skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We did something similar recently. This looks like standard, low cost modern construction to me.

If you’re in a warmish climate (like the SF bay area), you probably don’t want to insulate the concrete slab. You get lots of passive heating of the slab in winter already, and having the ground suck that heat out is a win almost year round. South facing windows can be designed with an eave, etc to lower passive heating in the summer and increase it in the winter. There are reference maps for this, and an architect can work out the passive heating projections for you.

We opted for different insulation (there are new eco friendly spray foams, and rockwool is nice for moisture resistance, etc). We didn’t do the split stud double frame thing, but we’re not in Wisconsin, and the R value for the house is already overkill (with an insulation budget that was a tiny fraction of the cost of the house).
If you have an exhaust fan on to remove shower steam, the air needs to come from somewhere. You don’t want it getting sucked in through the walls (bad air quality). Better to open a window.
I'm in Texas, and as always, it depends.

Average property tax rate for the Houston area is 2.31%. There's lots of things that come into the equation (homestead caps, exemptions, etc.), but for an average priced home of, say $350,000 you'll be owing ~$8,000 in property taxes.

The trickiest part is that your property values are reassessed every year, so for a long time our tax bill has just gone up, whether your income has or not.

I'll still take Texas economics over California economics, but everywhere has its tax pros and cons.
The dilbert guy: biggest lesson, you don't have to be the smartest guy. just smart enough across multiple verticals and it's like a superpower.

and the stoic guy marcus aurelius: don't sweat imagined horrors it's almost never that serious.
Which is strictly true. Except Google has much further reach.
>Mussolini never gained absolute power

i think you're conflating absolute power and totalitarianism. Though they may co-exist occasionally, those are 2 different things. Absolutism is about unchecked power of the ruler over state, while totalitarianism is about control of the state over all aspects of the citizens' lives. Roman Empire like say France of 17th century or like most of the kingdoms/empires in the history was absolutist (Magna Carta in 1215 started that slow process of non-absolutist kingdoms appearance in history). In absolutist state the will of the rule is the primary source of the things, and may be codified in the laws or may be applied just at whim. A totalitarian state isn't necessarily absolutist. It may be absolutist like the USSR during Stalin while it may be not absolutist like the same USSR during Brezhnev. In totalitarian state people are typically oppressed based on the laws of the state driven by ideology, not because of the whims of the ruler. The whims of the ruler if happen, like in case of Stalin, come in addition to the totalitarian state oppression and don't change the nature of the state, and may naturally disappear with the death of the ruler while the totalitarian state would continue its existence.

Looking at pre-20th century history the closest to totalitarianism would be the Church's tight control over all aspects of the people lives in the Middle Ages. That Church's power wasn't absolutist - it wasn't performed purely according to the whims of the current Pope, instead it was mainly driven by the Church's ideology, and while Popes changed the state of total control of the Church over people would go unchanged for centuries. Compare that Church's power with the power of the kings at the same time - the kings could do whatever they want, kill/punish whoever they wanted, yet they didn't maintain such control as the Church.
perri-air cans
Unhindered housing markets haven't been allowed to exist for fifty years. Homes for people of limited means, outlawed for almost a century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy
The hero we needed
I get the feeling that the controversy around the use of the word master started with the master-slave terminology used in hard drive technology (which was problematic) which then just spiralled out of control.

Call me suspicious, but I’m not convinced that the arguments extending the debate to all use of the word master are entirely made in good faith. In fact, it seems a lot like controversy for controversies sake and I can’t help but wonder if some troll isn’t out there fanning the flames.
The firmware can only do this by turning on an extremely slow fallback path. It's not common and it's seen as an avenue of last resort.
US officials heading to Solomons over China pact worries
Yea using Django only for DRF APIs always felt limited. I want Django forms and form sets.

Reach out if you have any questions! Email is on my GitHub profile.
Seattle is actually a good counter example showing that more supply does bring down rents: https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2019/01/apartment-rents-...
> health clubs are expempt

Hmm, does one sign up for an automated monthly subscription for health clubs in the US?
> Ideally someone would value your creativity or recognize the value in paying you enough to do a task that has value to them while also giving you time and space to work on the things which are valuable to you.

You would think this would be the case, but I have only encountered this at one company. I was a professional web developer / designer who also learned to become a "full stack" engineer over the course of 20 years. it started out great and kept me satiated creatively for a long time but ultimately i think it lead to more trouble than it was worth (a career i mean).

The number of companies that have taken advantage of me in various ways is appalling. I decided I wanted to stop working 10 years ago but I still had debt to pay off and a number of other poor life choices that had me weighted down. I knew I wanted to make games but I also had never programmed any games (other than some qbasic stuff when i was a kid) so I quit my job and started contracting and learned c# and Unity3D and tinkered with games in my spare time.

I've also learned C++ and Unreal Engine and done a bit of just pure C++ game stuff but I haven't released anything official yet.

My current plan is to release a few well polished small games that I've been working on to multiple platforms and see what happens.

> I love to make art. I write with no expectation

This is exactly how i feel about the games. I have lost loads of money thanks to this and in reality it may never pan out financially, but at least I will get some creative projects out the door and feel satisfied that I didn't waste my entire skill set assigning scrum points to story cards, or working 18 hours a day for some other person's startup fever dream.
Note that the parent comment is not talking about the ability to live as one wants, express oneself in any manner, or even to be referred to as one pleases. It's about the desire to literally change the definition of one of the most fundamental concepts in any human language or indeed, human society.

I express no opinion about whether this is a cause worth fighting for, but there is absolutely no reality in which there would not be a fight over such a breathtakingly ambitious objective.
That desktop motherboard and CPU likely requires more power, more cooling, and a bigger case.

I can see the "Framework motherboard as SBC" idea catch on for everything from set-top boxes (Steam Machines could make a comeback this way) to a poor man's blade server.
Node.js 18
Sounds like an interesting model. I wonder if it would come with any regulatory hurdles in addition to the technical work plus efforts to make inroads with enough advisors... and then I wonder if there's a way to advertise that kind of optional product offering without immediately turning off the contingent of privacy-focused DIYers that the tool currently resonates with.
I never understood why someone just didn't build a Ethernet over TB-4 switch with USB-C cables instead of RJ45/SFP+ ports. Yes you'd be limited to 1 to 2 meters of cable length, but you could still add a proper ethernet port as a backhaul.

Yes it might not be as fast, but in the end, all SATA, TB4, and ethernet does is push bits over a wire.
I have been on so many interview loops where interviewers faulted the architecture skill or experience of candidates because they talked about having used relational databases or tried to use them in design questions.

The attitude “our company = scale and scale = nosql” is prevalent enough that even if you know better, it’s probably in your interest to play the game. It’s the one “scalability fact” everyone knows, and a shortcut to sounding smart in front of management when you can’t grasp or haven’t taken the time to dig in on the details.
Spending energy on trivial things is called recreation or entertainment. If you are only going to spend your time trying to solve serious problems, then what really is the point of solving those problems anyway.

Interestingly, having automated lights and detailed power monitoring has helped me to reduce my average electric consumption by around 20%. Imagine the impact on global warming if everyone reduced their electric consumption by 20%.
>The consequences of diversity hiring are going to catch up to us eventually, assuming they haven't already.

Especially when one takes two seconds to actually consider the implications of these policies: if you are going to far as to acknowledge that discrimination is ok because different demographics bring different professional attributes to the table, then you are implicitly acknowledging discrimination is OK because some of these attributes are worth more than others. You can't claim that diversity of skin color == diversity of thought and pretend that the differences are only positive - that's not logically consistent.

Race blindness is the optimal solution so long as humans are products of genes and culture. We were on a decent path for a few decades - now all these policies are doing is justifying a resurgence of classical racism; except the racists think they have the moral imperative because they've convinced themselves that all of their ills, past and present, are entirely the fault of evil white men (and women when convenient). This is a disgusting, dangerous game, doubly so when you're not allowed to question it.
That's the general equilibrium effect I am shooting for -- make it unprofitable for landlords beyond a certain size in an area.
> Having a lead in chip design is their literal bread and butter

Sounds tasty, I'll have to take a trip to the nvidia cafe some time =)
If you are a builder that executes these details on every project, the cost impact is manageable. When you consider that houses are largely financed and also have operating costs that are dependent on energy efficiency, better built homes make sense on a cash flow basis.

However, the real estate industry does not properly value energy efficient projects, and most builders don't execute these details often, so they end up costing more than they should.

Another article from Fine Homebuilding goes over some of these issues: https://www.finehomebuilding.com/project-guides/insulation/d...
Sorry I've never used OpenBSD.

It looks like OpenBSD's httpd does not support CGI, instead it only does FastCGI:

https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8

You then have to use a wrapper to convert FastCGI into CGI:

https://man.openbsd.org/slowcgi.8

I wouldn't bother with all of this. Use a http server that has your back from the start, don't layer more protocols and add daemons where you don't have to

https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/046_cgi/

I wonder: if CGI isn't enough for a project then wouldn't it be better to talk HTTP natively yourself and go through a HTTP<->HTTPS proxy rather than talking FCGI yourself and going through a FCGI<->HTTPS proxy? I'm not sure, I have not tested both routes, CGI is more than enough for my uses.
What was the purpose of the header? Seems an enormous, superfluous 'back' button.

https://i.imgur.com/5k2j8F8.png
The other services are not charging a premium just for 4K, are not bundling 4K with 4 screens and have content that competes/beats Netflix's. They also haven't saturated the markets so you will not see them slowing down yet.

I predict Netflix will change two things business wise:
1. Ads.
2. No content dumps, instead 1 episode/week.
I disagree. Kind of. There are many questions that are bullshit puzzle types but I do think HR and LC provides value of teaching when a Data Structure or algorithm is suitable for use. At the very least, It’s far better means of understanding the flexible use that college textbooks don’t teach while having test cases to see pitfalls of implementations. Having a community that shows ingenious ways of tackling problems is valuable too.
You’re the first person I’ve seen articulate this idea. It’s not necessary to overly dramatize it. It was a terrible event. However, there was a near-zero chance of the protests resulting in a real coup. Maybe people don’t realize that the power in this country isn’t located in a single building. Not since the 1700s at least.
Wow - really surprised at this move by Netlify. It looks like that's a new policy[1] where a "Member" is not just someone who can log in to the Netlify UI and manage a site, but anyone who can trigger a build.

Relevant quote from the article outlining the policy changes:

> For sites connected to private Git repositories on Pro and Business teams, Git contributors will need to be team members in order to trigger builds.

> Teams will only be billed for the number of team members. Currently, Git contributors are people who trigger builds on your team’s site(s). Moving forward, in order to trigger builds, Git contributors who aren’t Team Members, such as people in the ‘Contributors via Git’ section, Reviewers, or people not on the team entirely, will need to have their deploy approved by a team Owner.

> Once their deploy is approved, they’ll be invited to become a Team Member and can deploy without approval from then on. If their deploy is rejected, their build won’t run and they will not be added as a team member to your monthly bill.

> This change does not apply to sites linked to public repositories or sites on Starter or Open Source plan teams.

So it sounds like you could limit your costs by limiting your team Owners.

This pricing doesn't seem like a good value proposition to me. I see Netlify as a web host and CDN which has products very comparable to some of Cloudflare's products. In those spaces billing is generally based on usage, not number of seats.

What you get from Netlify doesn't scale with the number of seats you pay for.

If I have 1 member on the Business plan I'll pay $99/mo and get 1.5TB of bandwidth per month. If I have 5 members on the Business plan, I'll pay $495/mo and still only get 1.5TB of bandwidth. Hardly seems fair or reasonable.

[1] https://answers.netlify.com/t/upcoming-changes-to-netlify-pl...
Are you assuming that just because they're blue?
Curious. What is the issue with OTA updates?
In multiple programming languages, "=" means either assignment or equality.

The compiler determines what the programmer means through the context of its usage.

Prescriptivism is nonsense.
You'd be surprised how many subreddits are owned by corporates or PR firms retained on their behalf. AmazonFC is quite likely a corporate subreddit.

It's also shocking Amazon employees don't yet have their own forum setup for this, with a web-of-trust system, so that moles can be rooted out easily. Plenty of stuff like that out of the box for nominal fee.

How long will it take for everyone to fully understand that if you don't ownn something (free service) - they own you, and your content, and often even your thoughts, not the other way around?

Might get much worse before it gets better.
> If you open your distro package manager and look at the dependencies for an end-user app, it will not list header-only libraries

Well, it will list them in build dependencies (e.g. build-depends in Debian).
Yep, it has been proposed: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04633
Finding Similarities in Music Using Stumpy
Moscow-born Seattle CEO closes 800-Person Russian operation solidarity Ukraine
I've tried this twice and it didn't work out for me.

If you want even just some features like categories and tags you end up with a tool that has some weird metadata language you put over the actual text, the markup obviously is yet another slightly different kind of markdown, and then learn the umpteenth way of linking to internal sites. Then you run the generator, triple check everything is not messed up because of a misplaced space in the meta data and then upload everything to your server.

Compare this to a simple wysiwyg editor in the browser where you hit save. I've made my choice.
So - any protest where 5 protesters were killed at once would be dramatic. Some light research suggests that basically all of the people that have been killed at protests were using the protests to cover up some other activity, or because of some 1:1 dispute or grief. None of the protests over the last few years have had more than perhaps 2 associated deaths with any given event, and that's in protests involving 15-20m people in total.

The january 6th protest/riot involved 2000-2500-ish people, and 5 people died - 4 protesters and 1 police officer. Two more police officers committed suicide in the following weeks - could be unrelated, but seems....unlikely.

So that already puts January 6th in a category of its own in terms of deaths relative to number of involved parties (at least in modern times, I suppose the boston massacre had the same number of deaths with fewer protesters).

Then you couple the events with the context - a sitting president, disputing the electoral results, riles up a crowd of protesters, encourages them to go down to the capitol building, where the results of an election are being certified, and as a result - 5-7 people are dead. It's unprecedented.

I agree that some of the "coup" hyperbole is overblown - when I think of coup, I think of a highly organized plot to overthrow a government. However, I don't think the lack of project management around this particular initiative should distract from the fact that a lot of the people there were trying to "stop the steal", aka stop the legitimate counting of elections through force and violence.

So - a uniquely deadly protest, oriented around a presidential exhortation, that led to a group of people trying to disrupt the standard constitutional process of the peaceful transfer of power - that seems newsworthy, no?
Run away when you see some bullsh-t like this:

"But we're actively rebalancing 2x per year and we do tax loss harvesting".

What if all of your funds are up for the period? There is no tax loss harvesting to be done(!), but you are still paying 100bps per year. To me: "tax loss harvesting" is akin to "tax write-offs" -- see Seinfeld TV episode. The money is still spent / lost. Taxes are an after thought...

Beat them all: Put all of your money is an ETF that tracks S&P 500 index. iShares IVV and Vanguard VOO are excellent. Expenses are less than 5bps per year! After 3/5/10 years, you are nearly guaranteed (statistically) to be ahead of the investment advisor when including expenses.
I can't believe it took people 12 years since the publication of the WebSocket standard to figure this stuff out. Is everyone just running in circles?
> first breach of the capital since 1812

The US Capitol was bombed not once, not twice, but three separate times in the 20th century.

The 20th century also saw at least two shootings, one on the actual House floor with representatives injured.

I don't care what you think about Jan 6, the lies being spread about it being a unique occurrence are evil and must be condemned.

On a completely separate note, the claim that the event was remarkable because of the timing and intent to overturn election results is also a lie. Just four years earlier, there were violent organized protests throughout DC with the explicit stated goal of preventing the peaceful transition of power, which is a goal they did in fact achieve in a strict sense. These acts of widespread violence were planned on the open on Facebook and other social media; where was the hand-wringing then?
Ooh I like the idea of using SQlite. That would make backing up the site and moving it to other hosts much easier.

I'm going to have a look at Fossil if I need something more than Minisleep :)
"Affordable housing" is one of the most expensive, bureaucratic forms of construction, not a way to build faster.
I mean what percentage of companies are web scale or at your scale? I would guess around 1% being really generous. So it makes sense that the starting advice would be to not worry about scaling.
it would be nice especially for using an IDE like Datagrip to manage and explore the YDB db
The STUMPY implementation of the Matrix Profile is a remarkably powerful to find matching patterns in a data stream.
Nassim taleb, George Orwell books
Correction: Windows 11 usage stats within touching distance of XP on corporate networks where the IT department ran a program called "LanSweeper".

Seems worth mentioning the limited scope of these data points...
which openroad tools use "AI" rather than normal optimization like traditional EDA tools have used for decades?
Home assistant has deprecated open zwave and is now using zwave JS. Which has worked very well for me so far.
It sounds like they'll charge extra to avoid the ads. Based on other services, it'll be like $5 a month.

I'm still trying to figure out why advertisers would want to exclusively target Americans with under $5 / month of disposable income.

My big fear is that they'll make tracking and selling profile data mandatory. If it comes down to it, I guess other sources of Netflix content exist.
I know folks are excited about webassembly but it's a security nightmare. JS alone is bad enough with most exploits I see that can get you infected just by visiting a page requiring it even when the issue doesn't lie in JS directly. The idea of letting any random website you visit run code on your machines should give anyone pause, but it seems like everybody is just too excited about the powerful web applications they could make to worry about the malicious web apps that will be created as well.

For now I've got webassembly disabled, and I don't see that changing
Not really AlpineJS and Livewire are both highly popular and people are paying him for maintaining it. He makes podcast and occasional videos but it all revolves around those two tools. He is diversifiing by making and selling new product - Alpine Components but again that revolves around software he makes.

The Laracast guy will make videos about anything and the open source soft is mainly sideeffect of him being developer.
Pretty safe bet that pandemic-concerned skews blue.
California is complicated because Prop 13 means it's totally different depending on how long you've lived there. Ideally property tax would be higher and income lower… well ideally it'd be an LVT which doesn't tax building improvements.