skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The death threats in /r/technology were also being agreed with and upvoted. This wasn't a brigade but the result of the level of political anger. Any community that has a lot of people is going to have tons of bad ones that try to rationalize violence. T_D has 700,000 people. This includes many trolls and angry people but like it or not, many that are perfectly fine with following the rules.
It is. Because air conditioning moves heat rather than creating cold.
True, I should have written the cost of moving the temps up using gas heat is cheaper than the cost of moving temps / humidity down using electric AC.
The Mother of All Demos is amazing, but I’ll be talking about some cheesy corporate junk. :)
Dang, I had never pondered this question. Where can I learn more?
Yes please, I would much rather be praised in private than in public.
Top poker players have mental models for generating random numbers at the table, to avoid predictable play. I can’t find any link, but it doesn’t require a room full of people (or a wristwatch).
I feel like if you've got problems with people badmouthing each other to the boss .... that's a problem all on its own, an invitation to a meeting doesn't make it a problem.

You can do that thing anytime anyway.
Nothing about the existence of heat pumps makes "100 conversion efficiency" a misconception.
Interesting. What is the alternative? That their evaluation is based on their own opinion alone? How would they gather the information to do that? They can't be party to all the work you do, that's not their job.
Amazingly enough, http://www.retro.live has a working implementation of XBAND. You can see a demo of it in the excellent Wrestling With Gaming documentary on XBAND: https://youtu.be/k_5M-z_RUKA?t=3448
Yes, That Viral Boyhood-Style Subway Ad Is Real
I live in Seattle and I finally broke down and bought a window unit but my windows open horizontally (Honeywell MN10CESWW), the unit I got is actually floor one with rollers so I can stow it in a closet when not in use, and it has a duct that connects to a vertical thing that goes in the window. I never thought I would need one, I have lived here my whole life but now we have 3 or 4 weeks a year where it is just unbearable so I use it to cool my bedroom. Just Crazy.
Or just carry a coin-like flippable object. (Cell phone?)
fun fact: in the 1950s, the top tax bracket was 91%
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I should have clarified that I meant in locales where you might need to cool just as much as you heat, and probably also applies to places with higher humidity than west coast, since there is more need to use AC when it’s more humid.
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Yeah it's a problem because there is no money in light aviation and a lot of liabilities. And leaded aviation gas appears as a liability, especially to refineries.

There are increasing attempts to produce diesel aircraft engines. Complicated by there not being any money in light aviation.
> Air conditioning is energy inefficient while heating technically starts with a 100% conversion efficiency.

This is a common misconception. AC is far above 100% efficiency because it moves heat rather than creating it. Maintaining a 30 degree temperature difference (say 40->70F) using traditional heat is far more energy demanding than air conditioning from 100->70F. The difference is big enough that HVAC costs in a scorching desert climate like Dubai are lower than much of northern Europe.

Heat pump based heating moves heat like AC, but efficiency drops the greater the temperature difference between inside and outside. Most cold climates are too cold for heat pumps to work for much of the year. On the other hand even the hottest climates don't have a temperate Delta of more than 40F inside to outside on the hottest days. So air conditioning is still in the efficient heat pump operating band.
The WebUI port forwards can be made a bit more tolerable by using LocalForward in your ~/.ssh/config [1] assuming you're okay with the forwards being set up every time you log in. I agree that it's still clunky though; in-terminal tooling is generally preferable.

[1]: https://linux.die.net/man/5/ssh_config
Thermodynamics, specifically the second law, certainly makes it so. Some of the electronics utilize the energy and thus work is performed, and not all energy is wasted out as heat, nor is all utilized energy perfectly converted into heat.
This story is missing some absolutely huge details.
Which means it's also a 1000% efficient heater for the outside, right?
Someone should make a ortholinear keyboard for MacBook Air. Maybe even make it mechanical and then add protruding edges to the border of the screen so that the higher buttons can fit.

I bought my MacBook Air for the long battery time, nice display and acceptable price, and because macOS is a pretty good operating system and I can live with not running Linux on my laptop.

I miss my ErgoDox EZ keyboard that I use at home a little bit but I am long since done dragging an external keyboard with me wherever I go. So a mechanical ortholinear keyboard for MacBook Air would be really nice.
It is. Heat pumps don't create heat, they move it from one side to the other. You can move 3-7x as much heat as the energy it takes to create it
Well, shall the consequence be an uptick in staff churn?
Would demand for air conditioning not typically coincide with great local conditions for solar energy generation?

(If the article covered this, my apologies - I couldn't read the whole thing without having to pay).
The values are generally accurate at least.
> Minus ...

Plus going home and working on your FOSS side project for another three or four hours.
Bill has been giving away billions. He's just also been earning like crazy too.

I forget where I read it, but when Jeff overtook Bill, there were various articles highlighting that Bill would still have been a lot richer if you accounted for how much he'd now put through the foundation.

So just because his market net worth hasn't gone down (in fact it's gone up a bit), it's not from him not yet giving money away.
Thanks for the reply. It's quite possible to express your points thoughtfully rather than flamingly, and then there wouldn't be any problem at all.

It's not my forum either! We're just trying to preserve it.

We're do our best to demand good faith equally from everyone, or rather to cajole them into it. Outrage—feigned or otherwise—seems pretty evenly distributed as far as I can tell.
Ignoring the probable outcomes of your actions is willful ignorance, and rather callous toward those around you.

I hope your never in a position of power over youth or vulnerable people, as your mindset could cause severe harm to people undeserving of such treatment.
I tried that in a different context... The problem if you're managing many servers is that you'll have to setup a different local port for each server. When I needed it, I had to go check the .ssh/config each time to figure out which port was bound for this server. Did not save any time.
Oh I see. I'm kinda torn on this. Content vs. metadata is one thing, and I get where you're coming from, but if I understood your comment correctly, that wasn't quite the only distinction here? You were talking about cell location information, which is independent of calls/texts/other communication -- it's always there by the mere fact of you having cell service. It seems quite legitimate to point out that that's not "wiretapping"?
I had immigrant parents who had to work all the time to build and grow their business, so I didn’t have birthdays and that kind of stuff. I don’t care about that kind of stuff at all, not to say that I hate it or anything.

I haven’t studied other children, so I can only make statements about myself. The only negative of my childhood regarding the lack of birthdays and whatnot is the inability to feign excitement for others’ celebrations as much as might be expected, simply because I don’t care about it for myself in the first place. It probably has hampered my ability to socialize or make networking connections in some situations where I wasn’t able to fit in.
Nah, I didn't call you __ALL__ communists because I was replying to a single douche who translated "I wager" to "I proved" while claiming I "carefully selected" a youtube video. In fact, I didn't ever call him a communist because it's not just the communists who call each other comrade, it's a leftist thing in general or least it used to be until the number of comrade run failed states became unbearable. I'm glad you like and trust the politicians so much, I'm sure they appreciate it.

> 1000s of projects that are on budget and on time

Ha, ha, ha, ha... Oh, you're serious :(

> A private company is a black box

That's why it's called a PRIVATE company. Is not your money, it's theirs, if they fuck up, they pay the consequences, it's simple.
its just a means of public key visibility and a nice service with automated importing and searchable. i have known some to give their keys on their site or service page though. remember you can upload just about any info on keys servers similar emails name; the key string is "key" though. this poisoning seems to be for the key server itself so you may not get the server you are looking for.
S/MIME is even worse than PGP. Don't use it.
Definitely windows scanning memory for strings is uglier imo
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Cheaper was better... even with Microsoft murdering the competition, the old school companies never saw the error of their ways and kept selling stuff at a premium.

We’d be discussing this on a Prodigy forum if the incumbents had their way.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=628335
Hey there
My name is Thomas I’m 22 years old
and an entrepreneur from Denmark

to be honest i'm new on here and don't know much about it.
so i'm not sure i'm doing it the right place
or if the hacker community is even a good place to ask for a help

My/company goals for the future
Fight Climate Changes
Help and Spread awareness of mental health issues
help the homeless and poor

limited edition shoe design created by Thomas Trabjerg: TT.
They’ll get to production stage if we reach seven pre-orders.
If you want to be involved in helping reaching the goal, it would be awesome!
Once the goal is reached, they’ll be custom made in Italy and shipped in 15 to 20 business days.
You can have a look at them here: https://www.aliveshoes.com/tt-61
Cheers!
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> Can someone who upvoted this explain why?

I suspect many only read the title and went straight to the comments to throw around their own personal anecdotes about Windows 3.x, and very few actually tried to read the linked content.
The CAPEX is expensive and it's a batch process. If you can scrounge up enough capital to overcome that hurdle though, the products are usually an instant hit locally.

We in the developing markets are usually stuck with recombined juices and UHT milk, so we get easily blown-away by how better these things taste.
To understand parent's comment you have to remember that not everyone believe that wealth correlates with work, or that lottery winners are immensely efficient. Some believe instead that wealth frequently comes from nothing but luck. In this model, quick gain certainly suggest more luck.

Which model is more accurate? I guess the huge majority of the inhabitants trapped in this planet do not need to think too long about it.
I feel like keyboards that are built to be good to type on are underrated even by people that spend a lot of time typing. I recently started using a mechanical keyboard and like you say, I didn't know what I was missing until then. And this with the early 2015 MacBook Pro (i.e. the last one before the butterfly switches). I thought that not having the trackpad at my fingertips would be annoying (I use my thumb so I never have to leave home row), but in practice I don't switch between the keyboard and mouse enough that it's an issue.
This is HN, where we worship textbook abstractions. Who are you question any of them?!

The only proper way to tell us that our abstractions leak is 20 years later, in an article in "The Atlantic", after the casualties are in!
There is a simple way to generate random numbers in your head: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/sci.math/6BIYd0cafQo/U...
> I never had any direct contact with Microsoft code

So your claims are rather reflecting your memory of your interaction with the people who did have the direct contact, and not the actual state.

In reality, Windows 3.0 and 3.1 is hugely different from 3.11, and from 95/98/Me. Starting with 3.11, there was actually the of code avoiding the lower lever calls to BIOS and DOS if possible (if the hardware allowed) but using the new 32-bit code instead.

The stability of the OS was definitely not as you describe, one could surely use the system for days without having the system crashes.

The system's design was the effect of the engineering goal of having a system that can work with very small amounts of memory, compared to the competing safer systems. With more memory available on the computer to implement the "hardware" memory protection one was able to use the "safer" systems like NT.

The wide use of that lineage vs. NT was a strong reflection of the market needs: people did have the computers with too little RAM for the "safer" systems but still wanted to run the programs that had the functionality they needed.

Additionally, the "safer" system not only demanded more RAM, but were often for some tasks less convenient.

A lot of users who "had to reinstall the system often" were actively doing "unhealthy" steps themselves: "trying" the software they didn't need, which did the interventions on the system which damaged the system.

The programs running on the OS (even on NT) typically did tend to crash regularly, however. Especially including the biggest like Microsoft Word. Fascinatingly, that was by design: it was the "knowledge" of the managers that delivering fast the new versions of programs with more features was more important than the code correctness. Just like in the web world more recently...
Reason could be fiduciary duties owed by directors of the dad’s company. As a director you can’t give away company assets at below market value, without shareholder consent. If there were shareholders in the company other than the dad, then those shareholders could have sued the dad for breaching the duties he owes to the company. So if the other shareholders refused to give informed consent to a below market value deal, the only way for it to happen was to do a deal that made those shareholders happy.
That stuff is the best coconut water money can buy in North America.
How on earth did you find this?
I should add that many people ran stock systems, without add-ons, and only one or two programs provided directly by Microsoft, and did not experience as many crashes.

Microsoft was better able to reproduce failures when only their code ran, and took some care to make that work.
Yes. And easy. Though I would imagine not as common a practice as it was in the past.
was there no such thing as kitematic?
On HN we only count a post as a duplicate if the story has had significant attention; that one maybe doesn't quite clear the bar.
The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics (1965) Feynman
OK, we've added microbes to the title above. An Oxford comma too!
How to Hire a Good Developer If You Are Not Technical
When teachers and administrators are the only one with access to the camera system, they can choose to look the other way and use the panopticon of surveillance only on the students.

Meanwhile, the disempowered students can complain all they want, which will just encourage administrators to crack down more using their new camera system.
The dimensionality of human health, nutrition, and environment over time is many orders of magnitude beyond a Python script. We know and (accurately) measure far far less than you think.
Yes:

https://www.asrm.org/topics/topics-index/multiple-births-or-...
Of course, they just shouldn't have included CD Baby as being owned by the other corporation. But, assuming there was some unspoken reason that had to happen, The other shareholders would have needed to be involved in the initial purchase/loan as well.
Actually the latest Bose model does have 11 levels of NC.
Yes, no, yes
For right-handed typists who don't do a lot with numbers, a 10-key pad just forces your mouse or trackpad much farther to the right, causing ergonomic problems. The number pad should really be viewed as more of a specialized device, not universal. Besides that, it's a pretty cool keyboard.
Due to the distribution of people's age towards the "old" end of the scale, I'd guess that this is more likely to be 0 than 9?
What do people that buy smart bulbs do, tape their light switches in the “on” position so you can no longer use the most convenient way to switch off?

You seem to assume that every lamp in every home maps 1:1 to a wall switch. This is far from true.
Xylitol is a neat food; it is a sugar alcohol.

Xylitol kills some harmful micro organisms like S. Mutans and Candida Albicans.

Xylitol will shift fecal bacteria from gram-negative (covered in a layer of slime) to gram-positive (no slime, healthier).

Xylitol will cause diarrhea but it's a good kind of diarrhea, plan accordingly.
No, read my comment and the link. There aren't using money spent as a criteria at all for their rankings.

But were it a ranking of most money spent on databases, rather than "most used" databases, I would agree. Probably with MSsql in number 2.
It was. Very much so. I have a lot of fond memories of playing Kirby's Avalanche and Killer Instinct on the SNES over the phone lines. I could not fathom why more people didn't flock to the XBAND. It represented everything I ever wanted as a kid gamer.

They had the right idea. Way before its time unfortunately, and shockingly. I still don't really understand why it didn't take off.

Luckily, just last month (May 2019) there was a one hour documentary on it that covered a lot of the development of the unit. Well worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_5M-z_RUKA
> It's one scenario where global warming will actually decrease energy usage.

Doesn't climate change lead to extreme temperatures in both directions though?
As far as AI are concerned, there is no intelligence in them - at all.

As far as understanding what intelligence is - we have a long way to go on that as well.

What these system can do, is process a large quantity of data and then match against a specific set of criteria. The problem is not the computer system but the actions taken by real flesh and blood people who do not question what these systems put out.
I have been building a course for my 5 year old using Scratch. She has a ton of fun working on the material with me.
Surgical generations, like pilot generations, are quite a lot shorter than reproductive generations.
Instagram reached 100 million users and sold for over $1 billion with a 6-person team (they had just hired a few more people when they sold). Investors don't care how many people you have; they care about how fast the business is growing.
> You will feel, at times, like you're letting down everyone equally

My girlfriend struggles with that quite a bit. And now that we're fully cohabitated and my work-from-home / lack-of-commute situation allows me to participate in more kids things that aren't accomodating to parents with traditional work schedules and typical commutes... I get heaps of praise from everyone, including her, for basically just not being a dick.
This makes me think of the "Cutting the Big 5" article [0] that was on here a few months back. While I agree with a lot of the sentiment here it seems that a complete block is actually impractical. Instead I would love to see these kinds of projects not just blanket cover all of FAMG, but rather target the most nefarious ones. I definitely don't know if this is even possible. But is there a way to use services but cut out a significant portion of the tracking? Those are the curated lists I'd love to see.

[0] https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-l...
Hmm. The coefficient of a properly installed ground or water source heat pump can hit 4 or 5. Which means for each kw of power driving the contraption, up to 5kw of heating or cooling comes out. They're not creating heat, but moving it from one place to another. Air source is rather less, not sure of the figures.

There's no reason a heat pump can't heat a house and water as well as cooling it. Gas doesn't even run at 100% efficiency as some of that heat is disappearing out the flue.

So unless gas is under a quarter of the price of electricity it should pay, and pay well...
An Ex-GF worked at a museum a lot of their collection had been treated with arsenic to prevent decay from mold and insects. She said they were still doing that into the 1970s.

Fortunately they don't handle exhibits items that much. They'd throw the them out except for the problem of some being irreplaceable and no one wants to touch a stuffed bobcat covered in arsenic power.
I agree. But I think the solution is lighter sentencing for drug crimes, rather than higher sentencing for white collar crimes.
As one of the co-creators of blitzscaling, it's important to note that we're careful in the book to say that most businesses shouldn't blitzscale. Basecamp is a great example of how bootstrapping can work. You can also listen to the story of MailChimp on the Masters of Scale podcast.
Odd, feels like spam. Apologies if not.
It's pretty sad that 2 mm of key travel is now considered generous.
I picked up this intriguing GB cart with modem recently for cheap. I don't know when it was originally released.

http://gameshark-mx.blogspot.com/
>US students (general population as well) are way more stressed than students in other countries.

And way, way less than in other countries.

In plenty of countries people take a set of exams that covers two years worth of education (e.g. the physics exam is two years worth of physics education). And then they do it again 2 years later (first set of exams is after the 10th grade, second set after the 12th).

Both these exams are a major determinant of your future university admissions.

And then there are countries where there are too many students and too few universities. Kids will study all day and nights. I knew one high school student who was not allowed to leave his house for at least a month prior and during the exams. It paid off. He got into a good university. And while not everyone who got in studied as hard as he did, many did - he was not an outlier.

Many people need to study like crazy just for a chance to get into any accredited university.

If you're OK going to a regular state university, and not necessarily a top ranked one, life is easy in the US. You don't need a fantastic GPA, and you don't need a fantastic SAT score. An above average GPA in the US does not mean you'll never get a university education. Getting appendicitis in the middle of the big exams (you know, the one that covers 2 years of material)[1] is not a major determinant of your life.

[1] Actually happened to someone I know. Didn't hurt him too much as his family had money to send him to a US-like country.