skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, this is non-exhaustive of course, but here's a few of the items on the list I personally think are very important.

* Foundation footings set to bedrock and insulated above the freeze line

* Exterior walls framed in 2x6 or 2x8 studs w/ a preference for non-bridging stud products like t-studs

* Exterior continuous insulation

* Kitchen range hood needs to be externally ventilated with proper make-up air system

* Using an ERV (Energy Recovery Ventilator) with filtered intakes for doing fresh air distribution within the home

* No use of plastic flooring products (e.g. linoleum, vinyl, carpet, LVP, LVT, et al) which off-gas and spread plasticizers within the indoor envelope

* Consider use of alternative methods of framing vs stick framing, like using ICF (Insulated Concrete Forms)

* Natural gas on-demand hot water heaters w/ electric instant hot systems close to tap for showers

* Roof trusses and decking properly constructed to account for the weight of solar panels on the south-facing slope

* Split electrical paneling for high voltage (230V+) and low voltage (120V) circuits

* Post-meter paneling for breaking out to circuit panels w/ a space for setting up a transfer switch to support future grid-tied solar with battery backup

* All electric appliances w/ the exception of on-demand water heater and sealed gas fireplace, this provides a pathway for higher energy efficiency / lower carbon emissions by using solar

* All cabinet work should be hung using french cleats for durability

* Exterior door frames should be installed fully to the studs (e.g. use 3-4" long screws)

* Interior doors should be solid core

* All interior walls should contain sound-rated insulation to reduce noise pollution and improve climate zoning

* All interior walls should be boarded with sound-sealant and noise rated drywall-type products

* Subfloors should be insulated and there should be sound/thermal insulation underlayment below the flooring

* The final construction prior to drywall should be able to achieve a blower door test score of ACH50 1.5 or lower with the make-up air and flue vents closed.

Not all of these things would be required by code currently in Europe, but they're all good ideas for durability, efficiency, or safety. This is obviously with the intent to use rooftop solar power as well. If I do build a custom house, it'll be built to the Passivhaus standard.
A password manager creates a single point of failure of all your passwords.

Nope.
How does this scale to other military globally. Does anyone else have an /8 block?
Same here. So much so we've basically just dropped "unit" testing in favor of integration testing. I guess we still call it TDD though.

I was actually surprised what the author was describing was somehow _not_ TDD. I thought it was pretty normal to try some things out, make some decisions, and then return to codifying those decisions in tests.

We do web app development, and 90% of our tests are browser-based integration tests that test whether the given inputs (usually forms) lead to the expected outputs (usually something printed on a web page).

I wonder if this is more natural when you're mostly writing integration tests?
No, they think that covering something is better than covering nothing.
Huh, I've been looking for the list of current search engines to see which have been removed but it seems these engines are not actually statically defined in the source code but rather the list is loaded remotely. And each search engine is actually a web extension. I did not know that!

Set `devtools.chrome.enabled` to `true` in `about:config` and then Tools -> Browser Tools -> Browser Console and type:

const { RemoteSettings } = ChromeUtils.import("resource://services-settings/remote-settings.js", {})
await RemoteSettings("search-config").get()

This looks to be the complete list that gets filtered based on your location, language etc.
Not really, there's still the rule of "new phenomenon" that makes it news/discussion worthy - like Canada's quick turn towards fascism, tyranny.
Nah, these guys are the biggest chip makers: https://www.wired.com/story/cerebras-chip-cluster-neural-net...

2.6 trillion transistors on a wafer the size of a dinner plate. Mind boggling!
Yes, but only because they have a ton of overlap with the much broader group of "people who will get shot in the hole they just dug for shortsightedly causing exactly the kind of societal instability that resulted in them getting shot in the hole they just dug."

Humans can survive and thrive in very extreme climates. We can grow enough food for everybody. What we can't do is figure out ways for both of those things to happen without preventing people's standard of living from going so far backwards they get shooty.
>so much so that extending it universally is so friggin expensive

I laughed out loud at the idea of the US thinking universal healthcare would be expensive considering all the trillions spent without blinking to pay for two pointless wars, the 1.7 trillions to be spent on a stealth plane that can't fly in the rain, and the trillions printed in the last couple of years and dumped on the stock market.
Affordability is almost as bad as the 2000s peak already. If you judge by housing payment relative to income
You could use Syncthing so you don't have to manually sync and backup nor trust any SaaS
“Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; […]” - likely the higher echelons on both sides are aware of it. Events in East Europe have already influenced the history and lives of billions of people, and basically whats happening there will have long lasting effects on asia, africa, the middle east and south america. I only hope it wont get bumpy again as during the cold war era.
Dig deeper into some of these stories and you realize they also knew someone at the newspaper. Or a very expensive college applications specialist (i.e., $20k+) orchestrated the entire thing from concept to connections to media feeding, etc. Throw in a back-story professionally written and you've got top college acceptances!

Obviously, also throw in hand-selected medical specialists who diagnose you and prescribe extra time on the exams, great photos of your child at the local soup kitchen, a clutch summer internship with the local congressperson's office.

The entire college game is comprehensively stacked against the poor. Throw in the abandoning of test-based systems towards "leadership evaluation" acceptance methods and you get even more invested into gaming this process by the wealthy.
> Extra benefit: if I lose all my infrastructure, I haven't lost my passwords.

I just dump the SQL database of Vaultwarden and have that as a backup (it's encrypted). I've verified that a new Vaultwarden instance can be spun up on any Docker-capable machine quickly, the SQL file just needs to be mounted in and named properly. So it's a very localhost-friendly backup with no 'infrastructure' requirements. It can be up in minutes.
>I witnessed "smart" houses when my parents' blinders died in "down" position and had no manual override... or when the electricity was down and they couldn't start their wood stove because it needs electricity to work...

Are you saying you have a stove that doesn't have an electronic starter? Are you on a digital or analog thermostat? Does your home heater work without electricity?

New technology will always have an early adoption phase. Smart blinds suck now but there is no reason why they cant be as reliable as an automatic garage door. It's a motor with RF control. It's not a complex thing.
> But if Caplan is correct, why would someone drop out in their senior year?

That doesn’t matter. We don’t have to walk the hypothetical parts along with one person. If your value increases linearly with education and there is no signaling effect, you could drop out 10min before graduation, and your salary would end up being the same as someone who went the last 10min and got the diploma.

Obviously that’s not the case. And some signaling is present, because people who do half a masters degree don’t end up making significantly more than those who stopped after the bachelors and got a job, because half a masters worth of learned experience isn’t even worth a fraction of half of the work of having the diploma.
Yeah exactly. Cost of living is so much lower and one can actually live in some very nice smaller cities with plenty of restaurants, entertainment, and nature. Good quality of life.

If you are even luckier and can be a developer in those cities making 150k-200k you feel like royalty with a ton of extra money to travel often.
This nearly brought me to tears. dang and Scott's story was really moving. The humanistic approach, the amount of work to make this website so good. Falling off a mountain and realizing you need a job & need to give up on your startup... novel-worthy stuff.
I've thought about "community" a lot lately. I've noticed that every single group that can possibly be defined has what's referred to as a "community". I don't even know what the word means anymore.
Things like light switches (zwave, wifi) could probably remain. New owner would just pair them to their own hub/controller.

Hubs probably go with previous owner. Turn-over too complicated - just unplug it and take it.

Something like a Nest (or anything else with direct cloud integration) is a bit more complicated. You'd either have to unpair it from your account or replace it with a dumb thermostat.
> Qutebrowser would become my daily driver whenever they implement extension support.

If you're thinking of WebExtensions (i.e. Chrome/Firefox/... extensions), that's unlikely to happen without Qt implementing support for it - see the FAQ in https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/30 for details.

> They recently secured some EU funding, so there could be a lot of developments soon.

You must be thinking of a different project - though qutebrowser is donation-funded, and I just finished a big chunk of work at the university I'm employed at yesterday. Now I won't do anything there anymore until July or so, so there should be a lot of development in the next couple of months anyways!
Anyone know how Lockdown is funded? The app is free and open source so how are they able to make money and operate?

Someone on HN wrote that they always look at how a company is funded before engaging with them so they know where their incentives are. I thought that's a pretty good idea and am trying to apply the same idea here.

I can find the backstory but I don't know how the company is able to operate and continue developing.
Thank you. I was imagining small compact disks that only contained the minimal iso9660(?) format. I'm not sure which of these is a more interesting topic.
>Piketty’s empirical research has been thoroughly refuted

Your link is somebody arguing that perhaps the data doesnt look so bad if you squint at it in the right light.

It's not a refutation. it's not even a rebuttal. It's basically disapproving FUD - "oh well if you pretend the 2008 housing bubble never happened things dont look quite so bad...". Um, ok?

There's even a little plea at the end for the reader to "understand that this is all very complicated and hard to understand". How scientific.

Of course, it is quite complicated sometimes and when he tries to break it down himself he gets himself in knots trying to defend inequality: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/11/desperate-effort-by-...
Taxes are also a big factor. Depending on your location, you could see 35-40% of that 100k disappear in taxes, and anther 40% for hosing in high cost of living areas and you are looking at 20k per year residual location.
If you do anything that involves having an open flame indoors (and I'm including the flame inside a gas / propane fueled furnace, water-heater, etc., or a gas stove) you should have one or more CO alarms in your home as well. CO2 has its own issues, but CO is a very powerful asphyxiant and can very easily be deadly.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Safety-Education/Safety-Education-Cente...
I need this for my interview skills.
It is IDNA, the standard for encoding international unicode names into ascii dns. In this case the name is the encoding for ä1.com and that is what would show up in browsers that convert punycode back to ascii in the url bar.
> What's even scarier is many of these units are going to remain un occupied forever. If you buy a house, and it goes up in value $50,000 per year, it might be easier to leave it vacant. The only solution is much easier zoning, and laxer building requirements.

Changes to the tax code are a better fix. Investment properties (non-primary residences) should be taxed more heavily; unoccupied properties even more so.

Recurring land value taxes would prevent people from hoarding property as an appreciating asset without putting it to productive use.
They wouldn't really need to develop a variant. Plenty of people used to run servers on macOS just configured to be headless. It just doesn't meet the standard anymore.
It's irrelevant. Even if the authority existed to reclaim all the /8s handed out to private companies (it doesn't) you'd kick the can down the road a few years at best. Then we'd be right back in the same boat.

There are only ~4 billion IPv4 addresses. There are more than that many humans alive, most of whom have or will have a smartphone. So we're already short on addresses without considering network equipment, servers, IoT, or anything else.
I have similar feelings, when I recommend it I include a big disclaimer about the violence. Some of those scenes lingered in my mind for months afterwards, and I don't think I'll ever fully lose the impact of the novel's ending.

I also really enjoy his novel The Crossing, and feel that it has similarly beautiful, poetic descriptions while being a much more introspective and character-focused novel. Still plenty of violence, but nothing close to the brutality of Blood Meridian.
That's something I've been grappling with recently, and the solution I landed on as "good enough" (though far from perfect) is to have a community where the ability to post and interact is closed, but the ability to view the content is open.

Some subreddits have tried a variation of this, such as the Economics subreddit granting a "Bureau Member" flair for individuals who have proven their knowledge of economics in long form posts, but without taking it farther than just extra flair. There's no weekly threads for Bureau Members only to post, or anything like that.

The issue then becomes how do you set up a judging body that determines the criteria for who is allowed to interact, and prevent that body from being co-opted in some way. Not an easy task, especially for a social media company where there's absolutely perverse incentives at play.
Maybe this avoidance by problem solving engineers is part of the problem?

Technology is used as political tools/weapons to drive and manufacture consent, through promoting hate and creating divisiveness - and through captured mainstream media channels, and online platforms; this couldn't be any more obvious with Trudeau's behaviours and observing the mainstream landscape of what the majority of Canadians are seeing.

Politics and technology is intertwined, but HN is happy to suppress conversation that would arguably lead to discussing technological solutions.

The biggest problem is our information distribution/propagation (and therefore trust) apparatus is corrupted, which does include the issue with low-to-no-effort downvotes allowing a person to suppress content while getting rewarded via a dopamine hit.
Didn't they end CentOS and ruin a bunch of peoples plans?
A large part of what's left over probably goes to service consumer debt, as the average American carries about $6k in credit card debt. Paying for yesterday's stuff makes it hard to save for tomorrow.
I am a little ashamed to admit this, but I can't remember the URL for Hacker News and always have to search for it in Google if I am on a device that doesn't have it bookmarked. Somehow I still remember other long URL's like http://altavista.digital.com though.
One thing that puzzles me is why HN does not have a policy of banning users who post explicitly racist comments. I sometimes (unwisely) get sucked into arguing with these people. However, this is essentially impossible to do within the site guidelines, as you either have to have a respectful discussion with a racist (which only legitimizes them) or call them out for being a racist (which isn't allowed). I'm aware that racist comments often get flagged, but then again, they also often don't. And users who post such comments are able to continue contributing to the site.

I won't post links to examples here because, again, that is probably not within the site guidelines. But I'm happy to supply on request.
not an expert, but isn't the sleepiness part the least of your problems in that situation?
I use Loop and it takes a LOT of the thought out of it. Being incorrect is ok because the system a) knows about what the work of the carbs should be and b) is often checking the glucose levels vs predicated(from carb/insulin curves) and doing small corrections via either basal rates or bolus's.

The way it plays out those is that being wrong is ok. So the carb count is off, what was important was that it was timely and roughly close. What this makes more difficult though is seeing the patterns of when it is doing corrections more often. There's software for that too. Also, disabling it and seeing what happens can give some insight. Another thing is that systems that use temp basals to reduce insulin introduce a state of low insulin levels and a "bounce back". This is where I would like to see a system that converts that negative insulin back into carbs. I can do it, but would be nice.
We are in a similar situation and I have come to the conclusion, there is a money tree giving people free money that I am not aware of :)
That was also my initial thought. I thought it would be similar to Heroku or Hatchbox. But I see there are lots of information missing on how to deploy a Rails or Django app with databases and redis etc.
Here's the thing about serology studies, I don't really care what they say when we have clinical outcomes. What the hell does "broader protection" even mean in this context?
I am not sure how GOOG weighs what happens after you click on a result, it would be clever of them to notice how quickly you click on another result for the same search and slightly downgrade the first link (though, what happens if you open the first three links into new tabs before you actually visit them, say). My assumption was that they just counted clicks as an upvote, so if these scammers can make it into the first page of results, they will tend to stay.
>. Most of the celebrated "missing middle" type neighborhoods are illegal today. You can't build like that anymore. You can't build a single room occupancy apartment and share kitchen hookups across units, everyone needs a dedicated kitchen with a full stove and fridge to live apparently

Amen, something like my first apartment,a $600 place where you didn't have a stove, didn't have a parking space and definitely didn't have a balcony, would be illegal to build.

I strongly suspect this is to drive poorer people out of certain neighborhoods. I saw a fantastic Reddit post once we're a building architect outlined all the stupid reasons. You can't build affordable housing in LA. Fighting years and years of legal challenges, having to have a minimum amount of outdoor space for each unit or whatever . Whatever .

Are any cities in America building compact transit friendly living space? I really want to travel more and see how other countries do it.
It's more like "As evidenced by the fact that even after the first was dropped they were not willing to surrender, and after the second was dropped the Supreme War Direction Council or Inner Cabinet was still deadlocked on what to do."

Two atomic bombs being dropped on them was not decisive in getting the Cabinet to decide to surrender. It took the Emperor's involvement to break the deadlock and even then there was a coup attempt to stop the surrender:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyūjō_incident

What action(s) with less weight/influence than two atomic bombs and the Emperor could have swayed the Japanese Cabinet? And even those things were only barely over the line:

> When word of the emperor’s decision reached General Toroshiro Kawabe, the Vice Chief of Staff of the Imperial Army, he noted in his diary that he concurred with another senior general in doubting that the overseas commanders would comply with the emperor’s order. That these officers correctly doubted even an order from the emperor would secure compliance with key parts of the armed forces, was swiftly confirmed by messages from the commanders in China and the Southern Area, declaring they would not comply with the surrender. Their commands mustered between a quarter and a third of all Japanese servicemen. It took Hirohito’s personal emissaries to persuade these commands to surrender.

* https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/japans-surren...
Not all states are that bad. In the midwest things tend to be approved much faster. Which is why our housing costs are not as bad as CA (still not great, but they much more reflect the cost of building)
This is great. Two comments/questions

1. What comes with the free tier? Says I can get started for free but not sure if it is a trial or dev account etc.

2. I would love a way for the widget to close if the user clicked outside of the popup instead of having to click the X. It would be nice to have this as a setting to be less intrusive on less important surveys.

Actually just thought of a third.

The steps seem to load rather slow (well, not instant) with a fade effect. Totally down with a quick fade effect but would like it to be a bit snappier, not sure if you have to query for the next step but if you are, and thats whats causing the slowdown, maybe pre-fetch the next step (could be on hover of an answer if there are a lot of branches), or first step before showing the widget, so it can be a bit faster.
You’ve just struck gold.
This is the business model of a lot of Indian IT consulting businesses. No one cares about a master or bachelors degree when out-sourcing work, as long as the job gets done. But you can significantly lower the pay of such people even when they are way more experienced and better than even master grads.
In the US it's hard for many home users to get static allocations of IPv6 but you can easily get an IPv4 block for $10/month or whatever. So same issue, if you need IPv6 static then you have to go to very expensive service tiers given the "shortage" of ipv6. Reality is I think IPv6 is just a pain up and down to deal with and they haven't sorted out all the tooling to deal with it for static IPs.
You already posted a marketing blurb for your competing startup in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30377349. Continuing to do that is excessive and distasteful, so please don't.

Because this is a YC startup's launch thread, I would normally hesitate to post like this (we moderate less when a YC startup is involved: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...), but I would say (and have said) the same thing in non-YC launch threads, and something about this case feels worse than usual.

Launch threads are a bit different from regular threads in this respect. It's of course fine for users to sincerely ask how the launching thing is different from existing things; it's borderline for a competitor to post a link to their thing, depending on how they do it; but to try to divert discussion to one's own thing is just bad manners.

I've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30375868 and marked it off topic.
Maybe I'm a bit sleep-deprived, but wouldn't offering a large amount of equity effectively make them somewhat of a co-founder?