skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a bit apprehensive about posting a google translated article, as some parts may be slightly off, so it's great to see some people enjoyed it despite that.

It's originally written by Norway's national broadcasting (NRK), and since the art/pictures don't seem to be included in the translated version, here's the original link for anyone who wants to check it out: https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/xl/forst-da-mats-var-dod_-fors...

It has a few images of Mats, a few of his guildmates and a few drawings which really help bring the story to life.
You can use warm water to power your heating in winter. So it might be less efficient in summer, but the amount of energy you’d save in winter would exceed the losses in summer.
Muscles May Preserve a Shortcut to Restore Lost Strength
My in-laws are Chinese, and after they retired they (particularly my mother-in-law) began attending their local 老年大学 ("senior university"). It's a terrific idea--I know that some seniors audit classes at community colleges and universities in the US, but it's an idea I'd love to see spread more here.
A Beautiful, Derandomized Algorithm for MAX-3SAT
I get the impression this kind of junk tends to bubble up especially on Sundays.
I made a batch as an experiment the morning after I got my Instant Pot Max, and, yeah, that's some mighty fine yogurt. Mine ended up a little bit runny but still tasted amazing! More experimentation needed, but it's a very promising start.
Rest APIs
no boiling? My mother always boiled it a little bit and checked how it coagulates.
Yes. The moderation does a lot to counter it, and I'm sure there's tools to detect voting rings and whatnot, but lots of stuff slips through the cracks...
There’s nothing new above about the idea of serving community. There’s nothing new about purpose. Furthermore, the idea of divisiveness as a measure of how good the cause is is problematic if it isn’t grounded in truth. Take the pro-life and pro-choice causes. Are they divisive? They certainly divide society. The two groups aim for conflicting ends that cannot be reconciled. The conflict need not be violent, but a conflict there is regardless. Truth, however, paves the way out of the conflict. In practice, what there will be differences of opinion about what the truth is, so conflict is inevitable. Major problems occur when those differences are affect the viability of a society.

So what exactly does non-divisiveness solve? In the absence of truth, the resolving of division becomes the task of power. The less powerful causes that disagree with the more powerful causes are abolished. Who gains the upper hand is anyone’s guess.

I submit that divisions are expected in this life, but a reduction of divisions can occur when we begin to take the truth seriously. That is the only way we can develop the prudence needed to achieve reconciliation.
The annual revenue alone of the worlds ten largest insurance companies is about 20 thousand billion USD [1]. This sector is prepared to cover larger risks than most governments - for a somewhat competitive profitable amount.

> Calculating an actuarial probability was never the problem.

Of course is wasn't - revealing and paying the resultant premiums is the problem, which is why governments make alternative arrangements for nuclear.

[1] - https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/largest-insurance-compan...
Image-Mimic-Genetic-Algorithm
I feel like one mandatory rule on HN should be explicit :
Don't upvote because you agree the post, but because it add value to the discussion.
The intention is to use primarily waste energy from times when production exceeds demand. The side effect is that you have a set of consumers that can take or shed load quickly and on demand, having a stabilizing effect on the grid. Grid stabilization is an important problem when using energy sources with less predictable power output such as wind and solar.
Some technology is obviously more useful to the population at large, such as the printing press. Other trchnology is more useful to the tyrant, such as the helicopter only they can afford, and use to monitor the city centers for groups of those unruly students. The idea of all technology being neutral and equally useful for any cause is absurd.

The discussion is what category AInfalls under. I can instantly see its value for the centralized surveillance state: find the signal within all the noise of those bills of calls, messages, and CCTV images a state can capture. I can’t immediately think of anything useful the technology could do for a few people fighting for dmcrocracy. They do not even have access to any such vast data trove that’s usually at the beginning of the AI value chain.
Electricity transmission can be expensive, both in terms of initial and recurring costs (which include safety provisions, wire maintenance, surge handling, regulation compliance, etc.). If you have a solar 10m away generating unnecessary power, heating water might be an OK option.
Yup. WoW has special servers marked for roleplaying (as opposed to the more achievement-oriented "normal" servers), and it sounds like they were playing on one of those.
Automata theory
It depends on the company. The one I worked for (although not as a driver) the drivers were responsible for all tickets, traffic or parking. Other companies will swallow the cost, sometimes to a ridiculous degree, such as the London borough where Tesco racked up £75,000 worth of parking tickets in a year for delivery trucks dropping at their branches. https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/environment/75-000-parking-fi...
I agree with many of your points.. Especially about marketing goons.

Would you mind sharing about your experiences with some insights in how applying the above went for you?

Small problems absolutely lead to the big ones. Takes openness and humility to not marginalize an idea. Ie, it's good karma to help people with their excel sheet, often the sheets that are out of control are proving the need for software to be built.

Becoming good at things means adding and create real value. I consulted in tech focusing on B2B for a while, which naturally became what I do today. Expertise, experience and ability to apply tech to problems is a great way to be able to recognize and execute on opportunities. Serving problems (especially small ones with big impact) is an incredible idea generation factory of finding small, medium and large things that are needed and have a chance to work.

But the money thing.. Many (most) people have to pay their way in the world, instead of living and paying on sometimes dime. It's not about being wildly rich, but discounting and ignoring money altogether might be as disastrous down the road. Often, you have to build the small thing to prove demand for the big thing. Some focus on enough money is critical to bake into the bread.
I'm not really talking about just letting children open fifty loot boxes back to back. the kid doesn't necessarily understand they are losing in that scenario.

I'm thinking more about games like roulette, poker, dice with chores money. maybe it would need to be in a more controlled environment, like family game night.

not exactly gambling, but I learned a great lesson from my father this way when I was about eleven or twelve. I really wanted some expensive Lego so I begged my dad to lend money to purchase it. at first he wouldn't do it, but eventually he decided it might be a good learning experience for me. I had a blast playing with that set for a month or two, but after a while it was just one more toy that I owned. it took a lot longer than that to pay him back, so I had ample time to reflect on how much it sucked to be in debt. I never asked my dad for another toy loan, and I've basically never considered borrowing money again for anything other than college.
I'm not going to subscribe to your newsletter ;)

Sometimes you feel that you need some special insight that nobody else knows because it makes you feel special. It's probably better to just keep it to yourself when it doesn't reflect any valid reality.
Love fermenting. So good for you too.

Easiest sauerkraut. Get cabbage. Shred it. Add some salt and chuck it in a jar. Then wait.

I love kefir too. Just milk and some kefir grains replaced daily.

Can get addictive quick though. Before you know it you have jars of pickles, tomatoes, kimchi everywhere
That was a great read, very hard to read because I could imagine where it was going. Makes me feel like I have a knot in my throat. :(

There's a netflix show called Dad of Light:

https://www.netflix.com/sg/title/80178543

Based on a true story, it's worth watching.

The blog was translated:

https://transnoteblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/08/the-father-of...
I’d bet good money the humor was quite intentional.
I'm not so sure. The Push API and Notification API are two separate things on the web, and one and the same on iOS. It wouldn't be immediately straightforward to wake up a service worker in response to a push event on iOS, so I can believe they are trying to find the optimal way of doing it.

(I also believe it's not a huge priority)
Thoreum molten-salt reactors or its a waste!
“Yang’s arrest serves the purpose of granting additional leverage to the Chinese government in international negotiations for the protection and promotion of Huawei around the world.”

That isn’t how Americans react. Chinese companies, malicious or otherwise, are going to face very significant hurdles expanding in the West. Of course, that could actually be the Chinese central government’s goal.
Itch.io – Marketplace for Indie Games
The only thing I found is this book from 2001:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Collapse_of_China

And some complete Bullshit Fake-news from Taiwan or the Tea-Party neocon Marketing & Advertisement department....

All countries Have skewd biased propaganda, yes, I agree, and they are All bullshit, be it China supporter or Taiwan supporter or Neocon-Tea-party supporter or Bullshit left wing supporter, BULLSHIT is always bullshit, is biased, is skewd, what a freak are you talking about???

Is there any news like: this year China will end in an Economic Recession ! NO, not even this...much less the apocalypse...you guys need to go take some sun on the beach and get out of fckng Facebook or Sputinik News or whatever Lie and crazyness Untrustful news sites you are [des]informing yourselves with.....
This is not a battery, or a battery killer, and the author surely knows better. This is a distributed load bank, located in places the heat can be put to good use.

Interesting idea though. The paper seems like it’s pushing a product instead of pushing concepts, because the applicability of this concept goes much broader than the article goes into, for greater benefit to the consumer. A heat pump (a compressor and some fans) can be switched on or off just as fast as a heating element, at least as far as the article is concerned. The water heater switch is a dead simple solution though, credit due for that.

A bit of a rabbit trail here: A heat pump would not provide as much potential load, but it gives the flexibility of working for both heating and cooling, and also puts the electricity to better use. The key would be to put a cheap heat storage element in between the customer-premises heat pump and the final use, so that the utility can fire up the heat pump regardless of the customer’s need, and the customer has a huge bank of hot or chilled water at their disposal. Combined with a radiant floor heating system, and tied into a water-source HVAC system, this is a real energy efficiency boon by taking waste energy and getting it past the meter into the customer premises. Go ahead and throw a Steffes(tm) resistance heater in the water heater while we are at it. Have your cake and eat it too.
I'm surprised this has been your experience, I've found that HN veers quite often into politics.
This is a confusion. One's own decisions are part of the physics that relate the present to the future. Basically you're doing a half-correction here; you're taking the naive view that one's decisions are something separate and outside determinism, and then noting, aha, but there is nothing separate and outside determinism, and then concluding that therefore there are no decisions; rather than properly adjusting the notion of decision to a deterministic world. Because decisions definitely happen! It's just that the idea of them as something separate and outside of physics was a bad description, not something that valid inferences can be drawn from.

Or maybe I should just link Eliezer Yudkowsky, because I primarily just don't really want to go down this rabbit-hole: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NEeW7eSXThPz7o4Ne/thou-art-p...
Masahiro Kikuno, Japanese Independent Watchmaker (2017)
There's another site similar to hackernews and their downvote button requires a reason.

One of: off-topic, incorrect, me-too, troll, spam.

I bet though a lot of people would still use incorrect for disagreements.

I always thought slashdot had a great moderation system where +5 was the max a post could get and everyone only had a few votes every few weeks so you had to be careful. The upvotes also had reasons like (insightful, funny, interesting ..) so a user could sort by those.
I use a sous vide cooker. Put your milk in sealed mason jars and completely submerge them. A little bit of pressure is produced, but not enough to break the jars.
Doesn't this mean the DB can only execute stored procedures, since with interactive transactions it wouldn't have knowledge of the conditionals that cause aborts?

Have anyone used a DB like that in production? I'm curious because when using RDBMSs it's typical to avoid stored procedures completely. It seems like it would be very difficult to use and deploy new code for.
Maybe something similar as pallet jack: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallet_jack

Example of an electric one: https://youtu.be/w7MG3DOwAhQ

Quite close to this Stanley device. They claim capacity of 3,5 tons. Forks are not as long, but the mechanics seem such that extending them should not be a problem.
Under the Hood of HTTP Requests in Node
on the other hand,the pdf manuals i see are all bloated messes of technical jargon that i have to google search to understand-ofc the only time i need to look at the manual is when i can't figure out some behavior, like oneplus 6t's fingerprint scanner animation
Maybe, but if anything I'd think this investment would help protect them since it allows the occupation of a major shipping hub.
Oh, I didn't know that, thanks. Yeah, that must be what happened then.
When people say dying planet I think most are referring to "made uninhabitable by humans"
A Waymo One Rider’s Experiences Highlight Autonomous Rideshare’s Shortcomings
it gets too warm at night

Most storage heaters have a flap you can move that affects how quickly the heat is released. Ours are marked "Room Temp Boost". We leave them on the lowest setting because there is usually someone home during the day.

In general they aren't very good, they are more expensive than gas and difficult to control. Landlords like them because they don't have to pay the bill. I looked at converting our house to oil but the figures didn't look very good at the time.
I have a friend who works as a driver (merchandising, not delivery) and he personally pays for his parking tickets. This is in the UK though, maybe things are different in the US.
This is great from mutliple points of view. Not only does it make easier for senior people feeling like part of the society (and forming new friendships and social relationships), but studying/learning has also been touted as one of the main methods of prevention various mental diseases and/or undesirable mental states.
> Easiest sauerkraut. Get cabbage. Shred it. Add some salt and chuck it in a jar. Then wait.

And if you add a bunch of chili powder, it's kimchi.
Yeah, it definitely surprised me in my 20s when I'd have a new roommate/girlfriend who would go through the fridge and throw out anything with an overdue best before date.

> "Best Before" doesn't mean "Bad After"!

At our house now, when we look through the fridge and see something approaching/past its Best Before date, we brainstorm something we can make to use it up before it spoils. Pudding is a great way to use up any quantity of milk. Random Vegetable Soup: throw all of the questionable vegetables in to the Instant Pot with some chicken stock, pressure cook for 10 minutes, blend with a stick mixer. If cheese grows a bit of mold, we just cut it off and put it in a new container. Meat gets kept in a fridge that is just a hair too cold, and either gets used right away or frozen.

Writing all of this, I just realized that we produce very little food waste here. Occasionally some leftovers are forgotten in the back of the fridge and get moldy, but that's pretty rare.
'Wololo'
I have one of these! A domestic Solar iBoost. If our solar panels are generating excess energy, it automatically switches on an immersion heater. So the electricity heats up water rather than flowing back into the grid.

And, sadly, it is kinda pointless when combined with a battery. The days we produce more power than we can use and store - are generally warm and sunny days where we don't need as much hot water.

It saves very little money compared to the cost of gas - but it was a hell of a lot cheaper to install than the 2kWh battery.
One question: Is Low-code development really a thing that is gaining traction or something that is real alternative to more traditional languages?
I feel like this was a lost opportunity to play it centaur style, letting a human choose and play an overall economic strategy (macro) and let the AI do the combat (micro).
> In times of overgeneration, fleets of water heaters can be switched on to absorb excess power, and in times of undergeneration, they can be switched off to shed load and redistribute the existing electricity on the grid

I don't want my public utility deciding when I should and should not be using my water heater. They don't know me, and they don't know my wants or needs. A much better answer: provide consumers with high frequency data regarding current electricity prices and a common API for devices, like water heaters, to utilize that information.

The water heater can pay attention to it's owners needs (either learned or configured) as well as electricity prices and optimize to reduce costs while never running out of hot water. The same goes for freezers, electric car chargers, battery systems, really anything where power can be used at varying times.

This has the disadvantage that customers don't have easy-to-follow rules regarding what the price will be in the future. It has the advantage, however, that consumer demand will rise and fall to meet supply, leveling out (and lowering) prices for all. And I can avoid letting a public utility I don't trust controlling devices in my house.
People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding of Food Science
People in general care about karma points and don't like the score to go down. People also take downvoting personally, and when someone comments and explains why they downvoted, they're susceptible to "revenge downvoting" by several accounts (owned by or related to the one who was originally down voted) on many of the downvoter's comments across threads. This in turn would cause distress to the downvoter.

As long as HN has a number assigned to everyone that people interpret as significant, I'm completely for downvoting without any explanations. The fact that both upvoting and downvoting are anonymous (to the one getting the votes) ties directly with this, IMO.
I personally fail to see a solution to the coal waste problem. This gets swept under the rug most of the times, whereas nuclear waste is at least accounted for.

Nuclear waste, according to my understanding, is more of a political problem rather than a technical one. As was the closure of nuclear power plants in Germany.
Residential heating with electricity is obviously wasteful, at least in temperate and cold climates when they are regularly used.

But for he tap on your kitchen sink, it can in many cases be the most efficient solution. That’s because an electric heater is a far smaller investment than running a gas pipe installing a furnace. Or, with a central furnace, to run th gap until warm water gets to the tap, then letting warm water in the long pipes go to waste when you turn it off.
> Forget money. Make something that is great and useful to you. Eventually, the money will come. If it doesn’t, it means you weren’t lucky enough, and that’s life.

To me, this is the most important advice. A lot of times you might be doing everything right and you aren't successful in terms of money. That's just the way it goes sometimes. Luck/serendipity is a big part of the formula.
We don't need it to write code, and maybe not even to be efficient at it. Carmack wrote an article about the time he worked with Saabs aerospace people. They write flight controls track databases sensor contol targeting etc. with no calls or backward branches except the end of the main loop. So every matrix multiply is duplicated in place. That is very complicated code. Carmack was inspired by that and used a less strict form of that ruleset for his next project. He allowed for functions as long as they were pure but nothing else.
I've found that it's much more difficult to unwind an abstraction than create one. And having similar, even identical, code in multiple places isn't necessarily a good reason to build an abstraction. The question to ask is not, are these similar, but will they act and change in the same ways (to your best knowledge) both now and in the future?
It really bothers me that “Progressive Web Apps” are a thing. If Apple and Google allowed it, there’s no need for a new paradigm - just let the browser handle it. The same way slack sends notifications over the browser on desktop, we could make use of.

Instead they want to control the interface, likely for their own gain, but also som added security. So, I get it. However, the whole buzz word and excitement is good, but it’s annoyingly stifled to begin with
This could be a neat experiment, especially at lower karma/patience levels.

Drive by downvoting is often by people who aren't willing to pause and share their why.

It might not be easy to reflect on whether one is as open minded or comfortable to look at their own views, or openly entertain a viewpoint that isn't their own.

Innovative and disruptive thought may not exist in agreeable form even for a place as forward thinking as HN may imagine itself to be.
You got your response passages and quoted passages reversed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_styl...
Electric paint and printed electronics technology
The rub here is that the guidelines specifically say a downvote can indicate simple disagreement.

I believe they also say please don’t comment explaining why you downvoted.

I think this is tied to the insight that the quality of the discussion tends to be inversely proportional to comment depth.

Hacker News posts also drop in rankings if the comments start to exceed the upvotes.

I think all of these ideas interact to make Hacker News different from other discussion boards, and although it may be counterintuitive, it seems to have had an overall positive effect.

Edit: either I misremember the guidelines, or they have been updated. I may have conflated Paul Graham’s essay about Hacker News, and various other discussions, with the “official” guidelines. Either way I think what I wrote above reflects underlying patterns/guidance that has influenced Hacker News.
Lapis is pretty much that. I don't know of anything larger running on openresty than the luarocks site.
Who's 'she'?
This is simply an issue of naming, ensuring people fully understand the problem, and having the appropriate level of granularity (not necessarily abstraction).

Consider these within the context of the A->B->C->D example he gave:

PutLeftLegForward();

PutRightLegForward();

vs

// Wrapper that utilizes the above functions
Walk(numberOfSteps);
Using Data in Architecture