skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the real story of the 2016 election: an increasing number of people are sick of the status quo.

This led Republican voters to choose Trump over any establishment candidate that in earlier years would've been the candidate.

On the Democratic side, this almost led to Hilary being upset a second time (the first was in 2008 obviously). But this progressive movement ultimately failed due to the full force of the Democratic Party establishment uniting to defeat Bernie Sanders. Seriously, look into how the DNC funded the primaries and the career of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, the then DNC chair who then joined the Hilary campaign.

Democrats like to jump up and down about Russian interference, which is a huge distraction. Hilary was a terrible and unpopular candidate and (IMHO) the only person capable of getting Donald Trump elected.

This context is important to understand the current political landscape. Nothing has changed.

Here's a good comparison: Republicans fear their base. The Democrats despise their base. Republicans actually do things for their base out of this fear (eg court-stacking). Democrats throw their hands up and say there's nothing we can do while controlling the White House, the House and the Senate.

Why? Because Democrats don't actually want to do anything. They want to fundraise off how terrible the Republicans are. They tell their voters to vote harder next time. These are the actions of a controlled opposition party.

This is why any narrative about the "radical far left" is just so laughable.
Full of life, yes. But lower metabolism. Kind of like an aging actor.
I guess they meant demolish the interior finishes of exterior walls, spray foam the wall cavities.

That's certainly a way to retrofit an older building, but you still need a heat pump.
The first time I built anything to survive outside (a ramp to a shed), I learned this the hard way.

Even with a decent amount of planning for the elements, it lasted 3 years. It really makes one appreciate how special it is that this lump of flesh might survive 70 or 80 years.
what should feelings have to do with anything in a market? In a libertarian paradise all that matters is value; if you're generating value then your employer continues employing you.

criticism should be seen as an indication of engagement. When your employees don't criticize and don't care then you have a problem...when people start phoning it in and not giving their best at work because apathy has set in.
How do we know? I did not notice such thing in original submission titles (as in <title></title>).
Forewarning: this page immediately redirected me to a fraud/malware website pretending to be a google alert.
Seems more reasonable to compare the typical initial cost vs the increased initial cost for the higher efficiency unit that saves $500/yr.

My house was built in 2000 with a regular AC unit for the main floor and heat pump for the 2nd floor, both Payne, a builder grade of Carrier. The inside coil went first, at the 9-yr mark with a 10-yr warranty, so I did get a new coil at no expense but it cost $600 to install it.

A couple years later, the outside heat pump went out, and because of the system's age (about 11 years), they recommended replacing the furnace and heat pump.

A couple year later, the main floor furnace exhaust gas blower mechanism went out, and again, the outside unit was replaced because it was 14 years old.

In contrast, my previous house had an American Standard AC and furnace that was installed in 1970 when the house was built. I had to replace the furnace blower motor one year - about $500 I think - but the original AC and furnace were working like a champ when I sold the house in 2003.

In summary, you aren't getting 20 years out of any modern, shitty system anymore. They're designed to fail after 10 years. You might get lucky and have something fail after 9 years; then you'll only have to pay for labor. But because there are 2 major independent components, the outside compressor and inside furnace, it's unlikely they'll both fail within the warranty.

My AC guy told me the main reason they fail is because the new coils are made of very thin aluminum and so fail sooner than the old systems. If a coil fails, either in the furnace or the outside condenser, you're screwed. They can sometimes fix them, but good luck with that. Most HVAC dealers don't want to bother doing that; they just want to sell a new system.
What's "old fashioned AI"?
Is there any equivalent for any other human language?
drywall on the interior of exterior-facing walls
I’ve always took it to mean the search space of the function needs to narrow to approach the base case so that it can terminate. In factorial this means subtracting 1, in tree searches it means picking one of the children, in parsing it means selecting a production that narrows the matches, etc.
modern macOS can also semi-silently deny an application access to the mic. It's not a stupid thing to do, but it certainly can confuse the crap out of users who missed the "allow X to use mic" popup in the past.
Well, in crypto there's still non-zero amounts of fraud if the merchant doesn't deliver their goods or if the sender executes double spend attacks. But theoretical double-spend attacks aside, almost all transactions require some minimal level trust between the merchant and the customer regardless of payment system. In this sense, Cryptocurrency doesn't prevent fraud completely but it does severely limit the extent and direction of fraud.
Reputation provides utility in other ways. For example, social status and respect from others.
Congrats Simon!
East Asia at the onset of WWII was playing catchup to European comforts. Took a while for them to catch up.
I checked the manual and wasn't able to find this warning, but you might be correct. Thanks for heads up I didn't think of this scenario!
I know it’s a thing for startups. Bragging about “revenue” and ignoring lack of “profits” makes no sense. The entire idea of a business is to make more than you spend. Anyone can sell dollars for 95 cents.

https://www.elastic.co/about/press/elastic-reports-strong-se...

What is Elastic doing to “buy growth”?
That's awesome to see. I've used XPath a little bit with a very powerful plugin for the PHP-based Textpattern CMS:

https://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=37932

Looking forward to exploring more, thanks.
Yes. My employer (US fintech) gives me a daily meal stipend while working remotely, as well as covers my mobile phone, internet, and a portion to cover my home office. This excludes the annual equipment, desk, and chair stipend I receive.

This was all outlined in our remote handbook provided with my offer letter.
Spray foam is expensive. It’s considerably cheaper to install mineral wool or blown cellulose or fiberglass. And you can blow in insulation without removing the drywall.
a bunch of "if" statements?
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There was a post on HN where someone explored the immediate gui paradigm for their PhD (or masters degree, don't remember) and they discovered that this assumption is actually incorrect, given the interactions and os optimizations the battery usage (well, cpu usage and gpu usage) was lower overall. I remember very little details, it was amazing
Ah, thanks. I get what they mean now. It doesn't sound like a good idea, but I get what they mean. :)
I think you're misquoting, though I had to read it a few times myself. I would read the first quote more along the lines of "if someone does [try to convince you to buy crypto] they are not as smart as you or they think."
could be malware on your computer... Politico is pretty reputable.
Since DOE is an initialism and not an acronym, the capitalization in the title is incorrect. It should be "DOE".
What do you call when everyone who puts money into something are just doing so hoping to sell it to someone else before the party stops?

BTW, the party has stopped for non profitable companies.
About halfway through I was guessing the problem was that the device node lived on the root filesystem, and therefore everything written to a device looks like a write to that filesystem, which may be another way to manifest a similar bug.
I think Ive was a fantastic and visionary industrial designer, but when he debuted as the design czar over software as well I think Apple’s UX kinda entered a nosedive. The actual designers “on the ground” there really pulled iOS through those times and I agree with other commenter that nowadays Apple is really so much better.
So how do you measure it then?

Because if you're saying "self diagnosis is the wrong way", but there is no other way yet, you're effectively saying you don't believe anyone who has it has it. And that isn't helpful.
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Talk about moving the goalposts. You asked, people answered. The revolution is that you can now buy an 8000 BTU unit that weighs little, costs almost nothing, and can be installed anywhere in a few minutes.
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Thermodynamics are harsh mistress... Add that to limitations on what can be used as refrigerants. The reality that these systems need to operate with rather long duty cycles for decade+ at minimum. And the reality is that there isn't much magic in how they operate. Compression and expansion of gas.

Computers are actually a very special case. They don't really do any physical work in sense other stuff does, thus miniaturization gives lot of gains there. I have long said that small drones are answer to flying cars. We have them and they are small, but lifting people is hard work.
When quoting someone please use the full statement. You've paraphrased and injected your own meaning which is incorrect.

> I've never encouraged people to buy crypto and if someone does [encourage people to buy crypto], they are not as smart as you or they think.

> I personally invest in crypto because fundamentally I believe something deeper that I hope works.

I've implemented my own blockchains, I have produced patents in the space, I have spoken and worked in this space for a significant amount of time.

Pumping and dumping is a get rich scheme which is destroying the perception with very real victims. I feel bad for people young and old that attempt to play in the stock market options space and lose it all because they are gambling thinking they will get rich.

I feel equally for those getting hurt in crypto despite the sad reality that they should have come in with questions not hope of a windfall.

These two things are more alike than different in my opinion
There are very little videogames that can be played if blind, so the accessibility business is not the same as for apps
I saw a woman using one of the new Macbook Pros in an airport a few weeks ago, and I was confused, because it looked exactly like my beloved silver Macbook Pro from 2007. It even had lots of ports!

With the speed of the M-series processors, and the fact that I can get one with ports and without an idiotic touchbar, I've started considering an Apple laptop for the first time in years.

I'm sure it's just a matter of time before the pendulum swings back again, alas.
True. See the recent news [1] about hospital web sites sending sensitive data to Facebook. We don’t hear about all the others.

[1] https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/06/16/facebook-is-rece...
Aren't the tops of walls capped usually? How does one blow in insulation without removing drywall?

Serious question.. I'd have thought it not practical to remove the cap on the wall (and that's assuming you can access it from the attic).

edit: "top plate" is the term I couldn't remember. substitute for cap in my comment.
> the rest can be done and is literally often done by email (sometimes even signed!) and spreadsheets

Well, yes; signed email sent through anonymous remailers hosted by a network of peers (e.g. Mixmaster) is the direct ancestor of blockchains. Designed by the same group of people (the "cypherpunks"), even!

Blockchains just add to Mixmaster-like networks a shared reputational-currency ledger with some inherent means of acquiring a balance on it, to facilitate the feature that spam-email-solution-proposers call "eStamps" — which prevents blockchain networks from being flooded with spam transactions, while also not requiring per-account identity verification. (Remailer networks had to deal with a lot of spam in their pursuit of anonymity.)

Essentially, blockchains are a formalization of "signed emails and spreadsheets."

However, there's a specific thing you get from blockchains' peer-to-peer distribution, that you don't get from "signed emails and spreadsheets" in this example use-case.

The problem is reconciling the state when the person in the US doesn't trust any computer hosted/set up by the North Korean, and vice-versa. They can pick a third party, but how do they collaborate to set up the escrow system to enable the third party to reliably send their third signature; when the future two of them now disagree and are actively trying to trick one-another into thinking that e.g. the third party cannot be reached?

Even if the third party hosts the escrow system themselves in some neutral country — the two of them probably would just DoS-attack that centralized system to prevent the third party from issuing their judgement.

Presuming a big-enough blockchain, and anonymity for the arbitrator (enabled by the "eStamp" ledger property), you can't effectively silence the third party from publishing to it.
Doesn’t work out. Beyond the already mentioned fact that true zero emissions is physically impossible, dark matter is seemingly spread throughout the cosmos, not clumped together where light matter isn’t. If this were the solution they would take over an entire two thirds of the galaxy, not diffusely consume two thirds equally across all space and time.
I disagree with the reasoning for why factorial is a bad example. Factorial is very simple to explain as a mathematical function, requires very little prior knowledge. When asked why you aren't allowed to implement it as a loop, the response I was given was that you very simply define factorial in a self referential way (0! = 1 and n! = n * (n - 1)!), and is there any way you could implement the function in a way that clearly expresses that definition? At least for me this function was a fantastic intro to recursion
It is this exactly, thank you for correcting it. I can see how the error could be easily made.
"Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”

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That’s the core principal of Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman’s book, “Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Voyage:_Live_Long_En...
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Sure, but until we know what it is and how to measure if you have it - there is no difference between a coincidence and it. Would you rather we tell everybody who says they have it they don't, or accept everybody's self-assessment? Because until we have a way to diagnose it using an objective measure, those are the options.
From the outside, it seems like the poison of flat design only flourished when Jobs died. The beautiful, thoughtful, intuitive, accessible skeuomorphism was replaced with flat design only after Jobs wasn’t there. Was Jony only able to wrench away the beauty then? It seems like it. Humans live in a 3D world and take visual cues from things like lighting, gradients, shadows, materials and textures. Flat design strips that all away.
it might work.

But there exist sooo many prototyping breaktroughs.

Those who follow press releases for many years know that just a tiny fraction can transfer this in real world products that actually work

(so many more challenges to overcome compared to prototype situations!! I don’t even know where to begin… every ground is different, average person doing the manual work is not as skilled and has less support engineers, the guys setting/defining the dimensions of various recipients/pumps/conduits are often undeskilled and the efficiency often lacks tremendously for that reason…)
I wonder why geothermal isn't big there. I'd naively assume that they could get a significant portion to their electricity from geothermal. Does anyone know what's preventing Japan from doing that?
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What about the extra space for a home office?
Is it the case for all languages, or just English?

Native English speakers are typically used to interacting with people whose native language isn’t English and so easily tolerate errors or odd word choice.
Congratulations! Honestly.
Related, I learned when I moved to San Francisco that the golden gate is continuously being painted in red throughout the year, every year.
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I feel as though this is skewed by the fact that US college students can’t really pay for their college with a job and rely heavily on loans for the younger portion of their life (typically up until 22). I’d be curious to see the statistics for the ages of 22-55, aka, post college when many students are drowning in loans and before the beginning of when people begin to retire.
i understand that's not what you like to hear, but here we go agane

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i'm not suggesting nor question whether it is good or bad, or what they should do
my sole purpose is to put things into perspective

the question here is not where the data should be hosted, the question is who can have access to that data

if it was where, for data sovereignty, a bill and the problem is solved

but here, they make it linger, because the motive is not about any of that, TikTok's user data is useless, the motive is to weaken and picture China as the evil, manipulate the public opinion to get favors whenever things are becoming dirty in SEA

it's the same tactics the USA did since their birth, and it predates the existence of "America"

what's the point if everything is always one sided, and nobody gets to question the way the world is rotating?

in apocalypse we find life
It's possible. Also possible it's barely outperforming the space heater at the lower temperature and input power has increased. They've not told us enough.
A fair line would be that you're compensated for things you do that you otherwise wouldn't do. You'd still eat, but many companies do compensate their employees for their meals during working hours.
Do you have an example? I used to live in cities filled with historical monuments and they're constantly under maintenance as well.
No. It's unacceptable that payment systems charge anything more than a fraction of a percent for each transaction. In any well-designed payment system the marginal cost per transaction is minuscule.
I've had that happen with ArsTechnica. I log in, read an article, maybe some comments. My build is finished. I run some tests, do some debugging. I changed a header that everything includes, so here comes another long build. Back to Ars... and I'm logged out. I subscribed specifically to not see ads, and as soon as I'm logged out, ads start showing up. I literally never read more than 1 article per half hour, so it basically defeated the point. I'd be logged out after every article I read. I canceled, which was surprisingly easy given the dark patterns that other people here experience with NYT, et al.

I have a subscription to AppleNews. I don't love it, but I get the same Ars articles with far fewer ads and no auto-play video wasting my bandwidth. I don't love Apple's algorithm for finding me content, but it's not the worst I've seen. Sometimes it's spot-on, and other times way off. What's more irritating to me about it are the following:

1) Shows me an article I'm not interested in, so I don't click it. It keeps showing me that article for the next 10 weeks. Sometimes hides it for a week or two, then suddenly brings it back for no discernible reason.

2) No granularity on how to tell it why you did or didn't like an article in your feed. For example, it was shoving some sex-related article from Cosmo at me. I don't mind sex-related articles. I'm not a huge fan of Cosmo (not really the target demo, but whatever). But if I click "Show me less like this" (thumbs down), is the signal "sex articles," "Cosmopolitan," "articles we've repeatedly shown you that you haven't clicked on," or something else entirely?

3) News sources that I've said I never want to see (Fox News, People Magazine) are sometimes "featured" which means instead of putting a different article where that one would have been, I get a blank spot in the feed that says, "You have asked not to see articles from People magazine." Yeah, thanks. I don't need to be reminded of that. Just put something else there!

4) Sections show up where you have no ability to like, dislike, or remove them. This week it's a section on Major League Baseball, because guess who just got rights to show MLB games? AppleTV+. Great, I don't begrudge others who want to watch baseball. I just couldn't care less and never want to see any article about baseball in my feed. I'm paying for this, so it isn't like they can justify it by, "we need to sell your eyeballs to others to make money."

Given all that, it's still the least-worst option I've found at the moment. It's mostly leading me to just read less news, which is better for me anyway.
A minority of the population will always be gullible and easily fooled. So what. Some people were already fooled by the original ELIZA program back in 1966. I would only count a Turing test pass if it can convince a jury of multiple educated examiners after a conversation lasting several hours.
There’s a lot of cool infra that am engineer could have worked on, that by no means would mean they were complicit in or approving of scams: e.g polygon, starknet, testing infrastructure for the merge etc
So in other words, UAFs are a non-issue except in every actually-existing large production C++ codebase in the world. Thus no point in investigating memory safety techniques?
Git submodules are fine and can be really useful, but they are really hard. I've run into problems like:

1. Git clone not cloning submodules. You need `git submodule update` or `git clone --recursive`, I think

2. Git submodules being out-of-sync because I forgot to pull them specifically. I'm pretty sure `git submodule update` doesn't always work with this but maybe only when 3)

3. Git diff returns something even after I commit, because the submodule has a change. I have to go into the submodule, and either commit / push that as well or revert it. Basically every operation I do on the git main I need to also do on the submodule if I modified files in both

4. Fixing merge conflicts and using git in one repo is already hard enough. The team I was working on kept having issues with using the wrong submodule commit, not having the same commit / push requirements on submodules, etc.

All of these can be fixed by tools and smart techniques like putting `git submodule update` in the makefile. Git submodules aren't "bad" and honestly they're an essential feature of git. But they are a struggle, and lots of people use monorepos instead (which have their own problems...).
If TSLA succeeds without Lidar, it will make them obsolete.

Time to push for Lidar now before it is too late.
That is true as well for democracy.
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