jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sure, I'll email you.

The aluminum foil is cheap, and I found some anodized foil that is really dark for great absorption. Anodized black foil is much better than painting foil black.

I don't believe the total BTUs would be any higher if one replaced the thin foil with a 1" sheet of aluminum. An aluminum sheet with fins on the backside for heat dissipation might help, but I still think the total heat would be the same because the amount of energy hitting the surface is the same.

It is surface area and temperature of that surface that counts and we don't need fans because of convection.

If you take an infrared thermometer and take a reading off a baseboard heater you will see 140-180F temps radiating off the casing and the metal fins inside that are put there to increase surface area.

These flat panel aluminum foil based collectors work the same way.

When light/heat energy enters a room through the window some of it turns to heat and some is reflected back out the window. That is why you can see objects from the other side.

Seeing those objects is how we lose our heat. These collectors let us capture and convert a much higher percentage of the energy coming into the window already.

If you look at one of these collectors through the window from the outside it appears invisible almost, they are hard to see, nothingness from which precious free energy is harnessed and consumed and not allowed to escape.
Privacy rich vs privacy poor is still a thing these days. I think it will be a great day when not especially tech savvy individuals can opt into being privacy rich. What alarms me is how absurdly difficult it is to get bulletproof opsec for even the most mundane everyday tasks. Somewhere in the early 2000s smart-phones were still being marketed as phones. Now it's abundantly clear you own a beacon and a piece of SIGINT-enabled closed-hardware. This is interesting reading, but throughout the piece, I couldn't help yell: "Throw out your fking smartphone then" if you are averse to spying.
> it’s more dangerous than ever (while I lived here)

I agree that QoL in NYC is awful, but it's not "more dangerous than ever". Like in every other US city, the crime rate is near an all-time low[1]. Murders spiked during Covid, but they're still low compared to previous decades.

> Add to that the “you’re not paying you’re fair share attitude” which I’m definitely getting

Where do you get this attitude? I have never experienced that in the city.

In fact, it's one of the places where the rich seem to be the least scrutinized, because most of them pay lip service to liberal values while still being 100,000x richer than a middle-class person living a few neighborhoods away.

1. https://www.factcheck.org/2020/07/giulianis-misleading-attac...
It didn't hurt in that particular instance, and that does not mean it couldn't have been turned on him if one of the readers had failed to record (or for any other reason gave ambiguity to his motions) and placed him incorrectly where the crime took place, nor that the practice is inherently good because it exonerated one person. Any more than potentially proving that you weren't at another crime scene makes storing all of your cell phone metadata inherently OK.

Yes, they have this potential benefit, but no, they should not be reviewed solely in that context.
Exactly. SMS as a 2FA option is worse than no 2FA. It actually creates a new attack vector.
This is a very interesting observation if its real. I am from Bulgaria and I am a PhD candidate in physics. Whenever I tell someone that, they always say that its sounds cool and difficult and the next question is: What are you going to work after that? I guess that physics, at least in Bulgaria is not considered as a field that you could work in, more as in something you learn for the sake of knowledge.

Why do you think that in English speaking countries is different than others? I temporarily currently living in France and I do not have many contacts with non scientists, but the ones that asked me what I do all found it cool sounding.
It's useful for people new to Postgres, since many of these things are particular to Postgres.
Don't come to the Midwest... Rural towns are full of folks who love to mod their trucks so they can be seen/heard/smelled.
>You should be willing to spend approx 100% of your capital in any form for a thing called "survival of human civilization"

This is ridiculous.
We may be mincing words, but when I say "system" I mean "I decided to try and only place my keys in reasonable places, always... and these 4 are the most reasonable."

Where other people may have made no considerations at all where they put stuff.
Let me know when you arrive at hard numbers for carbon sequestration tech.

OTOH, one could consider revamping entirely wasteful entirely stupidly designed industrial processes in favor of ones that don't put our entire civilization at risk.

There will be no markets if civilization collapses.
The best thing I like about Fastmail is the keyboard shortcuts. Super fast to go through a bunch of emails and move them into their folders. Gmail has them too but for some reason I feel more comfortable with Fastmail's shortcuts.

One feature I would like from their Android apps is to be able to "Mark as read" in addition to Reply/Archive/Delete from the notification drawer.
I highly recommend "Noise: The Political Economy of Music" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise:_The_Political_Economy_o...
That is essentially correct, though the math was completely hidden.

The justification for higher contract rates was because they were using that difference to subsidize new phones whenever you signed a new contract. So, 80 bucks a month for basic service and a few hundred MB of usage.

The problem was that after the 2 year contract ended, when they supposedly were able to recoup the cost of the original phone subsidy, your rate never changed. You'd still pay 80 bucks a month, even if you were happy with your current phone.

T-Mobile's change, much like the rest of the world, was to break out the math explicitly like you show. Then once you've fulfilled the (PRICE_OF_PHONE / CONTRACT_DURATION) term, it would simply vanish.
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next: sexp based systemd
The quote at the end of the article really struck me:

"We are as gods, and might as well get good at it."

I think that this is something that everyone involved with technology and science should think about. The fear of what we can create should never stop us from creating, but should instead serve as an impetus for more enlightened uses. I think that, as we have the ability to create biological diversity, we should do so (albeit in a responsible way). The same goes for every other technology that is being developed.
Let's hope the Comcast/TWC merger also gets nixed. Competition is a good thing.
Or you wouldn't be wife and husband anymore.

I'm joking and serious at the same time: Living in a very constraint space is certainly not for everybody and - as far as I understand - highly taxing. I'm sure I could live in a sparsely decorated minimum sq hut - alone.

I have the world's best wife, but stuff us into a place like that and over time only one will come out alive..
Right, what is government is doing when a sexual predator has to register and not live near a school? Isn't it taking care of the children of the community. Public Policy is more complicated than bumper sticker slogans.
An industry can simultaneously increase its output and be more efficient. Look up 'efficiency'.
How do you feel about the externalities of central banks and oligarchs?
Very cool project, I hope it continues.
Can someone explain 'bare metal' to me? Is it a better hypervisor or something? Why would it be better than all development effort put into something like linux? Doesn't the linux kernel run on 'bare metal'?

A fellow developer tried to get me into openstack a little over three years ago, and when I looked, it was far too enterprise for my tastes, but I care more about code than the devops and managing servers.
That part is clear. What is not clear is how does he determine who is intolerant enough to fall in that category. And also, what that proposal of righteous intolerance means. Does he stop listening to them? Does he de-platform them? Does he incite the mob against them?
> As for filenames. It contains a space which is a pita for command line use.

The biggest problem I see is the time notation part using colons. Windows still doesn't allow using them in filenames in most places.
Hello, i'm not a contributor to the matrix ecosystem but i'm happy to see discussion of the vocabulary used and MSC1767. Is there a working group talking about vocabulary or interop with other federated networks (ActivityPub/XMPP)? I'm a contributor to joinjabber.org which is not a software project but a community-oriented one, and we'd like to showcase and help improve interop with Matrix, but for now due to bugs in bifrost a bot relaying messages is the best we can do.

Specifically about hummingbard and/or MSC1767, have you considered borrowing/extending ActivityStreams 2.0 vocabulary? It's based on JSON-LD (proper schemas make it easier to test implementation) and could be extended to support matrix Actors/Services.

There's already a bunch of really cool stuff being developed on ActivityPub (lemmy/funkwhale/peertube/mobilizon) and Jabber/XMPP (movim/libervia). It would be great to achieve interoperability between all those.
Tweak misses the following things I expect in a hex editor:

* No help screen to show the hotkeys

* Changes aren't highlighted

* Hotkeys are unintuitive unless you use Emacs (less than 5% of users [1])

* No undo/redo

* No search

* No option for decimal offsets/size

I've tried dozens of hex editors:

* hexedit [2] is the best option for Linux, despite it being web based.

* dhex [3] is probably the best option for the terminal, but not great.

* HxD [4] is great if you're on Windows

1. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#development-e...

2. https://hexed.it/

3. https://www.dettus.net/dhex/

4. https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
I was also surprised, not so much that it was faster, but by how much faster it was.

Also, while I got the impression that the average scores were lower (but on at least one submission had a higher score than the human counterpart?), apparently the proportion of different types of corrections of errors, matched up.

I hope there’s a publicly available paper that goes into the details.

Edit : oh, there is one linked in the article, namely https://www.eduref.net/features/what-grades-can-ai-get-in-co...
Yeah, the state of this space is a wasteland, I agree.

And freecad, ugh, sorry to be negative, but ... people in this thread are complaining about how bad the Blender UI was back in the days (not the case any more) ... they should try the freecad UI, it's truly, truly terrible ... if there ever was an app that deserves the label 'Kitchen Sink', freecad UI is it.
I don't think so.

My deaf BSL instructor said that it was about being understood clearly, and just about deaf culture. If you're in a room of people signing everyone can see you're saying "who is the fat guy at the bar" so there's no point in being euphemistic. Might be a UK deaf culture thing.
The solution to keeping the entire grid powered is very different between the two events, but the solution to keeping hospitals powered is basically the same (diesel backups with huge tanks).

Unless there's extreme weather you don't need to keep the entire grid operational for people to survive, only key infrastructure. So you can cut out those concerns if you have preparations for extreme hot and cold events (with cold being much easier to prepare for)
For anyone about to read the headline and jump straight to the comment section:

The team found strong bipartisan support for a new COVID-19 relief package, with Republican voters favoring a hypothetical candidate who supports a $500 billion pandemic appropriation over one who opposes it by 11 points, independents by 12 points, and Democrats by 18 points.

So the hypothetical "generous" Covid-19 relief being polled in this article is smaller than the one proposed by a group of Republican senators that Biden basically dismissed out of hand as being too small.

Basically, if you're a Washington Post editorial writer trying to justify how Biden's plan is Bipartisan despite no known support from any Republican congresspeople, this is not the evidence you're looking for.
No but the funniest part was the lead singer "failing" when singing his own dang song.
I've written all of these and I agree with the GP that it's easier to use an existing one. Why recreate someone else's work when you can just use it.
Camera work is a really underappreciated feature. Most sims do not have realistic looking cameras and this makes them look worse on TV. Usually camera is centered on a single car while in real life camera operator usually focuses on a group of cars (for example if there are two cars fighting, he is aiming between the cars, not at one of the cars).

This is a feature I'd love for sims to better develop. It shouldn't be massively difficult to do so hopefully we get it sooner than later.
> ideology of bloodthirsty monsters

I'm not sure this is a fair reading of history.
He thinks the game is shit and he is not wrong. F1 2019 is mostly a single player career mode game with multiplayer bolted on. It's not really a sim, it might even be pushing to call it a simcade.

Max is competing all the time in more serious sims like IRacing, rFactor2 or the like.

Lando is taking it a bit more casually so he is racing in F1 2019 as well, but he participates in iRacing races as well.
Fun fact: the best and most recent navigational charts for some islands in the Pacific Ocean were made by Captain Cook in the late 1700’s.
Getting more and more common sadly. [Allergies in general]
I can code in whatever I feel like (then, if I see fit!), but I can't teach in whatever language I feel like. In the first course on programming we are taught C (and only C), and the following 2 build on it. Barcelona, Spain.
Assuming it wasn't inherited, I would still argue that its mostly unearned. I don't believe "passive" income is earned. In most cases, wealth over a certain threshold is essentially passive generation--money making money. The wealthy own the means of production and when technology advances makes this more productive, they're able to create more passive wealth. I don't consider this earned wealth. The same goes for bankers and investors who make money through a function of the money they already have.
Indeed, the pundit for the Reddit generation ;)
plus you get the ability to increase and decrease the block scope with ir / ar
There is no doubt that this is a matter of securing important infrastructure. Had it been a money question something like the education system or the administration would be more obvious choices.
> They pay more than their fair share of taxes...

Warren Buffet disagrees.

> They also aren't lobbying to take anything away from the poor, except less of their own money.

So no one's lobbying for benefits cuts to the poor? Are you posting from an alternate universe?
I really liked Egan's Diaspora, but I didn't find it available for Kindle, unfortunately.
I couldn't even tell if your parody is a parody. Is that seriously the macro??
What set of neurons in a bee's brain is the ODE solver?

I didn't claim to have evidence for my theory. All I claimed is that it was simpler and more plausible than Shipman's.

Look, if you flick a switch on the wall, and a light goes on, the simplest explanation is that some configuration of electrical wires inside the wall caused the production of light from an electrically powered light bulb. You can postulate all sorts of other exotic mechanisms, e.g. levers snapping the glass in a chemical light. But the "occams razor explanation" (which is all I attempted to provide) is electricity in wires.

Same thing with bee behavior - you should postulate some configuration of neurons with behavior modeled by an ODE solver long before you invoke quantum field theory.
I'm sure no one actually forced mothers in developing countries to buy Nestle baby formula either. Babies died anyway.

There are lots of sources out there. Here are just a couple.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/The_Nestl%C3%A...

https://www.ranker.com/list/nestle-baby-formula-boycott/meli...
For what it's worth, I only use oldreddit too. I used to be a big user, but now I only ~~subscribe to~~ have browser bookmarks for half a dozen subreddits, most of which are more or less inactive like Z80, CPM, etc.
If you use the internet your name and phone number is going to be out there eventually. There's not much you can do. Not saying things can't be better. But at this point in time, your name and number should be assumed not to be private.
From an apples to apples standpoint. What you're seeing in the video is DragonRuby Entities vs Unity GameObjects (with full functionality).

They look like particles yes, but the intent was to show the creation of fully featured constructs (not a demonstration of "fire and forget" particles).
The difference is that the largest trading nation on the planet just created a system for 0 fee transactions that can expand to global usage quite easily (I believe wepay/alipay were mostly intended for domestic use).

If a tiny country that produced nothing did this, it would be less relevant.
VMS Software, the newest maintainers of OpenVMS, have continued the hobbyist program. https://vmssoftware.com/community/community-license/
They stopped being open source, added far more telemetry, changed the gold system to incentivize purchases, changed the design to the new one (slower, far more js), etc.

Personally I stopped browsing reddit a few years ago. It used to be amazing.
Yup, was surprised to see no mention of Poetry. Hands down, the best package manager for Python.
Better than sending them to grievance peddlers and commie sympathizers!
The recommendation to set up a Makefile on top of tox is a bit odd to be honest. Tox basically "just works", and you can do things like pass stuff to `pytest` by setting up `{posargs}` in the tox config (see [0])

I do feel like tox gets a bad rap despite having a complete feature set. I think a part of it is that the documentation is complete but not organized in the "Tox user"'s perspective, so for someone who shows up on a project using it, it's hard to figure out the quickstart( though the "general tips and tricks" page gets somewhere [1])

Anyways yeah, would not recommend Make over just leaning into tox more here.

EDIT: also, this article reminded me of how much I really dislike Github Action's configuration syntax. Just balls of mud on top of the Docker "ball of mud" strategy. I will re-iterate my belief that a CI system where the configuration system isn't declarative but just like..... procedural Lua will be a billion dollar business. CI is about running commands one after another! If you want declarative DAGs use Bazel

[0]: https://tox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/example/pytest.html?hig...
[1]: https://tox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/example/general.html
In the UK, a company can deduct a charitable donation from its profits before calculating income tax.

For an individual, the charity can claim the basic rate tax the individual paid (Gift Aid) and higher rate tax payers can claim the higher rate taxes using their self assessment, so in round numbers, it doesn't really matter who makes the donation.

That being said, it relies on there being a UK charity, which a lot of software foundations are not.

(Aside: I work for a US company that does support US foundations, as well as employ a few CPython core devs)
> to ensure future funding and volunteer hours are used efficiently and effectively.

One of the reasons that Python’s development has been so haphazard in the past few years is because the language is primarily developed by volunteers, and the philosophy has been that “you can’t tell volunteers what to work on”. I wonder if something’s going to change there.
Just a couple of random thoughts:

A food and symptom journal can be helpful for trying to connect the dots.

High IgE levels can be due to parasitic infections and these have something of a tendency to go underdiagnosed in the US because they get seen as "third world problems."
Yeah, but it also requires a) setting up and b) learning really well, to put it in muscle memory. The end result may be worth it, but I guess for most people the journey there seems so daunting they never set out on it. (Or am I just judging everyone else after myself?)
Of course, this is only a single data point ...

I would pick GitHub, simply because it hosts most of the projects that I already use in some form.

GitHub communities for most projects are very supportive and engaged.
My view is completely opposite to yours. I find type hints extremely useful and every new line of Python code I write uses them. I finally no longer have to do type checking / duck typing in my head but can simply write the types down. Moreover, an IDE like PyCharm will then do the type checking for me, notifying me of potential errors. (Even if I decide not to use Mypy.) Third, I finally only need to look at the signature of standard library functions to see what parameters they accept / what values they return. Previously, I always had to consult the Python documentation.
What approaches have you considered? What have you tried?
Can we now expect "greed" and " privacy violation" as in built features of the language, please? Thanks
This needs a wikipedia entry.
Nice to see Samsung and LG on board with this, they're two of the AVC/H.264 patent holders.

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensors.aspx
It was more of a comparison of the two extreme ends of the spectrum. Total hardware control vs. no hardware control. You're absolutely right that companies like iweb and softlayer offer great intermediate approaches. Personally, I have some great experience with softlayer but didn't want to make the article that long by including a third option/analysis :-).

Even still though, comparable hardware on softlayer's pricing looks like it's about $659/month. After 3 months it approaches a similar (but not identical) cost to the colo option.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/04/24/gps.fareed...
I never read a book in college, but have read several (dozens?) after. Just fwiw.
Remember that Adrian Lamo was on the FBI radar before producing these chat logs, it could well be that he dealt with the FBI by producing chat logs that implicate someone else. It wouldn't exactly be the first time someone has lied to the FBI to get a reduced sentence, or avoid prosecution.

We also know that the US gov't engages in torture to extract confessions so you should be skeptical of anything anyone who has been in US custody says. It's not just middle easterners, Canadian citizens have been tortured under US auspices.