skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should also take into account the cost of the heat source.

I'm building a house to modern building standards that will have a thermal energy demand of 15W/m2/year. For our heating season and size of the house (160m2), that could easily be supplied by a 2kW electric radiator, at a cost of around €500 per year. So the total cost over 10 years, would be €5000 + the cost of the radiator (~€50).

I'll also have solar, which will produce more electricity than that consumes per year, and we have nearly net metering (need to pay a few c for every kWh consumed), so the electricity bill would actually be a lot less.

However the building codes in my country need you to have a "renewable" heat source, and an electric radiator + solar is not considered "renewable", so we will be going with a heat pump. Over 10 years that will be more expensive, the install cost alone is higher than the total cost of the radiator. Maybe eventually we will break even, but I don't think the heat pump will last much more than 15 years before needing to be replaced.
Online text has made normal books completely obsolete for me, personally speaking.

I now buy books as a fancy way to donate to authors I like.
Kerbal Space Program 2: Episode 4 – Celestial Architecting
The US and EU opposed Diem (formerly Libra), so now there's this virtual world where it can be legal.
But land ownership gives you an actual, tangible benefit. You get exclusive use of the land. NFTs don't offer anything except bragging rights.
damn this place started wearing tinfoil hats? i didnt get mine
I find it easier to read Terraform over CloudFormation. I also find it easier to write.

Anecdotally: non-devops developers find it easier to edit Terraform than CloudFormation. They understand the resource and data blocks much easier than YAML.

Terraform bridges the gap between purely YAML CloudFormation and purely JavaScript API calls. (JavaScript used as an example there, it could be any language).

Terraform makes tradeoffs to satisfy its problem domain and be easier to use than CloudFormation. Plus Terraform often gets features faster than CloudFormation because cf seems to lag behind the AWS API.

I'd like to write some of my simpler Terraform stuff in AWS CDK, Pulumi, or something similar, to see if I can make use of more language features like inheritance or better decision logic. (currently I try to keep as much logic outside of Terraform as possible. It's supposed to be declarative and not have "real" coding language features shoved into it)
Following up on the racing of infinite-speed cars, there was also an emphasis of optimizing your own user interface. That when every car could go at whatever speeds you want, the most important thing is how to interact with the car, and to control it. So it isn't just somebody else's code, but the skill and challenge of making your own code to suit your particular needs in an interface.
Is USA becoming China?
I agree, while (at least in younger people) messenger is declining, Instagram is basically the only platform you can contact everyone you known on. They want to be the major player in virtual reality communication, VR Chat for the masses. While incorporating large scale advertising into the pitch
Techniques like this should only ever be used to direct investigations, and not be presented at court as evidence in their own right. It seems they work to an extent, but we clearly don't understand when and why they don't work.
I know what Ostrava is like. Good luck with your house.

BTW our house has something like 160 sqm on those three floors, an attic, a cellar, and an attached three-level terrace garden (on a hill slope behind the house), all on a 250 sqm land parcel. The reason why it came for $US6k was that nobody wanted it when the town was trying to sell it (for around $US20k at the time), so the town put it into auction (with a ~$US6k initial minimum bid), where we (one of the tenant families at the time) were the sole bidders. I guess we were just lucky.
Every one of these answers was golden! Thanks to you I became an appreciably better programmer in less than 5 minutes.
Python JSONPath
I think all these things are aspects that are interrelated. A principle of abstraction is another good one. Others I can think of are principle of least surprise and principle of least work done by the compiler (lol “zero cost” abstractions).
Mm, this makes me miss tramping through the snow to walk into a warm wooden bar, sit down for a beer and a big plate of food. There's something special about that in Prague. I lived a few winters in France (Avignon, and some villages) - but there's a certain magical feeling in Prague when you get off a tram and walk through a silent, snowy street and find yourself in a loud, bright, warm cellar, with good cheer.
> ...is THE only one worth considering, because it aims to be federated and standardized, and based on capabilities.

So you're saying THIS is our ONLY hope competing against Meta? After looking at the proposals, I really hope it isn't the only one. We need more.

Either way, the metaverse has multiple winners.
I agree with you completely. It actually makes me angry that corporations will seemingly stop at nothing to rape the Earth for their own profit and control. They want to
replace everything natural and beautiful with a cheap simulacrum, and hope that the SSRIs and porn keep the population complacent while they take everything away from them.
See also, Presence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_(virtual_reality)#Pr...
>People care more about the payment-to-income ratio than the price-to-income ratio.

Then people should learn that price impacts payment too, not just the interest rates.
I always thought it would be much less interesting to simulate a worm on a cellular level, and much more interesting to simulate some single-cell organism on an atomic or even subatomic level. The latter feels more like “real life”, IMO.

I don’t know which one is more difficult, though.

Lots of interesting ethical questions. In the future we might be able to simulate a human on that level. Is it really alive? Does it have rights? If we can “scan” someone and simulate them virtually, are they the same person? If the physical body dies but there’s still a digital copy, can we say they’re still alive?
Good grief, that first CA article reads like a reactionary "good old genteel days" with a central villain Eisenman.

Modern architecture is a response to scaling demands of modern life.

The CA article is analog of a geek blog lamenting good old genteel days of "Majestic monolithic Simple Client Server structures and interfaces harmoniously coexisting with bandwidth limited sys admins when developers happily were ignorant of most things outside of the function boundary", "but now we have these bare, soulless, micro-services which have turned the sector into glorified janitors maintaining poorly designed architectures ("pigeon shit", "dev-ops").

What has been a challenge, and C. Alexander did not meet this challenge, is how do we maintain a sensitive contextual approach to building (things) at the required scales (huge) with the desired economic characteristics, at the required scale. That's the problem. The meta-physical b.s. that architects engage it is precisely that: b.s. to fill the theoretical hole that has existed in architecture from day 1 (beyond: this here device orders space) which results in dragging in Jung and Derrida and the rest of the jaw boning gangs.

If you or the authors of that CA piece have clues on how to build n beautiful hospitals like that postcard picture for 7 billion people using the skills and tools available, have at it!

--

p.s. btw, if you grep the CA article for "class", you get 6 hits on 'classical', but 0 on societal class, and class dynamics. A bit of digging on internet, for example, can locate gorgeous modern health-spas in say Switzerland for the uber-rich, which I assure you, very much take "the feelings of the occupant" into account, using very modern forms.

And then we can ask the questions:

Does architecture favor a specific class?

Does modern architecture fail for the super rich? I don't believe that is the case.

Are the environments built for super rich in modern age soul-less?

Would a modern LEGO approach to creating nuovo "classical" old towns with standard parts somehow magically remove the inherent difficulties of modern life because we are all now living in cookie cut architectural disney worlds?

And most importantly, will the pigeons shit on neo-classical structures, yes or no?
I'm looking into crypto for two months now. I think it really has potential.

I don't think, XR will be an integral part of it for some time.

Tokens (FT and NFT) that help us to distrubute and handle value in a transparent and decentralized matter are the USP here.

The rest is just extras on top.
Ha! thought exactly the same. I haven't used Windows in 18 years but when he mentioned installshield and cab files I felt right at home. Still remember using the PowerToys to open cab files :)
I don't know if confusion should be considered an emotion. Depending on the situation you can be confused and feel fear, or you can be confused and be excited.

Same applies to "silliness" and "hesitation".
> to justify their request that it be unlawful to provide such services

Why are the previous subpoenas Signal Messenger LLC has refused not sufficient for this purpose?
Addiction. From the endless edit-compile-test cycles.

Dopamine circuits go completely berserk.
I don't think that's fair, we do way more things now with computers than before.
Sounds like you have a similar setup to mine [1]. I have added PDF as an output format using pandoc. Also GitHub actions to automatically generate a new version when I push a commit.

Would you mind sharing yours? I am always looking for inspiration and ways to improve.

[1]: https://github.com/morberg/recept
In particular, this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnQP5dhxlKU&t=538 might be very interesting to land on.
What about the Ceefax music, for when the filled in broadcast time with “Pages from Ceefax”.

I particularly remember the barking dog track.
Nope, blank screen screensaver for me.

FWIW, it hasn't happened to me in days now. Normally I never reboot, and I usually have a lot of services and dev stuff running in the background that I forget about. Since my last reboot, days ago, I haven't had the problem. Maybe it's because I also haven't been working :D, so the background pressure is low.
JavaScript Engine Demystified
Me too. They could have blacked out some of the digits while preserving the milliseconds joke.
We can trace mutation histories of viruses very extensively, the tools and techniques for this are now pretty sophisticated, so that's not necessarily an insurmountable obstacle.

There is a probabilistic aspect to this though. If we happen to find the exact wild virus population Cov-19 originated from (whether it then mutated naturally or in a lab) then I think we'll nail it. On the other hand if we just find an adjacent population that diverged from the actual Cov-19 source some time ago it could be harder to pin down the route.
> You allow the dialog to take place and make up your own mind.

The number of replies to your comment against this idea is terrifying. What's even worse is the outright hostility --- it's not good enough that they trust the experts and you don't. You have to go along with it too, according to them, or they'll attack you. It's a totalitarian mindset.
I've been thinking about this A LOT over the last year. Knowledge work is Emotional work.

Software developers make software for PEOPLE. Making things for people requires empathy to be successful or else a whole lot of luck.

Having empathy means putting myself out there. It means asking questions that sound ignorant.

It means going from feeling like I had a great idea to seeing all the flaws and shortcomings of that idea, and being willing to accept the shortcomings of that idea and change my mind.

It means doing all of this and being 100% technically perfect. One extra space - computer says no. Number in the wrong place - computer says no. Off by one - computer says no. Tyop - computer says no.
Your (1) and (4) are assuming a direction of causality. Alternatively:

(4) Monthly payments on new mortgages are essentially fixed for any point in time. A drop in interest rates from 3% to 2% makes housing asset prices 25% more expensive, and along with them downpayments, real estate taxes, and the amount required to pay mortgages off early.

(1) In order for a house to keep up with market appreciation, it has to be a desirable to the future "average buyer". Monthly payments are relatively fixed, less bidding competition for land outside of metro areas means that the feedback effect in my (4) isn't as strong, and so a bit more money goes into the structure.
EFF (https://eff.org) and Open Privacy (https://openprivacy.ca/) spring to mind
But let's suppose that someone has accumulated the cash and didn't need a loan.

By lovering interest rates and raising prices, not only the people who had to take loans aren't in a better position, but people who did not need loans are also hit.

The only winners are the ones speculating real estate.
Also missing: blind fury

I occasionally find myself feeling like this after frustration builds to a crescendo, and I've spent hours trying to get something to work that should have taken no time at all!
Oh, you were :)

I think the areas where cost-of-living is cheaper will see an influx of remotely working people. Prices around Prague and Brno have become too insane even for middle class professionals and crossed into the "front end for mafia" territory, as these are among the last buyers who can afford them.
I don't know if shell scripts should be considered a programming language.
An Architecture for Life
This is the first I’ve heard of “US links to the Wuhan lab”. What exactly are you referring to?
This is not correct because gravity only acts downwards. This means a lower center of gravity will always be more stabilizing for a vehicle the right way up. As the car rolls the center of gravity is pushed outward. When it’s too high it quickly passes over the pivot point of the wheels and the car will roll as gravity is applying additional moment about the wheel. When it’s lower than the pivot point which is not usually physically possible it’s always resisting the roll until the vehicle is basically nearly upside down.

Draw it on a piece of paper if you need to convince yourself. This is an incredibly common trick to stabilise rigidbody physics simulated vehicles in games.

Edit: I took some time to setup OBS on my non-work machine and make a little video explaining what's going on (apologies for kids in the background and that for some reason my voice only comes out of the left channel):
https://youtu.be/qvMbdzbaAMQ
Can we just get back the polygraph?
This has been the prevailing mentality in the industry for a long time, being essentially a business dogma in IT since the 90s (for a good reasons, as you explained). I think Java is the personification of this concept (more specifically idiomatic corporate Java from the 00s).

But there is a recent small change of winds, where management is realising that being faster than the competition can have some business merit, being worth spending some man*hours. The lecturer explains it well in the beginning of the lecture. It is not a 180° turn, performance is not the priority (as it shouldn't be), but a relevance "differentiator". That is one of the drivers of the recent growth in compiled languages (Rust, Go, ...), Not the only one but it helped.
Have you ever been to London?
okay - so you’re concerned there is a high chance of collisions in this case as apposed to companies like Stripe, Amazon and Oracle where there is less scope for confusion.

> Meta’s usage of it is relevant to its meaning.

Is it though ? - I thought Meta the name is just a shorthand for Metaverse, so the confusion is bounded to discussions on that topic.

Maybe I’m unable to see the issue. Can you give an example where this overloaded word will cause confusion ?

We definitely need to have a conversation about the pro’s and con’s of various things associated with Meta and the metaverse. This name collision thing just feels like a non issue to me.
Also https://www.youtube.com/user/Chris67132/videos
And this is where it gets fun - Joe/Jill tech-worker wants to live in Menlo Park. So she works at Facebook. To pay his/her mortgage (or mortgage market-correlated rent), (s)he has to build selective sharing algorithms that emphasize anger but maximize 'engagement' and make lots of revenue for the company. Even though friends & family tell him/her (s)he's being detrimental to the world - it's paying his/her salary, and so the mortgage/rent.

In-group vs. out-group baiting, mayhem, & loss-of-life ensue. (h/t Frances Haugen)
Interestingly, the short-lived "sorela" style (SOcialistic REALism) was much less brutal and more esthetically pleasing

https://www.google.com/search?q=sorela

One of the main drivers of later Soviet Bloc architecture was relentless uniformization and centralization of industry. By far the fastest way to churn out apartments was to standardize a few typical panels, produce them en masse and cover the entire country in just a few types of buildings.
Yea but my argument was instead of paying Apple to be default search engine on iOS devices they could invest all that money in improving search technology which would bring them more revenue from ads.

Users care about UX so if Google is the best internet search engine out there they will use Google if not they will use something else. Now iOS users are presented with Google as their default search engine not because they think Google is the best but because Google pays to be default search engine on iOS devices.
That is when I truly hate technology and how bad all UX is.
I don't know about Norway but in the Czech Republic, there's no "school districts" in the first place, so that would be why there's no "good school district" here. Schooling simply doesn't have geographic boundaries here.
That's super cool.

I have noticed on some older cable STB have one or two lines at the top of the screen that look like they are sending data using those lines, only on certain channels. I theorize they are updating the STB or something. Does anyone know what that is ?
Lidar reveals hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial centers
Such a premise begins with the assumption the origin is natural.

Just because China refuses to cooperate (as stated by the article), does not mean that trying to find a natural cause is the only way to resolve the issue.

It's a bit misleading as well as the vast majority of the agencies mentioned in the article do not believe in a natural origin.

>The ODNI report said four U.S. spy agencies and a multi-agency body have "low confidence" that COVID-19 originated with an infected animal or a related virus.
Couple more for me

Surprised, when something non trivial worked the first time around. How could this be? This can't be right?

Floored, when I see the quality and quantity that some developers are able to contribute or create.
> I personally know someone who thought the vaccine had a good chance of killing

This is the straw man
(Note - the article is from Sep 2021)

I feel this to be a somewhat hypocritical piece and a somewhat blind one too. This CEO, and also the author of this article, talk about 'walled gardens' (maybe a better term is Stockholm Jails), while there is no mention of the exclusivity that Epic Games have been buying out with new game releases. Some are timed, some are permanent, some involve removals from other stores. They've made gaming a worse place over the past few years with their actions.

So I don't believe right now that they are looking to break down any of these jails, until they start by cleaning up their own behaviour.
Yeah and I have Type 1 diabetes and inject myself with insulin. I’m kinda glad that we bent the world to my will there.
I don’t think it’s axiomatic that the metaverse needs interoperability of t-shirts. What I’m asking for is arguments for why that is the case and given that the current Internet is basically a metaverse sans interoperability why we haven’t seen it done yet. It’s not really a technical hurdle IMO.
You only have to do that in hot loops (in most problems), that you can easily profile with the very good observability tools that java provides. The rest can be maintainable, good quality OOP code.

I would even go as far and say that OOP’s encapsulation pretty much exists just for this: the “ugly” implementation can reside inside a class and you only have to care about its public API from the outside.
It's not that new idea. See Intellectual Property in its many forms. For some reason, when we try to figure how to manage abundant resources, only solutions we come up with are to make them artificially scarce. Which makes really little sense. But then, economics is a "science"[1] of scarcity, not abundance, and somehow economics is the main science used to solve how the society should be arranged.

[1] I have a strong feeling that economists have missed the memo from Popper regarding what is modern science. There seems to be quite a lot of unfalsifiable assumptions lying at the bottom of economics, starting from the utility maximizing agent.
>how would that not be a great way to sell a car?

Because there's no guarantee that the experience is in any way comparable to the actual driving. It's in the manufacturer's interest to do the opposite. If the controls weren't standardized the simulation might have still been useful to learn the controls, but they are.

Besides, when AI cars come along the criterias will change completely. From driving experience to cost and comfort. That could be virtualized... but there wouldn't be much point in it.
There is a huge difference between a dog finding a body (material evidence independent of the dog's behavioral characteristics) and a dog handler "reading" his dog's behavior and making various predictions out of it. The latter should absolutely not have any value in court.

And to think that we laugh at the Romans for predicting future from the flight of birds (augury) and animal liver (haruspexy)...
There's a lot of focus on testing in Ballerina: https://ballerina.io/learn/testing-ballerina-code/writing-te...
That's the the good stuff right there though.
If the alternative is to keep it a "very bad neighbourhood", I don't see how how the situation is not at least even. (Unless "very bad neighborhood" was an exaggeration. "Poor person's neighbourhood" certainly wasn't what I imagined, but I live in a place where most "poor person's neighbourhoods" are pretty good...just poor, that's all).
Back in the 90s we had the "metaverse" in the form of MUDs and MOOs. And they were text. I spent a lot of time in MOOs (LambdaMOO et al and various others) as a participant and a programmer and an advocate of them and a contributor to new servers, etc. And they were glorious and compelling, but maybe too compelling for some people.

But they were buried by the web. They wouldn't have scaled out anyways, but we were working on that. But they were mostly lost in time.

Ego-capitalists like Zuckerberg want to pilfer from that history and make something they control. The interesting parts of the Internet have been buried by things like Facebook which has offered a dumbed-down walled-in Internet where your uncle can act out his own virtual reality fantasy of ranting about Obama at the thanksgiving table all year long to an imaginary bottomless audience. Sigh.

I personally won't let VR goggles into my house. I'd like my teenagers to grow up without them.
> In the future we might be able to simulate a human on that level. Is it really alive? Does it have rights?

Purely probabilistically, we are such humans. If any 'base' universe can easily simulate humans, for fun or research, such simulations will soon vastly outnumber the 'real' people. And because of that, we have to assume we are in an ancestor simulation.