skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IIRC, a few towns in Russia have genuinely too cheap to meter heat because of this.

There's an engineering reason for it, as well, that has nothing to do with economics.

A lot of the apartment blocks built in Russia during the later communist years were built from prefabs - essentially, entire 'rooms' would arrive on trucks from a factory, and would get snapped together like lego bricks.

The plumbing was pre-installed in these rooms - specifically, it would be pre-wired into the solid-concrete walls, at the point of manufacture - so that construction workers did not have to actually do any plumbing at the time of assembly.

This is a great system, because you can put a building together very quickly. It does have a few drawbacks, though.

Russian winters are cold. Really, really, really cold. So cold, in fact, that during winter, hot water plumbed through the buildings is the only thing that keeps their occupants from freezing to death. Most of these buildings don't have any other source of heating.

Of course, if hot water ever stops getting plumbed through your building (Because of, say, a ruptured pipe, a problem at the central heating plant, etc), then, in a matter of days, every single pipe in your apartment block will freeze solid, and explode. This would be bad enough in a 'normal' building, but it is made worse, because the pipes aren't even accessible for maintenance - they are buried deep within the walls of the concrete prefabs.
What does HN think of the Ghost self driving product? Is it real or a scam? They claim to be able to add limited level 3 autonomous operation to most late model cars.

https://gh.st/home
>I thought git was named by Linus

Yes, I included that one as a joke. "git" is a British slang term. Linus once quipped that he names all his projects after himself.
Depending on the age and quality of wiring there may be “hot spots” that can start a fire before there’s enough draw to trip the breaker. Old residential aluminum wiring is terribly dangerous for this reason. Corroded wire splices can do it too. That’s why I always solder my romex junctions!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum_building_wiring#Older...
No, the problem is that Chinese dictatorship released a virus to the world that destroyed the easy to get jobs (waiter, cook, etc) for the high school grads, or the entry level market for the college grads. And these young folks have no jobs.

And then they proceed to protest and riot against....police brutality. Not the Chinese government, or the multinationals that shipped their jobs to China.
Which implies that the markets, up to today, aren't efficient. Because nobody knows how to do it yet.
If you follow the link I showed, you'd see that the wires are actually rated 13 amperes, less than maximum capacity of the outlet.

So it is not that uncommon to have unsafe wiring combinations -- be it 20A equipment on 15A wiring, or 15A equipment on 13A wiring.

Neither is illegal, for better of for worse. Know the specs of your equipment if you deal with non-trivial electrical power.
I believe this to be part of a move toward Facebook becoming a subscription service. Something they should have been from the very beginning.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-elections/facebo...

> Facebook Inc said on Monday it is partnering with external researchers to examine the impact of the social media site on society during the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

The initiative expands on its Social Science One project with academics who study political impacts of social media.

A group of 17 independent researchers from the fields of elections, democracy and social media will now work with internal Facebook data scientists to design the studies.

The company expects between 200,000 and 400,000 users to opt into the project, which will log what they see and how they behave on Facebook and Instagram.
Because clearly the point of the study is to look for some sort of correlation between social media engagement and voting activity.

The timing is a feature, not a bug.
Three bedrooms, a kitchen and a living room are perfectly achievable with less than 2400 sq ft. American homes are much larger than those in Europe and it's not as if Europeans are all living in filthy overcrowded slums.

Average home size and home size per person in a household is much larger in the US than in other countries: http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/how-big-is-a-house. Not saying we should all live in Hong Kong coffin homes but even with, say, Germany the discrepancy is quite noticeable.
Yes it supports joins.

https://www.axonize.com/blog/iot-technology/joining-collecti...

The weird left join syntax for LINQ with Mongo is endemic to how LINQ does left joins even with an RDMS. Yeah it’s obtuse.
I've started doing this too. Also email every few years now. Its nice not to care about karma.
Libertarianism and anarchism are quite different though, it is hard to see how anarchism works out in practice. Someone is going to have the most powerful fighting force, and when people disagree to the point of violence that group will become, effectively, the governing body.

The American civil war is a good case study. When a serious disagreement arises, really all that matters is who can sustain the most effective army. Anarchism can't work once professional armies get involved. I doubt it can work even if a neighbouring country has a professional army. Professional armies tend to win.
China Launches a 'Reusable Experimental Spacecraft'
The WHO praises China’s perfect handling of imprisoning doctors who discover new virus.
OP didn't comment on that it's "just" about the color of the message bubbles. The color actually does matter to teens as it's seen as a status symbol, that's a non-practical reason to hate or bully someone about. And because iMessage is sort of seem as a de-facto chat app, it truly does create unequal situations.

Think about it like this. You're low/middle class but your kid goes to a school where almost literally everyone else comes from a millionaire family. All the other kids play golf or some other expensive hobby. You're either forced to start paying for that as well or risk the fact that your kid will most likely be left out and ostracized by the rest.

If you _chose_ to send your kid to that school and it had nothing to do with education standards or prestige of being at a "better" school, then you effectively chose to bear the extra costs associated with it, but if your kid just goes to that school because it's their only real option, would you think it fair?
I think living with your parents can be an obstacle to getting married in the first place.
>Wives/husbands/family are good attack vectors. Not much you can do here to begin with. But you want things locked down to at least friends of friends.

Fun doxxing trick: 80% of the time your "first-friend" on social media is your significant other.

Honestly, if you opt out of social media, you'll save yourself a lot of headache trying to lock it down. You'll make mistakes. And if you don't, then your spouse will. Or your friend. Or your coworkers. They'll upload a photo of you, or leave their account public, or get their account hacked... The only way to win is not to play.
One upside of the multigenerational household is that the oldest generation can take care of the youngest and vice versa. In the American single-generational model you have to spend out the wazoo for childcare and retirement home.
Don’t let your feelings get in the way.
I'm talking about trolling Apple, the only entity Apple cares about.
He's been working at Apple [0] ever since December 2018.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/17/18144421/apple-designer-...
This seems to fit better. HN is even on the list. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_news
Another non-issue taken seriously. Once the departed soul has passed on, what difference does it make whether there are any mourners back on this planet sobbing for them?

It has already ventured into the next realms and preparing for the afterlife, it most likely doesn't even remember anything from life spent on this planet.
Its almost worth changing your name if you have an unusual one. It must be great to be have a name like John Smith because no one can google you to find anything interesting.
Except if you started the sunscreen door to door business development in peak selling months you wouldn't have a company built to actually supply the sunscreen.
It's not about you. For a lot of people, $400 is a lot of money.
Data Broker Opt-Out List
Sorry, I don't know. I guess your best bet is trying to contact the immigration offices - but it might be hard to reach anyone since things are so overloaded.
If you are going to taunt me, put in some effort and bring something to the table. Present your point of view and contribute to the conversation instead of just criticising and nitpicking.

You are just asking me to google things for you.

With your great knowledge of economics I am sure you can summarise the history of privatisation far better than I ever could, so please share your wisdom with us.
i was honestly kind of glad when they introduced the new interface once i figured out that i didn't have to request the desktop site every time I open a new reddit tab anymore by just going straight to old.reddit.com
Humans can rapidly move their "cameras" 360 degrees, across multiple planes, with a wide field of view and at over 500 MP.

No car can come close to doing that.
This is some mediocre people came up with idea that they could easily understand what Calabi-Yau manifold is, if only mathematicians defined it with simple plain words. They don't like the idea that such a full definition would be 1000 pages long, full of complex concepts.
That is not a problem as demonstrated by Indians.
Slowly does it: chord changes in John Cage's 639-year-long organ piece
The government printed massive amounts of money over the last 15 years, which inflated financial assets. Now everyone who is younger cannot afford any of those assets, housing included. The boomers risked the economy in the early 2000s, caused the crash in 2008, and then printed money to save themselves. This has pushed younger generations into what is essentially financial slavery.
That's not true, it was more of a "straw breaking the camel's back" situation, and he has in the past personally acted in inappropriate ways for many many years.

https://medium.com/@selamjie/remove-richard-stallman-appendi...
Blackberry was never as popular in Europe as it was in the US.

Also unlimited messaging plans back then weren’t a thing in Europe yet either.
I don't know if it's improved since I last tried it but the offline experience with Google Docs was not great. Web apps do require the web, and sometimes there are situations where you don't have it or are not willing to do it.
I used to have the same confidence about no AI beating the best human at Go any time soon.

Now I see the problem of self driving is now just data and and computation, each of which grows by bounds every month...
It might as well be noted that Braess's paradox is a phenomenon observed in a world of (mostly) predictionless navigating, i.e. before Google Maps. When fluids flow, phonons communicate "traffic information" at the speed of sound and the resulting flow is usually efficient. You can get Braess's paradox in physics, but you need quantum mechanics:

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012PhRvL.108g6802P/abstra...

However, Google Maps updates its traffic predictions much more slowly than the "speed of sound" by any useful definition of the way disturbances propagate in traffic. As 'frogblast noted, far more cars may be suddenly directed down a side road than it can carry, and the recommendation stops being broadcast too late.
Please don't assume your moral framework is in any way universal.
It's not quite shaming. You can compare the number of people living with parents over time to get some reasonable narrative for why that is... But the interesting metric would be "how many people live with parents only because they can't afford to leave".
Surprisingly culture is fluid and different.
I'm sorry. just updated a new version and should work soon as normal
Cultural norms really matter here. If living with your parents is normal, it won’t be a barrier to marriage. If living with your parents is seen as a sign of financial hardship or failure, it will become a barrier to marriage.
For those that downvoted me, lookup the fact that when WHO went to China to investigate the virus, they never went to Wuhan! The Chinese government kept them in Beijing for weeks! If that’s not guilt by association for releasing the engineered virus, I don’t know what is
Depending on the type of parents you have it can cause a lot of emotional and physical pain.
From the original Pew report:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-...

So, the increase was mostly driven by 18-24 year olds (both college-age as well as some new grads), who were already 2.4x more likely to live with their parents.
Bigger markets have the possibility to be more efficient. This is a very important and overlooked factor.

Simply lifting many US folks out of poverty would help tremendously.
I live in Melbourne and her arrest is widely supported. Our city is in a severe lockdown and at a tipping point between New Zealand style suppression and US style chaos.

Just because she is a white, pregnant woman does not mean that she has the right to break the law and compromise the safety of the community.
Which is funny considering there are literally empty houses just sitting doing nothing right now.

Our economy is so inefficient it's ridiculous.
I agree, I actually know one of the guys who discovered the bug and had a talk with him the same week the CVE was released. He seemed very sure that it was simply a mistake. While fuzzing has been a thing since the 50s, it wasn't as common to fuzz stuff back when with larger input sets just due to practical issues. You'd be lucky to own a quad core CPU and nobody spent their free time throwing cycles at random Linux package source codes for fun.

Stuff like this goes uncovered all the time. The Ring 0 RISC exploit from 2018 comes to mind at first. It wasn't a whole two years after Shellshock and heartbleed that Google releases their Fuzzing service.
I tend to agree, the cultural observations usually gloss over the more impactful economic and geopolitical trends. Human behavior seems to be a reflection of these larger forces.
Corruption, incompetence, war, geographic disadvantage, etc.
Serious question. Why does America have a fixation with moving out of your parents home? Why does this headline make it sound like some bad thing. Oh god!
The US is so sparsely inhabited (in almost every way) yet many citizens think it's already full.
Michigan here but friends in many places around the world.

In the first few weeks after it hit the US in March, I knew at least three friends of friends who died—one in 70s probably, one I think in 40s, and in one early 30s.

I know at least three friends who got it and said it was really rough, including one in his 20s who is a pretty elite athlete.

My mom started chemo at the end of February and just had her last one a week ago, so I am personally very grateful that the Michigan took it quite seriously. I believe strongly the problem with something like this is if we take the necessary precautions and cases don't happen, people will say we overreacted.

I'm scared to get it as I think we have little understanding about the mid to long term effects. I also fear I will spread it to my parents who are in their 60s.

I believe we shut down well to stop the spread but then didn't have a comprehensive national plan to test and trace so that we could reopen and monitor the situation. So I think the testing and tracing didn't receive enough united national push to have a large-scale coordination and then the "team" started to fall apart.

Overall, I have been quite impressed with just how much American citizens have helped each other, implemented social distancing, worn masks, and generally took care of ourselves and each other. Sure, there are cases where people don't, but I think those are strongly exaggerated—the people who are loudest on the internet are not typically the most representative of society.

I believe one of the biggest failures of the US national government was to not see this as a huge opportunity for the US to lead the world. To dedicate so much of our time and resources to figure this out for Americans so we can figure it out for others. Seems we overlooked how much this is a global problem and covid-19 anywhere is currently a threat everywhere.

Also, giving ourselves a little bit of grace compared to Asia, as many Asian countries have had recent practice with a respiratory epidemic, whereas we haven't. That being said, I believe we still dropped the ball in terms of coming together as a country to solve it, and I strongly blame the leaders in Congress and the White House for not galvanizing the country behind the advice of the epidemiological experts.
Hopefully, this is a dysfunctional cultural norm we can change in America.

I was excited by this statistic. If this becomes commonplace, it will carry less stigma, and hopefully happen more often where appropriate.
Isn’t this the norm in Asia and other parts of the world? Why is there such a stigma in the US?

Doesn’t it help people save money?
I just googled my name one day. It is unusual enough to have a limited number of results and this website popped up with my name, home address and phone. They must've slurped from some dodgy website where I've shopped or the like, not sure.

In case that you have too much results on your name, you can add keywords like "home", "home address", "phone number", and the like. Additionally, you can add the exact values, but those will be visible for the search engine, and maybe for someone who is smart enough to go through all queries in google trends that include your name.
How should a trained professional be using caps lock?
A milestone for genetic rescue – Przewalski's Horse Project
Yep and one of the best ways to break the cycle of abuse it to be able to get your independence as fast as possible.
It's a different culture though. I've definitely read Indian guys complaining how awkward it is to date / experience relationships with families being present all the time. Then there's a significant number of families who will be actively involved in choosing a life partner. And lots of other things... It's hard to compare metrics like young adults living at home without accounting for all of it.
Governments replaced those robbers, you just cannot escape nor defend yourself :-)
Because I’m always streaming to Apple TV’s, I’m pretty much always just direct streaming and not transcoding. It’s in my todo list to async transcode all downloads to an optimized format, but it’s basically a premature optimization for my use case right now so I haven’t gotten to it
Similarly, a lot of Chinese students do surprisingly well in the verbal section of US admissions exams like the SAT and GRE, despite being non-native speakers. They just memorize long lists of obscure English words that would rarely ever be used in practice.
I am currently using Ubuntu 20.04 with the Sabrent Rocket M.2 SSD and AMD Ryzen 3900x and several times my OS continiously locks up some programs for a short time (Chrome, Firefox, etc.) or becomes really slow. This computer I built is relatively new and used for work mostly so I am not sure if it's Ubuntu or I downloaded a stray snap package but man I have noticed Snap packages can be ... slow.

I used Debian and it seems to be gaining detractors from Ubuntu, my only question is... what made you switch and sick with Debian?
I'm not saying it's useful, just that I found out it was a metric for management. I was originally expecting it to be an internal metric. The company I was at actually used it in performance reviews somewhat comparable to stack ranking.

There was an expectation that devs complete about 8 points a sprint. I don't know if the eight point target is common, but SAFe does talk about comparing story points across teams.

> At scale, it becomes difficult to predict the story point size for larger epics and features when team velocities can vary wildly. To overcome this, SAFe teams initially calibrate a starting story point baseline where one story point is defined roughly the same across all teams.

...

> Give every developer-tester on the team eight points for a two-week iteration

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/story/
Is there any evidence of re-infection by the original animal vector? Because asserting that we’re still getting new infections from animals (as compared to human to human) is quite a statement to make.
Don’t they also have arranged marriages in India though?
A small company in an EM country, I don't think infra spend will ever come close to those in the US to being within the budget without significantly affecting margins… and considering that a lot of companies in the US are funded with either massive amounts of debt and on E rounds of funding… I don't think most can afford it either…

Though saying this, even at a small corp level, are still affordable proprietary solutions out there (not necessarily in AWS), but most people trend towards whats trendy…
The Last Gunsmiths of the Khyber Pass
Exactly. Everyone benefits. You can save a lot this way, too!

Of course there can be complications, like the money you put in for the rent may be spent on some utterly stupid crap. That is what my dad does. He should save, god damn it!
If you're willing to pay, have you looked at codeweavers crossover? (Disclaimer: I've not personally tried this)
Not always - depending on the underlying linq provider, you could probably query the child collection diretly without join and it would generate the proper sql. It's a function of ORM though, but if you are using linq you probably have EF or NHibernate going for it (i was a former nhibernate developer around the time linq support was added)
Breaking down a stigma is one thing. Addressing housing prices and stagnant wages is another.
Please check "The C Interfaces and Implementations" book by David Hanson [1]. Someone has implemented the concept using his library that you can check and use [2].

Another excellent reference is the "The Linux Programming Interface" book by Michael Kerrisk that documents most of the API available under Linux [3].

[1]https://www.amazon.com/dp/0201498413

[2]https://github.com/gon1332/gonlibs

[3]https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Programming-Interface-System-Ha...