skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always feel a bit sad and wistful when thinking about Stack Overflow. It was a great idea and at the beginning it worked well but the moderation culture destroyed the site.

There's too much emphasis on closing questions that are duplicates (when in fact they are not, and technology changes so a duplicate question asked 2 years later is going to get different responses), closing questions because they are too open ended (but those tend to give the most interesting answers) and moderation is both too heavy handed and opaque (no records of deleted comments).

Also, often enough the accepted answer for a question is not the best answer and instead the best answer can be found by looking at other answers or the comments (which I agree with the author should not be seen as ephemeral but are instead critical)

So, all in all, Stack overflow was great when it came out, the concept is good and it could be great but falls well short of that.
You would need the generator to provide about 100 watts to run the electronics and blower. Something passive like a thermoelectric generator would require a large amount of surface area to get this much power. Something more active like a traditional generator would require significant maintenance. If you’re really concerned your best bet is to get a couple Powerwalls and limit what you run off them. You could go a week running just the furnace and charging cellphones.
> no mechanism for head pain reliev is known, but we know that some medication works

Yes; I would not consider this as evidence in favor of any scientific model, since, as you note, we don't have a scientific model that predicts what drugs should relieve headache pain. It's just an empirical generalization; as an empirical generalization, yes, it has a solid track record of accuracy behind it, but only as an empirical generalization, not as support for any scientific model. Of course we humans have lots of empirical generalizations we use all the time that are similarly not based on any scientific model. I am certainly not claiming that we should not make use of such generalizations when we have them. We just shouldn't confuse them with scientific models.
it isn't that big a deal to run a fridge and some led lights on solar pAnels. As you identified heating and cooling are the big energy users.
I think the case for running FreeBSD in some of those cases is dwindling a bit.

There are a few advantages freebsd has historically had, one being ZFS. Recently, though, freebsd switched their ZFS sources from the upstream Illumos to linux's version of ZFS. Not to say this negates freebsd's integration advantage, but I think it shows how linux's ZFS has grown really good over time.

Another one I've heard is FreeBSD handles really heavy TCP/IP traffic better than Linux. Not sure about this one since I've never had heavy enough workloads to test and don't know the theoretical basis of it, although Netflix seems very happy with FreeBSD for this reason.

Also, as you say, BSDs are just nice to use sometimes. And sometimes all you need is something just good enough to run x/y/z. Maybe the pleasure of using it can offset the performance losses for some people.
Let's hope we don't encounter life on Mars, one pandemic per lifetime will suffice, thank you.
The transaction fee right now is $18. Even if you only go to the ledger rarely, that gets expensive fast.

(And, if you go to the ledger rarely, there's all kinds of complicated creditworthiness and double spend issues).
I still visit Stack Overflow links when Google search turns them up, and still occasionally answer questions that I notice while visiting, but I don't go there just to answer questions anymore.

The quality of questions is abysmal and getting worse at an exponential rate. It used to be a site where experienced developers ask focused, well-written questions, after doing some work to solve the problems on their own. Sure, there have always been crappy questions, but as recently as three years ago, the bulk of the questions on the front page were decent.

A huge portion of questions now are homework assignments where the student just wants a canned answer and hasn't made an attempt to solve the problem; are written by people with such a poor grasp of English that they're worthless; endless repeats because no one has searched for existing answers; etc.

I also used to moderate on a daily basis. The flood of low-quality content wore me out, but what really ended my moderation was constantly being challenged by the fake entries they shove at you to "make sure you're paying attention" while moderating. The bot suspended me from moderating a few times because, when presented with posts that required moderator attention, I didn't pick the exact category it thought needed fixing. I'm doing free labor for you and you're going to be a dick about it? No thanks. It's no wonder the quality has gone to shit.

At one point I was "top 1%" in a number of topics, moderated, voted in elections, etc. Now I barely use the site. As much as I dislike Reddit, I increasingly click on Reddit links when I'm looking for answers.

Stack Overflow is still a valuable resource but it's all downhill from here.
Neil Armstrong seemed to like it :D

It nearly killed him. I don't think anyone actually liked it, and I bet a lot of people in risk assessment went hard on the "nixon needs to prepare the death letter" story.
I have seen slow combustion fireplaces still drawing in air from the room in front of them, leading to your exact comment.

Seems like it could be fixed with a simple design change.

But I am not a fireplace lawyer so I won't profess to know.
> People tend to forget that most of the Axis powers, save perhaps for Imperial Japan, were also extremely Fascist. Italy especially.

Nobody forgets this.
Huh, go figure the following:

const a = 'this is not a ' + typeof + 'number';

Or JSFuck[1] in that matter.

[1]: http://jsfuck.com
A few years ago, my answer for servers would have been ZFS. However, given that the FreeBSD and ZoL source trees are now the same, I don't think that's necessarily the case. ZFS is still more of a first-class citizen on FreeBSD than Linux, but the distinction is minor at this point.

I think the fact that the most recent version of TrueNAS (the people behind FreeNAS) is Debian based as opposed to FreeBSD based, says a lot. I also migrated a couple of large FreeBSD fileservers that were using ZFS over to Linux because the clients were also Linux-based (HPC cluster). Specifically, I switched over to Linux for the file servers so I could use Gluster to combine namespaces for large file shares. The Gluster version that is supported by FreeBSD is a few versions old. I was sad to make the switch.

I still like how "clean" the base FreeBSD install feels though. It is minimal with very little cruft. Things work simply and are easy to customize.
I think this is due to the extent of the maintenance efforts by the team that develops the app, not due to the gems themselves. A monolithic app means that no code is legacy code: a conscious, gardening-like effort needs to be continuously done to keep interfaces standardised, modules documented, code clean, and critical components (like user management) top-notch with focused testing and code quality metrics. I've worked in different teams on 5+ year codebases that hold up to this day by being disciplined on this terms and never buckling down on complexity.

What I've also seen is that a team with plenty of churn or no time for maintenance will have exactly the problems you describe. As knowledgeable people leave the team, the old code becomes "legacy", new people come and partially refactor it, maybe adding some new gem and planning to migrate the entire codebase later on to it (which is very hard to make it happen). Stakeholders' pressure will force the team to focus on delivering features and only tackling debt when it gets to an unattainable state, and then is when consultants are called. I think this is why many freelancers suffer the worst of Rails (or any other framework) if they don't usually work with greenfield projects.
I'm currently in the top 0.86% overall on Stack Overflow, even though I haven't been actively contributing since shortly after college (2015ish). I've always thought about writing this kind of blog post, but I think it's just pointless.

SO, over the past decade, has been destroyed by power-hungry admins. These admins are (1) not technically competent, (2) not politically astute, and (3) do not have the best of the community in mind. Simply put, they're power hungry online weirdos that just want to be "in charge" of a community. I've witnessed this dozens of times, and there have been many (many) controversies concerning SO admins. After a few run-ins that rubbed me the wrong way, I no longer contribute. I feel that SO has become the new "Experts Exchange" or "Yahoo Answers" -- ironically, exactly what they were trying to replace.
I though you paid the price dictated by the market/bidding system... How does bitcoin figure out what is deserved?
FreeBSD Jails: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/

Underrated feature.
Autistic power dictators?

What I'm trying to say is that electricity is a life/death situation, not only when it freezes but during heat waves too. We go to extremes to engineer airplanes (and we have recently seen how that can fail too). Weighing once in 80 year events as inconsequential and failing to properly design/maintain backup generators (Fukushima), or NG holding tanks/heaters or whatever it takes to secure the supply isn't generally the function of the guy doing the engineering unless he has been given some kind of financial constraint. Same at it was some bean counter who allowed the 737MAX to be sold without redundant sensors or decided to skimp on the training requirements to save some $.

So, who was it, who didn't size heaters on the wind turbines correctly despite turbines being installed in far colder places, or didn't build NG holding tanks sufficient to supply the peaker generators for any length of time? Most of those decisions come back to free market financial pressures that are prioritizing cheap over reliable.

The grid is a giant redundant system, designed to correct for errors on the part of individual actors. Its only when the system is systematicaly undermined does it fail like this.
Stack Overflow is extremely useful but also very toxic to many of it's contributes. I've found myself 30 minutes into an answer more than a few times, only to have the original question closed.

Close votes tend to have a pile on effect, and many close votes are irrelevant. Just let me help the poster. Remove the question from searches so it doesn't bother future users, I don't care... don't prevent me from interacting with a person I can help. But it stings when things get removed by third parties that don't fully appreciate what was asked.

Most juniors I work with find stack overflow flat out too hostile/intimidating to use.
The function that SO serves should be owned by a non-profit. Everyone that posts to SO is working for free.
Sure there's lots of variation but they seem to be little more than people trying to passive-aggressively express some agenda or frustration, most of the time.
The future's already here, just not evenly distributed :)
I wrote this in part to surface these ideas to new people!
... All being equal, it probably isn't good to build a system of distributed ledger whose entire trustworthiness and participation depends upon "proof of energy usage".

Pushing one transaction through Bitcoin effectively uses about half the electricity that a typical US household uses in a month.
Yeah it was SA
Except Texas has had one of these winter storms roughly every 10 years, so it's not like it's unexpected.
Doing one transaction on Bitcoin effectively consumes about half the electricity a typical house uses in a month.
CA is the same problem in reverse. There the politicians think they can regulate both the price and the product. Vs TX where they think the bean counters can solve everything.

Nowhere do the engineers have a voice in what actually works. So of course they are both dumpster fires.

Edit: BTW: if you remember your history a lot of CA's power problems a couple decades ago were caused by free market experiments, which were promptly exploited by TX energy traders. The fixes haven't really helped CA.
Probably Kelvin
I think I fixed for Firefox — let me know if you're still seeing 1.4 contrast/super-light text.
Honestly the SA photoshop contests were different (and in many ways, more entertaining and impressive) than contemporary memes.
It's only a scam if you're trying to own actual bitcoin instead of simply using it as an investment vehicle.

Besides, if you really want to own a given amount of bitcoins that you have in your robinhood account, you just liquidate your position in RH and use those funds to purchase bitcoins directly.
More people need to watch “Naked and Afraid” to learn what the human body is capable of withstanding.
Insulation works in both directions. If you use AC a lot in summer, the same insulation is doing you good

Without adding heat, you're still not going to stay warm for long though. my window may have been bent so it couldn't close in winter throughout child hood, but we still had a heater on.

Watch out for your windows. Hanging stuff to act like curtains will help
I don't care. He is selling Nasa as much as he is himself.

:D
SO still gives a lot of relevant answers to my web searches, despite its absurd moderation policies. Don't quite understand it why people on HN are so negative towards SO.
The market in Europe is privatized and cross border, even when there are some problems there is usually plenty to buy excess from other sources. Although the cold weather did make the prices skyrocket.

Also the price of kwH in so much more in EU, maybe you need higher prices to fix the problems both in California and Texas.
Haven't used it for seven years. Unless you're professionally dependent on social media, it's exclusively a net negative experience. Your attention is limited, your attention is your life experience, don't just give it to people just because they want it.
This is totally understandable! Thanks for pointing this out.
It’s happened. Worst one I’ve heard of is when an engineer got an idea of how things could go south just days before the final decision point, ran to the testbed, tried it out, and their worst fears were proven right. They took it to the team, and after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, everyone collectively decided they were more confident in the level-headed plans they had executed to validate the system over the past 5+ years than this last minute, panic-induced test. So...they decided to let the sequence run as planned, and loaded up on a double helping of peanuts for the big day.

Well, the big day comes and guess what? The spacecraft performs perfectly. Everyone was absolutely ecstatic.

It turns out the test bed had been misconfigured, and there was nothing wrong whatsoever with the spacecraft or any of its command sequences.

Really makes you think about how to make the best possible decisions in a crisis.
And the entire Bitcoin blockchain can only support just 7 (yes 7) transactions a second.
The major highways are pretty good but it’s snowing more tonight so it’s gonna take another day to clear up. By that time, it’ll be over 40 so power will likely be restored in short order.
My issue is I want to open a "voice shell". I want the same obvious commands but with more rapid responses and without needing to say "Hey Siri, X" every time. There should be a natural way to enter a mode where the back and forth is still not natural language but voice.
Do not contribute free work to SO, Wikipedia, or any other site that seeks to replace the web with its own brand. Instead, if you have useful knowledge to share, write it up on your own website. People will find your information using search engines. And when these agglomeration sites dry up, search engines will regain some of their lost usefulness. If you get good at writing you can even get paid for your articles, and the editorial process will make them even more useful for readers.

SO, Wikipedia, and the like not only take and use your work for their own purposes, but are bad for the web. Their effect is to move the web away from a distributed network of knowledge under the control of individuals responsible for their words, and toward homogenized, voiceless near-monopolies of information. They are nearly as unhealthy for the web as Twitter and Facebook.
You are confusing skepticism with fear.
Every minute, there are thousands of bitcoin transactions happening at dozens of exchanges, and it's happening instantly with very low cost. Because it's off-chain.

That's what you're missing here, not everything needs to be on-chain to be valuable. Exchanges and businesses and services can aggregate.
In an apartment in Austin 78702. 47 F / 8 C inside, 22 / -6 outside.

Power out for 2 days now, while west across I-35 has always had power. There's some baloney they're feeding us about "complicated critical loads" while huge swats of hotels and office buildings have power (I can see from north to south since my unit overhangs the frontage and has windows all over, and elevated enough to see over I-35). My fridge food is in a cardboard box outside with a shower curtain liner around it.

Water still working, and there are no plans according to the water company to interrupt service. There's no hot water (which IIRC, condemns a building) because the apartment's water heater needs electricity.

I'm out of battery bank capacity and might have to leave the area. Appears it will go on until Friday or Saturday, so 5-6 days total.
That 50%+1 attack is gonna hit hard. There should be an ability to have trusted nodes, that is, you can trust the old lady next door not being a the front of a 50%+1 attack.
J.E. Morpugo's biography of Barnes Wallis (bouncing bombs, swing-wing aircraft) discusses the influence of the r100/r101 design process and the crash, in his career development and thinking. He was one of the engineers in the r100 design (not the one which crashed in the alps, that was the r101)

Nevil Shute (no highway, on the beach, a town like alice) in 'slide rule' talks about his experience doing complex mesh stress/strain calculations for r100s framing which was a mixture of duralumin compression struts and wires in tension. All done with a slide rule. You plug in a guess, you run the numbers. When you find a wire in compression, you curse, and you start again with another number/guess.

He worked under Barnes Wallis.

Funny to have two distinct write ups of the experience of working on these beasts.
Did anyone bother to go down the thread? The image has been debunked as an image from a wind turbine being de-iced in Sweden in 2014.
Good evening,

I have to assume that VA department you're talking about is Dept of Veterans Affairs - and if that's the case, you're in luck! You don't have to wait till 2150 for this to happen.
I know that we no longer process injury claims on paper probably since 2014 or so.
Most of the paperwork filed are shipped, scanned, and processed into digitized forms into a system of record known as Veterans Benefit Management System (VBMS) here at the VA. VA Regional Office staffers can then pull the digital records for further processing.

I supported the VBMS team's effort in migrating to a cloud based environment in 2017/2018 and my team help start the Caseflow/Appeals project, a system used to track appeals cases - which relies on VBMS daily. Caseflow is open source as well.

https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/caseflow
Maybe its time for people to stop treating electricity like essentially an unlimited cheap resource and instead something they consciously try not to waste.

I've been working in an off-grid office where I am limited by solar and battery capacity and it really puts into perspective what really needs to be plugged in all the time and how much
running a large appliance affects capacity.

Maybe electricity should be sold in blocks that have to be refilled, set daily/monthly quotas or limit current draw. Or even just significantly raise "2nd block/high usage" kWh prices.
I have left a complaint before on a non-tech stack exchange about how my question was not in fact off-topic. It was a question about how to do something impractical. They interpreted it as me wanting to do it rather than wanting to know the process out of pure curiosity, and so of course mods immediately flagged it and it just had comments asking me why i would want to do that thing. It seems they're just more interested in policing the site than growing knowledge.
I've also abandoned participating in the SO "community". I wait with bated breath to see people defending SO as it currently exists (as opposed to SO as it was).
Top Statistical Concepts a Data Science Professional Must Know
There was a rather morbid photograph on one of the local news sites the other night of Austin looking south along I-35 during the rolling blackouts. The East Side was more or less pitch black. The west side - downtown, the capitol, the stadium, the Frost Bank building etc - was lit up like a Christmas tree.

The east side was created by redlining policies put in place 100 years ago, and is where much of Austin’s lower income population lives.

It wasn’t meant to be a comprehensive statistical analysis but it was a pretty stark photo.
Show HN: A Clubhouse for remote teams (jitsi + webrtc + REST)
one weird upside of the bitcoin frenzy is that garbage altcoins are also rising in price, a rising tide lifts all boats..
Who said that was the goal? You are projecting. Google, as any company would, is looking to diversify. Not everything is about ads or tracking the user for ads.
Probably not what your looking for, but the most famous I know of is when the Red Cross started charging for doughnuts.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/13/156737801/the-...
Can they load an STL?
Nope. Transactions are pooled in each tx. Theres many signatures in each one.
Or somebody cheaper can generate since they didn't bother building their plants to withstand low temperatures so the more expensive plants to run go out of business or lose that expensive to maintain ability and then here we are
Most devices send their hostname in the dhcp request. Which gets recorded in the dhcpd.leases file or wherever. Take that info, add it to DNS zone file or wherever.
I saw that map some time ago together with the one here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence. However, after having lived in Southeast Asia for a while, I can attest that either the theory is quite wrong, or many many people drink milk with tea and coffee and then have a bad time in the bathroom daily.