skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something must be wrong. My heatpump will run you out of the house at 40F outside.

Below 20F it puts out so so heat but can maintain.
Below 10F electric heat is needed from time to time to maintain.
Below 0F heat pump is worthless.

Edit: Wanted to add my is air heatpump, not ground source. Also reading other comments looks like heatpumps range from amazing to utter crap.
Narcissism of small differences. Pointless blogspam. Also, Neovim is much closer to visual studio than it is to something like nano or whatever.
my question, now, is where does a complete beginner start?
Wiki is not completed yet, but I'll be working on it.
Exploring the Utility of Memes for US Government Influence Campaigns [pdf]
urwid?
http://urwid.org/
I wasn't contemplating it as an en masse replacement: from a traveller's perspective I consider flying for journeys where rail is an option (because cars are cheaper usually for short-medium, and walking/buses for short journeys).

You're right re city centers, perhaps I gave a bad example - in UK for longer journeys I like the train but flying is superior (for my use-case) usually - cheaper, faster.
(Just in case I didn't make myself very clear: I'm talking about Java; any other language is another story, and for that I use tmux+vim) It's true that there are a lot of small things that slowly add up that make the experience less positive (especially if you have used it for a long time), and I often have vim opened in the background precisely because certain things are easier in vim (ideaVim does have macros, although I haven't used them enough to really say how good they are). Ultimately, I've realized that I miss Intellij more when I go from Intellij to vim than the opposite.
O/T but I hate how code pen won't render content if the browser doesn't send a referrer.

Your link doesn't work for me, and stuff like examples on plotly site don't work...

CodePen requires a referrer to render this. Your browser isn't sending one.

Why should it need a referrer!
Show HN: DropConfig – version-control and hosting for your configuration files
They probably meant Featured on HN.
Agreed. It seems that these institutions are unwilling or unable to pay for talent and that they don't have the capacity--in terms of processes and culture--to leverage that talent even if they were able to acquire it.

Here's a relevant comment thread from a post a few weeks ago about Wells Fargo going offline:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19110672
There may be donees who receive more than that but don't make the amount public, but you are correct about the total volume.
Hi! We are Clay and Dzmitry, and we built https://www.dropconfig.com

DropConfig is a version-control and hosting for configuration-files. Our goal was to liberate constants from the code and let them live their own separate lives. DropConfig does that and requires no new infrastructure and no new dependencies in your code.

After working on many projects over the years, we noticed that every time we hand the project off, we reinvent a super-simple "back office" UI allowing users to change some aspects of application "on-the-fly".

For example:

- language-translation files

- web-widgets settings (IDs, colors etc)

- temporary banners ("down for maintenance", "new release" announcements)

- CSS rules

After talking to our friends we realized that other developers run into the same problem all the time. For them, for ourselves, and for you HN, we built DropConfig :)

DropConfig is for all cases where you have a JSON configuration file, which is updated more often than you are comfortable making app-releases. Think of it as something between Firebase and Github: immediate availability of Firebase yet change-audit and access-permissions of Github. Plus speed and reliability of CDN.
I don't think this has been well established. We have several examples of people who have eaten nothing but animals products for long periods, without adverse health effects.
So, a reasonable person (maybe not from here) would ask themselves why the lightbulb has a secret password to access the Network. After all we want the Network to be ubiquitous, so why is there a password anyway? If there wasn't a password then bad guys couldn't find out what it is. (You may think, aha - but with ubiquitous access they wouldn't need to, but as we saw for SSH shared passwords mean that getting a password may be _more_ not less valuable than access to the thing it was protecting).

It turns out that besides the stupid sociological reasons (which also result in us trying to make it impossible to sleep on a park bench rather than providing people with homes so that they won't _need_ to sleep on a park bench) there's a technical reason, and maybe that we can fix.

WiFi (802.11) has traditionally been plaintext out of the box. So every participant can see everything sent and received by every other participant. If you have a password this isn't so. Thus, a WiFi network plus a billboard announcing the WiFi password to everyone in the neighbourhood is actually slightly _more_ secure than one with no password at all.

Finally in WPA3 this is fixed, participants with passwords use a PAKE but everybody without a password gets OWE (RFC8110) to secure their network access. Since they don't have a way any way to authenticate they can be MITM'd of course, but you can't just passively decrypt everything they're sending and receiving. So a WPA3 era WiFi network that's "open" to everybody is protected better than your WPA2 PSK "ThanksMike" password for Mike's Coffee Shop.
> However, as you get into actual software engineering, the first time you need to do some semantic refactoring will wipe out any time you saved through low-level efficiency.

That applies to Java and C# only, where the language grammar is so simplified that you can be 99% confident semantic refactoring didn't screw your code up.

> You can become more efficient at low-level tasks by doing faster text editing.

It's not efficiency for efficiency's sake. It's for being able to code at the speed of thought, to tighten your feedback loop to the point where the act of writing & editing happens in your mind in larger syntactical units.

Also, for actual software engineering, nothing beats a pen and a piece of paper.
I have tested it myself and it's nearly as fast as luajit, but I didn't publish results. It doesn't mean you can't try it yourself!
I'm in gamedev too, I basically do debugging for living with eventual actual development.

Visual Assist X is terrible and extremely slow. Also, it is a clutch, showing one of the biggest weak points of Visual Studio.

I use it in a daily basis for more than 7 years, and I just hate it.
VS is such a mixed box of feelings, it is so bad for most of it but then there is a very good debugger, arguably the only thing holding VS alive.

I would prefer to switch to a better text based IDE or even vscode and use windbg, if it wasn't for co-workers with Stockholm syndrome that can't see how bad their tools are.
Quick Review (WARNING: contains controversial opinions!)

Good:

- "minimal usable set of keywords and control structures"

- "simple cooperation with C"

- "no access to files on physical drive"

- reasonably terse syntax (except for "end instead of braces")

Bad:

- The name of the language, I don't know how to pronounce it and I can't remember how to type it. Rename to "Boa" or similar.

- The name of the author, it's a bad transliteration. Rename to "Christoph Shoechuck" or similar.

- "focus on targeting UNIX-like operating system"

- "intended to be used with shell scripts" - shell scripts are brittle and awful to write

- end instead of braces

What:

- isn't AOT and JIT contradictory?

- isn't interfacing with C and "no access to files" contradictory?

Conclusion:

I like a simple, small and embeddable language, but I don't want to embed anything in shell scripts and I don't want to depend on UNIX.
Hopefully at least a week for all the research.
I thought they were ZigBee, and integration with Z-Wave controllers was through Philips' web services?

https://www.quora.com/Is-Phillips-Hue-hub-compatible-with-Z-...

But I would say in general, Z-Wave doesn't have as much of this problem. Especially if we're talking Z-Wave Plus devices, which most coming out today are. Even better if they have the S2 security!
I have a (probably dumb) question: why don't we just use audiobooks for this? There are thousands and thousands of hours where the transcripts were written, and then read aloud. Some of them are now public domain. I'm sure some validation would need to be done, but it seems like there would be an endless validation set there. Am I missing something obvious?
There is De-Mail in Germany that is basically E-Mail. Initially, sending a De-Mail would cost a couple cents. It also offered the possibility to be legally binding, like a physical letter.

Despite some technical/security issues with it, nonne really uses it (although you can now send them for free, IIRC).
> Do they?

Yes, they do. The old Eurostars (e300) are the Alstom TGV TMST, and the new ones (e320) are the Siemens Velaro.

The e320 have an interior configuration very similar to the ICE-3s in Germany, although I believe that the seat pitch in the Eurostar is shorter than in the ICE.

The same is true for the e300s: they have the same disgusting, sweat-infused seats of the TGVs :)
It was soft-ware after all.

Downvoters don't seem to understand this point, that was the idea in the old days. That hardware was for men.
man intro
I run a complex business. I can guarantee you that I would really prefer if it was a simple business with simple interfaces, dependencies and rules :)

It really depends on how much resources your company has, what you're trying to do/prove/show, and how long you have to do it. Google gets idolized for their software, but the reason they can have so much perfection in their software is the amount of money their core business throws off, not the other way around.
I've really enjoyed digging into this report, commissioned by the US military.

Examining how memes can inculcate, infect and treat information in an influence campaign is relevant to governments, citizens and marketers alike. Part of the reason memes are so effective is that they are innocuous.

Important to the evolution of a literate society will be understanding the strategy of propaganda. Asking the platforms to save us from ourselves is not a winning strategy. Knowledge is the best way to defend yourself from propaganda, foreign and domestic.
Use async/await callbacks for arrays, with chaining
> No one said it's wrong

Actually, they have, unless "cross an ethical line" means something else.
One of my more enjoyable side projects was improving parsing of some truly horrendous log files - massive and poorly formatted - from ~2 hours to ~2 minutes.

The code I was given was several hundred lines of python. All I did was replace all but the final parsing function with a single "grep | sed | awk | grep | uniq | sort | grep" line and called it a day. I'm sure I could have taken it farther, but for the amount of effort it was a fun little exercise.
Used Atom and other IDEs for 5 years. 3 years ago switched to vim + tmux and love it. I'm very productive with my setup and I can't imaging going back.

I also love that I can git clone my dotfiles + an install script and I have my full dev environment on any machine in 2 minutes.
Recurring payment, so many platforms now...

https://maecen.com/
https://www.tipeee.com/
https://patreon.com/
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/
https://flattr.com/
https://d.rip/

What other platform to host a profile and raise money monthly do you know ?
Audiobook narrators enunciate (almost) perfectly. Real people don't.
Interviewing is like dating. If you aren't desperate but picky you will just turn down candidates untill you are desperate and just pick one and than dellude yourself into thinking you made a well informed choice.
LIFX claims[0] they have addressed this as follows:

#1: WiFi credentials are now encrypted

#2: We have introduced new security settings in the hardware

#3: Root certificate and RSA private key is now encrypted

Can anyone ELI5 how #1 is even possible (in a meaningful way)? Doesn't the bulb need to decrypt this to connect to WiFi? Doesn't it need the key for decryption? And doesn't it have nowhere except onboard storage to retrieve that key from, since it isn't yet connected to WiFi? In that case, this "fix" would have no value besides PR. Am I missing something?

[0] https://www.lifx.com/pages/privacy-security
You can still switch your focus with these because you still see the real world. However it is true that the objects are rendered ("OpenGL-like") the same way no matter where the object is located in the scene, so while it gives you the feeling that you can focus your eyes on the object (because of their 3D position and the tracking), the objects always appear "clear" which can be annoying. That said, using them 8 hours must be hard : the virtual objects emits unreal lighting (different and stronger than the light reflected by real surfaces)
1. Have an HVAC tech inspect it (~$100-150).

2. If it's not a coolant or compressor issue, you might need to replace it (either because it is undersized or end of life). Your local government or utility might have energy incentives for replacing it. There are also federal tax credit incentives [1].

[1] https://www.energystar.gov/about/federal_tax_credits/air_sou...
Pretty sure it wont be nearly enough both from the language variety point of view and the variety of voices (age, gender, tone, etc)
Modern heat pumps are truly a marvel, especially when you get one designed for heating and not just an AC-unit running in reverse. They're very common in Sweden and can easily warm an entire house even at -20 C.

Whenever this topic appears on HN I want to get on my soapbox and yell "INSULATION PEOPLE, INSULATION!". Most houses I've seen outside of the Nordics have shit-all insulation and that's depsite it working both ways - house stays cooler in the summer. It's such a small cost to add during construction and it pays off in a year or two, tops.

Modern, newly built houses in Sweden, way above the arctic circle, require less than 5000 kWh per year to heat and generate hotwater.
Facebook Launch Habitat – A Platform for Embodied AI Research
Your heat pump just does not have sufficient capacity. It's not problem of heat pump per se.
I use Java constantly in my job and recently tried rewriting a math & memory heavy component in rust to see what performance gains there might be. Surprisingly (to me) the naive rust version was ~15% slower than Java. There’s probably room for more rust optimization but it was interesting that “efficient standalone binaries” doesn’t automatically mean faster too when competing with HotSpot.
Amazon’s Project Zero will let brands remove counterfeit listings
I microdosed shrooms once (.1g) and it was distracting. I guess my creativity was 'up' but that was because I kept getting distracted by cool lights and random thoughts.

It did motivate me to workout but mushrooms always make me want to exercise for some reason
That's true, considering the name of the website they would have the privilege of an even more expensive chat.
Recursion Schemes, Part 6: Comonads, Composition, and Generality
I used to like Medium as a discovery tool for interesting articles & ideas for authors to follow (on Medium or Twitter). But since the introduction of the premium model it is completely broken for this purpose. Now all you see (at least 80% of their recommendations) is premium articles on the Medium website.

For the topics that I am interested in (Data science, ML, Cloud, Programming etc) very close to 0% of the quality authors write to make a few pennies of the articles. They do it to enhance their own personal brand or as content marketing for the companies they work for. For this reason the premium article star marker works as a filter for things I am not willing click and invest time in reading since they are rarely written by experts with actual experience in the topics that I am interested in.

So when they skew their recommendation algorithm so hard towards the premium content it is just not worth it anymore and I never click around on the Medium.com website anymore. 90%+ of my clicks to articles comes from Twitter. I wish they built their business model to charge for features and not content since the path they are on is not going to work out. It is reducing the incentive for quality authors to publish on Medium since the exposure they will get through the recommendation algorithm is being smaller and smaller. Most people don't publish on Medium because it is difficult or expensive to run a wordpress blog. They do it because of it is a good way to find new readers of your content.
>LED bulbs have very long lives.

Then why am I constantly replacing them? Wait, I know why; because I buy the cheaper ones, which have inadequate thermal solutions and God knows what quality of LED.

You may say "well don't buy the cheap ones", but people will, and they'll always be available. Even more affluent people who hook their lights up to their network will still often chose the cheaper version. Even the high end versions will fail, and you end up with the same problem.
I hope that language servers fully take off. This way, Vim and Emacs can gain semantic autocomplete & navigation. To be clear: it's not that they can't have that in principle, it's just that engines for semantic operations are difficult and expensive to write, so they were made primarily by IDE companies - and until recently, it meant they were tied to those IDEs.

With that, the only remaining thing in which IDEs are a better choice than vim or Emacs is debugging. I wish for decent and fully featured debugging TUIs.
Many of us have come across them at uni I guess - but there are so many books around. This one always made me smile a bit :

Introduction to Algorithms : Hardcover 1312 pages

Introduction ? :-)
Let us hop on call. I am an employer and can relate :) reach out to team at getborderless.com, it will come to my inbox. Would love to see your resume.
Drug maker challenges FDA on animal testing
You are looking at one of the great lost opportunites for hacker enterprenuers. Cities/state agencies depend on cio-purchasing managers to help maintain their IT, and this ends up in third-party handshakes i.e jobs run by very specialised outsourcing outfits who know how to market here. It takes a different type of management mindset to turn this around but things are entrenched firmly for change. The agencies will keep getting the '80s technology with no end in sight.
Medium and Twitter were both founded by the same person, Evan Williams, who remains a major shareholder of both companies.
>There are so many programming books out there, sometimes it’s hard to know what books are best

Writing an intro on auto-pilot, I see. It's quite funny how these intro lines have become such a formality that the author doesn't even notice what they wrote was nonsensical. And the audience doesn't notice that the article starts off with something as silly as this, either.

Just to make my point clear:

• It's obviously hard to know which book is best, that's why that whole "book reviews" thing exists.

• It's not just "sometimes". That would imply that in other cases the list of best books is glaringly obvious.

But my point is not to nitpick about it, but rather to point out how funny the custom of these pointless, blank opening statements has become.
Sometimes all you need is a black bucket. If you want to throw an 8KW solar array and a $3000+ heat pump at a shower then go for it! :D
This is no longer true. `ff` searches through all files recursively by default no matter whether a file or directory is enlisted in ".gitignore" or is hidden. There are flags to change this behavior.
I wonder what happens if a Medium user copies someone else's original content onto Medium and the post is uncontested by a DMCA request. If Medium or a subsidiary profit from reproducing that content, could the original creator sue, and for how much?

Copyright is something I haven't taken the time to fully understand.
Completely my fault, I was skimming too fast and I mixed up pen2l's comment with your reply, then proceeded to explain to paganel what the mix meant :)

I'd like to say it proves we're not general intelligences most of the time, but let's not generalize: it only proves that I am not a general intelligence most of the times. :)
I've easily done 48hrs without food many times in my 20-30s, but usually over weekend, lunch Friday, out on the beer Friday night and no dinner for some reason or other (shit or too fancy restaurant or weird people wanting to eat Sushi on a friday night). Saturday a football game or horse racing but you missed the breakfast start party due to hangover and can't be arsed with the sit down meal some have planned for the evening so roll on to nightclub with the next group. Sunday hangover, rollout of bed late afternoon and fast food (first solids in 48hrs), a few ibuprofen a bit later or sometimes codeine tablets if my back-pain suffering mate had too many spares, sleep, back to work Monday. Sure i'll reach 60 still. Not saying it's smart but people are too bloody scared about everything.
This article makes me wonder what nightmares await those who have to maintain today's software at 30 years old.
Programmers, join the poll about design patterns in your projects
I wonder if that Fisher-Price player is related at all to the Panapic which seems similar https://youtu.be/quF45LvBtwA
When training speech recognition systems you want to use data that closely matches your target domain. Models trained on audiobooks read by professionals will not perform very well for transcribing conversational or spontaneous speech or if there is background noise.
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It's just another example of an English word having multiple meanings. The listener (or reader) has to divine which one was intended by context. Much like the word "organic".

Protein is used this way quite a bit when talking about diet.
Alternative, the private companies spend their resources lobbying politicians to remove the unprofitable requirements, something that is relatively easier than making them profitable, and the whole system collapses.
Four Python Books That I Recommend to Every Beginner
Chucklefish made some buzz few month ago saying they were writting there new game in Rust, they now stopped and went back to C++.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/atyzz4/halley_...
See my reply to your sibling comment :/
Yes, that's where I'd focus my efforts. Stay focused on the positives here vs bitterness and negatives. Continue doing what you're doing, which is to utilize the current situation for as much awareness building as possible for your niche application. Have you seen an uptick in interest since this all began? Good luck to you.
A Better Node.js rate-limiting package – Limitrr. Version 4 released
> Abortions are performed in extremely early stages of gestation

Typically, yes. Later abortions are necessary though as well, and when they happen typically it is to a person who wants to keep a child.

My wife and I had a son that failed to develop heart chambers, noticed at a 24 week check up. We had two options: He was likely to die in utero, but if we did not terminate, there was a possibility he could survive to birth, only to immediately die a painful death. We opted to not increase human suffering with a procedure that is no longer available in the state of Ohio, due to the heartbeat bill. I might also add that women have lost their ability to have children due to that bill, it's god awful.

Ultimately, I think we should accept that abortion is complicated, and get these pointless moralizations out of the law books.
maybe data froms action!

http://www.data-forms-action.com/