skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the United States, electricity use soars as temperatures rise and more households use air-conditioning more frequently. One recent study found that the United States’ electric grid would have to handle a 7.2 percent increase in peak demand this century under a moderate warming scenario.

It would be wise to promote passive solar design. Relying on AC just burns more fuel and this makes global warming worse. It winds up being a vicious cycle and it isn't actually necessary.

We also need to support more pedestrian and bike options. There are lots of little things that can help. These tend to not get counted and when things don't get as bad as people expected, this news tends to get swept under the rug. But if you are really concerned about this, you can make some modest lifestyle changes to help curb this trend. If you live in a first world country, your modest efforts will generally count for more than you think because we tend to consume so much more than people in less developed countries.

Some years back when I was taking environmental law classes, one American consumed something like 200 times as much as someone from India. So cutting back a few percent as an American is potentially about like outright eliminating the impact of several people from a less developed country. Even very modest cut backs can be about like someone from a less developed country cutting their consumption in half.
"More and more information, less and less meaning." - Jean Baudrillard

"The more words, the less the meaning, and how does that profit anyone?" - Ecclesiastes 6:11

"Let's start from the premise that more information, more empowerment, is fundamentally the correct answer" - Eric Schmidt

One of these two quotes is not like the others...
I think you bring up an important point: there is a class of homebuyer who is both wealthy (or at least high-income) and a control freak. McMansion (or more specifically McMansion builders) target this demographic with empty shells, then let the homebuyer customize to their heart's content (even if said customization is stupid).

For some, it appears that the control is an important purchase consideration. The bank is the only one taking the risk.
"Just the few"? I would say there are significantly fewer people with Tango enabled Android tablets than iPhones/iPads that ARKit can be run on.
Nah. With http2 you're seriously better off having everything in one place. Avoids overhead of multiple TCP connections and (more importantly) overhead of TLS handshakes.

Might not always be true but in tests I've done on my company's sites the http2 load is always faster with no CDN, even from far away locations.
This reminds me of my experience giving up my wristwatch. I would glance at it frequently, but then didn't know the time because the behavior was strictly reflex. Finally, someone asked me for the time right after I did this and I had to look again because I hadn't internalized it. That was the day I removed my watch forever.

Your comment about being beholden to your phone reminds me a a great quote that I recalled on that day: "Wearing a watch is like being handcuffed to time."
Yes, but I imagine using a physical keyboard while coding on iOS.
I think I'll always prefer a mouse for a lot of things, but who knows.
This script can be useful to save man pages (not just the bash man page, any man page) as text - removing all the control characters which are used for printing with formatting (bold, etc.):

m, a Unix shell utility to save cleaned-up man pages as text:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2017/03/m-unix-shell-utility-to-s...

I've been using it from earlier Unix versions, where these formatted man pages (nroff/troff-formatted) were more of an issue. Also works if you want to open the text form of the man page in vi or vim, for reading, searching, etc.
I think there is a fair dose of irony in your value judgement of her value judgement of the buyers' value judgement of McMansions.

Her main points are basically unified theme and form follows function and how McMansions often break those rules (a hodgepodge of different elements, columns too large for the things they support).

Her blog also informs fundamentals of good taste in architecture. It's no different from learning what makes a classical painting good or good pacing in movies.
I'm not wealthy enough to wait for a better offer indefinitely, and the places I was applying to are for all intents and purposes. Negotiating with only X months of runway is very different.

Your argument also assumes that I have a competing offer already when negotiating, but how did I get that competing offer? If you have a job, that solves the chicken and egg problem. If you don't, you don't have the leverage to anchor that first offer, which anchors the second, etc.

Having done both at similar skill levels, I can tell you the outcomes are much better with a job in hand.
Common Lisp has a whole bunch of syntax and syntactic sugar. e.g. ' (quote), #', &rest, &key, &optional and more.
Think industrial, not consumer. The latter will be games and art for a while.

The former needs to visualise interior design changes, factory layouts or even just overlay navigational information for leisure boat and/or plane piloting. I would love an underwater AR that tells me what fish I'm looking at, or a cosmology one that lets me pinch-and-zoom the night sky. I agree that the middle-income consumer won't see anything grand for a few years. But that's not the point.
C++ Metaclasses [pdf]
1) Throw n balls into n bins, the bin for each ball chosen randomly

2) Throw n balls into n bins, two bin for each ball chosen randomly, always picking the bin with fewer balls in it

In both cases you will have n balls distributed over n bins in the end. But the number of balls in the largest bin will be different for the two processes above. In the first case the largest bin has more balls: O(log n / log log n) == O(log n). And the second case has just O(log log n) balls. So just adding an extra choice of bins made the expected largest bin exponentially smaller.

More rough intuition: if x of your bins are occupied, in the first case your next ball has x/n probability of queueing instead of finding an empty bin but in the second it's only (x/n)^2 chance to need to queue.
What subjectivity is in it?
We simply have too much going on to sit around and try to perfect a solution. I don't even think it'd be worthwhile even if we had all the time in the world. We see what works, if it doesn't work we change it. We also don't let bureaucracy interfere with forward progress. 80% of the solution is usually good enough. We aren't in it to sell books about management.
Data visualization

Better ergonomics for workstations

Conferencing (of which there are numbers sub-functions that AR can render better)

Better, safer driving ui's (HUDs have been shown better for years)

Remote controlled device management

Gaming, of a lot of types

There. 6. But this is kind of a silly demand.
While I don't approve with the way you expressed it... I agree that people could be a little more considerate of colorblind readers. I almost immediately give up once I see a scatter plot with red and green. It tends to get worse the smaller the dots are.
> In many (not all, not most) cases, the builders locate the house in an area completely unsuited for the property

Externalities are, as it happens, not your problem.

This is proving to be more of a bug than a feature, huh?
That's a really pessimistic way to think about it. Not having fresh food is a real problem in America. People overbuy produce, poor people can't afford fruit or vegetables these are real issues.

You might think it is for marijuana but you miss the point. Self suffiency is something we should strive for, we shouldn't be dependent on other places for food or shelter or water, we should produce those things locally.

If you think ahead even more, this is important for space travel and colonizing other worlds or even different parts of the world.

This should be an open standard and shouldn't be something people can't afford. This could change how people get food and drastically adverse the effects of being in a food desert.
1. gets drunk and does something stupid... => Welcome to consequences

2. from a female => from a female what? Alpaca? Oh human? We have a word for that, it's woman

3. social inept key staff => get past the idea that the only people who can get things done are Neanderthals that have to be catered at the cost of the safety of women
>All of test(1) as you can use them in any if statement (/usr/bin/[ is a real command!):

Yes, and not only in an if statement. You can also use test or [ command in commands of the form:

test condition && commmand2

or

test condition || command2

which will only work if the condition is true or false, respectively (IIRC, need to check this).
I really can't see actual harassment being seen as a "fuck up", though. A fuck up is an accident. Harassment is deliberate. And, quite frankly, we all should be adults, and we should know how to act in the workplace.
I find problems with both the author's methodology and hypothesis.

Counting unique declarations doesn't really tell me anything. CSS isn't simply a declarative language. CSS rules are ordered. Sometimes (and oftentimes within webapps) you need to repeat a declaration because you're using it to overwrite an earlier declaration but only when the second selector is valid. For example, it's very common to have lots of `display` declarations that turn on or off elements by overwriting earlier rules. Because of this, you're going to have lots of "repeat" declarations, but they're not repeated in their location within the order. With complex pages, you're going to wind up twisting yourself in knots trying to keep everything logically ordered if you also want to minimize declarations.

Additionally, from my naive understanding of browser engines, the performance cost of multiple rules applying to an element is greater than the cost of multiple declarations within a rule. Why minimize them?

But my largest concern is the mental overhead of trying to simplify rules in code. Co-locating declarations affecting a logical unit is extremely helpful. The tool we have to accomplish this is called a selector. Minimizing declarations increases selector count, which kind of defeats their purpose. Pre-processors can't solve this for you either, due to CSS rules being ordered. If all you're building is a static page then, sure, I can see minimizing declarations being some kind of goal. But CSS gets used for a lot more than static pages.

As other commenters have noted, if the author's concern is overly-large CSS files, run-length encoding alleviates a lot of that, at least if the declarations are in the same file (a reason to not use http2 as a silver bullet and use concatenation instead, if that's a concern).

EDITS: Added a couple sentences.
Poorer people can still be elitist. Expressing cultural or artistic superiority is a form of elitism that doesn't require wealth.
Not sure where you got that price, a head of lettuce is less that a dollar here in the Midwest US
I'm curious if it's true too. A current living source of folks memorizing stuff is the crowd of Hafiz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafiz_(Quran)

I wonder how that subset of the population would rank on their evaluation.
> Why is this so different

Benchmarks are at least attempting to be objective.

Also, there's a difference between mocking a company's product and mocking a house that is 1) an individual's home 2) their largest investment and 3) is likely, these days, to represent a significant financial liability.

I don't like McMansions much myself, but I can absolutely sympathize with people that want an affordable way to get more space for their family, etc. (Or people that have been sucked by the hedonic treadmill into a vortex of debt, high utility payments, etc.) They're probably suffering enough already.
lol the discussion at the bottom of the article is about why macos isn't on ipad, reminds me of when people said it was impossible to put macos on x86. My $.02 is that macos has a lot of bloated garbage hanging around and iOS is likely more slim for the task. However I'm sure it's got it's own garbage after 10 years.
What if they received so many fantastic applications ahead of yours there were few or no spots left?
Was she judging the houses or the people?
Out of interest how much is a head of fresh lettuce in your country?
One chart towards the end mentions that in most cases, children earn more than their parents; it would be interesting to compare the affordability of housing across generations. It seems that even as if children earn more (in inflation-adjusted dollars), their dollars are worth less for housing due to housing prices increasing faster than inflation.
In America we are not locally self sufficient. California is a large producer of fruit and vegetables for most of the year. We used to be focused on small towns that could be self sufficient now we just accept getting packaged garbage and the price we pay for it.

That's why we have people eating mcdonalds everyday.
Have a look at the Arch and Gentoo wikis both have a lot of notes.

I wrote this: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kerberos_Windows_Interoperabili... It is a little out of date (I keep the latest set of notes on our corp wiki) but will get you most of the way there. The notes on the Arch wiki also have some quite up to date notes on using pam_mount and getting mount.cifs working with Kerberos (ie I've read the docs and experimented, so you don't have to)

winbindd in Samba 4.x is really rather good and will happily manage the Kerberos side of things for you for a minimal setup cost. If you find yourself following a howto that starts whittering on about using setspn.exe on a DC then run away! I recently noticed that SSSD is available on rather a lot of Linux distros and is well respected. Must have a look.

As I mentioned in another thread there is a lot of support for SSO with Kerberos/GSSAPI in nearly everything you can get your paws on. Even Nagstamon can do it! Chrome on Windows - Group Policy, Chrome or Chromium on Linux - policies in a JSON file in a certain location, Firefox - about:config - you can send out FF settings with a file (can't remember the name), IE - Group Policy. PuTTY for ssh. OpenSSH client and server. Squid. Apache, nginx, IIS all do it.

I login to this laptop using my AD username and password. If the wifi is a bit slow and winbindd can't get to the domain then it uses a cached (cryptographically hashed) version of my password to allow me in or not. When it finds the DC (VPN or LAN) then it is able to fix up my Kerberos ticket cache on my behalf.

I know for a fact (by direct experience) that this all works on Gentoo, Arch and Ubuntu (Xenial and Trusty). Any Unix-alike distro that can run mitkrb or heimdal and Samba 4 should be able to do all of this.
As vision models get better there's lots of future applications - a database of all known insect and plant life with realtime overlay. Guided plumbing / electrical repair and teaching. Virtual pets that interact with each other and real objects. Redesign / repaint your interior. Optimal flooring / carpet cutting with easy measurement tool in the demo.
The technology is in its infancy, give it a chance
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It is too bad that the graph doesn't include the USA. That would clearly show how much better social mobility is in Canada than the USA.

Which is an important but under-appreciated fact.
Wow this is next-level outrageous!

Could you share the name of the company so others might avoid them and avoid wasting their time with such nonsense?
> It's OK to be mean to people because of the socioeconomic class they belong to?

No, see the first sentence where I say I generally reject the premise of the whole concept of punching up and down (I think there is such a thing as bad tactics). My point was, however, that if you're gonna use that framework, perhaps one percenters buying ugly houses aren't exactly a sympathetic group. Even more importantly, the OP misses the entire reason punching up and down is a thing. Being rich enough to afford a McMansion means you're pretty much guaranteed to be highly privileged. It'd be pretty silly, if you're going to talk about punching up and down, to believe that ridiculing the rich with bad taste is anything but a big ol' shoryuken. I mean, even I, someone who thinks you should treat people kindly regardless of background, roll my eyes at the thought of McMansion owners feelings being hurt because people think their houses are ugly.
Reminds me of something I heard watching silicon valley.
> Even the smartest and most technically capable people I know are confused by 3D Touch

I think you may need to find yourself a new crowd to roll with. 3D Touch becomes pretty intuitive after just a few hours of playing with a 3D Touch enabled device. It especially shines on the Apple Watch but it's also fantastic on the iPhone. Sadly, it's missing from iPad.
How do you deal with 2FA?
I suppose it would make more sense to write these as lambdas in a c style syntax

nums.map(|sublist| sublist.map(|num| add(num, 5))

Maybe I haven't done enough functional programming yet, but I still like the explicitness of the C-style over the functional style.
pre·ten·tious - adjective - attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.

The irony here is that her blog rags on the pretentiousness of houses designed to look like better built/designed houses. McMansions are by definition pretentious.
True, I didn't include those cases as they are not unique in terms of why there is / isn't a conflict. But you're right, worth including for completion.
What do you believe she's pretending to be?
>What I wish existed was a sort of wikipedia for learning

I write (private) wiki pages for myself when learning a new tool or tech. However, I think the process of taking in information and rewriting it in my own words is more valuable than the wiki pages themselves. Plus it's a handy way to store relevant links and brush up on a topic if I don't engage with it for awhile.
I'm kind of curious how one would measure whether you recited the odyssey in it's entirety after one hearing if you don't have a written reference and only have fallible human memory to rely on...
> shifting cognitive burden of some kinds of memory (all those phone numbers) elsewhere

I recognized that my mind started to become a mental index of information at some point. This is to say that I hold memories of compressed information that I can expand with key search terms to hook onto the information I am actually seeking. One recent example was searching for "Milton Friedman Thalidamide FDA" because I knew it would snag an Uncommon Knowledge discussion I shared with a developers group recently.
Variety of reasons.

Early on, I had a lot of trouble getting the flood and drain system to work correctly. Substrate would get caught in the siphon, and prevent it from initiating the drain.

Once the flood and drain system was working, I ran into issues related to my use of heterogeneous substrate. I had both hydroton pellets and perlite in the grow bed. When you mix substrates of multiple densities, both of which are lighter than water, the flood and drain cycle will result in the lightest substrate filtering to the top of the bed. This caused all of my plants to sink into the water.

After solving that problem, it became a simple matter of fish nutrition. I live in Colorado, which has very hot summers. Around 90°F is typical, but in the evenings the temperature gets down quite low. As it would happen, the average daily temperature was between 60 and 70°F. Fish modulate their diet according to the temperature of the water that they're in. And my koi would not eat enough.

In the end, the project was a lot of fun and I learned a lot. But I couldn't justify repeating the effort after all of the fish died in the winter. It didn't seem humane.
brotli ftw.
Sort of off-topic, but I brought this up in a cybersecurity info session at my organization. I questioned whether it would be viable to block all incoming ads in order to save bandwidth, and also mitigate the possibility of any incoming malvertising attacks. We already do a lot of DNS blocking to begin with, I thought maybe blocking ads through DNS would be helpful.

The response was that it would hinder user experience on the browser, and we are doing a good enough job at blocking malware as it is right now and the amount of effort to block ads would not be worth the return.

I still remain curious as to what would happen if we did block ads company-wide using DNS.
That's hilarious. Zillow used someone else's images without consent to sell remodelling programs and thought that the subsequent lawsuit against them was "without merit" (quoting above link).

Bonus points to McMansionHell if they use only quotes from Zillow in their defence!

Some relevant info:

* https://www.scribd.com/document/339052523/VHT-v-Zillow - jury verdict

* https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1617640/000119312517... - notice to SEC that Zillow intends to appeal

* https://www.vedderprice.com/takeaways-from-vht-v-zillow-for-... - "Takeaways From VHT V. Zillow For Website Owners"
I've been a supporter for a while. I don't even have particular hate for McMansions, but I learned a lot about architecture from reading her.
I really don't understand how this doesn't fall under fair use. The images are quite clearly being used for criticism and satire which is protected speech.

Is this just a case of the power of the almighty $$$ or is there something I'm missing?
It's 30-40% of the population that opposes the token non-solutions that have been proposed by liberal governments. A lot more than that would oppose the drastic economic measures that would be necessary to really avert climate change.
HMS Queen Elizabeth could be vulnerable to WannaCry ransomware attack
Its practically the only authentication/security mechanism available for Hadoop ecosystems?
>at is it for? Why is it better than an alternative or a long press? How does it make anything better or more intuitive? How is it predictable in any way?

3D touch is totally different, and better than a long press. With a long press, you're stuck waiting on an animation to finish to continue with what you want to do. With 3D touch, you are able to instantly get to the menu you want.

I can admit that discover-ability is an issue, but this should be solvable by UX designers embracing the feature and highlighting when it would be useful to users.
>"After an engineer passes our process, they go straight to the final interview at companies we work with (including Apple, Facebook, Dropbox and Stripe)."

Can anyone from any of these companies confirm this? This strikes me as really odd. So only one employee from FB, Apple, Dropbox, and Stripe needs to interview a candidate that Tripplebyte say is a "Go"? I'm having a hard time believing that.
Does "used in critique" apply? If the critique was of the photos themselves that would seem to be in the spirit, but the photos are just lifted in order to critique the house.
If they're living on the other side of the country, I don't care. If they're knocking down perfectly fine, correctly-scaled houses in my neighborhood in order to build huge monstrosities that parasitize the aesthetic niceness of the neighborhood that is due in large part to correctly-sized and shaped houses then I get upset.

Example happening in my town: builder buys a normal-sized house on a large lot for $800K. Knocks the house down, subdivides the lot, and builds two bigger houses on each lot, and sells each for $950K. If anyone complains, they get written off as a NIMBY who is opposed to density.

Due to local regulations, you need more driveway curb cuts, so the tree-lined street starts to become less tree-lined. You now have two 3-story townhouse style homes right up next to mid-century ranches or bungalows or Cape Cods and it looks garish.
Not OP, but I suppose one could set up SMS based 2FA on a cell phone that is not a smart phone for most major services out there.