skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're on a dual-rate electricity tariff and often have flexibility about what night to charge the car, but is it better to plug in for tonight or tomorrow night? I got bored of working it out so I made an app for to do it for me.

More info and instructions in this blog post: https://unop.uk/electric-shift-web-app/

If you have any comments or feedback then please reply here or email me (contact details on my blog).
A Gray Painting Can Break Your Heart
Sorry for the late reply.

> unsubscribe from everything

I've never subscribed to any thing in reddit, so I don't know what effect it would have.

> create an html file with links to just the subs that interest me

I just create bookmarks to the subs I read. No need to create a file.

> Browse using old.reddit.com (while it still lasts)

That's what I do. As far as I'm concerned, if old.reddit.com goes away so does reddit. Or maybe I'll write code to get just the data I want displayed the way I want. Depends on how severe my withdrawal symptoms get!
Nah, it isn’t that. These are one-offs.
well try non-insulated tiles here in Spain haha. I don't know why houses are built to such a low standard in Spain. Even the UK had better quality constructions when I was there, and that says a lot (single glazed windows, poor insulation, weak plumbing)
Regional ramens certainly exist, though probably not the way you would encounter it in the US.
And it's successor HegdeDoc (https://hedgedoc.org/)
Somehow reminds me very much of Monty Pythons intro's and maybe some inspiration legacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AxiATxLofk
"Based on the current sample size of one writing system having civilization, hieroglyphs are the most durable example we have that produces results at this time. As soon as a second way of record keeping is discovered as functional, this will be up for discussion."
for the big aircraft, yes. there's bombardier in the smaller segment and it's doing quite well.
Strongly agree, all my friends give their kids phones just because they think they deserve some time off from them, I think that's wrong.
Never gave my baby a phone, ever and I think it's a good decision, she's not even two yet so how is that affecting her brain?

How is a child supposed to learn how to interact with people if you leave them with a device that might in fact teach them something, like counting and stuff, but that's not the case.
Until the age of 4-5 your focus should be primarily to make your kid socially acceptable so they can participate in as many activities and get a chance to join as many conversations in the future as possible, you want to help them be social. Giving them a tablet will not help them become socialized at all, in fact it will just turn this around. You don't want that for your child. You want your kid to be liked, otherwise it will end up being miserable, think about it.

Spend every minute of your spare time with your baby, that's the way to do it, help them enter the society, by showing them how to interact with people.
Was Marimba "push" the inspiration for the expression "This like TV. I don't like TV" going around at the time? I never found out.

"Before co-founding Marimba, [Kim] Polese spent more than seven years with Sun Microsystems and was the founding product manager for Java when it launched in 1995. She also influenced the transition of its internal name of "Oak" to "Java".[11]

"Prior to joining Sun, Polese worked on expert systems at IntelliCorp Inc., helping Fortune 500 companies apply artificial intelligence to solving complex business challenges."

Anybody remember "expert systems"?
The Russian collusion story was disinformation and with few exceptions a lot of the established media played along like a good dog. Not worth to read. Some "official" news also misinformed on Covid related development.

I don't care about internet conspiracies, but I do care if a political class employs them to silence dissent. One thing is relevant, the other is not.
The advertising icon of the Maytag lonely repairman (because Maytag is so reliable, nothing to repair: https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/1107/18/porcela...) was great, but is long gone now.

And a general statement:

If anything, many of our products have become more expensive to repair than throw away and buy new. Partly the rising cost of labor and time it takes to disassemble something, figure out what's wrong (takes some skilled labor), and put it all back together again, and partly because improvements in manufacturing have made it cheaper just to produce from scratch.

Our throwaway society at work.
Vim allows me the exact same thing using visual mode. even better, I can still use the powerful move commands in visual mode to control what is selected, before triggering an action on the selection.
So if you are making any kind of reusable design, you cannot annotate your classes with @Bean anymore. Instead you will make an @Configuration (like spring boot auto configuration) that by discretion may pull in some more general (not @Configuration annotated) reusable configuration. Since some classes will be considered implementation details, you won't want to expose those into the dependency injection container of spring (since that is equivalent to making them public, people will inject them and depend on them!). So instead you will only create them inside your own @Configuration and pass them directly when generating an @Bean from a method.

Congratulations, your @Configuration is manual dependency injection. That is easy enough. Why did we need inversion of control over the dependency injection in the first place? It isn't immediately obvious to new engineers what aspect of the @Autowired is dependency injection and which aspect is inversion of control. Many of us don't see much of a benefit to the inversion of control if you are taking care of your application's hygiene in the first place.
Cabin Pressure is Benedict Cumberpatch's finest work.
It's not just laptops that have switchable graphics - I have a desktop with a GPU but I use graphics output on the motherboard.
Actually thought of doing that for a while. What's wrong with that? It can be rewarding.
ha ha, yeah, records might need updating in the not-too-distant future :)
The hardware goal of OLPC seems to have ultimately been solved by smartphones, which weren't even around in 2004. Billions of people live with a phone as their primary or only computing device.

The educational goals seem murkier. Not much has changed in the last 20 years, the plan still seems to be 1. laptops in the classroom 2. ??? 3. education!
We’ve just built a 45m2 log cabin to passive standards here in Portugal - heavily insulated in walls, floor, roof, lifted off the ground on concrete columns, double glazed, only heat source is a 2.5kw log stove. Everyone here (who all live in uninsulated concrete houses heated by open fireplaces) said we will freeze in the winter, roast in the summer. We situated the house on a north facing slope, to minimise sun exposure in the summer. Means little direct light in the winter, but we think (have yet to experience a summer in it) the balance will be good.

As I write this, the stove is out, having burned out overnight, it’s -11 outside, and 25 inside. We are getting through a ridiculously tiny volume of firewood compared to when we were living in a more traditional house for here - less than ⅛ the volume.

Insulation works. It’s also cheap. I don’t understand why people would build new structures without it.
VSauce has a Mind Field episode on the phenomenon you described - 3D, first person games improving spatial memory and navigation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RHsAUyFCAM.
Having seen how you can massage numbers to say basically whatever you want time and again, that was my immediate thought

“Gremlins 2 is our most watched movie _ever_”*

* featuring a monster made entirely out of vegetables
At a first glance, its functionality looks like something that could be implemented through {Grease,Tamper}Monkey script. It provides so much more transparency over the extension model and I wish more folks make use of it.
Personally I've addressed that concern with a CO2 alarm in every room (which you should have regardless, so I don't count that against passive houses). I suspect that there exist ventilation fallback solutions that can address a power failure scenario, but I've yet to find any viable ones.

It should be possible to have a system that generates automatic airflow should power fail.

Best ones I've found are solar panels, or geothermal power generator (geothermal is generally really amazing for everything), but that still leaves mechanical failure.

That said, it takes quite a bit of time before ventilation failure leads to a dangerous CO2 buildup. And the addition of having a single entry point for air means that it's easy to filter my air through a HEPA filter, ensuring top quality air all year round.
With that many options it seems easy to miss something. A whitelist approach would be preferable. The application failing because you missed something would be more obvious than some subtle security hole.
This isn't true. Spring Boot by itself brings in very little, you can however _add_ GRPC, JPA and JDBC support by adding a library and Spring Boot will even autoconfigure it for you.
Festival and install Scottish or French voice (whatever floats your boat)
no harsh climate overall so much less insulation is needed?
You do not even need to trust the established science. There are experiments done by flat earth believers which proves that earth is actually not flat at all.
Portugal manage to be even worse. You’ll be stood there in someone’s kitchen wearing a coat and gloves, watching your breath condense, and they’ll be like “oh but we don’t get cold winters like you do in the northern countries”. That’s the rationale. The reason is actually more likely financial.
I use Google Search to find videos on YouTube, it has additional features like limiting to a date range.
I... kinda want it? A decent cut of meat is expensive over here - to the point where I'm sure at least half of what a butcher's or grocery shop has out on display is discarded. The only affordable stuff is processed stuff like sausages and ground meat.

I mean part of me gets it, some meat (e.g. chicken) was getting too cheap - the €3,- a kilo chicken stunts caused a big outrage - and 'we' need to reduce meat consumption. But at the same time, meat is an essential part of a balanced diet - vegetarianism and veganism may be alternatives, but they need a lot more effort and headspace to make balanced, especially concerning vitamins, proteins, minerals, fats etc easily found in meat.
imo, Multiline cursors are one of these features that look and feel cool, but are rarely, if ever, really useful.
Your link is busted, https://github.com/wagoodman/dive
Would”t that be true of any voyage through the solar system?
Electric boilers are extremely energy inefficient compared with heat pumps. If you built a Passive House, not going the extra mile for a heat pump seems silly to me. Not to mention that heat pumps can easily protect you against heatwaves (should any happen).
I kind of agree with you, but just because it creates a precedent. If Blizzard allows a political statement, then now they have to allow other political statements too. As a result, they will have to "regulate" which political statements is allowed or denied, which will force them in a position of having to judge about what is wrong and what is right. And what corporation wants to do that?

Not all political statements are "black" or "white", "right" or "wrong" (Manichaeism style), and there are a lot of gray areas sometimes, and everybody has something to complain about on Twitter. And if Blizzard decides "wrong" then they may suffer and repair the backslash.

So the reaction from Blizzard is like the sign you used to see in a lot of bars: "No politics, no religion".

Understand I'm not saying that the player is wrong about what he said, or justifying what happens in HK.
There is no definition what is classified as "Right-Wing" and "Left-Wing" conspiracy in the paper... They basically missed the whole point.
It had a face mask.
- Filter lines
- Align by RegEx
- Excel to Markdown table
- Gistpad
- Markdown all in one
- Markdown PDF
- Project Manager
- Sort
- Spell Right
- Thunderbolt client
- Todo Tree
The craziest thing about this case is that a simple civil lawsuit apparently created legal fees of $1.4M dollars he then had to pay. It seems to me that the US legal itself is a giant extortion scheme.
Sure dude. Make sure you children's never get educated, that would solve all the problem. We need lesser education.
There's no point in fourth boosters until an Omicron-specific vaccine is developed.
How to write tests that find bugs
Like others said before: CL is just a programming language that can be used for functional programming, but doesn't enforce this.

So you have to be disciplined. I stick to the following rules:

* have a (main) function

* prefix io functions with io- and only use them in (main) (inspired by Haskell)

* No loop. Always recursion.

* No variables. No local ones and definitely no global ones.

That way, you have to think more in functional terms than in imperative ones.

Helps me. Your mileage might vary.
> I'm a big fan of Straight Out of Camera photography for the same reason. i.e. just use JPEGs rather than RAW files.

Same here. I bought a Fujifilm xe2 few years back and it is one of the best purchases I made. Gives excellent JPEGs straight out of the camera without needing all that RAW post-processing.
Looks nice. However I don't like custom extensions like [[BackLinks]] or ((Block Reference)), because they translate badly to other markdown tools. I like my markdown files to be independent of the applications I use to edit them.

[[BackLinks]] seem to be common in the md-knowledge-base space, less so (()) and {{}}. I'd prefer standard markdown links with support from the editor to insert them faster and add backlinks and stuff like that.
As the articles says, the Victorians flirted in a variety of ways, sometimes surprising. It's worth remembering, they also invented online romance, and the first novel about an online relationship was written in 1879, a novel about a romance pursued between a man and woman who were both working as telegraph operators:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6794918-wired-love
Hello, Collabora
Unfortunately it turns out that the way vaccination effectiveness is measured could create this apparent effect even in the case that the vaccination was saline. This sounds absurd and wrong, but, as is sometimes the case with statistics, it's possible.

Prof Norman Fenton has described the issue and also demonstrated it visually in Excel:

https://twitter.com/profnfenton/status/1460339552397275149

https://probabilityandlaw.blogspot.com/2021/11/is-vaccine-ef...

and there's another worked example here:

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/bayesian-datacrime-defini...

The problem is obscure but already known since before 2021. It's called Immortal Time Bias:

https://catalogofbias.org/biases/immortal-time-bias/

The cause is the definitional game playing public health engages in, whereby people are labelled as unvaccinated for a period of time even after they've already taken a vaccine. This effectively makes the vaccinated "immortal" for two weeks, because if they'd died within that two week period they'd have been counted as unvaccinated. Thus even if a vaccine did nothing at all it would be given positive effectiveness by the methodology public health researchers are using.

The problem with COVID vaccines is especially serious because there's increasing amounts of evidence that they may have some sort of immunosuppressive effect, and that people are much more likely to catch COVID in the period immediately after taking the vaccine than they were normally. Up until a few days ago this effect could only be seen by observing that many countries experienced a case surge coincident with the start of their vaccination programme. Then it was discovered that somebody in a Canadian public health agency who didn't get the memo had accidentally published proof this was happening:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220108064918/https://www.alber...

(scroll down to the graph labelled "number of days between first immunization and COVID diagnosis").

I have to link to the Wayback Machine because the moment this graph was noticed, it was deleted from the website. Hence why I say someone didn't get the memo. It's extremely likely that other public health agencies have the same data but they consistently refuse to publish data in which "vaccinated" is defined correctly. Public health will not allow the population to see un-distorted data about VE.
That depends on how deep you dig, but of course going deep enough has a cost that may be far greater than the kind of insulation you used.

The 20-25% of increase in cost is a good proxi (from my personal experience I would have said 25-30%), but, from an economical standpoint it should be compared with savings over time (in the same region).

To give you an example in Italy, last time I calculated it, this 25-30% increase of costs corresponds - loosely - to the costs of heating for 20 years or so (bar the crazy increases in prices of energy that just happened), so it becomes more a "philosophical" choice than anything else to go for passive or almost passive.
Failed or grotesque implementations of ubi would be useful for people who don't want it. California is also bonkers with bureacracy.

Nobody in charge has the slightest clue what they're doing, everyone just has checklist items to tick off, then money gets shuffled from point a to point b and they claim success.

UBI works as a concept only if it's universal. If it's shuffling money from taxpayers to non-taxpayers, it's something entirely different.
Back to the 80s. The word is millennial even if its users are not.
Ask HN: Is there a site that list project exams that we have for interview?
I'm not talking about those useless algorithm test. I'm talking about home project that we have to perform using the language and framework of the company so I can know what kind of difficulty I'm about to get and practice on them.

I currently have a week long project to do at home and a week seems too much constraint on my time especially for the kind of job I applied to. So I want to see if it's the norm or not.
I think eslint --fix does the right thing by default
> That means (if I understand you correctly), fans.

It does not always means fans.

Geothermal or aquathermal heat pumps are fan-less, very silent and performs amazingly in cold climate. I have one home.
You basically use the regular altimeter for altitude during such approaches. It's accurate enough to get to the decision height of a few hundred feet AGL after which you have to fly the rest of the approach manually anyway. That is true with CAT I ILS as well.

A CAT III ILS approach requires very specialized equipment and training because you basically fly it all the way down to the runway with no requirement for visibility until moments before touchdown.

However, GPS is a lot better when it is not being obstructed by buildings around you. Planes have the benefit of unobstructed paths to GPS satellites and would get a better quality and accuracy then you might get with a phone in a city. Also, using good antennas helps. So, the altitude accuracy would be fine mostly.
Why do people use both prettier and eslint when eslint has auto-formatting built in?
> So is it worth the hassle of introducing a new language?

Just because it's small in term of line of code, doesn't mean it isn't tricky to maintain and extend. It's all explained on the ticket.
Same. The reference appears to be "Depleted carbon isotope compositions observed at Gale crater, Mars, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2022). http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115651119" DOI is not working yet but this is normal, however the link to PNAS seems broken indeed: https://www.pnas.org/content/119/4/e2115651119
I deploy my app (c# with sqlite, some native dependencies) using custom-made scripts to ubuntu, centos and redhat dedicated servers and it's a major pain to have a separate script for each version of each OS. I'll switch to docker soon so that I have a single target
Windows>

Heat exchangers can be up to 90% effective at saving heat, while window ventilation will be 0%.

Noise pollution>

In my cold climate, whoever goes with heat pumps - they usually go with "air-water" systems. Meaning only outside you have fans and inside you have your typical floor heating.
The UK government using "fighting against child abuse" to justify anything leaves a really bad taste in my mouth considering their history (and present) on the subject.
The same visual feedback exists in vim.

vwww

selects the next 3 words visually. I can now press `d` to delete them.
Some countries have comparatively high building standards, but none (that I'm aware of) come close to a Passive House standard.

My gripe isn't as much what the minimum requirement is, and more the incentive to never go above it, because property prices are generally only going up with little regard to building standards.
I'm not in rush for money, I just want to maximise my chance to land a good job later on. And if a dev job is like any other job, networking is worth more than skill to get in. I was told to only brand me a remote dev and only specifying later where I'm from/where I live/my age to try avoiding location based paying and ageism. And yes, they will probably pay a pittance, but that will always be better than local wage. Imagine getting paid $1000/month for a dev job, scammed might you say, but that's 5 times the average income.

> "I think the best thing you can do is become a known expert in your specific niche."

Any niche you could suggest? I really have no idea what's wanted and what's not out there. Now I'm learning python in an introductory course from Berkeley, after that data structure from Berkeley again, in java. Also can you link me to those slack discord channel please? Thanks a lot.
Modern air or ground source heat pumps tend to be quiet, even silent, at least according to some deep dives down the Youtube rabbit hole on passive houses. Check out the "Moonstone house" on Youtube for example.

https://youtu.be/sSE8PurhfQs
> They fired 20 people, not the CEO

Oh no, he's trying to save face and trying to make it look like he fixed the issues - even though he was a participant and he allowed this culture to develop.
From 0 to 100mph in 3 pages: Algebra lecture by Feynman
I had a Maytag front loader washing machine from 2013 and it lasted until last year with zero issues, no mold or anything. Maybe being bought by Whirlpool was a good thing then?
"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." - (supposedly) von Neumann
> Would it be illegal to ask if they were fired in connection with this push?

I think so; since they weren't charged with a crime, I guess privacy comes into play.

That said, if someone was sacked for sexual misconduct, nobody would hire them if they end up working with women. (I'm aware I'm gender-stereotyping here, but unless I missed it, all allegations were from women aimed at men. As is often the case.)
I think you're also missing a point: the anti people don't believe they have skin in the game. Any statistics you quote is just fake news.
You would not believe how connected to the internet people from middle income and low income countries are. Everyone has internet.

No, it’s mostly that phones are more convenient/cheap than computers. Everyone just has a cheap smartphone, computer feels redundant and expensive for what it can do. And computers are too expensive for educational segment.
There may be legal privacy issues involved with disclosing private employment information.
One could make the argument that omitting the Prime Minister from the list of leaders is actually correct.
To be fair, he would be fired if people didn't develop against this environment. People have warned repeatedly that developers make themselves dependent. Money is good of course...