skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if it's that tiny. Like GP (I don't know why he's downvoted) I do own a smartphone but I rarely take it with me when I leave the house. And when I do, it usually stays in the car. I know several people who, like me, are using their smartphones basically only for messaging apps and who just let their smartphone here or there at home and check them only once or twice a day (unless it rings which, arguably, is the device's most interesting use case).

Life is really totally fine when lived without carrying a smartphone around all the time.

It also gives my 6 years old an example of someone she can definitely relates to who doesn't use a smartphone all the time.

I'm not a luddite: but between the 38" monitor at home and the car's navi system, I simply honestly don't have much need for a smartphone.

Now I gotta say this: the demographic that owns a smartphone but doesn't feel the love to the point of living 24/7 with it is probably not the demographic that is going to fancy a tiny electronic device in their shoes and underwear ; )
For context: Rowan Atkinson is famously a Tory, the whole family is very right-wing. His brother was a prominent member of the UK Independence Party, the original brexiters - a fairly unsavoury organization containing a lot of racists.

Rowan’s activism on these issues of free speech is not particularly new either: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rowan_Atkinson&mo...
I develop apps on Windows, but I use Linux to do lots of my work and automate cumbersome boring tasks where I can (there are still many more to be automated....).

I'm constantly amazed at what Windows dev people can get done without a programmable command line. I've seen several thousand line long cmd/bat files to do relatively simple things. They work, which is good. They are a lot of work to maintain though.

I find z absolutely wonderful to take away that first hurdle of remembering folders. I can't imagine how Windows devs who don't know Unix can get around easily. They seem to though. Much must be memorised and some tools help. Powershell is getting better, but I think lacks (at least for the moment) the amount of existing code/books/links that shell solutions have.

I sometimes hum my version of that old Sting favourite,

Oh, I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm a Linux dev in Windows 10....

I'd be interested to hear if there are better/equivalent searching tools easily available on Windows, but z works wonderfully for me.
Remote viewing: seeking impressions of a distant target; “sensing” with the mind
I've seen both styles. If it is a regular switch in the wall it uses mains to open the valve. If it has a switch on it, or a thermostat on the wall it probably is thermocouple powered. Though there are exceptions both ways.
> I kid you not when I say D is literally in the process of working on adding a quasi-borrow checker

It is a borrow-checker, and it's a good idea, if you disagree go and write C
backup generation (gas) is not working. As mentioned. When your only on-demand source of generation is only profitable in peak periods its a recipe for disaster.
the idea of it is cool, just drop in chat. but currently there’s no easy way to find room. it’s all weirdly categorized and full of marketing gurus
I don’t know. The media today is prone to stirring things up just because they can. I think it does a disservice to society to latch on to a boogeything without evidence or when evidence is disputed.

All hacks are Russia or North Korea. Rigor and science (in some examples) perpetuate racism, etc. but it DOES generate clicks, that’s for sure.
You recall correctly, and interestingly, the same method is used for variable-frequency drive motor controllers
Honestly, I suspect they have the same plethora of issues, they just ignore them.

I've had fifteen years of gut & digestive tract issues, which I eventually narrowed down to fructans (garlic & onion being the worst offenders), and some fruits.

This discovery lead to a train of people in my family removing them during shared meals, and various other people in my family (including a couple of boomers) also discovering they had the same issue!
Everything that is not Big Tech or is in direct competition to them is fringe.

Even the 'idea' of self-hosting or decentralisation is fringe to them despite websites and services doing this before AWS, GCP or Azure existed.
Problem is they aren't "rolling": they shutdown specific parts of Texas and leave them down. We've been down for 36 hours. Meanwhile some parts of Houston never suffer "blackouts".

Likely it's the usual "who you know and who you blow (or pay)" that decides. But long term some people are going to get nailed over this situation; it is truly FUBAR.
People are dying because of this.
Thanks for the reply!

What throws me for a loop is that support for C extensions isn't documented in https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ , nor is there any mention of how to do something equivalent to the current "python setup.py build", so I can't tell what is "official" regarding continued setuptools support for my current use of distutils.

Here's how my setup.py starts:

from setuptools import setup
from distutils.core import Extension
from distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext

I use Extension() to define the C extension.

I use build_ext to create a subclass which figures out the appropriate OpenMP compile and link flags, which depend on the compiler being used.

I also use that build_ext subclass to handle code generation. This Python code replaced a horribly complex set of preprocessor #defines and made it much easier to debug and profile the code.

Oh, and macOS's default C compiler doesn't support OpenMP so I added support for disabling the OpenMP flags, for example, with:

CHEMFP_OPENMP=0 pip install chemfp-3.5.1.tar.gz

I looked at poetry. It says "only pure python wheels are supported", so that's not (yet?) a replacement for distutils, yes?

And it looks like pyproject.toml is supposed to replace MANIFEST/MANIFEST.in ?

Lastly, I have a commercial product. I prefer to distribute source code to my customers. I grudgingly provide pre-compiled wheels for Linux, which people use for evaluation. My main source repository has the license check code ("src/chemfp_lm.h"), which is used to make the wheels. The MANIFEST.in excludes src/chemfp_lm.h during the sdist that goes to my paying customers. To handle source compilation for both cases, setup.py changes the Extension() configuration depending on if src/chemfp_lm.h is present.

This was simple using distutils. I have no clue how to replace distutils in the first place, much less be able to handle my special case in this future Python world.

Or as you say, "all kinds of weird native interops".

FWIW, my code still supports 2.7 and 3.6+, and has no required dependencies on other Python packages, so I didn't realize there was a problem. ;)

To be clear, I have optional dependencies on "zstandard" (in PyPI), on three computational chemistry packages with Python APIs but which aren't available through PyPI, and on one Java computational chemistry JAR file, connected via jpype (in PyPI) and itself with an optional dependency on a ZStandard JAR file.

Which means pip-resolvable dependencies hasn't been something I've had to care about over the last 11 years of development.
Though with a generator that big and some ingenuity you can plumb the radiator into the house and get heat from the engine. The more load on the genererator the more heat.
Texan here!

This weather is CRAZY, I've NEVER seen something quite like this. I've seen it dip down to the teens, before, but I haven't seen: sub 20, with snow, for more than 2 days... across the entire state.

I'm not entirely certain why we are sucking hard at making electricity, but here is what I've heard:
Nat Gas pipelines "close to the well" are "freezing" because they have a lot of impurities (like water) that are literally freezing amd clogging the pipes. I'm not sure why wind is down (maybe bad lubricant???). I'm also not sure why the power plants designed to run on oil (or Nuclear!!!) aren't sufficient.
Some designs can be stopped and started easily; others get into big trouble if they're shut down abruptly.
Pretty certain this was a 4chan operation 'milk is racist' where they would go and drink milk in public. They try and get random things banned. Like rainbows and milk
Where it really shines is with templates. I can write a unit test inside a templated class/struct and it gets instantiated along side it, so I know my tests pass for every template instance that I use.
Can't speak for Nigerians but Europeans don't have access to ETFs either. There truly is incredible entry barrier to many things if you're not born in a right country.
Good points, but disagree about the fixed-fee billing or whatever he is suggesting.

My suggestion is that you pre-authorize half-day billing in chunks as the engagement continues. Make it clear that if it is necessary to answer a single email or even think about the project, the engagement has continued and will be billed for another half of a day. Then make sure the amount you charge per half-day period is something you can live with. Before you start work on the next change, make sure they have paid for the existing bill, then get them to authorize another X half-days of engagement. Don't let them pre-authorize any more than you are willing to lose at one time, based on the amount of evidence for trust and your risk tolerance.

The initial requirements analysis and discussion session is the first deliverable which you charge for, even if it is just in a chat room.
You can still return text data, you don't need to execute it.
If you have a pressure fed (septic) sewer system, you need electricity for it to work. Usually if you avoid excessive water use, your holding tank has a bit of reserve.
One word: Pinecil
They knew they would last more than 90 days. 90 was just the number they picked for the "days before we can declare success" threshold. They weren't counting on 10yr.
Price discovery happens constantly and continuously. It's supply and demand.
Except that’s not all it does. Surely you don’t reduce a web browser down to “an interface that shows bold text” or a television to “a box in my house that shows me Ben Stiller”.

So let’s call it what it is: an IDE. Compared to other IDEs, vscode is the smallest. IntelliJ is 750mb. Xcode is several GB now. Visual Studio can be like 100GB with all the options included.

Sure, if you’re comparing vscode with a minimal vim install, it’s huge, but not everyone can use a minimal vim install to get things done effectively.
The study cannot (and does not attempt to) distinguish whether the milk proteins found within the dental calculus of these thousands-of-years-old remains were as a result of drinking raw milk or consuming fermented milk products. Even the article admits this, but the headline's use of the word 'drink' is misleading and unfortunate.

Fermented milk products are often consumed among populations that cannot digest lactose, because they contain less lactose per weight, or occasionally contain lactase enzyme themselves.

They're a conduit to consuming the calories from milk products without the discomfort and the rapid unhygienic fluid loss that can result from the inability to digest lactose.
It also seems to me that the author is conveniently ignoring the mechanics that aren’t mapping well to FP. To me, belts and buffer chests are much easier to describe as a mutable data structure (FIFO queues). That’s also analogous to how real world applications typically look like: functional core / imperative shell (see also Gary Bernhard’s brilliant ’Boundaries’ talk). It’s a nice article to introduce FP but I get immediately suspicious about statements like ‘Engineering is FP’. FP is a tool, not a unified theory on how to model the world.
Roads have ice so you might get hurt getting there
Yes when we were 15 years old
Most Engineering software uses surface models or meshes today. Are there specific advantages of using SDFs here instead?
I was in early and rode the wave from selling real games for $4.99, then $2.99, then $0.99, and finally... free. At which point the “real” part of making games was out the window and it was all user acquisition, LTVs, retention, and ugh.

Couldn’t have been more happy to get out of casual and F2P games four years ago. I honestly thought I might be done making games after that experience.

Thankfully, between doing the indie thing for a few years and starting a new studio last year, it became clear it was the medium and not the craft that was the problem.
A "decorative" residential fireplace typically won't do much to provide real heat. If you want something that will make a difference it is usually going to be a sealed unit or something a little more purpose-built. Still, when you compare the burner in the average small fireplace to what you have in a typical furnace, it becomes clear pretty quickly that a fireplace is not likely to be a heat source of much merit, and even if it did have a decent BTU output, it's unlikely to be evenly distributed around the house.

tl;dr - a typical residential fireplace isn't an alternative to a furnace.
I had published a shareware program called Envy (August of 2000) in the batchutl section here:

https://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/simteln...

(envy100.zip)

It was a program that provided 37 or so extension functions for batch scripts. Many of them that performed an expression evaluation left a result value in the environment of the parent process. Details and source code can be found in this old blog post:

https://www.mailsend-online.com/blog/envy.html

This really takes me back.
There isn’t. I looked for this as well. I’m happy to help train an algo if it means better content for me, but that’s not an option.

It seems like if you’ve ever even opened a room that is tagged “investing” you’re now in the vicious cycle of having scam millionaire content spammed to your feed. It doesn’t help that Clubhouse only shows like 3 rooms before you have to click a button to see more. Compared to YouTube where on almost any page there are 20+ videos that are recommended to me at any time. Clubhouse has very low information density.

The concept of clubhouse is interesting. Live podcasting is a neat idea that could work. But it’s hard to see how CH is achieving this right now.
The 180 year old house I grew up in has a central brick chimney for this reason. When you put the fire out before going to bed you have a column of brick radiating throughout the night. It’s still pretty chilly in the morning but it works quite well.
As of about 5 minutes after reading that, so am I. Thanks!
Bitcoin was the first and is still the most famous cryptocurrency. So good news for any cryptocurrency is good news for bitcoin. Most people at this point know that btc exist, they probably don't know what eth is.

Bitcoin as collateral. Given many people got extremely rich off of bitcoin, they can use bitcoin as collateral for altcoins.

Wrapped bitcoin. Bitcoin can be wrapped in a ERC-20 ETH token backed be an actual bitcoin, similar to stablecoins (USDT, USDC, etc.) and traded using smart contracts
The future is sandboxed apps with flatpak. Who cares if Spotify is malware when it can't access anything.

Wayland, SELinux, Flatpak, PipeWire. These will save us or at least reduce the problem of evil maintainers.

This model has been tried and proven for over a decade on mobile. What we call malware on mobile is simply the app doing bad things with what you enter in to the app itself and not the desktop class "steals all your data and then encrypts it"
>To me, unsoundness doesn't sound too concerning

Just debug enough TypeScript and it will sound concerning.
I confirm the fact that linux binaries were noticeably faster at least in 2000, when I was using it exclusively. Also I had a laptop with a broken memory module. Linux would panic unless I put it in the fridge (don’t ask me how this came about, but it helped), but freebsd was stable, apart from some crashing applications. And the kernel configuration was easy to read and understand.
Try not to let the situation turn you into such an asshole.
> Digital transfer of the US Dollar is similarly slow and expensive

And with ACH, wires, swift, the slowness is a feature not a bug. It's one of the ways fraud is combated, for example. I seriously doubt it's fundamentally a technical limitation of the technology used, but rather a choice.

But as you said people aren't doing this with BTC -- and if they're not, then this removes one of the use cases that would warrant it's value, so you're only arguing my point.

> The benefit of BTC over USD is that there is a way to "mail someone a briefcase of cash" without having to actually mail them

You also seem to forget about checks -- no one ever sends bricks of cash in USPS unless you're a drug dealer running a YOLO life. But you also ignore ACH/wires/credit cards and all the ways most money moves today. What is the fundamental issue there that Bitcoin solves?

> Again, you want to compare BTC/ETH to the actual currencies, rather than the institutions that engage with those currencies

You're right, however regulations exist that enforce institutions use USD. Those are largely good things.

> With Bitcoin, you ... can? Like if the endgame for Bitcoin was “universal adoption by corporations and institutions as a digital store of value,” then that sounds like a good and permanent and somehow fundamental result?"

But is/will that happen? These issues that I point to make it a less good option.

> I won't pretend that there's an objective answer, but neither should you; the fact that it removes the tool you describe can both be described as a feature or a bug, depending on your political leaning.

It's a tool that gets removed. Being global means there's no local way to adjust things to current circumstances. Just look at Greece in the EU -- because they went on the Euro, with a totally different economy than Western Europe, they got all of the deflation with a GDP that couldn't keep up, and as they piled on the debt they didn't have any levers to pull. Unifying global currency is a terrible idea when you have very uneven economic realities around the globe.
Algorand is interesting. It’s the first decentralized proof-of-stake blockchain. It’s also created by Turing award winner, Silvio Macali.

https://www.algorand.com/
I consider it anything that doesn't take place in the user's browser. Writing the APIs, interacting with the DB, defining the backend data models, dreaming up the microservice architecture, whatever your workplace is doing.

If it's not responsible for generating HTML, CSS, or JS, I don't really consider it front end.
Go's structs with associated methods and property/method promotion aren't that different from classic OOP. Too much is made of the differences, I think. You can recreate most basic OOP code in Go .... if you really must.
You're falling into a well known thought trap that's had a lot of ink spilled about it. I typically recommend Machines as the Measure of Men. At its core, the idea that the material culture is both the primary organizing mode of society and an unambiguous way to categorize and rank societies is fatally flawed. I'm sure you can find books that make this mistake, but I'm specifically telling you that it's an arbitrary assumption that will lead you to bad conclusions.

> ...the insights into how hunter-gatherer tribes live even today, and 100 years ago, are highly valuable to gaining insight into the human condition under similar constraints eons ago.

Most researchers on this subject will tell you that it's unclear what similarities there are between modern foragers and ancient humans. The people in my social circle (unsuprisingly) mostly approach it the same way I do: modern foragers represent a small, limited subset of the available lifeways and probably differ a great deal from what foragers must have been like in a pre-agricultural world. They're studied because they're interesting in their own right, they're what we have for analogues, maybe optimal behavior constrains the possibilities somewhat, etc.

> It is iterative, societies can regress or progress along this continuum. Progress is generally synonymous with advancement.

The core issue is that progress isn't a linear scale. If everyone in X decides to go live in relatively peaceful communes and give up hierarchical class systems, is that progress? Star trek suggests it's pretty futuristic, but archaeologically we've labeled such things as "collapses". If a society is "neolithic", but has 20th century agricultural yields centuries before the west, is that more or less advanced? Both of these things are (heavily simplified) real examples.
I’ve never heard of a below ground septic system that required pumps. The only pumps for drainage are for sub level bathrooms such as in basements.

There is a significant overlap of septic installations and wells and most modern wells run on electric. But if you’re toilet’s basin is full, it doesn’t need any power to flush and drain. It just won’t fill again.
I'm wondering how rolling outages on the proposed schedules were supposed to work in this situation.

If they gave everyone power 50% of the time, everyone would crank everything they have to the max during those periods to get some heat into their buildings. Unless their total ability to consume energy is less than 2x their average consumption, it's not going to help.

To have any effect on overall power consumption, they first have to overcome this effect, and reduce power availability so people can't just shift the load.

Depending on creativity (if you have an electric tumble dryer... that's a fan heater), I bet many people could easily 10x their average power consumption.

If I had power for a short period of time and cold was an issue, I'd be dumping ~10 kW into water immediately (the only energy storage I can improvise on short notice).
They used go make furnances that didn't have a blower, hot air raises which gives circulation. You need bigger pipes and can never get high efficiency (went out of style before about 1960 is my guess ). If the furnace looks like it belongs in a horror film it might be this style.
Should always include what's needed in the deployment and cost modeling, including whatever is needed so the South Texas nuclear plant doesn't have to shut off the reactor due to the extreme cold.

The problem here is not being prepared for the cold not the choice of energy production method.
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When I started in 2004, Yahoo used FreeBSD everywhere except for acquisitions (including Inktomi which was a large part of the host count, running Linux); when I left in 2011, it was more of a mix; there wasn't yet a mandate to migrate to Linux, but I suspect it was coming. The mandate at that time was more of support both.

I went to another company that was using FreeBSD. They were three major versions ahead of what I had at Yahoo, and I didn't need to relearn very much, almost everything I knew still worked, but performance was improved.
I get that cold isn't fun, but if that's something you're worried about, why not get a small generator or back-up heater ahead of time? We had a close call with this back in 2011. Unless you're really saying that you want to socialize the cost of keeping your toddler warm.

All that aside, I hope y'all stay warm. I know many cities are opening warming facilities, so maybe check if there's one near you.
> If someone hits 12 of the 14 markers, does that make him a fascist? What about six, or three, or one? Am I 1/14 fascist because I critique various aspects of modernism?

After carefully reading your comment I carefully read all the replies, just to make sure this hasn't been addressed: by focusing on whether this or that item from Eco's list qualifies you individually as a fascist is missing the point. The essay is about movements, not a checklist to asses individual leanings.