skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> scheme about how to craft laws who fuck over people they'll never meet

No one, they just don't consider that effects on peoples' lives. Sure, natural gas isn't great for indoor air quality, but it's easily mitigated by cracking a window or some airflow. Getting stuck with a cheap electric cook top makes cooking a lot more miserable and unreliable and there's nothing you can do to improve the situation if every apartment is built that way.
This company's CEO might be an NFT.
What has been your most worthwhile certifications, knowledge- and content-wise?

(Also, if you’re going to say “shit”, please just write it out. If not, use a different word)
This is an order-based algorithm, so it is more related to the median than the mean.

Another very useful consequence of being order-based, is that this new coefficient is much more robust to noise/outliers than the canonical correlation coefficient.
> and rear view camera

Surely has a rear view mirror which does the same thing.
When I onboard new hires I tell them to install it using n and all the instructions give you version numbers because our mobile app, unit tests, and webpack among other things have minimums so the pain is readily apparent but I make it a non issue with clear and concise install docs.
Do you have a measure of low correlation to support that?

Regardless, I expect reviews are pretty straight forward for a concept that stands on its own like this one.
Great thanks! I’ll remember to use math.stackexchange.com as a resource in the future.
I grew up in Brooklyn, and I'm currently on team rural. I couldn't think straight with all those noises and distractions, and I was going broke trying to keep up with rent hikes.
The login to re:Post is tied to one single (personal / org?) AWS account you currently operate?

That seems rather clunky to me

I prefer anonymity and no linkage to my actual AWS account
Any function that can be implemented in a computer is a Lebesgue measurable function.
I mostly give them a pass because they weren’t being malicious, just curious. I’ve spoken with plenty of people who literally had never talked to a foreigner before. Perhaps half the country has still never even seen a foreigner.

It’s definitely taken too far sometimes though.
I've driven something like 60,000 off-road miles since I bought my first truck in 2005. For overlanding, all you really need is a one big, high quality battery. The Odyssey PC2150 series are great batteries. Not cheap, but fantastic. It's very difficult to kill one.

Also, you'd be surprised how little energy you actually use out there. A quality fridge-freezer like an Engel or ARB can be run for days before it will discharge the battery in a parked truck enough to not turn the starter. This scenario pretty much never happens, so get a good battery, a good fridge, and you'll be fine.
If I was going to do something like this, I would adopt adopt a referencing table scoped name for the referenced table for each foreign key, and then just let you refer to that in the from clause of the query to specify a join on that foreign key relationship.

So, for example, you would have the DDL:

CREATE TABLE staff (
id serial primary key,
name varchar not null,
manager_id references employees (id) as manager,
);

Then you could do:

SELECT staff.name, manager.name
FROM staff
INNER JOIN staff->manager as manager

Which would be equivalent to:

SELECT employee.name, manager.name
FROM staff as employee
INNER JOIN staff as manager on (
employee.manager_id = manager.id
)

Maybe even allow using the table->relationship name in the SELECT (or WHERE) clause for an implicit inner join, so you could just do this for the above:

SELECT staff.name, staff->manager.name
FROM staff

Or this to get a list of staff by manager name:

SELECT staff.*
FROM staff
WHERE staff->manager.name = "John Smith"

Of course, if you are doing that, maybe adopt a syntax for implicit outer joins, too, then you can get a list of employees with no subordinates with:

SELECT staff*->manager.*
FROM staff
WHERE staff.id IS NULL

Which would be equivalent to:

SELECT manager.*
FROM staff AS employee
RIGHT OUTER JOIN staff AS manager ON (
employee.manager_id = manager.id
)
I'm not even sure it's cheaper. At a previous employer we had approximately 150k of cloud expenses per annum. Bringing that in house would have eclipsed the cloud expenses on additional staffing costs alone.
Off topic. Really nice to use the lite version of that site.
If it gets good enough eventually you can bet games will do this at their core too rather than re record lines whenever anything new or different is needed. Then mods just need to add the new script.
China liberalized a bit under Hu, with the pullbacks liberties only beginning after the 2008 olympics. Xi…as a child of the cultural revolution who seems to have nostalgic feelings for it for some reason, was a huge step back. He is also china’s first leader who is monolingual and skipped most of his college education (having a degree handed to him after the cultural revolution ended). It’s weird.

People forget china’s rollercoaster with liberalization in recent history, with China opening up dramatically in the late 80s before a huge pullback due to Tiananmen Square, there was also a movement in the late 70s that gained a lot of traction before being quashed. The pullback after the 2008 olympics has just lasted longer than the previous ones.
I personally never understood the issues, is there any human right abuses in China? Sure.

Each citizens is free to vote with their money and boycott whoever they want.

But I am surely not gonna blindly follow the US on this. China is lying about human right issues, but they are right about the fact that it’s indeed an American tactics to hurt them economically.

Who in their right mind would follow the US on this? We all remember Guantanamo, the fake mass destruction weapons by Powell and the thousands of innocent civilians killed during an illegitimate war.

I am definitely not siding against China on this. They are lying, they are probably torturing innocent Uighur but if I had to apply the exact same logic, I would be boycotting US products and services as well (I don’t)
> I have driven stick shift cars my whole life, and never encountered one where I had to press in the clutch to start the engine.

I think it's mostly a USA thing? Too many lawyers.

My 90s BMW (US market) didn't need the clutch pressed to start, but all my other cars have had that annoyance. I usually disable it so I can start the car normally.
Fully agreed. And yeah, when it comes to my expectations as far as how large companies respond to embarrassments, the bar is about as low as it gets. A tone-deaf non-apology that sounds like a robot wrote it is what I expect to hear, and I’m almost invariably right.

And that offends me. The idea that someone thinks I’d be convinced by such a response—that I’d find it persuasive and acceptable—is fucking insulting.

So when the guy who’s actually responsible for the mistake—and not some polished corporate drone—actually shows up in the comments section, explains what happened, and talks to me the way one of my colleagues would: yeah, that is above and beyond by most standards, certainly the ones I have for evil empires like FAAN(M)G companies, and I give major credit for that.
The issue is that the 3x cost doesn’t include the cost to staff the team that runs your in-house platform software on your colo setup, and the mixed incentives you get when a sizable part of your team is not shipping product but instead shipping say, Kafka queues. My previous employer has one of the largest colo deployments of the f500 companies and it was a mess technically and organizationally. At the end a few hundred infra devs were laid off and projects scrapped after ~24 months of no visible progress on platform stability and support.
Tragedy of the commons right there.
Why not just tell HR that you don't have an account because you don't want people confusing you with another person?
Presumably there is some level of radiation at which if 100 million people were exposed to for 20 years, we would see measurable excess deaths with the linear no-threshold model, but not with other models.

In particular the linear model treats chronic exposure as all the same; X amount for a week is the same as X/52 for a year.
I love cooking on my gas stove but it's also worth noting that Julia Child filmed The French Chef on electric coils. They are certainly not ideal but they are also far from the worst thing you could be forced to deal with in the kitchen.
Waiting until they declare VPNs as a crime punishable by 5-10 years in prison when you're caught using one.
Nobody underestimates a genius. Everyone underestimates a moron, that is assuming he's not really a moron.

There's value in being underestimated.
Get own data back, use decentralized app to chat, transfer and write notes
> Share buybacks also decrease the company share price

Share buybacks reduce shareholders’ equity and the book value of a company since cash is spent but no asset is gained to offset it. It also raises EPS, since the earnings don’t change but the number of shares (denominator) is lower.

This doesn’t necessarily translate into a lower price per share, the supply of shares is reduced and the company generally buys their shares back on the open market, and the volume of their buying is substantial.
Not sure what the term has to do with it.

This is money the company doesn't know what to do with (otherwise they would have paid the tax consequences and used it as needed/desired), but now that there aren't tax consequences to repatriate it and return it to shareholders, they're returning it to shareholders.

Maybe some would prefer a dividend rather than a buyback; but ignoring taxes, they're equivalent in terms of value, and I can't ignore taxes. A dividend is a taxable event and a buyback isn't. I'd rather defer the taxes as much as possible.
You can't do that in vi. Vim is from the Amiga, not Unix. In vi you have to say d?foo^M/bar^Mp, and though that's less keystrokes, it's harder because you don't have the continuous feedback of v mode or incremental search. Isearch isn't from Unix either; it's from ITS Emacs and wasn't in vim. It was Jef Raskin who did the research to justify centering it as a navigational method by quantitatively demonstrating its superiority to the mouse.

Of course if you don't have Vim in your brain none of this text will make any sense to you; it's almost like reading a list of (x,y) coordinates if mouse clicks. So you won't have any idea about the UI feedback I'm talking about, and you're likely to make clueless sarcastic comments like the one I'm responding to. But you can easily remedy that ignorance by running Vim or Emacs on an appropriate file and typing the recommended keystroke sequences.
He's around though! No particularly good links, and your summary almost says it all anyway.

When I started working on Ardour, I didn't need to make any money from it. By 2009, it started to seem clear that I did, and fortunately Radiohead had just released "In Rainbows" using their "pay tunnel" approach (can't get it unless you pay but what you pay is up to you). I wasn't a Radiohead fan but I thought there was something interesting in the idea.

Ardour has remained GPL (v2+) licensed, so the current situation is this:

* you can get the source without charge (github or our own tarball)
* if you want a prebuilt binary, we ask you to pay something (any amount above US$1)

We set the "default" price (the one in the price box, that can be edited) based on your IP address and OECD data about the cost of a mid-priced meal for 2 without alcohol in (roughly) your (apparent) location.

We also added subscriptions, not like Adobe etc., but just regular periodic payments, mostly because they help smooth out the income flow between releases. They are available at the US$1, 4 and 10 per month, to try to cater to the wide variety of incomes worldwide. There's a huge churn in Windows-based subscribers (e.g. 10 cancellations a day, 10 new ones). You get free upgrades as long as your subscription is active (and obviously for a GPL project, there are no other consequences to it ending - the software keeps working as ever). We have on the order of 6000 subscribers these days (with the aforementioned high rate of churn).

Linux distributions are obviously free to distribute it as they wish. There are one or two resellers on ebay etc. also, who I just try to ignore.

During COVID our total monthly revenue grew as high as US$20k/month, and have settled back to about US$17k/month. The income is divided between two full time developers (I'm one of them) and we've built an "escrow" account of more than US$60k over the last two years. Some of this currently being used to pay someone I discovered on HN to rebuild our website, and we hope to pay for more development work next year.

AFAIK, we are one of the most successful "user-funded" GPL projects in the world. Blender has way more revenue, but AFAICT, most of it is not from users.
first hit on DDG: https://www.epik.com/blog/leasing-domains-how-we-do-it-at-ep...
$0.15-$0.20 is extremely cheap for PG&E. Are you grandfathered into a low rate plan?

Heat pumps are 3-4 times as energy efficient as a gas furnace. However, PG&E charges 7-8x as much per kWh of energy in electricity form as it does in fossil gas form.

When you have your own solar and storage, it can be as cheap as $0.04-$0.07 for the solar. And depending on the storage vendor these days, it can be anywhere $0.05-$0.15 per kWh that gets stored and discharged. At those rates, it can be cheaper than gas.
In Math they really do.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-017-2516-6
great!

while in Italy, the main gas leader ENI (with its hands everywhere, even in cultural events) states:

"...[in a] path to contribute to carbon neutrality by 2050 [...] Eni's decarbonization strategy envisages [...] an increasingly important role for #gas"

https://www.eni.com/en-IT/low-carbon/strategy-climate-change...

so you have an idea of the pressure Italian's media receives from ENI, and not just media. Greenpeace says ENI gives money to university energy research on this (and universities do not want to disclose the amount of $$ they receive)

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2021/09/29/eni-e-leonardo-i...
Reduces your energy needs and makes a heat pump a complete solution.

Most sources I've looked at say heat pumps lose efficiency below 40F outdoor temperature and only work down to around -5F. If I were to convert to only using heat pumps, I'd have extremely inefficient or straight up intermittent heat and hot water for about a third of the year.

Falling back on resistive electric heating drives your heat bill through the roof.

I'd definitely love to get a heat pump for the other 8 months of the year, but the cost is hard to justify when I still need to maintain some other form of heat anyway.
Well written! That was fun read.
> Most new construction is "luxury" priced

They aren't luxury, they are market rate and the people renting them are often definitionally rent burdened.

> marginally more expensive to put in "premium" appliances

Induction cook tops cost nearly $4k. A whole electric stove and oven for about $600.

> since the land/structure is expensive anyway

In NYC you need an expected profit margin of 5% to get a development loan, and that quite high for large real estate projects. Slapping and extra $3-$4k onto each unit just isn't going to work for most projects.

> Of course new apartments are going to be built with induction cooktops when gas isn't an option.

As of today, there are fewer than 20 apartments for rent in NYC that list induction cooktops in their listings. I've checked every major rental site, and some didn't seem to actually have them based on photos. Plenty of building have electric, but I've never seen a rental with induction or heard of anyone who has one at any price of unit.
Have you looked into Nano?
And if you are able to do that most likely you will find yourself in a hedge fund but not in the academia.
This works for hash function as hash function does not introduce uncertainty, i.e. Y = f(X), not Y = f(x) + random_noise. I just tested it:

https://ibb.co/nCXVSqB
> A billionaire, he is. A happy human being? A useful addition to society?

haha. personally never really met any of them so can't really touch that : )

> I don't think anyone would argue a man not raised by their biological father cannot be successful

Not only successful, but significantly more likely to be meteoriticy successful from the adversity.

For other claims, sure the waters get muddy but the lack of ground truth is less relevant for the extreme success case. Aspies are wayyyy over represented in the top 10 richest people.
The point of rearview cameras was so people would stop accidentally running over toddlers who are too short to see out the rear window.
There's also the point that he doesn't seem interested in filling in the details about what happened. So, is he just trying to retain some privacy from a dumb mistake, or is he hiding something? IT IS A MYSTERY!
In a corporate structure I haven't found any one pigeonhole I like.

I was fine being an individual contributor because I got to listen to Spotify all day with noise cancelling headphones, while learning new coding techniques and playing the compensation bump game, but only as long as compensation bumps seemed practical and got me closer to my goals which became less true over time, especially as stretching compensation desires came with a lot greater scrutiny and impossible expectations.

Being an executive was fine for compensation goals but I didnt like that it was sales. I didnt like balancing all the relationships. I didnt like that my approach to business as a one-off expedition to the new world isn't matched by people that imagine building a corporate forever-home.

Slimming that down further and leaner in other projects, I do like that my precision strike team can execute fast and that I can contribute in all areas, but its hard to focus.

I’m more satisfied with creative arts, which I used to subsidize with my jobs until those become fulfilling as well, so maybe I can just do art again, since the market for that just got super lucrative.
The author says "I'm a firm believer in free software."

I interpret that as someone who has a firm belief that proprietary software is immoral, or at the very least, distasteful.

That would include being opposed to the proprietary add-ons of an open core.

And that would be a reason to leave money on the table. (Analogously , I have a relative who owned a grocery store and refused to sell tobacco products, believing that doing so was immoral.)

In general, I think open core is an advertising model. In broad strokes: "Free software" uses a moral argument against proprietary software. "Open source" uses a cost/benefits argument that open source development is more effective than proprietary. "Open Core" uses the profits from proprietary add-ons to subsidize the open source component, which is the loss-leader marketing the proprietary add-ons.
You've done a pretty good job listing all of the reasons that they aren't vey good. In a small apartment, with limited time, and space the extra aggravation really adds up.
In a world of suspended accounts and banning with no recourse, that seems like a setup. Say the wrong thing and you and all your EC2 instances and all the rest of your AWS usage is suspended? Hopefully they've worked out a workable policy for this.

One wrinkle though is NDA'd information. It becomes very difficult to help with certain AWS issues without access to implementation details which they hide behind NDAs. This information is critical for dealing with a certain class of problem. Some answers will have to be very circumspect to the point of being unhelpful without access to the NDA'd information.

> Help my Redshift loads aren't working because <details>!

> Umm... yeah don't do that, do <fix> but I can't tell you why that fixes it or any information to help you reason about the system to avoid similar problems in the future. (But you can hire me as a consultant!)"
You could, but no one would every suggest that the city government should force you to do that.
> solar panel deploy

Seems to start pushing out at about 1:50:30 in 'Livestream'
that may be, but I'm totally on board with staggered, a la carte breaks. Esp. considering how many work in places that are mission-critical (or service industry) and don't take the same time off.

Moreover, I find (for myself) very little celebratable about a time of year that :

- it's more expensive to fly during

- revolves around buying, just, stuff.

Viva la holiday revolucion. Let's all pick times that work for us and our loved ones and get off the monoculture train.
If I’m in the office or somewhere where I want to use Siri woithkut being loud. It’s just really nice that whispers work.
Party gets sunk in saltmarsh:

three weeks later
Building a new Sega Game Gear in 2021
A cheap gas cooktop is by far the worst possible stovetop out there, far far worse than electric. They are so slow, ineffectual pieces of crap. At least electric can always get really hot. But there are so many gas ranges these days that don't focus the heat in the right place by having bad grill designs. Id take the average cheap coil electric range over gas any day. And id take induction over that.
While I was in jail I read in 1Q84 that the only place a man has time to read the whole of Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" is in jail. So I had it sent in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time (4,215 pages apparently)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Q84
I mean, if you choose a bullshit ordering relationship, sure. But that's (essentially) the only assumption.

Ah, I missed the reference to "the humanities" the first time... seems like you have an ideological axe to grind.
Saying that one of the most famous chef's ever cooked on a crappy range is a poor argument for legally banning the alternative. You, as you've mentioned like myself prefer a gas range. I gladly acknowledge that induction is equally suitable. However banning gas in new apartment construction forces people by law to use the thing we both agree isn't very good, sine few building will be built with induction.
There’s a critical difference; convincing your local government to switch to electric buses is rather more difficult than choosing how to spend your own money.
I'm a fan of both Pandoc and LaTeX.

There's a pretty incredible amount of text preparation which can be done only in bog-standard Markdown, and if that's the case, go for it.

Markdown has its limitations, and if you find yourself starting to fight it ... consider that it's probably time to take the next step.

LaTeX itself is surprisingly easy to write, again most especially if you're writing simple documents.

And using Markdown to bootstrap creating a LaTeX document is also a good option. I find Markdown slightly lower-friction to write, and will use it when either composing or copying works initially. If they do require more complex formatting, I'll generate the first iteration of the LaTeX source with Pandoc, then dive into that and add additional elements or tweak complex sections as needed.
A suggestion from a friend to stop the weight going back on: set a weekly calendar reminder for you to record your weight and to track + view this on a graph over time to jolt you into action (e.g. being more mindful with calorie intake again) when you see the weight creeping back on. The problem can sometimes be improving the feedback loop so you don't slip back into your old eating habits.
Running a small induction forge takes ~20kW or so, about the max deliverable to a house, so no. This output is achievable with gas.
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