skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With steam, a unique thing is possible:

If the fuel is natural gas or propane, and,

If the thermocouple and gas valve are millivolt,

Then you can have fully functioning heat even when the power is out, because the steam does not need either a blower or a circulator pump to circulate, and the thermocouple provides the electricity to operate the thermostat and the gas valve.

Even without a millivolt system, a small UPS can run the little low voltage transformer a long time, while it would take an impractical amount of battery (which will crap out in only 3-4 years) to run a blower or circulator for any length of time.

Your points are all valid, and frankly outweigh this one except maybe at a vacation/camp house or something way out where the electric is bad, but this is something nothing else can claim.

It is pretty nice that when the ice storm pulls the power lines down, and, because it's an ice storm and it affected entire states all at the same time, your power may stay down for days, and does so coincidentally in the winter...your heat just keeps working even if nothing else does, and indefinitely not just until a 45 minute ups runs out.

Also... everyone with steam, replace your pressurtrol with a vaporstat and run your system at much lower pressure than it's probably set at. 1/2 psi per floor not counting basement, at most.
We've reached a point where compressors and maximizers cannot really add any more loudness to the music. So the war is over and the result is that many genres of music have no dynamic range.
I don't normally go for Marxist or populist analyses of the world, and indeed spend a lot of effort arguing against them, but Stephen Pinker made a lot more sense when someone pointed out that he's basically a shill for globalism, or neoliberalism, or whatever your word for "that thing" is. His whole shtick is going, "Everything's fine! Getting better in fact! No need to examine the current system and all the ways it might be flawed, or change it at all!", since that kind of thinking could hurt entrenched interests immensely.
That monetary incentive is automatically induced in a capitalist society. When people have to pull their own weight, buy their own food + necessities etc, no one can reasonably be expected to spend hours producing high quality information for free.
I always enjoy these articles (to the extend that one can take joy in them), because they rarely fail to highlight how different politics can be.

For an American audience, it's unthinkable that a leader of a government would go anywhere without their own private army. When I used to work in central Berlin, I regularly saw members of parliament and ministers have coffee or just walk around completely unprotected. Even Merkel could be seen with only modest security (usually two people), usually walking to/from her flat about a kilometre away from her office.

It's a world where a stranger is not primarily a threat, possibly-armed, and where civility hasn't completely broken down. And it's not even that rare.

Of course, the story itself kinda speaks against this view of the world.
> it is basically impossible to get someone that is delusional/psychotic mental health care in the US, unless they go in voluntarily

I'm not sure I see a better solution to this that doesn't come with its own set of risks and downsides (involuntary commitment or counseling of someone against their will is not something to be taken lightly in any event, even if their reality diverges from your own).
I think it’s the degree of lift from the engines in a stall situation that made the 737Max8 unusually dangerous. But you’re correct in that Boeing desperately wanted to maintain the 737 type certificate to make it easier to train existing 737 pilots.
Thanks for this! Comments like this are a big part of why I love HN.
The invention of writing systems, numerical systems and mathematics, etc were huge boosts to human’s cognitive capabilities. Have those tools kept up with the explosion of available knowledge?
Thanks for clearing that up. I think someone else on here pointed that out as well as the fact that Matlab and some other tools provide that for you as part of your license/subscription fee. I started digging around and found out that it seems like the suitesparse author is one of the top authorities in this area and therefore, it might not be super realistic to get something as fast or faster on your own. Maybe a big enough open-source project could do it though. Any thoughts on this?
I can't speak for Hugo but with Jekyll, I solved this by writing a few line plugin. It still involves putting in a short custom tag (which I have as an editor snippet) and paste in the video ID.

It's not as pleasant as pasting a URL in but it takes about 3 seconds to get it all set up when I want to embed a video. Very minimal impact IMO.

If I had to embed hundreds of videos all the time I would probably just write a custom plugin that scans the file and converts Youtube URLs to embed snippets.
Feynman and Einstein comes to mind.
It seems like a widespread issue as well. In my area (pop. ~300,000) there is one child psychologist and one adult psychologists who practices elsewhere half-time. I was not aware of insurance companies refusing to contract with psychologists but that explains the dearth of psychologists. If I was a psychologist I wouldn't want to offer services if I cannot accept the main form of payment patients would use.
OK, I overstated the argument. Mea culpa.

But about TFA, it's true that stealing vehicles typically results in arrest. And it's true that making substantive statements to police, without your lawyer present, is dangerous.

However, when you have in fact rented, and not stolen, the vehicle, it's fine to say that. And it's fine to say that you have the rental agreement in the vehicle. That should be enough to defuse the situation. Even if it takes a while, and even if you end up handcuffed.

Going immediately to "I want my attorney" is silly in those circumstances. If you've lost the rental agreement, or if you screwed up and didn't return the vehicle on time, then "I want my attorney" is the prudent course. But otherwise, it pretty much guarantees that you'll be arrested. And having been arrested can be problematic when seeking employment.
Geometric Wooden Sculptures Depict Abstract Cityscape Formations
You're crossing streams a little bit.

Both workers and companies want what's good for them, that's not so much 'selfish'.

Noting is really 'artificial' in this either, it's all market forces, though one might argue that the 'off the books' labour is to some extent an artificial impetus.

If 'cheap undocumented labour' were not available, yes, you are right, more automation would come into play, but that doesn't imply it would all be automated, as much of it cannot.

Most likely outcome would be: 1) a lot of farming is simply unsustainable in any case, and it moves to Mexico. This is good thing however as it provides jobs at wages upon which people can have a normal life there, and helps expand their economy. 2) full automation in some areas for net lost jobs 3) partial automation in others (machinery is always getting smarter and better even if it doesn't fully automate) and 4) high paying jobs for the crops that can maintain margin.

But it's all moot: there's a reason nations have laws, citizenship, constitutions etc. and having people live and work on the black market without legal wages, health insurance, worker's rights, etc. etc. is self defeating.

It'd be better to play by the rules - either enforce the laws as they exist, or enact an 'above board' migrant workers program (i.e. short term visas) for workers to come so they don't have to hide in the shadows and can have at least some kind of labour protection which everyone should have.
soda water with a lime. just tip for the bartenders time.
There was a reddit conversation years ago where some actuaries discussed all-causes mortality for an immortal. If you factored out death by natural causes (cancer, heart, ...) you still ended up with a mean time to death of ~3100 years. That is, all of the possible accidents in life pile up & kill you. For instance, live long enough and you will be struck by lightning — the survivability of which is very low!
Yeah I think this is fair and also, maybe go is close enough to right that you could paper your way to something not awful without too much cognitive overhead.
Lots of ransomware is very poorly written. There have been a number of ransomware cases in which people were able to recover the keys.
Brendan Gregg is also the guy who shouted at a rack in a datacenter to prove that some hard drives were sensitive performance-wise to vibrations. The video is on youtube and it's hilarious.
It's all around you folks. Count your good fortunes if such a situation is foreign to you.

There's no one to catch you if you fall.

It could happen to you, or your loved ones next.

Try to have some empathy, and fucking VOTE
The dramatic difference between Harvard and an average university is that at Harvard you're probably going to bump into half a dozen people who will either inherit a business, or a fortune to start a business, or just start a business on their own. Guess what, knowing the CEO of companies is a bloody good way of getting a nice job in that company.

The connections you make are what the elite institutions really do to differentiate themselves.
Not condoning piracy, but it is a great equaliser. Hackers and modders will find their way around anti cheats anyway, I believe there's nothing unethical about exploiting that to play through Linux.

But yeah Epic Games is terrible.

GOG/Humble have done wonders for Linux as alternative stores.
I'm not from US but I believe this is incorrect. Everytime I visit there, I am always amazed to see how caring the people are. This is a sample size of one though.
I firmly disagree with pretty much everything you have said.

There is no evidence that intellectual property in any way increases production of works, and indeed there is plenty of evidence that inhibits it. See http://dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm for a comprehensive look at the subject. While I dont agree with their conclusions, the data they show is solid.
It sounded fine up until this line:

> he proposed moving away from the current system that favours applicants with family ties to the US

If a citizen is in the country and they want to bring their family over, that should be their right.
This is a movie of a human kidney cell dividing [1].

The red chunks are its DNA. But they're 'chunky' because the 'whole genome' is partitioned into 23 chunk - each chunk is a 'chromosome'. And each chromosome comes as a pair. And in the movie you can see the cell split the pairs, where one set goes to one cell, and the other set goes to the other.

If you notice, in the cells just prior to 'condensing', the nuclei (red stuff) looks kind of brain-like in its topology. Those are the chromosomes as well, just relaxed and spread out.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N97cgUqV0Cg
Replacing dep with go mod for Golang dependency management
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How is it an ad hominem attack to describe his attire? You could argue it's irrelevant, but you'd find such descriptions in nearly any piece of this sort.
If this library was GPL licensed, Mojang/Microsft wouldn’t have bothered taking the time to even evaluate it.
It's actually the unit of mass in terms of action (time and energy). You can think of it as "how much of something is required to balance a scale where I'm pulling this much" https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/AE6A/production/...
Here's an example of the required infrastructure: https://fitzrovianews.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/warren-st-...
I read somewhere that the lifespan of the average hyperlink is only about two years.

I count myself lucky I was introduced to the HTTRACK archiver program many years ago and thus have complete offline copies of many of my favorite websites of the early 00's.
Yes. All modern processors do. That’s why they’re all vulnerable to the Spectre attack, which is a fundamental consequence of speculative execution.

The other vulnerabilities: Meltdown, Fallout, the recent MDS attacks (RIDL, ZombieLoad, Store to Leak forwarding), are Intel specific because they’re caused by the way Intel specifically chose to skip/defer security enforcement checks in parts of their implementation.

Other companies didn’t do this.
Nah. Autosteer is constantly applying counter-torque unless you exceed the takeover limit, deactivating autosteer. Someone calculated the required force and it's something like 2.5 lbs. My commute has lots of straight freeway and resting my hand on the wheel works fine.
"No one hires Renaissance Men anymore"

But were they ever? All 'Renaissance Men' were extremely exceptional in their own time, and not exactly any sort of normal. They also seem to have made their own jobs rather than being hired.
Salesforce enables modify all in all user profiles
The first CD that I ever bought back in 1991 came in a longbox, but I don't recall any of the CDs I got after that coming in them.
If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
On the State of Open Source (2016)
Becoming a deep expert has too many diminishing returns IMHO.

Just look at Japan where it is often the goal to become a deep expert at your career. I once watched a documentary about creating buckwheat soba, and the guy making it said something along the lines of "I've been making buckwheat soba noodles for over 20 years, but I still have another 20 before I'm a true master"

That's great some people are willing to go for the gold in an extremely narrow field (like buckwheat soba), but I'd rather have silver or bronze in as many fields as possible than a single gold.

The wider the breadth of my knowledge, the more I can use one domain to solve a problem in another.
I ripped my CDs 20 years ago and kept that library, moving it between machines and backing up to the cloud. I don't see why I can't keep it alive for another 20 or 30 years. Over time this has become much easier as storage has become smaller and cheaper. I now have my entire music collection on a microSD card on my phone which as well as being handy is also another backup.

Only real problem is that I ripped them at 128Kbps. For some tracks I've gone back and re-done them at a higher bitrate.
Sure, it's a "free society" where everyone gets to prove the usefulness of vaccines for themselves, from first principle, because the medical community is corrupt and cannot be trusted. Where people actually start to believe in a "flat earth", and not just as a parody of conspiracy theories, and fly to New Zealand for their yearly meeting (from both Europe and the US, in opposite directions, go figure).

Yeah, that is "freedom", in some sense of the word. But people aren't actually using it to critical think about anything. They see it as license to choose the facts they believe and ignore those that are inconvenient.
More of a general question: is there any license or addendum clause which could have remedied this? Linux distribution creators love adhering to specific license requirements. Would a choice between distributing vanilla software vs not distributing have been more appealing?
> Everybody knew record companies were just adding filling to get to a certain album lengths.

Sometimes. Maybe even often. Never always. To me the highest achievement a recording artist can make is an entire album that is a good coherent work of art best enjoyed as a whole. Some artist actually deliver this.
I think "Dyno mode" refers to a dynamometer, a stable platform used to test a running vehicle.

Still, people are finding new vulnerabilities every day in these "computers in wheels."
I have admittedly not read Stephen Pinker but I have heard him speak. The impression I left with is that the improvements he is discussing are at the macro level. The fact that we now have science based, effective mental health services at all is, in fact, a large improvement over the past.
I am already disappointed by the vast gulf between how I imagine Minecraft could work as an AR game and how I imagine it will initially be implemented as an AR game.

The problem with Ingress and Pokemon Go, is that the player has to go places in real life to have fun in the game, and one attraction of fantasy sandbox worlds is that you have mobility capabilities that are impossible in your real life.

In regular Minecraft, creative mode, you can fly and hover. This is extremely alluring to a kid who may otherwise only be able to ride a bicycle around their own boring subdivision neighborhood during daylight hours. Hey, it's even nice for people who have cars. If the kids have to beg Mom or Dad to drive them across town in the real world to mine virtual diamonds, that's not going to end up being fun for anybody.

People play games where they live, and if the AR game does not include people's homes as a legitimate place to play, then having fun includes some amount of inconvenience that sours it. Some people can tap a Pokestop or Portal from their bedroom or living room. Other people have to drive ten minutes to reach the nearest one.

The best I can come up with is that players use their mobile devices in the real world to mark their territory or drop warp points or exchange friend tokens or do discovery, and they can still build or explore the whole world from home. Geo-tagged photos might be able to update textures and geometry.

If someone builds a grand castle in the neighborhood park, that's not going to work in AR if you have to climb stairs that don't exist or go below ground when there is no real-world hole. But maybe you could see there is a castle there, through the discovery glass at the park, tap the block that grants your user read-only visitor access to it, and then go back home to climb the tower or explore the dungeons.

If someone else builds a different castle overlapping over the same territory, you can decide which user's construction appears in your personal sandbox.
HP is to Mhz what vehicle performance is to server performance.

Intel's hardware still provides the the same MHz. So the analogy would be more like due to safety concerns, a software update to the car increases the braking used by traction control.

That feels charitable to Intel, but unless they knew about the exploit, they used the tools in their arsenal to maximize performance. Now they are reducing it for safety.

Maybe it's more like how auto manufacturers are now having to increase wind resistance by designing pedestrian friendly hoods. Obviously that's not "after purchase" but I can't think of a better analogy!
I billed companies for 2 out of my last 3 take homes and they paid me
Op here: I realize this is a very, very small, even simplistic, example and it possibly misses all the important details. It was, in any case, a quick and easy process that I wanted to share.
As you say, it's usually a paltry amount. I doubt that many make a a decent living off of this let alone enough to pay support staff such as editors and the like. The biggest issue is the free rider one... why should I pay you when others will pay and I'll get the same benefit. I'm not saying it's the right thing to do (I personally voluntarily contribute to several podcast creators who I like) but it's reality.
> google is a bigger concern for privacy and personal liberty

I disagree. I think that on the whole, they're both about the same. But in terms of integrity, honesty, and ethics, Google has a (small) lead on Facebook.
So how does that explain the poor people on the right who don't want to change the situation in the way the left wants are what?
Ten years ago I didn't even have an opinion on this. Evidence has lead me to this conclusion. Renewables have their own set of problems which need solving first, like battery storage. I think that's a much larger challenge than replacing coal with nuclear.
The real challenge is attention management. Switching gears from an execution orientation (knocking off tasks) to a careful thinking orientation is hard. The hardest aspect of deep work (for people used to a structured form of productivity) is immersion in the task/topic without a concrete plan of "how" to tackle it. (The necessary immersion is what makes "deep" a good metaphor) Every such session is a risky investment where you don't know what you'll come up with. Unless you believe it's a risk worth taking, trying too hard to de-risk endeavors will rob you of opportunities for deep work.

Deep work involves situated thinking -- thinking while doing, making use of feedback.

OTOH, the structured approach biases towards separating the two closely knit parts into "planning" and "action" -- so much so that in our organizations the two are done by different people/teams!

Drucker said that a decision has been made only when it's clear what the actions are. Correspondingly, deep work is required to the extent that the analysis can't be front loaded in that manner.
I don't think there is a obvious answer to the question of what the health care system of the future should look like.

In South Africa, public hospitals are terrible and private hospitals are generally good and operated as far as I understand in a similar fashion to the US counterparts.

This may suggest that our future should look like the US's present. But it is a complicated subject. To start off with, many of the doctors at public hospitals are good doctors, paid well and respected. However, by a combination of being a new nation, having diverse cultures, having a high Gini coefficient (or <insert here coefficient>), having terrible rural schools (and excellent middle and upper class schools), etcetera, our public health care is frankly terrible. The hospitals are not well stocked, you'll wait for hours, they'll amputate your leg unnecessarily.

In our scenario we have both the European "socialist" model, which worked well during South Africa's past. However, once the hospitals had to cater (and rightly so) for the full population, including poor and formerly disadvantaged, the system could not cope. So now we also have the American "money driven" model, but of course it is expensive and you have to have a medical fund or you are out.

I don't think it is a question of idealogy. It's a simple premise. There is the world of sick people (which you are lucky if you join only a few times a year). And there is the world of healthy people. The premise is that sick people need to be treated. However you get there is perhaps politics, but I see it simply as a resource and logistic problem that need to be approached with commitment and expertise.

This simple premise: to heal the sick, is how I see the early doctors that came to Africa [1].

Of course OPs topic is more complex, mental health, but my point is that idealogy is often lost on people (including myself) that have more obvious challenges in their midst. And mental health in South Africa is an even more pressing issue. [2]

[1] See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer

[2] Not going to share a link since they all seem written according to rather Trumpian standards. But about 90 mental health patients died in SA in one incident in 2017 due to what can maybe be termed "bureaucratic incompetence".