skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Along these lines, as someone in the demographic you mention, I was just thinking about this the other day, about whether replacing my HVAC system, which is on its last legs, with a heat pump system would be good for the environment, even if the payback is not really there. But given where I live, I wasn't actually sure if it is net good for the environment.

But resources are kind of hard to find. Is there a good list of things you could consider that would be environmentally helpful upgrades to your home? Heat pump, solar, electric car, native plant garden, the latest and greatest in insulation, that sort of thing?
It does sound rational, but incomplete. The missing piece is the one where he searches for (and hopefully finds) an alternative where he can get tested without increasing risk of infection. For example, tracking down an at-home test (he could have used one of the 1M+ tests that Florida recently allowed to expire).
Where did you buy that NUC laptop from?
When millions are dying around them helplessly for want of good care, it seems cruel to let them fend for themselves in their old age, where they are scared to consult a doctor. If they are not willing to come to you, shouldn't you visit, and take care of them in these difficult times?
You are getting downvoted to invisibility because YC doesn't ask you to raise again. You likely need to have the kind of company that could plausibly do so (ie, an idea that can scale), but lots of YC companies don't, and no YC process I'm aware of prods them to do so.

Not raising again doesn't even violate the expectations of the program.
Looking at the photo of the circuit board I can't see any sign this is opto isolated from the RPI's power source. What safety precautions are being taken?
Why not just charge unvaccinated people for their hospital bills? Then overburdened hospitals become profitable hospitals.
Somewhat relevant, Bolt is also paying top-of-market, e.g. 800k for an eng manager: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1479865906729730052?...
The covid vaccines make me seriously sick for at least a day or two.
Race was definitely a bit of a side tangent, but you're absolutely correct. Let me share an interesting anecdote...

I live in a small community on the SFBA peninsula. Our property's original CC&R's (Covenants, Conditions & Restrictions) from 1929 specifically state: "Said property shall not at any time be occupied by any person or persons of the African, Mongolian or other Asiatic race, except as a domestic servant."

A few observations: (1) Obviously, these are no longer legal or enforceable; (2) my wife & daughter both fall into these restricted groups; they laughed when they saw them, but it was a pretty stark reminder of past incidents of discrimination; (3) This community and many others like it command a 30% dollar premium (good schools & city amenities) compared to neighboring communities without those legacy CC&Rs. Crazy how these differences propagate through time.

Bay Area definitely has its share of warts, though it doesn't hold a candle to some of the stuff we witnessed in the rural South.
It depends on the person, I can go on and off caffeine with no repercussions, but my wife goes through grueling withdrawals when she does it.

A pot per day can be a lot, or a little depending on the bean and the roast, so I can't comment on that.
Quite a lot of people benefit from it, actually. A lot of those people are women. Domestic violence rates went down significantly - and that has a lot to do with not being that much dependent. Both because ability to leave, but also because man is less resentful.

Yes other benefit is to families where women were employed anyway. A lot more women worked then people assume, even in 1950 if you check employment stats. They salaries were lower and they did not had access to many jobs.

But they still had to work, in jobs that were available. Fun trivia: even Rosa Parks worked and loss of employment after sitin was felt heavily in her family.
Yes! I bike with my kids to school daily and if one of them gets out ahead of me inevitably a car stops to ask if they are alright
Well, they demonized for doing so on the back of the current medical system, which was very close to being completely overwhelmed. Omicron has made this the case again, though what changed in the meantime was the messaging after the vaccine. It was true that while you were immunized you could take these risk, but Omicron changed that and the messaging didn't change.
We all know the gameplan.

1. Vaccines (most effective do it first).

2. Masks everywhere.

3. Lockdowns, if necessary.

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The big question right now is if we should push button#3. Many of us hoped it wouldn't be necessary, but things really are that bad now that we're contemplating pushing the button.

Lockdowns are themselves staged. We can lockdown schools (already happening in many colleges effectively. I have cousins who are off of college because they've extended their winter break, to minimize COVID19 spread).

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There's also lesser actions: I work in technology. All in-person meetings have been canceled. Schools are "sometimes online" in my area, depending on local conditions. Testing has gone up significantly, we try to catch the disease and encourage people to stay home asap to minimize spread. Etc. etc.

There's plenty of actions we can do, even if we decide against lockdowns.
BitTorrent isn't particularly efficient; a well-designed CDN beats it every time, and is pretty cheap these days. (Generally, you get random peers, not peers that are particularly close to you. You could try to fix that, but you'd quickly end up with second-order problems around e.g. which peers have which chunks.) Which is precisely why you're not seeing much adoption outside the warez scene—they're the only ones for which that kind of decentralization is more important than reliable, fast downloads.
Exactly - Delta had a reputation for being both prolific and extremely virulent. Long COVID, loss of smell & taste, heart and lung problems, etc. A terrible illness.

Omicron seems to carry far fewer of those risks from what data we have, especially if you are vaccinated.
Poor communication, made up for with intense marketing push via all channels.

Lies and miscommunication, over public health policy, without transparency and openness.

Silencing criticism, rather than open discussion.

I’m surprised more people are continuing to follow along.
Maybe the JS language itself should vet and absorb some of these more common libraries. Printing pretty colors in a console could be a feature of the language itself.
You're right on the suicides, I misremembered, my apologies.

I don't know why you're going after a straw-man here. Your own link even shows that COVID isn't anywhere near 100% of the excess deaths, it's ~70% of them. That's my only point. Excess death is not a suitable proxy for COVID deaths, because COVID deaths are only a portion of the excess deaths, sizeable though it may be.

We have excess death, a big portion of those is from COVID, but there are numerous elevated causes of death that also form a substantial portion of those excess deaths. You can't just declare that we have 500k excess deaths, and COVID is around, so COVID killed 500k people.
Crossovers are fine. That's not the issue being noted here. The problem is that people imagine generic items are cross compatible within many games, but that just doesn't work. If you want to make a crossover version of the master sword in minecraft, sure, that's cool. If you want to somehow import the data and just assume some sort of parser will get the properties and the look and feel right, you're going to have a shit time. And then still you'd be better off on a centralized setting.
I wonder if sociologists can explain the americans obsession with politics in everything. This is not normal, there seems to be something exceptional about how it is normalized to discuss natural phenomena with political lingo
First, artificialLimbs comment has been edited and toned down significantly since it was first posted.

Second, my personal opinion on how intelligent agency’s operate is irrelevant. I am only trying to inform on my understanding how they sometimes operate in relation to the original far more interesting article.

Checks and balances are obviously essential and are the priority in all cases.

Finally, while I don’t believe in the boogie man, people, anyone, can be bad.
Being sick for 2 days. I'm not signing up to be sick 2 days every 2.5 months. Pounding headache, fatigue, nausea, heart pain.
Two days for me, for energy drinks, which are worse than coffee. I think they just overclock your CNS, so you are wasted the next day, and maybe the day after. Then I am fine if I sleep enough.
I'm fine with it for libraries. In fact, its use in libraries is a lot of makes ruby great! It goes too far when people start sprinkling it in business logic making it impossible to find where anything is defined. I'd say you'd either have to go full-lisp and create an entire DSL for your domain (and document it) or keep it completely out of business logic (which, as you say, the community as a whole has pretty much figured this out).
He used that for shock value constant in his shows. He definitely exploited it every chance he got.
Good catch, living post-depression is definitely not harder than living pre-depression and wasn't trying to imply that it is. Updated my wording.

"Harder" is also subjective; is it harder to feel like you want to die, or harder to clean your room? If "harder" means "takes more effort", it's the second one, but if "harder" means "has a worse impact on your emotional state", it's the first one.
True, partially I think because there's more founders nowadays with exits behind them and can bankroll an operation for years.
Rather than me "doing my own research", you could provide some indicative figures, like I did. It speeds up discussion.

But whoever you pick, if you have to buy it with a card, chances are you're going to pay that card processing fee and a withdrawal fee at the other end. However you look at it, it's three transactions instead of one.
The person you replied to was being generous to your argument, and nothing but polite. The fact is that plenty of the "poor" work as much as you do, but you think they're somehow enslaving you because you get paid more.

If you continued working the same job you have now, but at $7.50/hr, would it be fair to characterize your receiving the same health care you receive now as being handed to you on a silver platter?
It is called parental leave, formerly known as maternity leave.
> If people don't want to take personal precautions, they should be at liberty to assume the additional risk.

I agree, the problem is no one is making them assume the risk. If they truly assumed the risk of not getting vaccinated, one of a few things would happen:

1. The risk of not getting vaccinated would be priced into their health insurance premiums and their costs would skyrocket.

2. If they require hospitalization, they should be turned away at the door if there is insufficient capacity. Alternatively, they can be hospitalized but discharged the minute their presence begins to strain resources. They could even be refused assistance generally.

3. If I can suggest that my infection came from person X (e.g. I was around them when they had the virus), then they should be liable for damages.

None of those things will happen, because people don't want to assume the risk that comes with their choices, they want to offload it onto other people. They want to be able to not be vaccinated then scream for help when they get in trouble and have the healthcare system ride to the rescue.
While an interesting experiment, trying to calculate ROI on an a small/inefficient system isn't a very useful metric.

- You can get panels for USD $0.38/watt (vs 0.81 in the article), or used for 1/2 that.
- Non optimal angle, no mention of what direction the balcony is facing
- Standard grid tie systems use microinverters
Possibly legal.

I heard a story that the original Apple II machines came with a warranty that had no expiration and that California residents who purchased a machine in California are still entitled to hardware support on the machine.
I'm on your side, infact I'm considering nearby bike paths for my next apartment.

At the same time, unless you radically redesigned American cities, cycling commuting won't work. City layouts take decades to change, even if people want change. I don't see a push for more compact cities in America ( luckily this is just one country, I already have work auth for at least 1 other place).

I plan on getting a cheap Fixie bike next, I had an insane amount of fun with a 100$ Big Lots bike a few years back.
No thanks, I'll take a 7-day workweek, 12 hours per day.
Sugar is in the same boat of "well, everyone does it, not that bad."
> trivial to assemble

So is a house fire. Doesn’t make it OK to go around endangering the rest of the public
World Without Email by Cal Newport talks a bit about the challenges here.

Specifically, Peter Drucker advocated for autonomy in knowledge work. However, this often leads to a lot of creep around meetings, Slack pings, and other context-switching activities. Cal, in the book, talks about the need to have good, organization level policies AND org-level processes to actively align to the work traits that the org needs.
To be fair, an M1 isn't a A12X.

But of course you're totally right, and it's great to finally know the etymology of this particular misunderstanding.
> XMPP is dead and I'm very happy about that.

Quoted this on XMPP for the irony.
It's short and curt, but it seems to present some good ideas that can be discussed. If COVID is endemic, then it seems mostly pointless to continue COVID restrictions indefinitely. I've never bought the "we need COVID restrictions to protect unvaccinated people" argument - being vaccinated should protect them enough, and unvaccinated people (who won't be following restrictions) present a much greater threat to each other.
Ask HN: How are you using Raspberry Pi or other SBCs?
What sort of applications are you using your Raspberry Pi or other SBCs, in your home or at work. Desktop for limited use to look things up in the garage/workshop? Media server? How do you set them up? How often do you/have to rebuild them or otherwise spend time maintaining them? How frequently do you upgrade hardware and what causes you to upgrade?
> Forced vaccinations are far more effective than national guard in this situation

And Chinese style hard lockdowns of whole cities are even more effective than that. Doesn't mean I want the government to have that power.
I can't help but feel that the state of US politics from 2016 onwards plays a role in this. Many early COVID skeptics who pushed for a more laissez faire style of government intervention were also Trump supporters. After the events on 1/6/2020, Trump supporters were even further entrenched as the nation's new bogeyman, and any views they hold as a collective have been systematically cut down the last several years.

This is further evidenced in the article, in which literally the _very first line_ is a mild dunk on the GOP. Why do Americans do this? Why must literally any policy decision be chiefly looked at through the lens of Red vs. Blue?

This is coming from a Canadian whose frequently frustrated that one can't voice any concerns about COVID policy without being lumped in with a crowd which I otherwise share almost nothing in common with.
Yep and you also can learn to deliver products at scale.

For me the main reason I took a FAANG job was to get enough money that I can chill for a couple years and build a failed startup ;). (And hopefully meet many smart people work with on it.)
I read the related "conscious culture" manifesto and came across this "gem":

"When hiring a new person, wait until their official start date to onboard them, which includes granting access to email and internal documents. Avoid letting a new hire start early because:

[...]

Information in Slack or Google drive could tip them away from your company"
I mean, it's not like there's no government incentives on the other side. I'm pretty sure government spending on ghg-emitting energy sources (especially when you take all the externalities into account) are quite a lot more than the rather piddling amount being spent on renewals by comparison.
So what you're saying is the government should have predicted the future perfectly, and given Post-Omicron guidelines months before it emerged?
Why do you think 3 is enough but not 4. That's not rational, its just psychologically comforting
I actually bought this as a physical book on Amazon. Naturally it came as a print-on-demand book. Unfortunately it has many problems in this format. E.g. the lack of margins makes it hard to read the end of sentences towards the gutter. Also some text is pushed into each other. Not sure what source file format you have to provide to Amazon, but it's certainly not the pdf provided in the repo.

Edit:

It seems the overlapping text also occurs on some pdf readers:
https://github.com/BoltzmannEntropy/interviews.ai/issues/2
I'm vaxxed and mostly done. Already contracted Covid, have 2 vaccines, I'm down to get a booster every year or two, at my own leisure. Having vaccines mandated every 6 months is not something I'm OK with and to be honest, it feels a lot like the government trying to deflect from the fact healthcare isn't OK (at least in my home country, Canada).

There's always been risks to life and this feels more like governments are trying to convince people the risk should be zero so they can be the heroes while at the same time expanding their powers...
The "crazy" people make it less likely that the bizarre scenarios that are real will actually be exposed, because the crazy people that do on rare occasions get one right usually are at the same time ranting about a dozen other things that actually are completely bonkers.

For instance if someone says they were abducted by aliens (from space), but they also say that COVID was designed by Gates and Fauci when they were roommates at Princeton to depopulate the world [1], and that Betty White was using Hollywood to promote the vast secret satanist pedophile network that traffics millions of US children each year, while her sister Barbara Bush did similar in the government, all at the behest of their father the satanist Aleister Crowley [2], and that in early January 2021 the military arrested Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, Democratic governors, Fauci, Gates, etc and took them to Gitmo where they were tried and executed, and restored Trump to the Presidency but are using robots and actors to make it look like all those dead people are still running things because they don't want to tip off the people running the underground adrenochrome harvesting operations until the children have been rescued [3], I'm not going to take their alien abduction seriously.

If on the other hand Neil deGrasse Tyson said he was abducted by aliens I'd take it seriously. I wouldn't necessarily believe he was actually abducted by aliens, but I'd believe there was a high probability that he had a good reason to believe he was, and that would be something worth investigating.

[1] Yes, there are people who believe that, and yes, they really say it was at Princeton even though neither of them went to Princeton.

[2] That started appearing on fringe sites shortly after Betty White's recent death.

[3] Another real conspiracy theory.
I posed the exact question here and got the non-answer that an unconverted SAFE is just debt, but it's not just debt.

My understanding is that the valuation is not meaningful on an uncapped SAFE where there's no subsequent round. So 7% equity is what they have regardless of a $5M valuation as determined by... who?
"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
- Lead Motivational Speaker, 19th century British Navy
That depends heavily on the product, but yeah it's true. Also what I see is teams are getting better at focusing on their core value and stripping away unnecessary things at the beginning.
I throw a towel over it. Over the years, I learned that a towel keeps the coffee hot for longer.

Aka "Tea Cosy".
> "The law against breaking DRM isn't wrong but only because it is actually useless."

No. Your right to distribute a copy doesn't imply your right to get one in the easiest way that you can imagine.

> That's the problem. The tools don't discriminate, so banning them goes too far and prohibits more than it is reasonable to.

Reasonable to whom? Someone else might say it's reasonable to protect the DRM on this PD book because it protects lots of in-copyright books without harming you because there are other ways of getting a copy of this one work without breaking the DRM on all of them. You might disagree but that's what courts are for.

The bigger problem with DRM exist because of concentration in the publishing industry. Licensing books sucks and that's what harms the public domain (and libraries), but there's not enough competition for many publishers to survive by offering to sell you the ebook rather than licensing it to you. Copyright isn't the enemy. It's the monopolies that abuse it.
I catch a lot of flak for all the money I waste by buying coffees at coffeeshops, but it's my way of rate limiting. If I want a cup of coffee, I first have to make myself presentable, go for a walk, and pay a cost. I also feel a bit weird about going back to the same place twice in one day, so that usually dissuades a follow-up trip, or at least makes me go on an even longer walk.

Caffeine plays with everyone differently, but it's a technique that's worked for me. I'll probably never get a full setup at home as long as I live in a city.
> Dalton Caldwell, YC’s Managing Director, Architect, and long-term Group Partner, who first suggested that now was the right time to make this change, also pointed out that if founders stay lean, this is more than enough capital to survive for years, regardless of the economic environment.

I'm all for being scrappy, but unless the definition of "years" is precisely 24 months, this isn't much money split between 3 or 4 people, unless they're all living in Kansas City or something.

It's my belief that anyone talented enough to start a startup in earnest and be worth investing in has job opportunities worth enough these days that this is almost a ridiculous claim (narrowly escaping being such by use of the term "survive", apparently in earnest).

I am reminded of the jwz nscpdorm disclaimer.

Of course founders earn less in salary than they would get as wages as non-founders, but to think that this is a lot of money to a 3 or 4 person founding team "regardless of the economic environment" in the middle of the highest inflation of my entire life is a little... misleading?
And Reuters is a founding member of the contemporary Ministry of Truth: https://www.bbc.com/beyondfakenews/trusted-news-initiative/
It becomes a social cost because it was not accounted for as a market cost.

It may be that some of these cannot in principle be accounted for, and even more which cannot in practice be accounted for.

But I imagine the majority of externalities could be accounted for if we tried.
This is perfect thanks.

On #3, do you know of any public githubs or codebases that are good to reverse engineer and learn an end to end pipeline from?

Always like to supplement book learning with real world production-level examples, especially in this case where I don't have access to that where I work.
Jacobson v. Massachusetts 1905.

The state has a right, (7-2 decision, hardly controversial) to forcibly vaccinate its citizens against Smallpox.

It doesn't matter what you "want". There's well over 100 years of precedent on this particular issue. Go fight with history if you're really pissed.