skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article immediately raised some "journalistic red flags" for me. I've been reading articles more critically than the average person for decades, and I immediately notice when someone is pushing an agenda and "bending" the facts without outright lying.

For example, take this sentence: "a recent study in the US indicated that Americans spend $9 billion dollars per year (!) on the electricity used to dry clothes."

Billions of dollars is bad(!), right?

But a quick division[1] with the population of the US shows that this is just $27.30 per capita per annum, or about $2 per week per household of 2 adults and 2 kids. Essentially nothing.

Mind you, I have the exact same model of drying rack that the author does and I use it regularly.

But is it necessarily better than an electric dryer?

No.

Racks have significant downsides:

- If the weather is too humid, the clothes won't dry fast enough and end up smelling of mildew. We then have to rewash them, which is wasteful and damages the clothes.

- Clothes dried on the track often end up stiff as cardboard or very wrinkled, and then need ironing, which also uses electricity. Clothes often come out of the dryer ready to wear, especially t-shirts. The heat and motion of the dryer fluffs them and removes wrinkles to a significant degree.

- Those racks tip over all too easily. We can't put it out on the balcony without propping it up with some chairs, the slightest breeze will knock it over. Once wet clothes hit the dirty outside floor, they have re-washed!

- They're a hazard to children. They not only fall over easily, but they tend to fold up in the process with enough force to break fingers or trap limbs. We're probably going to have to get rid of it entirely now that our little one is mobile.

Etc...

[1] Next time some political budget thing is announced on the news, pay careful attention to how they're describing the cost. Are they talking about the total dollars "over ten years" or the yearly cost per capita? Once you learn to notice this, you can mentally translate the former to "I want to make this cheap thing sound expensive." and the latter to "I want to make this expensive thing sound cheap."
from a north american now in europe that lives in a 2 room apartment and hangs his blankets weekly on the curtain pole (rack to small, no space) no... just no.
I think location is a big part of it? Before covid it was pretty much impossible to work for a FAANG outside of San Francisco (or one of their secondary offices), and even now they have embraced remote hiring less than other smaller companies.
Well, if you're using the washing machine to dry clothes, you're going to have a bit of a problem...
> the original motivators behind "Open Source" is scratching your own itch.

that's what I said, and you repeated it, as if it's some new insight or supports some argument.

Is there not an issue in OSS where thing that should not be used in commercial context, are used in commercial context, they break, then people blame the adopters for expecting too much from OSS? Rarely the other side of the coin is addressed which is creators (not all of them) went out of their way to promote adoption of these things.

Here is an analogy: art design chair sold as office work chair. Of course if you are smart you would not buy them because over time the ergonomic would kill you. But that doesn't mean no one would. When some gullible people buys these chair, you say: idiots. However, I bet you also think about the people who made these chairs paid for TV commercials that never show the ergonomics of the thing, and question their responsibility.

Now replace "art" with "hobbyist software"
Thanks, I guess the wheels are turning. My comment was facetious, clearly they know, I just wish the people involved given the evidence would be able to act faster and more decisively.
We should never attempt to ban technology, it only grows more powerful in the shadows.
I miss floppy distros such as Basic Linux or NeHaBoDi, nethack 3.4.3 under a floppy.
It blows my mind Americans living in warm parts of the country tumble dry their clothes. We dry clothes outside between March and October in the UK, saves energy and money, and makes your clothes last longer (compared to a uk tumble drier at least!)
One downside of machine drying is that clothes deteriorate much faster.
Psychiatry is a fairly young field, and mental illness as we think of it today is a relatively recent concept.

There has always been the idea of things such as madness and stupidity, but it wasn't until the 19th century the notion of systematically cataloguing mental illness got much traction.
>That also assumes heating to dry them in the first place

You don't need heating either. I dry my bedsheets in a room with clotheslines in the roof of my apartment building. That has like 5-10C right now and they dry just fine.

Also humid air is the least thing I'd worry about in Winter.
Ah, yeah if it was very damp inside, then air-drying might not be so nice.

As someone who lives in northern Europe (Sweden), I rarely experience dampness in my home though.
Dan's team and Google has worked with our team on implementation of the DSSE spec, see https://github.com/sigstore/rekor/pull/596.

I really don't understand the rent seeking argument. It is made completely without basis.

However, I'd love to see the IETF author contribute a COSE type to rekor and show how it is better than DSSE for attestations.
That's like asking "Why isn't there a universal format for dating?"
Sewing machines. Dishwashers. Airplanes. Jet engines. Xerox machines. Ethernet. The first internet. Radio. Light bulbs. Movies. TV. Telephony. Corn flakes. Cars. Printing. Microprocessors. Trains. Steamships. Pencils. Safety pins. Assembly line.

Basically everything in your dwelling.
I had no luck with blue light filtering glasses, the biggest impacts for myself were setting a very aggressive level of filtering on night mode (which admittedly does a similar thing to the glasses), and keeping general light levels in the house as low as possible once the sun was setting.

Low screen brightness, limiting the number of screens (3 to 1) and very low ambient lighting helped me a lot more than the glasses did.

Maybe there is something helpful for you in here?

https://sleepeducation.org/healthy-sleep/healthy-sleep-habit...
Plenty of them do both functions. I default to calling it a washing machine because both functions fall under that heading.
all the places I grew up in england, we would have a wooden rack (just some wooden slats attached to kind of metal hangers) with a small winch above the boiler in the boiler room. When the washing was done, my mum would put the washing on this rack, either between the slats or hung from hangers. It was obviously quite effective and efficient, but I don't miss it at all with a modern dryer.

Having moved to the US recently though, I do miss integrated washer-dryers that I could set to complete by the time I woke up so I got to wake up to warm clothes for flights and meetings I was stressed about. They're totally absent in the US, and people who have used them give me weird anecdotes about how 'they don't dry clothes properly' or 'they don't let you go through as many clothes as fast' -- while the latter may be true, the washer-dryer means the entire process happens without you being there, like if you were asleep.
> Norwegian politicians are required by law to only use official channels of communication

Is it really enforacble? What are the sanctions for breaking the law?

What if someone says it's a national secuirty matter?

Scenario nr 1: You are a misiter and you are discussing possible scenarios about a given event (let say something like an abortion). Should pulbic have full access to it?

Scenario nr 2: You are a minister and you are negotiating a new factory in your country. Foregin corporation wants to keep it secret before the deal is reached. How can you communicate?

If politians would be given a device from the deep state to handle all communication then they would have to use is exculsivly, you are givin the deep state an enormous power.
There was a flagged comment here that thought this manager's interviewing strategy was a good idea.

In this world, bosses end up holding power over their underlings. A boss who uses this power capriciously is tyrannical. A leader should use their power to achieve the shared mission of him and his followers, not arbitrarily.

There's a time and a place for ribaldry, and an interview isn't one. Generally those are optional situations that people can avoid if they don't want to hear it. This, and other sorts of 'tests' that some bosses use in interviews to test for 'thick-skinnedness' is equivalent to seeing if an underling will tolerate arbitrary abuses of power. It's equivalent to a test for absolute loyalty and servility, to see if the underling will be a yes man.

If a leader crosses a line for no good reason, perhaps by cracking a too risque joke, he or she should apologize and tone it down. It's about using your power responsibly and respecting your employees as you will have them respect you.
Same here, upgraded HTPC's but can't do the same for workstations because of task bar being stuck at the bottom. I believe is one of those things that may come later, feels like Microsoft was rushing it out of the door and left things they considered non-essential for later (e.g. drag and drop to taskbar was confirmed to be coming too)
They have users because the service is accessible. If they charge, many would playe elsewhere. There is a lot of competition.
To be clear, HN should have a strict policy that all titles about cryptocurrency replace the word "Crypto" with "Ponzi".

It's time for an inequality index for Ponzicurrencies distribution

Bitcoin’s Dominance of Ponzi Payments Is Starting to Erode

YouTube Ponzi giveaway scams

Ask HN: A good and thoughtful place to discuss Ponzicurrencies?

“You Don't Own Web3”: A Coinbase Curse and How VCs Sell Ponzi to Retail

Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather and a Ponzi token’s wild ride

Ponzi Enthusiasts Meet Their Match: Angry Gamers

The metaverse is money and Ponzi is king

Ponzi-Gram Mailing List

From Electronic Warfare Inside the US Navy to Ponzi Startup

NFTs, an overblown speculative bubble inflated by pop culture and Ponzi mania

North Korean Hackers Impersonate Major Ponzi Investment Firm to Scam Startups
JSON-Based Standard for Resumes
I think the most charitable and equitable function would be sorting and solving without filtering.

It shouldn't take too long to parse the desirable skills from the top after that.

Maybe this standard can match against desired/offered compensation brackets as well to get that sweet spot on the bell curve.
My original reply to you quoted your sentence which I will requote here:

> In other words, the only vaccine side effects possible after a month or so are a strict subset of covid side effects.

At this point you're just talking past me -- and maybe I am talking past you as well.

I don't personally hold any particular view about short or long term studies, but I do enjoy logic and engaging in discussion.

> if we agree that any side effect (short-, or long-term) would be initially detectable in a month or two, and given that the vaccine already meets the bar for safety, what is the point of a long term study? You're not going to detect any new side effects, and the only thing you may find is that existing side effects might be less serious.

The CDC maintains a list of Historical Vaccine Safety Concerns[0] and at least two of those have long term studies attached to them.

In 1976, a Swine Flu vaccine was provided to people.
This caused an increase of 1 in 100,000 cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) and when 40,000,000 people had been vaccinated, the government stopped vaccinations to prevent this.

> The Institute of Medicine (IOM) conducted a thorough scientific review of this issue in 2003 and concluded that people who received the 1976 swine influenza vaccine had an increased risk for developing GBS.

This is a very long term study and I think we needed it, personally.

Similarly, in 2009 and 2010 there was an H1N1 Influenza Vaccine distributed in Europe which produced an increased rate of narcolepsy.
While the first cases started showing up in 2010, it wasn't until 2012 and later that this link was shown to be significant.
The rest of the CDC text focuses on the subsequent testing of other H1N1 vaccines to show that they do not increase the risk of getting narcolepsy, but that should not detract you from the findings that the oil-in-water emulsion adjuvant called ASO3 that was present in Pandemrix is somehow related.

Even with all of that, we still don't know why AS03 seemed to increase the incidence of narcolepsy, but we don't give that vaccine to people since 2011 or so because of it.

> What reason should I (or you) have to care about "long-term" studies?

*Conclusion*: I agree that side effects will generally be seen early on, but I believe we can benefit from "long term" studies because there is a large amount of complexity in the way the human body responds to various chemicals and some of those responses aren't able to be understood even after months or years of study... so we should keep studying them

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history....
> I see little historical precedent or common understanding for the HN definition of 'email I'd rather not have in my inbox' equating to 'spam'.

Man, oh, man, you're funny. Even more so as it is apparently unintentional and you're being totally serious.

To the rest of the world, i.e. everyone who isn't a spammer, 'email I'd rather not have in my inbox' is and has always been the exact definition of 'spam'.

HTH!
I haven’t been to Cyprus but I can imagine that during the winter they might actually have a lower indoors temperature than we in the Nordics have.

In warm countries, buildings tend to have far worse insulation than we have.
I’m not familiar with this, but it smells like a supply crisis caused by over regulation.

Instead of trying to lower demand the focus should be on increasing supply and lowering prices.
Plan?
A big problem is this sort of design makes it hard to walk between places. All travel involves going to the main road, going some distance down that and then following a new branch. Queue route map that requires 10 minute drive to get to the "next block".

Not too bad in you car but it means that you can't walk or bike anywhere unless they have put in paths between blocks. Means that if a 15-year-old kids wants an ice-cream their parent has to drive them to the corner store.
Why do you think America is fuller of successful people than other countries?
Good thing births offset deaths :)
I think that Countries are having a tough time keeping up with the Pandemic. An Omicron infection seems to offer better protection than vaccination at this point. I think if they were being honest, antibody tests would be more valuable than vaccination status. I say this as someone that is both vaccinated and boosted.
Okay, wow. In Eastern Europe it's pretty cheap compared to that (actually, the number you gave is higher than many peoples salaries here). I think I'd be using a rack in your case as well.
FIDO1 was mostly just a pile of bytes. Sadly, some silly ASN.1 encoding for signatures was used that treated the big numbers as numbers instead of byte strings, causing a variable length encoding, but this wasn’t a big deal. If you wanted attestation, you had to deal with X.509, but that’s par for the course. Other than that, the spec was delightfully boring.
The Government should instead be running a publicity blitz on how the police and law enforcement agencies ignore victims of grooming gangs and avoid investigations because of political correctness [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7901731/Police-chie...

[2] https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/harrowing-t...

[3] https://mallarduk.com/grooming-gang-survivor-proposes-new-de...

[4] https://archive.is/TVP64

[5] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-598283...
The Problem with API Monitoring
Figured out a simple solution. Was over thinking this.

Instead of comparing audio files, I could convert speech to text (which is quite easy to do in JavaScript). Then analyze the string!
If I could make one change to Facebook, it would be to eliminate the share button. I wouldn't make it impossible for people to copy and paste links to third-party content, but there would be no front-and-center UI for it.

The main thing I want from that sort of social media is to see original content from people that I know. I don't want to see the best cat video; I want to see my friend's cat video.
The DMCA doesn't handle trademark, and if a link to a site counts as trademark infringement the internet is dead.
It's annoying to see everyone adopting defer (Jai, Go, Zig) and not destructors. Destructors are strictly more powerful. Defer only lets you delay something based on scope, while destructors let you delay based on object lifetime, which might be tied to scope (for an object allocated on the stack) but could also be on the heap. With destructors you can have a smart pointer type where you can't screw up the incrementing and decrementing, with defer you cannot do this.
Anecdotally, but this is a metro thing. I've sampled 3 cities and these are big box grocers in... less affluent... high-traffic neighborhoods.
Yeah. Moldy apartments and kids starving because they're trapped in folded drying racks are a thing in the EU.
No, really.
This rack will fold after putting more than 5-6 pairs of jeans.

On a side note: does USA really treat this as a novelty? Drying racks? European style windows?

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/4kjsnp/european_win...
You do as you wish in your home of course, but I have three kids and so far none of them have managed to get hurt in our drying racks.

If you have humidity in your home though, that can definitely make the rack ineffective.
You are incorrect.

In fact, religious freedom was originally rooted in protecting religious minorities from State mandated religions. If you look at early American history, many made the original immigration to escape religious prosecution by their former state's religion. The Anglican Church being an example. Religious freedom/separation of church and State were both intended to synergize. You are free to pursue whatever object of worship you please, and the State may not pick and choose anyone's particular target of worship over anyone else's, or force any aspects thereof upon anyone else.

Correspondingly, it also keeps political heavyweights (say the Pope) out of the picture as far as lawmaking goes without going through the proper channels (i.e. getting the populace on board enough for legislators to champion the cause).

Your understanding of separation of church and State actually has a degenerate aspect to it, in that it basically makes secularism the State religion. Which infringes on religious freedom if the State is free to ignore your religious tenets.

The Constitution is a byproduct of getting a large number of the most brilliant minds that could be mustered at the time all in the same room, writing up something to act as a foundation for an entire nascent nation; an undertaking that all present would be willing to be bound by it, and all understanding they'd have to head home and get buy I. From everyone else to ratify it.

I'd caution against underestimating the rigor of the shaking out this language was put through in the drafting. Such a work of drafting is... astounding, to be honest, given the difficulty we all seem to have doing the same thing with just laws nowadays.
If humidity is low you can even dry clothes outside in freezing temperatures. Not exactly fast and might not be good for longevity of the fabrics if it's windy, that's called sublimation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(phase_transition)
This is a good point and a perspective I neglected.
Usually, when receiving feedback on my code I solve this by discussing the _why_ after receiving a _what_ as feedback.

When giving feedback, I try to do the same: Instead of just saying what is bad/wrong/smelly etc. and telling how to change the code I’ll also give the reasons why I think so.

The discussion afterwards should clarify the remark and I am open to the possibility that I am wrong.
But you are right, at the moment I feel like currently I am giving up my approach/code too easily.
This is partially because my colleagues are quite experienced and I’m very lucky to be able to learn from them.

Edit: Improved the punctuation.
> efficient

"Efficient" in terms of what outputs, relative to what inputs?
And on the other side, neither were early Atoms; but everyone knows what their performance is like.
Britain is following the Australian Government model of reducing funding for the national broadcast commission.

There is no mention in the article, but in Australia at least the funding to the ABC and SBS networks was reduced because of heavy lobbying by the Murdoch Media in order to reduce competition to their Foxtel cable/satellite TV media.

Murdoch is powerful in Britain too. I would not be at all surprised to discover that there has been 'behind the scenes' pressure on the Government from Murdoch to phase out the BBC also.
I would try to sever any relationship with the author of this site as well. He's toxic. Granted, his landlord is not an angel either.
It’s 90% Chicago & LA 90% of the time, historically.

There are two ports where consumer products enter the United States from the ocean/Asia: LA, and to a much lesser degree Seattle. That’s it.

Both essentially lead directly to Chicago from the west coast, with very little inbetween.

Eg Texas freight lines are for transporting things like animal feed and crushed gravel to export terminals with little in the way of hubs. Florida isn’t significant and its port capacity is minuscule, repeat for most of the country.

Massive (unguarded) consumer products hub x population, Chicago is the only other qualifier, where rail theft is unsurprisingly also a constant issue.
A world with no accountability is a world without individual safety.

One’s individual right to remain anonymous does not necessarily take precedence over the societal right to hold one accountable. The pendulum of that tension swung all the way to fully anonymous over the past decades, and we now have the most unsafe Internet that has ever existed.

It will, guaranteed, swing back from full anonymity, as already began with many things one could previously access anonymously (such as email verification only) online or in person: Cellular service (ID required), FedEx shipping (ID required), many Discord chats (verified phone number required to defend against sock puppet attacks), and LinkedIn name changes (birth certificate and photo ID required). Whether it swings back to “no right to pseudonyms” or instead cones to rest on lesser outcomes such as “identity protected by law” and “a warrant is required” is up to politicians to decide.

Politicians do not accept and consider anonymous letters, so adhering to the outgoing belief in perfect anonymity may severely construct your ability to influence the outcome of the pendulum’s backswing away from it. I hope that when you write your politicians about this issue, you are doing so in handwriting from your registered voter name and address, so that they are considering your input at all.
Could you please share the name of this services I’ve been looking for something similar.
> "degrees of belief have to be represented by probability measures", "the philosophical thesis that graded rational belief is based on a probability measure"

Of course it all depends on how we want to define things, we agree on that. There is some "justification" for Bayesian inference if we accept some constraints. And even if there are alternatives - or extensions - to Bayesian epistemology I don't think they have produced a better inference method (or any, really). [I know your comment was about the philosophical foundations, not about the statistical methods. But the alternative statistical methods do not have better philosophical foundations.]