skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's my interpretation.

This reminded me of when Ron Jeffries tried to use TDD to write a Sudoku solver, but didn't manage to do it. The take-home lesson was summarized at https://www.infoq.com/news/2007/05/tdd-sudoku/ as "while TDD may not be the best tool for inventing new algorithms, it may very well be the best tool for applying those algorithms to the problem at hand."

In this context, I think of "crisply defined" as being when know the algorithms, and input/output format, and want to get things working together.

I still don't find TDD useful. Even in that case, I much more a spike-then-stabilize developer, with most of my tests added at the end, followed by coverage analysis to identify missing tests.

(And I don't believe for a minute the claims of TDD supporters that TDD naturally leads to 100% coverage.)
From a different viewpoint, these scientists are just trying to shut down companies and have employees lose their jobs by making things too expensive because the happen to pollute "a little". So intead of polluter pays, consumer pays after the prices get raised to compensate the expense of the polluter fines/taxes, the equipment upgrade to reduce emissions, etc.

If the damn scientists would just shut up already, everything would be fine! /s
How much boilerplate code you need to write a ray-tracer?
"Dell's Bold Idea"? Are they sure they're not thinking of Framework's bold idea?
> The current uptick in prices is affecting all markets

Maybe, but not all markets equally, and not all market segments equally. I bought my townhouse in 2015 and Zillow says it's now worth 8.6% more than I paid for it.

I don't know the numbers but a buddy of mine who bought a 1-bedroom condo in 2008, and then ended up starting a family, has been renting it out for years since he's underwater on it. I would have thought the past year would have gotten him to the point where he can finally break even and get rid of it, but apparently not.

I think this has always been the case, but especially in COVID times, single family homes seem to be outgaining townhouses, which are outgaining apartment-style condos.
"You are still visiting the oil-sheik mansion, but with no out of pocket and no limitations on how much or often."

I generally agree. But I have heard that they will push lower priority (non-life-threatening) operations to the back in order to get other insurance holders to the front of the line. Basically because the reimbursement rate from other insurance tends to be higher than Medicaid.
Our local councilmember in LA was recently indicted on such charges.
> The American housing crisis is really a "housing in top 7-10 metro areas" crisis

This has not been true since COVID.
Yes, you understood my point exactly. I would happily pay $850k for a 1800sqft house that is constructed properly with efficiency in mind. I don't want to pay $850k for a trash quality 3500sqft McMansion, but that's what's on offer at that price.
I've read that clause and at first sight it would seem that it too is a restriction but clearly it was not interpreted that way historically or when it is being cited. How is there so much consensus in the interpretation?
If you have an insulin pump, can you also have a glucose pump?
Hacker News is an argument
Fun read. In addition to a CGM, there are some useful apps to help with some of that math--I use Inpen which also syncs my Novolog pen injections to the app.

Consistent exercise also helps adults make the math consistent, as does diet. Good luck with a toddler or teenager in those areas. :)

A sense of when to preoccupy yourself and when to focus elsewhere can be difficult to develop. Some do not have the personality to accept the lifestyle, and it makes me sad both to see people overthink things to the point of tears and limit their life, as well to see wanton carelessness. But both are understandable because you know a number 20 points off the ideal mark represents potential years of shortened life, which tempts obsessiveness as well as hedonism.
This seems like hysteria.

There are plenty of places in South Carolina - even close to the coast - that will be fine with a foot of sea level rise. It's not like everything is effected evenly.

Some places will be devastated - others will be fine.

Also - it's not like you need to get out now. This is going to happen slowly over 30 years. A lot of people who own will be dead before it gets noticeably worse.

People have known this was a thing for a long time, and if it has affected property values at all - it's been minimal. It's not like there's going to be a flip of a switch and every coastal property in South Carolina - poof - becomes worthless.

You might have a Katrina event that tanks property values by ~50% in highly effected areas. But for the most part - prices will just decline slightly. Or, with the state of interest rates - maybe just not accelerate as fast as other places.
Dumb question: Why don't we just use fuzzing instead of privacy? e.g. the tracking APIs are just filled with noise data when you want to not be tracked? It seems the big issue is that companies doing the tracking know the data is there and then use it inappropriately. What about just giving them garbage data instead?
Thanks. That works, but worse that actual Safari. Especially icon fonts seem broken. But better than nothing :)
This is called a wash trade, and it is used to make something look like it has more interest than it does in the hopes someone else will look at the trade volume and bite, in which case the trap is sprung, and no one else will be interested in a purchase off of the duped purchaser.
The land appreciates without development on it. If anything, we want only appreciation from developing. If you don't do something to the property, you shouldn't get a profit from it
I did the back-of-the-envelope math once. You get a Petabyte of storage today for $60K/year if you buy the hardware (retail disks, server, energy). It actually fits into the corner of a room. What do you get for $60K in AWS S3? Maybe a PB for 3 months (w/o egress).

If you replace all your hardware every year, the cloud is 4x more expensive. If you manage to use your getto-cloud for 5 year, you are 20x cheaper than Amazon.

To store one TB per person on this planet in 2022, it would take a mere $500M to do that. That's short change for a slightly bigger company these days.

I guess by 2030 we should be able to record everything a human says, sees, hears and speaks in an entire life for every human on this planet.

And by 2040 we should be able to have machines learning all about human life, expression and intelligence to slowly making sense of all of this.
FDA clears first smartphone app for insulin delivery
If you mortgage a property and the property is destroyed, you are still on the hook to repay the loan. If you have insurance that will cover it, then great. If not, you still owe the note. Sound like sound logic for the banker types.
We're just bombarded with fear every day, even more so since COVID. More often than not it's BS (example in the 70's they feared that we would freeze to death by year 2000).

At one point the brain (at least mine) just lets go and tries to focus on something less draining.

We (humans) are just slightly evolved monkeys. We can rationalize all we want, our decisions are taken based on emotions.

We have built a much more complex world than we can really handle.
How would it raise Lake Michigan? Different precipitation patterns or changes in consumption due to climate change maybe, but how could a foot of sea level change lake Michigan's level?
Because they receive additional information from the environment through highly sensitive sensors producing massive amounts of information. Whereas the information you get from a cheap sensor effectively discretizes to a few bits.
I was a hyperlexic kid + a mental calculator who was a child programmer.

At the age of 6, I was reading at the level of a college graduate, and I started coding in elementary school; I taught my first intro to programming class when I was 11.

My middle-school standardized test scores put me in the top .03 percent and my IQ was tested to be in the mid-140s.

So I think I would count by most metrics, barely. (Nothing quite like going to dinners for the top 200 whatever and knowing you're number 199 or so ha).

I'm also a mental basketcase who developed MS in my 20s, so while I've done pretty well for myself so far, I don't have the personality, dedication, or temperament for great success. There are just a lot of things from my childhood that really make me raise an eyebrow now as an adult.

The amount of pressure is terrible, of course, but in addition to that, there's this weird push and pull where a lot of adults will say out of one side of their mouth how special you are and hold you to standards that are unreasonable for children and accept you + your contributions if they're helpful, but the minute you have your own opinion or disagree, you're a child and obviously don't know anything.

I'm a lost cause for society, intellectually speaking, but I feel concerned for the me born in 2015.
He's a great security expert.

nit - I wouldn't claim that someone who _has_ written security (password, or cryptography)-related software, is necessarily _qualified_ to, or a trustworthy _expert_ in the field. In security especially, self-proclaimed expertise (as the strongest sales pitch) does not distinguish between respected experts and snake oil salesman.

I would say that he's written several widely read and respected cryptography books, designed widely used algorithms (standards & well-tested candidates), and write about social & technical factors that surround & affect security.

Good links! Thank you!
That's freakin awesome, it's so refreshing to see this, especially when Home Assistant is likely to be installed on non-techie's phones and you want to just set it and forget it.

Thank-you for all of your work on the Home Assistant iOS app, it's one of the best parts of the ecosystem imo.
I don't buy this. There are plenty of things a bank will not lend you money for. I can't get a 2 million mortgage for instance. I can't get a mortgage to buy undeveloped land. I can't get a loan to start a business. I can't get a loan to buy a business. Why is this very specific circumstance one where all risk parameters fly out the window? Why aren't they recklessly greedy in the other situations I list?
Cool idea! I was surprised that Wikipedia mirrors aren't included, as I encounter them constantly and they drive me bonkers. I opened an issue: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter/issues/2...
> All it takes is a strongman from the D or R side to turn the key.

An alternate theory: they have cooperatively turned that key together, although I wouldn't expect everyone is in on it, or that "the key" is something in particular, other than a "general methodology" of how politics is performed, in the theatrical sense of the word.
Depends how you define "prove"

If you calculate a billion sha256 hashes and look at the results you'll have an even enough distribution to say it's proven, but, it's not "mathematically" proven.
I'd personally recommend the Lutron Caseta line. They use a proprietary RF system so if you want full automation or phone-based control you need their hub, but even without one you can just use them as normal switches, pair switches and remotes, pair switches with motion sensors, etc just as built-in behavior.

They've also covered basic usability issues that a lot of other smart switches overlook, like having a hard disconnect on every switch, so you don't need to go to the breaker box just to change a lightbulb.
I tried and failed to launch a startup in this space. The privacy concerns are huge. Most of the companies in this space (Fireflies, Otter, Vowel, ~Chorus, ~Gong) use external APIs for speech-to-text. That means unencrypted audio and plain text is traversing a 3rd party server. Most people don't care, but when there is eventually a security breach (only a matter of time) there will be a lot of surprised users and customers.

With that said, the core idea is great. These companies are starting with transcription but it's not difficult to envisage a future where (a) supplemental information is presented depending on conversation topics, and (b) actions are taken on your behalf. Example: no more need to manually send a calendar invite, just mention it in the conversation and the "AI assistant" will schedule for you.
Except that you don't buy insurance in 40 year contracts. Once the water gets too close, it will become uninsurable. It would be like selling insurance on a house that is burning.
> I guess they're engraved into my brain like a wax recording by now.

Because you had frequent access to these resources/links/texts as a part of your job, I believe they live in your brain's RAM.

Keep up the good work @dang!
If we say that the community is the place where a culture is formed, yes, this is a community. I think that people's comments are always shaped accordingly, as a result of the culture that occurs in most of the sharing.
I think this (squareword) would be even more fun with a toggle button to transpose the square.
This is why AI should be on-device.
FHA loans should still be pretty close
Working on my own project as a solo dev, I hardly ever write tests.

What I've learnt over the years is that tests lock your code in making it hard to adapt (you could say making you less agile).

When I'm smashing out new code and I haven't established patterns then it doesn't make sense to lock that new code in.

Once I do have a pattern going then I might add tests, but it's not for the sake of test coverage or to gloat that I have tests, it's purely because I actually care about making sure those bits of the code work as intended and that the edge cases are covered.

For these tests I do indeed do TDD.

Otherwise it's a trade-off - would I rather be closer to a feature people can use or would I rather be slogging away writing and maintaining tests.

This being said, I will say that when I come to a point of adding more people to the team tests will become much more important.

The way I see it though, not having tests and having people complaining about it means that I've done something right.
That's fantastic, anything below a 1.0 is going to be exceptionally efficient. Did you also do rooftop solar as well?
We had a DevOps engineer who was brutal this way. Personally I found it only occasionally annoying, but our PM almost fired him several times. I talked him down by pointing out that risk aversion is a good quality in an engineer.

When we interview for engineers, we always ask candidates if they are risk-taking multi-taskers, because those are desirable qualities... In some other field.
There are three major cloud components. Alexa and Google integrations both have open options that are documented by NC and you are welcome to use them. There’s a lot of setup as you need to deal with a semi-complex config on AWS or GCP which can be challenging if you’re new to those environments, but they work as well as the paid NC option.

The remote access proxy service doesn’t really have an open equivalent but there are tons of other supported solutions out there for secure remote access to your Home Assistant install. Here is one example add-on to provide Wireguard support, developed and supported by an NC employee: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-wireguard

In short, the paid cloud services provide an easier path to solutions you can deploy for yourself if you wish. You can still use equivalent services that you host yourself under your own AWS/GCP account. Those services cost NC money to host, so asking for money isn’t too far out there. Of course, that money is more than what the cloud parts cost, and what we all get in return is a team of skilled developers working full time on the project and releasing everything for free.
Ahh I see, and that way you can quickly “remove” a whole lot of data by just removing the key, which makes for cheap operations, and/or more flexible workflow (you can periodically compact the database and remove entries for which you have no key).

Is my understanding correct?
That’s awesome that you quit over that. Good on you.

I care deeply about this stuff, and I’ve read a couple of contemporary public studies - both corporate and state funded - that suggest that end-users really do care about this stuff too, and that abandonment due to poor privacy policies can be on the order of 40%. Forty percent!!

So I started my last business with this in mind: a pro-privacy fintech business. We were gonna be proud of our privacy policy and implement it using technical means.

But the moment the investors came along, I got stonewalled. They didn’t care about the research. They didn’t care about the users. They just had this belief that a user friendly privacy policy would somehow hurt the business and they refused to commit to what I saw as a key advantage of the product. Our privacy policy was a nightmare. We had almost nothing to give users.

I quit too, and to this day, I have no idea what could possibly be worse than 40% abandonment in a sales oriented fintech.
Without reading mode, that site is unusable. All those animated ads and banners are the blink tag all over again.
Eh, this is so contextual though. In the context of a code review, as in the article: no, please point out an issue if you see it, don't hold back. But raise it once, be willing to let it go, and respect that your colleagues don't have to act on your advice. The golden rule will get you far.
Agreed. Feels like my choices are "start a new life somewhere totally different" OR "rent forever". It definitely causes some cognitive dissonance when I weigh that tough choice against my relative well-paying tech job.
Because it’s a crime for them to make use of the passwords, and I’d be able to claim back any financial loss.

I picked Bitwarden because it’s widely trusted, it’s trusted because it’s open source and widely assumed to be casually audited by many _other_ people. There’s a weak point here in how many of us are relying on others to do the audit, in a bystander effect sense. I don’t think either of these are BW specific, which just shows there’s a large family of wise options.
I mean, exactly. Google are pretty up front about it, and actually for family members the last thing I want is browser choice. I just want to install an OS for them and forget about it, no nagware, no "it's been a while since you've used your device, do you want to refresh your settings" (I'm looking at you Firefox), no "we've just installed an update, here's 500 new settings to choose from", just turn it on and it works.
Why wouldn't they? You still owe the money even after your house washes away into the ocean.
That's not the case in NON recourse states, such-as California.
https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/what-is-a-rec...
> We’re well on the way to making gas-powered vehicles obsolete

One out of every 250 vehicles on the road is electric.

> nuclear power widespread.

We're not. What we're doing is burning natural gas for power generation widespread. We're slightly eased up off the accelerator.
Loved this.

A peek behind the curtain, and what I see is what I expect.

What a fantastic job you all (both? still?) do.

Truly anarchism in action. A wonderful thing. Nothing should last foever - long may you run!
>I've been on state Medicaid in the US. I've also been on a single payer in Europe. People really have no point of comparison on how much more luxurious Medicaid is.

I don't doubt it. In the US, doctors and hospitals are incentivized to treat you like a cash cow and to do as many tests or procedures as possible, even unnecessary ones, knowing that your insurance company or the government will foot the bill no questions asked.

Whereas in Europe, the doctors and hospitals in the public system are incentivized to do as much cost cutting as they can by doing as little tests and procedures as necessary, to reduce costs and waiting times, and have strict regulations on when they can refer you to specialists or more expensive test, needing to justify it when they do.

This means that sometimes you can end up with some undiagnosed condition going chronic on you because the public doctor didn't want to, or wasn't allowed to refer you to an MRI scan when you first showed some light symptoms, because your light symptoms weren't severe enough to warrant such an expensive test. I sh*t you not, this happens more than I'd like to hear. It's why health tourism is booming in Europe, where people from richer EU countries go to the Eastern states for private tests or treatments since preemptive care in the European public system is failing people big time and they can't afford the private system in their wealthy countries.

Sometimes, having a fully private health system, really does have its benefits.
Do they do a good job at getting clickthroughs on Google ads on their site? :-/

Does the rate of ad-clicking on the results page increase if most of the "natural" results are crap? :-(
Pretty sure journals wouldn't allow it, but who's going to read my dissertation anyway (:
Having an 18 month old means we are in full control of everything he does and eats and doses and even with all that control we see wild swings and weird shit every day.
Having all the energy needed to manage T1D and the self control to do it is superhuman. I wrote this post mostly because I didn’t know that before and I want more people to know. You are doing great.
You might find the Sexy Brutale an interesting game, since it is also centered around a time loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sexy_Brutale
> it is not like there is any technological brakethrough required.

Just like there isn't in advanced nuclear and yet you 100% believe that will happen but reject that the same can happen in nuclear.

Funny how that works. Both relay on a advanced chemical process that have to be correctly controlled.

The advantage is that a few 1000 nuclear plants can power the whole world, when we are talking about Form Energy style batteries we literally need 1000000s large locations to provide the kind of stability need for a global grid that only gets powered by solar/wind.

What happens when a volcano darkness the sun for a few weeks? Everything including transportation will be standing still. You better have a few weeks of backup energy. Storing the global need for 1 weeks worth of energy alone is almost unimaginable task. Specially once all flight transportation and industrial heat 100% depend on availability of electricity.

> It is still advised against eating too many mushrooms or boar meat in my area (central europe), because of one incident 35 years ago, happening 1000 km away.

Yes and that is total nonsense pushed by vastly overzealous over-reaction and fear mongering driven by absurd low tolerance level having been written into law to make nuclear almost impossibly expensive.

I'm central European and I have eat a lot of boar meat and I'm fine.

The actual reality is far more people have been killed by oil, gas and coal then nuclear, its not even close. The single largest nuclear accident in the history of the earth lead to the premature death of about 1500 people based on the best most authoritative report.

And of course that design has literally nothing to do with the designs I'm advocating. Its like saying 'don't ever get into a plain, somebody once build a zeppelin and wanted to fly it by making a hole in the hull and light they hydrogen stream out on fire'.

Go and actually study advanced modern nuclear reactors and tell me how they can lead to mass death. I would argue to come up with a viable case for major damage you would basically need terrorist working together with 2 massive natural disasters and even then its likely gone kill less people then a gas pipeline explosion.

Its nothing but fear mongering about technology people don't understand. Molten Salt reactor can not even produce a reaction like happen at Fukushima let alone the what happened Chernobyl.
I find that hard to believe, the SO questions are often years old, the GH ones months.