skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$675 for 2250kWh of electricity? They're doing something wrong.

That's 30 cents per kwh of heat. Even if you just use resistive heating you beat that in every state, and probably most of the rest of the world.

But it's better than that, because that's heat not electricity. 4 watts of heat transfer for 1 watt of electricity is reasonable with a heat pump, so it's $1.20, or if you consider that co-efficient of performance (COP) is typically measured for cooling and we should be counting the electrical waste heat here a COP of 5, which makes their number $1.50 per kwh.
I was wondering this as well. In the video he turns his head about 20° or 30° and the view shifts almost 90°, so it must amplify his motions? I suppose you would get used to that pretty quickly.
The US argument for protectionism against China is based on the theory of competitive advantage, which posited that trade occurs when one nation is better at producing something than other nations. That old model has been revised in favour of a more nuanced understanding.

Paul Krugman was awarded the Nobel Prize for economics in 2008 for his work on the Home Market Effect, which established that nations of similar economic levels trade most with each other.

Rich countries with larger demand for high quality goods will tend to specialize in those goods and consequently will tend to trade more with other rich countries, which have similar demands in their domestic markets that can be satisfied by imports. Hence, trade occurs between similarly rich countries. The effect is similar to the way restaurants thrive in areas where there are more restaurants.
As for the title itself (and probably my understanding of NZ english), for me “panel heater” means one of the modern electric powered planar sources of IR radiation and after living for few months in flat heated by only such things I’ve found that only reasonable way to use such electric heaters is that these things somehow warm up your cats and nothing much else in the room ;)
Hi thanks for the details, I didn't know racket that much before and I went diving into your links and that looks very interesting.

I wasn't disparaging the approach at all, sorry if it came across like this. Research is research, anyone willing to spend years of their life digging into such a subject should use the most appropriate tech and follow their intuition.

I'm just sad in general about the effort expected of developers (me!) or testers (me!), e.g. to write grammars in 3 or 4 dialects to be able to leverage new cool tools ;-) I know they all have their specificities, I wish there was a way to express them in one place/format.

I hope this work allows some time in the future to test language parsers, compilers, interpreters, pretty-printers, so I can finally get some kind of answer to 'how do you test it'.
The USPS is the only company that needs to fund 75 years out. Do you know any that must also do that?

Yes, there is some point to be made about pensions and 401ks being raided, but now is not the time.
If Chrome used DoH then it wouldn't need to send these types of queries
It’s certainly notable that as religion has been abandoned by newer generations, the concept of tithing (10-15% to your church) has fallen out of public consciousness.

I do Effective Altruism, donating at least 10-15% of my income, but was only peripherally aware of people donating to church, and only thought it was pocket chance not thousands a year.

Donating to Effective Altruism charities is quite different ethically to tithing, though.
I assume you are referencing The Simpsons. If so, you shouldn't be down voted.
What's it like as a Senior Engineer?
> Your numbers do not make sense. You write 480mbps, then you write 280mbps, but 23MB/s is 183mbps.

There's a series of bottlenecks. The spec bottleneck is 480mbit, but it's further constrained by bus access to something like 280mbit, which is further constrained by the underlying storage medium to something in the ballpark of 20MB/s to 30MB/s. It depends on the particular flash chip in the device. Try it yourself with a handful of older usb2 drives and see.

> > “Transfer rates of 23 MB/s (Mega Bytes per second) are not just highly unlikely, but effectively impossible to accomplish when communicating over the Internet at any significant distance,”

You're being uncharitable. Maybe what he's saying isn't that the overall transfer rate is impossible over the internet, but he's saying that a sustained unvarying 23MB/s transfer is unlikely over the internet. I think most reasonable techies would agree that the former isn't true (aka: I agree with you), but the latter is a much more interesting claim. It's definitely not total nonsense, as you're making it out to be.
>Is there an evolutionary benefit to believing in stories than in data?

Evolutionarily (in the jungle) there are no "data", just stories. Animals don't read reports.

Data itself is a kind of a story (the story being: "this information was collected correctly, by an impartial source, it's representative of the situation, there's no error, and their interpretation of what it means is also correct". Often this is more of a fairy tale than whatever Hans Christian Andersen wrote).
I use some product produced domestically. It has all the features I need, and none of the spyware or adware. It was also cheap. I am really happy with this product.
The option browser vendors are going with seems to be to make http show a full page warning about being insecure. No need to change HSTS now.
Here's another problem with radical honesty: You think you're right, and say something that's going to be a painful but beneficial truth. But you might simply be wrong: you don't have all the facts, you're missing some context, your interpretation is hampered by your own issues, whatever. Now you've caused someone pain and haven't helped them, and maybe further contributed to their problems.

Radical honesty works great with I-statements (e.g., "I stopped listening to you a couple minutes ago because you're boring me") in terms of communicating effectively without the baggage of courtesy. But radical honesty for criticism rarely works as well as propenents think.
they're saying that ISPs run malicious DNS resolvers (which is correct), not Cloudflare.
That article isn't particularly relevant to what I said.

The issues it describes only affect keyservers that behave in a specific manner. I'd also argue that a keyserver behaving that way in the first place is fundamentally flawed for the reason pointed out by @tialaramex above - trust isn't transitive in the generalized case (nor is it boolean IMO).

It is still entirely possible for a small group (say a FOSS software project) to engage in cross signing. Previously unseen keys received from an untrusted (or less trusted) third party can then be judged on a case by case basis by manually assessing how many times they have been signed and by which keys.

(Similar to above, I believe Matrix employs cross signing among the keys of a single user.)
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How do you wash your butt? That sounds even harder.
I think ~warent is referring to features like ink traps, which are features that do look strange up-close, but might help increase contrast or other qualities at small sizes.
Perfect timing!

Just before the first non-Russian CoViD-19 vaccine gets approved, so people can more easily accept its shorter/skipped testing phases.
a good pull-to-refresh can be triggered wherever on the canvas.
That reminds me, I turned this off the other day and it still hasn't taken effect yet. https://my.virginmedia.com/advancederrorsearch/

Its a good thing DoH is now in the stable version of RouterOS, I've just switched it on.
Yes he needs to add that feature to round it out.
I think you've misunderstood the point. Do you think if Apple permitted apps to be physically sold in stores, but still took their 30% and required apps to be approved, that everyone would be happy?
Genuinely curious: at what point is it "okay" to create data analysis tools that might be used by 3-letter agencies?

I imagine that before Palantir came around, the analysts at these agencies did what most other analysts anywhere do and used Excel to create sophisticated pivot tables when working on {insert defense operation}.

Where does it stop being okay? To the extent that it even matters, Palantir appears to at least own up to the fact that they are used by governments.
That's a separate concept, he probably means ink traps and optical size adjustments.
>It will gain compatible functionality over time.

Based on a few GitHub issue and Mozilla discourse responses, it seems like the whitelist approach is here to stay.
Happy 10th Anniversary, OpenStack
I think your perspective is very pragmatic and reasonable. However, I think it still highlights only the _worst_ kinds of advisers, and if we're talking about looking out for your own self interests, then picking a good adviser is your highest priority.

There are two kinds of advisers I think are missing in your analysis. First, are the idealists, the probably newly minted professors who view there students fondly and their mentorship responsibilities very seriously. These are bad for you too, because you need to be pushed to obtain results on occasion, you can't always have someone who is feeling guilty about their own efforts and not being straight with you about your weakness.

Second, is, in my opinion, the ideal adviser. One who views the relationship as an apprenticeship more so then a manager/employee or mentor/mentee. An apprentice has to learn the craft, but they're still producing work for the artisan (adviser). If the student fucks something up they need to be told, because learning the craft is the highest priority.

The "manager" type of adviser is in my opinion the worst. A good manager is only a useful adviser if a PhD is otherwise a waste of time for you anyway (because you already can do research). Moreover, most manager-types are bad at being managers as well, compounding the horrible situation.
> Filesystem timestamps are based on local clocks, various command line arguments and tools to package up files can manipulate those timestamps, and there are ways to simply _set_ them to whatever one wants.

Right. I just said that in the comment you're replying to...

But that's a pretty wild theory you're presenting, isn't it? Why would they transfer at some speed, then go back and calculate timestamps to make it seem like the modified times line up with a transfer at 23MB/s? Isn't it much more reasonable to just assume that the files, y'know, were actually transferred at 23MB/s?

> That the alleged transfer speed was 23MB/s is not proof of anything on its own, and it certainly isn't proof that it's impossible that it was a hack.

Agreed. It's not proof. It's just evidence. But when there isn't proof to be had, what else can we go off of except evidence?
I use water, either sink, bidet, or natural body.

If it's not possible, I use wet paper towels or toilet paper to wipe clean, but this is rare.

For the last couple of years, I almost never use soap for anything, including my butt, except washing my hands.
> I'm not really interested in having some big argument with a stranger on the internet over this
I'm not either -- but you've questioned something that I care about and have dug into quite a bit. And yes, you don't know me, but I consistently adjust my opinion with more data and engage happily with new information all the time and adjust my viewpoints consistently.

You've used quite a bit of attacking words and presumed I'm some internet troll (again without knowing who I am), by calling me pedantic, assuming I'm going to "dig my heels in", patronizingly telling me to "set aside my judginess" to "give her some growing room". I am excited to see evidence-based research by her as that's what she's talking about.

> So while I have no objection whatsoever to talking at length with someone genuinely curious to understand why I think food and supplements are at least as powerful

I beg to differ, as that's me, and yet you're still showing behavior despite me specifically asking for references to show you otherwise. I linked elsewhere (and can link again) my own.

I don't consider the main point of her article a minor point as you are describing, which is clearly something we disagree on, and yes, we're on short tempers (I'm no exception) but your post feels pretty hypocritical to me.
So where can I buy a ticket to ride?
It really was a blow to GemRB when he went to Beamdog, as he was almost as active as lynxlynxlynx and worked on the core parts of the engine. 95% is a bit of a stretch though, he is barely in third place in number of commits before the project founder Balrog994, with lynxlynxlynx having five times as many: https://github.com/gemrb/gemrb/graphs/contributors
I wonder... if you feed a cat more, it will become bigger, and so it will produce more heat.
Bertha's Kitty Boutique was already on this in 2005...

> Bertha's Kitty Boutique reminds you that heating bills are going to be high this winter and on these cold winter nights, there's nothing more comforting than a warm cat. (PURRING) And if one cat can warm you up, think of what 6, or 10 of 'em could do.
These are skinny designer cats, these are big heater cats (MEOW) who use tuna for fuel and produce enough BTUs to heat up your whole bed and your bedroom too. And we have them in all styles to go with your bedroom decor -- tabby cats, angora, Siamese, orange cats, black cats -- anywhere from 30 pounders up to the family size.
Heater cats from Bertha's (MEOW) Hurry in while supplies last.

https://www.prairiehome.org/story/2005/10/01/berthas-kitty-b...
Personally, I probably wouldn't live in Vegas. I'd live somewhere at a higher altitude in that area of the country. But a lot of people equate Vegas with The Strip which isn't really fair.
So basically every system wich allows you to 'delete' stuff, instead of 'forgetting' it has it (distributed state) wrong.

Good thing, that that's not every database ever cough
Florida is about to release 750 million mosquitoes genetically modified to die shortly after birth. Hopefully that's progress towards ending mosquitoes once and for all.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/health/gmo-mosquitoes-approve...
>Even if you just use resistive heating you beat that in every state, and probably most of the rest of the world.

New Zealand does not have states. You are likely also confusing NZD with USD. The price listed seems entirely reasonable when you understand this.
Wow, great!

I'm looking for an open source solution to find algorithm names inside the academic articles (normally PDF), and perhaps on the web too

Is there any suggestion?
So just to be clear A) it didn't always have that warning and B) I wasn't defending the practice. Did you read the article?
What's New in PHP 8?
An interesting part of the Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) is the capability to scaffold webhooks for Operators, rotate their secrets, etc to make this type protection easy for everyone to provide. All you need to do is bring your validation logic specific to the app.

https://olm.operatorframework.io/docs/advanced-tasks/adding-...
the FVEYS was born in the 1946 UKUSA agreement, which established the continuation of pooling SIGINT collection after WW2.

https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/uku...

it has bothered me deeply that the UKUSA agreement itself was only declassified in 2013, most likely because of Snowden. keeping the existence of the FVEYS secret for 69 years does seem to me like an attempt to cover up treason.

pre-Snowden, when we talked about a Deep State existing at all, and when we quoted Rockefeller saying the world will be run by a supra-international clique of wealthy and politically powerful elites who transcend nations--the "Globalists", we were mocked as tinfoil hat wearing Conspiracy Theorists.

"Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."
-- K, Men In Black
Any that consistently does text flow/rewrap would be imperative to me. It's one of those things that you can't go back to not having, after trying it.
> At what point do you say, "Ok, I guess we should move on".

This is a weird question. By "we" do you mean the media or politicians or scientists?

Politician should not ever be making claims that aren't backed up by strong studies. It's fine to say "I'm hopeful this will prove useful" etc, but to advocate for treatment using unproven medicines is irresponsible.

The media has a pretty difficult job here. Medical studies (particularly early ones) on treatments are rarely decisive (because doctors are trying anything to save someone's life, and that creates co-founding factors. Generally trying for balance ("this is a good study with promising results. Others show different results, and the differences are X and Y. Specialist Dr ABC says "XXXX") is about the best someone can do.

Scientists should keep studying it until we understand what is causing the different responses.
I'd add that those are more significant to create a liquid labor market than to empower founders. The other missing component to a startup scene is reckless venture capital. Even if you found in another city you'll probably need to travel to California to get funding.

Where I come from, the business culture can be described as somewhere between complacent and cautious that borders on cowardice. There's really no other choice but to bootstrap or relocate to California.
Have you tried just adding more blankets. I never run heating at night because I find that even at 0c outside I can just stack up 4 blankets and still be warm.
Is that such a good idea? I find the idea of futzing with nature's systems in this way a bit concerning.
It is absolutely total nonsense and it is the basis for the following proposition:

(The following is not true!) "It is impossible to transfer files at a speed over 23MB/s over the Internet."

If we accept that proposition as true, then yes, there is maybe a world in which we can discredit the DNC hack as an inside job, if we conditionally also believe that the timestamps accurately reflect the transfer speed and not, say, the result of the files being transferred at some point after the hack.

For example, if the hackers transferred the files to a thumb drive. Or to a file server. Or they archived the files then unarchived them with fresh timestamps and the rate of decompression was ~23MB/s. There are many, many different ways to get file timestamps that reflect a transfer speed of 23MB/s at any point after the initial transfer.

These are the two key propositions to believe the inside job argument.

On the other hand, grand juries, the intelligence community, the Mueller report, and the bipartisan consensus of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence all agree those propositions are nonsense.
How do you measure your customer support staff performance? Many companies fire employees for having "low numbers" but since they can't measure tone, they end up driving their reps to optimize for other factors.
It is a moral imperative to offer brain preservation to terminal patients
Over many years, I have highly optimized my PB&B production process:

1. Apply peanut butter to bread. (Copious amounts. I prefer Adam's.)

1. Peel banana and cut length-wise. Place one half across top of bread where the loaf curves. Use curve of banana to match curve of bread. Cut off part of banana that hangs off.

2. Invert other half of banana and place it parallel to first piece, slightly tucked under. Cut overhang.

3. Take the two overhanging pieces, and place them next to each other on the remaining third of the bread.

With a properly sized banana and loaf, this provides almost perfect uniform banana coverage, requires only three cuts, and dirties only one knife.
> Maybe this isn't the best metric to use

You're right. Discounted Cash Flow is.
I had an associate that was tasked with writing a crawler to find this sort of stuff.

There were two problems: Burn out from seeing what the crawler found. And only scratching the surface and getting more hits than any law department could ever hope to track down.

It's all just amazingly depressing.
I just love your comment and the fact your down-voted just proves the "How often does he learn something new"
There was a (very bad!) study done in France that showed some initial promise which is what kicked off the whole thing.
The GTLD / top level domain servers are different from root servers. Also, root servers are a shared, distributed responsibility. Verisign doesn't run most of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server
Yes. OpenTrack has user-editable Bézier curves that map real-world translation and rotation to what’s output to the game.

This is an awesome hack and I wish I’d thought of it.
Inline Exception throwing, named arguments, Finally!
Apparently that's voluntary for IPO S-1s [0]:

> Financial statements in XBRL also are required as exhibits to Securities Act registration statements that contain financial statements, such as Form S-1 (except registration statements filed in connection with an initial public offering).

And by the looks of the search result pages for Apple [1] and Palantir [2], it looks like they haven't filed it that way (the "Interactive Data" label is missing):

[0]: https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2018/33-10514.pdf
[1]: https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&C...
[2]: https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&C...
Misinfodemic 2020: quantitative misinformation misleads public about Covid-19
Does it have to be GUI software?

If not, Q/Kdb[1] redefined my notion of "economy" in the sense of resource usage. The whole environment with about 60% of what you'd expect is like 500kb?

It's also very very fast, processing millions of records a second. It changes the way you iterate on things when you can get results back instantly.

This is one of the few software packages I've used in the last couple years that stunned me with speed. Most people are too lazy to care.

Q/Kdb is far from perfect, but you didn't ask for perfect. :)

[1] https://kx.com/
I don’t see that in the parent comment, though, to which my misguided reply has been heavily downvoted? I guess I need to learn more about this. Edit: or just stay out of it.
> many things have changed by now

I know it's stating the obvious, but even aside from covid, China and Russia have sunk from high to almost bottom of my travel list.

I would love to return to China - a few years ago I was there and loved it (and Hong Kong). But, the surveillance state and hostility towards Canada (i.e. two Cdns are currently being detained with very little of the customary consular accommodations) - makes it just too risky/unpredictable. Ditto for Russia.

Hopefully a change in US leadership will help restore relations between East and West!