skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (that the educational system failed to teach them critical thinking)

I think they ARE thinking critically - about what most people consider established knowledge, what most people don't even consider doubting.

> you cannot reason them out of it.

Just so. I for one can't be reasoned out of thinking the earth is round; I (and I presume you) have these beliefs, and trying to convince us otherwise is pretty much impossible. I wouldn't want to try and argue a flat earther out of their beliefs, because they are set in their beliefs.
I have absolutely no idea what you're getting at, or what you could possibly mean by that vague statement. What mentality is that, and why would kids act that way? Can you explicitly explain what you mean, and provide some citations, please?
HDMI still has both vertical and horizontal "blanking", although efforts are under way to reduce it: https://blogs.synopsys.com/vip-central/2021/06/24/reduced-bl...

In any case, you want to know when the frame has been scanned out so you can swap the buffer to the next frame.
Much safer to buy SOXX.
Thanks, I'll definitely take you up on that, later this week, probably when my profile is ready. Can we have a chat? I see you're from Sweden and it's in my top 3 for immigration goal. You can literally say no if you don't want to, and it would be totally okay, I don't want to bother in any way.
Also reminiscent of a Canadian (?) advocate from the late 20th century, can’t remember his name. Actually built a huge passive house with a large internal greenhouse and a small stream for air quality.
A delightful quirk of relativity theory
TLDR:

point one:

you need insulation _everywhere_, along with some thermal mass to make sure there is some inertia to keep temperature even. This means that putting a jacket around the outside of a brick/cement structure is generally better than putting it inside. You need to insulate under the floor.

External wall insulation is not overly expensive. Its about 50% more expensive than a standard silicon render (in the UK)

Point Two:

Windows and doors are normally the weak spot. Standard double glazing has a U value of about 2. Depending on the coating and the position, they can also let in up to 2kw/m2 of heat through solar gain.

You need ideally coated triple glazing, which if paired with the correct frames has a U value of about 0.8-1.1 The coating is to reflect solar gain. You will need sun shading so that in winter the sun comes streaming in, but in summer its shaded out by the small shades.

In the UK its possible to get triple glazing at about the same price as double. For us, the big companies quoted >15k for shitty double glazing, local company was ~10k, eventual installation price was 8k for triple. This included custom arched door/window, and a french door.
I don't believe many genuine flat earthers exist, I think 'conspiracies' like the flat earth and the moon landing being a hoax are a massive psyop to make conspiracy theories seem completely insane to the average Joe so that people are less inclined to believe in other conspiracy theories that are a bit more grounded. After all, you don't wanna be lumped in with those crazies that think the Earth is flat, right?
I think "broism" originates from colleges, and is then carried over to businesses by new, young employees who never had the necessity to actually grow up and become decent people. Therefore it is not a geographically focused phenomenon.
Flower messages?
There are plenty of cheap Android phones with 5G now. E.g. there are a few nice Nokia ones. I wouldn't buy a phone without support for that right now. This stuff was standardized and agreed years ago and it's just the rollout that is going very slowly. The same happened with 4G. That took many years.

The point of 5G is better quality of service. Marketing people of course dumb down the improvements to "it's faster" but throughput is actually the least important thing. Though of course a better QoS means that operators can guarantee a bit better throughput as well.

Better latency, improved scaling for operators (more connected devices in an area), lower power usage, and more reliable connections. That is a big issue for me with 4G. Coverage here in Germany is not great and even in areas that are covered, the quality of service is pretty bad and I often struggle to get it to work at all even in places that are supposedly well covered. E.g. the are around the TV tower in Berlin (i.e. the largest FFing antenna in the wider area) is pretty bad because the area is full of tourists usually and the local base station ins hopelessly oversubscribed.

That's the kind of stuff you could reasonably expect to improve with 5G.
Agree, and most complexities will occur in enterprise environments when the os/hardware is locked down — which can make something like SQLite “hard” as would any cpu/disk-bound container. However that should be a platform teams job to resolve, not a backend dev.
Possibly the first generation of kids whose Dads worked at FAANG
Here's a neat video where flat earthers spout their Truth and reveal themselves to actually be antisemites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H110vCGvTmM
> I have a dozen or so microservices supported by team.

Why do you need a dozen of microservices? Why not to use role-based monoliths? Why not to keep your "microservices" as independent modules, pack them as one app and let such app to configure itself with proper set of services and dependencies according to the config or CLI parameters?..
A microscope that cannot resolve smaller than 0.1 mm will not be very useful for seeing bacteria.

As it says in the blurb, "magnifying glass views".
You must have not seen enterprise apps.

There's a reason monstrosities like SAP exists, they're practically what you describe.

If stuff like SAP is the future of Line Of Business (LOB) apps, instead of having a rich Open Source ecosystem of data storage and data access libraries, then we've lost.

We're locked in the trunk.
A well insulated house needs some sort of mechanical ventilationm otherwise you will have problems with humidity and - in worst cases - mould.

The ventilating units are usually placed in the basement and are not noisy (but need some maintenance and cleaning).

There are heat pumps that simply heat water and are suitable for underfloor heating, no fans.

Underfloor heating is usually "slower" (compared to air heating) but works just fine, actually better.
You can also watch any sailing vessel on its way towards (or away from) you.
Why do we assume life on other planets will have DNA?
While this is at the extreme end of the spectrum, there is a much easier way to save lots of energy: just build modern well-insulated homes.

I lived in California and I was appalled at the monstrous energy waste: houses are generally made pretty much from cardboard. You need to cool them in summertime and heat them in wintertime, and the energy expenditure is enormous.

I now live in Poland and have recently built small homes that are similar in structure to the ones in CA: wooden frame, drywall inside. But the ones here have walls that are 25cm thick because of insulation (mineral wool) and use advanced modern membranes as well. Together, these things do wonders, and maintaining warmth in wintertime using a heat pump (AC) is easy and doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

In other words, you can get 80% of the benefits with 20% of the effort — just design thicker walls with insulation and use modern materials.
I’ve honestly not touched docker in years, but all of my prod apps run in docker. So it’d be paradoxical for me to see I don’t need docker, but I really want to.
Yup,

Same meaning for Afrikaans.

Although Afrikaans is derived from Dutch some very rude words in the one are absolutely fine in the other for both.
The interesting part is, however, that more than 99.99999% of the earth's population answer the question whether the earth is flat or a sphere incorrectly.

The only correct answer is: "Both".

I personally find it kind of ironic that the vast majority of people who think they are on science side and "sphere" is the correct answer are also wrong.
I thought I had this. My SO laughed fit to bust when I said so. Maybe it vanished like my hair.

More likely is a strong visual intuitive sense of place which can't translate well to street names and left/right statements
8 years doesn't seem very long for an appliance, although that is probably par for the course now.
> it's likely that China will not make real moves for the foreseeable future

All it would take is an incident causing the dictatorship's leader to lose face and force him to take action to distract from the crisis (see Falklands War for example.) It could be anything, something like an industrial accident at a poorly managed facility causing massive deaths and a worldwide crisis. Initially they would cover it up but when it becomes public, like in Chernobyl, the régime would be discredited and forced into a panic.

I know it is far fetched, it's hard to see how such a mishap could have such far reaching consequences, but it realistically could happen at any time.
A static website (let's say a Hugo blog on GitHub pages) can make the magic and host the content in a future-proof way.

For the discoverability: every social network can help to drive visitors to your posts.

It's crazy how today a lot of effort are put on decentralizing finance meanwhile the simplest activities (like blogging) are being strongly centralized.
I understand this objection. For me this is an acceptable compromise. I'm using logseg where links to pages [[]] and blocks (()) are noted the same way. In contrast to standard markdown links []() where displayed text and path is separated it fits better in typing flow if there is only the handle of page / tag required in brackets. Furthermore, at least Logseq is rendering those internal links diferently.

Another non-standard-markdown markup which Logseq allows is ^^highlighting text^^. However, this is something I miss at pure markdown.

The compromise is perfected as Logseq allows to remove those special markup for exporting content and using it elsewhere (e.g. as Pandoc input).

Don't know how MdSilo will handle this.
Canada was actually one of the early study and proving grounds for passive houses, due to the oil shock (look up the Saskatchewan Conservation House).

Sadly much like most other such actions, they were quickly discarded once the shock receded, but the german Passivhaus Institut was actually founded on the basis of that study and model house.
But we can infer that life could exist without DNA. It could be similar to our machines, made of different materials and replicating through other ways.
The mechanics of something like a washing machine are still relatively simple (motor, belt, drum, pump), but when the PCB goes it seems to be game over as often the part costs nearly as much as a new machine.
> Question-Hypothesis-Experiment is a more useful way of thinking about it

Two-word description of the scientific method:

Guess. Test.
Interesting point! I wonder if https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8554 would be a good model for this? Perhaps this is also a bit different between countries - in some, I think the government has to resign while in others the term change is sort of constitutional-automatic...
awesome project.
For private gain? The colonization of Mars by humanity is SpaceX’s goal.

In the 1960s, NASA also used private contractors for the moon mission. But nobody would have called JFK’s vision of a man on the moon by the end of the decade “private” gain.
It is impossible to imagine JPL unable to get a license for a Mars probe. Never mind JPL using lossy compression on science data.
This is amazing. I would use it.
A lot of content creators would use it. Some would pay.

Keep going, I guarantee its going somewhere.
I was thinking of making desktop app like that for myself. This being html5 makes it even better.
Windows 11 also has shadows again, fwiw.
Recently the CoRecursive podcast did an episode [0] on the culture behind cocoa development and the big nerd ranch.

[0] https://corecursive.com/cocoa-culture-with-hansen-hsu/#big-n...
Punishment for allowing that shit to happen in the first place, and for not doing anything about it until forced to?

Either way, it’s hardly a punishment. He’ll undoubtedly get a nice golden parachute.
Wiki History Game
There's bad, and there's "Gorenje Pacific" bad. It's -(edit: was Romanian) Slovenian, branded to sound like a Japanese quality brand name. We got one to wash diapers and when it was stolen I was forbidden to replace like with like.

Maytag may have reached an outer circle of Dante's inferno but the cold heart is Gorenje.
Well, this is exactly why we should have more WikiNews and less Twitter. I explore these issues in far more depth here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv5mI6ClPGc

(Discussion w Noam Chomsky)
I have not heard of a lifetime checker in any other language, except maybe Midori.
The next most effective thing to do is External wall insulation. However that'll mean that you'll loose the whinstone look. (unless you pay a _lot_ to get whinstone like shims put on after)

The alternative is to have internal wall insulation: https://www.insulationsuperstore.co.uk/product/vacutherm-vac...

This is as effective as ~150mm of rockwool, but only 20mm thick. So this can be stuck behind plaster/plasterboard.

but its not easy to work with, or widespread yet.
Are you saying that the commonality between the cuisine is the level of heat in the dish? That's like saying Irish food is as spicy as Swedish food so they are pretty similar.
Without any authority, I really don’t see how is it any different from any language’s arrays vs lists. I feel like it is syntax only for the age-old “let’s store the size of the array next to the data” vs a more complicated implementation like std::vector or Java’s ArrayList which may copy the content into a new, larger array behind the scenes.

So it is probably meaningless to talk about it in case of dynamically typed languages, even though type enforcement may not be needed (as it is impossible in the generic case for dependent types)
I assure you there really are places where Rust can match C++.
this makes sense for the scenario- a mock server.

Our backend teams rarely do anything with containers, but all apps deploy to K8s (platform team manages).

We deploy SQLite… don’t remember any Cgo requirements, however we’re also deploying each SQLite “instance”, or db-files, to a node directly, and for low data gravity on SSDs. Go interacts with database/sql.
If you care to actually look into it, you'll find that flat-earthers have accounted for most/all of these. I'm not a flat-earther, but it's worth looking into before stating things that "obviously can't be accounted for with a flat earth.

1: There are time zones in the flat earth model. The earth is a flat disc with antarctica (or is it the north pole?) at the center, and the sun moves around it in a circle, so the places opposite the sun are in nighttime

2: Believe it or not, flat-earthers believe light only travels so far, which is why things disappear "over the horizon"

4: I don't actually understand this one, but I suspect they'd handwave and talk about the same point in (1)

5: Same as (1)

I don't think flat-earthers have accounted for Foucalt's pendulum however.
> Windows and doors are normally the weak spot. Standard double glazing has a U value of about 2. Depending on the coating and the position, they can also let in up to 2kw/m2 of heat through solar gain.

Also do be careful of thermal bridges and missing seals at and around the frame.

My current rental is relatively well insulated all in all, but one of the huge weakpoints is the stone sill of one of the east-facing windows, I don’t know what the builders fucked up but in winter it can literally serve as a fridge.
You'd have to ask the person who wrote the story. It's possible they said "a key" and meant "a set of keys" or something. Either way you're right the person who planted the RPi was quite lucky to get away with only a stern talking to.
I would say that there are nuggets of truth behind the rhetorics, but this kind of take is fundamentally flawed:

> They are fundamentally weak, often with no social support outside of work.

> They're the people with no children, no spouse. Only a dog or cat for emotional support.

I work for a moderately Big Tech (a name you definitely would know and have probably used before) and the people suffering are not only the ones with no children, no spouse. Or queers, non-binaries, and so on (as the thread implies).

Several of my colleagues have families, they have kids and spouses and pets. And several are suffering for the past couple of years.

It's easy to look at people performing, being professional and believe they are hanging together pretty well. Lots are simply playing the façade of being professionals, when I talk privately I uncover that the anxiety and depression is felt across the board.

Singling out a specific group as "fundamentally weak" is, to me, trolling. It's meant to inflame instead of starting a healthy discussion...

I believe this type of thread could start some discussion but the presentation done the way it has seems to be targeted to start some kind of flaming. Unsure why, there is some valid stuff in there that even I, as a pretty leftist individual, would agree deserves some discussion. I just don't believe that being reactionary will bring meaningful and healthy change.
"For the UK, the data is definitely over a year out of date, but also manages to entirely leave out some interesting positions, like the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary"

UK reader here. That's interesting ... it's the CIA though: maybe they know something we don't!
Stupid performance art is, tautologically, stupidity. So I guess it depends? Flat earth isn't especially harmful, except in undermining trust in science, institutions, and your fellow citizen with absolutely no discernible purpose.

The term for "culture jamming" when it is only disruptive is "trolling".
Yes, part of my point is that the US should stop acting as a tax haven. If 330 million non-ultra-wealthy can't be effective against the billionaire class then it's metaphorically time to break out the guillotines.

How much more do you think we can tax Gates before he decides to leave the US, never to return, and never to visit a country with an appropriate extradition treaty for the US?

It sounds you're the type of person who says we can't have effective pollution control laws because otherwise jobs will move to places where they have worse laws. In the end, only the rich can afford to live somewhere that isn't a cesspool, surrounded by private security to keep out riffraff like me.

I don't want to live in that world.

What does policing have to do with anything?

I pointed you to a list of issues which strengthen the poverty trap.

Will the police run grocery stores in food deserts? Will the police provide free meals to all elementary school students? Will the police provide free health care or child care services?

I didn't think so.
I was going through the ray tracer challenge book a while ago and this is the one thing I struggled with a little bit more than others.

The underlying data structure made all the difference, but I still wasn't quite happy with how I approached it, with a bunch of nested loops and iterators.
I use it daily and find it immensely useful.
I think one thing to keep in mind is that we haven't been here for very long. And as a technological society that is able to be detected or detect something we have been here for something between 70 or 5 years or 0 years depending on the definition. So the great filter is something that hinders us to detect detectable civilizations. But we are at the moment not totally sure if we are already detectable.

So per definition the great filter has to be in front of us as long as we wouldn't be able to find ourselves.
The GreenHills C++ compiler does. It's a niche product, admitted.
Your work is not valuable to them?! Only thing that matters is their profit and bank profit, on the other hand they would not exist without freelancers. If they don’t value work of their users, I’m afraid you should switch the platform and sue them for this insult.
"When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together." -- Isaac Asimov

The correct answer isn't "both." "The earth" in the question you're posing refers to the planet as a whole. The planet Earth is not flat as described by flat earthers, but spherical, as demonstrated by science. The earth is not a mathematically perfect sphere, but that isn't an assumption being made in the question. If it were, it would also be assumed that "flat" refers to a perfectly flat plane, which would obviously also make the answer that the earth is also flat incorrect.

You probably mean the earth can appear flat in some locations from the point of view of the observer, which at best is only subjectively true and still doesn't contradict the premise that considering the earth to be spherical is scientifically invalid. You're just playing semantic games in that case, and arguing that ignorance and knowledge are equivalent due to linguistic vagueness. The science is still firmly on the side of "sphere and not flat" when the terms are used in the context commonly understood.
What about this one:

A flat shape is impossible because the gravitational field would be vastly different on a planar body than on a spherical one, as I go further from the center of mass the further I go towards the edge.

And how gravity works can easily be demonstrated in a lab setting.
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.

“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.”
5% return per year (or more in case of price changes or regulations forcing you to change heating source) does not seem that "philosophical".
> winter you can turn down the ventilation to a minimal

The problem is that the Heat exchanger actively draws moisture out, as it has a huge cold surface area that forces water out of the air. If you don't change the air it feels stuffy.
Gotcha, that makes sense, thanks
Switzerland’s astonishingly polite armed conflict of 1847 (2019)
A good idea, but unfortunately the author has thought of that - every page starts and ends with a complete sentence!
Interesting are you using the full model? I found with a good microphone and the full 1 gigabyte language model that the quality is quite good compared to other people's phones I have used from time to time.
The project website is active and they are accepting donations, why is this project a failure when it still active?
That's also what I thought as a Vim user before I had access to Kakoune's multiline editing. It changed my mind and might change yours too if you give it a chance
I think I found at some point that the arrows could be made correct -- at least for the SVG rendering in Firefox -- by removing the stroke (stroke-width="0").
On a meta point: Sites like these make me appreciate the internet so much. There's a forum for people who are "experts, collecters and fans of [...] washing machines" (among other things). Never would've thought such a website existed in a million years.