skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. My apartment building in SF was part of a landmark legal case because many units stay over 80 degrees for large portions of the year due to poor consideration of solar factors. Usually only builders are sued for defective construction, in this case the architect was sued due to poor design.

We received funds but the funds were not enough to retrofit a 600-unit building with central A/C. However, the city of SF will not permit wall-mounted mini-split units nor window units in the building, since that’s a change to the facade. So we’re stuck with portable units...

https://aepronet.org/california-supreme-court-rules-against-...

https://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/2014/s...
Although not directly related to critical thinking, product questions or brain teasers but what works for me is reading and reading whatever floats my boat. I consider it weight lifting for the brain.
I had a similar experience with a SunSaver solar charge controller. I was out in the field trying to fix a problem with a solar power supply and I called into their support line to ask about the error lights we were seeing. Within a few minutes, I was talking to an engineer and he spent 15-20 minutes helping us diagnose the problem. It turned out to be something dumb we had done triggering a fault mode in the controller. The controller itself cost less than $100, so we were definitely not worth his time.
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It's weird to come to my favorite forum, and see my name in the title of a post.

It's weirder to read comments claiming to know about my personal life and motivations, though they're all wrong. (Both the good and the bad.)

The public me is not me - https://sivers.org/publicu - so I don't feel a great need to correct the errors here.

But thanks (tw04, lukego, marcinzm, s_a_p) for the reminder that anything I do can be spun negative.
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And two weeks later .......
The Brazilian Supreme Court is asking Facebook to block accounts globally, not only in Brazil.
There is minimal color, yes, but I suppose one's brain will learn to "fake it" once it figures out size-color correlation during those times you're paying it direct attention.
It's not uncommon. Sadly, their role and remit and legal obligations don't include keeping you informed and can include specifically not informing you.

As a comparison, CERT operate the same model: informing them of an attack can lead to them becoming bound into LEA activity which requires them not to disclose.
Are you sure about that? Being Facebook also comes with billions of dollars.
Reading into this - flywheel apparently stole patented ideas from peloton including streaming on demand exercise classes? And that's why their service is shutting down? How is that supposed to be a protectable/patentable concept? That sounds like some first class patent trolling at face value.
That is a double edged coin. Thinking of fake news, spam, scams etc.
According to a reddit thread [1] from a few years ago, this is from an internal application, though on a public facing server.

Still, I agree with one of the posts on reddit, this is a decent ice breaker interview question to see how many problems the candidate can find.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programminghorror/comments/66klvc/t...
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To help with weight issues and for overall improved health, many people turn to
diets. In fact, government statistics show that while about 65 percent of
Americans are overweight, 38 percent are actually doing something about it.

And according to a recent survey by the National Health Institute, about a third of
overweight Americans who are trying to lose weight, are doing so by eating less
carbohydrates (carbs) largely because of the increased popularity of fad diets
like Atkins Diet and the South Beach Diet.

Although there have certainly been other low-carb or low-sugar diet plans before,
and more will most assuredly come out in the years ahead, let’s take a look at
the basics behind many of the major plans. And let’s take a look at how they fit
into the real world today. Because while it might be great to lower the body’s
sugar content and be healthier, wouldn’t it be great to learn how to do so while
being part of this fast-paced world?
Please don't conflate repellent behaviour with mental illness.
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Where? The only non-touchscreen wiper controls, as discussed elsewhere in this thread, are the push-button on the left stalk. Those controls offer a short-press for a single swipe of the wiper blades, or a long press for wiper fluid and a handful of swipes.

Both modes technically control the wipers, but they definitely do not remove the requirement to use the touch screen for wiper control.
Kudos for your efforts. I've watched from a distance and been disappointed with the politics.
This doesn't surprise me at all. Consider that the US has a federal agency set up specifically to pay out vaccination harm claims, and intentionally sets a low bar for those payouts. The rationale is that getting lots and lots of people vaccinated is a public good, so it's best to reassure people that if something bad happens that seems to be even vaguely correlated with a vaccine they take, they'll be taken care of financially.

Certainly this particular vaccine situation is unique, but indemnifying AstraZeneca, especially after asking them to sell the vaccine at cost, doesn't seem unreasonable.
>For example, if we purchased a 2x bull leveraged S&P 500 ETF such as SSO, we would choose an appropriate weight to cancel out the leverage, 0.5 in this case. If we kept the rest of the money in cash, the return of the portfolio would only be slightly worse than that of the S&P 500, due to the 0.90% expense ratio we pay.

A 2x bull leveraged etf replicates daily moves. your long term return to expense expectations are completely off.
Currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24021025
What would the definition of "source history" be? The git database? If I do a rebase would I be violating the license? After all, I am collapsing the history, getting rid of failed ideas no one else needs to see.
I'm also an investment banker and a CFA charterholder as well.

All my assets are in a simple 3-fund, fully passive portfolio.
The Shuttle was built to bring down soviet spy satellites and spacecraft, so in that regard, it was the best design made.
I have heard the other side, which is that many one-line patches require significant time from maintainers because it's often "hand-holding" to get them to where they need to be and often they are not really correct or have some other issues. But even with that I think the case of "maintainer abandoned this patch" or "maintainer is actively looking for new contributors but does not make it easy to get your foot in the door" is the more common one.
I have a house on a farm. I only have relatively high speed internet (25mb/s) b/c someone set up a line of sight system pointing at a mountain as a co-op. My neighbors' house about half a kilometer away is blocked by a hill so they can't use it. When it's cloudy, I have to use my phone as a mobile hotspot.

Coming from San Francisco, I didn't realize how many people face this reality of poor connectivity. I don't care much about who is doing this as much as I care that someone is doing it at all. Most people don't realize how much of an internet access disparity exists. Especially as more education moves towards digital, internet access is a fundamental utility.
The difference is one of consent and that is crucial
> My gut says that it's enough of a deviation from the Unix convention that I probably won't use that.

It's not completely unheard of. Checking the man pages for a few I remember being affected:

* `ls` looks at LS_COLORS

* `grep` looks at GREP_OPTIONS, GREP_COLOR, GREP_COLORS, as well as the not-grep-specific LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE, LANG, etc, and POSIXLY_CORRECT

* `find` also looks at LC_%, LANG, POSIXLY_CORRECT as well, plus TZ and PATH for some of its other options

Looks like the program-specific ones LS_% and GREP_% can be overridden by options directly on the command, but the others don't have such options.

(Makefile wildcards because asterisk keeps doing italics)
ElectroCRUD 2 – Now Support SQLite (limited) – open-source
Due to the requests for SQLite support (from here too), I worked hard the last days to release the first limited support for SQLite Database. The project is built on top of Electron (TS), If someone wants to help me I will grateful.

https://garrylachman.github.io/ElectroCRUD/
In fairness, the Caltrain is double-decker to the shinkansen’s single decker. It is further higher because the Caltrain platforms are less elevated. You can usually get closer to a fast moving Caltrain, as most stations are double tracked (many Shinkansen stations have sidings for loading trains and the passing trains are on interior tracks) And the diesel-electric engine makes an impressive rumble.

I personally think Caltrain still ranks well in terms of an impressive experience watching it pass.
This isn't a dump, this is a forum specifically meant for sharing code publicly.
> Ever heard of market regulation?

Yes, that's what I'm suggesting.

> Also, don't forget the "winners" are appointed by the consumers, if everyone likes your product what can you do about it?

Ever heard of market regulation?

Shifting blame onto consumers doesn't fix the problem. Instead of establishing who is to blame, we could fix the problem.

> Are consumers supposed to skip the best option just because the company behind it is getting too big?

This is exactly why blaming consumers doesn't fix the problem.
Is there an advantage to enable AFP on my NAS?

I have a Macbook but smb seems kinda shady there.
The thing about bash is that it's much less powerful than perl, while at the same time being more prone to surprising, undesirable behavior and write-only code.

The worst of both worlds.
So you expect the developers to keep maintaining old interfaces forever? The C library, that I understand (POSIX and all), but GTK+? I think that's an unnecessary burden.

Now if someone wanted to make a shim library that had the old APIs, that might be doable.
Here's maybe the best example of a Synfig project: https://youtu.be/PThy9_RZQ8c

I'm supportive of any FOSS software, but like GIMP the UI doesn't look or feel right for me personally. I think Blender 2.8+ features/UI for 2d animation is much more interesting and usable.
> That he could still interpret letters, Schubert says, lends support to the idea that the brain has a specialized module for processing numbers.

This makes a lot of sense to me. I have almost no trouble at all remembering long strings of numbers, but I have the opposite problem with names. I cannot remember names to save my life unless I use them on a daily basis. I feel like this is a flip-flop from how most people process information. It seems to me that lots of people are very very good at remembering names and have a hard time remembering numbers. some people look at me offended when I forget their name as if the only reason I would ever forget their name was because I didn't like them. It's very embarrassing. When I show I can remember numbers or lines of code just by looking at them once, people are amazed but then move on.
Or just use voice to set the wiper speed - completely eyes free
One complicating factor is that the United States guarantees rights that many countries do not, which can cause confusion. And another that often gets thrown is the "is social media a public square or private property" question.

FWIW, simply enabling a crime to occur is not necessarily illegal.
One person’s spew is another’s gospel. Many a brave soul have died for the right to spew. 🇺🇸
The issue is that members of Bolsonaro's fake news group were moving abroad to continue spreading their "content" from outside Brazil.
Whew :)
You know what’s next when they take constitutional rights from journalists and citizens.
Yes, he’s practically under the control of the CCP. He says what they want him to say.
That would mean it's crashing to zero but I don't care enough to open the link
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If it materially reduced harm to human beings, that's a theoretical benefit. Regardless, by insulting the parent's idea ("this idea ... is repugnant"), you've presented yourself as unreceptive to good faith discussion.
What happens in the event of a parachute failure? Would they be in a position where they could fire up the Super Dracos for a propulsive landing?
Not really. Share buyback may be an advantage, but it doesn't necessarily reflect on the price of the stock. In other words, a company can buy its own stock and price can fall anyway (see for example GE). This cannot happen with money deposited on your account.
That's a problem for people with security clearance. For the other 99% of Americans, how is it a national security issue?
A touchscreen for the wiper control? Really?

I'm reminded of the early attempts at "smart" homes. After you have stumbled around in the dark a few time you learn to appreciate the simple utility of a mechanical switch.
There's some pretty basic form factor changes that can go a long way to just eliminating portable units, i.e. these new U shaped designs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NELPBxrgsE

Wonder why there's no "n" designs for obstructive light. Regardless, there's no reason for portable AC, even duo hose ones due to length limitations on hose before inefficiencies. More effort into easy to install window / split units please.
In the 80s it was called "application development" and it was the vast majority of jobs in the software industry. Database, forms software, user data entry, data presentation.

The web has just replaced the technological components, but the basic model is more or less identical (and arguably still hasn't reached the same level of sophistication that the forms software of, say, 1988 had (though this is certainly arguable)).
Reading definitely helps a lot. Pick up different types of books, such as entomology, city planning, history, marathon training. Even beginner level is good enough. You just want to see how people solve problems.
Solution: Download the Nvidia blob, isolate the binary firmware, extract, load. Be fun? Absolutely not. Desperate times and inconsciable acts of legalism call for equally extreme levels of overly contrived legalism circumvention.

At this point I've gotten so bloody tired of the games people play with IP, that I'm arriving at the point I think I wouldn't even mind being part of the collateral damage of our industry being burned to the ground through the complete dissolution of any software delivered or related contract. If you sell me hardware, and play shenanigans to keep me from being able to use it to it's fullest capability, you're violating the intent of the rights of First Sale.

To be honest, I think every graphics card should have to be sold bundled with enough information for a layperson (or I'll throw out a bone,a reasonably adept engineer) to write their own hardware driver/firmware. Without that requirement, this industry will never change.
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You are exactly correct. So many people are buying these synthetic instruments without even reading the prospectus that clearly states in plain language what you said but they still buy them expecting > daily tracking.

I’ve seen so many strategies that technology people come up with (including myself) that look great on paper but don’t take into account the prospectus or things like market conditions, counterparty risk, backwardation, contango, etc.
Creating a solution to a defined problem is one thing.

Understanding what the problem is ... that's something else.
I replied to you because you felt the need to cover your statement with:

> tend to not think I'm someone who has actively studied the space because of the ways it has negatively impacted my life, so I'm somewhat knowledgeable about such topics

Those who have actively studied in this area have had large negative impacts on my life. I felt the impacts of gender policy, derived from the liberal arts academia, during the hardest years of my life. I'm sick of having the fact I'm a cis het white man thrown in my face by people "educated" in this area. Here's something I wrote here 8 days ago:

>That video reflects purely on skin colour and I feel that can be harmful. My skin is white but I'm descendant from the Australian Stolen Generation (google it if you want to see more). I was raised in a poor country town and I literally joined the military to escape that life......I make decent money now since I used the military for a CS education but when I go shopping I choose to go to the low socioeconomic area. I don't fit in culturally at the upper middle class shopping centers. I don't dress the same, talk the same, hold the same values, etc. Not feeling like you don't fit in isn't just linked to race.

I don't fit in culturally in upper class white areas. I was born and raised in an area that is in the top 5 for every single crime in my state. My family still has baggage from literally being stolen and given away, not to mention being half casts (part aboriginal). I became a single parent. And yet, I've worked my arse off and managed to carve myself a good career and a lovely life.

I see plenty of black people, women and gay people do very well in life. The trick is to be born in money or into a culture of success (i.e. did you know 2nd generation Nigerians and Ethiopians have better educational success than the general population?). The issue is that a large majority of slave descendant black people are born into a cycle of poverty. In my home town I've seen programs attempting to break this cycle and it's brutally hard.

I'm much more interested in breaking these cycles of poverty than I am in restructing the way society manages productive work. Free, educationally-programmed daycare from 6 months of age? Daycare that has the ability to accomodate people working non-business hours? Some form of universal income to keep people afloat? I'm all ears here, and this will benefit marginal communities immensely.

Blaming it on cis white men? My ears will close. It's a single-digit percentage of white people born into the privilege that those at top have. People of all races can be born here but due to historical reason it's pretty heavily white. The majority of us aren't born into that and are sick of being blamed.
some ppl are epic! particularly ppl who can't explain what they doing... :)
AFAIK, postfix has no history. Only releases.
China has its fingers deep in the pie of every tech company there, especially the ones with even minimal foreign ownership. It might not be planned in the quaint sense of the old Communist 5 year plans, but it’s certainly a modern iteration of the concept.
More like localized censorship. Censorship will always exist.
Yes, that's why it's considered the worst case and a safe bet to withdraw
CGI never consents; regardless of the apparent age. In general pornographic depictions of non-consensual sex are not illegal.
For example, the phrase goes back at least as far as Shakespeare.
It is not ilegal if the enabler has no way to stop the crime. This is different if you can show that someone is committing a crime and the enabler doesn't want to stop it.
Yeah, swamp coolers are great in theory, but they do nothing at all in areas that most desperately need cooling.
Hopefully mom and dad provide supervision as a computer with unsupervised internet access can be a terrible thing for young kids.

At 10 IMO kids still need lots of...real world play. Legos, snap circuits, science kits / experiments that happen IRL...a bike, scooter maybe ;)
Excellent idea! See now you have filled me with optimism. Thank you kind stranger.
If you read Matt Levine he will tell you "insider trading is about theft"... It's about stealing material non public information. If you find a dollar on a busy sidewalk and pick it up, did you legally steal? Nope. But morally, you might not feel so great about it.
> Bounds checks are more effective than the stack cookies a C compiler might insert because they still apply when indexing linear data structures, an operation that's easier to get right with Rust's iterator APIs.

Not only that, bounds checks always work, while stack cookies are possible to bypass either by luck or by information disclosure.
We need to think federation here. Some websites have more racist content. Some have more porn. We can choose to visit a website which sorry suits our sensibilities. That's not the case with a social network. They have to apply one set of policies to all. The problem though is that there is no business model that supports federated social networks.
This project just drips with PASSION. (Some people might say the all-caps is unwarranted but I feel there is no other way.)

I found myself involuntarily smiling and giggling while reading this. Reminds me of so many things like that summer I tried rendering the creation story from the Book of Genesis using Flash. That, too, had a story board! I never finished it but I learned a bunch of Flash tricks. Not to mention some practicalities like how it's really hard to draw with a mouse as well as the computational limits of a hand-me-down Pentium 4 with 256MB of memory.

The friendship aspect also reminds me of the story of a handful of iconic rock bands, how they basically started as bunch of dudes who found some ran-down instruments and wanted to play. And just played and the rest is history.

It's charming exactly because they didn't get paid doing it. In fact, _no one_ would pay them to do this. And yet they did.
Their own paper[0] shows it performing at similar levels to the A72, a four year old core. Those are obviously really impressive results for an open source core.

The best ARM core is Apple’s Lightning, which has an IPC rate about 4X that of the A72.
[0]: https://carrv.github.io/2020/papers/CARRV2020_paper_15_Zhao....
microcommunities and web of trust. the things you mentioned are not eliminable but i trust my peers more than a multinational with conflicting values.
Cliff Stoll is a gem.
>In short, boiling water temperature plateaus due to the latent heat of vaporization. When the water is gone the temperature of the pot starts to rise. The rice cooker uses this principle to control the switch.

This is true for a lot of appliances: water boiler, coffee percolator, drip coffee maker, etc. They have to be reliable enough that you can have a 1000W+ heater right next ABS plastic and not have problems with millions of units.
I don't know...if everyone who's sexually aroused by children is mentally ill that basically includes the entire population of Inkbunny.

I wouldn't be surprised if you knew a lot of pedophiles personally, you just don't know they are pedophiles because they never told you, don't engage in illegal activity, and are otherwise indistinguishable from the rest of society.
I use clap/structop in Rust for all my CLIs ever since those libraries came out and it's just stupid easy to make a nicely functioning CLI. You define a data structure which holds the arguments a user will pass to your program and you can annotate fields to give them short and long names. You can also define custom parsing logic via plain functions if the user is passing something exotic.

At the end you can parse arguments into your data structure in one line. At that point the input has been validated and you now have a type safe representation of it. Well-formatted help text comes for free.
Careful, that's how RMS got canceled.
Are you familiar with the "past performance" disclaimer?
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Seems expected, since there is a fixed line for the age, varying by jurisdiction. People want to do the right thing, so false accusations seem normal.
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