skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”

That quote is deceptive though and and it's sometimes used, as in your case, to push religious propaganda. For every secular view you'll likely find a theistic view with many commonalities. Theism doesn't stop people from justifying or believing in many of the things agnostics do because out of thousands of denominations of thousands of theistic religions of thousands of gods and thousands of years, theistic belief is just as varied as non-theistic belief. And often they're just as vague and meaningless while virtue-signalling as something more meaningful and sometimes the love they espouse is something committed only for that tribe or out of fear of gods rather secular motives which may often be for the tribe but not because they feel they have to. Sorry if I seem course but I'm tired of this meaningless 'life has no meaning without belief in gods' trope pervade my favorite forum for which I'd rather view tech news and not be denigrated for not having found any believable gods yet. Nihilism isn't defined by lack of belief in gods.
The GOP has no power in California, though, and that’s been true for over a decade.
If you have an understanding of the product, it is not difficult to come up with a convincing story.

MS pay is actually competitive for external hires, although internal raises aren't usually very high.
Yeah that's a good way to do it. I think there are a couple of additional ideas that might be worth exploring:

- Comfort is a function of multiple factors, not just the dry bulb temperature difference. It includes occupant metabolism, insulation from clothing, radiant heat exchange, air speed, and humidity. This is trivial to solve in the case of a single-person office (just give them control of the window), but more complex once you have multiple occupants with different needs, who are in different locations in the office. I wonder if there's value in using reinforcement learning to customize natural ventilation to optimize the comfort of multiple occupants.

- Predicting the temperature the next day, and using a fan to draw in cold night time air into your HVAC ducts when a hot morning/afternoon is expected. This way you can have a reservoir off cool air you can access the next day.

- Once you have multiple rooms, and a tall building, there's multiple effects that are worth attempting to coordinate. For example you could coordinate the ventilation of the building air with the stack effect and wind-driven air through the windows, or coordinate the cross-ventilation horizontally through multiple rooms. This would not just modulate temperatures, but also satisfy indoor air quality needs traditionally achieved through the HVAC.

Typically a lot of fine-tuning of natural ventilation isn't done because the actual energy/comfort impact for one of these ideas is small relative to complexity of building the system, and the large uncertainty associated with the dynamics of airflow. But my general hypothesis is that with the integration of cheap prediction or RL methods, we can reduce that uncertainty which would permit a more long-tail approach where we can combine multiple small improvements.
> With less redundancy it is easier to make errors both in writing AND reading of code.

I don't really see that. Boilerplate code is not helpful for clarity or correctness. It's just more code that you have to write that can introduce errors.
Amusingly, the Freedom House analysis breaks out India and Indian Kashmir separately. If the USA could move its worst behavior into a separate line item, then it would probably do better too. Your corruption index puts the UAE, a federation of absolute monarchies, ahead of the United States. Hong Kong scores at the top of your economic freedom index, even as billionaires disappear from its streets because they displeased Beijing.

Rankings that use a metric complicated enough to give the compiler heavy discretion on the order (like your 2-5) are compiled by people promoting certain ideals. Major powers rarely score at the top, regardless of whether they "deserve" to, because that defeats the political purpose--if you're trying to promote X, then telling the world's most powerful country that they're also the most X has little benefit, just encouragement for them to get complacent and backslide.

In objective rankings, the USA's health care system is indefensible, unless you're both wealthy and in genuine need of unusually high-tech care; but that infant mortality is still just 1.3x Canada's. The American education system seems to be well above average; per your link the USA ranked 8/48 and 11/48 for science and math respectively, out of 48 countries that themselves are mostly well above the global average.

It's reasonable to hold the USA to a higher standard than other countries, given its outsize influence and resources. Indeed, the impulse among both Americans and others to criticize America's real faults, sometimes in hyperbolic terms, is probably one of the major forces pushing to correct them. Anyone who net believes the American standard of living--especially for rich Americans, but for poor Americans too--isn't spectacularly above the global average is dangerously mistaken, though.
How about you give it a shot and then we’ll discuss it here?
It could be much simpler.
If I understood the problem, a differential amplifier (any opamp would do) wired to the temp sensors would output a voltage proportional to the difference between the two temperatures, plus adjustment. This voltage then can be used to drive a pwm generator wired to a h-bridge that drives a reversible fan that would pump air with speed and direction depending on the difference between two temperatures, so that it could be used both ways too warm up or cool down.
The same could also be done the digital way by using for example an uber cheapo ATTiny85 small board wired to the sensors, plus the fan and its driver, then doing all in software. That little critter has just the right amount of ports for the job and then some.

Not checked on paper (especially the first) but on principle both should work and also would be extremely cheap.
Start by making something good. Figure the rest out later—including whether you even care if you have readers, and if so why.
This was based (in part) on Angela Duckworth's work-- approach with great skepticism.

She over simplified. Her Grit model is a good example. Grit is an awful metric that tries to boil down complex and independent behaviors to a single number. And the measurement tools are short 8 or 12 question assessments. In my experience the results are meaningless. (Source: I conducted a study of a population & their success at a task that takes 2 years. The result? Grit had no predictive value. Others have been equally unable to obtain results.)

In this article, her model of self-control is both too complex and over simplified at the same time. The last 3 stages-- attentional, appraisal, response-- are presented as 3 discrete phases. In reality, these often blur together into a single split-second decision. The proposed solutions to each stage are laughable: Instead of sitting staring at cookies, read book! Instead of thinking about how good they taste, tell yourself they look old! (you just bought them) Instead of eating the cookies, don't eat the cookies! Ridiculous.
That's great to hear. Really wishing you the best on this.
You can tell they had long meetings about the eggplant and peach animations.
People absolutely praise others who never tried smoking but mostly when they have a person smoking in the family, read something about bad effect of smoking or other similar context.
Thank you for this. I just got access to more than 40k books from my local library using Libby!
> Such a simpler web spec would be relatively fast moving, not focused on backwards compatibility, but instead on simplicity of implementation.

To mirror userbinator's comment: why would it be necessary for the standard to be fast-moving, if the intention is to offer a radically simplified subset of the web stack?

If the aim is to make it much easier to implement a browser, stability should be a top priority.

I'm reminded of a recent HN discussion on whether it makes more sense to define a minimal subset of HTML, or to use an entirely different language, like Gopher and Gemini. [0] I see several others in the discussion here have already mentioned these two.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23165029
I always liked Sun Microsystems logo just cause it's like a puzzle where the pieces fit nicely. That U shape makes up the word "SUN" and it's shaped into a box.

Not sure it has anything to do with computers, but neither does an apple with a bite taken out of it (unless you factor in the Alan Turing lore).
I am sorry my tone came off as tone-deaf. I'm neither a secret RC plant or a false-flag on them...I'm somebody who uprooted their life for 3 months and traveled thousands of miles and left behind all of my friends to attend an amazing program.

Please understand my perspective then that I might be less than kind in my opinions on somebody who missed an online meeting (basically the only one actually asked for by RC!) from the comfort of their home and then saw fit to complain about it in a blog post.

The entitlement is what set me off.
Having listened to a lot of episodes, I don't really agree. I think his style is very conversational and deferential to his guests in letting them make their point without interrupting, and he definitely seems very careful never to "ambush" a guest, but if a guest makes an extraordinary claim he'll frequently challenge them on why they believe that. He might not say they're _wrong_, but he'll ask why they think that. To me, that's his primary job. The dude is a comedian and a tv host, I don't need or expect him to filter and debate every subject. He finds interesting people and interviews them in a style that lets them get into depth. I think that's worthwhile and I don't think he has a responsibility outside of that.

This is probably just a very fundamental philosophical disagreement. I _really_ disagree with the notion that the way to deal with crazy people and extreme viewpoints is to deplatform them. In my experience that just pushes the crazy underground and somewhat legitimizes their feeling of being marginalized. If I'm dealing with crazy people, I want to at least know what their crazy beliefs are and why they believe those things.

I mean, sure I think Alex Jones is a dangerous idiot, but he also has enough influence that it's important to understand how he formed his audience in the first place. It's easy to believe that Alex Jones just tricked a bunch of people, but it's more likely that there were people out there wanting what he eventually sold them. IE, he's been riding a wave, he didn't create the wave. It's important to know why that wave is there.
Thank you! I've been missing this site.
It's been one of my top five visits for the last couple of years.
That's great! Thanks for sharing.
I once thought coronavirus is far away even with the level of mandatory lockdown we've endured, none of my family member were affected. Until a few days ago, a remote cousin of mine who was studying in NY died because of it, and it felt real. I'd be so willingly under lockdown for so many more days if that will bring her back. Even if we hardly met, it felt real, and so close.
I have seen an extremely concerning drop (plummet?) in empathy being shown for people over the course of the quarantine. Can we no longer hear that someone is having a bad time without telling them to shut up because it could be worse? It's literally always true that things could be worse, but telling that to people isn't exactly constructive.

> not that sure what else they're looking for.

"Damn, that sucks." Is probably about right.
This was one of my dreams, using my excess wealth to do some form of subsidized education with my twist on it, as an alternative to hoarding it all and ignoring requests for handouts, providing no opportunity to earn the money.

Thanks for spelling out the financial disaster that is, pass.
Something like hiking with your partner is such an astronomically low risk activity for contagion that its prohibition would frustrate me a lot. But I guess the way to justify it is that makes enforcement of actually contagious activity easier, since there are so few people in the street they can all be pulled over.
The 60M tons of wild fish is also mussels etc, it’s also largely irrelevant in terms of nutrition thus the generic term fish. Aka crab fisherman even though crabs are not fish.

If you really want to be specific some of that of that 29M tons of wild “fish“ is also fed to cattle, chicken, and pigs etc. But, it’s really only a net benefit of ~3M tons worth of increased output for human consumption across all intermediaries. The basic cycle of feeding stuff to animals we prefer eating is extremely inefficient, but to world food surplus is so massive and that 29M tons has such a low value it’s not a big deal.

Getting back to the main point, I think I have clearly demonstrated how irrelevant fishing is in global terms.
Texas generates more power than it needs (which is good because I seem to recall they also aren't tied to grids of neighboring states?). California doesn't. California banks on the probability that it can import power from Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and Arizona, and that all those states won't have one big correlated, synchronized demand peak, which of course is just stochastic. Sometimes you get the worst case.
I am slightly disappointed that folks choose to focus on Swift in this quote. The essay was pointing out how GCP deprecates products and makes users rewriting running applications. This is akin to forcing a Python2/3 split with nearly every deprecation.
I’m sure this is fun and all, but the only things which will fix the web are:

1) a replicable business model that doesn’t rely on advertising/surveillance revenue

2) search you can’t game with keywords or SEO

Until those are solved, we’re all trapped doing Google and Facebook‘s work for them. No amount of changes to the languages or browsers which parse them will have any noticeable effect on the majority of the web content or its users.
Well, what makes you so sure you have good taste? You have a taste, and many designs probably appealed to that taste.

I’ve seen first hand bosses of companies favor designs (half way decent stuff) that appealed to their tastes, but there were elements of the company that knew his/her taste was a little bland.
California can't print more money, the Fed can.
Or I'd really like to leave the house, go to concerts again, go to restaurants, work at my desk at the office where I can better keep life and work separate and have a great view of the mountains.

But I also know several fairly young people that have died with no comorbidities (as young as 38), and several others that have survived but are in a mental fog months later, and know the importance of staying in.
That's why I like HN comment threads. So many good examples on how to make progress in discussions and conversations, and even analysis of why certain behavior is counter-productive
Out of curiosity, why can’t you go hiking? That seems like one of the few activities where you can just about guarantee social distancing by going to more remote areas. Is it explicitly prohibited? If so, I have to question the logic behind that.
We haven't implemented any discount system from the beginning. We are only two and we do books only part-time.

We do get emails asking for discounts but I personally feel that it is unfair to the previous buyers.

But I am keeping an open mind about it. Is there reliable way to charge people in other countries different price?
This week in KDE: Highlight changed settings and much much more
Looking at Google Groups, my first post to Usenet was in 1993. So yeah, I know something about early consumer Internet culture. Even then sock puppets were frowned upon.
Third Atomic Bomb Attack – Japan 1945
If you just need a simple script to download youtube videos, here's a very basic one I made as a wrapper to youtube-dl.

You'll need to edit the option string to the path you want it to save videos to. I have it set to not download playlists, but you can do whatever you please with the option string.

Just copy the youtube url, mouseover the input field(it will grab the url from the clipboard, and press the get file button. No frills but it works fine for my needs.

Pastebin of the code: https://pastebin.com/z3kdHcL8

Pic of it: https://imgur.com/a/7QVwou9
That is they will "defend" the constitution by doing nothing about others breaking their oaths to uphold it; they will, precisely, NOT act to preserve it.
Talking oft the late 00s, it was actually about Webkit. Nowadays Chrome collects all the merits for the foundation it was once built on.
1) The "my friend" at the end of OPs comment is the connection to Mitt Romney. It's a relatively famous quote, much to my dismay.

2) No corporations are not people. That is, quite obviously, a non-sequitur. They do, however, have some (but not all!) of the rights that people do because of the fact that they are made up of people.
V2G is very much designed for this scenario: electric cars effectively become a very large battery farm for the grid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-grid
You got a good deal there. All the Alphas I see for sale are $1k+.
Stripped of the digs it has much merit. Maybe Air NZ is the international airline with the balls to screen it?
From the GWP article:

> Some gases, again like methane, break down over time, and their heat absorption, or GWP, over the next 20 years is a bigger multiple of CO2 than their heat absorption will be over 100 or 500 years. Values of GWP are estimated and updated for each time frame as methods improve.
The "sometimes" includes the one Microsoft ships by default with Windows. It is ridiculous how much faster random file access becomes when disabling Defender's real time protection feature.
>You could convince me bears or apes make beds of grass, too

Apes build trees beds: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2012/04...
https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/vertical-tabs...
You can't even go outside?
This is just a guess. Most housing built after 2000 have AC units but our weather tends to be mild so people don't run it normally. Heatwave is causing everyone to flip on their ACs. Also in the middle summer, hydropower i would guess is at its lowest output. Also noticed a lack of a breeze at the beach today which would be affecting wind power if there wasn't significant air movement.
Melbourne tried that but it didn’t work :(

We had people leaving suburbs that had outbreaks, and when the army door knocked positive cases, a large percentage weren’t home :angry:

People are selfish and will not self-isolate via the honour system. Melbourne only saw cases drop after the threat of fines for leaving home happened. Incentives matter.
Total lockdown is overkill. Masks + social distancing are more than enough to keep cases in my area below ICU capacity.

In places where people refuse to wear masks and social distance... Let them die at slightly elevated rates, it's clearly what they want. I'm tired of the government trying to save lives at any cost against people's will.
That's the key problem - everyone who thinks the web is broken thinks it's broken in different ways.
Revenue Canada hit with credential stuffing attack
>such as making room of package handling

I read an article this morning on exactly that. It said that package handling had surpassed general mail volume and that they needed to shift their focus, so they are retiring some of the sorting machines.
Yes, bring Brendan Eich back. It was a travesty of justice that he was forced out.
I would let people play it free and use adsense for revenue. I have done this with sudoku sites eg https://samurai-sudoku.com and it's definitely worthwhile.
You can only exercise for 1 hour a day, and you must wear a mask everywhere outside and they have the police out in popular rural areas enforcing this.

I'm not sure if its allowed to drive 2 hours to walk for 1 hour or not. I doubt it.
Cool app, but I think I'll stick to the regular old library checkout system where the only party tracking what I read are the feds, and even that is still one party too many. From its Privacy Policy: https://company.cdn.overdrive.com/policies/privacy-policy.ht...

"In addition to information that you may willingly submit to OverDrive, such as your library card number, school ID number, and/or email address, OverDrive may collect and store certain Personal Information and non-PII related to your interactions and use of our Services, including but not limited to, IP address, device type, device ID, operating system, library card number, Adobe ID, library name, lending history, holds, reading progress, bookmarks, highlights, notes, and online activity."

"We collect information from you in order to:
- Personalize our Services to better reflect particular interests and preferences and in certain instances for remarketing."

"We retain information for as long as OverDrive deems necessary to provide the Services or as otherwise permitted by applicable law."

"Given that the Internet is a global environment, using the Internet to collect and process information necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis. Therefore, by using the Services, you acknowledge and consent to the transfer of your information outside your country of residence to any country where we have facilities or engage third parties."
Thanks, but I've come to realize that I'm not altruistic so I want to clarify so you don't leave with the wrong message.

I'm using my wealth to build a learning environment and remove obstacles so I can observe what the true barriers to learning are. I essentially created my own lab because it was too much work to convince others to create it for me.

So, I'm not the good person that my story seems to convey, just curious.
I put it under the main website, blog.hackertyper.net
My thought process was something like "How does Mozilla suddenly lose revenue for 250 employees and not see it coming in this environment?"

I understand she has served with other tech companies before and apparently done very well - in a legal capacity. If I'm getting what you're saying, she may be very well positioned for Mozilla's legal issues but technological, likely not.
Current lockdown rules restrict us to 5km radius from our homes.. so most likely they can't get to the hiking spots.
I'm in a similar situation. It sucks!
> Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Knowledge is knowing repeating your self causes a maintenance burden, wisdom is repeating yourself judiciously.
Do we go to 25k LOC of our own code or including libs?

If the first, I guess my side-projects were too small if they need 25k LOC just for the boilerplate.
> Sensors are easy today. Actuators are hard.

Actuators are expensive--not hard.

Home automation is lousy because it does not scale in software.
Hiking? That's more "social distancing" than staying in your apartment. Better for your health too. My wife and I have been hiking several times a week for the past couple of months. Weather is great!

Reminds me of the current situation with Canada. You can get into Canada on a plane. But you can't in a car. Which option seems more epidemiologically sound to you: a single dude in a car, or a can of sardines coughing and sneezing on one another for hours?
Japanese Wonder Weapons
This is insanity. Why are these people letting their government put them under house arrest.