the generation after me and see a stark difference in social skills.

You used to fall into one of a few groups, now everyone thinks they need to find individuals exactly like them which requires them to search the world far and wide to find someone that identifies as some random string of letters (not necessarily representative of their gender and sexual preferences).

I suspect people in general feel more alienated, more alone, than ever before in human history because of the internet.

Just in the past week there was a thread here on HN about a hair cutting robot and the number of people claiming that they hated having to go to the barber because, God forbid, the barber/stylist might attempt to talk to them [1] was just flat out shocking. They'd rather have a machine cut their hair than have to be around other human beings!

Go out to eat, or go walk around in a populated area (outside or inside). What do you see? People staring at screens, people with earbuds in, throngs of people ignoring each other to interact with strangers on the internet. People sitting at the same table, eating food, texting other people or even texting each other instead of having actual conversations.

Take something like a dating app. Instead of walking up to someone and saying hi, you mindlessly swipe pictures waiting for someone to swipe you back. Then your match tries to find all of your social media so they can quickly see if you are worth the effort of getting to know, instead of actually asking you questions and getting to know you.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21804089
Here is Google's career ladder for software engineers: https://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2018/08/google-software-eng...

Your typical engineer with relevant education and 5 years of experience is probably about L4/5.
And that is precisely why everyone should study stoic philosophy and seek to become a master of stoic detachment. The ability to control our reactions is what separates humans from lower animals.
Looking forward to renewed JavaScript runtime performance competition in 2020
"This is important because when the meaning gets too obscure, one can return to the math to resolve any confusion. The other way around does not work."

Note: my math is not very advanced, at least not good enough to understand quantum mechanics

But why does it not work the other way? When the math tells me something very wrong, can't the conctext and meaning show where the math modell is wrong?

As far as I understood, every physical modell is only a limited model of reality, so they all have flaws. Meaning the math can be wrong when applied to reality, which one could spot, with the understanding of reality?
Are you living in the dream California? There are lots of places out of California they can't afford iPhone, or can't afford any phone more than $200, and that's the reality world. So, let Apple make money from those rich consumers, and let Chinese manufactures to make money from the other non-rich consumers.
Hmm, well the scenario I was thinking of was having database writes sped up, in the sense of reducing network latency between the user and the server.

I guess the syncing aspect is going to be most complicated part.

I was thinking that I could have some logic that stores where the user's nearest DB is as part of their user info, and just store their data there.
But still not sure if that's the best way.

Thanks for mentioning Citrus DB, I looks like they have an open source version that I'll try checking out.
He's definitely exaggerating the case that dishwashers "don't work." It's true that sometimes people's dishwashers don't work. But I've had personal experience with plenty of dishwashers that do work. It'd be surprising to me if my experience was an outlier.
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Not exactly, the real world implications could go well beyond observing your targets emotional response.
Connected to the main server over (perhaps multiple) Thunderbolt cables, I'd assume. Since you really do just want PCI-e passthrough.
The One Notebook Habit (2018)
I think https://www.levels.fyi/ gives these classifications.
> Funny how I can interact with strangers in the real-world and sometimes walk away refreshed but I am not sure there's a single time I have ever read a stream of tweets from strangers and felt anything but anger and nausea?

This hasn't been my experience, I regularly see interesting and refreshing stuff linked from Twitter. The Outer Worlds bug thread was only a few days ago[0]. Here's another story about deaf astronauts if you want something recent that's more general than programming.[1]

I do think there are things we can do better, and I don't think everything is fine, and on average I even advise people to stay away from sites like Twitter -- I don't think they're super-healthy right now. But overall even the toxic parts of the Internet I frequent (like Twitter) are not nearly as toxic as people make them out to be.

There's been this kind of push in the media lately that maybe all of this was a mistake, and that's just laughable to me. Of course the Internet has been a net good for society. There are a lot of problems, and a lot of stuff I hate, but I am overall trending towards optimistic, not pessimistic -- especially when I look at efforts like Mastodon, PeerTube, and Matrix. I think the Internet is rough, but not fundamentally flawed. So please keep iterating, but also stop being so pessimistic. The Internet is honestly kind of good. We did a good job building it.

I was thinking the other day -- I need to start indexing some of the things I see online that make me happy, so when I see comments like this I can just more quickly list them out.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21779583

[1]: https://twitter.com/TheSpaceGal/status/1205258285412020225
Interesting, I've heard of the DB before but haven't given it much research. I'll check it out.
A thought on the political, rather than technical, side of the story:

I went through a regrettable phase of reading about military strategy and the like, and one of the things that stuck was how good strategies need to have a component of randomness to them, to make them unpredictable by the enemy. Trump is chaos and randomness, and him having landed on this issue, and in such a random (?) and (apparently?) sexist way is both testament to that, and an indicator of the danger he poses to Democrats and what passes for the left in the US: They've left themselves exposed on many fronts because they've faced a very ordered and predictable foe until Trump. Nobody, but nobody, on the right would have launched an attack on the left with "women have told me dishwashers suck, now," before Trump, so they were free to pass stricter and stricter regulations, unpunished by the cost to consumer satisfaction.

I am loath to admit it, but there is something to be admired, here, some kind of low genius that demands respect, under threat of great peril if respect is not afforded.
I've found recent dishwashers to work fine, as long as you rinse off obvious cruds first. Super greasy pans get a manual wash and a dishwasher finish.

This article felt like my father in law complaining about shrinking portions at the grocery store, except from the 'expert' perspective of an economist rather than an engineer.

If you really think the efficient machines aren't getting the job done, Hobart continues to manufacture heavy duty machines that look fine in a home kitchen.
I was surprised to see an ad from NYC government that recommended running your tap for 30 seconds before consuming water to remove any sediments from the pipes. This leads me to believe that household water conservation is not so important in the region. Also considering things like pools and gold courses, I imagine water conservation within a house has almost no impact.
If some of the money saved by not having to follow regulators trickles down to them - of course!
> [redacted subset]

why?
Yes! Also: if you have hard water/mineral deposits (like much of California), also try something like Lemi Shine (no relation other than a consumer).

(I don't know if the high citric acid content is hostile to the enzymes, but dishes are still clean, and it certainly avoids the mineral deposits).
Noctua fans are your best bet - they're drastically less noisy than any other fans I've come across.
Are you using a rinse-aid?
Very cool, but expected a pic of snake riding a camel
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I have a 3 year old dishwasher and I've never had the issues described in the article. We use Somat Gold Gel, which from a quick Amazon search doesn't seem to be available in the US so there might be something there.
If Chrome and Putty Has a Kid Introducing POME
Visit Repo: https://github.com/flaminggenius/POME

Originally named Multi-Window_SSH_Client, POME is a project I started working on due to getting annoyed by having so many putty tabs open and not knowing where a certain server was at and just the overall mess.

POME aims to clean up that mess by having a multi window view that acts like chrome. POME is still in the early stages of development but it currently at a stable v1 release state.

Contributors and users welcome alike!