skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article feels somewhat half finished: it introduces the topic, an implementation, and walks the reader some examples. It lacks the so-what, why and what ASP can do for me concretely, and where I can find more.

Still, though, I am fascinated by the subject. These days I am toying with an idea that revolves around optimal scheduling ofenergy consuming asset based on energy prices, external market inputs and business rules (such as this asset must be on for at least 10 hours per day, or temperature control, etc.). Would ASP help here in working towards an optimal solution in almost real time?
I'm comparing the modern Mk 5 Polo, which is supposed to be a small city car, to the original Golf, which is a family hatchback, to point out the ever-increasing size of vehicles. The modern Golf (including the electric/hybrid variant) is about the same size as the Nissan Juke, which is a smallish SUV.
He got pretty experimental with the format once he had the freedom to do so:

https://i.imgur.com/ddU50.jpg

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/02/26

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/12/19
Agreed. I just purchased an Xbox One and subscribed to their Netflix style buffet service for digital games. Game sizes range from 20-100GB. I've had to resort to only downloading 2-3 smaller games because my household already gets pretty close to our terabyte quota every month. These gamerpass services aren't nearly as great if you're limited to downloading a single game a month.
Best is to get a job in NY (b/c the salaries are high wrt other cities) and then "temporarily evacuate for COVID" to a home office in a smaller city. You keep the NY salary and perks but have the benefits of living/working at home.
So the GDP goes up, but do the people inhabiting the country live better lives?
As monoliths go, it's not strange. It looks pretty normal to me. The proportions aren't the same as the one on "2001" (1:4:9) but that doesn't make it 'strange.'
We have a very well known set of processes to fix the issue of too few emissions, so I'd doubt that'd ever be a concern.
or make a bunch of tiny commits and change the dates to make it seem like you've been productive.
Show me a gun control law that doesn’t explicitly exempt police.
The “correct” course of action if you’re dozing off while driving is to pull off the road and go to sleep. If you’re in the middle of nowhere, there’s bound to be a truck stop on the side somewhere. Studies have shown that driving drowsy is the same as or even worse than driving drunk.
Maybe talk to them?
This thread seems to involve many people who have taken ECON 101 and think it corresponds with reality. For example:

"If you got to a gas station near me, you can get a CR2032 battery for say 2 USD. If you got to a certain home decor/equipment store a mile away, you'll get 4 of these batteries for 1 USD. That's what, 8x more expensive for a relatively common product?"

This isn't a difference between .25¢ for 1 and $2 for one. It is the difference between $4 and a bit of a search for 1 plus three more to stuff in a drawer and $2 for one here now where you are. And $2 is the cost of, what, a couple ounces of coffee?

This is what ECON 101 calls irrationality.
A quick look around the internet[0] gives 6" aluminium square bars at $1,473 for 144".

The monolith is about 141" long, and has sides of about 23.5", so 16 of those bars would neatly fill it.

So if it is solid aluminium, that's about $23,500 in material.

[0]: https://www.onlinemetals.com/en/buy/aluminum/6-aluminum-squa...
Sounds like a good scheme for global redistribution of wealth. Get the richest countries to put an annual trillion dollar budget together for buying carbon, divided up by country based on their GDP. Obviously, no one with the power to do so will really want that redistribution to happen though.
A friend suggested that they'll find the name Acme on it and when it's removed there'll be a very flat coyote under it. (American cartoon reference.)
That went securely over top of my head.
Corporate services platform Sleek lands $4M in new funding
New wave artist? Like Devo?
Join the IWW and start organizing your workplace!
Netgate uses FreeBSD as the base for pfSense, and Scott Long (formerly of Netflix) now leads that effort.
Maybe to sell training?
IDK, considering the insane rent prices in NYC I would think that they could do something like a small division so that the person could access the apartment without direct access to the rest of the library.

It could help to support the libraries, I guess some people would even pay an "extra" because it's in there.
You Are Not a High-Performer: How Labeling Is Limiting
Yeah. I'm British, and a few years ago spent several weeks travelling around the US by Amtrak. Not one of my trains was actually on time, and the Sunset Limited (LA -> New Orleans) was over a day late. Our trains aren't great for punctuality, but they're nowhere near that bad.

Of course, the reasons are somewhat different, too. In the UK the problem is mostly that the tracks are very heavily timetabled with passenger trains, such that there's very little slack: an issue with one service can screw up an entire chunk of the network with effects that last for hours. In the US, freight trains have priority outside the Northeast Corridor, so we would get looped for several hours to wait for a train of oil tankers going the other way.
The problem is not solved by answering the question ‘does any country appear to have a better government?’.

The problem is solved by answering the question: ‘what mechanism will transform our current government to a better one?’

That is unsolved.
We Do Not Have the Internet We Deserve
Not really -- the format of the Sunday strips became a lot looser and more varied after the throwaway panels stopped being a thing. Compare, for example, these two Calvin-as-a-dinosaur strips, from 1988 and 1994:

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/08/14

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1994/01/30
My experience with f sharp and recently with the new Haskell langauge server has been that not having written type annotations is a no issue because the language tooling still shows them above the function definition and better yet can autogenerate them.

So I think this is more of a tooling issue, do keep in mind global type inference is really handy for interactive programming in the repl and short scripts.

Type inference
I think a better way to say it is that it moves from a trustless system to a system that trusts based on some criteria. That criteria is usually how many coins one has.

Since the original bitcoin concept was solving the byzantine generals problem, the entire point of all the cryptographic work was to be trustless.

If you are cool with trust, you can have reversibility, lost password retrieval, anti-money laundering checks, and all the other features of the existing financial system.

It would be a carbon copy of that, of course, which would raise the question of what problem this system is solving for people.

But I understand that Ethereum is about distributed computing, not transactions, so the calculus may be different. The point being to replace AWS, not Western Union.

I'm personally not sold on why a distributed trust algorithm would be superior to trusting AWS or Azure, given that those services can give you a refund for errors, are subject to the legal system, have a brand reputation to maintain, and so on.
I mildly enjoy the Garfield comic strip, it gives a chuckle or two every now and then but is mostly forgettable (This article is a bit over the top though, written for commercial reasons does not mean not intended to be funny, I find it kind of silly to measure something by the purity of the artist's intentions)

I did greatly enjoy the Garfield and Friends TV show as a kid, I still remember the bit about "Wyoming" meaning no state here.
"Designed for for professionals"
Agreed. My three person household would regularly hit my Comcast data cap of 1TB. They’re absolutely going to start lowering the cap, and they already charge you per Gb that you go over. They have an effective monopoly over my whole city, too. They’re the literal only choice for internet that’s not < 5mb.

Their years and years of lobbying is paying off already and it’s only going to get worse and worse for the end consumer. They are consistently rated as having one of the worse customer service experiences in the world. God help us all.
So lith, from Greek lithos, stone. Problem is there's no straight equivalent for a metal bar - perhaps rávdos/rabdos, meaning ingot/rod.

So, "Monorabd"?
Economic Performance of the Airline Industry (November 2020)
I'm not a gamer, so I'm curious which games use 120 - 160 GB when downloading them? Or is that the usage when playing them for a period of time (i.e., downloading assets on the fly)? And I thought that DVD games were huge (4.5 - 8 GB), but I haven't really kept up with current trends.

Edit -- just did some quick searches, it appears some games require 50 - 100 GB minimum storage -- is that what is downloaded, or do they generate game assets from compressed data after installation?
Really cool. Does the calendar syncing go beyond iCloud?
And they say journalism is dead.
These guys did an amazing job with Garfield:

https://www.youtube.com/user/lasagnacat

I especially love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_NeqMAAsBk
Simply put no. The cost to implement is too high and is essentially the same as what we do for Municipal Solid Waste (just bury it). I put it in a slightly less insane category than geo-engineering. The only places that I see carbon capture as potentially viable as a transition is using it to offset industrial process gases necessary. I.e. capture CO2 from coal plant for cement production - however that is niche case as siting is key and transportation is too expensive.

How do we solve climate change? Deploy, deploy, deploy. We have renewable energy that is cheap and available. Change the policy incentives at the federal away from subsidizing oil and gas and incentives green energy. De-carbonize the transportation sector with EV and HZEV. Reduce Natural Gas for home heating with the injection of Hydrogen into the fuel lines (up to 20%). Invest in research and development into further productionizing effective technologies.

Let's skip the wasted capital, debate and energy and move on. Also, let us not forget that Oil and Gas Majors have been deploying considerable money into this sector for decades to prolong their existence. I for one do not want to subsidize their behavior any more as they have been trying to scuttle the climate date since the 80s.
Well, yes, the options are available are in any tenant and are equal to what any it admin can enable on win10.

It isn't a secret, or hidden, it's a marketed and properly governed side of microsoft if you read the o365 stuff, deployment, and general digital workplace. And it makes sense.
Not really, rust is unusable for interactive programming because of this reason. I understand that's not rust target domain but still there's downsides to be had with their approach.
Yes you are absolutely correct. I meant D2 as in that’s what I flew when I flew AA.
Yes, there is a long way to go, economically or psychologically. I think a civilized country should be more open to new concepts.
There were no machines in the sense of ML in 1740.
Book: Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff

Get the audiobook, tone of voice matters.

(Root cause of this dysfunction is the principle agent problem, you can't fix it, everyone tries, everyone fails, accept it and get on with the job.)
I frequent r/imsorryjon. Now, those things are funny.
There seem to be multiple issues here.

This seems like you were basically in the wrong role. As the only full-time engineer, you're more than just an engineer, you're basically the IT department. So when the other departments were represented at meetings and disputes were being raised, IT wasn't represented. You failed at basic office politics. Office politics gets a bad rep because lots of people play it to further themselves, but being able to play basic politics is required to make sure other departments don't give your department all the blame.

Also, because you weren't at the meetings you weren't able to understand what the business really needed. If you understood what the business really needed you would have been delivering that and people would have noticed. Instead, I suspect you focused on the technical tasks and created a very good technical product that fit the basic idea of what was needed but didn't deliver what is needed. In the future I would suggest looking into something like BDD, it basically follows the premise that business people don't even know what to ask for, so you have to work with them in meetings to discover what the true need is. And because you weren't really delivering what was needed as far as the other teams were concerned it most likely came across as they had no idea what you were doing therefore doing nothing at all.

Basically, meetings, they're important. I hate to put it this way but I feel it's the truth, it's the difference between a software developer and software engineer. And the difference between a senior and a lead. It seems to me you would be much better suited for a role in a team where the management track stuff was dealt with by other people. I personally dislike the management track work but I understand the importance and I avoided management track roles for years to focus on writing code and solving problems.
> This site is made up of people, just like all the other sites out there. As a group, HN is no more or less susceptible to biases and irrationality than any other group of people or any other website.

From a binary perspective, agreed. From this non-comprehensive perspective, you are correct.

But the reality here is more complex than a binary.

From a continuum perspective, is it actually correct that HN is "just like all the other sites out there", that they are "no more or less susceptible to biases and irrationality than any other group of people or any other website"?

This level of precise consistency across any arbitrary grouping of people seems rather unlikely to occur in reality, and if it was like this, you'd think someone would have noticed it. Also, this take on it seems rather contrary to my "feel" for the aggregate self-evaluation that the individuals members of this community have voiced. I'm fine with either one, but perhaps it might be useful for us to decide on which it is.

If you think about it, if superior rationality is literally impossible, then are we not completely wasting our time on discussing where flaws exist in society, and which groups need to be focused on and improved (which is a very common topic of conversation around here)? If nothing can be done, why do we not just abandon the entire topic of improving the world and devote the remainder of our short lives to enjoying ourselves?
The overall commits/engineer graph plotted over time was one of the metrics used to justify first round of layoffs at Uber last year. Not necessarily at the individual level but to come up with an aggregate reduction target.
“Mac OS” pre-“X” (9.x and prior) or “macOS” post-“X” (11.x and newer)?
I would say one of the main reasons is data - Google just has a lot more of it.
It felt incomplete in some ways but Spore was so cool. I don't think there's been anything like it in the sim genre since tbh
What is metal, if not refined rock extract?
This is awesome, but are you worried that you know what HN readers think about breast reconstruction aesthetics and that that may not exactly match the general population. Guess you can compare it to the first 1,300 responses?
This is a federally protected land, there are no special rules for art unless it was before when such laws were made.

FWIW, I find this piece of trash to be a showoff moment for some wannabe 'artist'. Mimicking a movie prop to me sounds like a low-effort, untalented mindset.
Show HN: Quicklang.net – A Simple Programming Language That Runs in the Browser
Seems smart -- if people are going to be WFH or going to Zoom school full time, might as well get an extra $100/month from them. They can't say no.

It'll be interesting to see whether broadband competitors match the offer or just siphon off a handful of switching customers. In Massachusetts many Internet markets are a monopoly (Comcast) or a duopoly (Comcast + Verizon or RCN).

There are also a tiny handful of municipal providers (including Braintree, Norwood, Whip City Fiber for Westfield and area, and Russell). If people are still heavily working/attending school from home in March I can imagine a bit of pressure on towns and cities to do the very hard work of starting up Internet as a utility.
I mildly like Garfield.

Never particularly cared for Calvin and Hobbes (always found it somewhat preachy, tacky, and emotionally kitch, the "I think we've learned something today", going-for-the-feels type), though the writer is nonetheless very talented (and a lot of its strips are great).

The post also mentions the New Yorker cartoons. Never cared for them either, not because I "missed the joke", but because I dislike their faux-high-brow attitude to humor, given that the content is more often than not trite observations about society.

I also like lots of webcomic strips (Cyanide and Hapiness, Dinosaur Comics, SMBC, The Parking Lot is Full, etc), and comics like Gosciny, Mafalda, Mortadelo y Filemon, and so on, besides "serious" comics.
Firefox containers, or delete cookies. It is because of how cookies work and not terminating a session upon logout.
The NYPL board has discussed renovating and re-purposing these apartments. It's a good idea, though it should be pointed out that this board has a history of foolish, reckless, and possibly corrupt dealing, as when they sold off the Donnell Branch and nearly destroyed the iconic Main Library on 42nd & 5th (the one with the lions; look up "Central Library Plan" for details).

This year, SaveNYPL.org got federal and state protection for NYC's remaining 56 Carnegie libraries:
https://www.savenypl.org/major-victory-landmarking-nycs-carn...

Now we are working on a local designation. This is important because real estate developers have many of these buildings in the crosshairs. Currently, hand in hand with the NYPL and the Robin Hood Foundation, they are looking to tear down the Inwood Branch, under the guise of building a shiny new library, inside a big condo with some "affordable housing". A few years ago, they did tear down the Brooklyn Heights Branch, replacing it with a smaller library inside a large condo (there is an argument that civic works ought to be freestanding to communicate import). Before that, the Donnell Library was torn down, replaced year later with a library that is a fraction of the original and squeezed into a basement beneath a luxury hotel, the latter valued at a multiple of what the NYPL got in the deal. And for a while, the developers behind the Barclays Center were itching to tear down the Pacific Branch in Brooklyn.

These libraries are important civic spaces. Whatever your feelings about paper vs digital, there is no denying that NYC's libraries are heavily used, and that they constitute an important part of the fabric of our civic life, a place where New Yorkers of all stripes congregate and mingle.

Historical footnote: NYPL is in fact a private institution chartered by New York State, formed through the merger of the Astor and Lenox libraries, to which was added a gift from the Tilden Foundation. It serves the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island, while the Queens Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library have their own systems (Brooklyn was a separate city until 1898). To further confuse matters, many of the libraries NYPL runs, including the Main Library, are owned by NYC, while others are belong to NYPL itself. Scott Sherman's book, Patience & Fortitude, provides a good, pithy history.
Mobile/Desktop Convergence
I’d dare to say that there were educated as engineers.

Majority of software engineering courses doesn’t really teach you how to be an engineer. It’s much closer to trade school than proper engineering.
For people who are aphantasic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia), this technique is impossible.
They say that their product failed and they didn't even use Julia? They really had no idea what they were doing.
Mystifying monolith found amid Utah rocks
It's also going to be extremely heavy.

Assuming the "monolith" is around 10ft tall with a 1.5ft square base, it would weigh 5 tonnes if it were made of solid steel. Whoever installed it would have needed serious machinery to haul it over there and stick it in the rock.

Thin sheets of metal, either welded or riveted together, would have been much easier to build and install. It could even have been filled with some other material (e.g. sand) before the top was put on.
My question in the original comment is not meant to mock or poke fun at those who enjoyed it. I, myself, found it somewhat entertaining to read as a kid.

Rather, my question is more in reference to what seem to be incongruous facts: the article points out that the comic was not written with the intention to be funny, so then what explains its popularity as a comic strip?

I don't doubt that there are some (many!) who thought it funny. What I'm trying to understand is the discrepancy between its immense fame AND its apparent lack of humorous intention.

It'd be a little bit like if there was a famous band that was incredibly popular, yet in multiple interviews they reveal that they don't put a great deal of effort behind making appealing music. As such, I would be curious to understand what instead may be the other driving sources of their appeal (ex. good looks, marketing etc.).

For example, here are some other possible candidate reasons the Garfield comics may have been popular. I don't know if any of these are true, rather I would consider them hypotheses that I would be curious to hear others confirm/debunk:

* it was marketed very well and gave people the perception that it was _supposed_ to be funny, and if you didn't find it funny that was perhaps a result of _you_ not getting something.
* there was a more limited selection of sources of comic strips, so the standards for what passed as an entertaining comic strip were lower than in our Internet age.
* most people knew it wasn't funny, nor that it was meant to be funny. Rather they read it because it was the cultural meme of the day to do so.
Big hunk o' metal
It’s not the data caps that really gets me heated. It’s their exclusion of their own services from the caps and the anti-consumer practices and the lobbying and the stifling of competition that really get to me.

And to top it all off their customer service makes me want to run into traffic just at the thought of having to deal with them. It’s like volunteering to be gaslit.
A reddit user [1] found its location [2] and another figured out it was installed sometime during 2015-2016 based on when the satellite imagery changed.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/k01dc3/mysterious_m...

[2] https://goo.gl/maps/2xdrTqcnguX3ky8AA
So, this would only work if you use basic vbscript and not powershell which is enabled =per account, regardless if admin or not. But it does not take into account browser clicks, refreshing pages and general browsing.

This was a very brought up topic at MSFT.
Discord Nitro Monetizes Fun
According to Wikipedia, the Queens Public Library is in fact the largest circulating public library in the country.
Ha! I worked at a place where every Monday I had to count the number of commits each team member made and put them on a weekly report.

Once the company got bought, my new boss in charge of all developers across all divisions asked me to not mention that again so he doesn't have to do that. Once I moved on, it sounds like ParentCo took a more active role in the development and hopefully they stopped that.
installing apps is another thing that will be watched and limited. a one line powershell script will do this and would be less noticeable since the system and admins run powershell stuff on the computer everyday anyway.