skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you still need insulation. But, brick appears to still be a much better insulator than other residential building materials.

I found a site that explains it with numbers: https://gambrick.com/does-a-brick-home-need-insulation/

Additionally, brick is superior at weather resistance over time. 50 years from that brick will continue to insulate about the same as a new wall. You won't get that with wood even with lots of treatment over the years.
I’m Thinking Of Ending Things by Iain Reid.

Without wanting to spoiler you — it’s about a few introverts, and it’s narrated in a way that focuses heavily on the inner world, on their thoughts, the culture they enjoy, their deliberations, what they say and what they hold back.

It is a horror too, sort of.
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Because its been years and years, and the arguments usually boil down to something like "scarcity creates it own value", which some people find obviously correct and some people find obviously false.
A casualty of the forced segregation to 16:9 monitors early in the century.
Pretty much all the domain code I write at work is in a functional style. Because D makes this easy and convenient, it's just what we end up using. Turns out dataflow is easier to follow than control flow.
> Real Engineering is done in imperative style

From my experience, real engineering is done in a multi-paradigm style. Some functional, some oo, some imperative, etc. As a general rule, functional style is easier to reason about (and test) for smaller pieces of code (ie, pure functions, function composition, etc) but can be harder to reason about for the larger code base. As such, it's very common to see as many functions as possible be done in a functional style.. but the overall system include lots of non-fuctional things.
That's one debate. There are two debates.

Debate #1: Are wood frame houses unsafe in Los Angeles, such that they should either be condemned and razed, or be subject to mandatory annual LA county safety inspections?

Debate #2: Are concrete houses so much safer than wood frame houses, that wood frame houses should be banned?

Right now, the concrete industry is backing a bill that endorses the view "#1 No, #2 Yes". Their detractors think that their view on #2 is biased, and that it is actually "#1 No, #2 No". I think that in reality it's "#1 Yes, #2 No", and that there's not enough political will to evaluate at all whether wood frame houses need more frequent fire inspections.

LA county is also in earthquake, flooding, tsunami, and wildfire territory, so any decisions that decrees one solution for all problems is automatically suspect simply for being incompetent versus the spectrum of safety scenarios available. For example, wood is more likely to survive earthquakes, while concrete is more likely to sustain damage; earthquakes happen constantly in this region, so much so that USGS has an entire California subsite dedicated to it.

Cynically, I expect the concrete industry is trying to say that concrete houses won't burn in wildfires, but by the time a change in building code reaches actual newly built homes in any given area, that area will already have had it's superfire and be relatively low wildfire risk for the next couple decades (since it'll be a long time before that much dry tinder can accumulate again).

The simplest way to counteract this bill would be to demand it require county inspection of all concrete homes after earthquakes, at which point the county would have to consider the real cost of structural collapse of concrete homes in salaried inspector terms, and reevaluate its stance on earthquake risk prevention versus fire risk prevention with respect to building materials. But I don't think anyone's thinking in those terms, which is unfortunate. If you live in LA, write your legislator a handwritten postal letter about it.
> next galaxy (say 1 light year away).

Nitpick: galaxies are millions of light-years apart. One light-year doesn't even get you to the closest star. The diameter of the Milky Way alone is on the order of 100K light-years.
What a frightening false dichotomy.
> "The motion currently winding its way through City Council"

Original motion is here --> https://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2019/19-0603_mot_06-05-...

Full history here --> https://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa...
The rational is that you wouldn't have to do this normally. No sane criminal would value their life less than some catalytic converter.
I suppose I (perhaps unfairly) pre-judged the Guix community based off of past experiences with libre-only distros. I have memories of listserv threads and IRC conversations where it felt like people were trying to catch people daring to run proprietary software on their distro just so they could shut down the conversation with "This distro only supports running Free Software"
In Germany, only a small portion of our houses are wood framed. But we have high standards, so our wood frames are protected and escape routes in special are covered by non burning plates. In addition, building stairs with the right wood can make them more sustainable to fire than concrete.

Overall, that's a very bad decision they made or want to make and there are even more technology available to prevent any form of fire in wood framed houses. Example: circuit breakers with lightning detection.
Unrelated to your point, I have a friend who was a wildlife biologist / game warden for a US state. At one point, at least one insurance company was trying to pressure the department of game and fish to issue many more deer hunting licenses, to reduce the number of deer-vehicle collisions.
Unsollicited Diks is cute, too : https://twitter.com/UnsolicitedDiks
TSMC is set to have full production of N3 by then too, and they have actually been meeting their public statements about process timelines. Intel unfortunately has a increasingly uphill battle.
Some bricks do not need additional insulation, such as this one with U=0.11: https://www.heluz.sk/sk/vyrobek/heluz-family-50-2in1-brusena
Safe compared to what? I realised when I moved to the US from the UK that the number of people I heard on a ~weekly basis who lost possessions or even lives in a house fire went from effectively zero to more than zero.

It just seems to be accepted as “ok” that houses are constructed from wood and can fairly trivially burn to the ground - especially given the standard of electrical wiring often found! I for one welcome any ban on wood housing construction and hope it spreads far and wide - and certainly will never spend money on a house that fundamentally represents the second of the Three Little Pigs.

(Edit: Perhaps LA also has earthquakes to consider - that’s fine and a trade-off worth discussing. Where I live earthquakes are non-existent, yet it’s still basically impossible to buy a house constructed properly)
This is a better scan with individuated pages.

https://archive.org/details/adversariesscep00hoddgoog
+1 against Sendgrid. They were a pretty good service when we signed up with them ~5 years ago (Paid plan with private IP), but ever since the Twilio acquisition their customer support and technical reliability has gone through the floor.

Postmark is a phenomenal service and I'll be using it for every transactional email service I need going forward.
Was just thinking the other day I miss the title "webmaster," made one feel important. ;-)
Emissions inspections are not required in most rural areas, and not required in quite a few state (FL/WA/MI come to mind as populous places that do not require inspections):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_Unit...

I would just straight pipe it if someone cut out my cats. Although, my cats have been dead for years, so I wonder if they would even get paid for them.
I wonder how many people have almost-met stories about Alan Kay. :)

IIRC, my potential one was pre-dawn in Central Square, up the street from MIT, and I go into the Dunkin Donuts for a coffee. The only other customer in there was ordering a bunch of donut holes, and looked like Alan Kay... Then he adds, like an afterthought, something like, "It's for kids".

(My immediate guess was, if it was Kay, he was probably collaborating with a particular professor's group nearby. I'm not sure why I didn't say hello to a suspected one of my heroes, but I suppose I was still in deserted nighttime Central Square don't-get-stabbed street mode, and so the situation seemed a bit surreal. And the Boston area culture isn't big on acknowledging strangers, even in less-threatening daytime conditions.)
Same in Europe, HSCSD and all. Though at the time, I thought my Nokia 6150 was really "modem'ing" and the 9.6kbps were because GSM compression and available bandwidth would obliterate anything else, but nice to learn after all these years that it was actually digital and the endpoint with the actual modem was somewhere in the network.
Using libraries is so much easier in rust compared to many other libraries due to rustdoc. I can trust the type signatures to show me the actual usage, I can trust the code snippets to not be outdated, and above all this is consistent for all code in the entire ecosystem.

Almost always when I use python libraries I have to get used to a new documentation format, learn how to navigate it and so on. And then it has to be detailed enough to make up for the lack of type signatures. I cannot tell you how often I have to skim a significant portion of my dependencies' source just to use them. (Though there are counterexamples, stdlib and numpy in particular actually have okay docs)
> But MOST importantly the way the user interacts with the interface would re-create the ease of use rendered by our interaction with print media. This last part, about the user interface, is why I believe Apple is best positioned to tackle this problem.

> In one year's time we'll see. 2010 should be the year paper learns of it's destiny, the year we reach a tipping point on our way towards bits from the momentum of atoms.

This is of course a prescient prediction of the iPad. But what it also reminded me of is a device that had already been shown publicly at the time: The Microsoft Courier.

Microsoft was working on a dual-screen tablet that was essentially a notebook in computer form, complete with custom OS.[1] In the end it never happened.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmIgNfp-MdI
For my 1 man shop... Crash, High, Low, Cosmetic.

Crash means fix right away. High means top of the list, if there are no crash bugs. Low and cosmetic are whenever (as interest or opportunity affords).
But a wall in a wooden house isn't actually wood unless it's a log cabin. It a normal wooden house it's a void with a wooden frame.
They looked at total land use required to support cities and other areas and found that while the city footprint is small, the supportive infrastructure for the city is large. They found that when accounting for this, land use per capita is about the same regardless of density. Wish I could find it but there are a lot of Nature papers submitted every week.

EDIT: found it https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-01477-y
Ironically, Texas would probably also have one of the highest percentage of vehicle owners who have removed and replaced their catalytic converters with a straight pipe. It's called a "cat delete" and common in the performance community, probably because there is no emissions testing.
I made a one-page website for my neighbour's band and we set the counter to 174 so that it would look like people had visited. He called me as soon as I got home excited that the counter had gone up. Yeah, it does that when you look at it...
Options:
1) be good at what you do, but keep up with tech trends. Tech can fall away.
2) start your own business. Not trivial, but an option. Keep up with tech trends.
3) get a government job.
I'd already answered why I haven't

> Maybe things have improved. But now that Google Talk, Facebook Messenger and others don't use XMPP any more, there is even less reason to bother trying.

There's no shortage of chat protocols out there. As far as I'm concerned XMPP had it's chance and failed to deliver. While I'm not a fan of NIH (not invented here) syndrome, I'm even less of a fan of polishing a turd, because that's what leads us to monstrosities like STARTTLS, FTPES and so on and so forth.
The problem with this approach are those cases where it is not clear cut.

The consequences of being wrong outweigh the benefits of being right.

And have you ever taken someone's life before? It is not to be taken lightly and will no doubt haunt the shooter for many years. And for what, because someone stole $1000, $100, $10 or $1? If you are comfortable putting a value on someone's life and ending it with a bullet without remorse, that would make you a sociopath or a psychopath.
What is exactly the use case i am Jira admin and curious to know to offer it my team's..
DSE was an absolute rip off, but it was pretty much the only game in town.

As a kid it was an amazing place for me to spend an hour on the weekends pottering around all the electronic kitsets and latest computer parts/gadgets.

I would credit DSE with fostering a lot of my love of computers and technology.
I am quite sad it no longer exists.
On a grey morning on April 1, 1978, an iceberg floated into Sydney Harbour.

Talkback radio went into meltdown as hundreds of callers jammed the switchboards to report the bizarre sight. People headed for the harbour, boats were launched and for several hours, the media provided a blow-by-blow account of the scene.

Then it started raining, the iceberg ‘melted’ and Sydney’s most elaborate April Fools hoax was revealed.

The prank was the brainchild of 34-year-old electronics entrepreneur Dick Smith.

[1] https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/sydney-april-fool...
TL;DR: catalythc converters have valuable metals as rhodium and palladium
You could argue that having any kind of benecits at all tied to your employment is a bad idea... Yet Americans love to do that with healthcare

I'm not convinced having the average person manage their own retirement fund choices is any better. They lack bargaining power and they lack the savvy to make wise choices for the long term
I suspect most are half legitimate. Tow cars for free, or steal parts when it is slow
Part of the problem in my experience is expecting programmers to work solo, only interacting with other programmers during standup meetings or when they are asking for help.

I'm not sure how I feel specifically about pair programming, but I do think that even "local" code changes should be accompanied by at least some architectural discussion with other developers who work on that part of the system. Usually the discussion can be as simple as "does XYZ design seem like a good idea? yeah, go ahead". But in my opinion it's important to encourage, incorporate, and expect collaboration as part of the basic workflow.

Perhaps this is also part of the problem with code reviews. Reviewing code is kind of difficult. But it's a lot easier if you've already discussed the design beforehand with the person whose code you're reviewing, so at least you already know why they did what they did, and you aren't going to be surprised, and then have to spend time writing up your disagreement and entering a back-and-forth process that sucks up time.
Open-source leaders seek to fill the gaps in software supply chain security
Did you miss the part where Apple is clocking those chips at same speeds as normal DDR4? Closer placement did not result in lower latency nor higher speeds. Apple M1 is same situation as RPI foundation using POP ram. Requires fewer pcb layers, simplifies layout, lowers cost and as a bonus gives assured future sales due to forced obsolescence. I didnt dismiss anything, I simply know physics and have some experience in high speed layout.
That site is talking about brick used as siding, not as something structural. And they're only getting an R value of 0.8 (which is minimal) because it is 4" thick.

4" brick gives you less insulation than even 1/4" of foam.
Right, for sure. I think Turing reductions tend to be in terms of a concrete Turing machine, anyway; I don't think there's any claim being made here of a universal multistack machine, which is what you might be touching on.
Yes. Perhaps I was drawing too fine a line in distinguishing Macsyma from Maxima.
The battery packs will likely be serial number locked to the car as well as physically locked.
Dillo has a nice CSS-less rendering. Also, Links+.

I am still safe.
>they were certainly far more violent than the Capitol riot since they very literally included orders of magnitude more violence, destruction, and death.

... And orders of magnitude more people. Per-capita, the capitol riot is obviously more violent, and that's the only way it makes sense to measure violence. Otherwise I could say that ISIS members are less violent than catholics.
I had the pleasure of meeting Dick at a Christmas party many years ago.

Buying locally made, locally owned is a major priority of his and should be for every Australian.
From where I sit, here in late 2021 it has just become finally possible to use “Display: Grid” [1] on a real world site. Microsoft has finally configured IE11 to force a website to open up in Edge if the patched IE11 decides the site is not IE compatible; I just need to learn how to make my site refuse to open in IE11 (opening up in Edge instead) to use “Display: Grid”.

I really wish Display: Grid was practical to use back in 2009. It would had been a lot more straightforward than the “Display: Table” stuff I did instead.

[1] https://caniuse.com/?search=Display%3A%20Grid
I'm in the EU and I have not found a solution that works other than a local accounting office. Which works very well indeed. But I have a B2B SaaS, so my invoicing side is relatively simple VAT-wise.
This is probably a relatively boring use case -- the C preprocessor could do basically the same thing -- but I've used macros to obviate some repetitive code in API bindings and FFIs.
The Internet is not a object like the ocean, or the sun etc. Internet itself is protocols. The 'wide web' itself is a collection of networked that agree to use the Internet Protocol to exchange information.
I like it. I’ve also found success as framing it as building tech capability. Focusing people on adding capability or wealth, positive connotations, I think is the way to go.
Doesn’t work on mobile Safari?
>I realized when I moved to the US from the UK that the number of people I heard on a ~weekly basis who lost possessions or even lives in a house fire went from effectively zero to more than zero.

Where on earth did you move to where house fires are this common? I've never heard anyone talk about the possessions that they lost in a house fire because house fires are so uncommon.
WizTree also uses NTFS metadata to perform shockingly fast reports on space usage. Just much, much faster than anything else I've seen, and I'm not sure there's any equivalents for other filesystems.
The largest benefit is initializing and requesting things once. For example, Twitter is a single page app and is built the same way you would build a native app. The code needed to render it is downloaded once, and only small API requests are made to fetch content as needed. Sure, it could be built as a regular website (as it once was), but it runs even better now since it doesn't have to re-render and re-initialize everything on each "page". It uses the History API so the back/forward buttons still work as expected.
Almost all LPs were designed to be played in random order to the extent that the technology allowed.

Anybody who's ever looked at LPs notices that there are smooth orbits between songs.

That's so you can pick up the needle and move it to whatever song you want to.

That does not mean that artists don't want you to listen to songs in order, but it also means that you can just listen to the song you want when you want.

In the CD era, it meant that you didn't have to listen to 12 tracks of dross to get to the one good song the artist put on the album to sell it.
Kissinger's "World Order" (2014) is much, much better for anyone interested in how the internet will shape the future of governments. 10/10 do recommend.

This book ("The Age of AI", Kissinger, 2021) is as good as a Business Insider article written by a European regulator. Read "World Order" instead! Whatever you think of Kissinger, I guarantee you'll learn something from his 2014 book.
The nice thing about streaming that nobody seems to remember is just how hard it was to cancel subscriptions added to a cable service. You had to call the cable company! Wait on hold for an hour! Be embarrassed talking about what you were cancelling! It was... weirdly hard.

So, yeah. I mean, I subscribe to a basic Netflix and Amazon Prime account like a modern person. I have a $35/year HDHomeRun DVR subscription, which is cool. Every year, I re-up on Hulu's Black Friday for a few bucks a month. In the end, it's $30/month in 2021 dollars. That's cool. Way more than I can watch.

But if I really feel FOMO? Like, I'll subscribe for a month to something else and Just Cancel It. That's it! I don't need to call anyone, I don't need to explain, I just take literally two minutes to just log in and cancel.

Things are so much better than things were in the '90s or aughts where it was impossible to do anything without arguing with people you can't even imagine.
Making good abstractions, and not making bad abstractions, is the craft of programming. Of course it’s hard and people will get it wrong a lot of the time. The solution to that is to get better, not give up.
Xeon covers a pretty wide variety of chips. Of course, the Pentium II Xeons didn't have speedstep either. 12-core tells us either fairly high end but older or kind of medium-low but newer. Dual socket tells us not the really low end Xeon that shares a socket (and probably a lot more) with the high end enthusiast desktop chips.
Organizations trying to avoid duplication is the source of so many big corp ills. "Oh no. We can't have two people paying separately for the same $10 a month SaaS app. Better make a painful, time expensive procurement process for people who want to use tools"
Dick is a marketing genius.

If memory serves correct, when Skylab was being deorbited (eventually partially over Australia), Dick Smith provided free insurance cover to anyone standing in his Australian stores.
1999: https://www.atomicsky.com/
How will you prevent people who want to steal from stealing? Closure rates on theft cases is low to nonexistent.
> I heard of the technique of maintaining attention/focus inside the body

meditation helped me a ton with social anxiety too. It allowed me to be OK with not knowing the right things to say.
There needs to be something like KYC laws so that if agents show up with a van full of catalytic converters and get a no questions asked pile of cash for that scrap that people get arrested and assets get seized, making it highly risky to be on that side of the trade. Make it so that they cannot deal in cash and require ID and a bank account for payment. Move the goalposts so that the scrap dealer accepting the converters must be engaging in criminal conspiracy with the thieves, then if you bust thieves you can get them to easily roll on the scrap dealers.
Yeah, if it's not clear cut - don't shoot anyone. I'm talking about people who are in the process of the crime when you caught them as it happened, not about some kind of vigilante track-them-down.
As for shooting someone - I haven't, and I hope I'll never have to, but I can't imagine feeling remorseful for stopping a crime against myself. Yeah 10$ is pushing it, but as I've said - it's more about the violation than the actual value here. I have no idea what someone is trying to steal from the car, but just breaking into it is enough.
Sometime in the 2000s I learned that using the css left attribute to animate marquee like text flows, worked much better (smoother and I think also performance wise). I was a bit surprised, that some handmade marquee was performing better than the native original.