skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, the perception that "solar isn't for everybody", especially when using housing examples, is fooled by hidden assumptions that were made during the time.

Consider the situation in 1950 when you are building a house, you can double or triple the cost of home construction by insulating it so that the net energy needed to heat or cool it is minimal, or you throw a oil burner in the basement which is burning fuel oil that costs a few cents per gallon and keep everything nice and toasty. The "obvious" choice there was not to spend the money on insulation but instead to just use really cheap energy to manage the temperature range. Makes everything much easier to engineer.

If, on the other hand, you design with the assumption that energy is extremely expensive and so you minimize the need to use it to regulate temperatures within a house, you can design a house that is temperature stable with the minimal amount of energy input for air circulation.

That gets you houses in the New Mexico desert that need no air conditioning (air cooling) and churches and office buildings in the northeast that need no additional heating.

Things that I have read about include extended depth insulated exterior walls. "Smart" glass windows that reject 97% of the infrared and ultraviolet spectrum (I've got film on my house windows that are not that good but they do a tremendous job of minimizing heat load in the summer). Passive heat exchanger systems that keep the temperature balanced between upstairs and downstairs, and solar roof tiles that provide both insulation and energy for running the house.

Does that help you if you're living in a 'mid century wood frame house', probably not. But it isn't that solar couldn't meet the heating and cooling needs, it is that combined with good house engineering this is already a solved problem.
If you have exculpatory sources, make with the URLs instead of casting pennies from the peanut gallery.
To be entirely honest, I probably wouldn't because if someone is asking me to pay them for advice on how to improve my business (a.k.a. consulting), I'd wonder why they're only charging me $100.

This seems like one of those areas where charging more would be a signal of value and competence.

My answer might be a bit North America-centric, though. I'm not sure how business advice of this type is viewed elsewhere in the world.

Overall, I think the idea is a useful one. But if you're giving good advice, $100 might be under-charging for it.

This interview comes to mind: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/21/ramit-sethi-and-patrick...
It's not net zero impact to pollution, because polluters are forced to buy credits, which increases the costs of their pollution and incentivizes them to reduce it, while non-polluting technologies are subsidized by the income they can get from selling unused credits.

The key is how many total credits you allocate to begin with - they should be sufficiently scarce that large emitters need to buy credits - and continually ratcheting down the number of credits allocated annually.
Our SNAPL paper [http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/pkf-te...] has data on how long students spend. It turns out relatively few hours for pretty high levels of attainment (i.e., of finding the languages).

But as @justinpombrio says, this is also tied to a particular pedagogy. The day after the homework is due, in class, we:

- collectively build up a classifier (programs that tell the languages apart)

- present the intended theory (our ground truth of what is going on)

and then spend the remaining time (30+ minutes) talking about which languages did those particular things, and — most importantly — why those languages did that, especially for the "weird" behaviors. There were often very good reasons for doing so, when viewed in a historical context. In this regard, I'm very much a historicist in the Kuhnian sense.
Does Ctrl + D not do what you want?

Or do they not provide a control key on the keyboard?
That might be true for library-type code, but anything operational is going to have environmental factors that can cause induced misbehavior rather than a pure "bug" from improper implementation. Good debugging tools help induce these things and monitor behavior. For example, I might have a timing problem that I suspect to be related to network, and I can simulate a lossy network.
Effectively the same as moving manufacturing to 3rd world countries. Out of sight out of mind
Actually it does work if you run Browsh with `browsh -with-gui`
He wrote that 6 minutes ago you wrote this one minute ago. Everyone here is full of shit
The authors are using their own Spell[1] tool to parse syslog files into patterns that represent the fixed part of printf-like log statement. Is the source of that available? At the heart of this is a tree-based construction that is not well explained.

[1] https://www.cs.utah.edu/~lifeifei/papers/spell.pdf
Chicago native who fled for Central Florida. I love Chicago, but taxes will have to rise to eye watering levels [+] to pay back pensions that should’ve never shortfalled in the first place.

[+] http://midwest.chicagofedblogs.org/?p=3096 (How Should the State of Illinois Pay for its Unfunded Pension Liability? The Case for a Statewide Residential Property Tax)
A software equivalent to jigs, might be something like specialized project templates available in IDEs and the like.
But even with natural gas, don't you end up needing electricity to move the heat through the house?
Wait, so if I do this in macOS, do I get formatted notes when I sync them to my iPhone if I use markdown syntax?
conveniently, almost nobody uses NaCl as-is due to its more or less never having been patched, and nobody uses TweetNaCl, so there is de facto one implementation.
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This makes sense if you have PostgreSQL in your infrastructure, but want to gradually migrate to MongoDB. Not the other way.
You'd have to level most structures and rebuild from scratch to manage that in large parts of North America to make a difference.

New construction built like this is a good start.

heaters aren't the only thing that use electricity at night

Know your orders of magnitude. Resistive heating is just ridiculous. Heat exchangers are much better, but are like running Air Conditioners. In a passivhaus, my wife and I would be running a laptop, a clock, and the air filtration/exchanger, and that's it.

Heating water is one of the big energy users, but Solar Water preheat based on heat pipes even works a treat in cloudy, chilly old England.
I try to minimize browser and extension use (I make my own "forks" and vet the code for every extension) so I take my notes using Emacs, placed in a sync folder.

Ease of sharing? I use text files (markdown) precisely because it is the most easily shared and portable format to store notes. As far as search, I have not seen anything come close to Emacs with its combination of regex grep, narrowing, and fuzzy FTS possibilities. Your whole org/markdown root folder can be a projectile project.

I agree with you, if you are taking notes for keeps, why use browser storage? Why not just save directly to a sync folder using your favorite editor?
> What's legal and what's not depends on not the independent judiciary, as there isn't one, but how well your relationship is with key government officials.

Yes, so your first two paragraphs reduce to an argument over semantics. When I say "law in China", I mean "what you will be punished by the Chinese government for doing [whether for cronyist reasons or not]." It's "the law" in the Libertarian sense of "the whims of the people who can command people with guns to come shoot you without reproach."

> Thirdly, all these world-wide subsidiary are there mainly for tax and payroll. Apple China does not operate independently as it's wholely owned by Apple US.

Yes, that is how multinational corporations work in every other sense. That is not how multinational corporations work when it comes to interactions between the subsidiary and the subsidiary's government, because—and consider this carefully for a moment: the employees of the subsidiary corporation—including those operating its distribution logistics pipeline within China—are Chinese citizens.

Tim Cook can try telling these employees what to do, and in all other ways he'll succeed, but the Chinese government can override Tim Cook in this one way, because the people he's giving orders to here are Chinese, and are beholden to the Chinese government. They're not going to do something that's illegal for them personally to do, just because their boss tells them to. They'd just end up quitting, and the people who'd replace them would end up quitting, and so forth. And Tim Cook knows that, which is why he doesn't tell them to do things that the Chinese government would consider illegal.

Which includes, for those distribution-pipeline employees, distributing iOS devices that don't have Chinese-government-mandated modifications to the firmware. Those employees would be arrested for that. So Tim Cook orders his US employees to make the modifications to the firmware, such that those Chinese employees can then comply with the "law in China" when they distribute the phones. (Which is really to say, such that Apple retains Chinese employees at all.)

The only other choice he has (since "force your Chinese employees to get arrested" is not actually a workable strategy) is not distributing the phones in China in the first place.

Sure, he can try to get the "law in China" changed. Every corporation is always lobbying in every market they're in. But it doesn't usually work; if it did, we'd be living in a far more dystopian-corporatist world than we already do. ;)
Since they have "A Note about Security", how about locking down that Python environment?

- Add hashes to their already-pinned requirements.txt deps: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/pip_install/#hash-ch...

- Add a Makefile entry to run `[ -d your-environment ] || ( virtualenv your-environment && . your-environment/bin/activate && ./your-environment/bin/pip install --no-deps --require-hashes -r requirements.txt )`
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If Mars had water, this is what it would look like
Knowing fully that they would be heavily criticized for complying? I think not.

If Apple wanted the world to know, they would simply release a statement.
You also have to maintain equipment, but I think the electricity is the major thing.
Only if you mean "Skyscraper city with lower prices because of higher crime".
> taxes will have to rise to eye watering levels [+] to pay back pensions

If voter demographics keep rebalancing towards the young and un-pensioned, those pensions will probably be slashed quite a bit.
Glad to see the downvotes, it means that people are reading it.
This is a great book, much more practical for the applied researcher than anything written by Pearl.
That might have more to do with 1)students being cheap & 2)researchers often needing custom equipment that is unavaliable commercially.
I know the justification given for undergrad chemists learning glassworking was the expectation that as professionals it would be a required skill.
I'm not very familiar with Tor. But from what I gather I think Browsh will be of interest to Tor users more than Tor network itself?
You can also use the good old EASY-RSA: https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa
I'm going to dispute this claim. Pittsburgh, PA has skyscrapers[1], defined as any building with or over 40 floors, and is more affordable then Chicago[2]. In fact Atlanta, GA also fits in this category as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_P...

[2] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
If they land HQ2, that will be the end of that.
I imagine the idea is something more like one way to dump excessive solar capacity would be to desalinate water during the times of maximum power generation.

Or perhaps I just steelmanned the argument.
Not before they’re due, and it’s written into the state constitution (Article XIII, Section 5). Those obligations (~$105 billion) won’t be shed.

“Benefits to public employees are protected under the Illinois Constitution, and a recent attempt to reduce the unfunded liability by reducing retirees’ benefits was struck down by the Illinois Supreme Court”

http://www.chicagotribune.com/ct-illinois-pension-law-court-...
But then I wonder if Browsh would come under some violation for doing so?
For non-americans, the idea of a group of people who do not instantly submit to individual figures in authority, but instead, resist those in authority if they believe that those in authority are infringing on rights that are protected by the constitution, may seem really bizarre.

Completely ahistorical.
This is perhaps one of the most harmful statements I’ve ever read on Hacker News. You’re not doing it wrong if you use a tool to help you understand what your program is doing. Should you follow good design patterns, like using small functions when writing your software? Yes. Should you minimize complex state? Sure. Should you use tools to help you understand what your program is doing? Absolutely. The two are not mutually exclusive.

There are a LOT of different ways to write software. Some more stateful than others. Some lower level than others. Some more asyncrounous than others. Some more functional. Some more object oriented.

Your experience with the software you write in your day to day, is not the same stack and may not even be in the same universe as what others are attempting. Writing a React app is very different from writing a game in Unity, which is very different than writing a game engine in C++ which is very different that writing large scale services that talk to clusters of computers and hardware devices, which is different than writing some low level library in Rust or Haskell or doing data science in R or Octave.

Please fucking stop with this “one right way”, “you’re dodging it wrong” dogmatic bullshit. Your limited worldview does not apply to ALL of software development.

Use a fucking REPL if you want. Use a debugger if you want. Use logs and traces if you want.

Just try to write good software, try to understand your code, and ignore dogmatic and valiantly bad advice and opinions like the parent comment on Hacker News.
Most languages develop words for ideas people care about.

English has "emulous", mentioned upthread, and also "admiration" and "inspiration".
Was that supposed to say Petabytes? Gigabytes is really not that impressive.
Yes, of course, but if you start looking at everyone from a foreign country with suspicion, you're not going to have a tenable situation. For certain extremely high-value things like military and defense projects, those precautions are necessary, but otherwise you're just eliminating large amounts of potential talent for probably no good reason.
Title probably should also read, "To Chicago with love: Emanuel is a housing policy pioneer".

Edit: ... versus the current, "Chicago Is America's Last Remaining Affordable Skyscraper City"
50/50.

I like productive chat but also having dedicated alone time is important.

Too much if either is not good
Got to love Fig. 2. APL was the first language I learned, in 1976. When I was in the position to have to use Fortran, I was horrified. I have to write loops for everything?! But nowadays, I think array Fortran is quite nice.
A bunch of schools include CTF-type reverse engineering challenges as part of a course. IMO those tend to be a little more addicting as well, as there's the instant feedback that you have the correct answer.
I like this. Could you guys add a mode that hides the right and bottom part and only shows the notes?
Also, popping up a Markdown cheatsheet via a shortcut would be dope for those who don't use the syntax often.
It's not a high priority but yes I will. Goreleaser, the tool I use to build the binaries, debs, rpms and taps, already has code from Snaps.
Cookie Consent? “No problem”
Chicago's a great town, but honestly the taxes are a killer. I grew up in the area and have a great deal of love for the place. Almost moved back after a hiatus, until I calculated the percentage of my mortgage I would have to toss away just to own a home.

Prices are often quite affordable but taxes can add 30-50% on top of the monthlies which makes it quite hard to stomach. If you add in the fact that taxes at the state level pretty much _have_ to increase I'm not sure the affordability argument holds up in the medium term. I hope, however, that they can start to fix some of those underlying issues.
Yes, and your version is a knockoff of a culturally significant item created in an independent country that was conquered militarily and handed over to be annexed for the benefit of a pineapple company. So maybe give those of the originating culture the benefit of the doubt. I'm not Hawaiian but it is a beautiful culture, especially the concept of aloha, and we could learn a thing or two from it.
I've been saying this for years.

The math is pretty straightforward: as cost of living skyrockets in most cities, any city that has the infrastructure and housing to accommodate large numbers of people will win the race.

So for example, at this point San Francisco and the Bay Area are in fact losing the race even though surrounding economy is booming; all because housing is lacking and incredibly unaffordable and there's zero political will to change it.
For the same reason that the water treatment plant gets more respect than the sewage treatment plant.

Everyone would prefer to provide something fresh and clean than to wade through other people's poop.
"[Stomping] Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!"

He wasn't entirely wrong, but even so, Nadella is a bazillion percent better as the CEO. ...Actually, make that a gazillion percent better.
Some kind of cert observatory tool that checks if the cert you're getting matches the cert everyone else is getting.
Org mode files are text files so you can edit them with any editor. Place them in a sync folder and if your sync client is any good it should be able to edit.

"Long bit of documentation"? Isn't it the device that's not suited? I sure wouldn't want to do a lot of typing on a handheld device. Emacs shortcuts should be fun.
This solution won't work if the sun ceases to emit light, therefore it's not fool proof.

I kid, but - why so much pessimistic "all or nothing" attitude on this?
One of my favorite YouTubers nicknames computers, "confusers."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWH5bfpivSU
I think we are currently in a "first" for Apple in where they announced an extended warranty for their 2016+ laptops WITHOUT having viable alternative for sale. I really hope this means we get some upgrade to the keyboard. I've got a 2014 and I really want to upgrade to a 15" with dedicated graphics but if they don't fix the keyboard my "upgrade" will be to a 2015 model. There were some reports that Apple is using a new alloy when they replace in those stupid butterfly switches them that has less issues but it hasn't been confirmed AFAIK.
If you want to test this in Firefox you can set these prefs:

security.insecure_connection_icon.enabled

security.insecure_connection_text.enabled
> "About an hour and a half north you'll find another American city that has skyscrapers"

If Milwaukee counts as a "skyscraper city", then practically every city in the US counts, and the term becomes mostly meaningless.
Ctrl + D does nothing.
I love Chicago. I've visited most of the major cities in the U.S. and Chicago is the only one that seems comparable to NYC's historic, big city feel.
Any editor supports syncing. Just save your files in your sync folder.

Alternatives: Caret, Typora, Emacs, Vim, VS Code.
Integrated the same reactions Facebook use on your website
Hey guys, I'm wondering if you will be willing to pay for a SaaS service that gives your visitors the ability to rate your articles, blog posts or products using the same reactions Facebook use and then ask them for their email, feedback, review. You will also be able to see some stats about the emotions of your visitors.

Will you use it?
Will you pay for it?
How much will you pay for it?
Or you know, you can wear it any day you like, and fuck the office's style rules.

How's that for non-officinally sanctioned?
Utility functions and small self-contained libraries. Nice thing about software jigs is that copying them is free, so often they’re open-sourced.
Tesla has already deployed utility-scale storage in Australia and has contracts to build more for California utilities. Those are just the ones I know of.
MBP price and some hardware issues are causing me to look for alternatives (dodgy keyboards, no non touch bar 15" that isn't gimped). I've been needing to upgrade for at least a year but I don't want to pay £2000 for a keyboard I hate and a touchbar I never want to use.

The possibility of using Windows has kept me from switching so far but I can put up with it for a user replaceable battery and a decent keyboard I think.
Anything in that article address the highest effective tax rate in the nation(and it's not close)?
Do you have any evidence?

From what it seems like the disparity is increasing between big cities and not.
I trust more my first time connection to a website than so random authority a random country signing it, it’s that simple. But the money grab is so big that they keep existing !

EDIT: And you’re saying the SSH model is broken then. Also you can verify the certificate signature via another channel, like a git repo of all the signatures of most important websites (I know, it look like a CA)
what are you complaining about? the "retina macbook air" is simply called "macbook" now. it's the same great PPI display as everywhere else. the CPUs haven't changed much in 3 years. battery life is the same. why so much drama? what do you want?

if anything, apple has gone completely mainstream. you can get all of your computing done in gold now. in GOLD!
Spoiler: there wasn't much sex other than some artwork.
The appearance is surprising, but familiar if you’ve seen a yucca flower:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Yucca_gl...
or especially the New Mexico version http://www.americansouthwest.net/plants/agavoideae/yucca-ela... (it’s the New Mexico State flower)

It’s also similar to what many grasses do. I suppose they’re all related to asparagus.
I've seen it too. I use macOS at work, troubleshoot my gf's Windows laptop and use Mint as my daily driver. I'm far from the elitist camp. But the sentiment against Linux is surprisingly large. I posted 2 reviews for Overlord and Overlord 2 just to warn Linux users that a camera bug that makes the game incredibly annoying to play is still present and I was met with comments that I shouldn't be bothering to play on Linux.

If the developer offers that support, should I not report issues with the port? I don't follow that logic. I didn't pass any judgement on the game itself, but couldn't really give a positive recommendation.

For now, I value the lack of Linux ports for some items because I know the barrier to get it working on Wine (not always doable) will limit me and force me to get back to other, more valuable pursuits. Can't just game all the time as much as I'd like to at times.
Likening it to crab buckets misses a key point: That "status" has value, and is transferable. Pulling a "human crab" isn't a purely destructive act, as it prevents a peer from gaining status and power that could be dangerous to the one pulling down.

Even among crabs (where the wikipedia page doesn't provide source to back up its claims as to the crab's intent), pulling another crab down creates a stepping stone opportunity for another crab to climb out. In the absence of clear trusting coordination (like you see in army ants, ignoring the fact that many ants sacrifice their lives toward a goal), crab-bucket fighting maximizes individual survival chance.
The Future of the VPN Market
I never knew we had so many experts on firefighting among us to tell us why this makes no sense.