skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
is there really no better way to calculate this?

9.1% between june 2021 and june 2022

8.5% between july 2021 and july 2022

its just not really conveying everything... well?
The issue is not with the Electoral College, but with the artificial limit on the House of Representatives. The limit of 435 Reps skews the numbers.

House of Representatives is suppose to be 1 Rep per a fixed number of people. But Congress put a hard limit of 435, that means Small States have more people per Rep than Large States.

For example, Wyoming has 1 Rep for 480900 people.

California has 1 rep per 736000 people. To be fair and agree with the original intent of the US Constitution, California should have about 82 Reps instead of 53.

Texas for that matter should really have 52 Reps instead of 36 has it as now. The way it is now it has one rep per 700279 people.

Fixing that limit should solve a lot of problems
The Fed has a target of 2 percent of average inflation, so a long ways to go.
Send another email with the same thread-id with the updated info and when you navigate in Gmail’s UI to the thread the most recent message is shown and the rest is collapsed. This is already possible. You could add some metadata to make this intentional, e.g. message-type: notification and message-obsoletes-id: <prev msg id>... something like that.

The AMP’s schtick is to make emails into widgets. It’s not so much that it’s bad (potentially evil, though), but it makes email into a completely different thing.

In my mind first it’s AMP, then Android Instant Apps or something, and before you know it you have DRM in your emails.
python has both .copy() methods and a copy module. That's not to highlight Python's strengths, but an indication that it's a complex topic in Python - it has footguns here. The copy module might even do the wrong thing for a given object.
Sounds like you might want an SRE lead / Platform owner.

in my experience it is still too early in the game to thin slice roles like this.

It makes sense to have broad buckets like:

- mobile (ios, android)
- frontend / backend (web or fullstack)
- SRE
- Security and compliance
- AI / machine learning

this is how i might tag tickets. but small teams probably have to share responsibilities until there are enough resources to focus
Thanks, I did both the feedbacks. If you have any other advice please share.
You say this as though this means a popular vote is a better idea, rather than a worse idea.
https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massachusetts-home-heating...

Heating oil (diesel) is still 70% higher than last year.

I'm about to delete the oil heat, so have been watching this.. I will certainly be annoyed if it crashes back to the $2s next week (right after the conversion..)

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n3010ma3m.htm

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APUS11A72610

BTW, this site allows you to compare the different heating costs: you have to enter the current prices:

https://www.amsenergy.com/fuel-cost-calculator/

$35.78 oil
$24.94 gas
$79.13 electricity resistance (100%)
$39.57 electricity heat pump (200%)

(per million BTUs output from heater)
One analysis seems to show constitutional monarchies rank pretty high (i.e., the head of state is mostly ceremonial):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

(2020/1 seem to have been a bad batch of years, as a lot of scores seems to have dropped)

See also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-Dem_Institute
Their target rate is 2%. 8.5% is still the highest we have seen in 40 years. Also, happened during an energy crunch.
geoip can more often than not pinpoint Germany's third largest city and you're being pinned down in one of a handful of small towns in the vicinity, but I guess that's Deutsche Telekom's mapping of IPs to regions? Also most people historically had dynamic IPs, so another useless fact unless you work at the ISP or for the government.
Python, requests, BeautifulSoup, lxml, BrightData proxy provider. If necessary, async (if you’re scraping multiple pages) and Pyppeteer (if scraping JS-heavy pages).
Why? That says financial assets aren’t included in reporting of inflation. Why would one think they would be?
Rodger, dodger.
It’s almost like there’s some relationship between supply, demand, and price. It’s ok I’m sure google is working on an AI model to establish that.
Or hear me out. Maybe allistic people could learn to interact with autistic people since they'll be meeting a lot of them in IT.

Those are not hard skills to learn, like patiently responding to questions before jumping to conclusions about what the person you are talking to thinks about this and that.
The problem is that 'identity' is context specific. You're right that it is an artifact of consensus - but it is actually consensus in different groups for different reasons and at different points in time.

An interesting study on identity is the (book/play/film) Les Misérables. At various points in the story, the protagonist is a prisoner (#24601), a Frenchman (Jean Valjean), a factory owner (Monsieur Madeleine), and a community leader (Monsieur le Maire). The main antagonist in the story, Javert, is so strongly biased in his rigid system of classifying people, that he is unable to accept Valjean's identity as anything other than a criminal - prisoner 24601. The internal dissonance this creates when Valjean continues to defy this categorization eventually results in Javert's demise.

At the beginning of the story, the protagonist's identity _is_ prisoner 24601. At the end of the story, it is not. Identity changes with time, context and circumstances, and how that identity is asserted will also vary from group to group.
Regenerative braking. Brake pads are only used for emergency braking.
Very much the same here. I grew up without security of those things either, and never quite managed to lose the appreciation or happiness in finding a career in tech that pulled me out of that. Buddha-like dispassionate observation of my situation wasn't really an option, or at least I wasn't capable of it.

Something else that helped, I think, is that when I did have a life-changing windfall (a company stock actually paid out) I didn't change anything in my life. I just use it to do relatively humble but satisfying things, like family vacations that I wouldn't have had access to before. I imagine if I had blown it all on parties or something I'd have had major ups and downs, but having it be a source of stability and little happiness bubbles released over a long period of time has been really positive.
I would expect the fed to just keep rates stable instead of cutting them
Aren't autists notorious for introversion and a hyper-fixation on logical coherence - to an obnoxious degree? Wouldn't that make them the least likely to engage in self deception?
An obvious problem is how do you stop these randomly chosen people from being influenced from the same sort of well-connected folks? An obvious strategy for these folks would be to present themselves as "advisors" to the randomly chosen people and just be rulers in proxy.
>Figure-Eight on a Bight

>Easy to untie after it has held a load.

I completely disagree with that description, Out of every knot you can use for an anchor or your climbing harness, the figure eight is the most difficult to untie. If you ask any rock climbing why they use [insert figure-eight alternative], the reason is always because it's a pain to remove after it's been loaded.
> You are right, though I seldom find it a problem in practice.

Although it's easy to to tell people that mutation is confusing and to avoid it, enforcing that is much easier if the compiler is on your side and will prevent mutation with const.

I've encountered unnecessary mutation (introducing implicit assumptions on the order of calls, and making things more confusing) constantly in both Java and C++, but enforcing const in C++ cuts down on that. Or at least, it forces a const_cast which I won't approve without a really good reason.

You're right about Rust of course, internal mutability is possible and maybe even common with RefCell, but culturally it seems like that's avoided. On the other hand, mutability is extremely common in Java.

Maybe I'm just traumatized from some of the horrific code heavily using mutation I've seen over the years.
> If 90% of the time in an application is spent in database calls, then there’s little opportunity for improvement via JIT technologies.

Even if it is true (for a given application) it doesn't mean that you don't need to optimize CPU usage. It's just mean that you may run out of RAM first (if you don't use async I/O) before you'll saturate CPU. Or may not.

First, in most non small projects database and app (e. g. Ruby) layers usually either use separate hardware or shared HW but we can account hardware cost for each of them. If DB layer uses much more HW than app layer then yes, it makes little sense to reduce CPU usage by Ruby. But usually an app layer is bigger, especially if a language like Ruby is used. Let's focus on the app layer assuming our DB layer works well (request latency can be non negligible - if it is stable under any load we have - that's fine). Assume we need N servers with Ruby - let's look what prevents us from using N/2 servers and saving money: for web apps it is either CPU or RAM (disk I/O handled by DB layers, 10Gbit network bandwidth should not be a bottleneck in most cases). For contemporary server hardware and web apps in my experience it is more common to saturate CPU before you'll run out of RAM so by reducing CPU usage you can save money. But your mileage may vary.
I often think about the law of diminishing returns. My finances had a few inflection points that improved my life tremendously:

- Left the violent neighborhood I grew up at

- Was able to eat real food every day

- Started being able to save money

- Stopped using public transport

- Got a place for myself

- Got a job with great work life balance

Now, every extra cash I make improves my peace of mind, as my biggest fear is being poor again. I don't think any extra luxury will ever make me happier than the points I outlined above did.
The result would be the opposite, due to how lopsided the urban/rural divide is in the US. All politicians would have to care about are a handful of large cities, ignoring the rest of the states.
Looking at the scripts, they're mostly wrappers intended to be called on the file or a selection, so closer to a macro, shortcut, vim mapping etc. instead of a general purpose executable name. So closer to "C-x C-k" than "M-x save-buffers-kill-terminal".

(Most of them seem to have parameters, so it wouldn't make sense to golf this even further and have a exec command that just accepts one letter)
Except in urgent cases with risk of physical harm, the default should be to challenge these requests in court, even if a warrant is offered.
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Great list. Thanks for sharing!
The gig economy becoming more regulated
I personally would prefer the current system. Initial email or no email changes ever. Initial email lists the original times. If changes, airline sends another new email.
People can also be objectively wrong when it comes to social interactions as well though.

To give an example, if someone who is less technical asks you a question that does not give enough background information to give a precise technical answer on, the wrong thing to do is respond by first simply asking questions back at them. Particularly if the questions could be difficult for them to immediately see how it relates to answering their initial question. It doesn't matter that it's because you think holistically or they don't have as deep an understanding, or anything else. The right thing to do is try to stay with people in conversation. Explain your thinking, make sure they understand why you need to ask these questions before you can answer, or give them a range of possibilities that are dependent on these unknowns.

And asking somebody to explain their reasoning and justification for their question before you begin to answer it is very rude, so that's wrong too. It's reasonable to expect more justification as requests become more time-intensive, but an initial response to a question should have some degree of good faith and politeness. Clearly they don't understand all the implications, which is why they asked for your opinion. So asking whether they understand all the implications of what they are asking is a rhetorical question and is basically calling them a moron.

"Should we rewrite the checkout of our E-Commerce platform using React?"

This question might sound like your manager is expecting a yes or no answer, but they aren't. They want some "conversation". They want your opinion, some explanation for it, an opening to continue the conversation. Even if you could answer with an unqualified "no" without further clarification and be correct on a technical basis, that response is wrong in this social interaction.

"It's possible react could help with performance but it would be quite a lot of work. I don't think we should at this point unless we're seeing performance problems."

Something like that would be a better answer.
> A manager came to me asking if we should rewrite the checkout of our E-Commerce platform using React because they had read a blog post about another company doing it.

> In this particular situation, the discussion never got past the first question. Is our checkout page not performing well?

> However, the manager interpreted my words as outright rejecting their idea.

If this is what actually happened, the manager is terrible and unprofessional. I feel I run into situations like this as well, where I ask a simple question and because the person asking is treating me like an NPC in a game they're playing but not telling me, I don't get the question answered and furthermore I get something attributed to me (e.g. refusal, uncooperativeness, etc.) that isn't true at all.

I wish there was some way to easily communicate universally that "I mean the literal meaning of these words, nothing more, nothing less."
And after I've learned about four noble truths in Buddhism, I began to appreciate my situation and become averagely happier than before.
Is it a great technical feat to run 5 year old software? The state of creative tools on Linux is sad.
> If you use your smarts to conclude that having a spouse will negatively affect your happiness, don't have one.

You're assuming the negative. Your spouse can be a huge overall help in achieving happiness.

> A very intelligent person should be able to figure out a way to improve their finances.

It's not that simple.

You could be exceedingly smart but medically handicapped, which leads to lower paying jobs. Or could have been a high earner and then come down with an unfortunate disease which greatly impacts you ability to work and medically bankrupts you.
An article by an investment fund ceo who says we should care about investment prices instead of food prices
Good thing they don’t publish the inflation number! Checks and balances!
> You would be better served studying philosophy directly, rather than a book filled with misogyny, slavery, thought-crime and magic.

Quite a hot take. Most famous philosophers lived in similar environments. I don't know how your environment precludes you from wisdom.
Analytics Engineering Lead or Data Engineering Lead.
As has been noted elsewhere in the thread, the knot is NOT illegal in and of itself in Australia or anywhere else. The poster is exaggerating.
Yes and they wrote the founding documents. Do you think those opinions weren't included? They definitely were and we had to remove some of them.

The concept of the Federalist society is primarily originalist, is it not? They attempt to ascertain exactly what the founders meant when drafting the original documents and interpret our current law based on that.

I'm saying we probably shouldn't do that.
Same if you're lead climbing, there is a small chance (if you left a longish tail end) to clip the wrong part of the rope. If if it does not directly result in a dangerous fall you might trap yourself inside a quickdraw.
I feel the fact that the flight changed time on you is also useful information. Say if they feel that because they can dynamically update the original email it absolves them of the need to specifically make you aware of this change. Then you miss a plane, with no proof they have even pulled the rug on you.
You receive an email for your flight: tomorrow at 10am. When you arrive at the airport, you are told the flight has already departed.

"How is that possible, it is 9am and my flight is at 10am?"

"No sir, your flight was at 8am"

Checking your email, you see 8am and you have questions about your sanity
Many in this thread are saying things like “if LA county has more population than 40 states why should we listen to those states?”

At the surface level this makes sense. But dig deeper. It’s reciprocal- if you take that approach why should those states listen to you? If you throw out their interests wholesale, then you have no right to govern them and they should secede and make their own laws.

This is how we got the senate and electoral college. Why should someone in Florida have a say over the people of Kenya, New Zealand or Idaho? In a sense people should self govern unless they come together in some kind of mutual pact where both sides get a benefit. Otherwise you are speaking of literal tyranny.
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You might be mistaking playwright with puppeteer
The Mathematics of the Kalman Filter
But what does an Electoral College distribution of Americans support?
This is good! Multi-billion-dollar tech companies have been given too much power by governments, partly because they want to capitalize on the spying capabilities provided by their endless cycle of private data slurping, collecting and de-anonymizing, and partly by regulatory capture from an army of lobbyists employed by the tech companies.
Great. You learned to mask better. But younger people and some older ones are really not keen on doing that anymore.

Humility is great, but automatically accepting the blame for somebody's failure to communicate something to you just because they are allistic ... that is not so great.
> To make a battery safer, you reduce the ways it can give up that energy.

well, not exactly:

> [...] some batteries will give up their energy if they are penetrated with a sharp object. Some won't.

and your options for surviving punctures are essentially either:

* make the battery store less energy, or

* don't stack/roll the battery layers.

the first is clearly a non-starter, the latter necessitates very flat & space wasting batteries.

> [...] Some tolerate high temperatures, some don't.

lithium based batteries chemistries are completely unfavorable to high temperatures. there is no way around this, without changing the chemistry of battery (which is likely an energy density decrease), or adding thermal mass to soak up extra heat for some finite duration.

> Energy density is only loosely correlated with safety.

ok, consider this scenario: say we found a battery chemistry is resilient to puncture. can tolerate hundreds of degrees of heat without issue, and can sustain the power required to drive an electric car. ultimately you have 50kwh battery with a positive and negative terminal. you could put a bar of copper over those terminals. one of two things is going to happen;

* the copper will rapidly heat up and explode

* the battery will rapidly heat up and its container will explode

this battery is still very dangerous.
Aerofarms is a company that uses it, they have more than one 100K+ square foot facilities.
My cards where already printed but we can also choose our own titles. My next card will say: "Üb3rn3rd"
Is this really a big deal? There are just a few states with a few reps that have a slightly lower ratio than average. Seems like a nothing burger to me.

Fixing this would solve 0 problems anyway from what I see. Please name a single issue that would be solved if there were, idk, 470 reps instead of 435?
I’m sure he’s a great programmer though.
Ive also always been in the the camp that this "backup" knot isn't backing up anything. If you want to finish the knot, the correct way to do it would be a Yosemite finish.
You can also use Wise as an alternative.

For a certain fee they'd give the option of having a "local bank account" in that country so customers can do deposits there. Then you can withdraw to your main account elsewhere.
Painting of Mice Nibbling on a Watermelon
big corp and their marketing teams
Wait how is it pseudoskeptical? It's made independent predictions which have subsequently been confirmed, like a slope of 4 in the tully-fisher relationship and the EFE (among others). That's the definition of science. The EFE is particularly compelling because it was originally posited as a criticism of MOND but then the data came in.
Well, you misunderstood me.

I meant to offer the constitutional reasoning as a source for why retroactive punishment is problematic. Not as the binding legal principle.

I agree GitHub CAN do this.

My post offered the opinion GitHub should NOT do this.
> Most Americans

...

> popular vote

So you're telling me most people prefer the system which gives them some control over their government rather than the system which enshrines a minority party due to archaic and outdated laws. The majority of the population have had their will overridden in every single Republican presidential win since Reagan if we acknowledge the incumbent advantage especially after 9/11 for Bush Jr.

The senate is also deeply flawed. Republican senators represent 41 million fewer voters than Democratic senators, yet they control half of the chamber and get to stymie everything done outside of budget reconciliation. The House is supposed to represent the people, but has the same bias (to a lessor degree) thanks to the frozen size of the House and rampant gerrymandering. For example, in Wisconsin Democrats won roughly half of the popular vote for house seats in 2020, but only gained 1/3rd of the representatives. Half the population votes Democrat, half votes Republican and Republicans get strong majorities in representation. If California house members had the same proportional representation as Wyoming house, we'd need an additional California house members so even our alleged "proportional representation" system is fundamentally broken.

The majority are getting tired of the minority dictating how politics work in our country.
You need a large time window or error bars will be large.

Annual numbers are also canon.

People think on yearly timescales
IMO, you should be watching the month over month numbers and only using YoY to contextualize. Looking at the delta of YoY data doesn't tell you much without knowing the rate for the monthly report that was dropped and the monthly report that was gained.
More than I'll ever need to know about vacuums. Next time my wife has a question I may be able to answer.
Your local mechanic sent you an AMP email?
> Also, referring to "allistic communication patterns" might also be another impediment here. Normal people don't talk like that. It's like talking to a robot.

why are you assuming they are talking to people IRL like they would write a blog post? Very few people talk in person like they type or behave differently in professional environments vs casual. Seems like a weird critique.
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> Wouldn't it be a sign of healthy introspection to dedicate time to analyze whether that's correct?

I wonder if Author is in fact autistic. It seems (not sure if I've got this right) that author wasn't diagnosed until his forties. I'd have expected a diagnosis of autism to occur pre-teen.
I'm not usually a fan of unfounded racism allegations. But the guy's username is "bantuq"...