skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people just install A/C and call it a day. If you live in a humid area, then a separate whole-house dehumidifier is useful:

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

You can have a comfortable temperature 21C/72F, but a too-high RH, and since the temperature is correct, the AC won't kick in. Having an hygrometer helps with this.
Yes, agree with that. It was nice at the beginning, like most of this kind communities. But with popularity and lack of moderation comes huge amount of low-effort content from beginners to beginners and PR pieces by corporates.

In the last few months there’s even steady amount of posts with “Come and see my YouTube” kind of approach, which is tragic. :/
I recall reading a blog post in which a heat lamp was used to warm the hands while working at a desk.

I like to work outdoors even when it is fairly cold, and cold hands are the main limitation. It is difficult to type with gloves.
The day reddit drops old.reddit.com is the last day I ever visit. The redesign is that horrible for anything but mindless scrolling watching clip videos.
Even old draughty homes suffer really badly from damp and mold due to condensation once you get down below a certain temperature for sustained periods. I grew up without central heating (Im 40 and this isn't that unusual for a lot of the UK) and later lived in older unheated houses a couple of times and damp was always a huge issue despite their draughtiness. 13° sounds about right for average indoor temp in unheated parts of the home in winter in the house I grew up in, but it's worth noting that a) you spend most of your time in the bit of your home that you do heat, be that the kitchen or the living room, and b) when you wake up in an unheated bedroom in the middle of winter your walls are damp and if it's got below zero you will have ice on the inside of the windows because the temperature will have dropped a lot lower than 13°. This is, not to put too fine a point on it, miserable and if you want to control the damp you then have to open the windows to air out your room, so it never gets warm. Having said that 18° which is the temperature I keep my house at in winter is perfectly pleasant as long as you wear a jumper and is warm enough that I've never had issues with damp or mold.
> First it was 14 days to slow the spread and flatten the curve and somehow they stretched that for a year into wait for the vaccine.

In the US, where it was cited, the 14-day thing referred to strict lockdowns, was always projected to be cycled on and off as needed to maintain caseload and to involve other controls (masks, social distancing, lighter commerce/gathering restrictions) outside of the strict lockdowns period, and strict lockdowns mostly didn't get extended much beyond that length until some of the new ones recently (though some did get restored, perhaps in slightly different form, months later, hence the new onrs), and in many cases were less effective than planned because they saw very poor compliance and inconsistent enforcement, and because travel with different areas that did not enforce similar controls was not curtailed. (And sometimes, those “different areas” were the next county over, with lots of crossover for shopping, work, and personal services.)
IWF have access to billions of images and video of child sexual abuse and they take reports from law enforcement world wide.

They create various filtering databases that can be used by ISPs and companies.

https://www.iwf.org.uk/what-we-do/who-we-are
This is the most succinct expression I've ever seen of the only counterargument you need.
Remember, every time you masturbate God kills a kitten - or you lose a year of your life, or you give yourself ED, or you make yourself a worse lover, or...

These myths are just the bygone product of a sexually restrictive era. Porn has been around since the ancient Greeks and earlier. Most things change your hormonal balances - including eating and going to the gym - it's whether those changes are permanent (they're not).
> It's also worth asking - what makes you so confident about an absence of malfeasance from the largest, unbreakable corporate entity (ie. the government)?

I'm not confident in that either.

But in a democracy, the government is the people. It's voted by the people, replaced by the people. The government may be corrupted but at least its stated goal and the way it works is to serve the people.

Corporation don't even have that as a goal. They only serve their shareholders.

So on one hand we have one party which has a stated goal to serve the people and another one which has goals that can directly contravene this, and nobody will bat an eye.

Which party is closer to what we want and need?
GDP measurement is ok. What is problem is targeting is as main and only mesaurement of success of economies.
+1 for Icebreaker. Their fabrics are a blend of wool with synthetic materials, and they are the best shirts I've ever had. Unlike other wool fabrics they are very easy to take care of. I wash them just like cotton, no special detergents needed. Not even high spin cycles seem to harm them. (But I've never put them in the dryer, so I don't know if they would survive that).

They may be odor resistant, but for me they still get smelly after two or three days. A lot better than cotton, but not odor free.

The downsides are that even their lightest fabrics are too warm for summer, and the fabric is a lot less mechanically sturdy as cotton. It seems to tear easily. Most of my older icebreaker shirts have a few holes, even though the fabric still looks like new.
Multireddits is a good feature that has been introduced after subreddits, because there is a limit of how many different subreddits you get on your frontpage (wich goes up with gold IIRC).

On of the worst thing they did (excluding the new design obviously) was removing the upvote/downvote counter.
It’s a long-standing joke in the North East.

https://newsthump.com/2009/02/22/geordie-man-buys-coat/
The real question is what we do in the face of uncertainty.

I'll use two comparisons, one positive and one negative for fairness sake. Before we knew that there wasn't much COVID spread in schools, did it make sense to close them just based on the uncertainty involved? Here's an example from the other end: Before we knew for sure leaded gasoline was a bad idea, should it have been banned? The impact of all the lead, particularly on children, was incredibly damaging and had lifelong effects that continued after the science was in.

Obviously, you want to take action based on data. But before we've got enough information to know, what do you do? I'd imagine the risk analysis has something to do with the rate at which micro plastics are being introduced and how far we are from an answer.

It doesn't have to be all or nothing. For example, it could be that items that cause the most issues are taxed a bit more to slow the growth of this potential issue. (Not suggesting that specifically; I don't know enough to say if action should be weaker or more severe.)
Porn is like the junk-food of sex. McDonald's french fries are engineered to disintegrate on the tongue and deliver that hit of salt and fat. It hijacks our evolved taste buds in a way that's pleasurable - but not healthy.

Porn is like that but with sex. A little bit won't hurt you, but too much can ruin your sexual health and distort your ideas of what sex should be.
> The fact that their faulty keyboards on the previous 3 (?) generations of Macbooks were insanely loud and obnoxious somehow didn't matter in their quest for silence.

I'm curious how you'd describe external mechanical keyboards with cherry reds or blues. "Ludicrously", perhaps? Even my Logitech keyboard was louder.

> The article strikes me as looking too deep into something it idolizes.

Isn't this the author's first Apple product? Or at least his first purchase with less feelings of disdain?

Idolizes...insanely loud. I see your points, but let's not get carried away here.
Why is BBC trying to hijack back button
Ouch - we are as secure as our vendors make us. Solar Winds is the software sweet installed in every crevice to make sure things are running - so that's not good.
The pandemic has really made me second guess my blind trust in the "trusted" sources. When the WHO released a statement saying that it hadn't been proven that antibodies prevent covid, the media ran with the sensationalist "antibodies are ineffective" slant. I simply can't believe that the news organizations that ran with that version didn't do it on purpose.

The same can be said for reinfections and perhaps even long-term effects. The narrative surrounding these concepts is so common that I hear it from friends as if it were common knowledge. I don't know about the long-term effects but I am pretty certain that reinfections are very rare. But the prevalence of either seems to be omitted from the story.

Of course we don't know because the news often reports anecdotes when there is no data or even when there is data. The news isn't held to the standard of giving a whole picture, just a glimpse of the current moment. In that they find a lot of wiggle room to publish things that are in the "public interest" while also benefiting from sensationalism.
Realize, it doesn't matter. They could have just as easily made their attack run on Linux with nobody the wiser once their infrastructure was compromised and build process on top of that.

Instead there's clearly a large market for them to be comfortable with being Windows only.
I don't typically trust an article that breaks complex issues into blaming ONE thing. However, this one does have some really useful historical information in it and is worth a read.

My issue with the "this is a problem because of this one thing thinking" is that we then solve for that one thing, thinking. HEY THIS WILL FIX IT, and then someone else comes and games the system after we've changed it.

This is such a complex issue, the article addresses some but not all of the issues. One is that the quality of your search is dependent on using the right keywords. Not many google users think about it like that. We think about search as if we're talking to a person, and search isn't quite there yet. The article is expecting Google to translate "can eat" to "poisonous". I swapped the word and boom.

https://pets.thenest.com/blueberries-safe-cats-8730.html

First paragraph, easy to read and understand, I didn't go any further down.

The problem is that searching by a sentence and extracting the intent of the user when using language is F-ing hard. Then you want to build something that isn't gameable with optimizations you didn't intend and when you find them you need to fix them without degrading the quality of your product.

I also want to point out that this user wants a diversity of ideas to appear on Google, while there is active pressure to sensor people who do not have the authority to speak on certain topics, or who are quoting these mom and pop blogs.

If we compare this to the real world, and take restaurants/stores. There's a McDonalds(lowes, walmart, etc) every 10 feet, but if you dive deeper you'll find the locally owned restaurant on the corner that is delicious. Can we use law to fix these issues? Yeah, we can make McDonalds every 100 miles, every 20 miles, tax them, etc. What are the side effects of our fixes and will the outcome be less desirable? I did a fair amount of driving across the country in my younger days, and what I can tell you about McDonalds is it's never amazing, but it's also never awful. I've eaten at some awful small town restaurants and I've also had some great ones.

On top of that, now I've got a kid who's got an allergy, I can tell you exactly what he can have at any fast food chain because they have an allergen menu. Not all restaurants know that information.
My impression of the current U.K. government is that the only thing it can do well is utter “clickbait”-style soundbites. This is suboptimal, and I hope my impression is inaccurate.
The west does not have the gender ratio problem that China has. India is a potential market as well, due to the gender ratio problem.
Warrant canaries would not appeal in any way to any but a small subset of Reddit's demographic. The other two, there was some serious backlash, but I don't know how it affected DAUs.
The "But I've done nothing wrong" response always reminds me of this talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
This means lots of casual exhibitionists will be reluctant to upload. It will probably cut uploads to a tiny fraction of what they were.

Which could well be a net negative (I'm assuming both the viewers and exhibitionists get something out of it) given how small the positives are.
Weird how we knew that'd happen as soon as they announced it.

Layers of garbage to play simple stuff.
With Google's recent-ish push towards reputation and big names, it's both: big name corporate junk spun content.
Not sure when you studied at university, but you can take a calculator like a TI-83/84/89 and plug in a bunch of text onto a stored program, essentially a free notes field. It's tedious to do but doesn't take too long. And unless the teacher is paying close attention, it's hard to spot.

I recall in high school teachers would actually go over and look through or reset your calculator if they thought you were spending too much time looking at it.
It is wild but makes sense. They’re trying to capture that sweet, sweet long-tail web traffic. Which you might think is cool because it’s a system where people are incentivized to answer even the most specific of questions. But then you read the content and realize a lot of these content marketing sites often provide terrible answers.
Berlin neither, all you need is a tshirt and a down sweater/light jacket like this: https://www.rei.com/product/871413/patagonia-down-sweater-me... (or 4 time cheaper at other brands).

I know because that's what I use regularly for long walks and even bike trips
> Pure functions are easy to reason about, easy to test, have predictable performance and are well suited for concurrent applications.

Predictable performance is a property of a compiler, not a pure function (a language construct).
Ah alright thanks I hadn't considered that angle.
Had to laugh at your comment about Scotland because people in Maine do the same thing.

Heat is either blasting or turned off. Very poor insulation.
Sweden’s Annual Deaths Remain the Same
If it isn't a joke it's hard not to take it as one when the format spec contains:

> %b boring text follows (usually displayed grey on grey)

All in all it seems needless.
It's definitely a limitation. I subscribe and participate in a number of smaller/niche/hobby related subreddits. Not being able to participate makes it completely useless for people like me.

There are great places and discussions on reddit once you filter out all the popular subs.
That is them selling the backlog of vehicles that was left lying around after they hadn't finished the software.

How many are they now building per month? - find my an article that answers that question please.
Lambda School run into the realities of education economics.

As a society, we decided to subsidize high performers so they can actually focus on building/researching things and securitize everyone else.

The fact of the matter is educating high performers is cheaper short term( they teach themselves and process information better) and exponentially more valuable long term (they get good jobs, go into business or lead lucrative fields)
If we sort out people based on similar ratings as applied to bonds, Lambda school works with Cs. It doesn't mean that everyone is bad, it just means on average the level of people is bad. All A people are picked by good unis via scholarships. B people can't get a scholarship but have good enough grades to get into B schools and pay via a loan or via relatives.

Lambda School is focusing on everyone else, but hopefully, there is a lot of everyone else.
The model should have been on looking at Cs and separating good Cs from bad Cs. A good C is normally a student that didn't have opportunities or environment to become A, but have innate ability to do so, given the opportunity and resources.

If you don't really have the tools to distinguished good Cs from bad Cs, you can enroll as many people as possible and hopefully RNG your way to success. The problem with that strategy is that a lot of bad Cs will be unhappy with job outcomes, struggle with courses, generate bad press impacting recruitment, and more importantly be a massive drain on teaching resources.

I still think Lambda School is onto something but trying to do this via hypergrowth focused VC funding is a challenge.

On another topic, the hack I use in recruiting people who didn't have the opportunity to learn CS is to ask them to do CS50 in their own time. About 90% of people never come back, about 5% start but never finish or take too long to finish, and about 5% knock it out of the park. Those 5% generally were always worth my time advising and if we were lucky working with them. It doesn't mean they will become rockstar programmers, but it means they have learning ability and with enough time and resources will become a net positive to the company in a variety of engineering and engineering adjacent roles.
On the opposite side of that, why should Reddit make their search better if everyone already knows not to use it?

Google works just fine.

Spending the money to improve and code a new search function doesn’t gain them anything. They’d just lose money on the implementation.
It doesn't need to be at the dew point inside, if it's a few degrees lower we already win a ton. The 21°C is really just comfort, buildings will be fine at 15°C just as well.

We recently got a dehumidifier for a room that we aren't using most of the time. Better put some greenwashed kWh into taking moisture out of there than burning gas with the conventional heating system to keep the room hot (and it would still be too wet).
But that's literally the entire software industry.

A large chunk of people making iPhone apps is basically tied into the feature set given to you by Apple that you leverage to make a product on top of. Same with Android.
If these companies could make an electric car that looks remotely good looking, I'd have hope for them (only a matter of time, really).
I might be missing something here, but if that kind of stuff really is on Reddit then I would want them to be made to take responsibility for having it on their site and suffer the consequences if it is not removed and reported to the authorities.
I don't know. There was a certain Thomas Malthus who was quite convinced that the standard of living in the 1800s was the highest nature would permit, and any country which wanted to avoid famine would need to virtuously restrain itself from seeking to consume more. Maybe it's different this time, and we really are at the limits of what nature will support, but I think we need some explanation of how we know we're not repeating his lack of imagination.
> Nazis are not up for a debate about their ideas and so can be punched

Many leftist would meet this criteria just as strongly ala "My <x> is not up for debate." or other statements conflating ones existence with ones identity with the same result: No discussion (outside a select, tautological group of gatekeepers) allowed.
Big spenders don't have access to the same tools you have. They use dedicated systems with more granular targeting and often have dedicated account managers that oversee the ads on particular platform.
"I'm barely a fan compared to what I was before, but I'm glad someone made a bunch of money!"
Talking about warm clothing.. recently I've seen battery powered heated jackets. And then carbon fiber sticker that can act as resistive heating elements.. but I'm not sure of the safety side (betting on the 'not safe at all' right now). Anybody ever made their own usb gloves ?
> Well I don't see real practical reason for keeping it secret.

Generally, you have to get a company's permission to use it's name or logo as an endorsement. That agreement has stipulations, such as being revoked if the association could bring disrepute or reputational harm to the endorser.

I'm sure none of the companies on that list want their investors calling the IR to ask about whether this event is a material issue for the company.
Assuming you are planning for long term success, of course. If you felt like the business wasn't going to work and you wanted to squeeze as much cashflow out of it as possible before the music stops, it would also look like this. I'd also expect ballooning teacher-student ratios and big weed-out bars that lock students into the ISAs but save money by kicking them out halfway.

Edit: Another commenter pointed out that if you expect a good number of the ISAs to end up in litigation with students who feel mislead, it also makes sense to dump them at a discount on someone else, so your name doesn't show up immediately on the lawsuits.
Thanks for posting this! I had read an article by him a while ago and found it pretty persuasive (or rather that it supported prior intuitions), but couldn't find it again when I wanted to come back to it.
Private property entirely depends on violence -- that's not hyperbole, there's ultimately no other compelling force to enforce societal norms and rules (see: police).

It's only our familiarity and compliance with the system that prevents us from encountering that violence.
> Who the put Gates in charge?

Q: Since when did someone citing their opinion turn into claiming they are in charge?

A: It happens commonly in strawman arguments
> fascistic street gangs

Are we talking Mussolini? Cause I think invoking fascism is debatable - at best it should be qualified. But the way you’re expressing it is sensational, as though you’re unable to critique your own viewpoint and leave the possibility that you’re wrong.
Reminds of me a child getting super close and saying “I’m not touching you.” They could touch you if they wanted or may touch you by mistake which makes it frustrating, it’s a kind of power. I think we need to understand with private knowledge comes power. We can’t trust normal people we don’t know with that power. People who are just working a job. Hell even most people don’t trust the opposite political parties president with power let alone corporations. To limit that we have to move them away and not even give them the chance to abuse it.
To quote Alex Jones, "Its making the frogs gay".
> these are just the most perfectly healthy people who still died, despite medical care

Of course, it could still happen but the chance are very low, flu still kills thousand of people every year, despite of vaccine.

>Have you looked at any other countries handling of the pandemic?

at least one country I know doesn't have mask mandate: sweeden.

not a country but Florida doesn't have statewide mask mandate and they are handling it very well (in my opinion). Went there for a week this past few months, so much better than other state. I would consider moving there.

>Again. Much more than 978 deaths.

How much more ? Whats the evidence that those 978 is avoidable because of mask ?

>How do you feel about businesses requiring masks for entry?

I think its silly but their business their rule as long as I can choose other business that doesn't require mask or if I have business I can choose to not requiring mask.
Ah yes, I love <Ctrl> shortcuts on my Android!
Another consideration if you live in a damp climate is the risk of mold if you don’t heat your house to keep it dry.
Are they? Do EA games bought on Steam not require an Origin account any more? They did last time I checked, but that was a while ago, lately I've just been ignoring EA titles.