skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 3. The answer word list does not appear to have a lot of plurals or common vowel endings for past tense, etc. Or obscure words.

I guess it depends on one's vocabulary, but for non-native speaker it sure does have some obscure words and more importantly technical terms. For example TRUSS. While not exactly an "obscure" word, unless one has familiarity with technical construction terminology non-native speaker most probably is not familiar with such a word. It is just not a word one would expect to appear in a fiction book, film or casual conversation.
Crypto would be far less of a risk if the Dollar was managed competently.
The previous iteration of this was a disqualifier for using FastMail when I was migrating away from GSuite.

I wonder why people would accept to use AU-based services with all these shenanigans in place.
Worst design: https://www.arngren.net/

Though it's a pretty faithful rendition of their old paper catalogue...
Modern construction standards like Passive House call for an extremely well insulated and air tight building envelope. Because you're no longer losing conditioned air to drafts, they then use a system that constantly brings fresh air from outside, runs it through a heat exchanger to extract most of the heat (or cool, and in some cases moisture) from the conditioned air before it's exhausted. Generally you constantly pump fresh air into the living areas and bedrooms and exhaust air from the bathrooms and kitchen (places with lots of moisture and smells).
You would think that English would be mandatory to do exams in when going to school in the UK.

In some countries the mother tongue and English are both mandatory.
by specialized hardware, you mean GPUs? which are extremely useful for graphics, machine learning, and large-scale mathematical calculations? the gains to society that GPUs brought can't be understated. how do you think they run the climate-projection models? [1]

and my argument is about second-order effects. even if bitcoin mining remains inefficient, the technological gains of directly incentivising lower energy usage than your competitors carries over to other markets / enterprises

plus, bitcoin is scheduled to run out. so eventually the mining issue is moot

a second-order prediction is obviously more noisy and holds less weight without any direct evidence, but 'lack of direct evidence' characterizes much of this debate

[1]: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/07/17/clima-climate-model...
There is no amorphous opinion of the US government. It is many entities and many offices and many representatives, and there is no consensus amongst them on what you wrote. Not even close. There are representatives that understand and like smart contracts, there are delegates from states that have enshrined smart contracts into their legal code, there are agencies staffed and headed by individuals that are well educated on smart contracts and how to use them favorably, and so on and so forth. There are still influential adversaries also part of that institution.
huh? Read somewhere, I think from wikipedia, that Samsung 3nm is not ready, and not expected to be ready before 2024.
As a mostly self-taught dev, it's really helpful to read code reviews like this. I also enjoyed the author's code review reference[1]. That document cites Erick Breck's code review reference as inspiration. Is that publicly available? I couldn't find it on his website or via Google.

Does anyone know where one can find high quality public code reviews? I imagine there must be open source projects on GitHub with good public feedback on pull requests. Any ideas of specific projects to look at?

Finally, I haven't found much information on database migration best practices. Any good articles, books, or other resources people would recommend?

1. https://www.natemeyvis.com/code-review-reference/
Agreed -- sedecordle seems to have far less risk-of-not-succeeding peril than quordle.
I'll just add a little more explanation here since our site goes pretty in depth and I imagine most here would only be interested in a brief overview:

So buildings have what is known as a heating base temperature, which is the outside temperature above which heating is not needed inside the building. This is not the thermostat temperature inside the building (say 20 C), it is actually lower because of various factors like people and electrical equipment generating "free heat" inside the building, and how well the building is insulated to retain that free heat.

The base temperature varies from building to building, but let's say, for example, a fairly-well-insulated home might have a heating base temperature of 14 C. If the temperature outside is 14 C or above, that building will stay perfectly warm inside on its own, without the heating system needing to come on.

But, if the outside temperature drops below 14 C the building will need some heating to keep it comfortable inside. How much heating it needs will depend on how much the temperature drops below 14 C, and for how long.

And this is what heating degree days quantify. Here is an example diagram that demonstrates quite nicely how they are calculated (using a base temperature of 14 C):

https://www.degreedays.net/images/heating-degree-days-calcul...

The neat thing is that the heating degree days for any period of time represent all the relevant temperature variations across that period of time, and assuming you used an appropriate base temperature, are proportional to the heating energy consumption over that period of time. So for example you can have just one figure that represents the heating degree days across an entire week/month/year, and that will encapsulate all the relevant temperature variations across that week/month/year.

If January had 200 heating degree days, and February had 300, you can expect the heating energy consumption of the building to be 50% greater in February than in January. (Assuming you have chosen the right base temperature for your building that is!)

Compare this with knowing that the average temperature across a week/month/year was 12 C. What does that tell you about how much heating was needed in that week/month/year? Not a lot, cos you have no idea how much it varied within that time. This is the case even within a single day, since the temperature can vary a lot within a day.

Hence why people in the energy-saving business would typically use degree days rather than temperature data :)

(That said, hourly temperature data or similar is good for more sophisticated building simulations. But those are a lot more involved. On the simpler end of the spectrum degree days are a much better choice.)
I’m blown away by how anti-crypto this discussion is. I hadn’t realized how negative the prevailing sentiment is on Hacker News.

One argument seems to be that cryptocurrency is purely speculative, which is apparently a dirty word. What about the stock market? What about any kind of investment? If you truly believe that cryptocurrency is the basis for a superior economic system, isn’t it rational and wise to put some of your savings there?

Another argument is that crypto enables ransomware attacks. This to me sounds akin to saying “encryption enables child exploitation”. I.e. it focuses on one abhorrent element of society that would take place no matter what and blames its existence on a system which has great potential for good, a kind of propagandist thinking.

Another argument is that Banks will be hurt by crypto. Good! Any epochal transition can be tumultuous, but in my view disrupting the basis of the greatest wealth inequality known to history is a good start. We’re not talking about “banks” that operate on a local or regional basis — these can adapt to using new technology and serve the same people — we’re talking about multinational Banks which went beyond skimming the cream long ago and don’t aparently have people’s best interests in mind.
I do, personally, but that might just be because I'm used to xedit, and have a monitor with a reasonably high refresh rate, a keyboard I purchased largely to lower input latency (which I find annoying), and a typing speed that's decent (120wpm).

You can measure input latency relatively easily, but it's not as useful without a frame of reference. Here are a couple internet posts on doing exactly that:

https://danluu.com/term-latency/

http://renderingpipeline.com/2013/09/measuring-input-latency...

If you're not wanting to go out of your way to measure it, though, there's a pretty straightforward way you can get a feel for it: Pay attention to when the glyph appears on the screen, versus when the click of the keypress happens. For example, in xedit, I press 't', and the appearance of the glyph occurs almost simultaneously with the click. The click and the appearance happen much more noticeably asynchronously with Electron applications, including this one.
I'm sorry by Europe is not USA. We have no RSU and little to zera extra compensations. Salary is just salary. Please don't undervaluate this law proposal if you don't know what you are talking about
Userscript to hide all mentions of Wordle from Hacker News feeds
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> And then the biggest mistake

Some might say the biggest mistake is not playing on hard mode ;)

> Hard Mode
> Any revealed hints must be used in subsequent guesses

I prefer hardmode as it prevents the sort of elimination strategies, and it feels more like a strategic game. However it does come back to bite you if you get 4 letters early on for a combination that has a lot of possible answers.
UK asks regulator to review licence of Russian channel RT – Johnson
I don't believe salaries are public but instead salary ranges alongside job postings. Someone please correct me if I am wrong as the former would be a much more valuable tool for labor.

Under the latter the range for SWE could be 40-80K and so a new employer could possibly find that job posting from around the time you say you were hired but still shouldn't have any idea if you were making the 40k or closer to the 80k. I believe this is intended to curb the market behavior of offering someone a pay you think they will accept rather than offering to pay based on the value of a role.

Turning the difference between those two numbers into cream for upper management to butter their bread is the status quo in America at the very least and likely in all of the western world, but leads to systemic discrimination amongst protected groups with weaker negotiating power.
I'll be that guy and point out that "Unique" is interesting because it falls in the same category of words as forever, infinite, dead, and pregnant, adjectives which do not take comparative qualifiers because they describe Boolean states. You don't get to be the most pregnant or most dead person in the room, or live more forever than your friend. You can have something that is Aleph-1 rather than Aleph-nought, but you don't get to have something that is more infinite that your neighbor. In a similar vein, your thing can not be more unique than your co-worker's thing though one of you may have the more unusual thing, just as you could live longer, be more injured, have been carrying more kids in your uterus for longer, or have something that is bigger, longer, or more expansive.
Most of the benchmarks I'd seen showing Nginx as significantly faster than Apache boiled down to configuration. Having mod_rewrite turned on with AllowOverride for Apache, for example, slows it down quite a lot.
We shouldn't have to reject a major improvement in our quality of life because of abusive governments and their surveillance. What we need is technology that makes their abuse impossible.

This is why cryptocurrencies were invented in the first place. They were supposed to emancipate us by providing private and anonymous digital cash that's free from government and bank control. Most of them failed at actually protecting us from anything but there are projects out there that are still trying, such as Monero. We should support these technologies instead of trying to turn back the clock.

We need to reject them instead. Just start using cryptocurrency for everything and cut them out.
Some people seem to like cold bedrooms, but it's far from universal. I try to keep mine around 27C in the winter (at the bed level, as measured by a small digital thermometer), and I still have to cover myself with a blanket (although a relatively thin one).

Now I'm wondering how the comfort varies with the temperature of the walls (due to infrared radiation), which are obviously much colder in the winter than in the summer.
I use STARE or TASER. Then UNLID and CHOMP :-)
No, nobody mines bitcoin on GPUs. Surely you would know that if you're here trying to make argument about it?
How is crypto a systemic risk?

From my recollection of the 2008/09 financial crisis, systemic risks were those in which entities were deeply intertwined with one another on a massive scale, such that there failure would potentially bring down the entire system of finance. We're talking: retail banking (payments, savings, lending), commercial banking (idk?), public debt markets (bigco and gov funding), but most especially short term commercial funding. Again, going on memory, failure of short term funding (repo (?)) markets would have caused real, non-finance companies to become insolvent or at the very least massively impair their working capital positions. This has the knock on effect of reducing demand throughout their supply chains and major cost cutting (job loss). Etc etc. In other words, massive recession or even deep depression.

Crypto, on the other hand, seems to be mostly a casino, a big one, yes. But one that is not deeply intertwined with other parts of the financial system. Coinbase, for instance, is not systemically important. It doesn't (yet) have tendrils in so many important lines of business as did the megabanks of yesteryear.
This is the reality of globalism, which you have to accept.

Of course it was an executive overreach. I have seen no evidence of violence and non-disruptive protests do not get results.
Main discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30382691 (145 points | 5 days ago | 186 comments)
Having a conversation with people isn't even that cheap, an email / phone call starting with "I'm looking for an engineer who can build XYZ stuff and I can start your salary at 123 plus ABC benefits, please get in touch with Joe Schmoe at 555-555-5555 if interested to discuss details". The reason people don't communicate this way is pride, they want to sound like hot shit so they feel better about the fact that nobody's applying. Self-induced failure flywheel mechanism.
If you're only interested in syscalls, then yes. But a library's memory is mmaped (syscall), which just establishes a virtual address mapping for the library file. When the library is accessed, that mmap'ed region is faulted in (not a syscall). This is something where you need eBFP (or dtrace, etc) to see what's happening.
They have different histories because of the swamps that were only eradicated in 20th century. Try to find autmobile maps in 1930s - there are virtually no roads along the current border of Belarus/Ukraine.
Any external references to back up your 'pay gap shown time[0] and time again[1] to be fiction' claim?

FYI I had to read your comment a few times to try to pick out what you're trying to say without getting distracted by the gratuitous vitriol. It might make you feel better but it's not an effective means of actual communication.

[0]: ?

[1]: ?
The article makes no mention of crippling the entire operating system. "costing time and memory" can be true without implying a large magnitude.
> nor will we have it in the close future

It would be better if people with broken crystal balls stopped insisting on business as usual on the middle of revolutions.

We are not on the "there's no reason renewables couldn't replace fossil fuels, we just have to invest a little in R&D" anymore. We are at the "yep, we replaced all of those on your left yesterday, today we are doing the next line" stage, and we are going through it fast.

You may like this graph:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-production-by...
The same way the IETF started out as a US Government supported activity.

The same way Tor started out as a US Government funded activity.

The similarity being that they are just standards, not required by anyone. For anyone passing by, analogies exclusively compare similarities, not dissimilarities. Here we are exclusively comparing similarities.

In this case the US government would be helping with optional standards that help provide the glue between market participants faster.

The ethos of the space has nothing to do with the technology. I don't even get what the no regulation meme even means to you as a government helping contract formation and lending credence to one path while showing why is not regulation. Its freedom of association all the way down. Everyone is free to associate with a state contributed contract standard, and free to associate with a random one.

It is noteworthy that I used the words "help" and "collaborate" and you read "USG defining" and "USG regulate". Its the allergy to the word government that has room for re-evaluation. The concept of an adversarial state is familiar, but not all that there is, governments can also be gigantic nonprofits actually functioning in collaboration with the public. Sometimes I use them that way.
World must brace for more extreme wildfires: UN
I think I'm missing a lot of context here. Specialist cameras repurposes into blurry pixelated streaming devices?
They'll just pressure businesses into not accepting cash.

That pressure is already there in many subtle ways.
I work mainly with CRUD, and usually people want to search for specific customers, names or similar. While not necessarily bijective on its own (multiple customers, same name, for example), it narrows it down enough for the person to find the record. (Or filtering on multiple fields)

So, I don't really see a need to generate a natural key.
How much time is needed to jab everyone and how much for losing weight?

And if you are too overweight you are excluded from some activities and medical operations.

Just compare how much freedom was taken by things like the Patriot Act compared to mandatory vaccinations, not to mention the higher death toll of corona. A long it's only the freedom of others there is no problem but when it comes to themselves, they channel their inner William Wallace
New study reveals algae can help further reduce CO2 emissions
Hey wass08,
we do have a clone feature that will allow you to clone and resync the clones from origin. This can be used to quickly duplicate an instance and resynchronize the content from the source at any time.
You are welcome. If you'd like to chat please let me know. I stayed for a month in Kiev and I'd apreciate talking to a hacker from the region. I'm best reached on Twitter, since my email gets so much spam.
An automate anti-spam algorithm, I don't know the specifics but this submission was [dead], too, so it might be IP address or account based. Users with higher karma score have a button 'vouch'. I clicked that now for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30439995

See also "What does [dead] mean?" on https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
This is why I disagree with recreational lawmaking. If you employ a bunch of people whose only job is to make laws, you soon end up with a bunch of absurd laws like this, just because someone got stung by a bee once and a politician decided it would make for a handy Facebook ad in their next campaign. And before you know it, you can't move a finger without breaking one of the ten million laws that govern your every action. No one wants this and yet somehow we've ended up with it.
Looks good, but not being able to access the raw files means tools like foam won’t work https://github.com/foambubble/foam . There’s a whole community using foam that would appreciate an app like this.

To be fair you mention you have your own knowledge map utilities built in so maybe that’s good enough to use directly. I just didn’t notice that looking at your website.

Price seems a little high, it’s higher than Evernote which does have some minimal markdown support now and offline editing. This would need more features to justify the cost but that’s just imo.

> As soon as you are disconnected from the internet Supernotes will enter a 'read-only' mode. You will still be able to browse, read and search your notes, like so:

Is this the same with the app? If I’m out some place with no signal can I write/update a note? It would be frustrating having to wait for your phone to connect first.
If you need to proxy the requests to your Apache server(s), then sure, Nginx is really nice. It's got proper HTTP/2 support unlike Apache, and it also supports proxying mail and other connections if needed.

There's little reason to replace Apache completely, though.
Overall in developed countries the pay gap has largely been closed over the last few decades, but remaining gaps are not fiction. There are still real and unjustifiable gaps in some employment sectors, especially in a region as diverse as the EU. Pay gaps in some Eastern European countries for example still persist.
NASA's 'quiet' X-59 supersonic plane moves to Texas for testing and calibration
Author here.
strace wouldn't work for this. Need to track individual page faults + their addresses. Problem with memory-mapped IO is that it's all done by memory-access "side-effects".

The strace-like functionality is supposedly more efficient and is more convenient.
I don't understand your comment. The whole reason why most nightmarish historical moments are considered nightmarish is because they give certain groups drastically elevated rights, and others none. Talking about an apartheid society without talking about privilege is nonsensical.
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How is “our democracy is not in danger” apply to people who had their funds frozen for supporting convoys? Does “our” means “mine” in this case?
Oh man, if you see it like that, is probably becoming true. In other industries or jobs it could b, but in tech? Companies are the ones looking for more developers, and if you made it to senior, you have a lot of power.

ABI or rich parents are the only options for you, it seems. Such a sad view. We don't need to be the next Bezos to avoid the wage slavery. We just need to be financially independent: some investments, maybe some flats for rent... in general, the principles of FIRE are possible for those who work in tech or engineering. It is a matter of making the effort to get there (and a bit of luck, of course). But if you start defeating yourself since the start, of course you will lose.

Also, working for a salary is not wage slavery in every case. In fact, working for money is the modern equivalent of spending the day wandering around for food or going to a 3 days' hunting trip with the fellow cavemen. What I mean is that no matter what, you have to get food and shelter to live, so either you work for it or someone else does. Which is essentially what ABI is. Until automation reaches full capabilities (if it does and Skynet doesn't kill us), you have to work to get food (and other services we want and need today) so try to find the best way for you to get that. Don't rely on others, they have no obligation with you and your desires.
Bitcoin was some neat tech. But, in case you haven’t noticed it’s been taken over by finance bros. Now, it’s just a scam to prey on the poor and ignorant.