skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience a fully-centralised switch is actually quite uncommon.

In many locations they use light sensors, and if you live above a street oriented the right way you can see quite a cool effect of the lights going off sequentially down the street as the light goes below the threshold.

In other locations that I'm familiar with, they use a ripple relay, where a particular signal is transmitted over the power lines (a "ripple") in a way that doesn't affect unaware equipment, but signals the target equipment (relays on the supply to the streetlights) to switch. Similar technology is used to provide day/night rates where one circuit is only energised during off-peak hours.

I don't see any reason the ripple relay couldn't be bypassed to provide a second always-on feed for the Wi-Fi gear, but it might be that the ripple relays are not at every lamp post but instead at the substations or roadside cabinets, in which case there would indeed be some cost to run the extra circuits.
Your name is diffeomorphism, so I assume you like math, and care about accuracy.

You started with this:

>>Getty took public domain images and added arbitrary usage limits on them by (fraudulently) claiming to be the sole copyright holder.

They did not claim copyright as you stated. Now you've changed to this:

>What they did instead is claim exclusive rights of distribution over the the other public domain works as well.

You originally stated they claimed they were the sole copyright holder. They did not. Moving the goalposts or downvoting does not change your original claim is incorrect. Accuracy matters, in math and in public discourse.
As someone with similar experience, I disagree completely. It lies deeply in Japanese culture and is thaught since early days. Proiximity to the police station has nothing to do with it.

If anything, they will leave things on the street if there is no koban near by. Every single kid knows that, if you see some unattended property, the safest option is to leave it be. If it's a commodity then you can return it and probably should. Everything else you don't touch (and by any circumstances you don't touch bicycles!)

I don't remember the thread, but there was a story here on HN about the guy who tried to take and return the bike to the police station. He was, to his own surprise, questioned hardly about why did he do that and what was he thinking. They wanted to put him in detention, too.

I do agree about police helpers, though. I am not living in Japan anymore and, boy, I am missing that.
actually I did get bored about half way through . .
Maybe, it's said to be 99.999% boredom and 0.001% panic.

I know a few serious international airliner pilots (high ranking, national flag carriers), I went to a high school with an aviation specialty. Both around 50 yo.

One guy quit because couldn't handle the repetitive boredom.

The other does 30 days on and 30 days off, lives in NZ in primo spot, but I have worked rosters in construction before and know all the problems they can bring, esp ongoing rosters with no escape future.

Interestingly I am an electrical engineer (which for me is my dream job), outearn them both by a large margin and have a much more interesting job, IMO.
YMMV, but when I interview as an employer is ask a candidate to talk me through a project they really enjoyed. It can be work-based or a side-project, doesn't matter as long as it's something they really enjoyed. We then use that to explore what it was that excited them, the technology decisions they made, etc.[1]

If your answer was an unfinished project, I'd want to know why they were unfinished. Did you give up on them because of external pressures, you had a better idea, or because you often struggle to finish things you've started?

That last one is not alway a pejorative statement, BTW. Some people are great at figuring out the big stuff and then need others to help them execute on the detail (think about architects or producers). Others however, just give up at the first obstacle they meet, and if I get that impression from a candidate I'd want to dig into it a bit as it's possibly a yellow flag.

My advice then: think carefully about what they are likely to ask you about those unfinished projects, and what your answers are likely to be, before you offer them up.

[1] The most interesting answer to this question I've had was "an OpenGL renderer for the X Window System written in Lisp". My follow-up questions were many...
Competition is good, sure. But focusing the limited developing resources on one compiler, too. Without parallel universes it's hard to know what actually leads to a better compiler.
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The point is that this attempts to fix performance issues with the DOM itself. These are present regardless of whether you are using abstractions on top of the DOM or not. And in fact, the existence of these perf problems with the DOM is one of the reasons for the creation of vdom layers.
gatvol?
It took me a while to figure it out too, but it's those little umbrella holders with locks on them that you can often see in the library or onsen. I've never once locked mine, but I live in the countryside :-) But I don't even lock my front door. I've had drunk neighbours come into my apartment in the middle of the night by accident. It's almost stereotypical. Sometimes I think living in the Japanese countryside is like living in a time machine...

Edit: Funny story. When I first moved to Japan, I lost 33 umbrellas in 3 years. I couldn't figure out where they were going. Then at the morning meeting at work they said, "We have this huge pile of umbrellas in the back room. Can people please claim them?" They were all mine... Apparently in the morning after the staff arrive, they would put them in the back room so that it wasn't a nuisance to visitors. Since I live in Shizuoka where it barely rains, by the time I was ready to go home it was usually sunny and forgot about my umbrella. I never ever realised that it was just getting moved. Of course, by then I was indoctrinated enough in Japanese society that I was way too embarrassed to claim my umbrellas!
The article you cite more or less backs my post :

"But the decision matrix that ultimately influences widespread views on which toys are for which children includes inputs from parents, kids, and toy makers—adding up to a system that produces something of a feedback loop."

I'm not at all criticizing Lego for making sets with female characters, pink colors, themes that revolve around friendship, leisure, domestic and emotional topics (for instance). These are good things, it is good to have ranges of toys in this vein to add variety and balance to the "normal" Lego ranges ("normal" was perhaps a bad choice of word in my first reply, "previous" or "non-Friends TM" might have been better).

The comment was to point out that :

> "There are attractive boxes for girls, it's called Lego Friends"

is unnecessarily gendered and such language purpetuates this feedback loop which is a major influence on how girls and boys play. You have identified the outcome, not the cause.
I consider myself to be a bit of a Jack although I've been doing database development / design / data mostly for the last 2 years. I've also been doing Java, JavaScript, C, .Net, mobile, some admin, DBA.

I'm currently working as a technical architect that allows me to do some low level work but also work across several areas/technologies. A senior support engineer might also do the same. I've noticed quite few integration jobs which might involve working across technologies. I'd apply for technical roles in your desired pay range and location where you have some of the skills and see what happens. You don't really know too much about jobs until you get there.

Some people really value a diverse skillset and others just want you to churn out x lines of Java code per day...
When I heard this story it was about Gauss.

And I looked it up- Yes, the same possibly apocryphal story is on his Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss
I think the main dilemma could be a bit different.

It's true that the wiring harness is already proven with 737 NG. And it's probably true rewiring 737 MAX is a higher risk than doing nothing.

But IF this issue causes an accident without attempt to fix it, Boeing as a company might never recover. Even one such case could be enough.

So both not doing anything and fixing it carry a huge risk. Not fun to be Boeing these days...
Can't be. Beardguy uses the words "open source".
> "For whatever reason"

For exactly this reason. "Girls - these are your toys, you play with them. Boys, you seem to prefer these, you will play with these". Continual use of unnecessarily gendered language is a major factor in perpetuating these differences.
It sounds like that would have a lot of the same issues that No Man's Sky did. It's hard to make a procedurally generated world be meaningful. I don't think that problem will be solved by adding more processing power - we need a breakthrough in game design or theory
Thanks for the heads up! Selenium tests flakiness is definitely a big pain for us. I am also a big fan of the puppeteer api. We will check it out.
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What about headless chrome and some cron jobs to run tasks for you. It'd be similar to selenium. But, on a headless browser. There are also some scraping services that let you get data on a set interval with a phantomjs scraper. I have one that uses apify and then notifies a zapier hook on success and then zapier posts to my google sheet. My webapp then calls a GCP instance REST API endpoint which internally calls the google spreadsheet through an exposed api, cleans the data and sends back to the webapp.
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Certainly in phones e.g. Galaxy range, USB-C initially seemed much more positive than micro-USB which always broke/degraded after a year or 2. Now after a year or 2 again the connection is very dodgy, this is on the phone end. I'm not sure how this can be improved but at the moment it seems like a massive scam to end-life a perfectly good phone. The other issue was phone batteries whose lifetime seems way worse than laptop batteries (for instance).

Sorry I don't have any experience of usb C laptop connections.
I assume he means "to your native language", not to English, specifically.
First-to-file in the US started March 16, 2013.

Filing patents is mostly something to do for startups if it's easy for you (ie. your investor has an IP lawyer, or a relative is one), or your investors want a patent story.

But even some SF Unicorns don't file patents, or delay it for a decade.

The problem with patents is that most startups can't afford the legal fees and distraction to defend them, so why pay to file?

However, definitely file trademarks and copyrights (cheap and easy) and renew your domain names.

Source: have done my own IP for software for 20 years, now looking into music rights.
I wouldn't point any specific companies. It is highly subjective. I know people working in both - Rakuten and Uniqlo - who are happy with their jobs. Those are big companies and, the same as in the West, all is down to luck. If you happen to work with decent people you'll be fine.
> unfinished projects

Just redefine the scope, or the success criteria!

If the project's purpose was to learn or experiment with X, it doesn't matter that it's not a polished product, it still served its purpose and as such can be considered done.
I wouldn't call it bragging. I just have a lot of trust that my current kernel is robust enough for this particular application. If there were a serious exploit I obviously would update.
Perfect for the Samsung Frame for instance
Huh? You want there was only one product and nothing else? That's quite dystopian.
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We need to remember that childrens books are mostly not bought by children, but by adults for children.

Dahl is often in the "most read" lists, because adults keep buying the books. But when we ask children what books they love he stops appearing. (Sadly, this info is buried in old reports from "What kids are reading", which is hard to find now). https://web.archive.org/web/20140603135101/http://whatkidsar...

If your child enjoys reading Dahl that's great, keep buying them. But there are so many books that are just better than Dahl and that don't come with all the baggage.
Thanks, that was quite an interesting read.
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I don’t see how having at least some types is more risky than not having them at all. Type system is an instrument that prevents you from e.g. using/setting x.id instead of x.y.id silently and succesfully (for some time). The entire argument is stretched on the particular situation of a malformed input.

I think it is well-known fact among programmers that a prototyping phase of 10kloc+ project requires types. Not for a formal proof, but to help programmers to understand their code better and faster at monday morning through a type error feedback. There is no reason to not use ts the same way there is no reason to not have a ruler and yesterday’s sketches in your toolbox.

Everyone may have their opinion, but this modern “media presence in software development” nonsense goes beyond all limits.
That's the notion of kolmogorov complexity. The smallest program that can generate this output. Pi and I guess any other algebraic number, no matter how randomly distributed its digits are, are not that complex.
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Wow, very nice. This looks like exactly what I had in mind.
Well but actually you are that knowledgeable - you just gained the knowledge through experience outside of work.

But you're right, it happened to me a few times as well and people assume you "just know". :P
Ah, no, I have been reading it wrong, the code is correct: given the "i % 3 ∧ i % 5" in the first case, the "i % 5" for the "Fizz" case is effectively an "i % 3 = 0". Clever. Readable? Maybe.
well the problem is that screens exist. when i grew up screens didn't exist (at least not in my home), and so the problem solved itself in other ways. we got crazy on comic books. parents didn't get involved. (though they helped us buy up the remaining stocks of a second hand comic book dealer when that closed down.

the problem with screens is that they are strongly attractive. my kids don't even notice me when they watch a screen. from the available entertainment kids will pick what is most attractive, and the only way to reduce screen time is to not make it available, and instead provide other options.
Had to fix a Samsung kernel driver once because their temperature sensor driver stored the measured temperature in Celsius in an unsigned char.

Meaning, of course, that if the processor was ever below freezing, it would think it was running at over 200 degrees, and turn every clock it could find down as far as possible because it thought it was about to catch on fire.
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Interesting. It looks typewritten, but it has proportional spacing. I'm not aware of any typewriter of the time that could do that. The Selectric Composer could, but it was released in 66 and the 6600 predates it by two years.

The different weights also make it look like a mechanical typewriter rather than an electric one, which would be an odd choice for the office of TJW.
> Adjective. (South Africa, slang) Completely fed up; very upset.
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Yes. It's a short term money grab that will have profound effect on financial services industry, pharma, construction, etc. After killing contracting in the public sector the time has come to abolish the one-man consultancy in the private sector. It's still there, but no client (esp. big companies) wants to put the risk of audit on themselves so they largely have a blanket policy of 'no contractors' in place come April.
Did they have E?
> Even the big ones don’t support CJK well, unless the software uses the OS toolkit & operating system gives you for free — and Linux doesn’t.

What specific CJK support is lacking on Linux? I only have experience with CJ on Ubuntu, where I didn't really find anything lacking. Noto fonts give sufficient Unicode coverage, everything speaks UTF-8 and fcitx is an adequate input method engine, even if its text prediction isn't Google-level smart.
I don't think they are common in Tokyo. I've seen them few times, maybe. In most cases people just put their umrellas in an umbrella stands in front of the stores, restaurants or combini. Since most of them look similar, people get confused about which one is theirs. I've heard that nothing gets stolen in Japan, except for bikes and umbrellas. Not sure about bicycle - still got mine, but indeed I've got my unmbrella misplaced once or twice.
Speaking as a South African, still living here.

gatvol = "fed up"

It disappoints me that so many fellow South Africans are seemingly oblivious to the audience they are interacting with and casually use local slang regardless.
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Yes, topic maps did originate from the library world, if I remember correctly :)
Not OP, but I decided to switch to Tampermonkey after GM version 4 which broke almost all my scripts due to the GM_## api changes.
I no longer remember the exact details but it was poorly executed/communicated, and it’s easier to switch to TM instead of updating all the scripts.

The dashboard interface in TM is a lot nicer than GM too
I am stuck in the same loop of trying to find the best way to organise my thoughts. My best attempt was using Dropbox Paper. They have a great editing/writing experience, but eventually it got to a stage where the page load times took too long.

I'm currently trying out vimwiki. Let's see how that goes.
You're looking for "Defcon 21 - How my Botnet Purchased Millions of Dollars in Cars and Defeated the Russian Hackers"

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Those seem like difficult questions, and maybe we don’t usually want to grapple with them, but they don’t sound like the wrong ones.
Gosling on why Java does not do unsigned arithemtic as primitive type.

> In programming language design, one of the standard problems is that the language grows so complex that nobody can understand it. One of the little experiments I tried was asking people about the rules for unsigned arithmetic in C. It turns out nobody understands how unsigned arithmetic in C works. There are a few obvious things that people understand, but many people don't understand it.

https://www.artima.com/intv/gosling3.html
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Hah, reminds me of keyboard overlays from old games, which you could actually put on top of your keyboard, e.g: https://www.c64-wiki.com/images/9/92/Gunshipoverlay.jpg

Obviously, back in the day, keyboards were one-size-fits-all...
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Oh hey, thanks! I didn't see that in 2016.
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There is some discussion on problems using hydrogen for aircraft in the Ben Rich book "Skunk Works", Lockheed were looking at it [1] before they developed the SR-71.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_CL-400_Suntan
A while back I came to realize that not every app I produce (I'm an Indie Mac/iOS dev) has to be polished and App Store-ready. I can write an app for an audience of one - me. Getting an app ready for an App Store easily adds 50% of development time.

A home-cooked app can have hard coded values (oh yeah!), doesn't have to be pretty (although it's more fun), doesn't have to support all platforms (no, I won't add Apple Watch support!), it just has to work for me.

My latest project: a little iOS app that I can use at a bookstore to scan the book's barcode and then checks if that book is available at my local public library.

When I showed that to my SO she was amazed and said: "And you just made THAT?". Well, yes. My secret superpower is that I can make these little computers that we all keep in our pockets these days make anything I want them to.

A few other projects that I made for myself over the years:

- App that generates PDF invoices from my App Store financial reports (I simply paste in the plain text from the website)

- A break timer app (old one was 32bit-only, I didn't bother to download a new one)

- Text snippet app: it scans an email for the senders name and pre-populates possible answers. I turned this into a tiny CRM that keeps track of feature requests and whom I sent an update. This is actually in the App Store, but was a huge commercial failure, but I use this myself e v e r y day.

- Quick click: it's like a command line for my Mac. I type something I see on the screen (e.g. the title of a button), the app highlights possible matches, I press Return and the app sends a simulated mouse click. I can also use this as a window manager to resize the active app, because, why not?

For personal use:

- Portfolio simulator app that calculates every possible IRR for a given number of years (once I was done I discovered portfoliocharts.com, well...)

- Portfolio tracker app to track my retirement savings: this is like a tiny spreadsheet app only that it's fed by 3 csv files (orders.csv, transactions.csv, asses prices.csv). "editing" is done in VIM. The app generates various reports that I use to check if I'm on track with my savings.

- Simple stock checker app (fetches the prices of a, yes, hard-coded list of ticker symbols).

- App to categorize my spendings. Input is a csv file (I like plain text). I wanted to learn now Naive Bayes filtering works and have to say, seeing the app do its thing is as close to magic as I ever got.

- Time lapse screen recorder: creates a screenshot every x seconds. I used this once to record a video of how I'm developing an app.

- Custom implementation of Unshaky (with more stats and settings) to fix the double-space keypress issue of my new MacBook Air

- Alarm clock app that uses the accelerometer to wake me when I'm not in a deep sleep phase.

And a few more that I don't use anymore...
Yeah, those are some good points. You've brought me around to thinking this is more likely now!

I'm still just leaning towards them introducing these chips as an all in one product category, though - perhaps under a different brand of macbook model that is very clearly distinct from all the rest (looks different, etc) and a software strategy to match like a suite of ARM compatible software out of the gate that make it a useful standalone device whilst the ecosystem catches up. But yeah you're right, the transition looks like it'll be smoother than I'd assumed and it maybe wouldn't be a blocking obstacle from their point of view. Let's see!
It doesn't let me select a game. After picking the layout and theme, all games are still greyed out.
It's only hard to get rid of employees that turn out to be mediocre or lose all motivation after a while. But you can still move them within the company to perform less complex work. No one says you have to promote them.
When I saw it I guessed it was some local slang, and I was excited to learn what it meant from someone who really knew rather than some online dictionary. I don't think it should be a disappointment, it contributes to the wonderful diversity of language.