skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I feel being lied to.

I notice this kind of response anytime I say something that goes against the faith of the OLPC believers.

If you feel something I said is factually inaccurate, then please point it out specifically.

Otherwise, I believe all my points have been proven out. Quite simply, we can all observe the fact that nobody is using a Pixel Qi display or any technology related to it. If your speaker's claims about "Nothing in that talk hinted at the possibility that instead of opting for a established and proven technology like LCD they'd choose to go with RDF (reality distortion field) displays instead." were true, then I'd have been proven wrong and the display industry today would be worshiping at the feet of Jepsen.
Politics is OK only when it suits your views?
I suspect that they get around that by giving a total number, no personal details. If, for instance, they gave the rank of those employees, director or above former employees could argue that they were identifiable and couldn’t hide behind the usual churn.
You can buy heat exchangers with very high efficiency and good moisture reclamation or suppression for a slightly higher cost. The problem is usually that the customer does not look into the details and the construction company can increase profits by buying cheaper versions.

A good modern ventilation energy exchange unit for a 300m2 house can be <30dB, >90% efficiency, and return a lot of humidity.
The question I always come back to is, “what do I expect to be true”? If I believe that the earth is a spheroid, then I expect that satellites rely on orbital mechanics. If I learn about orbital mechanics, I expect to find math that describes orbits. If I learn about that math, I expect that it’s based on the geometry of circles and ellipses.

I don’t have to have firsthand knowledge of these things. I can just build a network of expectations based on other things I know. And when something I observe doesn’t match my expectation, I can shake the tree a bit and figure out why. Individual assumptions can always be challenged with experimental evidence, and the knowledge network only becomes more complete as a result.

Every conversation I’ve had with conspiracy theorists suggests that they can’t (or won’t) do this. For them, knowledge is an accumulation of discrete units. Facts need not be built on other facts. Each wild belief is essentially a different Russel’s Teapot: Falsifiability is optional, and contrary evidence is easily waved away as propaganda. Bold predictions don’t need to ever come true, as there are always bolder ones to take their place.

I think it comes down to different goals. Their goals are not to make dispassionate predictions about the world, but to fit the world into a mold that matches their emotional state. And to signal to others that their feelings aren’t just valid, but real— Explained by forces that the rest of the world dismisses as “crazy”.
Because of issues like this, I find it absurd people use out-of-the-box JSON for human readable/writeable configuration. Issues with straight quotation marks, commas, brackets, and other stuff, and to top it off, there's no types so you often get terrible feedback on the configuration and every application needs to do similar marshaling to deal with it.
Weird how this keeps happening to products we've known how to make well for decades but it turns out it is more "profitable" not to do that.
In 1989 my grandparents built a home with 12" thick walls (6" was normal at the time, in the area) and carefully vapor-sealed the entire house, taking extra special care to avoid holes which would let air move through the house in an unplanned way.

They paid extra (a lot extra) for the highest insulation value available for the fiberglass rolls they installed in the outside walls. They double-stacked the insulation, as well, which is why they built the walls so thick.

They poured the basement foundation on top of layers of foam insulation, and used piers (I don't know what they're called) down to the bedrock for structural integrity; the majority of the outside of basement floor was in contact only with insulation. Only 16-20 8" columns went through the insulation down to bedrock and could be good conduits for heat to the earth. All of the walls in the basement were double insulated from the earth they held back.

That house was heated entirely by the heat that the water heater released through its insulation. Once or twice a year they would light a candle on the dining room table, to bring the heat back up if it ever got below what they felt was comfortable. Most days they had windows cracked open on opposite sides of the house in the middle of winter because it got too hot even with the furnace turned off entirely. It was never less than 75F in that house, even when it was -15F outside. I spent months on end in that house, just wondering when the furnace would come on. It never did. Not once while they lived there was the furnace ever needed. They lived in Missouri, US.

Years later my grandfather realized that he had left the petcock which allowed hot water to circulate to the radiator over which air was blown and heated to circulate heat throughout the house closed for over a decade -- since the house was built. "I knew I wouldn't need this damn furnace. Building code requires it, and I fought that but lost."

If you're careful, thoughtful, and determined, you can make a little bit of heat go a very long way. They were tired of paying heating bills. They paid to get rid of them, but they were rid of them.
Oh, I don't bother by the stupidly repeated usernames and dates. I just want to read the damn thing.

But it is literally unreadable to me. I couldn't finish reading the thread and had to find an alternative way out of twitter.

Fist trial, using my android phone with fennec fox. There is a modal that hides the content asking me to "log in"; if I close the modal I go back to the twitter homepage. Thus unreadable because I don't have a twitter account. Sometimes I have managed to read a few tweets by a "smart" combination of closing the successive modals and reloading the page, but not this time.

Second trial, using my laptop with firefox browser and heavy adblocking. I can read only the first three tweets, the rest do not load due to some third-party javascript.

No big deal. Third trial, now I open a "clean" firefox browser session with just ublock origin, and I manage to read about 30 tweets, until it starts talking about hyperbolic rotations. The thread obviously continues, but the sole link below it "show replies" does not work. When I click on it it says "Whoops! Something went wrong. Please try again!".

Typically I wouldn't bother and stop reading. Fuck twitter. But today I really wanted to read this thread because I teach these things. Thus I learned to use nitter, which gives an interface of twitter that, even if it's equally ugly, it sort of works (in that you can actually manage to read the text).

In retrospect, this is an extremely sad state of affairs. We have an excellent article which is made of a short text, a few simple formulas, and a few simple images. This could be a static html page of a handful of Kb with img tags. But it is a slow and humongous javascript monstrosity that does not even work, and may disappear at any time if twitter "bans" this user for reasons unrelated to this text.
Show HN: Analog Project Board
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/tool/analog-project-board

I don't see a lot of 3d models posted here, but I thought I'd share as it's related to IT / programming.

Model description explains it, but basically, inspired by air track control boards (excuse me if i'm wrong here) where they manage flights and their details. Wanted a board I could glance at and see project specifics we're working on.

Board holds 5 slats. Design the paper inserts for the slats how ever you'd like; jira #, trello #, whatever. Print the slats in whatever color works for you - red = critical, yellow is falling behind, white is going well, etc...
Definitely. For the _Wall Street Journal_ to write most of their article about how the CEO is guilty of the worst and didn’t face any consequence, because the board supported him —— and use the word “rape”, he really need to have made a bad attempt at looking contrite.
Are you me? I bought mine in about 2006 or so, and in early December 2021, I had to take it apart to remove a child's sock that had been sucked into the pump. Youtube and a couple hours on a Saturday afternoon got it done, my wife was impressed. She didn't think even her mechanically inclined dad would have bothered to try that job. Honestly, the toughest part of it all was getting the main metal sheath/body back on properly. Took me 3 attempts because I was working by myself and the darn thing is so flimsy. It's been running like a tank and I've been impressed with the quality.
You could do a lot with weird modelines in Xfree86.

I had not enough VRAM in a computer to do 16 bit 1024x768 but the difference was tiny. I think it needed a few tiny buffers for the mouse cursor and dragdropped icon, which was advanced 2d hardware acceleration at the time (Onion, belt, ...),and whatever memory was left just did not make it by a hair.

So I wrote a custom modeline to create an absolutely nonstandard videomode. I think the only requirement was that vert and horiz resolution were divisible by 4, so I did 1000 by 752 or something like that.

You had to make sure the dot clock was acceptable, or you could physically damage the CRT. Scary. So I did the calculations and tripple checked everything, then started a custom config with my thumb on the power button. It worked.
But you can also see that maggots start in the ear, i don't know enough about Fish-gut bacteria, but you can check a Fish freshness when you smell the Gills the Colors of them and if the Eye is milky...well and sometimes the slime on the fish-skin....maybe that's the history of that proverb (freshness indicator mostly from the gills/eyes...head)
There's a few reasons I can think of (some superficial, some significant):

- Github and git will highlight a missing newline in a diff by default.

- POSIX defines a line as having a newline at the end, so if you don't have a terminating new line you may have one fewer lines than you think you have [1]

- If you ever want to append to a text file/source file programmatically with something like echo "something at the end" >> yourfile.txt then you'll be grateful you had the habit of ending everything with a newline.

- If you use a shell that doesn't automatically add one when you do cat filename you'll end up with your prompt sitting awkwardly at the end of the file.

vim, iirc, defaults to automatically adding a newline to any file without you explicitly asking for it, unless you do set noeol and set binary or, in versions newer than 7.4, set nofixendofline

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1...
Yes, that is what I was thinking as well. But how could it be solved? I mean, as an MVP it will be much faster to test features without having to implement payment first.
That's, of course, your personal opinion. Most dev work brings me no value. Doesn't mean it's not valuable, but maybe I prefer to see more paintings.
> Well Pixel Qi seemed like a magical display at the time.

Not to me. I had the chance to carefully look at an OLPC XO-1. It was terrible even by the lowest standards of the industry at the time.

> I wonder if given a few more revisions it could have been more competitive?

This is like saying Theranos' drop of blood test could laso have become successful if we just gave the founders a few more billion and a few more decades.

> I have seen really cool stuff like Mirasol

Yes, it is sad that we still can't make interferometric displays work reliably. Some day though. Some day. I still have some hope.
If their skills aren't marketable in free market, why should other people subsidise them?

Lots of things that society has collectively decided are they would like to have aren't possible in a free market. Roads are a good example. If people had to buy their own roads you might have freeways but towns would be dirt tracks. Roads would be wildly different around the country. Signs wouldn't be unified by design. It'd be awful. The military is another example. If people actually had to buy military things in a free market you'd have a fragmented market of tiny militias and absolutely no national defence infrastructure. The list of things that are only possible to pay for in a socialized way is very long.

There's no reason why increasing the supply of art beyond the limited amount that the free market will provide isn't another thing that would make society better.
We really need to fight against DRM: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/.
I have an acquaintance in Madrid. Visiting her, I never know what to prepare for.

An Easter visit was miserable, because the condo building did not even have central heating. With night temperatures around 5 degree Celsius, I could barely sleep.

Then comes the summer and 40+ Celsius is at least as unbearable...

Spanish construction standards are pretty ascetic.
So, someone knew, very newar the beginning of all this fuss, that mice and rodents catch and pass COVID. Anyone think that wouldn't have been good for the rest of the world to know?

Anyone think it did not take a lot off effort to keep the possibility out of all the "COVID response" plans utterly kneecapped by this fact?
The inspiration a MacBook will give you is great, but it's unlikely to be as important to that child's development as clean water, sanitisation and good nutrition.

And because we are talking about resource allocation with fixed funds - it is absolutely a choice between giving a child a $1000 laptop and giving them a $300 laptop and $700 towards clean water, sanitisation and nutrition.

And if we just say "do both", then we are just talking about solving world hunger. Sure it's easy to point at the money spent on defence and then infer that solving world hunger will be easy, but again that's a little overly simplistic too (and if it's that easy - you can be the person that solves world hunger once and for all!).
Did you have that limit from the beginning? Or did you add it later on?
It sounds like these people are small scale spammers, doing things similar to 419 scams. A bit annoying, but really low volume.

The kind I'm referring to are single organizations which aim to send out 10s or possibly 100s of a millions of spam emails _every day_. I would expect there to be at least dozens of organizations at this scale. They're the ones who use botnets, open relays, and weird characters in their emails to get around filters.
Most air-tight houses have an integrated MVHR (mechanical ventilation with heat recovery) system, which is kind of the inverse of an HVAC setup. There's a constant small air current being moved through the house, and when it exhausts to the outside world a heat-exchanger captures as much heat as possible from the exiting air and uses it to heat the entering air. Airtightness means you can control where the air enters and exits, which means this trick is possible.

All that being said, I'd expect a permanently-installed stove to have a flue (which results in the stove technically being a leak, but that's solvable). I assume the kerosene stove mentioned above is in use while the house is incomplete, so not yet airtight.
It is a problem that artists would depend so much on the government. As it happened during covid with theaters and concert halls. How are these artists going to be able to criticize the hand that feeds them?
Activision Blizzard is dead to me forever. No amount of token firing will change that.

However, if all of their IP were to be given to a completely different company and Kotick were to be made penniless for the rest of his natural life, I could see myself playing a formerly-Blizzard game again.
You missed the decline. Some new energy rules went into effect in 2006/7, and to meet them, Maytag basically undersized motors and such.

My in-laws bought a washer dryer set in 2004, which they still have. We bought ours with the house in 2006 and they failed in 3-4 years.
I never had this problem. Arrow style is configurable if I remember correctly. You can configure (extend) also overlapping in boxes so the arrows never enter into the box area.

I'm talking by heart and I could be wrong in any case.
Relevant reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/s1oqv8/kb5009543_...
It's a lovely way to think about artistic creation, including music. The title says it all, but I enjoyed listening to Brian Eno, his mention of cellular automata, and how he considers the Gardens of Versailles as an ultimate expression of anti-nature, asserting complete human control.

It made me wonder how this may apply to software, where we consider ourselves "engineers" and "architects". Can production-worthy software systems be developed by "gardeners"? Did Linus Torvalds architect his operating system, or grow it?
It used to be called "the dole", and that's why the 60s had The Beatles and we have Mumford and Sons.
There is also Helix, inspired by both Vim and Kakoune, with built-in LSP support. I'm having a great time with it.

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix
Oh. TIL. Sounds very useful!
> The insulation keeps the heat in the ground. It protects the ground under the house from freezing.

If it is preventing the ground under the house from freezing, then it is supplying heat to that ground. That's a energy-negative process - some of the heat you generate is used to maintain the warmth of the ground.
If you step back a bit, it makes sense for society to push for the construction techniques that minimize the lifetime cost of the building. Here, buildings typically last for much longer than 20 years.

And then there's the whole thing where energy costs may not be fully priced into the use.
Yup. Exactly this scene. Thanks for reminding the great memories.
A place I was at recently used makefiles in each project containing entries for "build", "deploy", "test" etc. All the CI did was use shared generic jobs to call the relevant makefile command.

These could just as easily be run from a developers machine with the right credentials.
I don't know if I'm fully parsing this, but there are more solutions (in my eyes, better solutions) to putting skin into the game than denying treatment or putting monetary burden for the treatment on those who refuse to vaccinate against all evidence: denial of licenses, vaccine mandates, charging those that violate quarantine and social distancing measures and then infect people with reckless endangerment...none of these are morally easy or popular, but this is a delicate issue where not doing anything is not a neutral position either.
There are no flat earthers.

You've been trolled.
Love the instant demo when you reach the page. I thought it was just a screenshot at first.
I'm literally doing exactly this for the past 6 months and couldn't be more happy. I'm studying blockchain development and traveling in Rio / Brazil.
Fix a Pothole
Interesting to compare this discussion vs the discussion 5 years ago. Although the consensus is the same (that it's not very intuitive) people seem to be much more blunt with their criticism now...
I've not heard Hyperscript in a while. While I detest JSX, with Hyperscript's bad ergonomics and indentation issues you have, why use JavaScript? There's a plethora of better options that compile to the JS target if you want markup as function that improves the ergonomics and likely a better experience. Heck even CoffeeScript does a better job at this.
> I honestly don't think this is a serious plan even by cell companies, except in rural settings.

I can't speak for their seriousness obviously, but EE (major provider in the UK) is advertising wait-list sign-up/'coming soon' in London.

I recall tube ads years ago (it was probably 4G, but certainly not 5) for a minor player that sprung up using someone else's network (Three/EE/O2/Vodafone, I don't know) specifically to provide home internet. I think they got killed by uncapped/high cap data becoming more common, tethering being more allowed; so anyone who cared could use any provider (and any modem) directly - and most people don't care they just want it to work at a good price and be easy.

I think EE will make it an opt-in up-sell for now, but that eventually they (and others) will just send SIMs & modems out instead of 'engineers'. No more copper lines to faff about with. If the customer wants a landline number, well that's just adding minutes on to their SIM plan. (And for a while they'll get away with charging through the nose for that, like the old £15pcm line rental or whatever, until the masses realise that any SIM would work, and most high/unlimited data ones have lots of if not unlimited minutes included anyway.)
> You can do research on your own, without the costs of a PhD.

You can, but not if you want to get paid. A PhD is still the union card
for research scientists.
I wonder if anyone remembers Advogato and its certification/reputation system. It claimed to be very difficult to subvert. I'm sure that was naive and it held up because nobody back then was that motivated to game it, but even today, a little human oversight could probably steady it. So I wonder if something like it could be used for arxiv, relieving some of the endorser/moderation stuff that they have now.
I'm still not sure that flat-earthers aren't part of some major prank like the "Birds aren't real" group - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Aren%27t_Real
Chemical pollution has passed safe limit for humanity, say scientists
Maytag is not a well known brand in the UK. This may be because top-loading washing machines are not widespread here. Front-loading washing machines are the norm in the UK and in other European countries. It's unusual to see top-loading washing machines for sale.