skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are not two entities called "London" and "Scotland" playing a referendum and will game.

If the SNP government, for example, goes ahead with a referendum that is not sanctioned, there is a strong risk that people who don't think it is justified, or are unionists, will not take part, which would be a bad result. So leverage on that side is limited also.
But that’s not what the topic was - it became “safety rules that should exist because not doing so is clearly insane even to a non-expert”.
I dunno… I started around the same time as you, also with PHP. I posted this comment[0] the other day where I tried to put into words how much I hate JavaScript and, judging from the reactions I got, it seems the community is pretty split on this one.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29193470
I mean your logic is sound but car companies dragged their feet for years on even plug in hybrids and so just like the mulled wine example in the article, it wouldn't work in the real world. GM had an amazing things with the Voltec architecture. ~50 miles on electric was more than enough for even the most discerning customers yet they never really extended it past the Chevy Volt. It should have been rolled out to all of their vehicles. That would help push them to also drive down the cost and eventually make it the standard powertrain on their cars. Over the course of 1 generation you have eliminated a large chunk of co2 emissions from transportation.

Instead they never introduced it to other cars, now they have discontinued the Volt(because who wants an overpriced Chevy Cruze anyway?) and now they nothing for sale because of battery issues.

Battery issues will be resolved in the next few years as more factories come online so I don't see how a "battery hog" issue will arise unless there is a fundamental shortage of raw materials. Seems like the battery companies are also investing in recycling so this eventually becomes a closed loop system.
Probably. And if you could accurately predict the lack of function after learning something, you'd probably dump that subject no?

And you can do that with language instruction in most cases.

Hell, maybe make language instruction more hardcore and immersive for those who need or actively seek it.

For everyone else, it's not worth pursuing 98% of the time.
It might be more interesting to subtract one data set from the other, showing how much of the noise is human-induced? Perhaps there are some outliers.
Ground source heat pumps exist, but cost a minimum of $10,000 to install. That is only if you have a large enough plot of land and the right soil type. It can easily be $20,000.
Can I ask what state/country/region you're in? What's the typical low temperature for winter in your area?
I ssh into their machines that are available over a wireguard tunnel.
Android help is over vnc+scrcpy

To be honest this only covers 95% of the problems you could encounter so think about a pikvm[0] or something similar.

You can help them debug multiple PCs with one setup, you can help even when they lost their internet connection (hardware switch, driver problems - when nothing works use android usb tethering)
You can even configure their bios/debug boot problems through this.

[0] https://pikvm.org/
> Why does NZ grant visas to obese people?

They don’t. You go thru serious health check when getting work visa and then another check when applying for residency. If you are fat with serious health issues you won’t pass.
> Such automation wouldn’t be sustainable under capitalism because the rate of profit would drop even further

I get that you don't like profits (even though investment to do automation requires profits), but automation reduces costs which INCREASES profits and/or reduces prices.
We would never have been able to construct enough MIQ infrastructure to let people come and go as they pleased, which is what would be necessary to satisfy the "right to return is absolute and cannot be constrained under any circumstances" people on this thread.

> How many nurses and doctors have we recruited overseas?

I don't have the exact numbers, but many hundreds at least.

> Why does MIQ still exist?

Right now it exists to keep Omicron out while we get through Christmas, see how well we can cope with Delta using the traffic light system, get boosters into the arms of people who were vaccinated more than 4 months ago, and learn how bad Omicron is.

If the news about Omicron stays good and there are no other surprises I don't expect MIQ for NZers to exist past the end of Feb, or at all past the end of April.

> Do you think any Olympian or All Black could look the son or daughter of a dead parent in the eye and say that it was right for their space in MIQ to take precedence over the chance for a loved one to say goodbye for one last time?

There is an exemption system that gives priority for such emergency cases so it's not obvious to me how many such injudicious situations have occurred. When they have occurred, I'm more bothered by the MIQ-users who were just entering NZ for a nice holiday, or returning from a holiday. I consider it a major defect of our MIQ system that we never tried to block those low-priority users ... but I understand it would have been hard, since a lot of people have been claiming such trips are essential for their mental health.

Also I have a lack of empathy for people rushing back to NZ for forseeable end-of-life visits. In my view, if you care about your parents a lot, you live where they are so you can be with them for more than just the last minute.
You can use mathpix.com web editor to also export markdown to latex or even directly to Overleaf. We also support converting Markdown to docx/pdf, we also do OCR for full PDF documents (works well for scientific documents). Disclaimer: I am the founder.
I dunno dude. All I did was look up the GDP time series. The fact that there is an increase prompts my comment.
I have had depression for pretty much as long as I can remember anything at all and this feels relatable. I can't say anything smart or helpful though.
If you start shipping them around, you’re dehumanizing them, treating them like objects instead of people with agency.

Furthermore, what happens when they get there? Low housing costs are a symptom of little to no economic opportunities, so you’re essentially just warehousing them like parts on a shelf.

What do you do with the inconvenient people, the mentally ill and those who cannot easily participate in society? Yeah, you’ve shipped them somewhere where they’re not in your way, but will you also provide for treatment or just wait and hope they solve the problem by dying or getting killed?

People are not things, despite what economists may say. You can’t just ship them around and utter thoughts and prayers at them. I guess you could but you’d be joining a select group of history’s biggest assholes.
It's a great question. JS is single threaded (modulo web workers), which eliminates an entire class of race conditions: data races. That means mutices kan be skipped and channels can be replaced with a reqular fifo queue.

Async doesn't change any of this, and is mostly syntax sugar for callbacks. However, there are of course logical race conditions so when you use async you must be aware that the entire world can have changed after an await.
> And some even responded in ways that don't make much sense at all. (One of my best, long-term friends responded with "well, you've always been a great friend to me!" when I texted him the diagnosis).

I think what they meant must have been something like

> I would not have guessed that someone who has always seemed as attentive to my feelings and comfort as you do is someone who has difficulty reading social cues or exercising cognitive empathy

it requires a few leaps in interpretation, but I think they must have meant to be saying something positive about some specific social skills of yours that they expect to be difficult for autistic people.

It kinda makes a little sense. But only a little. It's almost like saying

> it's okay!

as if you'd just apologized for something, which is definitely baffling (and a bit disappointing).
Why not steel the Cypher syntax all together and have a match keyword for joins by pkeys and fkeys.
Heat pumps work in cold weather and should have emergency heat where it's resistance coils inside the home. Your HVAC installer should install the correct system by zone.

Your fear of people freezing to death over heat pumps are unfounded. There are backups built in that work with the insulation value of a house. New homes should be very air tight and require less heating, suited for heat pumps.
Thing the Second:

> Well, they've successfully convinced thousands of developers that AWS certifications are worth thousands of dollars

and quoting CactusOnFire
> I got one of the AWS certifications. I know it's a scam.

I too used to look down on certification.

I made a damn good living "doing computers" (still do): networking, development, what's now called BI reporting, backup and restores, etc. This for multiple startups, SMBs and $BIGCORPs.

I then wanted to get into training: MCSE, SCSA, LPI, etc. For that, I had to be certified. No problem, I thought, certifications are for fools and children; this will be a cake walk.

Great Ghu! There was _so_ _much_ I didn't know or even know about. Certifications filled in _so_ many gaps and minutiae. (You don't know what you don't know.) Not only did it fill in the gaps, allowing me to better utilize the knowledge I already had it let me make more sense of those shapes I see off in the tech horizon.

Now because I have these certs, should you then treat me as if I was the next coming of Ritchie? :-|

Certs show that you have a _base_ knowledge, not that your the reincarnation of Turing.

Are there people who abuse the system? Sure! Name a system involving humans that isn't/hasn't been abused, corrupted, and twisted beyond what it was meant to do. Go ahead. I'll wait.

I've come to the conclusion that people who sht on people (mostly utes [sic]) for getting technical certifications are the same ones who sht on recent high school graduates: Oh, you have a high school diploma? How nice. /s It says here you took English and math classes. Let's see how good you are. Write a 5,000 word dissertation on the impact of Don Quixote on Western literature, then prove Fermat's Last Theorem. If you can't do that in 30 minutes, GTFO you poser.'

What's that? You don't treat ppl with high school diplomas or bachelor/masters' degrees like that? Then why treat people going after certs like that?
I had a rock solid base in the piano, and then my enjoyment of that process has led from one enjoyable endeavor to the next. It is a little bit like reading in that way. Readers find that their next book is the result of their prior reading. It is almost as though the book selects the reader.
I would suggest simply letting them know that you appreciate their effort but it's not necessary during non-work hours or non-emergency periods. Even the most gung-ho socially awkward person should be able to get it.
> As a bonus, the electric that I use comes from a giant gas plant so

Yes, however, that won't be the case for long (hopefully).
I remember using early versions of LyX back in college in 1995.

I feel that it led to the development of KDE. I remember Matthias Ettrich released LyX and it used the Qt toolkit.

The next year I remember Matthias announcing the "Kool Desktop Environment" and it also was based on Qt. I don't know if Matthias just really like Qt or if he was happy with the success of LyX and decided to make an entire desktop environment.
I never claimed heat pumps don't work in cold weather. The point is about non-electric redundancy, not heat pumps having resistance coils. I'm well aware of the functionality of modern heat pumps.

Even in a house with foam insulation - the highest "normally available" insulation - freezing to death is just a matter of time without heat. When considering city-wide infrastructure it's something that needs to be considered. I'm not saying it's necessarily going to happen, but you'd be dumb not to think about redundancy measures, hence my top-level comment.

This type of redundancy is why many commercial buildings have gas generators, for example.
Oh! I didn’t even know there was another spelling. Now I feel dumb for asking such a googleable question.
I speak in generalizations of course, and am referring to admitted medical patients, as that's my area

we were already over-capacity from people who delayed/avoided primary care over the past two years, and then the lack of outpatient prevention has caught up, and now starting another covid wave

Used to be New Year's was worse than Christmas, because people would try to struggle along at home through Christmas, then come in New Year's sicker than they would have been if they came in earlier, but now that's everyday and compounded by two years of avoided care
The one block for me is that I work on Windows, Linux, and Mac, and I don't like using Cygwin or MinGW with Windows. I am using Corman Lisp on my Windows machine for Windows-specific stuff and Jane before I heard of Owl and Otus Lisp. I do like Wasp Lisp's VM and C FFI too. Are you sticking with Owl/Otus?
Why 'The Matrix' is a trans allegory
Agreed. I live in the northeast and just looked into retrofit heating systems. For a house with radiators, the heat pump solution is a 4x capital expense, or 2-3x more if you put ugly/noisy split systems everywhere.

I’m all for accelerating innovation, but these stupid bans need to be paired with meaningful incentives.
If your views on Covid overrule your parents love for you then there wasn’t much love in the first place.
The harm is depriving the author of their moral rights, and the name recognition from their work. Depending on how popular the library becomes this could deprive the author of substantial business opportunities.
So for new buildings they should include wells for ground source heat pumps? That sounds reasonable to me. It's much easier to include during initial construction than try to add it later.
(Yay signal processing!)

Skimming it now, this looks wild. Using the variance of the rank of the dataset (for a given point, how many are less than that point) seems... weird, and throwing out some information. The author seems legit tho, so I can't wait to try drop-in implementing this in a few things.
Or that they would rather take the easy method to multiply their wealth instead of the hard work method?

Doing nothing is always easier than building something
I lost my job at the end of November. I wouldn't mind the opportunity to work today.
It’s used a lot in simple situations. However never seen it used for multiple values, which was the reason given for using := instead of the “as” keyword used elsewhere. So I cringe every time I use it.
Randy Bachman Demystifies the Opening Chord of the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night”
Oh boy, reading through this comment section is a hard pill to swallow.

I have always had memory problems and I can recall hardly anything that happened a year ago.

When meeting up with friends I will prepare stories to tell but after I've burned my fuel I become super passive, and I've always wondered how other people can talk so much more than I do, I guess I just always assumed they have more stories on standby. Now I realize other people can actually speak about whatever, on the fly.

Whenever I have to improvise, I either have to form a sentence in my head before I say it, or if I try to actively engage in conversation and have to respond quickly, dumb half-sentences will come out. Which is a shame because I have a lot to say about certain topics but I physically can't in the moment, and I always beat myself up about it later.

Programming for 10 hours is not a problem but I'm fried after a 2-hour meeting.

I drink a lot because it helps me loosen up. My dad passed in 2016 and I don't remember much about him but he was a heavy drinker aswell.

Today I learned I have autism. I should seek a therapist.

Just felt like typing this out.
My parents thought this as well, but it turns out their new gas stove has a safety feature which prevents this. If there's no electricity, a solenoid doesn't engage when you turn the knob, which in turn doesn't allow any gas through to the range.

I'm assuming any modern gas water heater is in a similar boat, with an electric starter instead of a pilot light - and it's much more difficult/annoying to light a water heater than a stove with a match.
> functional indirection

Are you talking about point free programming here?
I drove through Wyoming or someplace like that one time on a less traveled highway and stopped at a gas station. It was flat for as far as the eye could see in all directions and the utter silence that confronted me after stopping the car and getting out was jarring. Absolutely no sound. I remember pausing and taking note of it. Really made an impression on me.
I have heard that people with chronic pain also get this kind of reaction often.
Here in Japan, people I’ve talked to will say that decades ago around New Years, everything was closed for days. No super markets. No restaurants. Not even ATMs. The downside is it requires a lot of prep work pre-holiday (i.e. packing sandwiches instead of fast food). I think we can do without a lot more than what we think, but the burden is shifted to the consumer instead of the worker, so without a strong culture of shared holidays you’ll see more and more people at work.
Grahame The Drummer: here's how Ringo Starr was an absolute badass on the drums. Especially on Come Together.

https://twitter.com/the_meghaning/status/1474834702284599300
How does this relate to Maximal Information Coefficient (MIC), MGC, PPS and the like?
> If you are fat with serious health issues you won’t pass.

Obese doesn't mean morbidly obese. The former can get a work visa (very common actually) when the latter might not.
The main reason I switched to emacs was inline rendering of latex, which just isn’t possible in vim.
Maybe so, for some, but I find:

{width:, height:, x_pos:, y_pos:}

to be much more pleasant than

{width: width, height: height, x_pos: x_pos, y_pos: y_pos}

And the more items you add the more I find it useful. Yeah, it took some getting used to in Javascript after years and years without it, but I personally would not want to go back to not having it.

I'm not crazy about the colon/comma combo, but if I was writing in Ruby I suspect I'd get used to it after a while.
Stuffing your house with batteries that are near impossible to extinguish in a fire doesn’t seem like much of a safety upgrade. Gas lines can be shut off upstream.
cities like nyc leak so much natural gas that you’re probably inhaling a little bit regularly as you walk through the city… there are hundreds and hundreds of detectable leaks

cooking with natural gas also exposes you to it, especially if you’re not using an exhaust hood

it won’t be as dramatic as lead because it’s not as obviously harmful, bit it could be one of those “wow i’m glad we stopped doing that” thing in 40 years
The equation is on the second page, and if you know enough to know what correlation is, you know enough to implement from the equation given. Takes N*Log(N) to run though, if implemented naively. (because you have to sort your data)
NYC increasingly depends on power imported from Quebec. The grid is a complex system that won’t age well.
The same was/is true in China around Chinese New Years. It is still pretty bad, things might be shutdown completely for a couple of days and mostly for a week or even two.

It can take some real planning to figure out how to deal with that first week.
Even people who inconvenience you have value.
Because that's the job of management.
I think I just got an ad on Instagram for this the other day and thought it was amazing
Share buybacks also decrease the company share price because the company has less money after the buyback.
California. I have to admit it’s second hand (and outdated.. last year…) information, but worth looking into imho even though I’d rather see anyone get a Tesla.
Say what you will about China, but it's really interesting seeing the huge contrast in the relationships both countries have with their large corporations. The USA does put effort to curb these types of efforts, but not enough imho.

I'm no historian, but I feel like there was a point where the USA just decided to throw its hands up in trying to regulate big companies. I wonder what needs to happen for the political tide to change.
I only read two books this year but they were amazing!

The first one is Dune : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44767458-dune.
It needs no introduction to HN, I think. Best Sci-fi book I have read so far.

The second one is American Kingpin : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31920777-american-kingpi... . It is about Silk Road (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)), the online darkweb market place. It's very well written.
It pains me that noise pollution isn't taken as seriously as other forms of environmental damage when it's the one that most directly impacts (urban) people's quality of life.
I am 32
We need to talk money going in, or someone is wasting my time.

"Don't be showing up on the Ferrari dealership forecourt with a Honda budget in your pocket."

I don't generally deal with recruiters anymore. Haven't had a job through a recruiter in a long time. My last round of looking for a job (5+ months ago) I had an interview where I confirmed that the compensation would be satisfactory.

Did the interview, got an offer, and that offer was 70% less than what I was currently making. Turned the offer down.

When asked "why?" I responded "because you lied to me about the compensation. I have no interest in working for anyone that would immediately lie to me."

I will not talk to any company, and haven't for the past 15+ years, that cannot give me a very firm number in the first ten minutes. And I shut down the conversation immediately if they won't.
> Don’t destroy that by getting into a semantic debate.

And you've just done... what exactly?
>If I ever end up paralysed and unable to speak, you bet your ass I'm talking like Ned Flanders to everyone.

That's funny. What was the sentence you typed if you don't mind me asking? I had subpar results with 50 cent, chosen randomly, and very NSFW language, but also Obama with "My fellow Americans" was strange.

I wonder how they're training and improving the models. I work on a product that could help them train/track/package/deploy/monitor models effectively. Maybe they're not up to date. There also is an issue with the language.
The biggest problems with gas stove tops are not emissions but the impact on air quality indoors (NO2 in particular) and the risk of fire/explosion.
Isn't there a very simple fix for that? Just tie the bonus to market cap.
Love to do? I volunteer to teach preschoolers how to ski on the weekends and then go skiing with my family and friends. It brings me great joy and the community that surrounds the organization I work with is absolutely incredible.

The rest of the week I do the software development. I like it most of the time, sometimes I love it, and sometimes (thankfully less of the time and not recently) I hate it and can barely bring myself to call into stand up.

On the balance though, I am deeply grateful that I like my job. I don’t think finding paid employment that you consistently “love” is feasible for most people. Besides, jobs, people and organizations change over time, so loving being a Dev in 2007 doesn’t mean you’ll love it today.

If you are in work you on the balance like and it provides the ability to be fulfilled outside work I’d say count yourself lucky and don’t sweat not having found something you “love.” Perhaps eventually you’ll find that thing, perhaps not, but if you look back at your career and say you mostly enjoyed it then I’ll say you are be looking back at a successful career.