skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what consensus you’re talking about? Are my facts incorrect? You’re saying the US installed a dictatorship in the South? Are you aware of the treaty in 1956 that created the partition?

The US propped up a dictatorship in the South, I agree. And the North was a dictatorship propped up by the Chinese and USSR.

The North was fortunate it had purged all opposition long ago so could focus on its insurgency in the South while the South had to deal with a fractured political landscape.

I’m not sure how you could look at the last 60 years of dictatorship in Vietnam and say the “right” side won. I mean, the Vietnamese who risked their lives to flee probably disagree with you?
I just used markdown-to-pandoc-to-latex to typeset my NaNoWriMo novel, and ordered myself a 6x9 trade paperback from Amazon KDP for Christmas. It worked great. I used a custom LaTeX template.

I'm also trying to do it with a choose-your-own-adventure style novel and am less sure I'll be able to do that since it requires more custom stuff to get the page refs right. But I think it's possible.

I'm not really sure what would be impossible in pandoc-to-latex that is only possible in latex. Can't you always do custom latex templates and filters, and pass through other latex code?
Ask HN: How can I learn problem solving skills starting from zero?
A while ago i took the decision to push the restart button in my life and start all over again. I started to study CS at a university in greece and next month i will live in the university rooms, where generally only poor students get in. I'll be living on my own (away from home) for the first time.

I'm dyslexic without any meaningful help. School made me hate books, studying, knowledge. I wasn't a good student. The only reasons i didn't fail was because the teachers liked me and generally everyone got a good grade. Only after finishing highschool i started loving reading books and then learning. It seems that the fire was there, it became very weak, but didn't disappeared.

The internet saved me. It gave me an environment where i was able to understand that many things in my life weren't normal. Gave me references. I wish was like the kids who wrote code from a small age and grew there knowledge and curiosity, but at that time i couldn't for many reasons.

Currently i'm in a place where i fight my old past and mental health demons, trying to learn how to be organized (todolists, obsidian journal, calendar, etc), making new habits and tearing down old was ones, and find resources to teach myself how to study, especially how to study with dyslexia and mental health issues.
Im salaried, I dont think in terms of hours. I think in terms of goals and progress.
Yep. We really need to stop this "us versus them" mentality. This looks like a war between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, while the "people above" are doing their own greedy thing and laughing at us fighting each other.

I wish I could tell people that:

The vaccine does not prevent transmission as much as you think it does.

You do not spread as easily as you think you do, and you can personally attempt to reduce it even further.

You are vaccinated, and if it is indeed effective and you believe in it, you should not be worried much.

The unvaccinated are people too who probably do not have any malicious intent, and most likely pose little, or no risk to you.

Merry Christmas!
Fastest Programming Language to Learn?
Let's say you met someone, who for whatever reason is going in for a whiteboard interview in a month.

If you had to suggest they learn a programing language, what would you pick ?

I'd go with Python, although JavaScript is a very very close second.
False. They never would have liberated themselves from the French unless the USSR won the war in 1949 and funnel support to them.
> Gas infrastructure is surprisingly resilient to widespread outages.

Except freezing, as Texas showed.
While not the person you were asking the question of - I recently installed 40kwh of batteries to complement my 20kw of solar. I'm using Enphase for both the solar micro-inverters as well as the batteries. The batteries are LiFePo, so fire risk is very very low. The cars in my garages with gasoline represent a much greater risk.

I ended up with Enphase instead of Tesla Powerwalls primarily because the Enphase system supports direct generator integration, which allows smart generator use to offset the battery/solar system in a grid-off situation. The combo of batteries and genset makes for a very reliable scalable solution.
I will try this the next time I sign something.
Yes. They closed Indian Point, a 2GW nuclear power plant. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Point_Energy_Center
Yes, there is org-cite that handles reference very well (and reads your bib file) and it can inline-render pretty much any math (using a latex backend).
So you’d agree Vietnam today is in better shape than say South Korea? Or Taiwan? Should the Us have not intervened there?
they do. the docs are open source and you can propose changes to them

https://github.com/awsdocs
I only need unique passwords on a couple sites, things like gmail and icloud, and that’s easy to remember.
Don’t care about random websites, they can steal my password. It doesn’t matter, I’ll just make a new account.
> Those two things together means people freezing to death.

If we want to prevent people from freezing to death, the best way is to help people get 1. food 2. clothes 3. shelter 4. health care.

I'd argue gas based heat isn't even on the list. As you said, we should not go all-in on heat pumps. We can and should have alternate sources of heat for vulnerable people (I am thinking hospitals, retirement communities, and so on).

I am confident that healthy, well-fed, appropriately dressed people in well insulated homes do not die because the weather outside dips below freezing for under a day.
Wow, TIL. All of my stir-fridays have been a lie.
This resource suggests that the frost line in Calgary is about nine feet underground: http://www.urecon.com/applications/municipal_ambient_below.h... . That's the depth at which the ground temperature is above freezing for the whole year. That means that a heat pump can exchange heat via pipes buried nine feet under your property. Technologically, it's extremely feasible. Whether or not it makes sense for you will depend on economic factors, of course.
Interesting. When I was 15.5 I took a couple tabs of what I thought were LSD. Given the extended duration, it was probably a research chemical, but it was on blotter(NBOMe? it was 1991) so it was a potent one. My friend took 5 tabs and started throwing up, which we never experienced with LSD. After nearly 24 hours of tripping I was left with years of panic attacks and HPPD. Walls breathing, textures enhanced, increased visual snow, etc. It probably cut my reading speed in half between the difficulty of looking at black text on a white background in addition to the slightly disorganized thinking. It faded away after a decade or two. I think I still notice it if I look for it, but I try not to. I was absolutely convinced someone would try to dose me again without my consent after that. For years I double checked everything I consumed out of the irrational fear that someone injected LSD into the package(friends of mine joked about doing this, which probably started the worry).

I've used psychedelics since then(although much, much later in life). Nothing ever like it since.
1) Learn inline skating.

2) Learn Piano.

3) Stick to regular practice of meditation.
The summary says that it works if it is a measurable function [0], which is structure preserving. So sha256 would scramble the input too much for it to be detected here.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurable_function
Reminds me of that meme about neurodivergent people 'running in packs like poorly emotionally regulated wolves'. ;)
And yet he got more votes in 2020 than anyone in history, except the guy he lost to. A guy who now faces having to deal with a bunch of crises and unable to do any favors for his own base.

A rematch is, at this point, a toss up. It's a long way to 2024 but it's not out of the question.
sha256() doesn't involve state or decision making.
It should raise an exception that causes a person to have to deal with the matter. I should not be surprised if I were to find that this is actually in fact so and the extra step is responding to a prompt which people got used to not reading.
Well I think I that was unexpected freezing that was the issue.
Mostly that all addicts w/ physical damages i know started using heavily to cope to some pain (heartbreak / mourning / loss of proffessional direction).

Substances can help to realize stuff, but long term (1+year) regular using is never in my layman opinion
Unsure if this would meet your criteria of way better, but in a few years at least 3 companies will be mass producing 3D printed solid state batteries that have about 60% the weight of their current size counterpart, about double the capacity and a much higher C rating. That should double the range of current EV's.

The only two things holding me back are the lack of EV truck options and the lack of off-menu options to remove remote telemetry but that isn't strictly an EV issue. I would not mind an EV equiv to a Ford F550 Larime provided it also lacked network connectivity. It also needs to operate in -45F ambient temperature and be more than able to push a lot of snow but people here at HN have told me that cold isn't an issue.
> Someone decided that using a piece of software to automatically alter license files.

That doesn’t seem to be the purpose of the bot. It’s supposed to add them to new repos, not alter existing. This ensures that all their projects have an explicit license rather than ambiguously public.
Don't need to accelerate if the traffic is slow, need to accelerate if the traffic is heavy i.e. a lot of cars driving on the same road at 60-70 mph.
I have 2 Tesla Powerwalls. I'm not too worried about the fire risk, as I haven't heard of any case of powerwall fire. The city seems worried about it though, my permits and inspections all have to go through the fire department which has slowed things down a lot.

Probably a good idea to install them somewhere that would be easy to flood with water if there was a problem though.
It's just "batten down the hatches" time, to use a nautical analogy, and you close, tighten up, or nail down anything on the outside of your house or in your yard that you can. Then you lie low and wait for the worst. There were very high winds (120+mph) and rain so hard that I could barely see my hand in front of my face, and lots of downed trees and flooding. I've never seen so much crap lying on the ground before when it was over. We didn't have any home damage because our house is made of concrete. But a lot of Filipinos lost their homes because they tend to build with light materials (bamboo, wood, corrugated tin).
> Economies of scale make energy distribution more efficient as you scale population not less.

This may be so, but New York also has one of the oldest electrical grids on the planet. Upgrading it to support larger and larger populations is a challenge, not just to manage it overloading with the density, but also in terms of logistics.

You can't just tear up a major street in New York and upgrade the electrical for a block, without causing massive logistics problems for the city. Upgrading New York's grid is going to be a huge challenge
It was a bug in a bot, not someone deliberately changing the license.
Well of course we live in a dollar-denominated capitalist hegemony today, and with globalization as it is anyone who wants to be a part of the world stage needs to put up or shut up, especially with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 (which itself had market-based reforms toward the end). But that doesn't meet it _has_ to be that way, so much as that's just the current political happenstance.

Cuba is perhaps an interesting case study – and maybe it would be a lot more successful than it is today if it weren't so heavily sanctioned and embargoed by the United States – given that it's in a lot of ways still in its Cold War era. But it's hard to deny that for all the resources they've been stripped of (and attempted US-backed coups, and a non-mutually-agreed-US military base / prison on their land), that they've found some modern degree of success for what they have: very high education rates due to universal education, universal healthcare that is ahead of US-aligned peer-countries in the Caribbean, a respected culture of exporting medical professionals around the world, developed their own (effective) covid vaccine because the US sanctioned them from receiving any significant doses and now have the highest vaccination rate in the world, rising per capita gdp and household wealth... and they are, technically/in-name and more-so since the passing of Castro, a democracy (though the US government would say otherwise, but in my opinion if you'd consider modern-day Turkey, Ukraine, Hungary, or Poland a western democracy then so is Cuba), and yet also communist in most facets.
> The rise of SPAs has made this approach a bit less impractical

I think you meant "less practical", or "more impractical"
The GWP (global warming potential) which is what people talk about is calculated over the next 100 years, so "short term" is a bit misleading.
Simple: if in the whole sample, the same x always comes with the same y, then y is a function of x.

Example:

x1 = 1, y1 = 2

x2 = 1.1, y2 = 2

Here, y is a function of x, because if we know that x = 1, the we also know that y = 2. However, x is not a function of y, as we don't know what value x has given that y = 2.

I hope that made it more clear. Here, "function" simply means that every time we started with the same x, we also got the same y.
I’m sure you meant to qualify that statement to say it is deeply interesting to you, rather than imply that your assessment of the interestingness is somehow objective or represents what other people think.
And carbon monoxide poisoning was common in Texas too. I'm not sure city-wide having novices tinker with gas equipment would save more lives.
> Even with the brand new electric (not induction) stove, it's still significantly inferior to the 25+ year-old gas stove.

Electric stoves vary a ton in quality. The flat top glass ones can be pretty great (and very easy to clean). The cheapest electric stoves are pretty terrible.

I guess the same could be said for gas, as some people are happy moving to (non induction) electric. But if your gas stove was holding up for >25 years, it was probably not the cheapest model they could get at the time.
I live in Menlo Park, which is doing this as well. Our energy company, PG&E, gives you a break on your bill if you have an electric furnace because these cost more to operate than gas furnaces.

I'd like to think that a lot of hurdles can be overcome with economies of scale, but this policy tends to indicate that until a new type of electric heating is invented/popularized, there will be higher costs (either for the customer, or for the provider — who spreads the cost over all customers) associated with electric heating.

Downsides of electric transition can in general be mitigated by solar, but heat is most needed in the winter, and at night — and this is when there's the least solar energy available.

Are batteries a necessary missing link? Or is there another way to overcome these downsides to electric heating?
Thanks for the detailed response! I did poke around a bit and noticed none of my changes were having any impact. I never really messed with webgl, so didn't notice that was what was doing the rendering. Is webgl MAX_RENDERBUFFER_SIZE something I can set in about:config or elsewhere?

I got my start with BBSes, lots of fond memories. There was one BBS in my area, and they had it setup to RelayNet (similar to FidoNet, but smaller). I knew when they would connect up to exchange, so I would be sure to upload my mail packet and then dial back up 5 minutes after they did their exchange to see if I had any new messages. I could send and reply to messages across the country in a matter of days.
If only electricity was as easy to distribute over long distances as oil and gas... oh wait...

I guess someone should tell Norway that their residents don't really exist
I re-read this classic article on the explosions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki from time to time.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
A lot of people seem to be disagreeing with you but I definitely agree with what you said.

I too have ADHD and I hate it when I see it being treated as a crippling disability. It's really not. ADHD is much more common than people would think. As for everyone, people with ADHD learn to cope with their weaknesses and play into their strengths. For a person with ADHD it's about finding what works and doesn't work for them, not about shaping the entire world around them to make them fit. It will only make them feel worse.

I learned to do it and I'm seen as a respected member of my team today. I am seen as somewhat of a quirky oddball too though with how I always do things, but nothing that can't be solved by just being positive and laughing with your colleagues. They'll treat you with respect.
I'd say the fastest is the one they can relate to the most / have prior similar experience with. Could be 'scratch.'
No, self-preservation instincts, and other protective instincts, also apply to others. That's what so-called "mirror neurons" are known for. It isn't just some separate wish not to see other people's suffering, but an actual activation of the same pathways that react to pain experienced by the indidivual themselves.

In healthy people, that is.
Everyone has different tastes and not everyone likes the type of book the disposed is, but canyou really say you gave it a fair shot after only 30 pages?
Oh, I understand. Most of the people I know who grew up in less dense places feel the same way.
Living in the southwest, I’ve experienced perceptible changes in weather patterns. Winters are now mild, summers have grown more intense.

My heating bills have dropped to zero. My cooling bills have jumped, and climbs every year.

Switching to heat pumps will be a minor expense compared to the effects of climate change we’ll have to pay for in the next few decades.
Well fortunately I choose not to judge people by their worst quotes or characteristic.
You can also ask for joint copyright ownership for community patches.

In this case, you can choose the license for your own binary distribution.
And you can change the license if/when it becomes necessary.
Natural gas utilities rely on electricity to power their delivery infrastructure (compressors, pressure sensors, etc). If only your building is out of power, your gas will likely still work. If there's a regional power outage, then you will be in the same situation with gas as with the water issue that you mention.
Turn a profit out of my side project.
You're the victim of cost optimization. A old climate optimized heat pump will have logic to run the pump in reverse to melt the accumulated ice. This happens without you noticing but it let's the pump keep going and keeps the net efficiency above a coefficient of 1.

If anything America is a victem of HVAC "specialists" who use their skills to install the bare minimum systems. Over in Japan everyone just buys a featurefull mini split and pokes a hole in the way and plugs it in. The net effect is Japan has a competitive market for featureful yet cheap minisplits. While Americians are forced to pay more for less.
Spending doesn't equal spending efficiency. It also doesn't account for added costs due to age of infra/retrofitting vs new infrastructure.

I have no point to make, other than direct comparison misses a lot of nuance.
> heat pumps are more expensive

Even when you account for the actual cost of heating, not just initial investment?
> there will be higher costs associated with electric heating.

it depends on future gas price trajectory, for example Europe currently observes 5-10 times gas price hike.
I demanded a minimum compensation amount to a recruiter once at a FAANG company, something really outrageous even for FAANG. They ended up giving me non-answers saying that I still needed to interview and determine what my SWE level was going to be before they talk about compensation.

I stopped the conversation right there. That was a massive waste of time.
I don’t think that’s as generic. It’s be like trademarking ‘operating system’ when everyone’s been using operating systems for years.
Coen singular, in this case.
Just do what you usually do, I mostly just wake up everyday and decide what I want to do at any moment, and just do that.

But if you want to make your christmas/new year special, I'd say go someplace in your city where they conduct plays/actings, usually they are pretty fun to watch alone.

I'm going to one on 31st December too :D
Since you're the author of Bangle.io and it seems the latter is based on bangle.dev[0] which in turn is based on ProseMirror(?), why did you decide to make Bangle's interface look like that of VS Code / Monaco[1]? At first I thought this was just VS Code running in the browser.

Other than that, it looks pretty promising. I'll definitely be following the project! :) (By the way, I can't find the "install" button on app.bangle.io that is mentioned in the FAQ.)

On a different note, IMO using Electron for an app is not a bad choice per se. It's just that editors written in web technologies usually suck because they are so slow compared to, say, Vim/Emacs/Sublime. Is ProseMirror really that much better (faster) than Monaco/VS Code? If not, what's the benefit of using Bangle over Marktext? (Sure, running Marktext/Electron will use up additional RAM compared to running Bangle in an existing browser. But to be honest CPU load is much more important to me.)

[0]: https://github.com/bangle-io/bangle.dev

[1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor , https://vscode.dev/
The thing I'm wondering about is why they didn't make use of StackOverflows bew Collectives feature. Yes, launching your own thing gets somebody promoted, but in this case I think collaborating with SO could have made sense.
It's not a tension headache. Serotonin affects bloodflow in your brain, which is why many migraine drugs target its receptors. The headache is a known effect, although I never in all of my drug fueled years on earth heard of it until I started experiencing it myself after 5g+ shroom trips. Usually it hits us the day after and no amount of water, neti pots, magnesium, etc will help.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3345296/
oh, agreed. however a cheap 1kwh battery could power a normal houses gas appliances very easily without any trickery needed.
MP-SFS
And VLC... and firefox.

Man, we actually have a ton of good software out there I'm now realizing.

Easy to take for granted.
I agree. You can't find up to date tutorials anymore. I have done enough in the past that I can usually cobble my way through it since I have done a bit of Cocoa programming over the last 18 years -- I don't know how anyone would start from scratch these days.
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