skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but only sometimes.That does not mean that what you said applies in my case above. just that you think so. "Very subject to" is not hard facts, it is hand-wavy. Very poor logic on your part, because I clearly said, above:

>Sheer sense of taste and common sense is enough.

Those are good enough ways of judging situations in some cases, particularly day-to-day life issues, i.e. applying heuristics, common sense, empirical reasoning, etc.
Works for me and many others, for many, even most, non-hard-science cases.
E.g.: See what others said in this thread about tomatoes. Do you do a mathematical proof for every such judgement call (like which tomato to buy, organic or industrial), that you make in life? if so, you must have a huge backlog, ha ha, or not have time to have a life at all.
Their bubbletea and charms libraries are two of the most amazing go libraries for creating cli apps I have had the pleasure of using.
Ha and WhatsApp want me to accept their new policy.

Absolutely not
This seems better: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FeVho1...
> When the hoster receives an official request from the US to remove copyrighted materials – a DMCA takedown notice – the men do nothing about it, says a person who saw it happen. „DMCAs are just tossed in the wastepaper basket.” Subletters even advertise this ‘service’. „DMCA ignored” reads one advertisement offering space in the „state of the art Ecatel DataCenter, located in Amsterdam”.

The Dutch hosting company doesn't obey US law. My god! Can you believe these assholes? Running a hosting company that just hosts, and doesn't snoop into what their customers are doing? And how dare they make enforcement agencies actually go through the required legal processes to enforce the law!
China's transgender people are driven to self-medicate (2019)
If I had to guess, I would suppose that they are not recognising specific dunes (which would be constantly changing), but patterns in the dunes caused by prevailing winds. I am sure there is something analogous to the Polynesian voyagers recognising patterns in the waves and currents of the ocean.
Note that the idea is not to block 100% of sunlight to transform the day in night.

They aim to block only a small part (1%??? perhaps much less) like some volcanic eruptions and other natural and artificial aerosols. (If it's a villain, it's not a super villain.)
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to come off as offensive. I agree that it would be bothersome to convert from uPnP to non-uPnP, but you really only need to set it up once. Then any new devices you add to your network don't require individual workarounds.
How does this compare to TclQuadCode (a more well-known Tcl->Machine Code AOT compiler) ?
I owe a lot to the folks involved with Turbo Pascal for CP/M. I worked for years with Turbo Pascal, Borland Pascal and Delphi.
Have you tried Lazarus? It's the FreePascal IDE and it tickles my VB funnybone pretty well
The notion that there's no such thing as free (as in beer) app is keeping people away from free (as in freedom and beer) software. Sometimes you can have your cake and eat it, although it would be nice if more people volunteered to bake the cake. Or you could donate to the bakery.

Software is weird, the best software is both free as in beer AND free as in freedom.
It's definitely a skill. I play minecraft infrequently with my brother in law and he can retrace his steps in the nether (and in the overworked) with complete ease. I in the other hand struggle.
I’m not sure about regulations in the US but in The Netherlands you cannot just attach a battery and think you are independent of the grid. To protect the net and people working on the net, power sources behind the meter must disengage when the net/mains power drops. This effectively disables your independence plan. If you want to be independent you have to get some expensive mechanism installed that will decouple your house from the net in case of net failure and bring it back when the mains is up again. And you need get it certified periodically.

So unless you have enough generation to completely decouple from the net you are not really independent or it will cost you.
I can see your point of view, but lets say I made a weather site. Would you really want to be notified everytime the data is updated, or do you just want the latest data when you view the page (assuming you want it to do that; I would like up to date data when I view the page, without having to wait for it to refresh; but then, since I'm the developer of my hypothetical weather page, I trust myself not to do anything untoward with the data)
> Studies on things that are obvious often yield surprising results.

No, they don't. Empirically false.
> However, devices should default to local access only

Unfortunately we need to act based on what is and not what should be.
What is a NSL? I looked it up and didn't find anything relevant.
I believe the eminent feminist and humanitarian, Elanor Roosevelt, would have agreed with the fairness of your assessment.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/30/no-one-inferior/
Not a crime in the UK fortunately.
The problem with operator overloading is that it introduces a degree of ambiguity into the language. You can say what you will about the dot notation for math, and I agree it’s unwieldy, but at least it’s consistent. And at any rate, the mess can be solved with a comment. If every library I use has its own definition of what + is in different contexts, now I have to consult the library for all the ways they use + and keep that straight in my head. This complexity is a nontrivial constant cost for developers.

The real reason people seem to like operator overloading is that it’s a feature that scratches a certain itch. We all love our code to look elegant and simple, and often times this need inspires developers to set down the path of language design. This is a long dark path that’s not for the feint of heart. Many who start down this road dabble for a bit and then turn back quickly when things get rough.

Operator overloading is a low barrier of entry to language design, so developers looking to make simple elegant code reach for it in the name of aesthetics. They get to feel like language designers by playing with syntax, while staying within the safety of a language they know and love. But in my opinion, the aesthetic gains are not worth the increase in complexity for the language. Both for writers and readers of code.
If you do know someone who is broke and needs transportation you can do them a huge favor - gide them through the process and help them pick a reliable car at a fair price. Having someone along to be by their side will help keep the pretators at bay.
C++ 20: Get the Details by Rainer Grimm – Sandor Dargo's Blog
> An instance of a class is not the same thing as an object.

I have no idea what you mean here, sorry.

> By default, the file open/read/write/close routines don't return error values

Those file IO methods are for backwards compatibility with Turbo Pascal. They haven't changed semantics since DOS. They don't support Unicode. They are heavily deprecated. Today, try using TFileStream.

> while the function may take variadic arguments, the language doesn't allow the programmer to write variadic argument functions

Pascal isn't C. You can consume variadic methods written in a C library, but the Delphi way to write the same thing is an 'array of const'. Here's the Format method, for example: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sydney/en/System.Sy...

> each little problem, surmountable on its own, adds to the overall friction when developing.

You may have better luck not thinking of it from a C background but as similar to, say, Python: some things are different.
Stallman's ability to trigger folks like these makes his board membership even more invaluable!

+1 to Nenankhov's CoCold comment that's already been killed. Very funny!
This is a safe bet if you don't need advanced hardware features, I have several gl.inet devices, you can build your own OpenWRT for and turn off the phone home functionality.
Why on earth did you pick this username
Writing is a fantastic way to think
Little Bobby Tables. I came here to post this.
- AC is a very common consumer of large amounts of electricity (depending on the region, many regions will have almost no AC while other regions will have it in every building running almost constantly)

- Electrical heat is not the most common form of heating, but it's been growing a lot and is also a big consumer when it is used

- Laundry Washer/Dryer are pretty large consumers (mostly the dryer)

- Water heaters are often electrical

- Electrical ovens and stove ranges are pretty common, which
can pull quite a bit depending on how much use they receive

- Microwaves pull a bit, but not huge
Why is it that every single sign in option for careers.microsoft.com requires me to provide Microsoft private data such as my contact list?
Heating, which can easily be 5 kW, 120 kWh/day; many US houses are heated electrically, so it's not always separate. Air conditioning can easily be 3 kW, or 72 kWh/day, although it's usually only on during the daytime, so figure 30 kWh/day; it's common to run a 240 VAC circuit in the US for the air conditioner because the 2.4 kW of a standard 120 VAC 20 A circuit is insufficient. Incandescent lights could easily be 1 kW (which you get to offset against the heating part of the year), which is another 24 kWh/day.
A household stove is usually about 4 kW if you're cooking on two burners, but you're probably only cooking about 2 hours a day, so that's 8 kWh/day if you cook at home. (Some people cook with other fuels, but others use electric stoves.) Hot water heaters are also a few hundred watts, I think; an on-demand tankless hot-water heater is on the order of 3 kW, but in the US hot-water tanks are far more common, constantly leaking heat through their fiberglass insulation.

In Arizona and New Mexico, where I grew up, common inefficient houses need air conditioning during the day and heating at night much of the year.

So it's easy to see how, even if cooling is not required most of the year, you could easily use 50 kWh/day of electrical energy in the kinds of huge houses people have in the US.
Ask HN: How to Build Comfortable Life?
Looking to build 50k in annual income in 10 years. Despite having 200k in savings, I missed the 2020 investment opportunity (or bubble if you may call that).
I also never invested in crypto. Now I see 20 something or early 30s having 1.5 MM to 2 MM in net worth.

Any suggestions on how to evaluate future opportunities?

For building 50k in mostly passive income, I am looking for ideas. I have never sold any software or anything for that matter. I am average when it comes to building software and lately I am working in management position so building has taken a back seat.

Any suggestions?
I had a similar experience after watching a Computerphile video with John Hughes, one of the authors of the original propert-based testing tool, QuickCheck [1]. Running hundreds of thousands of unique tests and finding the simplified cases was mind blowing to watch.

I loved the video but my first experience with this method was with Python's Hypotheis [2], I haven't used it a ton but it's great for finding parsing errors. In the words of Python core developer Raymond Hettinger:

> It's not quite fuzzing, but it hits it with the kind of test cases that a good QA engineer would typically come up with, and it does it in automated fashion.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfaNEebCDos

2. https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

3. https://youtu.be/ARKbfWk4Xyw?t=319
I just point my player app to a folder that syncthing manages.
Flamewars like this are obviously not what HN is for. Since you've done this before (including with the very same partner, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407601), also have a history of breaking the site guidelines, and also have ignored our moderation requests, I've banned this account.
I never said required.
Flamewars like this are obviously not what HN is for. Since you've done this before and have a long history of violating the site guidelines and ignoring a shocking number of moderation requests to stop, I've banned this account.
> my Insta account (using a separate email address and no personal details) keeps recommending my therapist to me

What about your phone number? Does your therapist have it? Maybe your therapist granted Instagram/Facebook access to her contacts?

Or maybe you yourself granted Instagram access and your therapist is in your phone's contact list?
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First Principles of Math
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you're all over the place, first it's crypto that's easy to steal now it's the goods you buy with crypto or the fiat you have to convert into.

If the vulnerability is when you buy goods or hold fiat then crypto isn't the problem. Your bank is safe, so is your wallet. If an attacker takes the keys to your bank or the keys to your wallet you are compromised. Maybe your bank is insured and will refund your withdrawals if you can prove you were forced to withdraw by an attacker. I'm sure that's something that would happen in Italy, but in the poor parts of the world I'm familiar with that is not the case.

>> > people at gunpoint are made to withdraw cash from ATMs. It's common enough.

it's not.

this is just ignorant - I've witnessed this multiple times. Maybe it's you living in Italy that has no exposure to the realities of poorer countries if you're ignorant of this common attack.
Hmmm. I wonder if you can do backprop on exp(f) as efficiently as f? Then once you've learnt exp(f) you can just use exp(tf) to transform smoothly from one to the other.
Ignorant question: Is it as easy for women to do as men? I would imagine not, but I don't have the equipment to say from experience. If you set the bar too high, does that mean it's only achievable by men peeing in bottles?
The shameful fact is that we have not only enthusiastically embraced - but required by force of law - that Americans cannot participate in the economy without a private vehicle maintained in good repair.

Perhaps in the 50's you could say "well there are plenty of pre-car places you can still live and work," but first we spent the 60's bulldozing those places to put in freeways and parking lots, then most of them hollowed out as the jobs moved to the suburbs, and now, strangely enough, they're revitalizing as lifestyle areas that are very expensive to live in.

This, more than anything, has cut off the bottom rungs of the economic ladder. We're not going to fix any of the major societal issues in the US until we fix our suburban development pattern. We need to quit spreading dense splatters of suburban homes butter thin between massive gaps of poorly utilized land (aka "leapfrog development" made possible only because subdivisions get to externalize their infrastructure and public service costs), stop hyper regulating development so that it takes years of professional work to get a simple building permit, and design for safe pedestrian access as a first priority, so that car ownership becomes optional rather than mandatory.

When it comes to housing and development we live in a state planned economy and it's failing us just as surely as all the others.
Actually, I also found grandparent's (bunnyfoofoo) tone offensive. It's borderline derogatory, since it disregards the situation of the original author in many levels, plus everyone fixates on the wrong point.

UPnP has its security implications, but it doesn't mean that random appliances can just open ports through it without any settings whatsoever.

Everybody has the freedom to have opinions and free to express them, however we shouldn't disregard other person's situation while expressing our opinion. Talking about theoretical best practices is always easy in a vacuum.

Addendum: I want to congratulate bunny for trying to learn from his/her mistakes, for being honest and sincere. I wanted to leave it here since there's no other way to contact. I also made a lot of mistakes and HN taught me how to discuss this stuff, so you're at the right place.
This image appears when clicking on the last white circle on the bottom of the page: https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/images/wow.jpg

I am not familiar with the history of the web, maybe someone can comment about who is the person in the image.
On the other hand, if you want to play games on your network you absolutely must have UPNP. Unless the game has a dedicated server infrastructure. But even then you risk higher latency on VOIP if it even works at all.
3kWh seems way too low. We consumed on average 7.3kWh/day. According to our energy supplier this was on the low side for our house type and family size.
Do you have any idea what that is going on? Just really inefficient appliances?
There's one mobile game I play semi-regularly. It's a Moba style game riddled with gacha style events and gambling and such for heroes and skins.

They regularly have these roulette style events which usually have the brand new shiny skin of the moment as a prize among a bunch of other random prizes. Typically, they'll give you a couple free spins, usually after completing some in game tasks, you'll inevitably win the worst of the prizes, leaving a bunch more crap, and the one good prize, only now, the cost has jumped to like a real dollar(in digital diamonds of course) a spin and increases in cost with each spin.

The games are rigged so that the good prize is always the last one you'll win, pretty much every time.

I remember one time, when there was a particularly fancy shiny new skin, I used up the free spins, checked out the rules to see how much it would have cost me to keep going until I got the shiny skin for sure...

It was going to be over $50...for an item that literally does nothing but change your appearance.

The thing is, I ended up seeing not a small amount of people already playing with the skin on the first day of the event...as in they just pumped a bunch of money into the game immediately without really thinking about it.

It's constant though. Last time I played it they had 3 similar roulette events going on at once that would have cost over $100 to win them all.

Then there's the amount of people on there who seem like they're kids who've obviously been playing the gacha shit and spending a bunch of money on these things.

Hell, that game even teaches kids about leasing. They sometimes have an 'event' where you can pay a small amount of diamonds(real money) every day for a month or so for the new shiny skin and as long as you play using it every day for the lease period, you get to keep it...again it works out to cost almost twice as much as just going to the in game shop and just buying a skin...but people seem to do it.

I probably went off on a bit of a ramble about this, but that game's my only real experience with these modern day lootbox gambling style things and I still find it unbelievable that it's so blatantly scammy. It doesn't lie about it either. Every event explains in the rules, you're probably going to lose a bunch of money and you're going to have to basically win everything.

But these events must be popular, they happen constantly and I always see other players who've clearly taken part.
National Security Letter; if the government wants to force you to backdoor some software, they send you one. That's why most projects have canaries.
XML and XML Schema solved this more than 20 years ago. It had to be replaced with JSON by the web developers though, so they could just “eval() it” to get their data.
I sounds to me that when you say that many people end up spending totally crazy amounts for their income and essentially ruin their life you are just referring to anecdotes (kid using mom phone with activated credit card and no protections), what makes you think this is a real and big problem?
The video displays how the user setups the software and runs the software.

https://youtu.be/fT-u3JVXRGg
Nim has everything you need to do that.
Yes, I submitted GDPR (Article 17) right to erasure requests, and I got utter garbage (please use the UI)

Facebook:

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However, after back and forth with them for a few weeks, I got this:

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'Ridiculous' is unfair. Google has enough technical chops and market heft to set new internet standards and not look as silly as Redmond did in the 90s in the process.
Lab-made hexagonal diamonds are stronger than the real thing