skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon Musk is no Iron Man. All his companies are built with taxpayer money. When did I sign up to be irradiated by his satellites?!
I had similar issues in Chicago. My high-efficiency furnace had issues in 2019 when we had -30f weather for a few days. Basically it's a multistage condensing furnace, and on those really cold nights it would fail to kick into the later stages. After failing so many times, it would enter a "reset" mode, where it basically would shut down for 10+ minutes at a time, which isn't great when it's really cold!

In trying to fix it, I had multiple techs come out and none really fixed the issue. These are basically some notes on the experience:
- First tech stayed for 6 hours. Cleaned the system, replaced a high pressure switched, and readjusted the PVC in and out takes. The pressure switch alone costed over $500 dollars. He did the PVC for free. The problem persisted after he left.
- First tech sent a second guy out the next day. This guy comes in and within 10 minutes recommended replacing my Nest with their "preferred" smart thermostat for a cost of $500. He also wanted to redo my humidifiers water setup ($200), and redo the elbow joint in the condensation output of the furnace ($200). After he quoted me all of that I asked him to leave. I redid the condensation output myself ($15 in parts), and humidifier ($15 in parts). I looked up the high pressure switched they replaced, and was shocked to learn it only costs $150.
- I wrote my first Yelp review ever because of this company. They contacted me a day after I posted my review asking me to take it down in exchange for a partial ($300) refund. I agreed.
- I had two family friends who do HVAC come out afterwards to look at it. After seeing that it was a high efficiency unit they basically wouldn't touch it. They are older and basically said they never retrained for high-efficiency units. It was never needed because they have more work then they can handle with older units. All they were able to offer was to give me a good deal on replacing it with a less efficient unit if I wanted.

At the end of the day my issue was never fixed. Luckily we haven't had as cold of weather as that week, so the issue hasn't manifested again. If it happens again I honestly will cross my fingers and hope the next company that I use is more helpful then the previous.
Because your question reads as a relatively transparent thinly veiled insult, like you're questioning his ability to be curious about the world, and contributes very little to the discussion.
Cast iron works perfect on induction. Just don't use the boost mode.
Looking at someone's history is a good indicator. Hasn't she already threatened to sue Google barely a few months into her job? If so, I don't blame them for letting her go at the soonest possible time. She gave them the opportunity, and it was only smart of them to take it.
Or here : https://marker.medium.com/what-i-learned-about-the-business-...
Chinese quantum computer completes 2.5B-year task in minutes
Fascinating business idea. Albeit highly immoral.

Stupid people are easier to manipulate, especially if you continue to commercially bombard them with information coming from all different sources. And if you control all the channels that they see, then they have no alternate reality. Heck, this applies to seemingly smart people also, if they don’t reach out to different sources for a balanced view of information.

This is now becoming very true with ad networks like Google’s ad monopoly. Regardless of what website you visit, the ads all come from the same source.

So now, one use case for this is political manipulation. You can start to target people of a certain IQ range, to get them to think the same way, which can then ultimately coerce them to vote a specific way.

So now, you have a direct pathway, from planting a seed of an idea, to political manipulation, to actual physical reality.

This is now starting to sound like the premise of The Outer Limits.

But hey, morality never stopped aspiring entrepreneurs from making a billion dollars.
Ensuring a Smooth Kubernetes Dockershim Deprecation with Chaos Engineering
XMPP is anything but dead yet. There were a lot of XEPs added and updated in recent years and it turned into a modern protocol being able to provide all features you could expect from a modern messaging service.

It's just that you need a client and server that supports those features. Daniel Gultsch has written an Android client[1], that's as good as it can be. He also offers a maintained XMPP server [2] providing the full-featured counterpart. But if you want to self-host, ejabberd supports all the features as does Prosody. For iOS users, there's Monal which is slowly getting there.

[1] https://conversations.im

[2] https://account.conversations.im
If it wasnt on the main page before, it is in bold in the bottom paragraph now
> There's a reason Apple don't make Time Capsules any more. Servers are usually commodities, and Apple don't make commodities if they can reasonably avoid it (anything they make that's even close to a commodity still, at least, can be turned into a fashion accessory, like the aluminum keyboards and stuff).

Also, they can sell you a monthly subscription to iCloud storage instead. I'd rather be in that line of business than selling an overpriced and under-featured NAS. Anyone who cares that much is probably technically savvy enough to prefer a proper NAS anyway.
> The software is not 30% slower.

I showed you that it is, and you keep saying that it isn't. I even gave you some examples that are more than 100% slower.

> There are a set of cold boot launch times which can be shown to be slower in a video

That's what I said they were. You kept not believing me even though I showed proof. Now you say that it doesn't matter. It is in fact the biggest thing that matters for productivity apps, aside from UX, where Android wins by a bigger margin due to smart replies and other actions in notifications.

> You’ve attempted to use a set of YouTube videos to justify a false statement.

You keep saying that, but you've just agreed in this comment that my statement was wholly correct.

Get your fingers out of your ears.
> In US English you might say "gotten Gitter", i guess.

I assumed "got" was extraneous due to editing, removing it sounds a lot better to my ear: "An alternative architecture would be to have Gitter directly federating with Matrix by..."

I assumed it was a mistake due to editing, since I would use "got" primarily in this way: "An alternative architecture would be if we got Gitter directly federating with Matrix by...", to my ear "got" normally follows a noun, but I think the alliteration makes it sound extra awkward.

At any rate, I'm no english major so it's not a big deal.

> You can already create non-repo rooms in Gitter

My question is less about non-repo rooms and more about rooms that look like repo-rooms. Is there any protection against a malicious user setting up "#google_chromium:gitter.im" and distributing malicious binaries?

Edit: Maybe I'm not really asking a clear question - overall I'm wondering what the long term plan is for the gitter room addresses, where you can be sure that matrix-org/matthew-test belongs to matrix-org. It seems to me that if the gitter room addresses are planned to be removed in the long term, the security implications of the room address will change, so I was looking for some mention of that in the post. Not that it's a huge deal if communicated properly, people would just have to be sure they found the room from an official repo and keep in mind that the restriction of creating rooms under the org is no longer present.
By "this guy", I take it you're referring just to the guy from the original piece. Basquiat very much created a myth about his life -- partly in collaboration with Andy Warhol, one of the greatest self-mythmakers in the art world.

I don't mean to diminish Basquiat's art or his story. I'm just affirming (by way of clarifying) what you said: the artist's life is a part of their art, and part of what you pay for.
Agree with this. If a purely cost driven race to the bottom is inevitable, it already would have happened. I think what’s going on right now increases the competition for roles that some people may have previously had a geographic advantage over others in obtaining, but I don’t think this means that advantage is gone, nor do I think it’s a zero sum game. There may be some downward wage pressure, but if cost was your only motivator as an employer, you were probably already hiring remote teams in low cost markets.
Consul[0] and Nomad [1] by HashiCorp both use raft.

[0] https://consul.io

[1] https://nomadproject.io
Thanks, that kind of makes sense.
Dataframe launched today: data warehouse discovery and documentation made easy
Hey all - my co-founders and I are excited to announce the private beta release of our product: a fully-featured, free data discovery and documentation platform for your data warehouse.

Would love to hear your thoughts. :)

https://medium.com/df-foundation/introducing-dataframe-the-simplest-data-discovery-and-documentation-tool-for-your-data-warehouse-2a7fb0e16224
Go unfortunately suffers from something similar: packaging. Even if you don't know the history of go, you have to look at it only once to figure out that this part is a hacky afterthought. Like everything in js. Also comparison of scripting languages is the stupidest thing one can do and I'd have expected better from debian but oh well...

My point remains: javascript is the stupidest language ever made(including the esoteric languages) and it should have been scrapped a long time ago. I have 1000+ books on my shelves next to me and if I start describing the utter crap found in javascript, I'd have to write 10 times as much. Stupid type system, idiotic paradigms, no clear structure, shit standard library, inconsistent naming conventions even in the standard library alone, it's as compatible with lower level languages as olive oil and alcohol(ffi is absolute shit with outrageous overhead), slow, unpredictable, does not have a clear way to do basic stuff like deep cloning.

But you are right, it's cheaper to write an interface using javascript. But if cost saving is our top priority, there's yet another argument for scrapping it altogether: ncurses. 10 times faster to write, 10000 times better performance, runs on anything with a screen. I'd totally vote for dropping the current web in favor of console-based web.
???

This is the foundation of the entire internet as we know it.
This is all super cool, but for those of you who tl:dr;ed, check out their application - creating a "concept painting" app. You can literally click "door" and spray on the picture, and it'll put a door there for you.

http://gandissect.csail.mit.edu

http://gandissect.res.ibm.com/ganpaint.html?project=churchou...
> Anyone have experience with that?

Similar issue for me. I wanted to try Tailwind on my current project and started by including their CSS on my site which made it sluggishly slow (Firefox on Mac). It was in dev mode so no tree shaking but I was too bothered by this new slowness (e.g. select menues taking 1s to open) so I stopped that experiment.
Check 1, 2, 3 Is this thing on?
All of Musk's endeavors are subsidized by public funds. He is the master of getting public money to develop his products.
Please excuse if my questions seem rude, but I'm very curious:

1. How many UIs for websites / webapps have you written by yourself?

2. How many while working within a team?

I have a modest web UI dev experience myself and Tailwind doesn't seem that crazy to me. I've tried the techniques you seem to be advocating, but the idea of them sounded better than they actually were in practice.
Ye olde, but goode.

It's less of an argument and more of a question: what has changed so that a separate bedroom and PS5 are now deemed basic necessities?
There's an unofficial script which installs a bunch of dependencies in the correct order [0].

Run the autoprefix-patcher.py. It's unofficial and it's magic that I haven't taken too much time to understand. Your mileage may vary.

[0] https://github.com/Linux74656/SpaceEngineersLinuxPatches
The ones I truly hated were presented in some weird online not-a-real-text-editor format (unrealistic environment), and were also TIMED (unforgivable).

I mean, I’m not sure what you’re assessing if you throw 4 different problems at me to complete in an hour using an editor I’ve never seen before (that may have bugs of its own).

“Homework assignments” seem OK to me though; feel free to give me a few days in my environment of choice to produce quality work. Anything less is not a good benchmark.
There is a chapter called ‘ninja code’, which is full of terrible advice. A small example.

> The ideal name for a variable is data. Use it everywhere you can.

There is one small comment at the top of the chapter, which says ‘Irony detected’. Is there really a whole chapter written Ironically? It would be very easy to read this and think it was real advice.

(And if it is real advice, and I’m completely misunderstanding, then I can’t possibly recommend this book).
I think for Ops / sysadmin work this is probably more true than general software engineering. Ops people tend to cluster in the bay area more. Probably because Ops work used to be more "physical hands" dealing with physical servers which requires being onsite.
I've not tried it myself, but I think Horizon:Zero Dawn was mentioned as explicitly fixed by Valve in the latest Proton runtime.
A single point basis (like X = \z. z K S K for which
X X = K K, X X X = K, and X (X X) = S) is not in itself a combinator.

A combinator is not just a closed lambda term;
it must have all lambdas in leading position.
Like S = \x \y \z. x z (y z)
Totally agree.

- Bootstrap
- Jquery
- Handlebars

should be enough for many small to medium sized applications
Go for it. Others already do that use Electron. Shapez.io is one such title and it's open source too so you can get some pointers if needed from it.
Does Matrix support linearly directed imageboards (e.g.:4chan) style threading?

In 4chan threading is done by linking the between posts using the post id permalink (1). This is aided by the UI which allows you to hover over the listed ID and see parents or children. This results in being able to respond to multiple posts in a single post. This means that instead of tree structured threading, DAG style threading is possible. The second consequence is that by default posts are displayed linearly, like an IRC discussion. This linear display results in unlimited nesting depth. Nesting is not dependent on indentation.

(1) https://www.4channel.org/faq#quote
It sounds like the normal Microsoft support (aka PSS) when you don't have a support agreement. If the problem you are reporting is solved by a hotfix or update, then MS refunds the support fee.
That's hilarious, I have been reading about Pijul for a few days so I don't have any real experience with it yet.
I've run into that in a few places and it always baffles me that people would intentionally choose to add even more gotchas to javascript. Don't get me wrong, I think aesthetics in code are important but not to the point of deliberately increasing the chance of hard to find bugs.
They're quite high in potassium, vitamin C, B6, niacin, folate, not to mention various minerals. To say it's low in other nutrients is just plain wrong.
Thanks for the comment. Could you please share why does this induces a negative emotion?

My intention was to become create a system for myself, and I decided to share that on my personal blog with friends and people who know me. So the original intention was to share something that I'm using myself, and something that I've spent 10+ hours researching.

Would love to hear your opinion
Aurora acquiring Uber's self-driving research unit
Can someone give a tl;dr? I'm having issues opening this on my phone.
I think you have misunderstood the purpose of RDOF grants.

The RDOF grants are not there to establish competition. RDOF grants exist purely for some company to provide broadband service where there is none.

If anything it's funding a local monopoly.
Uber exits self-driving car sector, sells business to Aurora
Did she actually resign ? No.
As she didn't resign, was she fired ? Yes.
The only issue is Google lying about it.
You are underestimating how hard it probably is for spies to enter into Iran, exit safely, and not get captured or killed in between.

A satellite-internet connected stationary gun aimed at an intersection they know this guy drives through often is a magnificent tool for agent safety.

These intel agencies aren’t idiots. If they knew a hit and run would be safe and easy they woulda done it. They’d probably prefer having operatives safe and alive instead of tortured and dead so they can continue operations.
The body as mediator: The phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty
I worked in the cryptocurrency space for a while and zcash was definitely one of the altcoins that I hoped would succeed. A Bitcoin fork that’s privacy focused, what’s not to like?
I always wonder who is the buyer of this kind of information. I think the terms with the buyer will be that the buyer can't spam the participant, so I guess the only benefit will be if buyer can correlate with other advertisement profile and will be someone like some big contextual advertising company. Even for them, correlating say 1% of the users and maybe increasing their CTR by few percent is worth going this much huddle. All I know is most of the ads that I see sucks and there is likely much more easier to fix that than hoping tinder have my data on intelligence and would use that.
> ...a full 95 percent of respondents were male

Well, that’s exactly the problem I see with surveys in general: people read the above statement and automatically parse it as „95 percent of GitHub users are male“.

No, they aren’t. Or maybe they are. We don’t know. What we know is the percentage of respondents who identified as male. We know nothing - not. one. thing. - about how many % of GitHub users are male. What if 80% of female users simply didn’t bother to respond to the survey?
Substack isn’t a new model for journalism – it’s a old one
Social Strikes Back
"The U.S. economy was in the midst of the longest
post-war economic expansion, with historically low
levels of unemployment, prior to the onset of the
COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year. The global
pandemic not only brought about a public health
crisis but also caused a contraction of economic
activity at an unprecedented pace. Initially, the
pandemic reduced consumer spending, slowed
manufacturing production, and led to widespread
business closures. The unemployment rate surged
from 3.5 percent in February to a record high of
nearly 15 percent in April. Since then, extraordinary
measures undertaken by policymakers have
succeeded in arresting the decline in economic
conditions, initiating a recovery and lowering the
unemployment rate to 7.9 percent as of September.
However, a protracted virus outbreak poses
downside risks that can slow the recovery and even
prolong the economic downturn."

...

"With cash flows impaired due to the COVID-19
pandemic, many businesses may be challenged to
service their debt. Since March, nearly $2 trillion in
nonfinancial corporate debt has been downgraded,
and default rates on leveraged loans and corporate
bonds have increased considerably. The growing
number of bankruptcy filings could stress resources
at courts and make it harder for firms to obtain
critical debtor-in-possession financing. It could also
prevent many firms from restructuring their debt
in a timely fashion, potentially forcing them into
liquidation."

...

"Money market funds (MMFs) offer shareholders
redemptions on a daily basis while holding many
short-term assets that are less liquid, especially in
times of stress. Stresses on prime and tax-exempt
money funds in March revealed continued structural
vulnerabilities, which led to increased redemptions
and, in turn, likely contributed to the stress in
STFMs. Among institutional and retail prime MMFs,
outflows as a percentage of fund assets exceeded
that of the September 2008 crisis. Outflows abated
after the Federal Reserve announced support for the
CP market and MMFs."

...
GitHub markdown supports checklists natively. Why would I need an app?
Last time I was at a company that tried that, the (US-based) management would fight over making sure their projects went to the US-based devs (even if not in the same office) vs the overseas devs because the communication gap - timezones and physical distance both - was that bad.

Zoom hasn't fixed this.
> We’re all human and passions drive us in weird, occasionally unpredictable ways.

Very true. It's just our nature, and we're all fallible beings in some way or another. Lord knows I'm at the top of the fallibility list.

> I’m undoubtedly as guilty of it as anyone.

I am as well; more than most, in fact.

> Also, fuck those anti-vaxxers.

Agreed!

I didn't realize that was their opinion at the time, so I shared a bunch of medical literature in the hopes of supporting my argument. What I didn't realize was their opinion of any supporting evidence was dismissed as clearly "paid for" by, uh, $LARGE_FACELESS_ENTITY.

While I'm sure that's true in some cases, the mRNA COVID vaccines are fascinating because the principle has been around since 1989. I'm hoping it works, not specifically because of SARS-CoV-2, but because it shows some possibility as an anti-cancer vaccine. We just need to prove the delivery mechanism is functional.

I really want it to work so that we can manage or eliminate other diseases as well. I think that's why I was so frustrated/disappointed.
As a data scientist, and owner of a data science company, this idea is certainly tempting on the surface but unlikely to be effective or necessary in practice. I feel like in the long run, the market is generally pretty good at weeding out bad apples. There will always be companies who want to hire on the cheap and have to learn the hard way that qualified talent comes at a premium.
> got caught up in a blue/red debate

Huh?

> rather than contemplate what was written

That’s exactly what I did?

Do you actually have anything substantive to say?
I remember there was a review of a Beatles box set that started something like "half of these songs sound like some rock band you have heard before, and the other half sound like Oasis"
If a landowner is having trouble making a profit on rent due to high mortgage costs, that just means that the wealth was captured by the previous owner via a high sale price. So the point still stands that a disproportionate amount of wealth is flowing to land instead of capital or labor.
Tarantula was indeed picked as an 'easy' start as I've played this before with people.

So I guess you're right, though it's not the way a human would do it, we'd home in faster and more precisely, but still.

As you say, it kind of partitioned off the search space pretty efficiently in its own strange manner.
You can't vouch for something until it's dead. That's what vouching does: it unkills it. If you want to counteract flags, upvote.
Frankly, in this case that’s a load of crap and editing the title to not contain the company name makes it look like YC are in their pockets.