skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are whole-house dehumidiers that operate separately than your heating/cooling system. Set a relative humidity (RH) range and let it work; e.g.:

* https://www.santa-fe-products.com/product-category/dehumidif...

The air movement problem in a tightly sealed house is dealt with an HRV (or ERV) which brings in filtered fresh air, but tempers it with the exhausted stale air:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_recovery_ventilation

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_recovery_ventilation

These are solved problems, it's 'just' a matter of budget and mechanical constraints in fitting the equipment (existing ducting can be re-used).
YMMV, that’s all I’m saying. Don’t come in expecting it or you’ll be disappointed. And that’s resonated with other coworkers of mine on other teams, too.
One thing that has resulted from COVID is that people purchased lots of bandannas, and I did too. Recently I realized I could just wear one around my neck even inside my home to stay warmer, which is something I'd somehow never considered before. It's more comfortable than a turtle neck imo.

I think a lot of people had this same idea, and you see bandannas being worn around a lot. In public people will just think it's your 'backup COVID mask' if you have a bandanna around your neck, so it doesn't look like an oddball style choice.
LibraryThing has several robust export options and an API. As they also run small "actual" libraries that includes some interesting old catalog formats as well.
Yeah, I remember them randomly enabling it for years, basically gaslighting users whenever they would bring it up saying that “we shouldn’t ask you to login, if it is doing it that’s a bug”. But clearly they were just A/B testing it to the point where they could enable this all the time.
I think the awareness is the first step for competition to survive.
Answer Covid-19 Questions Using Bio-Bert
I would imagine Asian culture doesn't help with this at all, where you're expected to build your empire through career and education (the 996 rule where you work 9am-9pm 6 days a week, as Jack Ma would put it) while suppressing the rest.

I'm also surprised something like this hasn't come out of Japan already, but then again Japan doesn't have as large of a gender imbalance as China does due to the One Child Policy.

On an unrelated note, this also reminds me of the Futurama episode where people start downloading celebrity personalities into robots, and a sex education video scared teens into saying that "robo-sexual" relationships were shunned and did not advance the human race.
I wonder if many of the new, non pc gaming users have seen either of the old or new site designs as opposed to one of the many mobile apps given how much interaction happens there and how strongly you’re pushed away to the official app.
I found the same when I worked in UK. I'm from Poland and in the winter everybody wear winter clothes even if it's 5C. Homes are well insulated and heated.

People in UK by default wear much colder clothes so they are more used to cold. The end effect was that me and my friend were going everywhere in coats while everybody else was in their shirts :)

What's funny is that people that moved to Poland from Siberia had similar experience. They were cold in our houses because it's "just" 18C while they are used to 25-30C inside because of constant heating.
I don't think the change really helped much.

What if the maintainer didn't submit them simply because they just don't want to, this is deliberate with no technical reason this shouldn't be shared, still contradicting the first sentence. At that point I don't think its impolite anymore that someone else does the work with or without their permission. It was the maintainer's choice to leave the work to another person or team to upstream, in turn increasing their own burden to deal with cleaning up or adding patches later.

If OpenBSD doesn't want to be a good FOSS citizen they should state as much and not try to hide behind word games. Nor should they throw stones calling questions or discussion rude when other statements by their own team are worse, yet they seem exempt from their own guidelines, etc.
That would not be free, that would be very expensive - it just wouldn't be expensive in direct billing.
The are still other forums. Google promoted my forums (in Dutch) in their results a lot this year, while I did nothing to improve "SEO".
Lots of data on this from the annual survey: https://clojure.org/news/2020/02/20/state-of-clojure-2020
Unfortunately this crate has been abandoned by its author for quite some time now. The main differences are that are that chromiumoxide uses async rust by design and that all the devtools protocol types are generated.

rust-headless-chrome was very helpful for some parts and bootstrapped some parts of chromiumoxide, such as the key and mouse clicking. However I looked at chromedp and puppeteer itself for the most part.
https://i.reddit.com still lives
Ive watched porn all my life (like most). I dont have a moral vendetta against it. But it seems to be a no-go topic for discussing the serious societal issues from porn. As I've grown older ive realized its really very toxic and probably the most widespread addiction in the US causing real issues.

When you watch porn all day or even just a few times per week, your testosterone and hormonal balance as a man changes. You do not go after women and start a family. You are more likely to be depressed. It causes brain fog and mood disorders. Etc. Theres some good TED talks on this which are easy to find. This is never talked about and should be. Little off topic maybe but just wanted to state this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU
4programmers.net if you speak Polish.
> planes went from the Wright Flyer to the 747 in 50 years or so

Boeing first flew the Dash 80 (the 707 prototype) in 1954, with the first commercial service in 1958.

The 747 program started in 1965. The age of jet transport went really fast!
Well, here in Illinois, a gallon of diesel fuel is 85 cents per gallon. An international flight to Hong Kong will take a little over 40,000 gallons (but is tax exempt), so 34000 dollars worth of taxes are not paid per flight.
So privacy matters because 'thats your business'.

Then it is equally valid for some other people to say privacy doesn't matter because 'none of yours or anyone else's damned business'.

If you trying to convince other why privacy matters, thats not going to be helpful.
The first year of “The Program”, my fiction podcast launched on HN
Building an Application with Amazon's Selling Partner API
Overdo this and you will get mouldy walls.
Not meant to refute the GP argument but, in the US at the federal level the AvGas tax per gallon and gasoline tax per gallon are about the same ~ $0.19. This is probably one of those areas where subsidies and such obfuscate the reality.
"new variant" is literally a quote from a government minister. I don't think that's the usual definition of "clickbait". How would you rephrase it?
> But there's little "next gen" for airliners after the 747

There nearly was, with spaceplane projects such as HOTOL and NASP entirely within the technical potential of the 1990s. But the industry pushed for slow, efficient mass traffic instead.

So instead of Mach 25 through low orbit we have Mach 0.76 at 41,000ft. But oh such cheap stag weekends to Prague.
Don’t blame people, blame systems and processes. I assume Google has a blameless process too. If an engineer can bring down huge swaths of google that’s not a human problem. As an eng your you should heavily invest in a sane test -> deploy -> monitoring process, and reward reliability.

Give people a bonus when things didn’t break, not only when there is a superhero that fixes broken things. Then you’re rewarding fragile systems that need superheroes.
Indeed, and at which point, I stop using reddit. Perhaps as a search extension (ie, "site:reddit.com topic") every so often.
Why should it be another container format? To me the only reason that it should be a container instead of a monolithic file format seems to be an index. A plain text with some metadata and trailing indices (probably in octal, so that it is vaguely readable) might be more robust.
This made me chuckle, but I'm now dismayed because I can totally see EA making this some internal KPI ($$$ ripped off per user) that they track the mean, standard deviation, and so on YoY.
Recently they added notifications saying "multiple people are typing" and "see new comments!" which appear on posts even when newest comments are old. It's absolutely infuriating. I didn't want to cure my reddit addiction but they are trying real hard to help me with that.
Absolutely, that's direct precedence with AT&T and the Yellow Pages when the government broke up AT&T. There's a really interesting angle to this where you consider Googlebot to be an "internet phonebook" and it becomes clear that Google needs to be regulated in order for anybody to be able to compete. I've written up an argument like this here: https://knuckleheads.club/the-secretaries-and-the-phonebooks...
How Alexa's new Live Translation for conversations works
> Tellingly, in the midst of the Tea Party rebellion a decade ago, Newt Gingrich quoted The Plague while on stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference. The former speaker of the House tried to co-opt Camus into his denunciation of “Obamacare” as the mark of a tyrannical, secular, leftist government. Camus was, in fact, a European social democrat who backed universal health care and was deeply skeptical of organized religion. Such disinformation—a prelude to the rise of Trumpism—was precisely among the pitfalls of ideologies that revolted Camus.

I've seen this kind of thinking before, with Orwell, and I don't understand it. The quotes and ideas of these people are not some kind of intellectual property that the left collectively inherited and that the right isn't allowed to use.

EDIT: Quoting people is about giving them credit, and pointing your readers and listeners to further material, not about implying that they would have agreed with you.
Thoughts on Central Bank Digital Currencies
> However, teddit is limited to browsing. Can't reply / comment on it

Maybe a feature, not a limitation.
Former student here. You are a grifter and a liar who is fully aware that students are punished for leaving negative feedback.
Somewhat ironically, this article contains several examples of the same sort of rhetoric, anecdote and tendentious argumentation as the author is protesting.
> Just set the price of emitting/extracting a ton of CO2/equivalent at the price of industrially removing it plus some minimum margin (5-7%)

Emitting or extracting? The two are radically different and done in different countries. And how in both cases do you deal with simple but massive cheating?

> countries that don't comply internally can have conservative worst case carbon internalization tariffs applied

I look forward to some future US administration trying to impose tariffs on Saudi Arabia and a sheik turning up saying "Your campaign. How much?" and writing a bribe for a couple of billion dollars.
The Program audio series premiered on HN in June 2018 [1], followed by an official launch in November 2019 [2]. Since then the show received 135,000 downloads and was featured by Apple Podcasts in 6 countries.

The community here was nothing but supportive (bberenberg just sponsored an episode by paying for audio equipment, and many other HN users are show patrons) so I am now trying to give back by posting transparent updates regarding the project every 6 months or so. I write these reports the way I'd like to read them, which is to say I divulge concrete numbers and share not only the wins, but fails as well. I believe a lot of lessons (and mistakes) contained within can be applied to creative projects beyond podcasts, so hopefully it comes in useful.

For those who haven’t heard (of) The Program audio series before, imagine Black Mirror as a podcast. Every episode is a standalone story set in a future in which Money, State, and God have been fused into a single entity called the Program. The world of the Program is neither a utopia nor a dystopia, as the new system produced both winners and losers - ordinary men and women who are sometimes heroes and sometimes the villains of their own lives. And to them, it is not this future they find terrifying - but our present.

Comments/questions welcome!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17425278

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21704417
Something seems fundamentally broken in the world when and AI can comfort someone better than people. I think it has something to do with darwinian competition making us force affection to be scarce.
Tried the first 6 books I could think of that I liked, none of them appeared in the search :/
Nit: RFK rather than JFK, although apparently[1] both speeches shared a quote by George Bernard Shaw:

"Some people see things as they are and say, 'why?' I dream things that never were and say, 'why not?'"

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy%27s_remarks_...
What came first, empirical philosophers or the recognition that mundane experiential stuff is useful?

What came first, empirical physicists or the recognition that mundane events could be predicted and controlled in a useful way?

What came first, meteorologists or the recognition that paying heed to mundane weather patterns could be useful?

In essence, yes, you're arguing against a strawman. Every improvement is incremental. How come you're belittling Aristotle and Plato and discarding their contributions, but not similarly discarding Newton, Leibniz or Turing?
Sure. But I’m a busy guy and I’m trying to stick to a proportional amount of rage for each mode, based on how much damage they inflict on others. How many of the 30k roadway deaths per year (in the US) do you think we can attribute to scofflaw bicyclists putting others at risk?
Depending on the company's culture, that calculus can vary. If management start firing subordinates for making mistakes, then what should be done to management if they fail to account for human error, resulting in multimillion-dollar losses?
All Our Progress
If a population is small and you are only looking at a few generations, of course random events can have bigger effects than selective pressure. However the odds of two options being perfectly equal in terms of selective pressure is low - and even a very tiny advantage matters for large numbers over large time spans. It is an unfortunate reality of genetics and many other fields that we have only a few decades of good data and a scarce few older data points from which we must extrapolate complex trends that occur over many thousands and even millions of years.

Certainly in the case of the blue tigers, where there is a clear mechanism by which the variation would affect fitness (the red photoreceptors that make tigers stand out to us as a bright orange are quite rare among mammals, to most prey animals tigers appear as grey or a dull yellow which blends in quite well with their surroundings, while blue photoreceptors are much more common and blue tigers would thus stick out clearly to many prey animals), and where the data is so sparse (we don't even have a preserved specimen) it seems extremely inappropriate to conclude the absence of evidence for selection pressure is in fact evidence of absence of selective pressure.
I’d like to see some kind of platform penalties that are redistributed toward victims. Pornhub has made millions off things like pirated sex work and revenge uploads, while wiping out legitimate players in the industry and driving down wages and working conditions [0]

Now, having wrought all that destruction, they’re returning to what? Exactly what a regulated, verified industry looks like. It’s unconscionable that we’ve built an economy that equates to “do a lot of crime until you’re a monopoly and then behave as you should have in the first place.”

[0] https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Butterfly-Effect-with-Jon-Ron...
So you fixed this problem with your simple solution. Now you've created another one: how do you make sure the people who write content can do so while putting bread on the table.
We are in the black, and I'm investing time in people to help carry weight. It's at least as hard as the core business. Offering a slice of potential big profits to intelligent people who can't get their shit together does nothing to help them get their shit together. It does the opposite; they fall apart and descend into playing mind games with me. Paying them a reasonable amount the instant they finish an assignment actually works.
In addition to what's already been answered, Odlo and Ice breaker are on the higher price point, but definitely worth the price.

If you have Decathlon nearby, start with them and ramp up as needed.
I think this is a case where correlation does not imply causation.
I'm surprised at how much impact the NYT's expose (I would personally consider it more of a hit piece) has had. I naively assumed that PornHub, as a top-10 site on the web would be immune to such a piece, but I guess I was wrong. How many of the members of the NYT and the Visa and Mastercard boards who created on this outcome watched the videos that are now down? Probably a majority of them, but that wasn't enough to stop the moral panic I guess.

As a side note, I think Reddit should now tread very carefully. PornHub had a lot more verification in place for people uploading porn, and even they've now been neutered by a hit piece. Hell, Reddit is somehow still in the iOS App Store despite having copious amounts of porn (and yes, underage porn too even if Reddit will deny it). They're just an opinion columnist's penstroke away from the mob coming to roost.
I only recently bought F1 2019 and I am enjoying it - it's quite good when you get used to it.

Shame that EA acquired them.
http://ebanoe.it for russian speaking folks
SW Jedi Fallen Order runs on UE4.
The link is deliberately suggesting that any research on race is bogus (and the edit uses another general keyword across a general search, which still deliberately suggests that). This suggests to me either:

1. you deny white supremacy exists - in my opinion, that's the more generous reading, or,

2. you acknowledge that it exists but wish to publicly state the view that it is not worth any research hours. That is itself white supremacy, plus the intent to cause harm.

There is no credible third option. You suggest intellectual immaturity or narrow-mindedness (from someone with a PhD), but those would come in addition to either 1 or 2 applying, not instead of.

Using childishness as an excuse for racism is still racism, especially if you are a grown adult. Your excusing this as just childishness is embarrassing.
I brought down the order management system at a large bank during the middle of the trading day. The backup kicked in after about a minute but it was not fun on the trading floor.
Show HN: Hyperdata
A few days ago, I released WDR (Web Data Render), a simple idea to separate website data and presentation. It received a lot of attention[1] and invaluable feedback! But a lot of the comments focused on the rendering part, and the data part is much more interesting, in my opinion. The website being a valid JSON with pure data is very powerful. Today, I'd like to introduce Hyperdata. A simple way to get information from any JSON website. I hope you like it. Your feedback is very welcome.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25352385
that's not even wrong
I think there are probably scales SolarWinds products work well at and then places that they do not.

I have definitely found some deficiencies in SolarWinds products I've used that feel like they should've fixed long ago. But their products are also leaps and bounds better than tools I worked with prior.

Not the best, but very far from being the worst.
I am trying to learn more about analytics in order to inform decisions about developments in my own project. Do you have any advice about a good place to start? I think most of the information will be small strings of text coming from databases, but I’m trying to think of the best way to make sense of it all. I am not really vain enough to want to follow my activities here on HN, but perhaps you could explain how you approached this project.
aaaand it's gone.

Here it is from earlier today:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201214065921/https://www.solar...

SolarWinds’ comprehensive products and services are used by more than 300,000 customers worldwide, including military, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and education institutions. Our customer list includes:

- More than 425 of the US Fortune 500
- All ten of the top ten US telecommunications companies
- All five branches of the US Military
- The US Pentagon, State Department, NASA, NSA, Postal Service, NOAA, Department of Justice, and the Office of the President of the United States
- All five of the top five US accounting firms
- Hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide

Partial customer listing:
Acxiom
Ameritrade
AT&T;
Bellsouth Telecommunications
Best Western Intl.
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Booz Allen Hamilton
Boston Consulting
Cable & Wireless
Cablecom Media AG
Cablevision
CBS
Charter Communications
Cisco
CitiFinancial
City of Nashville
City of Tampa
Clemson University
Comcast Cable
Credit Suisse
Dow Chemical
EMC Corporation
Ericsson
Ernst and Young
Faurecia
Federal Express
Federal Reserve Bank
Fibercloud
Fiserv
Ford Motor Company
Foundstone
Gartner
Gates Foundation
General Dynamics
Gillette Deutschland GmbH
GTE
H&R; Block
Harvard University
Hertz Corporation
ING Direct
IntelSat
J.D. Byrider
Johns Hopkins University
Kennedy Space Center
Kodak
Korea Telecom
Leggett and Platt
Level 3 Communications
Liz Claiborne
Lockheed Martin
Lucent
MasterCard
McDonald’s Restaurants
Microsoft
National Park Service
NCR
NEC
Nestle
New York Power Authority
New York Times
Nielsen Media Research
Nortel
Perot Systems Japan
Phillips Petroleum
Pricewaterhouse Coopers
Procter & Gamble
Sabre
Saks
San Francisco Intl. Airport
Siemens
Smart City Networks
Smith Barney
Smithsonian Institute
Sparkasse Hagen
Sprint
St. John’s University
Staples
Subaru
Supervalu
Swisscom AG
Symantec
Telecom Italia
Telenor
Texaco
The CDC
The Economist
Time Warner Cable
U.S. Air Force
University of Alaska
University of Kansas
University of Oklahoma
US Dept. Of Defense
US Postal Service
US Secret Service
Visa USA
Volvo
Williams Communications
Yahoo
Totally disagree with the layers philosophy. Way too much fuss. In mid-winter London I wear a t-shirt and a jacket. Perfectly warm. Just get a good jacket. Easy on, off, no ceremony.
Heres that ted talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU
Wouldn't it be wonderful though if we could reintroduce them?
Having just watched him say it in Parliament. That quote is exactly what he said. He did however also add further details that focused research is now ongoing to establish exactly if this variant is a problem or not in regards to the vaccine efficacy.

The main problem with the mass-Media is that they are so keen to a) publish a click-bait headline, and b) keep the word count to a minimum so as not to scare off their illiterate readers, that the actual truth of news gets lost or diluted... to the extent that the articles no longer form any function other than to generate clicks.
Yep. It was supposed to be a very small change. I blundered. My team understood that and was super supportive about it all too. But this was after it was all fixed.

During the outage though, no one (obviously) had time for me. This was a very important server. The tension and anxiety on the remediation call was through the roof. Every passing hour someone even more important in the chain of command was joining the call. At that time I thought I was done for...