skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Greater intelligence & creativity just means you can tell yourself increasingly clever and convincing lies.

Conspiracy-theory-ism is an "emotions" problem, not an "intelligence" problem.
> I know companies in which you have to wait _months_ for a small server to be allocated to your team. AWS does it in seconds

If those companies ever migrated to AWS it would probably still take months to get a small EC2 instance allocated to them. Likely the problem is bureaucracy, not competence.
Why not pay for an inexpensive subscription to the hosted version, and just not use it?
I'm going to lose my mind, I spent so long trying to figure this out, thank you. Just updated the post.
> Let's say you met someone, who for whatever reason is going in for a whiteboard interview in a month.

I’d say Java or Python. Both languages are simple enough that you can focus on the whiteboard problems and not worry about the language itself.
Many of the needs seem like wants and then it just depends on how much you these things are worth to you.
it's not for linux/macOS/windows

it's for the web, and the browser happen to support linux/macos/windows

you need a browser to run it
>your opportunity cost is 0.

not really, you still need to factor in the cost of capital (ie. downpayment) and the risk that the housing market might collapse.
I continue to be stunned how inept Western HUMINT was in trying to penetrate the USSR. How did they expect this kid to succeed?
My guess is thermal epoxy will work. But you'll never be able to separate the heat sink from what you attach it to.
wait until you see the 200mb electron UI for dd

https://www.balena.io/etcher/

programming gone wrong
That costs $47 (US). The archiv article is free.
This is also not a surprise because tech journalists as early as February already anticipated that Valve working on a Chinese version of Steam implied a later ban for the "international" version.
Royal Statistical Society Christmas Quiz 2021 [pdf]
Just got my (mostly) December utility bill: $350 for 1971kwh. That will probably be the biggest bill of the year, it's been a very cold December. We're on a 'net metering' plan though, so our electricity is only billed annually - prior to that it's just costs and credits. Our bill in July was -$400, so the summer credits balance out the winter costs. I don't expect we'll owe anything at true-up time.

I should also mention that we have a 1BR apartment downstairs that we rent out, so this is usage for 2 households, each with electric kitchens, heat pumps, laundry, etc. Our usage would be lower without a tenant downstairs.

As for total costs, it's hard to say because so much of it was part of other major renovations to the house. We redid all the electrical in the house as part of that, which would normally not be necessary just to upgrade a couple of appliances. Things that might be necessary is upgrading your main electric panel to a higher capacity (going from 100a to 200a for example, which would cost around $8-10k). Cost of the appliances themselves are a big variable. Our main heat pump was $15k, but a lower model would have been more like $10k. The water heater was $2k (again, you could get a cheaper one).

Solar panels were installed in two systems a few years apart.

In 2017 my 6kw system cost $24,000 before any incentives (by SolarCity).

In 2020 my 7.8kw system cost $15,000 before any incentives (by Tesla).

After tax credits those two probably cost net <$30k.

The Tesla Powerwalls are being paid for entirely by the state of California SGIP program (which depending on your situation will cover about 30% or the full cost). Without that program they would have been in the $20k range.
Yet if the beat of a metronome will depress intelligence, what do eight or twelve hours of noise, odor, and heat in a factory, or day upon day among chattering typewriters and telephone bells and slamming doors, do to the political judgments formed on the basis of newspapers read in street-cars and subways? Can anything be heard in the hubbub that does not shriek, or be seen in the general glare that does not flash like an electric sign? The life of the city dweller lacks solitude, silence, ease. The nights are noisy and ablaze. The people of a big city are assaulted by incessant sound, now violent and jagged, now falling into unfinished rhythms, but endless and remorseless. Under modern industrialism thought goes on in a bath of noise. If its discriminations are often flat and foolish, here at least is some small part of the reason. The sovereign people determines life and death and happiness under conditions where experience and experiment alike show thought to be most difficult. “The intolerable burden of thought” is a burden when the conditions make it burdensome. It is no burden when the conditions are favorable. It is as exhilarating to think as it is to dance, and just as natural.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence. But in that helter-skelter which we flatter by the name of civilization, the citizen performs the perilous business of government under the worst possible conditions."

- Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion, 1922
That's an absolutely absurd characterization of both YouTube and actual teaching.

YouTube is dominantly entertainment/personality based "edutainment" at best, based on what seems to percolate to the top and be promoted. There's zero feedback outside comments (standard warnings about comment sections apply here).

The right way to teach complex subjects is a more interactive process with hands on material/learning/actually solving the problems yourself. In the case of solar and energy systems, you can do this, but if you don't have some basic EE background, it would be wise to go get that first before listening to some slick talking huckster selling their wares. WHY do we size wires the way we do (either for temperature limits or for voltage drop, depending on the application)? What's wrong with a 5000W 12V inverter (500A or so, and the I^2 components of resistive losses, paired with the voltage drop from those)?

I don't think a human lecturing blindly into the void optimizing for "engagement" (whatever metrics those are based on this week) can competently teach any real detailed material, no. That doesn't mean that people can't teach complex material. It just means YouTube is not the place or medium for it.
> Signal is just as insecure because they can push any code they want to anyone they want to spy on.

What now? That's not "just as insecure", since Telegram can also "push any code they want to anyone they want to spy on," but they don't need to because your data is already plaintext on their servers.

Signal not being perfectly secure does not make it "just as insecure."
What a damn shame. To the vast majority of the world's viewers, it was simply an incredible movie. No need for social justice warrioring when people want to be entertained...
YouTube encourages generating content that rates well, i.e. is entertaining. I agree that learning should be fun, but I don't want to learn about life threating topics from videos that are designed foremost to be entertaining.
Snowflake Still-Life
I'd agree that's an extremely cynical way of saying it.

I don't disclose it to people I'm not generally close with. And I have never disclosed it at the precise moment of disagreement. It's always been a separate conversation.

I have had plenty of disagreements with people who don't know I'm on the spectrum. And if I wish to not disclose that to them, then it's my responsibility to do my best to make sense of the interaction. I may do that alone, or I may do my best to ask more questions to try and understand what they're saying. Or I may speak to the symptom before asking for clarification; "I sometimes miss people's intent or subtext. Can you be more specific?"

Disclosing it to those that are closer to me provides context for future interactions that I'm not trying to be difficult and that I may genuinely not understand what's being presented. It's their choice how to adjust future interactions with me.
I am feeling that pain right now!

If you could share an experience I feel like that would really help me understand. I'm probably in some ways like a fish in the water of ambiguity, so accustomed to it that I don't think twice about things that could pose serious confusion to others.
AWS has good support if you’re a high-level customer. We have a rep we can arrange meetings with on a days notice if we need anything.
Very good points -- the lack of any real training or preparation does raise an eyebrow. However, the lack of any real known involvement with the CIA provides it with cover. The context of the time could make it plausible: the Cold War was intense at the time. Find a young zealot who truly hated communism, and is willing to play spy. The CIA really had nothing to lose or fear, for if he's caught they can claim ignorance, and the PR angle will be that the evil Soviets captured an innocent tourist; if not, he might bring back useful info.
What I like about JS is I can write nearly everything with const.

Functions are const, data is const, and I rarely use classes. It removes a lot of overhead, avoids this questions, and makes everything consistent and so makes spotting similarities and differences easier.

I can do

const myFunc = () => 2;
const res = myFunc();

It helps with the mindset of treating functions as data that can be acted upon similar to how data can be.
Open core is bad, so things that make it more difficult to be successful with it are good.
I will concede a misunderstanding perhaps of the income distribution in CA.

But the figures you quoted are the marginal rates, and at the federal level that top bracket kicks in at over 500k

in the limit of very high income, your effective rate will start to approach the top marginal rate. But the idea of 500k being the negligible portion of one’s gross income is just so far out of my experience, it’s hard to see why that’s the default assumption.

how many people is that even realistic for? I thought past a certain point peoples total comp started to be more things like equity

Edit: I think I see what you meant by “i specifically said that will only get you close to 50% effective”, initially I just added the marginal rate for federal and CA and thought that’s what you meant by “close to 50%”

I still don’t really know where you’re coming from though — say you’re single and your income is 1 M$, and you don’t do anything aside from standard deduction to reduce, that’s like 46% effective (I forgot payroll taxes before). Is 40k property tax realistic in SF? I genuinely don’t know
Pretty sure that the Suns own the among rights, not the city. Is Footprint really paying $90 million cash to the Suns as the deal is reportedly valued at?
Could someone make one for the SpongeBob timecard voice? That would be exceptionally helpful for D&D night.
Yeah that’s what I’m thinking - I wonder if there’s a natural way to have one’s children end up with peer groups that really are dependent on separate languages.
Archive, I think you mean achieve?
Having a dryer is not the same as using it for all loads. Sometimes you need quick access to clothes. Work, spilling accident, not enough room for natural drying. In summer, if you can dry safely outside, that is a far better option.
> If the UK falls apart Scotland will be welcome (likely over the protests of Spain but nothing that can't be bought off)

I don't have a cite for this, but I think I read somewhere that Spain has said they will have no objection to Scotland joining the EU as long as the separation of Scotland from the UK is done legally under UK law.
Community "large loop" heat pumps should help with the economics, but there are still lots of details to fill in.
For the sake of industry relevance I’d say JavaScript. It has the simplicity of C and doesn’t enforce style constraints the way Python does. And unlike C, you can’t blow your arm off with expected memory management.

It’s so easy to declare record types. They’re just hash tables that can be extended with either properties or member functions.

let person = { name : “Tim”, age : 27 }

How much easier can you get?
I think it's safe to say you're not the intended audience for anything math-related, given that you're going to a dictionary to try to figure things out...
No, but both vlc and ffmpeg use libavcodec.[1] HandBrake uses ffmpeg.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libavcodec
> Random anecdote: in New Jersey installing a Mitsubishi hyper-heat heat-pump in a 8 room house (4 bedroom + 2 bathroom + living room + kitchen) is much more expensive than running hot water baseboard in all rooms. And with most heat pumps you can usually only zone 4-6 heads per compressor, so you'd need two compressors. A single compressor is probably pulling 50 amps alone, so you'd need 100 amps available usually for your breakers. For reference, a normal house usually 100 amps dedicated for the entire house, not just HVAC. Drastic upgrades in electric infrastructure will be required.

No, no, and no.

First of all, you would never put a head in each of these rooms. The minimum head sizes of Mitsubishi (and all other) mini splits is well beyond the heating or cooling loads of an individual room. Anyone who tries to sell a head per room is a charlatan and has never run a Manual J load calculation in their life.

Furthermore, if your four bedroom house requires 100 amps to heat it with a heat pump, you should have put money into air sealing and insulating it, rather than installing heat pumps.

This would impute a 160,000 Btu/h heat load, which is astronomical in New Jersey. (I know this because I live here, and design these systems.)
Many dozens through the years and across the spectrum of industries, company sizes, and ages.
Would make for some pretty cool pop up books.
"Just get Congress to pass term limits!"
> not really, you still need to factor in the cost of capital (ie. downpayment) and the risk that the housing market might collapse.

I disagree - if you're talking about bubbles collapsing that's true no matter how you store your money, e.g. inflation ruining savings, stock market correction, etc.

You need a place to live anyway and government incentives will reduce your cost of living far below renting anyway.

What is true is that you drastically reduce your liquidity but I already presumed that in the scenario anyway by saying staying a few years (any housing correction historically will be resolved in a few years), if applicable
> Places were undesirable and cheap, and people of moderate means bought them, improved the area, and over decades it became a desirable area.

Generally by doing things that are now illegal (sometimes that were already illegal but not enforced at the time).
He did that on the backs of those trying to get into the housing market now.
With such drastic diet - gastric system goes for a toss. You don't want to wait that long between pooping. One option is to try buffered vitamin c. It was definitely give you a poop whenever you want without side effect and dependency.

I recommend the following vitamin c powder. If you are up for it you can do also a vitamin c cleanse:
https://www.perque.com/product/perque-potent-c-guard-powder/
In our house we have central heat which requires a fan to blow the warm air to all the vents. No power = no heat, regardless of the fuel source.

We also don't have prolonged winter outages here since there's no snow (coastal california). If that was a common problem I might strategize a little differently or have gas as an emergency backup.
> And you explicitly referred to cocaine as an equivalent option to prescribed medication.

No, I tried and failed to make you understand my main point that these drugs which are 'presecribed' for a pathology whose existence has yet to be scientifically demonstrated, are actually no different from cocaine in what they do when you take them. I've seen comments in this thread saying that since Adderal/Ritaline works and has positive effects, therefor the existance of ADHD is demonstrated. After all, that's an opinion as well, so please let me keep mine that Adderal/Ritaline are nothing but legal meth.
Performance was not described consistently across processors or workloads. How many “FP64 GFLOPS” for the Xeon? Did they mean transactions per second per dollar?

Optimizing JIT occurs on a software release schedule, not a hardware release schedule.

See how fast the hardware catches up with AMD and Intel. Considering how much better it is than in 2019, pace of progress is pretty good. And we’ll have fresh hardware security bugs to find and exploit, more fun for all.
You can use the 7-0-stable branch for now - https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/43998#issuecomment-100...
There can be massive opportunity cost lost to dealing with the various interpersonal interaction (ie work) thats required to rent a room in a house you are personally living in. If you're making a good salary, thats probably not worth it.
I am not sure what are you trying to say. Where's the experiment? It is nowhere. Everyone who tried to come up with one so far failed. That's the whole reason why that believe is nonsense.
The grid cannot support heating all homes on electricity. It would be extremely difficult and make the load balancing really tricky, especially if relying on renewables. It really spikes up the seasonality in demand for electricity in a way that's hard to satisfy. Namely huge demand for electricity in the winter when solar is at its least available. That's not to say this isn't a good idea. But the shift to electric heating on a national scale will be difficult. The experience of doing so now doesn't reflect what it'll take to do it everywhere.

More than half of energy use in the home is spent on heating, and it's not uniformly distributed by time nor space at all. Not impossible, but very hard. The usual memes about just needing a lot of batteries need to be examined with some skepticism here. You'll need a lot of batteries to make that possible.
I'm not sure why people have this silly take. Land in desirable areas is scarce. Why shouldn't it appreciate it? Housing is nothing like a car.
post video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb-YuhFWCr4
Also, it seems like you may have a number of notions as to how autistic people interact with others. I'm obviously not sure if you've actually had interactions like this, or if you anticipate for some reason that people would react to you in that way.

But it may be worth considering that the things you've posted here are very likely to be very far off from the norm. And if you've had consistent interactions that have predisposed you to feel the way it seems like you may, it's worth considering that you may just be interacting with someone with other personality traits in there that may not be autism-related.

But if you haven't had these kinds of interactions with people on the spectrum, I'd suggest to you that your preconceptions are very different from my experiences.
I’ve never understood this. Azure is a billion times worse. AWS is rather painless. Just slow.
What if you were a long-term shareholder?

The soon-extinct investor.
I don’t care about the format, but I agree with the general idea that there’s a lot to discover by taking the time to appreciate music you may not like right away. And in that vein, the first three albums I ever bought (CD) and the first I ever bought on vinyl continue to be among my favorite ever… even though I panned all of them on first listen:

- The Toadies - Rubberneck

- Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot

- Alice In Chains - [Three legged dog]

- Pearl Jam - No Code
LaTeX can be fine for some, but it requires either an internet connection (Overleaf) or the use of some custom IDE. If you write in a plain-text editor, custom compilation sucks.

As a personal aside, I can't stand the LaTeX syntax; needing to have a \begin{itemize}, \end{itemize}, \item for every list, as opposed to a simple dash uses way more characters, adds more visual noise, and makes it less pleasant to read when editing. Ditto for something like \begin{tabular} as opposed to a pleasant ascii grid.
I think pointing out that it is published on a known journal is to display the fact that the paper is now peer-reviewed
I'd also add my own 2 cents: if you're Googling stuff related to syntax then make MDN your first stop; or you might consider one of MDN's many entry points to learning JS. Also check out prominent Discords/Slacks/etc because it's nice to have human help when you're blocked, and sometimes you need opinions rather than facts.
Yes, but it’s with the caveat that (like C++) const does not mean that the whole value is constant. It doesn’t even really mean any part of the value is constant necessarily, just that the symbol cannot be reassigned.

I don’t know that it eliminates that many questions, but it does eliminate one question, which is whether that variable will be reassigned. Arguably that doesn’t tell you very much.
I just call it "configurable software".
Doing the setup is formally called 'configuration' in SAP, and the implementors document the changes done in a 'configuration guide'.

I personlly would also like simpler names for the two other kinds of software: Custom-Of-The-Shelf, and, Bespoke.
> Just go Google

> I’m not sure what’s difficult to understand about this.

Of course you may expect the casual reader to do the googling themselves. But if you want to make your arguments heard, it’s helpful to put a link to an authoritative source. Of course this is also true for anyone making the counter claim.
Replacing a cooktop is a 1 hour job.
Anyone know if the trailer/flatbed is legal in Los Angeles? Testing without going through an entire permit process would be fun.
That’s very non specific. What exactly is lacking in all documentation right now.
No problem; I think my own comment could be better by being more appreciative of the interesting info you shared, before focusing on the area of improvement straightaway. Thanks!
here in BC they were colloquially known as 'meets'
Modern heating systems need electricity to work even if they generate their heat from gas.
I believe the launch windows are fairly constrained due to the precise positioning requirements as well as the requirement to avoid eclipses throughout the lifetime of the telescope. This study [1] was for a planned 2018 launch, but I'm sure there were similar constraints in this time period too.

In addition, the fuel required to position the spacecraft varies a lot depending on the day - and any fuel saved can be used to prolong the operational lifetime of the telescope.

[1] https://issfd.org/ISSFD_2014/ISSFD24_Paper_S2-6_Yu.pdf
I don't see it any differently than having a roommate, which is something a lot of people who have good salaries have anyway.
The process of making unwanted real estate wanted is called real estate development. It's not done by "young people just moving there." That just makes crappy real estate more crowded.

Real estate development is very much a "build it and they will come" sort of deal. It takes capital, a lot of it, to make an area desirable. You can't just dump it anywhere, there has to be a good reason to dump it in this particular area otherwise the hip young people will go somewhere that did have a good reason. And the poor investors who poured money into a development in that area won't see any appreciation or significant profit, because no one else is developing the area, just them. Lots and lots and lots of money going into lots and lots and lots of developments, that's what turns the sticks into the burbs.

You just can't put the family cart before the development horse, every young person starting a family has different reasons for moving out to the sticks. Left alone without already-developed real estate, they'll just spread out evenly across rural America.
The frontier has been settled since 1890, but housing prices have been stable from 1950 to 1980, then they started creeping up, with a big burst around 2000 and another beginning 2018. Desirable can't be the answer.