skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has this to say:

Warranties are separate from your automatic consumer guarantees. The consumer guarantees which apply regardless of any warranties suppliers sell or give to you, apply for a reasonable time depending on the nature of the goods or services. This means consumer guarantees may continue to apply after the time period for the warranty has expired.*

https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/consumer-rights-guarantees...

You can ask for a replacement or refund if the problem with the product is major.

What is a major problem?

A product or good has a major problem when:

it has a problem that would have stopped someone from buying it if they’d known about it

it has multiple minor problems that, when taken as a whole, would have stopped someone from buying it if they’d known about them

it is significantly different from the sample or description
it is substantially unfit for its common purpose and can’t easily be fixed within a reasonable time

it doesn’t do what you asked for and can’t easily be fixed within a reasonable time; or
it is unsafe.

https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/consumer-rights-guarantees...

There is no specific time when the consumer guarantees no longer apply to products. They may apply even after the manufacturer's warranty period has past. The length of the consumer guarantee period depends on a number of factors including:

how much time has passed since the consumer bought the product
the type of product
how a consumer is likely to use the product
the length of time for which it is reasonable for the product to be used
the amount of use it could reasonably be expected to tolerate before the failure becomes noticeable.

https://business.gov.au/Products-and-services/Fair-trading/A...
I constantly use mermaid for flow charts etc in markdown.

Gitlab for example renders these if you tag a codeblock with "mermaid".
When it comes to dishes, there is one thing I have found that seems to work universally for children and adults alike: give them ownership. They have their own set of dishes, and it is made clear that it is their responsibility to clean them and keep them, and to not have them be in the way of others trying to do the same. If your dish is not clean, you must clean it before it can be used.

Things get hairier when it comes to pots and pans and other such common use items, but I have found that the second part of the above helps here too: make sure you're not blocking others from keeping their stuff clean. This leads to washing as you go, to caring for your stuff, and to a sense of pride in your work.

inb4 commies /s
Treating children like "young adults" makes so much sense.
There must be some limits to it, of course.

Can anybody recommend a good article or a book by a psychologist/psychiatrist elaborating this topic?
I was expecting the post to mention how nuclear energy fits into this modelling somewhere, and I was surprised when it didn't. It looked to me that it could be at least a partial solution to most of the points raised.
> I’d wager a PhD is probably the most reliable way to effect real change in your mind as an adult

Not sure how you define change, but I'm pretty sure one experience with psychedelics is going to effect more change in about 4 hours than a PhD in 4 years. Not the same type of change, granted.
I wonder if someone like Jeff Bezos gets custom made 4K OLED panels made for his mansions and yachts to ensure nobody is spying on him. I’d bet you have to hire all sorts of weird security managers and stuff as a billionaire that a layperson wouldn’t expect, right? Maybe Warren Buffet avoids this because everything in his house is from 1973?

One disgruntled plumber or maid and suddenly you’ve got Bezos dropping a deuce complete with toilet view all over the internet.
So after reading that I went to check the literature and it seems to on average be a net benefit. Complications and regret are both possible, but various objective and subjective measurements do improve on average.

Ex: https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coverage/DeterminationProcess/D...
Wordpress.com has provided great free service. It has been really easy to start a blog on that or other services. The editors etc have worked great, it's been easy to write text and insert images and mathematical formulas. Thank you for the service, it has brought humankind forward. Wordpress is of course under no obligation to archive old blogs, but it's been another very nice extra.
Support... You mean sharing on internet?
You should improve your model before releasing it.

I see constant false positives.

Creating an ml model is the easy part, having a reasonable amount of certainty is the hard part.
In a collaboratively edited doc (which we should do more of, not less), the 6th person in read a different doc than the 2nd person, yet they both “read the doc”

That dynamic is much reduced in a synchronous meeting because everyone’s at the same meeting.
WordPress core is lacking a lot of features you'd expect for basic sites though (e.g. contact forms, caching, FAQ, SEO tags, social sharing) so anything but basic blogs require plugins or custom code.

A big draw of WordPress is that non-developers can customise it with all the plugins that are available, so saying WordPress is secure as long as you avoid plugins nullifies this. It's terrifying that a contact form or caching plugin that you need to install because the functionality isn't built-in could result in a remote code execution exploit.
There is also Publii ( https://getpublii.com/ ) which is like a desktop app where you write your posts in, and then you can hit a "publish" button and it will deploy. Deployment (afair) can be one of the well-known names like Digital Ocean, or a simple FTP access to whatever shared hosting you rented.

The procedure can't get a lot less technical, and for some people this may be the right thing. Plus, since it's a SSG basically, there is not much to worry about vulnerabilities.

I tried it briefly and decided it's not for me (don't exactly remember which drawbacks killed it for me), but I think the approach has some value to it in general.
I can't help but feel the views of the author are carefully crafted to support the agenda of lobbyists and pro fossil fuel groups. The logic is really quite weak and doesn't support the current situation.

The author also posted articles that are anti-vax.

A comment left on this blog post:

Interesting that we think we can substitute millions of years of natures energy (fossil fuels) with a few techno gimmicks; solar wind, nuclear.
Similarly we think we can substitute millions of years of immune system natural evolution with a techno gimmick; mRNA injections.
Both are woke ideas from the asleep who rule over us.

The author responded

Good way of putting the problem.
Almost at 5k followers, Twitter suspended 12 of my accounts and I could do nothing - got them to unsuspend once by filling the same form 12 times, and then everything got suspended again in a week. I gave up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28482458
EIA says world primary energy usage was 6.346×10^20 J in 2020 for the year (https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/ieo/data/pdf/ref/A01_r.pdf)

The average peak solar irradiance is 1,000 watts/meter^2. Assuming we get that only for 4 hours a day and no sunlight any other time, that's 1.44×10^7 J/m^2/day, or 5.26×10^9 J/m^2/year. Dividing those numbers together, we get 1.21×10^11 square meters needed.

Texas is 6.957×10^11 square meters.

You might want to take that class again.
Hm

I mean, to a certain extent, running a startup often means convincing people of a problem they didn't know they had. I think a more accurate simplification of their post mortem is something like:

"I had a problem and solved it for myself. I thought it was a problem others had, but it turned out most people didn't think it was a problem, and I couldn't convince them otherwise."
If you're looking for a better book, I can recommend:

Matrix computations, by Golub and van Loan.
Huh glad it's not about cooking because I was ready to be ranting (ie recipes using 1 tablespoon instead of X grams)
What is it like to be bipolar? (A colourful poem)
What is it like to be bipolar? (A colourful poem)

7 years ago I’ve written a poem about my life as a bipolar person.
I never had the courage to show it to anyone - so I would like to write this post the way I would have written it back then.

Hello.

I have bipolar disorder.

So, what is like to be bipolar?
It’s a difficult question to answer. First of all, every bipolar person is different. Medical literature distinguishes 5 core types of Bipolar Disorders(BP1, 2, Cyclothymic, mixed and rapid changing), but I think it’s better to think of it as music: it’s useful to classify songs into genres, but even within the same genre the songs can sound completely different.
The same goes for people with bipolar disorder - we might have the same diagnosis, but we all experience and navigate our condition in unique ways.
I don’t just mean that we have different episodes, with different triggers, duration, intensity, feelings, …etc.
Of course we do.
But it goes much deeper than that.
It’s the way we reason about it, the way we try to make sense of it and integrate it into our lives. Ask 10 people with bipolar disorder - and you will get 10 unique narratives.

This poem is about my personal experience.

I invite you to read it - it’s a small window into my life - just one song in the musical genre of “Bipolarity”.

I welcome all your comments, good or bad! :)

LINK TO THE POEM:

https://k-i-t-s-u-n-e.github.io/again/

Thank you for reading it!
The question is how likely a longer interview process with avoid such employees not that they have a cost.

In your case code reviews could have caught the issue early before it became such a problem. Though obviously they also have a cost.
It took around 22 years for Finland to get their latest nuclear plant operational, that's a long time to wait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30653220

Yes, the second plant should be built faster but right now nuclear energy is a very long game.
I was on a ski trip in the 80s to NZ and we had rented a place where the phone was on a bus party line with four or five other homes so they told us only pick up with three bells anything else was for another property but remember anyone could pickup and listen. Hard to believe that and 5G have been possible in one lifetime.
I have always wondered how they are managing all the complexity in Dota. It just is a humongous amount of complexity around all the items and abilities and how they affect each other.

When I saw there is a directory structure, for a second I thought it might be the source code to these games and I thought I can finally take a look at Dota's source.
Music videos will often have different versions of the song with added sound effects, a more cinematic intro and outro, and even breaks in the song for a dramatic sequence. These flourishes make sense when you have a video but wouldn’t make any sense in purely audio context.
Oh, I see. It even says so on the front page, but I was already clicking through. Well, they do endorse it!
Yeah, the company I work for recently got acquired by a US corporate. I went from one ~15min stand-up call a day to 3-4 hours of meetings per day, all mandated by the US VPs. Our company has had to double our number of developers just to get the same amount of work done that we did pre-acquisition.
When you say "make sure you are getting n years of experience and not one year of experience n times", do you mean to try and work on something different each year? Or did you mean something else?
This, unfortunately, reads like FUD to me.

There are limits to solar and wind, both in terms of their carbon footprint, their operating window and their storage, but all these costs are quickly dropping and availability is quickly ramping up. Solar and battery technology are experiencing a similar "Moore's Law" of their own (Swanson's law [0] for solar and Wright's law for the more general scenario [1]).

Solar is at $.75 at the consumer level and sub $0.30 at the commercial level, with costs only going down (exponentially so). Deep cycle lead acid batteries are available, right now, at the consumer level, for $0.15 / Wh with LiFePo4 sub $0.10 / Wh in some cases. I would expect non lead acid batteries to also undergo exponential decay in price.

I unfortunately don't have the talk I saw it in, but there's a cute anecdote they give. They show a picture of a busy street in the middle of New York city, with the street filled with horses, carriages and only one or two cars. They show the same spot 10 years later filled with cars and only one or two horses and carriages. Where I live (upstate New York state in the USA), I see solar farms popping up. My expectation is that solar will become widely deployed and adopted in the next 10-15 years.

The author looks to dismiss ideas of exponential growth and adoption. I also am finding more and more FUD against solar and other "green" technology, falsely claiming the coal and the carbon footprint in it's manufacture is commensurate or outweighs the fossil fuel equivalent (it doesn't).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson%27s_law

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects
I had a MacBook die just outside of warranty. It was purchased in Australia. I was overseas and spoke with support who said have to pay to fix. Flew to Australia and had it replaced under consumer protection law.
Yeah these people are no better than Guy McPherson. Let's all give up and become mars. I say we fight like Zelenskyy and try to solve the climate crisis.
It is only a fact when you look at appearance instead of what things actually mean.
Just block all outgoing traffic to AS15169 on your firewall.
After a few years of remote working, me and some colleagues just randomly call each other with “watercooler conversations”. IE About once or twice a day, we are on slack and just call each other to answer and continue talking about random things and ideas

In my experience, this is the closest to just being together in an office without being in an office
So you're saying all the proof of Russian war crimes and genocide are fabricated?
Catalogue numbers!

You wouldn’t index a collection of records by the shape of its sonic wave forms, would you?

No more would you index by the artistic representations on the cover which, as we have seen, includes everything including the words purporting to be the artist name and the title of the release.

No, of course not! You use the barcode on the back!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalog_number_(music)

For white labels, I guess you have to hide them in a pile until they get a release.
Eh, we haven't been trying very hard. Germany has essentially stopped building new wind turbines (1, second graph).

Even now, when its become blindingly obvious that massive reliance on fossil fuels from foreign dictatorships is an immediate national security concern in addition to a intergenerational moral hazard, there has not been a decisive push for more buildout. It takes half a decade to build a wind park, if you can find a place where insane NIMBY rules let you build one.

Generation has still gone up (the first graph), because existing turbines are replaced by more powerful ones. We could have been in an entirely different place if the government hadn't stopped pushing for it 15 years ago.

(1) https://www.wind-energie.de/themen/zahlen-und-fakten/deutsch...
You may want to look at NDepend[1]. I used it recently for a project and it worked pretty well but a full license is quite costly so I only played with the trial version.

1: https://www.ndepend.com/
By 2050, with current plans, the quantity of worn-out solar panels—much of it nonrecyclable—will constitute double the tonnage of all today’s global plastic waste, along with over 3 million tons per year of unrecyclable plastics
from worn-out wind turbine blades. By 2030, more than 10 million tons per year of batteries will become garbage.
And a seven segment display can last decades. If they used an LCD i'd imagine the reliability gains are largely offset by the LCD.
Thought Numerical Recipes was used mostly in courses for students to learn about numerical methods rather using those pre-made routines for building large programs.
Incredible album
They'd probably look a lot like much of London (including many of the suburbs) or other old city where the road layout dates from before cars, or at least from before cars were so ubiquitous: loads of houses were built in the 30s when cars existed but were rare.
Could you elaborate? Other CMSs have nothing similar? My feeling is you can make an okay site with WordPress plugins only, but to make a great site you require custom code and should avoid most plugins to avoid bloat and security issues, and at that stage I'm not really sure how WordPress helps you in a way that's exceptional. The admin interface isn't particularly intuitive or modern, and has a lot of baggage, and the same could be said about the PHP API too.
I was wondering the same.

It feels like a mature version of this product would be ideal for publishers and other customers of authors.

However I suspect we are not there yet technological wise and therefore he was unable/didn't attempt to sell the product to these companies.
> Yes, this is a necessary consequence of the first observation.

Not necessarily. The cholesterol could be redundant.
I think the confusion stems from the existence of “4-Track Demos”, but in practice Albini really liked the original demos and encouraged Harvey to turn them into an album.

My only real complaint about the production on “Rid of Me” is the obnoxious volume shifts on the title track and “Highway 61 Revisited” which seem to neither reflect what the live performances sounded like nor accommodate home listening.
Clearly to tell everyone about it. I hope it was worth it.
Funny you mention that. I was ready to rant the opposite (ie, that recipes should not include exact measurements).

I really, strongly believe that our obsession with measurement and repeatability is a net negative that has taught a whole generation to treat cooking like a standardised test rather than a creative form of human expression.

You look at the older generations from cultures that value cooking and they simply don't give a fuck about what the recipe says to do.
The fundamental problem with the Web is that archival was never part of its job. You send HTTP queries to the server and it answers. If somebody switches that server off, all that information is gone. Even just updating the server will inevitably destroy the content. You can try to preserve it with well named URLs, mirror it and such, but it's a lossy process. There was never a mechanism to keep URLs working long term and even if an URL still works, you can't tell if the content is still the same that was there back when the Link was created.

As bad as the modern centralization is in a lot of other ways, I actually quite like the way Youtube works. Every video gets a unique id, a permanent URL and is immutable (with some exceptions). That means most videos from the very early days of Youtube are still around and accessible, while most of the Web of that time is long gone.

The Web really could need a more robust way to publish content, just throwing stuff on a server really isn't cutting it.
GNU Mailman – Python powered mailing list manager
> and our energy demands only keep getting higher

That’s why a lot of environmentalist’s focus is on reducing energy consumption.
If you want a random number in [0,1] with a uniform distribution from N random bits, I don't see how you can expect an epsilon of less than 1/(2**N-1)
Is it just me or does the article only mention female examples? I specifically searched for „boy“ and „son“, to no avail.
If you want to generate a uniform random float in [0,1), half your results have to be in the [0.5,1) range. That space is half as dense as the [0, 0.5) range. (And this applies again for [0.25,0.5) vs. [0, 0.25), etc, and so on. And this is also disregarding the whole space of denormalized floats.) So regardless of your method, you're going to have to ignore nearly all the floats in the range! (Or generate many more than 32 bits and use them non-uniformly to make a uniform output - see orlp's comment.)

There are other problems with what you say their suggestion was, e.g. INT_MAX should be RAND_MAX, and you need to take some care with rounding/conversion, and inclusive vs. exclusive upper bound requires careful attention. But with any simple approach you just can't use most of the small float space, and so the division approach with the details done correctly is pretty common!

Edit since rate-limited: orlp, I think we're only in disagreement about what qualifies as "very efficient". It's an efficient implementation of the more complex problem, but it's also much slower than the division. I wouldn't want it to be the default float generator for a general-pupose language - even most scientific modeling or statistical analysis code won't benefit from the increased output space. OP should think very hard about how they intend to use values in that range before insisting they really need it - the division approach really is sufficient and NR is right to recommend it by default!
Seems nr.com is no more. Wonder why they decided (or should I say how much they're offered) to switch away from such a premium domain.
> that recipes should not include exact measurements

Wouldn't that make cooking much less accessible?
And yet it's still commonplace for electronics to come with stickers saying "Warranty void if seal broken" despite what the law actually states. Magnuson-Moss was passed in 1975. It has been 47 years and still corporations flout the law with impunity. Does it really matter what the law is if the government refuses to enforce it?
Norway EV sales: 86% of new car sales in Norway were electric vehicles in March
Why do I have to scroll down not one, but two whole window heights below the fold to be able to see the opening line of the article. What does an irrelevant sunset have to Wordpress? I think the author could take a few design cues from Paul Graham's blog or from Craigslist.

In fact, perhaps if he wasn't wasting his storage space with pretty but giant and irrelevant photos, the reduction in storage space wouldn't be as much of an issue.
The end result is that you need enough new housing to satisfy the demand of not just all of the people who currently reside in or near the city, but also everyone who lives elsewhere but is currently kept from immigrating by high housing prices. This is a massive undertaking, but of course the only solution to the problem of insufficient housing in the places people want to live is to build sufficient housing. Anything and everything else is fundamentally just moving deck chairs on the Titanic.
The market price of houses has almost nothing to do with the buildings themselves, and the cost of internal surface materials has essentially no relevant bearing on the price either.

To get the market price for housing down; even a supply glut would not help as long as mortgages are subsidised, and defacto function as economic stimulus and retirement funds.
I don't think you've read my post. Judging that experts on vaccines know better than you (or me) about vaccines has nothing to do with faith, it is merely a realistic assessment of your knowledge about vaccines versus the experts' knowledge about vaccines. Realistic assessments of reality are never mostly based on faith.