skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks like a power cord that would be used for a welder that can run on 120 or 240v usually at about half the capacity when at 1/2 the voltage

Edit: nevermind since it was pointed out that this is only a 120v appliance end
Ah I'm glad to finally understand why Emacs 27 starts so slowly: I installed it as a snap (while my Emacs 26 was from a PPA), and I spent a great deal of time trying to find what was the culprit in my init.el config, to no avail.
... and as I tried to eat it the chip suddenly accelerated and knocked out my tooth
You mentioned one of the issues with Facebook. They built a product to connect everyone around the world with their friends online. Then added more features on to that (well I think the original facebook events has been there forever). But events was not their focus. I'm focusing only on events just for cliques of friends. I want to be the best at that and build a product that has the most value to those people.
Not so sure about that, given his claim that "it’s worth emphasizing that while 1 billion Americans may be impossible and absurd, there’s actually nothing hard about it."
A change of -57° predicted for me, and I'm in agriculture so yikes! Last Monday it was supposed to be in the 80s this weekend and 90s this week, this was a DRAMATIC shift in forecast. It feels like the forecasts have been better the last few years but hey it's 2020
When I was a teenager with a TI-84 calculator, I used the trick of blinking the screen quickly at a fixed duty cycle to get "grayscale" from the black and white screen. Good times...
Dawn of the Topological Age?
Cars and transit are not mutually exclusive. The more people that use mass transit, the better the experience fire people that still use cars. However we are hampered from enabling better mass transit in the US by those who refuse to let the two coexist and want to force everyone into cars.
Wow, what a coincidence: I, too, first programmed on a TI-99/4A, mostly with the small B&W TV in my room, for the same reasons. I saw the color output on one we had at school, and at a friend’s house, but I outgrew the machine before I ever got my own color TV.
The reason I referenced anarchist definitions of justice is that you brought up a straw man version of justice that doesn't survive the slightest critique:

> Some people think that murder for "dissing" them or being too rich/white/gay/smart/stupid/etc is just

The problem with your initial "question" and subsequent replies is that they revolve around a sophomoric understanding that collapses the philosophy into meaninglessness.

What I said in my first reply:

> What matters is the overall heuristic of trying to shrink the structures to be more local and manageable. Anarchism in all its various flavors isn't a prescription, but rather a rebuke of prescriptivism.

You may have a hard time seeing this as the essence of anarchism, as it is a general desire shared among most people. But really, we've got lots of anarchist thought in our political discourse. Blue team: drugs, prisons, nondiscrimination. Red team: guns, taxes, business regulations. But we have very little anarchism in our actual political results, except for maybe ancap for big businesses.
There’s a direct link to the list mentioned:

https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/elon-musk-books/

Bill Gates:

https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/bill-gates-books/

Jeff Bezos:

https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/jeff-bezos-books/
> Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it. I have switched to macOS as my daily driver, for many other reasons. I don’t have the time to keep fixing things on Linux and be constantly finding ways to work around standard OS features that should otherwise just be available and work.

Funny, that's exactly what I thought when I tried a MacBook for the first time. Everything just seemed off about it and I spent 11 months trying to tweak it until it was just right, but never got to that point.

30 minutes on Pop!_OS and I'm good to go.
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I've manufactured such a monstrosity for temporary use, because the outlet on the wall used a 15A outlet (the typical plug you see in the US everywhere) but used a 20A breaker.There should have been an outlet on the wall that had the 20A outlet (one of the blades is horizontal instead of 2 vertical blades).

I used a length of 10/2 solid core wire to make the converter. I took delivery of a APC network-switched power bar that used the 30A twist-lock, and it included it's own pair of 20A breakers. I only plugged 10A (verified using a built in meter) of equipment into it till we could get a proper installation.

(I should add this device is not being used in eons and hasn't needed to be used since we've made sure to get the outlets setup right before we get the equipment!)
I have met a number of people who use tabs in lieu of bookmarks.
I closed my Facebook account in 2009 and stopped using all social media accounts since then. So I couldn't be eligible for being paid to deactivate an account that doesn't exist, but I wouldn't want to be paid to have account period. Countless hours of peoples life are wasted scrolling through feeds that amount to a pile of dirt sitting in your yard.
Well, per this same winner's Wikipedia page, he's won several times since 2015, so it may indeed be that you've discussed it multiple times for separate events.
So your problem with the field of psychiatry is that psychiatrists can be lied to and they don't put more effort into second-guessing their patients' experiences?

...

...

I think you might just be blaming other people for your unethical behaviour as a teenager.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/24/nominating-oneself-for...
Ideally the plug end would be a 20a plug (one blade horizontal), but often in commercial/industrial places you'll find 15a outlets on 20a circuits. If used correctly this would be ok.

They're probably made for all the people renting floorsanders from Home Depot with no way to plug em in.

The scariest adaptors are the ones that dump or fake a ground - and 'cheaters' should be illegal
Do you do transcoding on your Pi?
I'm afraid your opinion of RMS is not universally shared, as evidenced by FSF's latest membership drive.

Despite his numerous and off-putting shortcomings, many people (incl. myself) still believe RMS to be the best person for leading the free software community. His unyielding stance on how software should be used and shared is exactly what the FSF needs in its leadership. All the issues you and others list to justify RMS' dismissal are orthogonal to this task. Yes, this also includes the toe thing.

I have personally stopped supporting the FSF because of this incident after about a decade of support, and I no longer include the "or-later" clause in my GPL software.
pivotsort would have been a better name
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Start new accounts with no reference to your old ones, your name or your location. Be careful about what you put online publicly. I think most people would be horrified at what the likes of Facebook, amazon or google knows about them.
> Facebook says it will select scientific samples of Americans to participate in the study that will reflect the diversity of the nation’s adult population as well as Facebook and Instagram’s users. [0]

The timing on this seems really suspect. Will they release any sort of information on the breakdown of people that were offered / accepted a spot in this study, particularly their political leanings?

It’s pretty well accepted that the workforce in Silicon Valley leans a particular way politically. The suspicion will be that Facebook is encouraging those who lean the other way to mute themselves.

[0] https://nypost.com/2020/09/04/facebook-users-will-be-paid-to...
kind of reminds me of the Heaviside function, which is a step function. When I first learned about it in school, I thought it was named after the "heavy side" on the right, as opposed to the "light side" on the left. Turns out that Oliver Heaviside was an actual person.
>> Well, it does. It says he doesn't have a portfolio for some reason.

No, you do not have to have a "reason" for not having a public portfolio. Not having a public portfolio doesn't say anything at all about someone's competence.

>> if the candidate makes it difficult for recruiters and interviewers to get an objective way to corroborate his claims regarding his level of expertise

Public code is not the only way to assess skills, indeed as I mentioned elsewhere in this thread its actually a pretty bad way to assess skills. If the best tools you have for assessing competence is github then your recruiting process is lacking.

>> It would be better to cut him out of the shortlist for further interviews.

I can imagine employers with this attitude lamenting how hard it is to find good people.
I assume he meant facing them down at different points in time. I’m pretty sure Matt Yglesias knows that the Soviet Union was our ally against the Nazis.
While it's not guaranteed they'll be installed, the vast majority of linux desktops get security updates, including for all normally installed applications. That's a pretty big advantage over a manual update strategy.
Yes, but if all the wires are rated 15A, and the breaker is 15A or less, there's no issue.

The problem case is putting equipment onto a 20A breaker using 15A wires and plugs.

Or putting 20A equipment on a 15A breaker and wiring. The breaker won't trip immediately. Things will heat up slowly until the breaker trips, and you will have damage.
> 上海 in another context should mean something like "get onto the sea".

Wait, does that mean that "shanghaiing" someone is actually a literal description rather than just a reference to a prototypical destination?
It's worth noting that Ben Finegold is also a streamer and 99% of everything he says is a joke. There's some educational content on his streams, but mostly he hangs out, plays casual games, and insults the audience. It's fun.
I still have a facebook but I rarely check it now. The only reason I use it usually is for facebook messenger (I use the app, without checking facebook), and I find facebook marketplace to often have a decent selection of goods, seemingly better than craigslist now for some items.

Note however, I'm pretty young, just turned 24.
He was forced to resign for expressing his opinions and not for anything he did himself.
Scrabble is largely a game of area-based combinatorics, which rewards finding sequences of letters that happen to be words and fit into the board's multiplier spaces. Memorizing the two-letter word list is extraordinarily helpful when playing competitively because it allows for playing a tighter game that doesn't resemble words commonly used in English.
They were without coercive hierarchy. There's a fundamental difference between having a "boss" and electing your "boss".
I recently dug up some old Tcl bindings in Go I wrote a few years ago for my employer and used them for a new tool. It really does shine when it’s used correctly. I like how easy it is to build a shell-like environment for the whole application. In a lot of ways it feels like the POSIX shell environment done right (and, yes, a few things — e.g. pipes — aren’t quite as good).

Although our tool itself is strictly in-house, when we get the time to give them a quality-control once-over we would like to open-source the bindings. Tcl and Go make a pretty good pair!

I would definitely reach for Tcl the next time I need to add a scripting language to a static-language project.
The group running this is extremely reputable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORC_at_the_University_of_Chic...
"House for sale. Oh, and by house, we mean 'one wall'. Please don't stand near it; it's a beta wall".

I mean, come on.
it's not that easy. kids are not used to the situation. they are not allowed to go outside either. and online learning requires self-discipline that not all kids have.

the kids also do not understand that parents being at home doesn't mean that they don't have to work.
I hadn't realized just how differently people with even the most visually noticeable disabilities were treated in the first half of the 20th century.

Much more recent times have seen some pretty cool content related to wheelchair sports: I remember the documentary Murderball[0] following a team of rugbymen and the manga Real[1] about basketball (by Takehiko Inoue of Slam Dunk fame - also about basketball) for example.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436613/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_(manga)
Are there any good ways to protect yourself on mac, windows, linux, etc. from random USB keys?

Perhaps have a raspberry pi off the network since linux in of itself would greatly diminish the attack surface?

An "evil maid" can always swipe your own USB key and install malware so I'd prefer a belt and suspenders strategy. Likewise someone walking by your workstation could do a drive-by plugin too.

I guess it would have to be some OS level intervention that would say "you plugged in an HID/file mount/etc., what do you want to do?"
WHO you vote for is not public information.

THAT you voted, including in any (and if so which) primary, is.
Whats worse is it could come off as paying specific users to stay silent during the elections and paying other users to stay in the dark from other things (some people treat Facebook as an actual newsfeed). Its definitely suspect. I think anytime a company does things like this or tries to arbitrate what truth is they should be considered a publisher and not a platform.
> rather than having to memorize openings.

> those of us with mediocre knowledge and skills

Don't worry about openings yet, at all. Practise basic tactics (pins, forks, skewers, discovered attack, overloading, interference etc) until you almost never fall victim to them, and can spot it quickly when others do.
My understanding of the research is that, compared to a placebo, antidepressants help as much as 20% more of the population (20% -> 40%), and the broader scope of drugs can help around 30% to 40%[1] of people. People routinely feel suicidal, take SSRIs, and later stop feeling suicidal.

[1] https://youtu.be/NOAgplgTxfc?t=2294
After a minute, I think. Depends on your breaker rating.

20 amps on a 15 amp breaker will take a while to trip. You will have wiring damage.
Could this be targeted towards influencers who someone wants to shut up?
Who would've thought that relying on a statistical model, whose many thousands of parameters are not understand, would lead to such an erratic end product?
The purpose of Bitcoin is a digital currency where no central authority can debase the currency. Bitcoin stands in contrast to bank currency like the dollar, where central banks inflate the money supply to prop up the insolvency of their government and its banking cartel.

The fact that mining is a capital intensive operation has little to do with Bitcoin’s decentralization. Nodes cannot change the supply. When I wake up tomorrow I’m reasonably certain there will still be ~21,000,000 bitcoins, while the central bank will have further inflated the money supply https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Co...
If it's not descriptive, then memorable is a good substitute.

Been many years since I went to uni and haven't used much of the math since, but I still recall the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, what the Kronecker product is and how to do Taylor expansion.
More than half of 18 to 29-year-olds in the US are living with parents
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Right, that'd still be an interesting study.
They can ask you how you voted. Exit polls do it all of the time. This announcement mentions a survey as well.
Do they get recognition? I’m an atmospheric scientist, and though I’ve used the equations many, many times, I have no idea who Navier-Stokes was. Or maybe they were two people? Whatever. Presumably they invented the equations and were scientists or mathematicians or something. If real recognition only comes from inside the field, everyone else has pedagogically unuseful name to deal with.
How many influencers can be convinced to give up a huge chunk of their income in exchange for $150?
I don't see the value proposition of this idea, because like others have said, there are a lot of solutions to this problem like Facebook Events, WhatsApp groups, and what not.

However, some acquaintances of mine have recently launched a (apparently successful) messaging app for new university students to the university they attended. Their users are in 80 countries and spend 30 minutes per day on the app messaging each other. So I guess there are still niche cases.
Do you have any tips on how someone can craft persuasive arguments which lead a manager or their team to start seeing API design as valuable?
Right! I ran into this not five minutes into a new 20.04 install and could not for the life of me figure out where the hell my download was, or why I couldn't access /home/julian/Downloads

Why this isn't more of a deal breaker I have no freaking idea.
and governments do their job by taxing people and businesses to pay for it. requiring companies to offer maternity leave is a "tax" on companies.
There are any number of things I'd be very happy to be paid for not using. Even very small sums of money for each one would make me a very rich man. I would fully support over-funded startups deciding to burn their money more directly by simply giving it to me.
> hoping that Apple will fix the issues

Title correctly represents that hope as specious, and as all titles only need to depict the current reality, "at present" can always be elided.
While not your target audience, my wife is someone who hates group texts. She loves my family, but I put her in a group text once with them and her drove insane.

With the younger generations moving away from facebook, etc, I think this could work - as others have said below. Good luck.
He comes close to, but never really makes an argument as why this should be a goal. Why is having the largest GDP any more important than having the tallest skyscraper or the most Olympic medals? Ultimately, what is the telos of a nation?
But you can always sell the house with the profits and buy a bigger house.
I have extended family in Singapore. I can assure you that the approach is not some libertarian utopia and neither is it some oligarchic capitalistic system sucker.

It is designed to be practical and constantly adapt to reality.

Today, that means a mixed economy. That means basic human decency will be taken care of by government, the remaining is market driven.

This means housing, food subsidies, education and healthcare is readily made available by the government, not just through price controls. Look up property rights there.

That means high taxes on vehicles, use it to develop a world class mass transit system.

That means, lower taxes on foreign businesses to come operate in Singapore, no xenophobia shown to skilled workers (barring their geographic limitations). This has the consequence of raising high value domestic activity, thus providing locals jobs.

They cannot accept refugees because of size.

That means they absolutely want to be integrated with the outside world, because they realize they absolutely cannot produce everything. Again, can't have xenophobia.

That means lower income taxes because the government doesn't need more money. They have already ensured that cost of living (housing and healthcare) is so low that no one will be bankrupt with routine medical procedures or no insurance scams and medical codes that will suddenly no the covered.

Frankly, sometimes people forget how much work the government has put in there to actually make life so easy that the government doesn't need to be the frankenstein like US govt is.

It's a matter of approach. The government wants to take care of people, not leave them wondering if they will be covered in the next crisis.
Count me among those whose first computer was a TI-99/4A. Learned so much on that little machine, esp. hexadecimal with the way sprites worked. Extended BASIC cartridge was a must have. I wrote so, so many half-finished game programs on that thing.
> I haven't heard any compelling arguments about why we shouldn't try our very best to innovate our way out of our crises instead.

Innovation and population reduction (or at least stabilization) are not mutually exclusive.

> reorganizing the entire world economy around R&D

Yeah. Good luck with that.

> It is critical for the survival of humanity to try and get as many of them to our shores as possible

Why? Is there some law of physics that prevents innovation from happening outside the borders of the United States?
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I don't trust other people sufficiently to fall for this load of crap.
Impossible and absurd, politically perhaps?

Everything I know about him leads me to believe he truly, sincerely believes in the thesis of the book.
In my dotage, I’ve come to appreciate the Debian Stable cadence: I can just set it and forget it for a year at a time. The mostly-annual upgrades have saved me so much time; everything just works in concert for long stretches of stability.
Of course the situation is far better than with proprietary software, but there is plenty of free software that has user hostile privacy violations. For one example (Cura), the only reason the authors fixed the issue is that the GDPR forced them to do so. Most people don't have the skills one would need to discover nor fix these issues.

https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues
https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/issues/2810

There is also plenty of free software for mobile phones and hosted user services.

https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile
https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud
I meant something more mundane like inefficient land use policies, which mandates consumption of motor vehicles by which only a wealthy society likes ours can afford. Arguably, the consumption of those goods doesn't really contribute to the well being of our society, rich or poor.
That sounds truly awful.
>the Internet didn’t have to become what it is today.

Part of my last-lecture pep talk to every 300-student CS class I taught.
Because if P=NP the vast array of the majority of known "hard" problem becomes trivial to solve, not just market information. That's the reason P=NP is considered so consequential to society in many ways if it does happen to be true and implementable.
Not a law of physics, no, but obviously empirical evidence suggests that the US has the greatest scientific output in the world. Other countries can build up their institutions too, but the US is desperate for research and engineering talent.
These things are handy for devices that use the higher current when fully operational, but need power for initial setup. In IT, the main thing that comes to mind are managed PDUs. You want to be able to power up the control unit to get things like networking configured, and you don’t want to be doing that while standing in the data center balancing a laptop on your knee. With this, you can get it setup in the office, then go in and start pulling floor tiles to get it plugged in to the high Amp plug with all the settings pre-configured.
To be clear, when you’re doing the setup you don’t have any actual equipment connected to the PDU; you’re just getting power to the unit itself to get power to the management circuitry.
I trust the chart because of the source...but my own experience differs - if I'm reading that right, it's saying that it would take 20 seconds upto a max of 400s at 2.5 times rated current: that's 50 amps up six minutes? I have a hard time believing that. Pump 20a though any breaker you find it trips nearly immediately