skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of your heat is always going into the ground. The insulation prevents it from dissipating into the environment.
>It's simpler than that.

This isnt complicated.

>No bureaucrat or appointee ever got a promotion or got more resources at their disposal for getting people off of government services and shrinking the relevance of the program.

I can remember a number of such examples where there were incentives this being just one: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/30/cruel-...

If business runs government then it's in their interests to keep benefits systems stingy, capricious, hard to navigate and unpredictable as it makes people more reliant on their employers.

Removing it altogether would probably trigger riots but the frog can certainly be boiled.
Another 50-something year old here, also a synthesizerist since I was a teenager.

I've found it very, very useful to have a piano in my studio, even though I haven't taken lessons - it has been great to engage in various Youtube channels and learn proper keys playing, fingering, chord construction and so on.

Also, Rick Beato is a god. If you're a synthesizerist but not a keyboardist, you need to spend some time with Rick.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJquYOG5EL82sKTfH9aMA9Q

He's gonna teach you things you should know and that WILL make you a better musician, especially around the subject of keyboarding and playing.
Showing Google PDFs, but redirecting non-Google links to the paywall
Totally. Where there's money there's news. Unfortunately.
Why do all of the pages I’m finding with a quick search say it’s 1200x900? Some wires must be crossed somewhere or some massive limitation must exist for your 1/3rd res to be correct, that I’m missing
https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=%2fpeoplepopulationandcommun... - table 7.
I agree that life will be fine, I don't think the total-extinction-of-everything people are right. Earth will be fine. Some species will thrive, others will die out, generalists will do well at first and then as the environment re-stabilises they will speciate into specialists. I do think, however, that this process is subjectively not going to be very fun for the species involved, especially in the first 10-20%.
> I'm triple vaccinated.

Why?
> Have the servers been down ever since?

no, it works just fine.

the issues the original poster highlighted had to do with launch problems.
Nobody earns what they have in a vacuum. There is a society that exists around you and enables what you do.
If only you read the article...

> how are they gonna define who is an artist and who is not?

They won't.

> Why taxpayers (who may not care about art at all) should pay for this?

Who would? Would you?

> Why a government can define that this specific group of people should get some grants

Because that's what governments do.

> but not for example teachers

Teachers have regular incomes.

> or Uber drivers?

The hurdles to be a taxi driver and an Uber driver are mostly the same, so we mostly don't have Uber drivers. We have taxi drivers instead, who also answer Uber calls when they want to get exploited while they enrich someone else.
> You're overlooking the somewhere between 1% and 30% chance of becoming disabled from Long Covid.

As a Daoist how can I not see the good in this? Maybe now now that everyone knows they can suffer a chronic disease they will find a cure for those of us suffering with ME/CFS for all these years?

This is the arrogance that amazes me. Suddenly everyone cares about chronic disease. the ME/CFS community has been crying for help for years. Am I glad this happened to you or anyone? No. But as I said, maybe some good will come out of it.

By the way, if you want to get out of your situation the only answer is nutrition.
Orion isn't directly overhead. In your analogy I'd be drawing a 6 on the wall, and the other person would have to bend over backwards to claim it's a 9.

I mean, I guess they could, but they'd clearly be bending over backwards to make a logical fallacy.
> illustrated by his then-wife Melinda Gebbie.

I think this timeline is backwards? Lost Girls was illustrated by Melinda Gebbie, who he subsequently married - and as far as I know they are still married.
Factories have already ramped up. Additional factories take about 5 years to build.

With a constrained supply (from continual boosting), it is logical that the wealthy countries want to keep it for themselves rather than subsidize other countries. Hopefully they'll stop at 3 doses, as recommended, and then they can roll out to the poorer countries.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/04/health/andrew-pollard-booster...

https://www.barrons.com/articles/a-plan-to-break-the-vaccine...
In my experience, cold is the absolute worst and last resort. It's almost always better to get in via someone who knows you, because, for example, if a coder at the company everyone regards as highly competent advocates for you and says you're also highly competent, that instantly cuts through tons of nonsense.

I would only do cold after I had asked each and every former colleague or anyone who even knows me, if they could help me get a foot in the door.
I met the founder(s) of ArchiPro at a cloud event in Wellington in either 2013 or 2014 - it is wonderful to see their idea not only be sustained but thrive, bravo!
how is this happening without a human in the loop?
> I recently setup pihole, which subsequently went down while playing PS5

i think this is the issue right here.
Ditto. I rarely use multiple cursors in other editors, but I use them _constantly_ in Kakoune. I have been using it for multiple years. The composability of the command language is what makes it shine.
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I don't see all the apps that applied. I just see the apps that passed validation. It's totally reasonable to assume that the apps that were rejected by the validation process are worse than the apps that were accepted.
Blizzard is long dead. Such a shame. I’ll never pay for another of their games until… actually I’m not sure when, or what they could do to bring me back. They’ve poisoned their brand so completely, and their latest releases have been either somewhat mediocre or mismanaged into the ground over time.
Sounds like some nationalist kids got access to the CMS responsible for these sites. Could be a false flag, Maidan and Anti-Maidan activists employed such tactics quite often.
At its launch, the Parker Solar probe surpassed all prior records of speed. And it will continue to break its own record over the 7 years after 7 consecutive encounters with Venus that will lower its trajectory to 9.86 Solar Radii

While a lot of it will be eventually achieved due to orbital mechanics, most of the push was given to it by the Delta IV Heavy. For those who may not be familiar, the launches are always spectacular due to the pre-flushing of Hydrogen through the system. NASA has an HD video that you can download, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlyuSwRSVHU

The PSP's speed is impressive without context, but it's even more impressive in context. Here are phenomena in the same range as the PSP.

The Earth rotates around the sun at a speed of,

29,800 m/s or 0.01% the speed of light

Our galaxy approaches the Messier 98 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_98 galaxy at a speed of,

140,000 m/s or 0.04% the speed of light.

PSP is faster than both of these at,

163,000 m/s or 0.05% the speed of light.

Due to the quirks of orbital mechanics, by the end of its life, the probe will be even faster and it will reach,

192,000 m/s or 0.06% the speed of light

It's 8,000 m/s shy of our solar system's orbital velocity around the galactic center.

The design is a stunning accomplishment of engineering and daring. If you would like a detailed overview of how the mission trajectory was designed, the navigation team has written an excellent explainer that you can read here, https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/handle/2014/47575
The issue is their toxic drm.
Quebecs Anti-Jaywalking Billboards
It's not basic income if it is only for some people under certain conditions. That implies bureaucracy to get in and policies. It's basically just yet another benefit program that some people may or may not qualify for.

We have basic income programs for the elderly (state pensions). For children (child care money). For students. For veterans. And for unemployed people. The only people not receiving anything are the employed. And for those people we have tax thresholds, minimum wages, sick leave, etc.

Basic income doesn't have to be that complicated. Most countries end up choosing to not let people starve on the streets. That means that there's a minimum cost per individual that is covered one way or another. In most countries that means a combination of free health care, food stamps, housing and typically at least some benefits (though usually with lots of strings attached) for the most poor in society and a lot of complex programs for everybody else. Of course some countries really do dump their problems on the street, which creates its own set of problems in terms of crime, poverty, etc.

If you just accept that there's an X cost per citizen in terms of them not starving, having shelter, etc. there are multiple ways of getting organized on that front. The way most countries ended up doing that (i.e. with a lot of bureaucracy, tax complexity, and a very hard to navigate program of benefits, rules and exceptions) is not cheap.

The main issue with basic income is not that it is hard but that it is controversial. Basically, it flows from a value system that dictates that people must pretend to be useful (by having a job). Never mind that many of those jobs are bullshit and make people miserable. Even though everybody ultimately gets what they need, we'd like to have lots of strings attached to that privilege. When you hear unemployment statistics that are ridiculously low (like 4%), just think for a second which people are not part of those statistics. That's a rather large group. In many countries that is close to or actually more than half of the population. It's not a problem. These people are being taken care off already. We don't call it basic income but these people are not working and they are definitely not poor.

Basic income just formalizes that status quo.
> So, we have degrading social nets, public education and public health. But we should fund people for "doing what they love" because it has "positive externalities" (left undefined)

This is a false dilemma. We obviously should do both.

As someone who lives in Ireland and who pays taxes a lot of people on HN would say are outrageous, I support this wholeheartedly and would gladly pay even more taxes if such a program were extended and become truly universal.

I would, of course, continue to do what I do because I love it.
Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
My extended family has several terabytes of family photos and videos from over the years. We've mostly digitized everything, but some segments are just sitting on external hard drives in closets - waiting to eventually break or become corrupted.

My current methodology for our immediate family is aligned with the common back up advice - one local copy, one off-site copy (at grandma's house,) and one in cloud storage. We're using Google Photos for cloud storage. The easy integration with Nest Hubs makes for nice digital picture frames around the family homes.

What is your system for backing up family photos and videos to stand the test of time? Is it adequate to put everything in cloud storage and forget about it? Do you reassess every couple years and adjust to the new landscape of storage services? Is it unavoidable that we'll be paying $100+/year forever for a [presumably increasing] few terabytes of cloud storage?

Is there a good solution for posterity? For example, once I die, and if my family were to become unable to pay the hosting bill, is there any way to guarantee these heirlooms remain intact and available?
That is so much better! Thank you.
This seems to be true of most people period. If there is a lump of people where a majority do understand crypto I haven't found it, possibly outside of tiny academic circles.
Good call out - I was also going to make a comment about the importance of effects, but as the article is trying to keep things simple, I didn't want to complicate matters!

The Valhalla DSP effects are fantastic value, and SuperMassive, my absolute favourite, is also free as in beer. I suspect Sean reads HN https://valhalladsp.com/
We’ve purely used rockwool. It’s enclosed within a semipermeable membrane, so no possibility of dust escaping.
The problem is the mobile app... that's where doomscrolling and rabbit holes go deep...
I'm baffled why 5G was approved and deployed before there were safety verifications with aircraft
30% is a ridiculous tip in Europe, also in Germany.

Generally you round up, or give 10% if it's an occasion.
Sorry. It's not about your intentions. I'm just finding it hard to resist and keep it only metaphorical. Luckily, for society, I was always bad at arts & crafts.
Consumers need to demand better refund systems from the big console makers.

On Steam if you don't like a game, or if it doesn't work for you, you can get a full refund no questions asked as long as it's within 14 days and with less than 2 hours playtime. In certain circumstances they even give refunds after 2 hours playtime (e.g. you spend 2+ hours debugging the game and trying to get it to run)

This should be standard in games, including console games. It benefits the user AND the developer, as I've taken way more risks on games on Steam knowing if I don't like the game I can always return it, which leads to more devs getting my money and me playing games I otherwise wouldn't have.
Section 296ZB of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (1988) as modified by the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations (2003).

iTunes isn't unlawful in the UK, as there's no prohibition on making software to format shift. It's just using it to format shift that's unlawful. But software to bypass technical protection measures is prohibited, and similar laws exist in almost all countries because having them is a requirement for WTO membership.
>Articles like this want a return to serfdom, under the control of officialdom

Ironic thing to state given the reality of hash power distribution and supply of bitcoin that actually moves compared to the total

>in a form more useful than physical cash.

Something that is never used equivalently to physical cash cannot be more useful than it. Basically nothing is priced in bitcoin or crypto
It is interesting that "real" observations of relativistic objects are quite different from what you expect them to be. For example, a cube passing by at relativistic speed would appear as if it is rotating towards you. This allows you to see some of its sides which you normally wouldn't [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrell_rotation
As a double, soon triple vaccinated healthy grown up, one thing I'd wish to say:

For people like me (healty, 40ies male in a job were I can work from home) the big reason to be vaccinated is for my own:

I don't want to be sick for days or be unable to smell or taste.

I also don't want to feel freezing cold, have headaches that makes it impossible to work or have the nasty long term side effects some get from Covid.

To avoid that I take the probably much smaller risk of taking the vaccine.

But it is something I do for me, my family and my employer. Not something I do for society: Covid has already proven beyond all my doubt that it won't eliminated by any of the current vaccines so for now I'm deaf to any claim to take it for anyone else, i.e. the herd immunity argument.
> small (99sqm)

Is that correct? 99 is not small at all.
Number 1: You are outside the company hierarchy

This talks about not getting stuck in the politics of the company and having the authority/right to instigate change. It can be equally validly read as:

Number 1: If your company is hiring consultants that are outside the hierarchy you have a potentially toxic political business culture and should look for a new job
Devs aren't the customer here.

I work in a fintech and deal with banks all the time. We only ever get vague replies, and while we do speak to humans, they're not as helpful as you'd think. I'm rightfully angry. But there's nothing we can do because we're not the customer - we need to do business with them, we can't walk away, so we've got very little leverage.
If they arrived in the 1800's, would they not be dead by now?
Two-thirds of 2021 IPOs are trading below offering price
The canonical link to this article is https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/01/po...

The URL should be updated with that since it’s the original and is not even behind a paywall (though, even if it were, paywalled posts are allowed on HN).
This is almost equivalent to my proposed syntax, just replace `->` with commas between each term (minus the parens)!
I'm happy for him but it was obvious even without reaching the end of the post that he's been a consultant only for two years or so. The consultant's life is not all sunshine and rainbows. Every one of his points, except 2, have huge downsides.
It's actually not natural though.
"PCI Hot Plug User’s Guide 2.3" by Fujitsu for their SPARC-based servers is copyrighted 2003:

* https://www.fujitsu.com/downloads/SFTWR/manual/s_e/b23pav1h0...

Being able to hot-plug cards in/out of slots has been a thing for higher-end gear for a long time.

I'm sure the IBM Mainframe folks did it many decades ago like they've seem to have done for many things that the 'commodity' server folks are only now catching up to.
The Washington Post compiled first database of slaveholding members of Congress
Just look around this thread for the issues people list with kakoune. I.e. hard to configure, window management, lack of IDE features, lightspeed/avy, localization, etc. All of them are trivially solved by using a kakoune layer on emacs instead.
Of course they'll try to lure in as many as they can. What I'm saying is that their plan surely can't be to have most people on this kind of service in urban settings. It just won't work!
I think we have have a folk song about this saying. Not Finnish...
Am i the only one confused by this part ?

> I looked at the energy usage data from our Nest thermostat and discovered that those levels corresponded almost exactly with the times that our gas furnace was on.

Another way of seeing this could be that nest is turning on the heat between 2am and 7am, and it looks like the author was not aware of this. so yeah the gas stove is bad but not as much as the heating system, and the fact that a "smart thermostat" turns it on at night when it should be less useful.
I think they are taking the piss, yes, but particularly targetting the special privileges society awards to true believers.
One Display Unit Failing QA Per Child? There aren't that many failed displays in the world! Especially in the cost, size and energy budget of a hand crank computer.
For me a good brain dead programming task is to just review the filetrre, read the code. In the course of that I'll often feel prompted topve stuff around, edit comments, refactor Little things, and before I know it I'm back to doing tricky work.
Classic WTF: The Old Ways
Meet the Swedish Startup Ecosystem
6. The sense of relief when your invoice is paid is amazing.

7. Having to go into projects that really don't make sense but pay your bills teaches diplomacy and patience.

8. Having long-term financial committments on the one hand (mortgage, school and medical bills etc.) and short-term uncertain revenue is an interesting mental exercise to engage in.

The last one is the killer for me I think, having dabbled in this area. I wonder (genuinely, not sarcastically) how many proponents of consulting are in this boat.

Probably varies a lot by locale btw, if you can rely on state schooling and have a strong social security net it's very different.
The hard part is that UBI is extremely, extremely expensive. The variant I'm in favour of goes something like:

1. $12k / year to everyone

2. 50% flat tax (on non-UBI income)

3. Small federal land value tax on non-wilderness properties

4. Tax on non-resident property owners

5. UBI for citizens only (to mitigate people traveling here just to not work)

But try passing that ^ in any major democracy. You can't. The reason is that the winners of the current system (most seniors, top half of wage earners, the international elite) are the ones that either vote, or set political agendas. They like being able to hire [personal helpers, maids, warehouse workers] for $12 an hour.

For a true UBI we need to raise taxes and prices a lot and that will have downsides (at least in the short term) for probably 50 to 60% of the population. We will lose workers. Real output will fall. Taxes will have to go up and we will lose some people to other job markets.

So instead people nibble around the policy edges.
I think it's also supposed to help with density. Ever been to a busy event (sports, concert, etc) and had no internet even though signal strength is fine? A lot of times companies will move in temporary/portable towers for big events but having more baseline capacity is good, too

I was under the impression 5G is pretty worthless outside densely populated areas

Other comments mention fixed wireless which is also big (home internet access)
Politicians have found in the unvaccinated a pretty good scapegoat.
Guidelines for Cold Messaging People
That should be strictly related to the rendering
Covid could have been eliminated at some point. We know because there are scary other viruses like ebola that are not ravaging entire world because the moment it shows up we act decisively -- exactly because it is so deadly and scary.

Because Covid is not so scary everybody elected to wait and see how exponential growth looks like in practice. If it had 20% death rate we would have couple thousand people die of it at most.
> I have been wanting the equivalent for macOS for years.

Is it really a macOS-type thing? Emacs is all about tying together everything one can do on a computer into one integrated whole where anything can talk to anything; macOS seems to be about a well-integrated UI over top of siloed, proprietary components which can only be integrated to the extent that they wish to be integrated.

Compare to Emacs, wherein one can just rewrite and replace a function in a package which does not play well with others.
Learn Go with Tests – Templating
Isn't this mainly because the first run includes compilation? The compiled code should use little memory, if correctly written.
> Blizzard is long dead.

i'm still in somewhat of a denial since i really like their IPs. and diablo 4 is still very much on my radar. if that one tanks then I hope something changes as their IPs are just too good...
It's also a positive externality for businesses (and by extension workers) in the area and for people who own their own homes (home ownership has historically been the predominant long-term living arrangement in Ireland).

Even for tenants, it's not as simple as you suggest; most renters would rather live in a gentrified area than a run-down, crime-ridden one (which is exactly why rents are higher). Arguably the only category of people who definitely lose out are long-term, low-income renters with no protections, but they are relatively rare in Ireland.

Gentrification has its problems for sure but I know several people who grew up in formerly run-down areas that are now gentrified, and they would never want to go back to the way things were.
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