skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure! As an example, a friend asks "Do you want to grab a drink tonight?". My day is free, and it's morning when I receive the message. I reply "Sure! Where and when?". They don't reply.

I am now paralyzed for the rest of the day. My brain can't snap my schedule into place, so everything I do is a possible conflict with this promise I just made. Even if it's morning, something may happen -- another invitation to do something in the afternoon, maybe -- that I can't resolve because I don't have the necessary information to. This causes overwhelming anxiety.

My entire brain is blocked on resolving this ambiguity. I can't do hard tasks like programming. I can't pay enough attention to my favorite shows to watch them. If I do, I'll end up rewatching them later because I didn't retain anything. Reading a book is out of the question; I'll just end up rereading the same paragraph 20 times in a row then giving up.

The whole day, zapped out of existence.

To others I will appear distracted, hard to hold in conversation, irritable, and in a hurry. Internally, I'd equate it to the feeling you get on a once-in-a-lifetime special day, like your wedding day or a test that could decide your entire career. It's just that I get it from really small things, and all the time.
> Almost all new construction already uses forced air heat pump systems for energy cost reasons.

Here, natural gas is typically $2 a therm. Efficient furnaces are better than 90%, so $2 for 90,000 BTUs into the house or $1 buys 45,000 BTUs into the house.

Electricity is about 30 cents a kilowatt hour. Good air source heat pumps have a COP in mild weather of about 4-- much worse when cold. This is about 45,000 BTUs/$ best case.

So here, heat pumps are about breakeven vs. natural gas or slightly worse in energy costs... And they're more expensive in capital costs.
This is a spanish guy who built his own off-grid setup with solar panels and 18650 batteries. As a complete ignorant in electric stuff to me this is amazing. If you know some spanish you can find here a good channel IMO!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3LgbTsIO3A
> can read the binary encodings almost like it is text.

I'm curious what encoding rules that applies to: BER/DER I could easily believe, aligned PER a bit less so, and unaligned PER with lots of extensions and optional parts would be impressive.
> A Tesla Model 3 can fully power an average 3000 sq-ft home for 2-3 days.

An average US home is 2,500 square feet, but that aside the average US home power consumptions is about 30kWh per day, so, yes, the 82kWh battery for the newest Model 3 Long Range can power an average home for more than 2 and less than 3 average days.
I run a pretty decently-sized OSHW project that sells both b2b and b2c, and the biggest hurdle I can see is that this guy really likes making hurdles for himself.

Literally every single one of the "business hurdles" can be either trivially solved or ignored completely.
Payment processing takes 5 minutes to set up through PayPal or Stripe, and invoices can be generated manually for the few customers that actually ask for them through free online software like this:
https://invoice-generator.com/

The rest literally don't matter at all, at least not until you're selling >$1k worth of software a month. I don't mean just practically, I mean legally, at least under Australian law. If things are significantly different in the UK or NL, I'd be very surprised!

(I wouldn't call "Marketing" a hurdle either - it as much work as writing the software and requires as much skill!)

Of the technical hurdles, the only one that is an actual that needs to be solved in order to release an MVP is "Website with payment processor and downloads". Set up a $5 Wordpress droplet on DigitalOcean, install WooCommerce and spend an afternoon customising things. Go Shopify and eat the comission if you want to make things even easier. The rest can come later, once you've validated that a market for your product exists at all!
> A property that has four or fewer apartments is treated the same as a single family home for lending purposes. But five or more units requires a commercial loan. So we created a pro forma and told the bank we were investors looking to be slumlords and this building would cash flow.

This is not a difference of perspective - home loans involve significantly more consumer protections than commercial ones; had things gone another way, the author'd be paying substantially more in rent to whatever landlord purchased the foreclosed five-plex.

Most of the article sweeps risk under the rug as do most stories where the winner is also a lucky survivor.
It's disingenuous to say they are "avoiding the area because of racism". They are avoiding that area because it provides less return of investment than other areas. Part of the reason why that area provides less return of investment than other areas is because of racism that happened 50 years ago. Part of the reason is *not* due to racism.

Regardless, it is not "de facto" redlining, as redlining is race-based discrimination in investment, and that is not what is happening now. If you are criticizing rational, data-based, non-discriminatory investment, then you should not caracterize it as redlining, as the defining characteristic of redlining (i.e. race-based discrimination) is lacking in the current situation.
I presume you mean comments on social media and not comments in source code.

I only write comments when I feel that I can make a contribution by commenting. Once a HN post becomes more than a page or so, I generally find that somebody has already written what I would have written, so I don't add to it. Specific to HN, I find that subsets of comments on comments explore various tangents of interest to some posters. These can be very interesting, although sometimes I feel they would be better handled as a fresh thread.
Every cent wasted on this, instead of being spent on building out solar, wind, and storage, brings climate catastrophe incrementally closer.

But in the real world the money going into this is on top of that going into solar / wind / … and not instead of. The nature of the climate crisis is such that we need to stop debating which things to do and just do all the things unless we genuinely run into limits of what we can spend, which we are nowhere near reaching.
"Amusing" but worthless to say.
Cool. Do you have something specific you do to flag a mistake for the algorithm, like clapping?
The reason is not due to renewables, actually. In PG&E territory (which I am most familiar with) more than 2/3rds of your bill typically goes to transmission and distribution costs and 1/3 towards generation. Check out your next bill if you are curious. It’s not a huge surprise that T&D costs so much since that infrastructure keeps burning down the state and there is a lot of deferred maintenance.

It does make for a nice argument to try to decentralize more of the generation closer to where the consumption is happening (eg solar + batteries) to try to reduce our need to invest in T&D.
And obviously Hacker News
No, in effect they argued mention of God is no more okay than bringing up Satan, spaghetti monsters, etc, and that none of them are okay.
It's not necessarily true that comments at the bottom don't get read - I personally tend to read exhaustively those comment threads that are on topics I really care about.

> Do you ever try to "force" attention to your comment by replying to top comments even if your comment is not relevant to the OP?

Please, please, please don't do this. It screws up the flow of a conversation and generally degrades the quality of the site. It's super rude.
My father got old, and had to downsize from a large house to a small flat, which didn't have room for all his books, so most of them went to charity shops. A year later, he advised me "Try not to get rid of your books; you'll regret it."

He's died now, I took over the flat, and moved from a family home into the same flat. I also had to shed a lot of books in the process. I ripped my large CD collection to a media server. I miss some of those books I got rid of; but I like this small flat, and I don't want to dedicate a small room to a library.

The first books I got rid of were computer books. They were all manuals for some obsolescent technology; like, I thought the "Rhino" Javascript book would be useful forever (um, no). I got rid of a few feet of books on Buddhism, and several more feet were books on Western philosophy from my undergraduate days. These were books that had been formative for me, but I was honestly never going to open them again.

So I don't really agree with my father's advice. If you regret ditching a book, you can just replace it.
is one of the incentives for those who rent housing not to keep the available housing supply low (at least to a certain point)?
Traditional automaker tend to get a bit paternalistic and perhaps communist in American terms - the new Camry your team is going to build and sell is going to carry life and moments of its drivers, and their families, and their neighbors waving hands for next decades, each year adding up in tens of millions as the cars are built and shipped - it’s definitely not going to do 0-60 in under 2 seconds because they can’t get around that for better or worse. Maybe even 5 seconds is too much. Is 7.5s too slow? Debatable. Think about kids! Our future!

Tesla is at the other side of spectrum when it comes to it, so they just put what they make because they can. They managed to set the benchmark for BEV so others follow them for BEV products.
So kind of a mini Cloudflare?
"Pre-signups" are leads, and 2,000 leads is essentially nothing. You don't know the conversion rate or the quality of the leads.

Find a way to build the marketplace (which is joining an incredibly crowded category). If you can't build it, you don't have a startup and you should try something else that you can get started without investors.
But can they make bandwidth 1000x more expensive?
Tested it with voices "singing" Praise You by Fatboy Slim. Here are the results:

Alan Rickman: https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:hsrgb9haeqff63s966e42m7dnq...

Bernie Sanders: https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:e7b02rgxqzrmfkavrn0pr39jsg...

Snoop Dogg: https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:kn2yaam78wq03d2w53xfd0kcvq...

Morgan Freeman: https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:msxvghpkzs7942vkdfhmxjg2bs...
EV bus are not science fiction. There are a lot of them working everyday in a lot cities. So no, there is no such thing as dangerous weight.
British Columbia has conservation groups doing precisely this: acquiring forestry rights with the intention of never harvesting[0].

Word has it that the Provincial Government will be supporting this effort.

0: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/conservation...
Don't expect net metering to exist forever. As more and more people install solar, I'm expecting utilities to switch to the cost of a hookup plus net metering.
To be clear, the people who can run these models and worlds are also tethered to a PC. So the quest isn’t any worse than the competition. The complaint here seems to be that it isn’t better enough to justify… well something I’m sure
If you want some more weird/gutsy stuff involving Cold War intelligence gathering, listen to both 2013 SpyCast episodes with Col. James Cox, who was an attaché working in Moscow during and after the 1991 coup. (This aside from e.g. BRIXMIS etc)
Of course the position "only add something to your todo list if you are going to do it immediately" is ridiculous at face value.

But if you are a bit more generous with its intentions, then there is something that really chimes with me about it.

I work in engineering support to oil and gas operations (but I'm sure this is applicable to many industries), and we have quarterly workplans and pretty fixed budgets. Of course our budget-holder typically asks us to do more work than we are able to deliver, so I will often have to say "this job does not make the priority list for next quarter, but we can do it the quarter after next?".

However, I've found a pretty good rule of thumb is that if a job was not high priority enough to win a place on the next quarter's to-do list then by the time the following quarter comes around, it will probably get bumped off the priority list by something else higher priority. In other words, our limited budget means there is always some 'cut-off point' where work that looks important is still not quite high enough priority (compared to our other work) to ever get done.

It is easy to 'form a long queue' by saying yes to work and letting it sit on our to-do list forever, but just slightly too low down to ever get done. But in our industry at least, there's a small overhead involved in just keeping that work around and passing the ownership of the task from person to person.

A more realistic rephrasing could be "if you're adding something to your todo list and it's not high enough priority to bump anything else, consider how much inefficiency it will cause long-term by it just sitting in your queue for months"

Maybe a little silly for your personal todo lists, but I think the idea has some applicability at a larger scale.
Proto-Oceanic *Mana Revisited
Hacking away at that beuracracy is one of the main advantages of moving to cloud. Maybe it all comes back in the end, but for a while it is definetly a source of speed and agility.
We need to spend the money on things that will help, and take away the money from things which are not helping. Those latter things include weapons, internal-combustion vehicles, Portland cement, and Tokamak fusion projects.
I think we have most of the actual science problems figured out. We essentially know that a sufficiently big tokamak will produce net energy. We do not yet know in detail how to build one that lasts long enough to make financial sense. ITER will probably answer the remaining engineering questions.

Of course there are more open questions around the other potential ways of achieving fusion, because we haven't thrown as much money at them as we did for tokamaks. So there is a possibility that there are much cheaper designs that also work.
I had one of their certifications. It expired a few years back and I don't intend to renew it or acquire a new one. Below position presented to HR or tech hiring people usually works:

"I used to have AWS certification. Amazon even prolonged it from 2 to 3 years but I had no reasons to renew it afterwards. I still work on this stuff and my practical knowledge isn't outdated. I won't remember what pricing tricks every single service has but I'm able to quickly set up or fix things"

Sure, there are businesses that require you to have a shiny, fresh certifications. There are also companies that value their employees' and contractors' ability to choose what is worth doing and what seems to be a waste of time and energy.
Yeah I agree, I've been trying for a year now to get an Xbox series X. Its incredible how hard they still are to buy.
I would add; Enlightened requests for advice are usually made with plenty of context, and after having sought out answers prior to roping someone else in. There's an appropriate escalation of answer-seeking behavior and requesting someone else's time (depending especially on the forum) should generally come after other steps.

addendum 2: Truly good advice is indistinguishable from collaboration.
I think we have to wait indipendent reviews for it, PRs will surely say that they sound good/nice/etc…
Tex being Turing complete is what allowed LaTeX in the first place. HTML not being Turing complete requires Javascript and CSS separately. Do you find them easier? Maybe, I'm not sure, but you cannot escape your language being Turing complete because the range of possible documents is so vast.
That doesn't have anything to do with the comment in question, other than both of you dislike Amazon.
Complete ASN.1 by prof John Larmouth[0] on page 366 contains following epiphany:

If you were to wave a magic wand and eliminate from the world all messages that are encodings of ASN.1-defined values, disaster would certainly strike on a scale far beyond any that the most pessimistic have described for possible effects of the Y2K computer bugs. Aircraft would collide, mobile phones would cease to work, virtually all telecoms and network switches would be unmanageable and unmaintainable and would gradually die, electric power distribution systems would cease to work, and ... smart-card-based electronic transactions would fail to complete and your washing machine might fail to work ... and your life would become a misery!

--

It's suffice to say that them security people have proven, and unfortunately are likely to keep proving him to have been right on more than one occasion.

[0] https://www.oss.com/asn1/resources/books-whitepapers-pubs/la...
As a New Yorker who loses power for extended periods of time seemingly every year now, the opposite is true for me. I've never had a gas outage, and being able to use the stove when the power and the heat are out to cook a warm meal is a huge boon.
On their backs? He bought property on the market, and put it to economic use. He made rental property available in an area where many people can't afford to buy. He hasn't done anyone down.
No, it is because money is fungible, and every cent wasted on dead-end crap is a cent not spend fending off imminent climate catastrophe.

Long before the natural world experiences a phase change, civilization will collapse. While that will radically reduce carbon output, it seems like a thing to prevent.
It's also a bizarre example, because there's already a very simple solution from fast food.

Sometimes you can serve customers about as quickly as it takes for them to order and pay (e.g. hotdogs) and then there's typically no queue, or if you can't keep up and the queue is intolerably long like in this example, then they take your order and give you a number which gets called out when you're done.

This is exactly how a popular food truck would work at a fair, and you don't wait in a queue for ages, you mill around a bit and you come back when your food's ready.
The cheapest I have seen an IMX455 in a new camera is $3000 for the Sony A7RIV when it’s on sale. And that doesn’t have a lens. Once one has a couple of lenses, a case, a tripod, filters, and memory cards, we’re in the $5000 ballpark.

The IMX455 is an incredible hi end sensor; there’s only about three medium format sensors that exist with higher resolution—forget getting one of those for “only” $5000—but the cost of entry to have one in a usable camera is pretty substantial.
Thank you so much for your response and to the others that responded as well. I'm left thinking that I should take my interest as reason enough to seek a diagnosis.

Another poster commented on it, but I definitely thought of my ADHD diagnosis/treatment as panacea. I believe that's because Vyvanse has (amongst other things) largely put a lid on the anxiety that I've struggled with my whole life. I certainly share your mixed emotions with the late diagnosis and subsequent success with medication there. It's hard not to dwell on the past, but overwhelmingly, I'm enjoying my new life.

The eye contact one is interesting. I recall being yelled at a lot in childhood for not looking at people when I speak to them. As an adult, I find myself forcing it when I remember; it honestly makes me feel ill just typing this and thinking about eye contact though hahaha

Your rationale for working on things from an autism-first perspective makes a lot of sense. In fact, it's precisely the reason we got our son diagnosed at 3 - it changes how his speech therapist, physiotherapist, OT, etc treat his various challenges. Perhaps that's another reason for me to seek a diagnosis - it should be easier to better myself if I have some clarity around what's actually going on...

Thanks!!
Yeah, you read about some of this stuff and they're like "what if we have prostitutes give psychoactive drugs to their clients?" Well, that's a pretty harebrained scheme, but someone signed off on it.
Then, why would you be worried about missing out on only "crap stuff" in the first place?
I've been working on one (https://github.com/blackhole89/notekit) for a while now (which, unlike the aforementioned, also is not built on Chrome/Electron). Unfortunately it seems to be pretty hard to get the word out, or at least I haven't found any better strategy than to pounce, as I am doing now, whenever I see a HN thread about markdown editors (which invariably wind up having some comment thread lamenting the lack of WYSIWYG and/or non-Electron editors).
“Macros” - specifically the application kind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macro_(computer_science)#Appli...

Or “pluggable”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_(computing)#Mechanism

Both make the application’s internal functionality available to be called from scripting languages, and in that context they can look similar, but one difference is that plug-ins are distributed with the application or separately by its author or produced by 3rd parties, while macros are custom written by users.
Yet you evade the most obvious question of how would the children (and grandchildren) of the dead would feel about such usage of their remains, may it be a letter or a 4K private sex tape.
Nearly a million adults died from COVID too, I'm sure that affects the labor supply. How many millions of people are we "short" in the labor supply precisely?
> people found they could last on unemployment rather than work a job.

I haven't found this credible (this year, at least). Unemployment doesn't last forever and it's decidedly less than what they were making before. The former is more compelling than the latter, but the basic economics tell me that it isn't ppl living out of hallways that has caused a shortage of labor. How many years can this be reasonably asserted?

I think it's a combination of the inflation and the building up of debt/loss of stability due to the pandemic. While the unemployment was nice, it's long gone and that labor (by the numbers) didn't all die off.
As Hamlet said, "It's as easy as lying."
Well, the author described an illegal one-room micro-apartment in downtown SF.
> Reward the already-contributed labor!

It’s an innovation fund, not a ‘give away free money to those who deserve it’ fund.

Their aim is to be to use the funding to improve or introduce new software that contributes to the public good, so paying developers for stuff that they already developed doesn’t make direct sense considering their stated goal.

The way they are allocating funding has the added benefit that they can track the impact of the fund, which will help them secure the funding for the whole fund in the long term (I.e. they can list exactly what impact they have made on projects rather than just vaguely state that they have had an impact on some projects by donating to them).
What are your interests? This one has some extra content like company blogs and conferences, though it’s still AI centric https://www.zeta-alpha.com/
- Work in my garden regularly (as in, put it in my weekly schedule).
- Advance from producing food in the summer to doing it all year round.
- Start an offline publication dealing with spiritual and philosophical matters, distribute it locally.
Great video. Not too happy about the NordVPN shilling but hey look, free content.

I'm always wondering what we can do about this stuff. Especially in places where one couldn't easily find alternatives.
Aha, thank you. Yes, it's plausible that my brain did pair the `else` with the `if`, even though it knew it was supposed to be paired with the `for`.

Before being introduced to `for`/`else`, I'd have written the example you gave as:

result = None
for i in range(n):
if search(i) == val:
result = i
if not result:
raise KeyError("not found")