skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just pointing out this (reality distortion) is a general phenomenon. Have seen the same in all big companies (& many small). As an employee you want the best for the company and you naturally imbibe the company culture and that is perfectly fine. But there is a line and this is something one has to watch out for as an employee. As an example, seeing any critical comment from outside as an attack on the company.

It is good that an employee explained how this particular event happened and that is to their credit.
Because copilot is not a human and can do things that humans can't. Moreover I encourage you to learn music pieces by listening to them and then selling/giving away snippets. You will have big corporations on your heels fairly quickly even though you are a human.
Wow. It really is a copy paste of StackOverflow :o
And those are precisely the organizations I avoid like the plague. I’ve gotten to offer stage before and sensed this type of disconnect and promptly declined to continue in the process. It’s a huge red flag if the finances of a technical organization are controlled by people who don’t understand technology and consequently that unable to ascertain and appropriately appraise value.
Yeah, unfortunately. Though I suppose if this were really an issue you could keep a battery around as they don't really use that much electricity.
What matters is the context or even what isn't being said.

For example, it can imply the person is saying they recognize a (typical) trait in themselves. It can also imply the person does not have a diagnosis, but does recognize themselves in the description. Or it can imply the person is interested in figuring out if they have a diagnosis. It can imply an affirmation of sympoms ('oh, now that you say it, I do recognize X or Y in your behavior). It can also be used to create common ground or sympathy. I wouldn't assume harm though (theory of mind!).

I have an ASD diagnosis and it was not a matter of a 15 minute questionnaire as suggested elsewhere in this thread with regards to ADHD. Yes, I did need to fill in a questionnaire. After that I had to wait almost a year til the diagnosis process was started. It included detailed historical analysis of a parent ('hetero anamnese'). I would like to assume all ASD diagnosis are proper, though mine was after DSM-V was introduced so I have autism but no specific label.

From what I understood, its being discussed in the scientific community AD(H)D is merely a variant of autism.

When I see a movie like Girl, Interrupted or Ik Ook Van Jou it is supposedly about a young woman with borderline (BPD) but all I see is a young woman with autism instead. That's just my personal take though.
> People have asked me what I think of the fact that other people can then also redistribute the source code, or compile a binary and provide that for free. I'm fine with that, as said, I'm a firm believer in open source / free software.

What??? They’ve admitted to a flaw in their method to get income, which is that they’re making it trivial for competitors to offer the same product. Their response is that they’re a believer.

I would have appreciated a response like dual licensing, or going into consulting for their app, or using trademark to enforce ownership over their version.
Your English is great! It sounds like you liked authentication/authorization; perhaps consider IT security / CISSP?

You will have to endure some degree of printer cartridge-type work in your early years, no matter what, especially since you're the new person. But if the role exposes you to the work you enjoy, put in the hours and you'll get noticed.

I remember my first years in networking - I never enjoyed climbing into ceilings, pulling cable etc. But I got it done, and worked hard in the areas I really enjoyed. Pretty soon an engineering role opened up; I was able to move into it quickly, as management had seen my potential.

You talk about "doing things that others have solved" - this is the "make vs buy" problem and, to a degree, it's fine to build things yourself. But you can probably appreciate that it isn't just about building the thing, it's about maintaining it. In a professional setting, you have to choose the optimal solution for the business.

On your personal time, build stuff! Whether that means assembling FOSS solutions or writing things from scratch, it's valuable experience.
Lots of Australian electricity comes from coal (about 60%).
Amazon has plenty of over-engineered crap made for optimizing promo docs.
You can power all those gas appliances with a reasonably-sized generator, though. It's also possible to run a heat pump on a generator, but you'd need a much bigger generator and a soft-start for the heat pump to limit starting current.
They didn't re-invent something either. It's really is a copy-paste from stackoverflow
Solar in NYC is complicated. In my condo building, there are 500 apartments and the roof area is about 10k sqft, and it's shadowed by our neighboring building about a third of the day.

However, there are some fascinating cases that work: https://www.stuytown.com/sustainability/solar This project is almost complete and seems to be working really well.
The EU does have elected representatives though. It also has a load of unelected bureaucrats, as all government's do. Who elects bureaucrats?

Of course if being governed by unelected people is the issue, possibly we should look a bit closer to home at the Monarchy and the House of Lords.
Well, in that case you'd also want to add in things like offshore wind capacity and large remote solar array capacity and remote energy storage capacity. A NYC apartment complex can no more be expected to be energy-independent any more than it can be food-independent.

Cities will always require the import of significant materials, food, and energy from surrounding areas, and electricity is actually a more efficient means of importing energy than natural gas is. Replacing all the diesel trucks and buses with electrical versions, that's equally desirable. Cities will become much cleaner places, which is to everyone's benefit.
Stalkerware: 2021 in Review
I hate to bring practical experience with a heat pump to the table but ours is a 3 year old unit and last February in the Texas "blizzard" the heat pump became a solid block of ice and the system ended up using backup "glow rods" to heat the air. Glow rods are about as efficient as an old coil burner type range- exact same principle.

Heat pumps aren't a panacea, they have an appropriate use. Usually in a warm climate but they don't really work well (from my direct experience) in freezing temperatures or below. Something I assume NYC gets rather regularly.
Why didn’t the gas stove work?? I mean I have a newer model with electronic ignition, but you can just use a lighter. I’ve never seen a gas stove that wouldn’t work without electricity - and it seems fool hardy to buy one.

Gas hot water heaters without power vents are still readily available so its not hard to avoid this problem. If you really must have power venting the power requirements are low and can be powered by minimal backup generation or batteries.

Gas infrastructure is surprisingly resilient to widespread outages. That’s just a fact - how often are there widespread outages? It’s minuscule compared to electricity.
Now that's a well-designed website!
> a typical baseboard heater is 1k

If you're talking big, expensive batteries, you may as well include heat pump heating/cooling systems, which are much, much, much more efficient than traditional electric heaters, and can be rigged up with shared infrastructure to reduce costs. For example, my building has one large hot/cold water loop that individual units hook into with small heat pump systems.
I am very sorry. I did not want to come across as being nothing but negative.

I will have to try Elementary's new email client – it replaced Geary with its own home-grown one in recent releases. I did not give it more than a cursory look. I have used Mail.app in several OS X releases, but these days, I use Thunderbird instead. I am know the GNUstep Mail client a little bit.

For me, the menu tree is a big part of an app's UI. I favour older versions of MS Office that still have menus rather than the horrible Ribbon UI of Office since the 2007 release.

Since Elementary and its apps have no menu bar and no menus, I don't really feel that their UI can be like macOS apps' since a core element of the UI is missing.

Regarding the difference between a taskbar and a dock – well, ISTM a lot of Linux distros don't, frankly. I think there's a big difference. But saying that, the Windows taskbar (that is, the original of the species) has been getting increasingly Dock-like in recent releases. Windows 8 even dropped the Start button and Start menu. 8.1 put it back starting a full-screen app launcher not unlike Launchpad in recent macOS releases; Win10 and 11 have made it more and more Mac-like, so that in Win11 it's centred by default and can no longer even be arranged vertically at the side of the screen.

(Personally, I hate the new version.)

So I'd say that the company that invented the taskbar is trying very hard to make it more like a dock. And of course imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

I had a quick play with an older version of Elementary 3-4 releases ago. I didn't like it much. Last week I spent a few days getting to know it better. It's a very "opinionated" distro. I like macOS a lot – I'm typing on it now – and if Elementary was more Mac-like, I would like it more. As it was, I was impressed with the clean, integrated design, but actually using it, no, I don't find it Mac-like at all. Not really in any way.

You can, if you wish, read my thoughts on it here:
https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/21/elementary_os_61/

It is clean, it works well, its programmers have *views* on how to do stuff and they've found a model that pays and they're working on it. Good for them. I do not think I will be using it myself.
I’ve been through a few significant power outages in NYC. The gas worked fine, we just lit the stove with a match. For hurricane Sandy, I made a huge pot of soup with most of what would spoil in the refrigerator, then boiled it every couple hours for the next several days. Family was fed, food wasn’t wasted.

A bigger problem in NYC is electric water pumps: When the power goes out, the water stops when the water tower on the roof empties. This is mostly for buildings over 5-6 stories, older buildings were somewhat height-capped by municipal water pressure. No water means no toilets. Again, people don’t seem to know that toilets use gravity, a bucket will flush them. Big storm coming? Fill the bathtubs with water.
You wouldn't even need that. The electricity usage of gas appliance is miniscule as it's usually just to automatically light the pilot or vent. An 100Wh battery could probably power everything for a week or longer.
Now this is something that our current fusion technology could help with
I live in a rural area and 31 miles of range is enough to drive into the largest town where everything is, and back again, without the ICE coming on.

That's not a "joke."
Empathy isn't just perceiving emotional states but actually mirroring the emotions of the other person. Feeling emotions "for" the other person. (E.g., feeling "sad for" someone.)

What's being called "logical empathy" here is the perception/understanding that you're calling empathy.
Sending gas 100 miles is cheap, and sending electricity 100 miles is extra cheap.
Plug in hybrids need to haul around an engine, gas tank, transmission, exhaust system etc. They also need extra batteries over a standard hybrid.
> Technology is pretty awesome.

So I have a heat pump. In central Indiana. Temp ranges from -15F in the winter to 100F in the summer. Today it was in the mid 50s. My across the street neighbor has the same floorplan house, but he has gas. When we compare bills, I pay about $40/mo more for heat. He pays about $40 more for AC... so it ends up being a wash, except my HVAC plant cost about twice what his conventional electric AC / Gas forced air setup. As a bonus, the electric that I use comes from a giant gas plant so... Would feel better about electric if it wasn't just shifting production to a giant facility on the other side of town.
I first saw Necko on the Mac.

Originally on the NEC-PC (Necko is Japanese for "cat"), it has been ported or re-implemented all over the place (Wikipedia is my only brain).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)
If built right, this allows for better observability for their teams into important topics.
Ask HN: What are the best tech books you read in 2021?
Mine are Statistical Inference in Computer Age, and Transactional Information Systems. Curious what other books teach us powerful concepts and tools that carry us a long way
I wonder what it would be like to cook with a 60-100kw inductive wok?

At 100kw, 55 seconds at full power would be enough to melt a 10kg iron wok.
There was massive, massive power failure this year in Texas [0], dozens of people died from cold exposure. Few households in Texas have gas heating, so you could say it didn't make difference, although the electric heating itself was part of the problem because everybody's heat pumps hit the threshold of inefficiency at the same time, overloading the grid. Obviously, if you had gas to your house, you could run a generator and keep your pipes from exploding. If you had a gasoline car, you could put grandma in there to warm her up and stop her from dying. Or maybe you had a portable propane heater, or simply a wood stove or fireplace. The fully electrified house has none of these unless you spent $40,000 on a massive solar / battery setup.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
To the best of my knowledge this (Marktext) is the only free/open-source Markdown editor that has WYSIWYG (like Typora: https://typora.io/). Not a separate preview window, but the actual editor window renders each Markdown "block" (paragraph, list item, whatever) except the one you're editing.
Sorbet is OK if you want to type an app, but falls apart for a lib.

RBS (descs) + Steep (type checker) is a bit younger but I found it more usable in general, especially on the corner cases.
Is this what you are referring to? https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-grid_tables
Sibling comment about electric loads is accurate - we had 100amp service which was insufficient (though we almost made it - we added an ADU (also all electric) which needed it's own big breaker and we didn't have space for that - so that's what really put us over. I ended up going a bit crazy and installing 400A service because it wasn't that much more that 200. Cost was about $11k. We also redid most of the electric wiring in our house as part of renovations.

What I had in mind with the comment above though is that it's just a shift in mindset. In the past I had no idea what a 'therm' of gas was, or how much that was, or any way to connect "run the heater for an hour" to a unit of energy or cost. With everything electric, and everything monitored in detail, and production of electricity on the roof, now everything in the house is on the same unit of energy which I can at least wrap my head around. I can connect "run the heater for an hour (3.5kwh)" to "2 hours of shaded solar power" or "a whole day of hot water" or "a 10 mile trip to the shops in the car". With data comes awareness, and with awareness its inevitable that you'll shift your behavior to be more efficient.
10kWh LFP’s don’t last the lifetime of the average plug in hybrid due to regenerative breaking adding a lot of charge cycles when total battery capacity is that low.

30m/s to 0 on a 2000kg vehicle = 900000 J or 0.25kWh, on a at best 10kWh battery adds up.
What batteries did you go with? Are you concerned about the fire risk?

I'm in the process of electrifying in Brooklyn (Unrelated to this rule) and these common battery systems are terrifying if they catch fire.
Gogoquincy.com has been helping adults 55+ with all of their digital issues. I got it for my mom and it’s been great.
In the US coal has dropped from 30% of our electricity generation to 10% in barely a few years. Coal plants around the country are shutting down because of how expensive coal is compared to wind and solar. Meanwhile we had nearly 20GW of grid-scale solar and wind added in one year, and that doesn't count small installations like residential rooftop systems.
Gas is only efficient for heating when compared to resistive electric heating. Modern heat pump systems are capable of producing 2.5x the thermal energy as they consume electrical energy even when it's below freezing. The hotter it gets from there, the more efficient they get.

The main issue about doing electric heating in a very cold zone is what the reliability of the electrical system is. New York has a pretty good record with their hydroelectric generation though.
Recruiters cannot hear the word "No."

The best way to get recruiters to stop responding is:

Thank you for making me aware of this opportunity. Before I waste your time, I have a few quick questions that I'd like answered:

Is this fully remote? Or on-site?

And most importantly, what is the compensation range for this position?

Pretty much shuts down the conversation completely. Ghosting. So much ghosting. I'd say an awful lot of recruiters will view you as a "difficult candidate" or "too much work" the moment you start asking about compensation.
“…and that that natural gas powerplant efficiency is about 40%[3].“

The next line in your reference points out that combined cycle plats are >60% efficient which are pretty much all gas plants.

60% of the energy in gas is turned into electricity.
Yet, you can still talk about it on an open forum on "a western platform" ( note: this isn't to take a side on good/wrong since i don't know what exactly you are talking about)

But I'm pretty sure the problems in the country predate US intervention.

And it doesn't contradict the fact that capitalism has made the world more peaceful than ever because of trade.

Convince me with numbers otherwise.

Ps. Yeah, i said WHO instead of IMF. Obviously, it's the latter.
>"does this person really know their stuff or are they just good at taking tests"

Which is interesting, given that the places that should be able to tell if a person really knows their stuff tend to lean hard on "leetcode" type interviews. Which is basically "is this candidate good at memorization and taking tests?"
Joplin is another good one. https://joplinapp.org/
Do you shift your work hours, or do you just do overtime? Are you compensated for it?
I just feel usual shifts are already long enough for someone to give away their free time on top of it into the same thing.
This is really cool, and not something you'd be able to typically do in Vim or the like. But it also uses latex notation, which I can't stand for things like itemized lists, haha.
The fact that you had to link to COINTELPRO is pretty revealing :)

Grasping at straws, no?
This was such a good story that I read it aloud to a completely non-techie loved one, and we both got some joy from it. Thank for the Christmas gift, friend.
I once attended a summer school in Saint-Flour, France, where Sourav Chatterjee gave a masterful exposition of results on large deviations for random graphs. All chalk talk, clear presentation. My impression is he's a deep thinker. On that basis alone I give such an article much more weight than the plethora of articles that pass before the eyes; reading the masters has always been a good rule of thumb.
Be curious...
Higher asset prices makes building property more profitable. It incentivizes more construction.

This is how the free market works, in general. When prices go up, it incentivizes asset creators create more. This is one of the down-sides of zoning limitations - they do not let the market provide more for the additional demand.

...and a simple Google search confirms that NZ has been experiencing a construction boom.
I'm not allowed to talk about it - sorry. F'ing crazy story.
I don't think I have or am any of those things.
> My team is under no obligation to keep up with me

I'm not going to pass judgement here, as it's a complicated issue and I have zero context, but I hope you understand why this is not an entirely truthful thing to say.

Working over your vacation sets a tone whether or not you intend it to.
I live in LA but I think a remote team can design, and a local team build. I can buy the parts
Oh, the sheer unadulterated Hubris of the Brexiteers.

When I woke up the morning after the Vote in the UK, I fully expected the result to be 'Remain'. I was dumbfounded to hear that the result was to 'Leave'. I simply could not believe that people would be so dumb as to destroy their own futures.

But for a lower-rank country where people still sing that horribly outdated "Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves" with no sense of incongruousness, what else would you expect?
Storage is also a big variable. Keeping them in an oxygen free environment seems to help.

IIRC, the amount of psilocybin in a mushroom is sort of fixed at a certain stage of its growth, so picking them when they're larger can just diminish their strength by weight and mess up what you think is the dose. As with most drugs, I find batching them together, say by grinding them all up in the case of mushrooms, and then taking small doses to calibrate the batch strength, is the safest way to go.

I usually recommend taking your mushrooms and blending them up in, say, OJ, then pouring them into ice cube trays and freezing them. They keep quite a long time that way and it's pretty convenient.
As someone who does not understand why StackOverflow is so popular, find many of the posts there to be low quality, and believes that internet should be decentralized I think it is better for platforms to host their own communities instead of outsourcing it to places like StackOverflow, Discord, Reddit, etc
Not if it’s mobile and homeless people can push it around like they do carts
How much does the Monarchy actually govern, though? Ceremonially, sure, but actual power? Not so much.
In the UK, a Tesla 3 performance is £60k. A base Tesla 3 is about £43k. An equivalent Merc 300e is £45k.

Base Tesla 3 and base 300e appear to be mostly the same price and mostly same 0-62 performance at 5.8s and 6.1s.
My concern would be this: cheap ass landlords are going to just install horrible, low quality electric ring ranges in apartments, not nice induction ranges. Gas is millions of times better than those electric ring ranges.
Then how would you say it should be compared?
Palm, Inc. Man those little devices were cool for their time. Not sure what happened. How did the shareholders agree to sell to HP? Did they really think HP stock was more valuable? Anyway, hindsight is 20/20.
"This exciting start-up just raised two hundred million dollars. Are you interested in taking a 70% paycut to work for someone who would step over your corpse if they saw you drop a nickle?"