skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People like Amory Lovins have long identified cases where it seems that you could spend $A today and then save $B a month later and after n months $nB >> $A. There are a long list of these where it seems there is a business case to invest $A in energy conservation yet people don't act.

One trouble is that energy consumption is noisy. I remember replacing all the incandescent bulbs in my house (circa 2002) with compact fluorescent bulbs, expecting a few dollars a month savings, but given the fluctuations of the bill those savings were invisible.

A few years later I was involved a project that involved evaluating the effectiveness of improvements in building energy efficiency at a large university and that turned out to be pretty difficult. We tried modelling the energy consumption of buildings based on the weather and found there was still a large residual of what seemed like random variation that typically dwarfed the effects of energy improvement upgrades. It could be that our model wasn't a good model, but it turns out to be very hard to prove that the energy and money savings advocated by the likes of Amory Lovins are real, so that's one reason why people don't invest in them.
One of the salient features of Lisps is that they are dynamic languages designed so they can be compiled into very efficient code. The details of how this works are interesting (for example, the use of low order bits as tags to efficiently detect common error cases, and also to allow types like characters, fixnums, and some floats to be represented without allocation.) A downside of this is that lisp implementations may not be ABI compatible with other language implementations.

The macros are orthogonal to this. Macros are really just an example of a more general thing: features that are used to effectively implement parts of the language definition are often lifted up and also made available to users. This effectively allows the language to be extended in a way that very closely resembles the language's built-ins. (This is not always the case; lifting more such things would be a good avenue for extending Lisps.)
> I wouldn't take my device to a third party anyways

Me neither, which is why I want the right to repair to be a thing, so I can get parts just like the third-party I wouldn't use and do the repair myself instead.

> Secondly after owning an iPhone for over a decade not once have I needed a repair.

Beyond actual repair there are consumable parts such as batteries which need replacement after a year or so.

> I feel like the repair issue is manufactured outrage for a problem that doesn't actually exist

It may not exist for you, but does it hurt you or make your situation worse in any way if the repair issue were solved? If not, then why is it a bad thing if some other people (for whom repair is an actual problem) benefit from it?
As you say, it's much easier for Apple to roll back these voluntary measures once the pressure dies down. Proper legislation would help prevent that.
In the EU there is the WEEE directive (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive for those snickering in the back of the class!) which states this -

Distributor obligations - All distributors must:
Offer free take back on WEEE; Accept WEEE for free from customers supplied with like-for-like products, regardless of whether this is done in store, online or by mail order

(You're Seattle based so not applicable in your circumstances)

[Source https://www.gov.uk/guidance/regulations-waste-electrical-and...]
In my opinion, the difference between Mastodon/ActivityPub/the fediverse and email is adoption. If Mastodon was more popular:

- A handful of instances provided by large companies would probably crop up and end up hosting the majority of users

- Spammers would notice that they could reach a large number of people via Mastodon, and start spamming

- The providers of these large instances would moderate heavily to prevent their own instances being used for spam, and begin blocking / not federating with small instances

I should add that spam is probably _already_ a problem on Mastodon, but perhaps not to the extent that it is for email since the average Mastodon user is (for now!) way less likely to fall for a scam and therefore a much less valuable target.
Google still marks some of my mail as spam even though I have jumped through all the spf/dkim/dmarc hoops. Yet I still get tons of actual, obvious, previously-marked spam in my gmail inbox. F google.
You can. Ive set up mail records for jobs before. Its just a question of maintaining the dns records and paying whatever fee to your registrar like everything else.

Not sure what the story is with self hosting spam filtering. I think most people call an external service
That was a great short story.

In contrast, I just read Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir, author of the Martian, and boy is translation between alien languages nice and trivial in that.
I think it’s more like Gandiva or DataFusion (both from the Apache Arrow project).
No but the results are out:

https://nypost.com/2022/04/27/conservatives-see-spike-in-fol...
Not to toot our own horn, but I'd look into Cappuccino and 280 Slides too (we were YC no less!) and were the first iteration in the GWT era to extend JS itself and transpile in the browser.
> at this point in my career I don't want to touch C++ anymore unless I have no other choice.

What would you use now?
It is not hard to diagnose once you eventually get to a person that can diagnose it. You said it yourself. It is not about difficultly, but time spent with the patient.

But I literally showed my doctor the cutaneous lupus in my ear and she said "Oh, some people just get gunk in their ears" and would not send me to a rheumatologist.

The slow diagnosis is because the specialists are so reluctant to see people. Right now I am on a six month wait to see a rheumatologist. Why? Capitalism.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7255118/
> Isn't Toyota making cars in the U.S. now?

Yes, because of tariffs. They wouldn’t do it if imported cars weren’t heavily penalized for being manufactured elsewhere.
Convinced eh? Sounds like baseless supposition to me.
~12% of my net

That is 12% of my net income only, not total household income (wife's income, mother's social security, and soon-to-be expected income from our rental property, which has no mortgage).
That's an extremely jaded outlook. Just because the OP is presenting an alternative solution doesn't necessarily mean it was all borne out of greed/profit-seeking. At least the OP's service was built from the outset to be facts- and evidence-based unlike Google search results.

I'm really not sure what you expect. Should articles which point out problems be written completely independently of the people creating solutions to those problems? Cos clearly that is totally unrealistic.
So you're saying that "I wanna be an esports player" is the new "I wanna be a gaming youtuber"
I'm not sure deferred conversion is a bad thing in this toy instance.

I agree that being able to easily tradeoff between time and space is an important property of compile time evaluation and C++ doesn't make that easy with the no escaped allocations requirement.

On the other hand, I shudder to think what will happen to binary size. It can't be any worse than codegenning all the things with reckless abandon... Right?
I'll note that both statements can be true: While 53-56% of folks own some sort of stock, most folks own very little stock and thus, don't really have much say. IIRC, something like 70% of the value of stocks are held by the top 10% earners. I mean, owning a lot of stock generally requires buying a lot of stock so this does make sense.

I'll also point out that it isn't like the 56% is evenly distributed. When you are more wealthy, you are vastly more likely to own stock. The poorest among us generally would have to sell any reasonable amount of stock amount in order to qualify for benefits so that you are destitute enough to get help with shelter.

Few people say they have stocks if they have a pension and nothing else mostly because isn't actually owning the stocks.
Are there any practical uses for this sort of thing besides a game like AI Dungeon? (and spam, of course)

I can’t imagine a real author for example using this to write a book. The responses are impressive for what they are, but they’re not exactly unique or interesting. As a source of inspiration, maybe it’s helpful, but there are better places to find inspiration.
They aren't legal tender. It's true that for practical purposes the fact that (particularly in the South) people are suspicious and won't accept them as payment for goods you want to purchase is much more important, but the topic was legal tender and they are not legal tender. Go look it up.
A Man's Attempt to Build a DMT-Based Reddit Cult
Is this midi being played in the browser or is this music that was written by code?
> Covering their tracks by making a huge obvious splash. Air tight theory you got there...

If they purge the code that says "underreport Ted Cruz's follower count by 10,000", then Ted Cruz's follower count will go up by 10,000 overnight, but they'll have plausible deniability that it naturally happened due to a bunch of conservatives deciding to join Twitter because Elon bought it.

But if they don't purge the code that says "underreport Ted Cruz's follower count by 10,000", then there will be nothing noticeable at first, but then they won't have plausible deniability once that code does eventually get found.
> in a physical classroom ... a good chunk of the students are spacing off throughout any given lecture

Think of a meeting of 30 people in your own office environment and wonder how many people are spacing out at any given moment.
> why you don’t back your currency on things like gold

How did the West learn this lesson?

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/nixon-shock

> We must create more and better jobs; we must stop the rise in the cost of living; we must protect the dollar from the attacks of international money speculators.” To achieve the first two goals, he proposed tax cuts and a 90-day freeze on prices and wages; to achieve the third, Nixon directed the suspension of the dollar’s convertibility into gold.

Particularly

> we must protect the dollar from the attacks of international money speculators

In this case the "speculators" speculated that the US didn't have the gold it said it did to back the dollars it had been printing.

Protecting the dollar meant we will no longer trade the dollar for gold to protect it, but why would it need protecting if we had the gold to exchange?

Sounds to me like gold as a standard wasn't the issue, but printing of dollars without backing.
> Being snarky on the internet is fun! ... but only a few people can pull this off consistently without sounding toxic

Having worked in the restaurant industry for a while, I call this the Gordon Ramsay effect. Since the loudest/snarkiest people stand out the most, everyone assumes this is the recipe for success.

And now we're stuck with a thousands of snarky dev blogs.
People who have been hosting their own email for decades like GP probably built up a solid reputation for their domain and IP before spam filtering became such a kafkaesque business and IPv4 blocks became so fragmented.

If you start self-hosting now, you should be prepared to lose quite a few emails randomly for the first X months while everyone else tries to figure out whether you're legit or not. Though I would encourage anyone who can to try to self-host at least some part of their email infrastructure, even if just for the learning experience, I would also recommend that they avoid using self-hosted email for anything business-critical until they're sure they've got the hang of it.
What do you mean by well? Like stock increases, profitability, etc?

I guess what I’m asking is are you looking for stocks to invest in or a job to ride out the storm kinda thing?
I can't resist responding to this [dead] comment:

> Ranked choice voting is pushed by the Globalist network to erode democracy. It allows advanced gaming and surprise candidates without a clear mandate from the people. Voting needs to be simple and the person that wins needs to have a clear majority. Rank choice takes that away.

My response is: If you're worried about candidates gaming the system and getting a surprise win without a clear majority and a mandate from the people, then you should be campaigning against the electoral college. You also need to reject plurality voting (or having more than 2 parties), and advocate for something like a two-rounds system system.
Then it increases the workload of said vendor?
Growing up on FBSD, it was quite the shock when I started working with RHEL/Debian. The qualitative difference between the manpages was disturbing.
So get into finance options where the effort->profit ratio is way more favorable as a hedge against all of what you mentioned or you and your entire family will suffer is what you're saying, in the most positive interpretation possible
Was the cancellation message only deceptive in Australia? Or is it everywhere, and Australia is the only country to prosecute?
> Sad that Africa is going to effectively get exploited again by westerners

Robert Mugabe, your publicist needs a raise, again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe
But this program is rather clearly not aimed at repair shops but seems much more for the retail DIY crowd. For other things which are DIY, like automotive repair, core charges are a normal everyday thing. I don't normally stock various parts for my own cars, I buy them when I need to. This feels very similar to me.
> Is the queen still kicking?

She'll be dead by then.
But how are actual outcomes? I'm less concerned with how someones grades look in high school and more interested in how they perform in College for example.
Edit: For those of you with very favorable percentages, if you don’t mind, what part of the world/states are you in, and how much is remote work enabling this?
The download buttons are pretty glitched, only had a few actually work.
Because many people who say they support the right to repair just hate big corporations and want to see them forced to do things that hurt them.
There is Zoom and other stuff involving faces.
The problem with Java is after the Tutorial tutorial = new Tutorial() is done, all the public static void libraries look(like<this>) {
We recently moved and my wife & I both scheduled checkups at the same new dentist. She recommended a crown replacement and Invisalign to both of us, in my case while wearing an Invisalign-branded face shield. We both got weird vibes from that place and don't intend to go back. Didn't help that the hygienist said something like "oh, the crown replacement is easy, we just got a brand new machine to make them in-house!" which sounds to me like "wow we really need to pay off this machine"
> lim x->0 (1-x == 1)

How do you define the limit of a sequence of truth values?
Limited evidence doesn't mean it doesn't work.

The reasoning behind flossing makes a lot of sense:

1. You remove food sources for streptococcus mutans

2. You avoid inflammation from teeth shifting

3. You disrupt biofilm (plaque) formation in the joints of your teeth

I imagine the evidence is limited because genetics, diet and other oral hygiene routines significantly impact the outcome. There is a whole microflora system in your mouth, and the advice is to throw everything (floss, scrape tongue, mouthwash, brush) at it for everyone because personalising it is not worth the effort.
You can host your own email. I do.

What you can't do easily is talk to other large public email servers. Which I don't.

My home email server receives email I send to it, but won't forward email to other domains. This is very useful - basically anything on the iPhone is shareable via email, so now I can capture a copy of things outside of the phone easily and privately from anywhere without having to go through an untrusted third party such as Google.

In addition to having SMTP setup, I have IMAP setup, so I can retrieve email from my phone or other email client that various other self-hosted services on my local network generate, or my desktop PC running Thunderbird.

I do have to monitor logs as I get regular password-guessing attempts on the services. I have a script that checks for repeated failed logins or other bad behaviors and adds malicious IPs to a blocklist ipset.

It would be interesting to federate with others and participate in a private SMTP network. I'm sure these already exist.
I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020)
What's the optimal shape?
Very interesting. Your comment opens more questions than is probably polite. But can I ask, what are the core tenets of this weltanschaung (the values and prejudices) and would you say there is an ethnic dimension to it? I ask because (whilst fuzzy at the edges) there’s a fair argument that British aristocrats are essentially ethnic Normans. Is there a sense of different ethnicity?

For full disclosure, I’m exploring my hypothesis that Norman conquest of Britain created a template for colonisation for the next thousand years. And in which a key component of colonisation was an inculcation of locals with a belief that one’s colonizers were superior beings by virtue of their ethnicity.

I very much salute your reflection and insight. I’m reminded of David Graeber’s quote: “the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently”. But the first step must be awareness.
It took Apple well over fifteen years and the threat of lawsuits and regulation to come up with this portal. Their products still consistently score shit on repairability comparisons.

Yes Apple does do decent things in operations, but anything involving the consumer facing side has been "only Apple knows best" for decades. Operating systems being locked down? That shit started with Apple, Microsoft and Android only followed suit. Hardware using special screws, no 3.5mm socket, or glue? Peripheral sockets needing MFi chips? Again, Apple pioneered that consumer hostility, and look how they're fighting tooth and nail to keep Lightning instead of switching over to USB-C and offering an USB-C to Lightning adapter utilizing a custom Alt mode to offer backwards compatibility fot old accessories.

The only notable progress originating at Apple was the introduction of USB.
You can do it, but spam filters are so extreme that you may find your mail goes undelivered or auto-filtered into spam.

Small hosting companies struggle with email deliverability, so you have to ask yourself if it's something you want to deal with. Sometimes if you end up on a blocklist there's no easy way to get off of it, and you may find yourself unable to get an email into someone's inbox until you have the time to redo a lot of work (moving to different servers, IPs, etc).

From my perspective, you're better off using your time to do literally anything else unless email is something you want a very deep understanding of.
> If online works for you, awesome ... But I don’t think you are in the majority.

I think there's a huge under-served group who are specifically not the majority. Smart kids are generally held back by being shoehorned in with other kids.

Personally, I think we need to figure out how to use online resources best and that the future will most certainly be a mix. But also please entertain that maybe the optimal audience for this program isn't the majority at all, actually. And that doesn't make it less valuable.
I'll ask you what I asked the other commenter: should articles which point out problems be written completely independently of the people creating solutions to those problems?

Even if it is an advert, it's not a shitty one. It presents scientific arguments and is well-sourced. It's about as a good as an "advert" as you'd ever get. Really, what more do you want from people?
this will be excellent for repairing privacy conscious silicon-secure environments
What do you mean? There are always private places where to get tests done. Synlab is one of the biggest in Europe.
Or you mean to take them at home?
My wife went to Aspen recently (we didn't know better). They told her that she had periodontal disease and needed an expensive procedure. She was shuffled into a "financing" room before even completing her checkup. While waiting, she Googled Aspen and figured out that this happens to oodles of people, declined, and went to another dentist. No problems detected.

In addition to being a scam organization, we got to see the group of people in the waiting rooms at Aspen vs our current dentist. As you can imagine, the folks waiting in the Aspen waiting room are observably less wealthy and are statistically going to be less able to defend themselves against medical scams.

Evil organization.
At a certain temperature differential you need to source "heat" from elsewhere, which is why up north you either need a geothermal heat pump (underground piping) or you supplement with gas or electric heat.

Some very efficient pumps can work down to 0 degrees, but most start losing efficiency at 25 to 40 (Fahrenheit).

For some parts of the world, a heat pump is perfect - pump in heat in the winter and heat out in the summer, but when the outside temperature can hit -40º Fahrenheit (which is -40º Celsius), you're gonna need something else.
It’s not as if this isn’t already a requirement for some.

https://biosciences.uchicago.edu/content/teaching-assistant-...

> All graduate students are required to serve as a Teaching Assistant in at least one course for academic credit before the Ph.D. degree is awarded. Appropriate courses may be undergraduate, graduate, or medical, but must be in the Biological Sciences Division (exceptions may be made for students in the Biophysical Sciences program).
> and have been telling each other that the dollar is going to collapse any year now every since.

The point of pegging a currency to something tangible, like gold, is to increase confidence in the currency. When the currency is pegged, it's much harder to just print money whenever the government wants to. Thus, pegged currencies are safe to do business in because they just won't evaporate overnight.

Remember: Currencies come and go, so the dollars, Euro, Yen, ect, will eventually be replaced by something else. Given the US Dollar's status as a reserve currency, it probably won't just "collapse any year now".

I'm currently reading "Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail", https://www.amazon.com/Changing-World-Order-Nations-Succeed/... The author, Ray Dalio, carefully explains the signs of when a currency is going to fail.
Also getting a "403 Forbidden"?
There's a lot to say here from both sides - people running their own mail infrastructure (like I have for almost 25 years) and big mail providers dealing with brutal, unrelenting spam.

But there is one piece of this that's ridiculous, broken and almost cruel: silently dropping messages marked as "spam" with no notification given back to the sender.

Why does this practice exist ? Who believes that this is decent or acceptable behavior ?

If gmail doesn't want my inbound message - for any reason - that is just fine.

If they drop it on the floor without telling me that is totally shitty.
Sure, but people need to first know what they're dealing with isn't normal before they can even ask about it.

I have really, really bad fatigue. It took me years to figure out everyone else didn't feel that way. I was in high school and was able to skate by on intelligence alone.
You should read up on heat pumps, they are several times more efficient than electrical resistance heaters.
IDK maybe paying government workers, but I guess that's really just icing on the cake