skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First props that’s a peer reviewed paper so this may just be hot air on my part.

Anyway, their using the most extreme data that they can find to base their calculations which is rather suspect. They regularly mention 65% of electricity useable for AC, but that’s peak during a heatwave not the general average etc.

Still, a peak of 0.5-1C at night and ~0C in the daytime is a much larger effect than I was expecting especially when nighttime energy usage for AC is only averaging around 1W/M2 in their data.
Indeed, the basic promise of our social order is individual autonomy and self ownership. Body modification is an exercise is self ownership.
I prefer disc-bound notebooks like Staples Arc, Levenger Circa, or Rollabind:

https://www.levenger.com/CIRCA-326/ABOUT-CIRCA-1233.aspx

Arc is cheap and available in person at Staples.

It combines the versatility of using your own paper, like a three-hole-bunch binder, but with the reliability and compactness of a wirebound notebook. Choose whatever paper you like, print out your desired grid system, reorder pages, add tabs, etc. and still have the same notebook.

When you need to archive pages, you can remove them from the notebook and throw them in a scanner.

I'd say the initial cost of the notebook and punch is steep, but not if you're comparing to $20 hardbound notebooks like Tomoe River or Moleskine.
So… React, but in Clojure?
The number of cars per capita isn't the real issue. The problem is with CO2 and particulate emissions from car engines. That problem could be significantly reduced with a change in tax policy.
What tools or libraries is Rust missing for building microservices?
The difference here is that height is also correlated with nutrition and by proxy social class. Whatever that study says, eradicating that type of confounding from statistical associations is hard/impossible.
> As I stated at the end there's historical pretext to this: fat women used to be preferred by men.

Is there a citation? I've heard only the rich were 'plump' in ancient times, though not that it was ever sexually desirable.

> What about homosexual woman? If they both prefer someone taller how does that work?

Nature doesn't always fit our intuition or first hypothesis. IIRC, gay men strongly prefer very fit men, yet they cannot procreate. That struck me as counterintuitive, though if the cause is genetic there could be a variety of factors leading to such genes.
I'm somewhere between 5' 7" and 5' 8".

I've experienced the "filter" issue with online dating, but my conclusions are entirely different.

I really don't mind it, in fact I appreciate it.

Anyone who would filter me out over something as shallow as height would undoubtedly be an extraordinarily poor match for me.

I prefer quality over quantity.

As to the "die alone" thing - that seems a bit grim.

I'm 46, since age 14 when I actively started dating the longest I've been single was for about 3 months after a bad break-up, and that was by choice.

Sure, when you don't have a height advantage you have to make it up in other ways - personality, fitness level, professional success, etc...

In general, I think my relatively modest stature has been a benefit to me. It forced me to be a better person, and to focus on qualities that matter, rather than superficial things.
>the winners will be those that are able to make a decision beyond superficial factors

You're just inverting reality now. "The winners of dating are those that pick partners with the least desirable physical traits".

If there's two men with identical personalities, but one is 6'5 and muscular and the other is 4'2 and 300lbs what exactly would a woman be "winning" by going with the second man?
Same. But then again I have yet to actually buy a new car in my life. If I'm willing to buy a cheap car, I'd just as soon buy used.
Respectfully, your accusation does not hold.

It doesn't hold because:

1. I pointed out this distinction in my initial comment, and the OP has not conceded the point that "x and y are members of set S" is different from "there are no differences beetween x and y".

2. This in turn negates the "best meaning" you seem to be assuming.

And the first point bears repeating. Even if height discrimination and racism are both instances of prejudice based on immutable characteristics, there are very important differences between them.

Your waiving of the rulebook in response to this is puzzling.
In the US, I can't recall the last time I've seen a 2-door car outside of a smaller 2-door truck, and even those are uncommon.
Sometimes I fantasize we'll unearth some long lost documents and get more background on how things were then. For some reason the period fascinates me.

But, yeah, unlikely.
I share at least some of the author's criticisms of Go. But it neglects to mention a few of my favorite things - the massive and mostly capable stdlib and the easy cross-compiles. How many compiled languages can you be on any of Mac, Windows, or Linux, and compile a binary for all 3 instantly with just a env var that always works no matter how complex your code or how many libraries you're pulling in? I can't think of any offhand.

I like Rust better as a language for a number of reasons, but it unfortunately falls down on both of those. There's also a noticeable difference in how they're used based on the number and maturity of packages available for various things. Most of the Rust world seems to be more focused on low-level stuff. You can do stuff like web services and query web APIs and talk to databases, but there's likely to be only 1 or 2 crates for it, and they're probably maintained by a single person who (like most normal people) sometimes just stops doing anything for months or years. Golang is really made for the web services world, and it shows in the packages available - it seems a lot more likely there will be many top-quality and well-maintained packages for doing any web service like thing you might want to do.
Guidelines read to me like just having the off-road capability is sufficient, which makes sense as it’s referring to non-passenger automobiles in general.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-V/p...
You are blessed to be surrounded by a great group of friends!

I have a friend who is short as well, probably 5'5" and he married a girl who is taller than him when she wears her heels. Neither of them care, which is great and I love both of them.

I have another friend who is around the same height or shorter and can't get past how short he is. I keep trying to help him find a girlfriend, but he resists all efforts and I think he's still a virgin at age 45. So the stigma is very real and can be extremely damaging.
I won't downvote you.

When this terrible thing was done, we immediately realized we needed to add validation. We had thought that by limiting who could call through access controls, we'd never have a malicious user. So naive.

Sadly, at that point we couldn't add it because his awful project was running in production.
Better paper that bleeds less and is less likely to get ripped through by a sharp mechanical pencil. Better binding - spiral notebooks are super cheap but if they live in your bag a while the spiral starts getting crushed and tries grabbing ahold of anything else in your bag, or the books next to it when it's filled and on the shelf. Hardbound books can make it a little easier to write in them sometimes.

Also having a really pretty notebook that looks cool can be a small source of pleasure. I like to use ones with covers styled after elaborately-bound old books, I feel like a wizard taking notes in their grimoire every time I take them out, and that's worth something IMHO.

Surely there is something in your life where you don't buy the cheapest, shittiest version of it possible, but spring for the nice version instead. Why do you make this choice? Probably some combination of the pricier one working better, being more durable, looking cooler, and acting as a status symbol.
Everything is nearly zero sum when it comes to bonus and salary once you're a level or two below C-level, as it has to be. That's how budgets work, and the only people who get to determine "what % of company cash flow do we want to dedicate to personnel costs?" are pretty high up the ladder.
> So you are saying that it's better to rely on the charitable feelings of random individuals rather than having a democratically elected government where the money needs to be spend?

Why doesn't government make the profit themselves to then help people, instead of using taxes? Why not create more non-profits that are self-sustainable?

Yes, IMHO, all we have is to rely on the goodwill of others. Even when it comes to taxes, we're expecting people won't use loopholes and evade paying them, yet that's what happens anyway. Not only is government extremely slow and wasteful at solving problems, coercion is not effective.

I think we already pay more than enough taxes to solve most problems in society. For example, San Francisco has spent billions on trying to solve homelessness and failed pretty hard at it. I think billions of dollars should be enough to solve the homeless situation in one city, so I think the first question is why is it that the current taxes isn't enough? (and also as I mentioned, where is the accountability)
I'm 5'5" and 120 lbs and that hasn't been my experience. My past promiscuity is the butt of jokes far more often than my stature.
Look, it sucks when programming languages get condescendingly bashed flamily, but the OP did none of the sort here. I, personally, don't find things like the map-as-set syntax cumbersome, but I can see the argument from the OP. And OP also freely admits they have 6 months of experience with the language, enough to have the weird bits stick out, but not long enough to have internalized them. I don't think all of these are "trying to beat Go into a shape they're familiar with", I think they're legitimate complaints about the language. I don't find them problems myself, but I think it's good to document issues and pain points so that future language developments/languages try to incorporate this feedback.
When you can get a 455hp (317 ICE + 145 Electric) Volvo XC90 Recharge T8, and qualifies as "zero emission" and gets free parking all around the city... you understand the classification is quite a joke.

Of course, it's absurdly huge (2300Kg, 5 metes long...) and its price is almost 100K€. It's not precisely popular.
Height is not necessarily an end in itself. It’s much easier to be short than to be tall. For someone to be tall many things have to have gone exactly well. So tallness is a proxy for generic success.
considering that taller men make more money, and having more resources is the way to compete in business/life, this is not a surprise

forget dating even, i'd say that is a 2nd order effect of having more resources anyway
I clicked this expecting an article about how to avoid performance pitfalls when writing code with many closures.
No, you misunderstood my comment. The idea is to couple a gas tax increase with an income tax decrease. If done properly, most poor and working class would end up with a net lower tax burden.
Shorter bodybuilders tend to look more muscular too because of their shorter limbs and torso.
While we do badly need the English Rule [0], suits against the government are more properly seen in light of the first amendment right to petition the government, and should thus be exempt.

[0] or really, a defensive English Rule where a losing plaintiff covers the defendant's costs, but a losing defendant does not always have to cover a plaintiff's costs.
I’ve done this too. Quite the contrast to my disorganised life. I have two types: lined and square paper. Both hardback and book bound (find ring binds don’t play nice with me and I lose pages). Get the exact same ones each time, apart from a few old ones whilst I was in my discovery phase. The lined ones come in a stack of 5 so always have one ready to go.

Also use a single type of pen: a black staedtler fine liner. They in a box of 10.
i see tcl has an rlcd tablet called nxtpaper for those interested
I knew there would be answers of the style 'I'm short and Im great with girls' yes, but you are only a data point. I'm talking here of statistics, and in general short guys have it bad, according to online dating sites. You can easily do an experiment with a fake profile and see it yourself.
Two things about the iPhone situation make the result not generalize. First, the Mini got a worse camera than the larger models. Second, Apple waited years before reintroducing a small phone so apps including theirs had mostly moved on. The small screen user experience is compromised in a way it wouldn't be if there had been continuity.
There’s no bigger productivity killer than scalac and sbt.
Perhaps you are ready for "the Hipster PDA": a small stack of 3x5 notecards, kept together with a binder clip. Fits in your pocket along with a pen.

If you want to be a bit more upscale you can get pocket-sized notebooks with a loop to hold a small pen.
Why?

And more to the point: binding an alternate syntax to the runtime wouldn't make it any less specific to Go.
I'm 42. I use mental math to stay sharp. Exercise and diet also make a difference.
Corporations vs. the Demarcation Problem
That part always cracks me up, it’s literally too absurd, verging on farcical, and yet the truth is stranger still than fiction.
Cetirizine is a "no go" for pilots. Fexofenadine and loratadine are OK to fly on though, as is fluticasone.
A lot of non budget cars from Europe have 3 door versions for their current model years: Golf, BMW 1 series, Audi A3, Mini Cooper

I'm not sure if those are sold in the United States, I think you also aren't big fans of station wagons which are very common in Europe.
Height is an historically reliable signal of access to good nutrition, and hence wealth and security.

It’s not so much that being bigger helps you get stuff, it’s that it’s unfakable proof that you’ve been getting stuff long term.
Also: really nice employees that also post here from time to time.
I wish I'd hit 6'6" like I was supposed to, according to the old wive's tale method of doubling your height at two years old.

I could have dunked easily, instead of just that one golden time I jumped freakishly high.
That's a wild guess and I have no insight into the industry, but I wouldn't be suprised if it's yet another race to the bottom?

Labor seems to be one of the few things where supply and demand dont apply.

Happy to be wrong.
There was a study on online dating habits that said that even someone who was 5'8 would need to earn ~138k more than the same 6'0 person to be considered equivalent, controlling for everything else [1]. Of course it is just one study and I havent looked into it fully but nonetheless.

[1] https://home.uchicago.edu/~hortacsu/onlinedating.pdf table 5.5
but eink doesn't refresh at 60hz. it's static. for text eink, but for video rlcd handles it better
So essentially the people in mid-size towns in Iowa were and are mostly racist (and not "implicit bias" racist but "shouting racial slurs and engaging in physical aggression" racist) but the national attitude during 2008-16 was holding them back from verbally and physically harassing people of color as they wanted to do, because they knew Obama would crack down on them like a ton of bricks.

After Election Day 2016 the formerly mild-mannered Iowans (a state so racist that America's first Black president won a majority of votes there in 2008 and 2012) decided to drop all pretense of being nice to people of color.

I'm sorry but it sounds frankly ridiculous.
I'm not really convinced by the author's first example. While an element of type bool is an instance of type a, an element of type bool -> bool is not an instance of type a -> a.

The issue is precisely an issue of variance, which is mentioned in reference to Scala, but somehow it's glossed over. The type a -> a is covariant in its second argument, but contravariant in its first argument. As a result, you cannot "specialize" it to bool -> bool, because specialization is really another name for covariance.

Another name for contravariance is "generalization". If you ask for something of type "bool -> b", and someone provides you with some function f of type "a -> b", then you're happy. The map f is indeed an instance of "bool -> b": it can eat anything, so it can eat booleans. But with type a -> a, you cannot do what I just did: type "a" is already the most general one, and you cannot do better.

If SML accepted something of type "bool -> bool" for an instance of type "a -> a", then it was a fundamental error. But this doesn't mean that the whole thing should have been thrown out and replaced with monads. In fact, I don't really get how monads have anything to do with the problem at hand. If Haskell can prevent the following code, then I don't see why SML couldn't have prevented the authors' code:

do m <- STRef id
m <- not
m 42
Also historically Sun StorEdge disk arrays would report success on a sync once the data was transferred to the appliance, because they had a write-back battery that would allow the array time to finish writing the data even on sudden power interruption.

Unfortunately for me, they also had a thing where if a write-back battery passed a certain number of hours in operation the array would no longer trust it and defaulted to then not using it at all - which is entirely reasonable right up until the point where your systems team won't buy a replacement.

I once offended the lead sysadmin at that job on a phone call so much that he had to pass me off to his junior because I'd been telling him for months that the battery needed replacing and basically my opinion was "yeah, have fun waiting an hour while that system fscks" interspersed with helpless laughter.

(in my defence, I wasn't paid to be on call and he called me at 2am during a good friend's 30th birthday party, so my capacity for diplomacy was even more limited than normal)
What if better nutrition has allowed for better selection of taller genes? Back when everyone was more nutrient deficient and had stunted growth, I imagine it would be much harder to select for a suppressed trait.
Sure but because that’s true they’re a way for the company to possibly pay quite a bit more.

As someone on the other side of the table who has to make comp decisions, I honestly want to pay the team as much as we can afford while being careful to maintain the financial health of the company. I really do, the more I pay people the more likely they are to feel rewarded and go the extra mile and not quit.

But that can be scary, since you can’t lower comp as a manager, that’s not really possible. If you’re overconfident you can end up in a genuine crisis.

So I pay as much as I know I can afford, and then as a period closes I can look back and pay the extra that I can now be sure I can afford since the results are in.

It’s a mechanism to help me pay the maximum the business can afford. It’s in place to help the team make the most money possible.

Clearly not every situation will be like this. Clearly somehere there’s someone dangling bonuses as a cynical way to exploit people.

But it’s unfair to dismiss the concept out of hand. Especially in volatile lines of business or very fast growing companies.
Sounds like a forever aloner.

I know multiple tall, classically good looking men who, while they can can get dates, can not maintain them because they have zero relationship skills, and I know just as many short men who have a relationship whenever they want.

While height might be an early filter, it is by no means the only source of attraction. Men would do well to build the rest of their personalities to stand themselves out rather than complain about something they have no control over.
If multicloud is anywhere on your radar, kubernetes. Most decent cloud providers offer a managed instance and targeting that common platform is so much nicer.
If the battery is easily replaceable (say 20 seconds without leaving the vehicle) you could use small ones for short commutes and drive from station to station (possible recharging on some roads) or (rent) a big battery for long trips.

Other parts could similarly be crappy, have upgrades and the manufacturer could set up a second hand part market. They might even invite even cheaper knock offs.
The past is not a 100% reliable predictor of the future, but HN has a really bad track record at recommending whether to buy Bitcoin.

When Bitcoin went dramatically up, HN said "nope". Now Bitcoin is mostly stable, and HN seems to go "maybe". One day, when HN says "yes", it will probably be the best moment to sell.
I'm 58 and have to turn down work (I'm a photographer/producer for over 30 years). Obviously personality and looks can combine for a powerful effect in the hiring process. But one thing we do have control over is physical fitness.

This comes from a man who does not like exercise, and has a genetic tendency to severe obesity (if family is any indication).

Five days a week you will find me sprinting up hills around my neighborhood, using bands and weights for resistant training, and doing breathing exercises. I eat one or two meals a day.

I'm lean, toned, and walk with speed, energy and purpose.

I'm not exactly good looking, and I can occasionally be socially awkward - but I'm fit, respectful and wear tasteful attire.

Personally, I think this gives me a giant advantage in my age cohort where most men waddle around like they are 11 months pregnant and you can hear their breathing from 60 feet away. I hear a lot of guys in this category counting down the days till retirement.

I dislike exercise but have practiced fitness training for decades. The physical and mental benefits are well known. I think the impression it makes is off the charts when you present as an older man with discipline and intellect.

I have an aunt who is deeply concerned for my health because I'm too small in her opinion (food = love). Yet her son, my cousin (who she considers a strapping example of manhood), just went on SS disability after being a tow truck driver for decades. He just got too fat to do the job. Nobody would hire him - they just see a giant medical liability.

We have control over fitness regardless of looks, and it can make a difference.
This idea that you need to model GR to do GNSS is very over stated. You need to correct for a GR effect, but it is a small part of a residual in a least squares problem that gets regressed away. So it is important for understanding the error budget but it really is a small effect, compared to say ionospheric delay due to atmospheric charge or clock drift.
If you need Swiss-only for regulatory reasons, then you might like Exoscale.com. I do.
I wonder whether tapping out Morse code would show even greater memory than writing with a pen? Presumably there's nothing specific about the act of writing itself, rather the slowness of it means you have to summarize more rather than record what's being said, and summarizing requires greater understanding
A cow-orker of mine was maintaining several sizes of notebooks. "I use small notebooks for small ideas," he said, "This medium notebook [holding up a 8x11" sketch pad] for medium-size ideas. At home I have a notebook as big as a coffee table -- it's still unused because I haven't had an idea that big yet."

[Lechtturm dot-grid notebooks are fantastic]
Moleskin Notebooks are overpriced trash. The paper is way too thin and most pens I use bleed through.
I remember when I accidentally stumbled upon a $100 A5 notebook, in a regular department store, but located in a finance hub. It had no obvious feature to justify the price, no leather, no gold leaf or anything weird. Just a good quality notebook.

It was quite a visceral shock to realize that obviously some people do buy them. Again, it was a regular upmarket shop, not some sort of billionaires exclusive hangout.