skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife and I just moved from LA (my birthplace) to Detroit (my wifes birthplace, I have lived here previously) and it sure has been a struggle to keep my office environment 'good'. I have a hyperhidrosis issue (excessively sweaty hands) that compounds the situation.

I feel like homes and offices do not breath. My anecdotal napkin math would say like 10% of buildings are designed with proper ventilation, blending of outdoor/indoor air, etc... and the rest are just boxes that are slowly killing us.

The furnace is below me which is good and bad in that it warms my office quick but sorta too much. I am constantly battling too hot or too cold and of course the humidity. Lots of trial/error of opening various windows to get a cross flow without letting too much hot air out.

That is just temperature. I have a CO2 monitor that has been interesting. I try to keep my CO2 ppm below 800 foor good measure. For a while I was feeling like dogshit in here and I assume it is due to being literally directly above a gas furnace in an older single family home - in hindsight I wish I had a monitor that detected more gases.

Anyway, still figuring out the secret to this. If anyone has tips for a glove that would work to keep my hands warm while typing I would love a recommendation. The article focuses on wearing clothing that will keep your trunk and limbs warm but I find that my hands are always an issue.
Whatever it takes, our labs are open 24 hours.

I don't like to keep a client waiting.
On ok+ days, 6h (in two 3h sessions). Sustainably. Not just writing code, but also walking around and thinking, researching, rubber ducking, etc. I can maybe squeeze a third session, but it's 1.5h and pretty crappy.

If I'm super zoned in in a meaty problem where I could work alone (or with one person max), I can obsess about it and invest all my waking time minus some 4 hours (1h lunch, 1h dinner, 2h unwinding). This is a straining effort that requires deliberation and appropriate care (either the work is galvanizing you enough, or you're gonna need downtime after this).

This seems to be on the higher side of the bell curve, from what I've talked with other folks, but certainly not at the top. I know a person that can do 10 hours, pretty much consistently, peppered with cigarette and meal breaks. One person, in all my life. Trying to emulate them will probably be very damaging for most people. Seen multiple people having breakdowns trying to do that.

You might not be on the high side but I recommend you:

- Don't feel bad about what you can do today. Just admit it candidly to yourself.

- If you want to, train this skill, pretty much like you'd train anything else with your body. I bet it's going to be a lot like weightlifting: slow, sloggy, and needing some restraint to not push yourself into injuries.
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These are edge cases, abnormalities. Do you have this pet peeve with other topics? ("If you press the gas pedal, the car will accelerate --- unless you're out of gas, the fuel line is broken . . . ")
"but you are spending money and carbon on re-creating sunlight."

Depends on location. For example, Iceland has a lot of geothermal heat, but natural climate unsuitable for agriculture.
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I think this would be great. How many people, realistically, have difficulty finding love? How many people stop looking because they think they have real love, but don't? Looking strictly at the aspect of feeling love, this would allow many people to participate in that critical human experience who otherwise just won't.
Donald Trump won 2016 because he had a 70k vote majority across three states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

What was the minimum number of votes across the minimum number of states needed for him to win in 2020? Again, nobody has actually provided a reason this vote was close - it wasn’t close at all, it was a humiliating rejection, especially for an incumbent.
I did my CS degree at a Catholic university, so I was mandated to take a couple of either religion or philosophy classes. Being atheist, I opted for philosophy, and while I certainly felt they were a waste of time way back when I was 19, but there are a few things that have really stuck with me.

I wish I remember the name that the professor used for this concept, but essentially, he argued that the same activity might be ethical or unethical depending on ease and scale. For example, I'm allowed to look at license plates in public. If I happen to see my neighbor's car (with a memorable license plate) when I'm in town, there's nothing wrong with noting that and making small talk next time I see the neighbor ("Hey, I saw you were down in town on Friday!"). If I put plate readers everywhere I can, and accumulate and sell that information, enabling wide-spread location tracking, that's arguably unethical, even though those license plates are displayed out in public. There's something that changes when certain activities become scaled up and automated.
From the comments:

> Sorry, I am not buying it. Not because you haven't done good work on the article: you have. Also not because N.American homes are overheated, and the residents under-dressed: they are. I do not buy it because the Japanese live the way you suggest in the winter, and it is miserable

I have a mother in Scotland and I have a mother-in-law in Canada. Worst it ever gets near my mother seems to be -5C, but I am perpetually cold there as people play games with turning their heating off at certain hours and living in 150-year-old converted barns and so on. Meanwhile, in Winnipeg it seems to get to -30C on the reg and I spend all of my time there warm and cosy because if the heating goes off or the house is improperly insulated then you die.
Only -3 you pikers? Alt-right tears are the milk in which I bathe.
In my experience software complexity arises from handling errors and handling edge cases. Adding additional features means there are more errors to handle and that many more edge cases to consider.
Telemedicine a godsend during pandemic but state licensing rules get in the way
Ugh, just went to Amazon to check out the book, and discovered I bought the Kindle version last summer (maybe when the article originally came out) and then forgot to actually read it.
Hydrogen-powered flight – Is the time now ripe for planes to run on hydrogen?
https://archive.vn/J5Rzo
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Ironically that's one of their CTAs when they're nagging you to install the app. "Install the reddit app because you deserve the best"
I don't think it's a China thing at all, if they launched this correctly in the west it would be just as popular in a few years. Lonely men exist everywhere.
The article shows that it takes 15 clicks to install a browser, pin it to the home screen and make it the default, and claims - without evidence - that changing the default search engine is just as hard.
This is a good example of the kind of news that a) should be reported on since it's an important development relating to an ongoing global crisis but b) will be ruthlessly abused by the media to generate clicks, adding to the ever-increasing confusion among the general public about the pandemic.

I'd almost rather it not be reported on since it will only diminish, not enhance, most people's understanding of the virus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Denmark...

They have been at war for 2 centuries like much of Europe.

Depending on who you ask, Ottomans were their allied or their enemies in Scandinavia, at times they have been both like Denmark allied of Ottomans against Russia that then switched side and sided with Russia that gave them land from Sweden.

https://i.redd.it/4r4yx17hf9a51.png

There were big differences between Scandinavian countries and they have been at war for a long time.

Denmark for example owned Ghana, like Belgium owned Congo.

They were richer than say Finland.

France has been involved in less wars during the same time span.

Another example: Spain and Portugal weren't bombed during WW2, they were not occupied, they stayed mostly neutral, but didn't develop an high trust society.

It must be something else.
It can be costly but it doesn't have to. You pay extra for comfort, looks, low weight and obviously the branding.

Warmth itself is cheap if you accept clothes that are a bit heavier and maybe not ultra-breathable. Adding a pair of cotton long johns and a cotton long sleeve turtleneck underneath whatever you are wearing can easily keep you warm, it's just not super comfortable and not super fashionable.
No. And my Android has never respected my search engine choice. I don't understand why people are acting like there is something wrong with us a customers. I have a CS degree. Why can't I choose a search engine? Also the "news" that Google shows me by spying on the very few searches I have accidentally been tricked into Googling are often clickbait and factually incorrect.
Living in the Canadian Rockies, we regularly see temperatures in the -20c (-4f) and colder range. I'd highly recommend looking at:

[1] - Outdoor Research - https://outdoorresearch.com
[2] - Patagonia - https://patagonia.com
[3] - Arc'teryx - https://arcteryx.com

And as others have mentioned, it's all about layering!
sleeping in my delicate merino thermals is how the all got holes and ladders in them.
Maybe the submitter shortened it without hitting a limit?

"Single Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords" is 78 character and would've fit in the limit. 'Proton collisions probe final frontier of the standard model of particle physics' (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25419033) is 81 characters.
The whole site is just low quality Washington corporate lobbying operation.
I think you misunderstand the purpose of love. A sailor is
not supposed to actually reach the north star.
I would call routine coding something like you have a set of constraints and you just have to manipulate code to fit these constraints.
> Step 2. Compromise the open source dev's laptop by phishing them or something else really basic.

Step 2 can also be: Buy the open source package from the maintaining dev.
Regardless of the reason, would it be better to doom a person to never feel love, or to at least allow them to experience it through an AI? I'm no fan of the CCP or corporations, but in theory this could be a great tool
>What this means is that philosophy ultimately becomes an extended argument over which propositions to take as axiomatic.

I agree. It also involves extended arguments over the statements that follow from these axioms even amongst philosophers who agree the axioms are true.

>[W]hat almost invariably happens in practice is that individual philosophers act as advocates for the particular axioms that they believe actually hold.

I agree with this as well. My main point was about the structure of the arguments. I don't think arguing from an axiom you hold to be true turns the argument anecdotal.
I also remember how that did nothing to beat IE until someone actually built a better browser - Mozilla/Firebird/Firefox and later Chrome.
I wrote a program to solve this: https://github.com/knoebber/dotfile/

If I were on a fresh VM with an internet connection and wanted my vimrc, I would do

curl https://dotfilehub.com/knoebber/vimrc >> ~/.vimrc
Why do people always feel the need to interfere with nature? Looking at their diagram of penguin colonies it looks like at most 40% could be blocked from the sea by this iceburg. Yes it will suck for the half of the island that gets wiped out but in 10 years when this thing is melted and gone the penguins from the other side will reestablish colonies and life will go on.
it's relatively easy to measure, has more-or-less a standard agreed and universal method of measurement and it is quantitative.

These are great features, but interestingly absent from this list is whether GDP is accurate and precise as a measure of economic progress.
If 3/4ths of a cohort have to repeat the material, it's not the students who have failed.
Definitely originally. I suspect that a modern emacs has more unix under the hood than it has ITS under the hood.

I am not sure if we should care about the differentiation between TECO-Emacs on one hand and Elisp-Emacs on the other.
The recipe for success Elon Musk, a samurai, and TV chef share
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25416881
Can you win a game of quantum foosball?
I used it for a while, it seems that most content is geared towards beginners (ie. to-do list web apps). There is a lot of noise and I failed to find really interesting / in-depth articles.

They do a great job at building communities though.
Also, struggling with retaining the good ones they managed to find.
Any good communities (not on reddit) for Electrical/Computer Engineers? Things like HDL, Embedded, VLSI, General Electronics?
If you have access to Uniqlo where you are, they make a nice range of decent-quality thermals. Durable and tidy without being too pricey.
dev.to is new medium.com
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As an ex-googler, my manager said that we should bank our time and then spend a week on our 20 to make good progress.
The suggestions by the sibling comments are great.

I'm also in Berlin and I use Uniqlo's HeatTech undershirt and long johns under jeans/shirt. They're pretty cheap (€10 each) and it makes a lot of difference. I never feel cold. A good jacket is also essential. Downfeather Jackets are my favourite.

Other than that it's just a hoodie between shirt and jacket, scarfs and "hand-shoes". The Coronavirus mask also helps during windy days.
Time to cross reference that Shanghai CCP member database...
I agree, but shouldn't our horror mostly be directed at having created a society that so clearly devalues some people such that a mediocre AI is able to offer more compassion and companionship than other human beings?
I think this is a very obvious no-true Scotsman fallacy around the notion of a ‘good’ essay, plus a straw man of what PG wrote: “just asserting something and relying on the reputation of the author”, and one of what I wrote: “that things should be take at face-value.”

It is fairly obvious that persuasive writing often convinces people of things which we are either not true, or meaningless.

It’s also fairly obvious that all authors perspectives are formed by experience, and that knowing about that experience is informative of how we interpret what they say. This is simply true of all human communications.

I can’t really see what you are trying to accomplish by insisting there is something called a ‘good’ essay, whose hallmark is it’s persuasiveness in the absence of knowledge about the author.

Certainly there are some sincere essays that do fulfill this criteria, but it’s what also exactly what a cult leader or marketing agency would be aiming to achieve with their writing.

I would make the case that being persuaded by an essay is an epistemically salient signal which can be thought of as a red flag that we may be being manipulated by someone we wouldn’t choose to be manipulated by.

When we experience it, the responsible thing to do is to inform ourselves more about the author and their experience rather than to lionize the piece of writing.
I think you're right. Part of the clue is in the name 'old' which in the IT world is often associated with something you'd want to remove, tech debt, baggage, staleness. What they'll be looking for is the right messaging to force a migration to new.

In a similar vein, there is Adobe Lightroom Classic. There are still people who aren't giving in to Adobe's predatory subscription model, but at some point the "Classic" will be deprecated in favor of "Cloud"
Lots of good questions here. https://building.nubank.com.br/welcoming-cognitect-nubank/ from Ed Wible, CTO at Nubank is a good read that answers many of them btw. Also see https://cognitect.com/blog/2020/07/23/Cognitect-Joins-Nubank.

> What are the new resources (for Clojure? or just Datomic?), how are they being used? Does Nubank have opinions / direction on these resources.

Since Cognitect joined Nubank, several people have joined the Datomic team, both new hires and internal moves from Nubank and the rate of development has increased. We are also looking at expanding the Clojure team in the near future.

> Has an open sourced Datomic been discussed?

No changes planned.

> Who owns the Clojure trademarks and IP going forward. Any talk of a Clojure Foundation?

Clojure was and is an independent project and Rich Hickey is a joint owner (along with contributors) to the Clojure copyrights. From Rich's announcement on the Clojure mailing list: "Clojure remains independent, and development and stewardship will continue as it has, with more resources and a much larger sponsoring organization in Nubank."

> Alex Miller does an awesome job but boy he has a lot to cover.

Thanks and indeed! As above, we are likely to expand the Clojure team in the future.

> There was talk a few years ago of facilitating community involvement with a PEP type process

We created https://ask.clojure.org as a way for Clojure users to discuss problems important for them and to allow voting on those problems for their importance. We use that information to inform decisions about what to work on so I encourage all Clojure users to express their needs there!

> Clojurescript has left Core. Is Nubank likely to want to get involved here?

Cognitect was, and Nubank now is, the primary sponsor for ClojureScript (funding both David Nolen and Mike Fikes).
High quality merino wool doesn't itch (at least not for most people), is naturally odor-resistant and can be super comfortable. I mostly use Icebreaker, but Smartwool and Aclima make good stuff too.
Key point

Mr Hancock said there was "nothing to suggest" it caused worse disease or that vaccines would no longer work.

Fairly clickbaity headline to use on the first week people are receiving the vaccine.
> Mr Hancock said there was "nothing to suggest" it caused worse disease or that vaccines would no longer work.

I was paying more attention to the vaccines would no longer work part. People need a worldview in order to function. Mine has been shattered a few times, including with this pandemic. Still, I have a lot of expectations. I don't think there will be anything worse than COVID-19 that comes from a highly communicable respiratory transmitted illness, just like when I lived in the Bay Area I didn't think there would be a huge earthquake anytime soon...

The possibility of the current crop of vaccines not being overwhelmingly effective, or not being distributed widely, or not being taken widely, thereby extending the quarantine past this summer, is something I'm braced for (although not really prepared for).
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I disagree. You don't need to understand exactly how a nuclear bomb works to understand its impact.

We've let scientists/engineers/practitioners control the steering wheel for decades, and what do we have? Insidious adtech, lies spreading uncontrollably, populism at extreme highs across the world, etc. All to make more money. And you think we need more of that in this debate? We need philosophy first - not second.
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LT is in the slow process of upgrading the interface to something newer/modern and especially with better mobile device support. The screenshots on their blog I've seen look like it is coming along nicely, and as a long time LT user I appreciate that they take their time on big changes like that.
I'm not sure I see that as a fair comparison. I think it's best to use the same durations for this, as an entire day changes the level of impact. <1hr outages have a fraction of the impact that an entire days outage might have.

It's obviously subjective, but even with our entire work leaning on Google– from GMail, GDrive and Google Docs, through to all our infrastructure being in GCP– todays outage just meant everyone took an hour break. History suggests we won't see another of these for another year, so everyone taking a collective 60m break has been minimally impactful vs many smaller, isolated outages spread over the year.
1. Things that I consider “simple” or “easy” still require time and energy to do. The time/energy required does not scale linearly with difficulty.

2. This is why side project usually go nowhere.

3. It’s ok to have side projects just for fun.
In a previous lifetime I removed an "unused" TLS certificate. It turns out that it was a production cert that was being used to secure a whole state's worth of computers.

In my defence, the cert was not labeled properly, nor was it used properly, and there was no documentation. It took us 2 days to create a new cert and apply it to our software and deliver it to the customer. Those were 2 days I'll never get back. However, when I was finished the process was documented and the cert was labeled, so I guess its a win.
Being able to extract meaning will mean nothing if the source material manipulates the reader.
Pretty silly what they have to do in order to make the keyholders happy. Should MC and Visa really dictate how people make their business? I don't think so.

Sure CP is very, very bad but I have been using Pornhub for many years and I have never seen such content on the platform. This is one big reason why I think decentralized currencies like bitcoin one day could succeed.

IMO, this is the golden quote:

> Pornhub's announcement also cites a report by third-party Internet Watch Foundation, which found 118 instances of child sexual abuse material on Pornhub in the last three years, and notes that in the same period, Facebook's own transparency report found 84 million instances of child sexual abuse material on the social media platform.

In despite the nature of the content on Pornhub and the amount uploaded there is very few instances of CP on the platform which I think speaks to their good work in preventing it.

Now I don't know about piracy but that also seems like something that is.. uncommon?

EDIT: People who downvote me, why?
Ahh, I understand, this is my mistake.

What I really want is an integration between Instantsearch.js, and Postgres.

Typesense has written a custom adapter for Instantsearch & Typesense. I would love to just hook Instantsearch up to directly to my rails all. You could use pg_search to get 90% of the value, with next to no complexity on the backend.
works fine for me with firefox + old reddit + RES. breaking on noscript is probably expected because almost all web video players are js based. You might be able to mitigate that by navigating to the video file directly, eg. https://v.redd.it/1m6ye7yto4561 -> https://v.redd.it/1m6ye7yto4561/DASH_1080.mp4
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I guess it depends on what AWS services you're using and how complex is your usage. If you're only using Dynamo you shouldn't need that much management, or if you're using Fauna you need zero management.
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Note that members of the imageboard community predicted "incel" becoming the new "literally Hitler".
Very good point. And, this algorithm would totally fail in my country! As the U.S. has a wide variety of citizens of various skin tones. Which I'm very happy about : ).

Which I think supports what you're saying; not only do algorithms have biases, but we also can't assume they are universally applicable across a domain (in this case that a single facial recognition algorithm will have the same degree of accuracy in all places across the globe).
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Yeah. They have some settings to set what type of articles/posts you see, but it's very beginner web-dev centric. I stopped going there awhile ago because I wasn't finding anything there for me. IMO it's a very, very good replacement for Medium as a blogging/long-form writing platform, but content discoverability is lacking.