skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Light bulb manufacturers goes to great extents to artifically shorten lifestyle of bulbs.

I adjusted to that by keeping bulb receipts. Then buying new ones to replace failing ones. Then coming 3 weeks later to get refund or credit for failed ones.

Putting pressure on retailers to stop carrying crappy products.

I know it's not exactly audio stuff but manufacturers engaging in misleading to the point of fraudulent practices need to be dealt with.
Very strange, it uses stripe payments too, what happens when I pay for the Pears? haha
It's not clear to me from the information here that Sonos themselves can't refurbish a device that's been put into recycle mode. This seems to be a technique to block third party refurbishers only.
Those studies say something more like "UW Madison/U Washington/UIUC really do give you as good an education as the ivies" and quite a bit less like "college doesn't matter/is just a signal".
And what a boat it is. 18 meters, that's a monster. Once long ago I worked for a sail maker in Edam, we'd have had trouble parking that outside the wharf, the main mast would have towered over the building.
I have been racing and sailing other peoples yachts for a similar time frame. I grew up in the Southern suburbs of Sydney. It is a place surrounded by waterways -- Botany Bay, Port Hacking and the Tasman sea.

When I was young, during the 1980's it seemed like every young person spent their free time sailing and boating. Numerous sailing clubs had weekend fleets numbering in the hundreds of vessels over multiple classes.

This has all but vanished today -- The clubs have either disappeared or are struggling.

I'm not sure what children do today instead, but sailing isn't it anymore.
People understand the purpose of it quite well. They just completely disagree with your analysis.

First, the most environmental form of recycling is for an object to be reused as is. So, if any item is given to a recycling center, if the recycling center can just sell it directly to someone else, then it's much more environmentally friendly.

Second, the credit doesn't encourage people to recycle them at all instead of throwing it in the trash, there's no verification that they've given it to a recycling center. The only thing is that after the recycling mode is enable, the device becomes a useless paperweight.

So it's an extremely environmentally unfriendly policy from a company who pretends they care about the environment.
Maybe you are right, but having a monopoly on the data makes competition smaller and extracting revenue easier.
I make less than $50k/year and I can imagine myself investing in such a device.

People don't think twice about buying new cars for much more, so why hesitate when there are clear benefits?
Look, I'm studying undergraduate philosophy with no intention other than why not. Would I say I could learn the material on my own w/o college? Absolutely but I like the organized structure of college w/ professors, peers, etc. Am I getting into debt? A fair bit. Is it worth the trade off? I certainly think so. Will I say that five years from now? Most likely. Because here's the thing: education as a means to an end is not what it's all about, and so many of us subscribe to this fiction―to this warm stupor of society's fictions―that we forget what it is truly about. College will always be worth it such that you have an endless curiosity or enjoy erring in the direction of learning which is deeply rooted into failing, or rather, not understanding, over and over again.
From what I've read about psilocybin, it has the ability to produce long-term, positive changes in perception that can last a lifetime. Hopefully with the decriminalization of shrooms in Denver (from Initiative 301) we'll start to see other states follow suit and explore the possibilities for good that can be made with this class of drugs.
> This is probably only true if you're thinking of
> the complexity in terms of board-game style
> complexity, with characters and items and abilities
> that you can enumerate in a list.

> Detailed physics and AI, on the other hand, is a
> thing that is largely beyond the ability of the SNES
> platform, and that's something that started to pick
> up along with 3D gaming.

Errr... yes? Obviously, nobody is claiming that the SNES was capable of "detailed physics and AI."

My first thought was that perhaps you were replying to the wrong post, but there aren't many replies. You certainly don't seem to be replying to what I wrote, so I'm baffled.

Let's go back to what I said. I said it took a while for 3D games to catch up to latter-day 2D titles in terms of "range of interactions."

In SMW, Mario can...

- Walk
- Run
- Jump
- Spin
- Swim
- Hold an item
- Throw an item
- Throw a fireball (as Fire Mario)
- Drop a reserve item
- Run jump
- Super jump (with Yoshi)
- Fly (as Cape Mario)
- Crouch
- Climb
- Smash into the ground
- Swallow an item (with Yoshi)
- Spit out an item (with Yoshi, will have different effects depending on what was eaten)
- Transition between different states (small, big, Fire, Caped, each with or w/o Yoshi)

Mario has dozens of abilities in SMW depending on which powerup is active and which (if any) of the Yoshis he's riding, as well as depending upon what Yoshi has eaten. There are dozens of objects with which they can interact, and many of those objects can also interact with each other. There is a physics engine, albeit a simplified 2D one, with gravity and momentum.

Contrast this with, say, Quake. You are of course inhabiting a fully 3D world, but there are a smaller range of interactions possible.

As I said, "a lot of" 3D games from the following decade (SMW came out in 1990) didn't have as rich of a range of interactions available. They were 3D, but there was generally less to do.

I can think of some exceptions, mainly from the latter half of the 1990s, but as I said, it generally took a while for 3D games to catch up.
I switched to i3 about 2 months ago. I had some false starts with tiling window managers before but i3 just clicked. It’s very easy to configure.

I have a mix of 10 plus terminals, chrome, sublime text, slack and wireshark spread across multiple workspaces in various combinations and it’s brilliant.
Some applications work better non-tiled, floating on top of the tiles and this can be configured. I have done that with wireshark.
...unless you're optimising for other things, like keeping leaders accountable to laws. If you believed a given leader had broken laws which would theoretically result in their imprisonment under the current system, and you believed that pursuing their imprisonment would definitely cause them to seek illegal extensions of their power, you still couldn't come to a "should" statement about whether or not to pursue legal action without weighing the competing goals of "enforcing the rule of law" and "preventing further abuse of power" against each other and deciding which one you care about more (perhaps with some assumed probabilities of various outcomes attached) -- and that's if you accept that the ends justify the means, meanwhile the means-over-ends crowd will want to pursue justice even in the face of armageddon.
Is the measure of an architect the number of lines in a blueprint? Is the measure of a craftsman the number of finished goods produced? It seems to me that different projects in the same domain should use different attributes to evaluate success. Why do we attempt to use uniform measures across-the-board? Is it lazy management or does delving deep into project-specific metrics make it hard for large enterprises to compare employees in similar functions? Or something else?
I have read that study, but I'm actually digging for a separate study now. I remember it split SAT score, educational attainment, and average salary into separate variables. For people with high SAT scores, average salary 10 years post graduation was basically the same regardless of level of education.
Cool idea, and great animations and design.

I'm not sure why it needs permission to read browsing history though...

Also it would be great to have the recently viewed sites thumbnails at the bottom too (like the default new tab page)
Hi am peter
One of the reason we use data.table is that it reduces the depencies when building custom images and its stability has been better than the tidyverse in the past. It might not be the case in the future, but that is how we made our choice initially.
It seems that it was you, who are unfamiliar with its background and implication.

What makes you think I am unfamiliar with the background?

Was it the polite way I pointed out that you had clearly missed the sarcasm?

Either way, the hostility is unnecessary.
Aw r u
> Healthcare should be a deal between you and the government

No, health care should be between me and my physician and whatever other experts I decide to consult. The government has no business meddling in it.

Health insurance or health care cost sharing might be things we could arrange cooperatively through government, but it doesn't seem like it's possible to do that without having the government try to meddle in what care people get.
My three year old tried it and is enjoying these, thank you OP!
This isn't comparable in the least, since there's no equity built up over the course of paying off student debt.
Matt Parker just made a great video about this very topic (including the math you get into).

https://youtu.be/0rxghexCKj8
This is what drove me to use Debian. I used to spend quite a but of time hunting down telemetry and other canonical-serving crap, but I eventually got tired of it.

With this crap and others (e.g. aggressive snapping), Canonical is eroding trust in its most important market. Inertia will only take them so far.
How do you think Massachusetts healthcare laws differ from California? They both have Obamacare which most people would say is not the same as universal healthcare.
Oh don't get me started. I rebuilt a bunch of Mini's from scratch.
This describes my experience exactly as well.
Were parties aware that this was close to or a de facto reg fd violation (https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/33-7881.htm) and/or how was this handled internally?
A person in our family is a specialized nurse. Two years of school, then some more training. $60hr any hour they "wish" to work. Saturdays/Sundays are $90hr, so is any hour after 8 hours. The demand is so high he just rejects work. If he wants to work in American Samoa or Miami: hired. I hired a person to install a garage door. $900 for an hour of work. My plumber wont show up for a 30 minute $300 job. I will call again, tomorrow fingers crossed. Get your brakes replaced - look at that bill. Try outsourcing that.

Everyone I meet that works at starbucks has a masters AND 90k in student debt. Bankruptcy doesn't make student loans go away.

I think things are about to start swinging in the "non-college" direction.
The key thing to remember about Lippmann, though, is that when he says these "lucid" things, he is not actually complaining; he's describing what he and people like him intend to do to "manufacture consent". Lippmann actually had no problem telling the people lies if he thought it was in a good cause. His objection to the lies others told was not that they were lies, but that they were not in what he considered to be a good cause.
He runs three companies which are changing the future of humanity though. Not some ecommerce gig. He is an outlier.
A family making a 3D-printed Lamborghini replica is surprised with the real car
Is there no way to fake the Sonos server and reauthenticate the bricked device offline or tear it down and bypass any logic chips and get at the speaker hardware directly, create an analog 3.5mm jack input and play music from it manually?

Would love to see the folks at hackaday or somewhere else exploit the recycle mode hardware.
And when you actually try to search for a noir movie you get exactly 2 noir movies and then a bunch of other movies you wonder why they are there. I guess they just fill the page of any search by random titles.
Not that it matters, but age hasn't hit 1.0 yet. (Close, though!)

With that in mind, it's still really exciting. I can't wait until I never have to use GPG ever, ever again.
An asset's Beta is the product of its market correlation and volatility ratio. Highly volatile assets can have beta near 1 even when they have low market correlation. That's why CAPM statistics usually include R-squared along with Beta. More generally, in constructing optimized portfolios, correlations are important, not Betas.

To your original point, 30 large firms are generally plenty to capture the market factor, regardless of weighting. For one thing, market-weighted indices are dominated by their top names (the top 30 names in the S&P 500 constitute over 40% of the index presently). More importantly, summing quickly suppresses uncorrelated variance, and there's a point after which adding additional names does very little. (I think there's a phase transition, actually – see Lello et al's recent report on polygenic risk scores, which use LASSO regression...[1])

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06489
I have encountered a lot of really terrible R learning materials. One data viz course I took (a very, very reputable and widely-used course on a major MOOC platform) taught how to make several simple chart types in each of base R, a library called lattice that I've never encountered since, and ggplot2. I think a lot of it comes from R instructors who started out back before the tidyverse trying to teach the path they _took_ to learning the language, rather than the quickest path to being proficient in the language as it exists today.

The tidyverse is incredibly controversial in parts of the R community; it's essentially an opinionated set of packages that basically comes with its own "standard" library. But I think that wholeheartedly embracing it, and hiding the way to do things in R that you would do them without the affordances that the tidyverse offers, is absolutely the right way to teach R these days. Unfortunately, a lot of courses and books haven't caught up to that yet.
I downloaded the whole PDF and one thing I find mesmerizing is just how sophisticated the business graphs looked back then. It seems we're only starting to slowly catch up with these in many web apps again.
It's possible this is the wrong way to get AES on the command-line; I haven't done it and no need to right now. But that's missing my point entirely.
DSSS is an exceptionally interesting topic, IMO. It uses linear feedback shift registers which some CS types may have encountered as a very cheap PRNG. But it also makes these interesting spectral properties, and it's orthogonal to time-delayed versions of itself. That's quite a lot of somewhat unexpected properties for a fairly simple shift register construction.
Debian votes for Proposal B, “Systemd but we support exploring alternatives”
I found out about the perils of depending on specific apps, cloud or something like that when gave a toy to girlfriend and now we can't play anymore because the app wasn't updated to the latest Android.

Literally we would tell the manufacturer to introduce it in specific places to tell us if it is usefull without remote control
You can't perfectly time your retirement to match the S&P 500 average. That's the reason your portfolio shifts to bonds as you get older. It's the reason everyone quotes 7 & 8% as reasonable long-term returns for your retirement portfolio.
In terms of storing/transmitting/digitizing, yes.

Distortion levels from speakers are still far from negligible-- by negligible I mean so low as to be extremely likely to be inaudible.

High power amplifiers are just now reaching a point where there are efficient amplifiers with negligible distortion; though they've been pretty good for a fairly long time.

There is a lot that can be done in terms of immersive spatial audio, unfortunately the trouble and cost of installing an array of speakers ... limits deployment. :)

There is also a lot that can be done to use DSP to ameliorate poor room acoustics, this stuff exists, but it isn't super widely deployed.
Most people (and competitors) underappreciate how well Elon manages requirements over Twitter.

If you want to know why he selected the features for the Cybertruck, go back 1 year when he asked the desired features on Twitter. It's crazy how many of those small looking features (like a bed for normal sized / tall people, lighting in the back) were included in all models.
Incredible. What strategies are hedge funds using now vs quants?
Personally I feel like, one one of the variables that isn’t considered in the returns conversation is time. Lots of employers have reimbursement programs that can be used while working up even of you currently work in big retail or corporate food.

It will likely take much longer but will leave you in a more controllable financial situation in the interim.
Grad school is often funded in the U.S. (PhD at least, masters not so much)
Using the New Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR
> The credit helps encourage people to recycle them at all instead of just throwing them in the trash, right?

As others have commented, the most environmentally friendly way to ‘recycle’ is to reuse.

The purpose of this recycle mode is not to encourage recycling, but to kill the second hand market.
I would tend to say that an experience abroad in fields like Arts is also extremely valuable and there are internationally recognized schools abroad. For example, the beaux arts in France or The Berlin University of the Arts.

So, while I agree with you that schools are a signaling tool for recruiting, this is not necessarily the case for non top schools in the US and given that a art education is extremely cheap in Europe, the money saved can also open doors later.

Visa issues are not that much of a problem as one might think as long as the student gets a master degree (most countries give a one year visa immediately after the obtention of a master that can then easily be renewed if the visa holder is employed). In general, master degrees make getting visa much easier. I'd also argue that returning to the US after a couple years of employments will give the graduate more opportunities because at that point they will have an edge by having had an international experience.
Algorithmic Extremism: Examining YouTube's Rabbit Hole of Radicalization
> do to surround sound what 3D glasses did for the TV
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So, nothing, at the end of the day?
> Look, I'm studying undergrad philosophy...Am I getting into debt? A fair bit.. Is it worth the trade off? I certainly think so. Will I say that five years after I graduate? Not sure but most likely.

Spoiler. Been there, done that. Unless you're at an Ivy, if you're majoring in philosophy, you'll not think it was worth it in five years. My sin was Classics, but similar outcome.

Assuming you're on HN because you're teaching yourself programming, the sting will be somewhat lessened (that's the route I took), since you'll at least be able to get a job.

But it'll still sting to make those massive loan payments knowing that nothing you learned is helping you with your professional life, and that things like philosophy, mathematics, and languages (and computer science!) can be learned just as easily with discipline, YouTube, and a few good textbooks.

It's very easy to delay the pain of loan payments when you're in school, but they'll be there waiting for you, inevitably, through sickness and health, marriage and divorce.

If you have endless curiosity, college is even less worth it. Instead, being loan-free gives you the freedom to work in areas that truly intrigue you, and to work in very low-paying internships while you're learning.

But I know I won't convince you. Likely no one could have convinced me at the time (although only one person tried, once).

Edit: if this were the 1970s or earlier, when you could pay for college classes from waiting tables or a $10,000 loan (inflation adjusted!), I'd absolutely say go for it. But taking out even $50,000 in debt at age 18 for anything less than a guaranteed job with a good income (physician assistant, nursing, accounting) is mortgaging your future. Taking out $200,000, which is the going rate for most [edit: should read "many, private", and is probably closer to $100,000] liberal arts 4-year-degrees, is insanity, but between culture BS about degrees and "academic counselors", I know it may not seem that way to you right now.
> I'm not sure what children do today instead, but sailing isn't it anymore.

We solved distraction as if it were a game of perfect information then we put it in everyone's pocket.
> I found a reliable method for predicting exactly how many Model X and Model S vehicles Tesla sold well before earnings each quarter of 2017

Were they leaking VINs somehow?
Seller's Responsibility or a Payment Gateway (Paypal/Stripe)'S Responsibility
I have website selling service and customer pay through Paypal/Stripe. When customer make an order, I sent him an invoice. If I receive notification from Stripe/Paypal saying that I get a payment, then I deliver the work.

Problem happens when a buyer use a stolen credit card to Paypal/Stripe and use it to buy service.

My questions are:
- Who take the responsibility to check if a payment is fraudulent? A seller or a Payment Gateway (Paypal/Stripe)
- How to deal with Stripe/Paypal fraudulent?

My point of view: I think Stripe/Paypal is a payment gateway service, it is their responsibility to check if a stolen credit card is used to make payment. A seller has not any method to check that. It is not seller's responsibility to check.

However, here is what happen if I use Stripe/Paypal. Stripe/Paypal tell seller:
1. Hey, you receive a payment, deliver the service. and we will take about 4% commission fee.
2. Hey seller, we are sorry, but the payment (WHICH WE ALLOWED) is fraudulent, buyer used stolen credit card, the owner of credit card (the bank) is making dispute, we will take the money from you and return it to credit card's owner, you still have to pay 4% commission fee, and chargeback fee...

What the F* is this? I has already delivered the service, it is impossible to take the service back, it is digital service, it is not a physical product. Moreover, you (Paypal/Strip) tell me that I get a payment, that is why I deliver the work. If you did not tell me, I would not deliver the work. You are liar, don't you? What is your responsibility in this case? (angry!)

So..., Stripe/Paypal take the commission fee, and take no risk. Whenever something happen, they send the risk/responsibility to buyer or seller. What a bad middle man! Now I know why Stripe/Paypal worth billions dollar.

(Sorry for my bad English)
I feel that way too, but inertia is a hard beast to fight.
> The other possible top abuse is the way they block you in your group messages if you switch from iPhone to Android.

Just dealt with this with a sibling who switched to android. How is this legal? It’s quite ridiculous.

I wish everyone in the US just used WhatsApp or another third party app like it seems they do in every other country. Instead, not having an iPhone makes you a pariah because of the green messages.
Doesn’t seem like a “one time lock that is forever disabled upon purchase“ would work for your use case. You’d need Apple-style Find My / Brick My stuff.
It's rent-seeking. This outcome was obvious.
An applicant might request one even if not required by YC.
My speakers are twenty years old, but I got them last year. I am probably their fifth owner, as there is an entire community passing these things down the chain. In a similar vein, I've gone back to my TAG watch as my Apple Watch 1 just popped its screen off.
I got some pears for Christmas, now what I need is an idea of a pear recipe.
Perhaps we can have debtors prisons for those that owe jail fees.
Even that does not require a server for the speakers to connect to owned by Sonos.