skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For shared housing like apartments I kind of get extremes opposite the outside temperature. I can be in my underwear (work from home for the win) still a little warm and my wife will be wearing long clothes and one of those hoodie blankets. If there were a weight differential I imagine this would only get worse. Multiply that by everyone living in a building, you're going to get some people far from the mean. Things like wearing tons of clothes in the AC and opening windows in the winter are just ways to give more granular control so it's not trying to fit everyone into one bucket. In single homes it tends towards more plain inefficient as the number of people to optimize for lowers but that leads to the next point.

In general I don't think efficiency is really a problem. It's self regulating, being more inefficient costs you more so you must find it worth it and that's your choice. The real issue is the incentive mismatch of dirty energy sources being cheaper than clean energy sources. There is nothing inherently problematic with someone deciding using 2 mWh instead of 1 mWh in a month is how they want to do things or deciding it's not worth trying to change things around to optimize.
This is only temporary.

It’s because the standard library hasn’t exposed interfaces for everything in async land just yet.

It’s not a trivial problem, but it’s mostly a matter of the std-lib’s developers being overly defensive of std. Which is a hindrance for many things in the medium term, but in the long term likely a good choice.

Although I wish they’d find a better balance between the chicken and egg problem for “we need production usage of the interfaces to validate them as standard” vs “we need standard interfaces so it’s ergonomic to use them in production”.
Sometime in the 80s while the strip was still running (and I was probably 10 or 11), I attended a talk by Bill Watterson at the Akron Art Museum. He looked astonishingly like Calvin's dad!

Over the course of about an hour he drew all the different characters he had tried before Calvin and Hobbes. One was a hedgehog that looked like a short Hobbes. What struck me the most was that he had tried over and over before he hit on Calvin and Hobbes.

At the end, I walked up and introduced myself and asked if I could have one of the drawings. The answer was no. He was already very careful.

I lived in Hudson, Ohio and he donated a signed book to the library auction at least once. I'm pretty sure I once saw him sitting in the lawn at Western Reserve Academy drawing.
Ask HN: How to cope over missed Opportunities?
It is the summer of 2014 and after having heard about Bitcoin the year before I stumble upon the active ICO of a new coin called "Ethereum".

I just finished high school and managed to save $10k, I am thinking "Hell, what if I invest $5k and hold for 5 years like one of those VCs who invest in companies?".

I slept over the decision and the next day it seemed foolish so I dismissed the thought.

Fast forward to January 2020, I read about the news of Covid on Jan. 07. and think to myself "Hell, this surely will result in some stock market disruptions". I am taking my final exams of university right around that time. I even looked up a VIX based ETF which proceeded to 5x the very next month. Of course I didn't took any action.

Same as above for the russian invasion in December 2021.

How to cope with missed opportunities like these?
How to learn to take risks, as thats basically my main struggle in life in general.
The biggest problem was and continues to be lot rent combined with the absolute unresalability.
I see, thanks. I take it EA mistreated them during the development of the re-released Command & Conquer? What happened?
I know nothing about “terrible” restaurant regulations, but in my experience after seeing behind the order counter of some restaurants… I think most of them need to be shut down for being incredibly disgusting
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a advocacy group based in Washington DC with long ties to tobacco disinformation campaigns and more recently to climate change denial.

Many of its claims have been debunked. Here are a few examples related to climate change:

Annenberg Political Fact Check, "Scientist to CEI: You Used My Research To "Confuse and Mislead," May 26, 2006.

"Thank you for emitting", Real Climate, May 18, 2006

In May 2006, CEI's global warming policy activities attracted attention as it embarked upon an ad campaign with two television commercials. These ads promote carbon dioxide as a positive factor in the environment and argue that global warming is not a concern. One ad focuses on the message that CO2 is misrepresented as a pollutant, stating that "it’s essential to life. We breathe it out. Plants breathe it in... They call it pollution. We call it life."[20] The other states that the world's glaciers are "growing, not melting... getting thicker, not thinner."[20] The other states that the world's glaciers are "growing, not melting... getting thicker, not thinner." It cites Science articles to support its claims. However, the editor for Science stated that the ad "misrepresents the conclusions of the two cited Science papers... by selective referencing". The author of the articles, Curt Davis, director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence at the University of Missouri-Columbia, said CEI was misrepresenting his previous research to inflate their claims. "These television ads are a deliberate effort to confuse and mislead the public about the global warming debate," Davis said.[2]

https://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Competitive_Enterpri...
I designed Trustfall[0] out of frustration with existing systems that either:

- didn't allow optimizations like batch get and predicate pushdown even when I knew they'd help, or

- made it really difficult to add them piecemeal after-the-fact on an existing schema, by either demanding everything be batched and optimized, or that nothing be batched and optimized.

In my experience, it's usually a small component of the schema that is causing most of the runtime cost, and it's not always predictable ahead of time where it's going to be. It's dependent on the queries and the data size and shape, so it changes over time.

So I wanted to be able to write a working schema and adapter quickly, and then optimize the parts that were slow in practice for my workload and not just ones that "hypothetically might be slow," and this is what Trustfall lets me do.

More info in my reply on an ancestor comment in the thread.

[0]: https://github.com/obi1kenobi/trustfall
In Cologne the classical Sauerbraten ( the most famous meat dish in the region) is from horse meat. I live in a house in Karlsruhe and the last business on the ground floor was a horse butcher. Germany, however, has become the land of mass produced meat, which can be done with pigs much easier. Horse meat is an expensive niche product.
> Except there's plenty of old-money (hereditary class) in the US that looks, talks and acts exactly like the "class" structures you're claiming are very different from those in Europe.

100%. You also have to keep in mind America is much younger as a nation compared to Europe, but the classism is trending it towards the hereditary classism found in Europe over time.
The trick means real net income is larger than what’s on the books/10-K filings. Misclassified investments are not wasted money, simply hiding how much money is available for other expenses.

It’s like the old trick of paying an offshore subsidiary in a tax heaven licensing fees to use your own IP with the added advantage of being able to directly profit from the use of these investments. Nobody looking at the books would think such things are actual expenses, but companies must pretend they are.
Quite horrible imo. Creeping closer and closer to Perl with each iteration
It’s easily possible to argue that the concept or structure of unions, and their relationships to business, as generally implemented, tends towards those corruptions.
Apple: I would love to see an improved key material.

Synthetic ivory is a thing: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235294072...

( But glass or ceramic might be nice, too! )
> I hope you realize valuation of public companies has nothing to do with a random one person side project that's been up for a few years

Four years of seller discretionary income is not an unusual sale price for small solo projects that have traction. Iirc, Patio11’s bingo card creator sold for something around this multiple.

That said, it’s unclear if this project has as much traction as others that sell for this multiple.

If there are only a few clients, especially if they are friends of the current owner, then the business is fragile.
>That happens very rarely with our dozens of transitive dependencies

Because you don't do ml. My requirements.txt is useless in 6 months because the transitive dependencies all have incompatible versions of common libraries by now
No thanks, my side projects exist to bring me joy. Corrupting them by trying to monetize them would take away all the fun.
Meme was funny.

FB reaction even funnier.

Now to top FB reaction you should hire a lawyer and sue them for emotional damage - FB bogus warning and cutting off from friends and family made you really think you are suicidal!
Yes but the API has to be built for multithreaded scheduling.
So are longhorns :)
Porque en ese caso no usas un IDE moderno.
Many sites offer these things for free without the need to track you around the internet. Facebook's business model breaks social expectations of privacy. They make a lot of money because they sell other people your data through ad targeting.

Facebook controls the barely tech literate crowd by offering an aol type experience.

These services are popular with the masses. No one cares that they give data to facebook so they can be sold more things and leave them poorer.

You end up paying facebook no direct money but you have less money and spent when you didn't need to.
4 or 5 mb is pretty big for a gingerbread phone. I'd wonder if there's ways to make that smaller. Cutting out unnecessary ciphers would likely help, looks like conscrypt supports a lot of things; if you're including this to support your own servers, you probably know which ciphers are actually used and don't want to include anything else.

It wasn't immediately clear if conscrypt does its own certificate parsing; that's a lot of code if it's not strictly needed. (But it might not be possible to support ecdsa signed certificates without that)
One defining trait of 2022 is the breakdown of trust. (The other is that people insist that "this time is different" and that history doesn't have anything to teach us about the current time.)

If you look at /new/ on HN you will see there are people who have nothing better to do than second-guess every decision the government or any other organization made about the coronavirus.

Blockheads think you can't trust banks, central banks, or anybody except the person who wants you to buy the latest shitcoin.
In theory, though, with React it is idiomatic to make the state flow back through a state store like Redux, then those state changes are reflected in the top-down re-rendering.

That's not a problem for Rust, as evidenced by the fact that it is actually the way several frameworks work in Rust today.
Sure, I’d still posit having a more distributed and less top heavy society is more important than being a status quo of a few oligopolies controlling 90%+ but people can self host
This is a brand new platform and I assume this blog post is one of their first post-mortems. I’m inclined to give them a break, and respect them for establishing a process of post-mortems.

That is all to say, regardless of whether the post itself is “a little concerning,” it would be more concerning if the post didn’t even exist. And if you weren’t one of their affected customers, you likely wouldn’t even know this happened. So they did the right thing by publishing it and opening themselves to your criticism, which is a positive sign for the future of the platform IMO.
I created a professional portfolio framework that supports project descriptions and technical essays for precisely this reason: it gives the developer a better opportunity to provide the reader with a sense of who they are:

https://techfolios.github.io/
I love the strip.
I love the artist decision and resistance to "the money".

It's the artist I have more respect in the whole world because of this!

It's still teaching us something!!!
I grew up as the child of someone like you, and this lesson is the most useful one that was imparted to me. It has helped me retain my sanity. If you have children, students, or mentees, they will appreciate your point of view.

My mother's open identification as poor and working class makes people very uncomfortable.
This has been ongoing / in the works for a long time and the methods they are embracing now are more likely to succeed in the long term. A mono-culture of out-of-place trees, it is not. It is country by country so there are some problems around coordination and equal funding iirc
It's a mess in general

The best balance I've managed is with Linux - distributions bundle up most everything I need as packages, and I'm lucky there's very little requirement for specific versions for what I need

Anything extra I tend to get with pip/--user
Haha that’s right, good catch. You can tell it’s been awhile since I tested in prod. :)
I keep a backup of my travel photos there.
I think part of this is right. Up until Kennedy's presidency, the country was run by WASPs who make up most of what is called "old money". WASPs probably still exist in some form but I probably wouldn't call them the upper class anymore because they have no power or privilege. In fact, one of their exclusive gateways to retaining power, the Ivy League, has disavowed them and white people as a whole are the only race that is underrepresented relative to population size in the Ivy League. So I do not believe WASPs can claim to be the upper class anymore although I am sure they are relatively well off. Further, as a group Asians are among some of the highest earners so it would be hard to argue that they are part of a lower class despite being so in prior generations. So I do think class has changed in the US over the last 100 years.

WASPs might hold some prestige but I think as they lose power they become more irrelevant and less exclusive. I don't think it's straightforward right now who the upper class is. It feels like things are in a state of flux and amorphous or secretive. I completely agree net worth is not the only deciding factor.

The upper class will always be a small exclusive group by design so regardless of who is in it, social mobility is probably lower than most people expect. So to sum it up I only disagree with you about the power of "old money" in the US now. I think there is a somewhat parallel class with actual hereditary advantages that is replacing the "old money" class.
Another XPan owner here. Yes, it's a great camera, and the lenses are lovely, and the aspect ratio is really great, with plenty of interesting uses. I rarely use the 'normal' 3x2 mode you can select, but there is a certain joy of realising that if you switch to it, it shuffles the film back by counting sprocket holes so that you don't lose any space on the film.

The sprocket reading mechanism uses IR if I remember correctly, so you can't use IR film in the XPan without getting leaks from this mechanism.

Also, labs used to automatically mess up cutting negative into strips for this due to the unusual framing, so you are best to home develop or use a pro lab that understand this sort of thing.

If you like the look, but can't or don't want to afford an XPan, the other option that I can think of is to get a Mamiya 7 with their 35mm adapter plate, giving the same aspect ratio. I've not tried it, because instead, I just shoot 120 film in a Mamiya 7 and crop if this is the aspect ratio I want. I also get shift for free doing this...

The other option i've tried, which is mind blowingly awesome is a Fuji 617, which is the XPan aspect ratio on 120 film. The problem is that you need an 8*10 enlarger to print these, and obviously the cost per shot is higher, but the quality is beyond what you can imagine.
> It’s pretty limited what an event loop can do: it can wait on a set of FDs, or sleep for some time (or until woken up).

But that's what the runtime is. There's multiple strategies for implementing an event loop (as well as multiple async platform APIs to use), which all directly affect the lower-level abstractions. By replacing the event loop and lower-level abstractions with one common implementation all you've done is add another competing runtime. You can't have more than one event loop and thus you can't have more than one runtime.
No doubt that Amazon is being scummy here, but you can’t quote someone/something and put a phrase (“don’t sign”) in quotations unless it’s a direct quote…
The peaks in popularity are super interesting because they line up exactly with my parents owning a manufactured home.

They bought one as newlyweds in the 70s, and then a double-wide in the 90s. These were both on acre sized lots.

We lived in regular suburban style houses too so I don’t know what the appeal was. Some kind of weird Boomer romanticism?
ha, me too! I wonder what trips it up
Or maybe all the straw banning and feel good recycling efforts (and similar efforts with little actual impact on CO2) consume our energy and attention and allow us to feel good about doing something.

Meanwhile we've not made any significant headway in tackling the problem, and things continue to get worse.

If we want to solve this, we're going to have to have sustained focus and effort devoted to solving the hard problems. That means regulation, international cooperation, changes in how we live our lives, impact on corporations, etc. There is no easy way out of this.
> Nobody's counting government benefits.

Yes, that's the problem your parent comment is pointing out.

You're not trying to count them either. The value of a pension isn't the payouts it provides. It's what an identical financial structure would cost. A pension that pays out $1 million over 15 years is worth less than $1 million.

You appear to be correct on the original point that US social security payments are pretty comparable to Finnish pension payments. As of March this year, the average Finnish payment was 1784 euros and the average American payment was 1537 dollars.
We do not have such a flawless model for CLIs. Command-line apps have their corner cases as well, and they fail too.

Many CLI programs were designed in the assumption the display size never changes, like 80x25 characters.
That's not true anymore, users resize their windows, the text in the terminal may or may not stay good after that.

Terminals have a GUI state: cursor position, and current text attributes. That state may cause issues, especially when a program quits suddenly, like a crash.
They may not use the exact words "black trash", but I think terms like "ghetto" are largely equivalent. And it's not just about material wealth, you can have "ghetto" behavior and be very rich.
Having to work with Angular 1.8 in 2022 sounds awful. Can't imagine being stuck in a worse legacy nightmare.
Family, pancakes and algorithms. In that order (no pun intended).
Completely agree! I’d love to see a “new world” with higher bitrate video
I don't object to expecting everyone, regardless of skin color or ancestral origin, to act polite, intelligent, and law-abiding.
Always thought it was rage against the coffee machine.
You changed my whole perspective.
Thanks!
I generally try to use my own cameras to mimic a format to see if I like it, but this one does present enough of a challenge that a cheaper one to try it first might be in order.

Slightly off topic, but as much as I love panorama shots I personally prefer shooting square, even for landscape. I have my Canon set to mask square for that view, though I do save the whole RAW.
Trustfall (see sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32120007 ) is my attempt at what you're describing: GraphQL syntax with custom directives like @recurse / @optional / aggregations / arbitrary filters, executed client-side over whatever remote APIs are available (REST or otherwise).

It's by no means fully polished yet and lacks many features that'd be useful to have, but I'd love your thoughts if you decide to take a peek! It supports Rust, Python, and (extremely soon!) WASM in the browser.

https://github.com/obi1kenobi/trustfall
If you're going to quote me, quote me -- don't paraphrase me and leave out essential context. Here is what I wrote:

> The protective effect of prior infection is not uncertain, nor is it changing. There have been dozens of papers now, all saying the same thing: natural infection is at least as protective (if not more so) than even 3 doses of the current vaccines.

I was saying that natural infection is equivalent to vaccination -- if not better. Then, in the same comment, I explicitly said that none of this will prevent re-infection:

> Norway is saying what it is, because we know that most people -- vaccinated or previously infected -- will eventually get re-infected. But even if you are re-infected, you will be well-protected against severe illness.

Did people originally overstate the claim that vaccination would prevent infection? Absolutely. Do we now know this to be untrue? Again, absolutely. You're going to be re-infected multiple times in your life. Cannot be helped.

But it's still true that infection and vaccination offer at least equivalent levels of protection. So if you're concerned about the protection of "natural immunity" -- by whatever standard -- then I have bad news for you: the vaccines are no better.
Certainly during your lifetime you also thought about stuff that turned out to be wrong, but you don't kick yourself about those.

Even if you actually get some big market event right, you are bound to lose everything when you get something wrong eventually.

When you bet one time, there is some chance of winning or losing. If you bet continuously on something when the odds are against you, the probability of losing converges to 100%.
> Because being cynical is the easiest route to feeling smart. It takes no effort to dismiss something.

This was a difficult lesson I learned only in the past five years or so.

I realized I was aping my asshole father.

Being more open to people and ideas has been way more fun.
I inferred that you implicitly used it as an example of a true categorical
A Public School in Florida Built America’s Greatest Math Team
Echoing this, you have essentially described Calcite.

The community is incredible, too.
Anyone who touched SOAP or CORBA for any amount of time larger than an hour have fond memories of XML RPC, despite all the flaws. I know I do.
Yes, you are correct. The UK has a temperate climate, unlike the continental climate in many other European countries.
Go ahead and re-read the comment you are defending. I think it has twisted in your memory to something much more reasonable rather than something that can be verifiably fact-checked as false.
Jesus! The power of ISPs seems unchecked and immense :/
> Citation required on this one...

You mean you'd like to read a source to back up that statement.

Nothing is required...