skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apartments and houses are different things and building up never seems to really lower the pressure on the housing market.
Yeah, I'm more comfortable in the Windows space personally. My Sandstorm server is Linux but I don't really want to try running something else side by side with it. It looks like a Linux container on a Windows Server is technically possible, but it looks nontrivial enough that I am not sure I want to do it on my domain controller. :D
Twitter threads made of 100+ individual tweets should be illegal. How tf is going to actually read all that 280 characters at a time?
Thanks for the information. That's why my worst coffee experience was with Robusta. My heart kept beating super fast for the whole day to the point I got concerned.
> Ukraine is not "NATO controlled", and has been refused entry into NATO. Nobody has suggested putting NATO missiles in Ukraine; that's all Putin's propaganda.

Ukraine is actually controlled by the US State Department, and has been since the Maidan Coup overthrew a democratically elected leader.

It was Washington & Brussels that issued an Ultimatum to Yanokovych in https://youtu.be/ROTwyP5no08?t=381 that preceded the protests and led to the coup.

It was US State Department leaders that selected, rather than elected, Ukraine's leaders post-coup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV9J6sxCs5k

The US's own STRATFOR, Private CIA, even calls this a coup
https://archive.ph/NAXCc

It was the Oligarch Kolomoisky that bankrolled Zelensky's campaign, providing him protection, a bodyguard, vehicles, and other resources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXgli7TpINw

However, it is also known that Burisma hired Hunter Biden,
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Report%20document...

and, Burisma is controlled by the Oligarch Kolomoisky https://nypost.com/2021/03/06/businessmen-accused-of-ukraine...

It was the US State Department that also sanctioned the Oligarch Kolomoisky for public corruption in 2021
https://www.state.gov/public-designation-of-oligarch-and-for...
This is a good comment and I believe your justification is equally valid.

The reason for the apparent disagreement is that in order to point out a logical flaw in an argument, one must make the argument formal and explicit enough first. There are several plausible ways that the Wikipedia argument can be translated into a machine-checkable formal proof (and this ambiguity is at the core of the paradox). When I make such an attempt in my head, I am not interpreting the expectation as a conditional one and the problematic step is about conflating a random variable with a fixed constant. In your attempt to formalize the Wikipedia argument, you try and use the iterated expectation theorem and the problematic step becomes different. Seeing from the comments, several people agree with my interpretation but clearly there is an ambiguity here that is part of the paradox.

Thanks for prompting me to add nuance to my comment.
I think this is more or less covered by "▶ Class attributes and instance attributes"
At least a dozen friends I know swore by QModem :^) I was always a Telix user but found QModem a solid term program when I used it! Cheers!
>> How unreliable is your power grid?

With climate change, I believe a lot of formerly reliable power grids will become less so in the future. Investments in distributed power generation and local storage will likely lead to a higher quality of life outcome for more people.
What is your dad up to these days? Did he go to Microsoft like the rest of Mustang?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1031937.Quality_Is_Free

https://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0...
Really impressive that they've stayed online nearly 20 years. I used to listen to this and MonkeyRadio all the time. They've added a lot of new channels though.
No, it is a statement that if 'ethical' is where the topic has shifted to, then to be most ethical, start brewing your tea twice. Ethical is not one of the qualities originally listed, which were potency, freshness and price.
> and most devs (especially those out of "coding bootcamps" or practical academia) don't have a single ounce of knowledge about OS management or even how basic UNIXoid fundamentals work.

I have to vehemently disagree with this statement. I had 10 years in IT before I did my bootcamp and quickly found myself in deployment engineer roles by accident. Most of my bootcamp cohort ended up at smaller companies wearing many hats and learning quickly where a good half of them are in deployment type roles by necessity.

After an additional 10 years in this industry, I'm finding invariably that it's the FAANGs and companies hiring fresh grads out of the best schools where engineers aren't learning anything about the underlying systems. It's the feature factories where people put their headphones on, the heads down and code like their life depends on it.

They do things like write microservices that implement basic functionality of opensource loadbalancers, because they've never heard of nginx or haproxy before, don't know how it solves their specific problem and wouldn't know how to configure it. When all you do is write code, every problem looks like it should be solved by writing code.
It's sounds like you'd be interested to live in my country (born and raised here, I'm almost 40 now and have two kids, happily married etc) but I don't think you know all too much about Sweden. And if you really want to know, ask away, I will answer as truthfully as I can.

The tax rate hasn't always been this high. It's basically the result of government overreach over the past 100 years. I don't think you need to take more than 25% to provide essential services but I also expect people to pay more for the services that they use. I want people to allocate capital more so that the government.

Right now, Sweden has a serious immigration problem. 2 million new people over that past 20 years, a lot of them from radically different cultures. Our social welfare is being used to support these people and they aren't able to contribute back. This is a net drain on our economy and I'm not super happy about that. The studies we have show that these people don't integrate and don't generate tax revenue. And I'm not paying these taxes for their benefit, I'm paying these taxes to build a better future for my kids.

For the longest time, the lie that was being told was that it be a huge asset and opportunity for Sweden and it could have turned out this way, Sweden has had successful immigration in the past but it didn't turn out this way this time.

You talk about progressive taxation and income inequality but people forget that you need a healthy economy as well. You can't just tax everybody and expect equality.

Despite everything you think you may know about Sweden, we have the most gun violence and the most rape in Europe. The Swedish police can't be bothered with solving all the rape because of all the killings.

We have an energy crisis because environmentalists wants to shut down our nuclear reactors (50% of our energy production) and replace it with wind whit cannot work short term or during winter.

I will stop here. At some point Sweden did deserve it's reputation but this country is living on old merits. There's so much crap going on right now that I will take my chances. At least in a free and open society I'd be able to make a bigger impact myself.
Redactle – a daily game of un-redacting Wikipedia articles
Well it's pretty clear 10 years ago than Java would have been a disaster, imagine all the controle planes + pods + side cars etc ... running on the JVM, you would have needed 20x more memory.

Even to this day JVM memory consumption is way way higher than Go and it would make no sense to use it in Kubernetes.

It's resources than workload could not use meaning higher overhead for Kubernetes which would reduce adoption.
For a data-point: a decade ago I paid $1800, the cheapest of 3 quotes, for a 100A panel replacement, in an average priced locality. No service upgrade involved, just replace an old panel with a new one.

For reference, I've been watching threads over the last few months on reddit electrician/askelectrician subreddits. $150 probably won't even buy you the copper to do a panel upgrade, or the permit.

A service upgrade is going to take around a day of electrician time, and those aren't cheap.

You'll also need to get the utility to run 200A service to the meter.

A meter base is going to be at least $60. A new load center (industry term for breaker panel) ~$200. You're probably also going to need to install an outside main service disconnect, required by code in most locations now. If you get power overhead, you will probably need a new weatherhead and related. You likely will need new breakers, $15-$30 each for 20 of them, and you may need to go with some AFCIs at $50/pop for bedroom branch circuits (required by code in many locations now). If you have any sketchy wiring on those bedroom circuits you may need to do troubleshooting on those or re-run them.

You are probably also going to need to put in an external cutoff, required by code in most locations now.

A huge variable right now is supply of both equipment and electricians in some localities, so that may drive prices up.

So, $5K in some locations and for some situations may be high, it may also be low for others. A fair range, based on what I've seen, is probably more like $2500-$7500. The $2500 end is going to be a pretty recently built house that somehow didn't come with 200A service.
A few approaches combined make for a very "shallow" search whenever I need something

- Johnny Decimal (https://johnnydecimal.com/) to structure folders

- agkozak/zsh-z: Jump quickly to directories that you have visited "frecently." A native Zsh port of z.sh with added features. (https://github.com/agkozak/zsh-z)

- catfish for searching (https://docs.xfce.org/apps/catfish/start)

The 2nd and 3rd component have many alternatives across platforms.
> So basically I had a matter of a few hours to learn as much as I could about some huge system that had probably been built over many years by a whole lot of people

What are some of the open source tools that you are referring to? Within a few hours, I can imagine it being difficult to integrate and deploy your tools into an existing stack. But if you are tapping into some mirrored network port, that would make more sense.
I'm curious to know when you first considered yourself to have an accent.
I literally can't find them in any Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Aldi, Lidl or Morrisons(here in North East of England). Please tell me where you live if they are available "everywhere" for you.
No Fair Sex in Academia: Evidence of Discrimination in Hiring to Editorial Board
Universities are centers of research so working towards funding and endowments makes sense. The students are there to learn and be a part of the existing culture. There are plenty of small and community colleges directed totally towards imparting academic knowledge however.
Good memories, beverage on me in the tavern.
Telix was nice; I did some scripting in the Salt language.

In my first job out of high school, I worked as an IT person in law firm that used Procomm Plus (for connecting to some databases over dial-up, like the land title registry). I used its scripting language to automate logins. I remember Procomm Plus being decent.
I was just a user so my memory of why I switched to zmodem was a bit suspect. Now that you mention it, there were definitely largish binaries that I could only download with zmodem.

At some point I found a BBS with big files I wanted that only supported ymodem, and after several days of trying and hitting the hour timeout, I gave up.
https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/crypto/blowfish
There are curated lists of Rust crates to help with the second issue: https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust

And those two options don't strike me as equally unattractive. Writing everything that isn't in the standard library from scratch is completely impractical for modern apps. Nobody does that in Rust. Integrating crates from the ecosystem into your workflow is just part of developing in the language.
I was hoping someone would ask this, because it's a path I've crossed several times: Not all caffeine is equal, there is an entourage effect with coffee not present in anhydrous caffeine distillate.
Too many people are going to college but now that colleges are run like a business this isn’t going to change. With declining state support we need more clients and the tuition money they bring.
Unsurprising as to why Safari is second place. There is no way that Apple would allow another browser other than WebKit to drain the user's battery and instead force them to use only WebKit.

Also not surprising to see Firefox usage declining so gradually that even Samsung Internet is about to over take it.

Looks like these users are migrating to Chrome or Chrome-based browsers like Brave or Edge anyway.
I wouldn't really trust a "one to rule them all" tool. As you said, though, I do think there is a practical use to not having a markdown, yaml, and JSON formatter all as separate tools. Maybe even through in HCL as an added bonus.

I've already built something with Rust (https://github.com/jmgilman/vaultrs). I suppose I'll add it to my never-ending list of projects if I can't find something :)
Anything made of stainless steel and plastics.
Go focused on trying to solve for particular pain points within a certain class of applications. Those who had those pains were quick to jump on it to solve their problems.

Dart tried to build a better mousetrap. While you might say it succeeded, it wasn't enough to get people away from their older and less fancy, but working, mousetraps.
> As of mid-2021, only two states and one US territory don’t allow credit card surcharges.

My bad, I wasn't aware of these exceptions. I'd argue characterizing it as illegal when it's legal in 48 states is a little misleading though.
I think their uncanny valley metaphor is still apt in this situation though.

They’re trying to take design principles that are common among professionally designed webpages and apply them. They are, unfortunately, doing so quite poorly, and it is leading to a worse result.

Edit: typo
Paper is one of those
Perfected technologies.
It's been there for a long time but boooy. It's powerful
Is that true regarding smoothies? I mean, I get it for juicers, you lose the fiber. But smoothies?
Looks like a CB radio
It is so bad though.
Using Secondaries Strategically
Yeah, this is not the case in any of the colleges my kids looked at, dorms are the same they were 25 years ago.
New to the Web Platform in May
To get to a MVP, the focus should be on making the product better not the landing page better.

Making the landing page better is easy pretend work.

Making the product better is hard real work.

Good luck.
I feel that it’s a decent approach for anyone already familiar with Python, since it’s making you think how the platform works underneath the surface vs just understanding it from the shallow language syntax level.
Not to pile on, but there's also a typo right on the first screen: "Lisitings". Also, inconsistent use of periods on bullet points.
> lenders like better.com are winning so much

I wouldn't be so sure about that, they've had 3 rounds of layoffs in the past 4 months, one of which was 1/3 of their workforce[0]. They are also accused multiple times of stiffing employees on severance pay[1]. Not to discount everything else you've said, but please don't use that company as an example of winning.

[0] via layoffs.fyi, filter companies to "Better.com"

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/90750106/how-better-com-and-its-...
Roku supports casting and Airplay. I've used both specifically for Twitch. Don't reward Amazon's bad behavior by buying their Fire sticks
Comparing networking alternatives: Tailscale and NetFoundry
Nothing is a guaranteed bet, and people don't always get what they deserve. Life is stochastic and chance plays a large part on outcomes.

That said, working hard and smart improves your individual chances over the alternative.
Where did that $68/hr number come from?
Because A has just not the same value in both terms of the equation. In the left it means "the lowest" and in the other "the highest".

It's two versions of the reality in the same equation, which is wrong.

Use 100 usd / 200 usd instead of A and 2A and you'll see. If you never switch and if you always switch in both case the equation is

100×0.5 + 200x0.5
during the freeze in texas last year I cut the hardwired cable to my furnace and added a plug. I plugged that into an extension cord to a 2kw honda generator and it worked great. I had an electrician clean it all up after the freeze so my furnace now has a permanent plug into an outlet.

I did add an interlock and a 13kw generator that will mostly power the house.
Please share the brand if you see this! <3
Thanks for your well stated response. I agree with the sentiments and beliefs. Nicely put.
How/why is this different from other businesses?
My take is that you’re unlikely to get rich in 1 month. So instead, I would find a way to go for the long run:
- become a consultant and sell your time to cover basic needs
- invest the rest of your time into solving a problem you care about, and building a business around it. Caring is important as starting a new business is incredibly challenging and you will think of giving up often
tl;dr- the joke here is that a Southerner would think Maryland is "the North", and a Northerner would think Maryland is "the South".

"Yankee" is/was a derogatory term for Northerners, most typically used by Southerners during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. If you want to get technical, it applies most strongly to New Englanders, but when used by a Southerner, it's a pretty broad brush. Nowadays, you'd be hard pressed to actually find someone using the term "yankee" in any sort of serious or angry way. It's much more common to hear it in a tongue-in-cheek way, which is how the parent commenter was using it.

"Damn Yankee" is something of a stereotypical phrase you might hear from that time period, especially Reconstruction, when there were still a lot of hard feelings about the war, as well as about Northerners who moved south to participate in Reconstruction, often known as "carpetbaggers" and who were thought of as profiteering from the situation.

But nowadays it's more of a cultural joke, or meme. Like for example, if someone were to recommend me a barbecue restaurant in, like, Vermont or something, I might say "I don't know if I trust a damn Yankee to make good barbecue!" (To be fair, I would have very low expectations all the same. Barbecue just isn't the same outside the South.)

As for "redneck": it's still something of a disparaging term, and connotes poverty, poor education, and general backwardness. It's sorta like the word "hillbilly" or "country bumpkin", except with a more distinctly Southern vibe. However, it's been partially reclaimed and is often used by country folks to refer to themselves.

However, it's not exactly a term used only by Northerners- it wouldn't be at all surprising to hear (for instance) a Southern doctor or lawyer grumbling about "a bunch of stupid rednecks" causing trouble.
I love people who think that they have any semblance of an idea of who will see or read their stuff. It's so pre-Gutenberg of them. ;)

You don't have to write your things FOR EVERYONE but it isn't unreasonable to suggest that folks are going to link to random projects on github and that other folks may end up on said project through unexpected means, and with no context, or with unexpected context. It probably follows that that _maybe_ spending the time to write _one sentence_ to describe WTF you're looking if you want ANYONE to consume it isn't unreasonable.
We must return to AIM.
"They laughed at Galileo, they laughed at Einstein, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown" - Carl Sagan
I've had Python code reviewed in the past by senior devs from more of a Java/C# background, who encouraged me to read the GoF and rewrite classes using the abc (abstract base class) library, staticmethod/classmethod decorators, etc. I never quite understood the value of it in Python. But the fact that those are included in the stdlib makes me think that they must have some clear use cases.
At research universities, sure that is a big part of it. The professors are paid largely from research grant awards that they bring in, and about half of that award is skimmed off the top by the university for "overhead."

There are many small colleges that are not research-focused. They teach. They make their money from tuition and gifts, and possibly other federal grants but not for research.
People well knew of the shortcomings, so they used XMODEM-1K (called YMODEM and had a larger block size) or ZMODEM (a sliding window and retransmission recovery). ZMODEM was definitely the one to use!

Once you've used the latter letters you never fallback. You'd never leave z to use y or leave y to use x.
I've never used it. What's wrong with it?
On my personal MacBook I use Safari as a daily driver. It's mostly good, maybe once a week I use an exotic web app that I have to switch over to Firefox for, though for nontrivial web development I still use FF or Chromium because their tools are better
On top of the $4k you also have to figure out how to get your power provider to agree to the change. For my solar system, i was lucky enough to get one of a few seats in my state before they were all taken. I highly doubt every energy provider is even prepared for this.
World population is growing 1% a year. If you go back a century, world population never grew that fast in human history (except perhaps the dawn of human history). There is no global population collapse happening or on the horizon, this past century has had the fastest human growth rate in history, including now (the peak was the world baby boom in the 1960s).

There are countries where population is falling, and policy has to account for it, but there is not a global population collapse right now at all. Only if you measure against the peak baby boom of the 1960s does it seem less.
Mojeek vs DDG, Startpage and Other Privacy “Search Engines”
Subsidizing others in a society is kind of a feature and not a bug
I 'm hoping that one day it will become interesting again

Also because it's like reddit but with older people.
Creative people can always get day jobs.

Like most of them do today.
It’s more like dense housing is illegal, only single family homes are allowed.
There actually is a paradox:

Select a power of 2 according to the probability

P(2^k) = 0.2 * 0.8^k

i.e. p(1) = 20%, p(2) = 16%, p(4) = 12.8%, etc.

Then place this amount in one envelope and twice that I'm the other envelope.

Then, randomly shuffle the envelopes and select one and open it. Say you see the number 16. It could have landed there in two ways: Either 16 was generated and the other envelope has 32. This happens with probability 0.2*0.8^4 ~ 8.192%. Alternatively 8 was generated and the envelope you have is already the largest one. This happens with probability 0.2*0.8^3 ~ 10.24%. Given that you see 16 already, the relative probability becomes 4/9 vs 5/9. In other words the chance that you have the largest envelope already is 5/9. The expected value of the other envelope is then 5/9*8 + 4/9*32 = 18.67 > 16 so you should switch.

In fact, try this for different initial envelopes and you'll see that you should always switch.

But, if you should always switch, why even look inside the envelope?

But, then you're back at the symmetry / no information argument.
I'm in a similar position. I've worked with several languages during my 20+ year career. Now I am in a position where I need to do Python. Fortunately it is just smallish scripts (Data mangling). I've done some Python in the past and every time I approach it I hate it. It hasn't improved a bit since the last time I touched it (back when the 2.4/6 vs 3.?? was in all the rage).

At least now the easy_install vs pip contention is dead.
In the normal course of events, absolutely. This is hacker news though :-)