skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I deleted LinkedIn years ago when it stopped allowing me to use the site normally without first supplying which city I reside in.
If you have a hot water store its relatively cheap to dump excess electricity as heat when you have nothing better to do with it. Not as magically efficient as heat pumps but possibly still worth it overall abd there's already products that meet this need on the market.
> It seems to me that there is absolutely no way for the customer to be able to price the risk in this deal

Here is $100. In exchange, if there is a shortage of energy, you will be a bit hotter or colder than you might normally want. You can quit the program at any time.

What is so complicated there?

This is no different than buying BBB rated debt or smaller company stocks. If this is too much for the average person, investment in nearly anything should also be banned.
The one thing Linux seems to lack is good tried and tested sandboxing of untrusted applications. And of course an ecosystem of developers (e.g. why I can't run my bank app on Linux).
Against the variants at the time: the mRNA vaccines were highly effective against symptomatic infection for those variants.

The virus mutated, and the messaging did as well. It was very clear from virtually every source I saw that Omicron deeply evaded vaccine immunity for symptomatic infection.

It's not their fault that you willfully misunderstand this.
And now if you "get it wrong" you still mostly get a functional experience at slower speed or resolution.

Which is still a massive massive improvement over finding out that you can't plug in a device because you lack the exact same cable or needs.

Nowadays this only happens at the edge of capabilities, not for basic functionality.

Good riddance. I don't want to lug 10 cables with me instead of a single high end USB-C.
I never think about the Bible as a 'book' for some reason. But I've read it more than any other.
Because if you don’t pay for a product, you shouldn’t expect much. It’s why it amazes me that people tie so much of their lives to Google - an ad company.
Well then what was this all about in the first place? A giant harassment campaign against something the right people didn't like?
Masters of doom, dozen times.
The Idea Factory, by Pepper White.

First read when I was an undergrad. Then multiple times during grad school. Hit a raw nerve somewhere.

(There's another book with the same title, so note the author).
> Maybe we should shut down Twitter, Facebook

Yes please! Pretty please with a kiwi on top?
This is not an emergency program, it is planned for years in advance. If people sign up for demand management programs like this, utilities do not need as much power during peak periods, and that results in the construction of less power generation and storage. If no one wants to pay the price in inconvenience, the utilities simply have to build more capacity to cover these shortages and charge somewhat higher prices accordingly.
I haven't understood why they are called heat pumps now when it is essentially the same as a AC.
Source code will be published soon. Yes, reverse image search + exiflooter + Model with Pytorch for estimate Location from photos.
In my country, I can't install a groundwater heat pump until summer 2023. That's almost a year. Many installation companies do not even take new customers any more.
'One port to rule them all' was a mistake. Instead of being convenient, USB C has become a confusing ordeal of varying capabilities and quality control. It is like we've gone back to having many different types of connectors, but it is even worse because they share the same form factor. For any of the devices that use USB C to charge, I only use the cable that came with it when I purchased it.

While I complain, I would also like to mention the USB forum's insane naming strategy and non-obvious labeling system. Remember when USB 3 was easily identifiable because of the blue plastic in the port?
I didn't read it twice, but I loved it enough to recommend it to my wife, who also loved it, and then we recommended it to our college age kids, one of whom now loves it and one of whom is still reading it, having started very recently, telling us he's really enjoying it.

A blog post I happened to run across begins:

"""
I have a problem: I’ve already read Lonesome Dove.

And Lonesome Dove is the most totally absorbing wonderfully awesome novel on the planet.

So nothing else really compares.

Hence, my problem.
"""
https://blog.pshares.org/the-lonesome-dove-problem/
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (http://www.hpmor.com), also available as podcast (https://hpmorpodcast.com)

A Harry Potter fan-fiction where Harry is a master of rational thinking and decision making. The plot is incredibly clever and exciting, and at the same time you learn a lot about how to think properly, but also a bit about science in general.

In the first chapters, I find Harry a bit annoying sometimes, but I beg you to ignore that and continue a bit, it gets so good!
I wonder if it used Graphics Vision which was a GUI toolkit for DOS graphics mode that was compatible with Borland's Turbo Vision text GUI library. It resembled the look of OWL.
I did fairly well in the test (I didn't remember that you couldn't shift into the sign bit), but it really helps highlight how stupid the C promotion rules are. In C as soon as I have to do arithmetics with anything but unsigned ints all sorts of alarm bells start going off and I end up casting and recasting everything to make sure it does what I think it does, coupled with heavy testing. Now add floats and doubles into the mix and all bets are off.

Rust not having a default "int" type and forcing you to explicitly cast everything is such an improvement. Truly a poster child for "less is more". Yeah it makes the code more verbose, but at least I don't have to worry about "lmao you have a signed int overflow in there you absolute nincompoop, this is going to break with -O3 when GCC 16 releases 8 years from now, but only on ARM32 when compiled in Thumb mode!"
Exactly why I don't use C anymore. Other languages like Go don't allow this stuff.

https://go.dev/play/p/D2J6Y9ol41W
My biggest issue with Haskell is the syntax. Things like the dot operator requiring functions to be chained in reverse from every other language, the ugliness of $ vs using parens, and needing to prefix struct fields to keep them unique. It is terse and fits the language well enough but it is not beautiful.

I am ambivalent about pervasive laziness, lenses, and automatic currying.

I really like controlled effects and think it is one of the most powerful tools for structuring programs.
"Accountability."

Journalism is a profession with backing organizations and an ethical code. Random idiots posting about transwomen they don't like isn't that.
Source code will be published soon. For the ML part, I create a PyTorch model to estimate Location from images. In the other hand, I check the metadata and use reverse image search.
I still find coding a mentally exhausting task and maybe even more now that I am getting older. I find it harder to concentrate and I am more easily distracted. It often takes me time to get in the right mood to code. I guess my memory skills are probably also getting worse.

I suffer a lot from procrastination and I think one of the reasons is that I find it still a hard to write code. Which most of the time is not coding but reading and trying to understand code. And thinking about all the alternative ways to solve a problem. I often find myself struggling to commit my changes doubting whether my changes are good.

I also still find myself looking up the order of the parameters of standard C library functions that I have used over 30 years. I am dyslectic and struggle to remember facts. I also still find myself making stupid Boolean logic coding errors and make one-off mistakes. I still find myself stepping through loops with the debugger just to see if I did not make a stupid mistake.

It still often takes me more time to solve an issue than I had thought it would take me. There are days when I leave the office feeling that I have accomplished nothing because I have not committed any working code.
Stable Diffusion painting some most famous paintings
“Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance” — Robert Pirsig
“Siddhartha” — Herman Hesse
“Stranger in a Strange Land" - Robert Heinlein
"Wind Up Bird Chronicle" - Haruki Murakami

The first two were handed to me by my father when I dropped out of high school. Zen was a slog the first time I read through it, I came back to it my late twenties and have read it at leaset two more times since then.
In a heating-dominated climate, there may well be no air conditioning installed. In a hydronic-only heating building (underfloor and/or baseboard/radiators), there can be less work to run heating pipes only (much faster, cheaper, and more forgiving than running refrigerant lineset and managing the condensation drain line).

For heat-only, I find hydronic to be nearly ideal: low noise, no dust, and high comfort (no air movement/drafts).
Can you detail the emergency please?

Do you guys realize that the alternative to things like this soon may be a blackout with much harsher consequences at some point?

Soon we won't have those fixed prize contracts anymore anyway, and it is then again up to your full control to spend your full month salary for AC on a hot day in crisis times..
I take his stuff with a grain of salt because I found the dishwasher detergent recommendation to be a bad idea.

A while before the TC video came out, I had an appliance repair person working on my fridge and asked him what he thought the best detergent was and he said use powdered, not the packs. So we switched to that.

Not long after our dishes were never getting cleaned. I thought it was a problem with the dishwasher so I took apart the filter, cleaned all the sprayers, etc. but nothing worked. Was thinking we needed a new dishwasher until one day we ran out of powdered detergent but had a couple packs left over so my wife used one.

Bingo! Our dishes came out PERFECT. We haven’t had a single problem since.
That was good fun. I love talking to Dan and Ravi; they always ask good questions. Hope you enjoy the book!
Seconded. I have found this movie to stand the test of time, even 20 years after release.

To add, the movie captures some of the societal anxiety of cold-war West Germany accurately. August Diehl's portrayal of Karl Koch is, imho, a stand-out success.
> One person on a forum did. The post was removed as soon as it was seen by a mod, which was within 30 minutes.

This seems revisionist to me. There was a whole thread dedicated to identifying every Belfast restaurant that serves Poutine because Keffals said something to that effect. People were talking about or implying bomb threats everywhere in that thread. I definitely saw it, but obviously I can't link it because CloudFlare.

It's just not true that KF engaged in serious moderation. If they had, they wouldn't be a community engaged in targetted harrassment, and they are very clearly a community engaged in targetted harrassment.

And to repeat: you seem really engaged in finding a way to make them not, or make their enemies just as bad. When... maybe you could just not defend them? If you want to make a 100% principled argument for Free Speech, go right ahead. But don't nod to the idea of moderation like you are here and then pretend that it works when it doesn't.
I read it in my late teens/early 20's and was planning to reread it when I'd forgotten enough of the plot that I could fully enjoy it again. Then, unfortunately, the movies came out! Maybe read it again anyway? Not sure.
Reframing Security as a Strategic Advantage
Not sure I follow, burglary usually refers to entering a building without permission for the purpose of committing another crime e.g. theft.

Bringing stolen goods back and arranging them as they were before would often be a sufficient defense against a theft charge, as an intention to permanently deprive the owner of the item is often a necessary element of the crime. This would presumably also reduce your burglary charge to trespass.

https://vistacriminallaw.com/borrowing-theft/

https://www.floridacriminaljustice.com/blog/2017/08/theft-is...
Every company that deals with payments does that. Banks, PayPal and I’m sure the various places like UpWork. You routinely hear that Amex puts people in “financial review” and locks your account out because of “suspicious activity”
That the Apollo program had launch delays too, it probably should have had more to prevent things like the Apollo 1 fire that killed the crew.

For example, https://www.edn.com/apollo-16-launches-after-month-long-dela...

Plus NASA was much more tolerant of failure back then. The first Apollo mission failed and the program continued. If this launch fails, it could set back this program by years or more.
I also opt for P2P whenever I can, but it does have drawbacks as well, besides NAT. First, both have to be online at the same time. Second, seems many connections are still not symmetric, so sending files are limited by the upload speed of the sender, and together with the first problem, makes the downloaders experience suffer because of the uploader.

With that said, better infrastructure (IPv6 + better connections) can make P2P very feasible in the future, hopefully. Or software that defaults to local connections if it's possible (so if we can find the device via a private IP, use that connection instead).
> that makes congresscritters happy

Read: prevents program
cancellation

Many politicians don't care about science.

No politicians ignore high paying jobs in their districts.

People throw stones at NASA for optimizing within its system of funding, but it was a fairly brilliant move in the 50s and 60s, and is still a brilliant move today.

Both NASA and SpaceX et al. can be optimal in their own funding landscapes.
Unlikely, people still have generate and host the videos. So even if the videos are CGI, the online distributers still have a business, just a slightly different product.
> I think the last machine where that was true was the 8086.

The last machine with a word size of 16 bits? The 286 was as well. There were others like the WDC 65816 (the Apple IIgs and SNES CPU).

It just so happens that there simply far fewer 16 bit CPUs then there were 8 or 32 (or “32/16” like the 68k). Also 8 bit CPUs are simply a poor fit for C by their nature and the assumptions C makes. But the numerous ones still relevant today will use 16 bit ints.

The use of Real or V86 mode on the x86 went on for many years after the demise of the 8086. I think it is a somewhat of a joke at this point that they’re teaching Turbo C in some developing countries.
Amazon's retail branch is supported by AWS' profit, so no.
What is the history of "undefined behavior" [in C compilers and the standard] in general? I suppose originally it was supposed to guide compiler engineers, but we all know that backfired, as many compilers try to exploit undefined behavior to optimize code, but that can be problematic in security sensitive code (e.g. if uninitialized memory is optimized away) - there have been discussions between security engineers, kernel developers and GCC hackers about how to implement/interpret the standard.

Would it be possible to have a standard, where undefined behavior is just a compile error? What would we lose - apart from legacy compatibility?
Well, I'm sure logic isn't going to deter conspiracy theorists, but the Saturn V that look us to the moon in 1969 used Kerosene as fuel not liquid hydrogen which is notoriously leak-prone.

FWIW the Atlas V that delivered the Mars rovers was also Kerosene (RP-1) fueled.

It is possible to make liquid hydrogen work reliably - the Ariane 5 ECA, which delivered the James Web telescope uses it, but it seems the SLS was congressionally mandated to reuse ancient Space Shuttle tech, which also used to suffer on average one launch scrub per mission ...
http://www.nncpgo.org/Comparison.html

This is really amazing stuff. Years ago, I was heavily interested in scuttlebutt [1]. I'm interested in grid down and "occasionally connected" communications. I particularly liked the island to island sailing analogy.

SSB has a few downsides - mainly that your client needs to download full logs. You can't just request the last 30 days. They call this out as well that your first sync could take over an hour and consume several gigs of data.

I'm just today learning about NNCP, but I've used FidoNet and UUCP in the past, so the concept is pretty familiar to me. In my mental model, I would be less interested in sneakernet than standalone wifi hotspots that one could connect to and exchange data, possibly combined with an AREDN style mesh[2].

[1]: https://staltz.com/an-off-grid-social-network.html
[2]: https://arednmesh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/arednGettingStart...
Yeah, I think a lot of C's `undefined behaviour` semantics around assignments to ints should be reconsidered and changed to `unspecified` or `implementation defined` behaviour, and compilers can just do "whatever the hardware does". If that includes traps on one arch, fine, let it trap.

I think `undefined behaviour` still has its place in C - dereferencing a freed pointer comes to mind as an obvious example - but I think a good proportion of the really unintuitive UB conditions could be made saner without sacrificing portability or optimisation opportunities.
Look at dew point or some absolute humidity measure instead. As air gets colder, the amount of water vapor it can hold (the denominator in relative humidity) decreases dramatically.

Introducing cold, saturated air to your warm house will not, in general, make it feel nasty and humid.
> But the risk to the individual doesn’t matter.

To the company, the risk to the individual doesn't matter. To the individual, the risk to the company is irrelevant.

IOW, when someone leaves their stable employment and starts with a new company, the company's risk (lose some money) is almost insignificant compared to the individual's risk (starve).

Hence I said that the risk isn't equally shared between the parties. In comparison to literally dying, the company's risk looks almost negligible.
This has nothing to do with climate change, and everything to do with a tangential topic: energy generation. Colorado has more residents with larger domiciles than ever before, and the supply has not kept up with the demand. Additionally, almost all investment has been in areas that are inconsistent in their ability to provide energy when it’s needed.

Simply deciding for other people that they shouldn’t have access to energy because of your misplaced fears around climate change is a recipe for envy, bitterness, and significant societal unrest.
It is a bit of a stereotype that nothing happened in medieval Europe and Greeks and Romans did everything. That is nonsense. Medieval Europe saw a massive increase in the use of mills and machinery, that never occurred in the Roman Empire or China: https://erikexamines.substack.com/p/the-european-mill-revolu...

The development of advanced plate armor, gunpowder weapons, mechanical clocks, medieval cathedrals, innovation within glass making, lenses, spectacles etc suggest medieval society was plenty capable on innovation. Both earlier Greek city states and later medieval Italian city states demonstrated a large amount of innovation.

I would rather say that large monopolies outcompete smaller competing units in the short term but loose in the long term. We can see that in markets as well as in comparison between China and Europe. Fragmented Europe was at a disadvantage for several hundred years until that fragmentation started paying off.
I think Gutenberg was simply in the right place and the right time. His bible was still Catholic but he was living in a part of the world where Protestantism would soon kick off; powered by his re-discovered printing press and movable type.

His part of the world was a patch work of city states, small provinces, and kingdoms. Germany as a country simply did not exist at the time. Many of those states were fiercely independent and interdependent (trade).

And some of them were prospering and featured a growing middle class, trade, and relative freedom. So, he was in a place that was relatively literate (for the time) and entrepreneurial. The combination of people capable and free to express themselves and a new technology to do that at scale created a perfect storm of information and soon revolution.

Aside from the complexities of their written language and its many characters; China and Korea were basically very old empires at the time they invented movable type. Their societies were managed in a very hierarchical way. They had the means to spread information but only used it to spread officially sanctioned information. So, it did not really catch on to the same level that Gutenberg's press revolutionized (quite literally) Europe.
To steal a line of discussion I heard on a podcast some time ago—at what point along the chain does this stop being acceptable? In other words, which of the following scenarios are you okay with?

• A data center refusing to host Kiwifarms.

• An ISP refusing to provide internet to the data center that hosts Kiwifarms.

• A power company refusing to provide electricity to the data center that hosts Kiwifarms.

• An ISP refusing to provide internet to the homes of Kiwifarms members.

• A power company refusing to provide electricity to the homes of Kiwifarms members.

• A water utility company refusing to provide running water to the homes of Kiwifarms members.

• A doctor refusing to treat Kiwifarms members.

I don't think I know the answer myself right now.
I don't get it, what input was used to generate these? The originals?
> It really isn't. This is the usual ignorance of social contagion that we see from free speech purists who can't fathom that spoken ideas can spread and motivate catastrophic outcomes.

Have you considered how many ideas have been spread this same way by sharing tweets or Facebook posts or YouTube videos? Why haven’t there been big campaigns to ban Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube from the internet?

Do you see how preposterous it sounds? I can understand banning individual people from a forum or taking legal action if what they did could be a crime, but removing an entire forum for the actions of a small percentage of their users is crazy.

> in reality incitement would've been the mere tipping point, in which case the specific duration that the incitement was up for is mostly irrelevant.

It is entirely relevant since that was the main justification Cloudflare provided for de-platforming the site. Your original post suggested that it is unlikely Cloudflare would lie about their motivations.

If the original post was the reason, then why didn’t they take action days ago? Instead they published a piece saying why they would not remove Kiwi Farms. My point is that something must have changed in the last 48 hours that made them change their mind, and I don’t think it is related to “targeted threats escalating”.
... you can BBQ it and serve it with hoisin.
Lord of the Rings,
The Hobbit,
Rendezvous with Rama,
Ringworld,
Hawaii (James Michener)

I guess I love stories of travel and discovery of which all the books have them in droves.
Not the same I know but there’s a few scheme implementations that work. One of them is fennel if you use the plan 9 lua port available for 9front.
Looks great!

I am using a 350-nit Philips Brilliance 329P9H (manufactured by AOC), and, frankly, the size makes a huge difference contra the need for multiple panels. It works well with Windows and macOS devices.

One does not need Thunderbolt on a device like this; anything latency-sensitive or bandwidth-intensive should be connected directly as is. USB-C is fine.
This is solving a problem with the wrong tool. I shouldn't need another layer of bureaucracy in order to exercise my power as a citizen/employee against a powerful organization. The same way i don't need a priest to hook me up w/ the guy in the sky.