skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in college I got pulled over for expired license plates (had moved, forgot to update my address with the DMV), and the officer took away the plates because my car apparently didn't have insurance.

Of course, I had insurance, but due to the lack of this particular checksum algorithm somewhere during data entry process my insurance carrier had transposed a 7 for an I, and thus the VIN on the vehicle did not match the VIN that was insured.

After fixing it with the insurance company, I had to go to traffic court to get the ticket dealt with. The judge in this case questioned why I didn't check that they matched when I first got insurance - as a response I asked the judge if they had also checked this on their own car. The case was dismssed.
As many people know, CAP stands for Consistency, Availability, and Partitioning which applies to distributed systems. You get to pick two. I chose the AP part with eventual consistency. 'Eventual' is the term with variability. Some systems are faster than others in bringing the distributed nodes up-to-date with data changes across the system. I believe I have some algorithms that complement the structure of the data to make the window of inconsistency as small as possible.

The system is also designed for full ACID compliance, but there is still some work to be done in this area.
Challenges of CIAM (2019)
The original USB sticks had this, but it was no longer included as the devices became commoditized.
It is not about what is sensible for your home. It is about what energy is actually available.
> Eminent Scottish historian William Dalrymple criticised the book, saying it "was written in 12 days, involved no personal archive research and contains some serious factual errors" however he maintained that the book was, nevertheless, "persuasive".[8]

> In a review published in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, economic historian, Tirthankar Roy, a faculty at the London School of Economics criticized the book. He noted that "Tharoor makes his case with passion and plain good writing. The facts cited in the book are beyond dispute. The story is meant to be blood-curdling and the colourful language — including liberal use of “depredation,” “loot,” “rapaciousness,” “vicious,” “brutality,” “plunder” and “extraction” — produces that effect. Like a religious text, it tells a straight and narrow story with the zeal of a holy warrior. Yet none of these qualities makes the interpretation wrong, however. Few professional historians think that the British Empire ruled India with India’s best interests in mind.

> Another review of Inglorious Empire, published in the Literary Review, by historian John Keay, whose many writings on India include India: A History, applauds Tharoor for "tackling an impossibly contentious subject". However, he deplores the fact that "his moral venom sometimes clouds his own judgement" and notes that many of Tharoor's statistics are very seriously out of date, many coming from the polemics contained in the American Will Durant's Story of Civilisation written in the 1930s, which itself drew on the even earlier work of the crusading American missionary Jabej T. Sutherland, author of India in Bondage.[9]

> A more detailed criticism of Tharoor's book and his use of statistics was set out by the writer of South Asian history Charles Allen in a lecture entitled Quis custodiet ipsos custodes: who owns Indian history? delivered to the Royal Society for Asian Affairs in London on 25 April 2018. A revised version was published in Asian Affairs under the revised title Who Owns India's History? A Critique of Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglorious_Empire
I retired last year after 39.5 years as a working programmer. I started with Fortran, used C, C++, Java, Objective-C (both modern and NeXT variety), Javascript, lots of assembly languages and the last 6 years, Swift; also dabbled in other languages.

Was always a full time programmer no matter my title and other duties. The key is always learning new things, which is a minefield since so much stuff winds up losing popularity. Most of what I worked on was targeted at people, even server side stuff always had a client as well. I also learned a lot about dealing with people, deciphering and untangling requirements, and how whatever industry I worked in functioned. I only retired because I was tired of working 60 hrs/week and endless meetings.

Compared to today there were only a handful of people programming when I started, so people with 4 decades of experience are still rare.
industrial and (gasp) uniformed services energy use is very large compared to residental; pointless, wasteful energy use by commercial small business and local government is rampant. Controlling individuals in their "pen" is simply exerting control against the group that has the least ability to push back / most helpless.
Well, I learned a lot about how centripetal assymmetic gravity interacts with heat, disproving greenhouse gas dogma - but so far I haven't found an example of the language. Can someone point me to it?
Typical heatpump COP in Northwestern Europe sits at about 4, that means for 1 kWh of electricity your moving 4 kWh heat into your home. Electrical resistive heating sits at 1:1 by definition, and methods like wood, gas or oil, combustive methods, usually with modern installations at 80-95% efficiency. Further south heatpump COP improves; the rule of thumb is a smaller delta T the better.

Moving heat is always more efficient than creating heat. It's elementary physics.

Airconditioners, or air-to-air heatpumps, are cheap heaters for the same reason (any units sold in the last 10 years can move heat bidirectionally). Here in NW Europe by cooling bill is barely noticeable (it's no desert clime after all, although the last decade seems like it's getting there!). You don't need to set it to 18C; I really only cool when the attic gets over 28C while I work there (home office), down to 24-26, which is a few weeks a year. In winter, it heats the room at ~400% efficiency compared to the typical ~80 for gas heating.

Move heat. Don't create it.
We need capital to grow fast and build the product. We're pre-revenue
"The capsules have this" is only kinda-sorta true as is "special salt".

Lets do "special salt" first. What you need is Sodium Chloride. Commonly: salt. The manufacturer tells you to buy "dishwasher salt" but all that is, is a bag of salt. Why not say just "salt"? Well, the table salt you might buy comes in lots of fancy and/or tweaked varieties which are not ideal for the machine, yet they are more expensive. Instead of buying ten smaller packs of "Genuine Himalayan Rose Salt" for $1.50 each, you should buy the same amount of just regular sodium chloride labelled "Dishwasher salt" in your supermarket in one packet for like $1. As well as irrelevant or potentially undesirable minerals to make it pink (for some reason) salt for food might have a packaging stabilizer, an ingredient added to make sure it doesn't stick together, and iodine salts because sometimes humans don't eat any iodine and if they don't their thyroid gland doesn't work properly which is bad so some public health authorities have local salt tweaked to fix that (salt is chosen because it's really easy). So yeah, TL;DR it's literally salt, it's not special.

Now, do "the capsules have this". Well, they all say they solve this problem, but of course they say that, a manufacturer isn't going to advertise their product and say "This product is pretty bad really, you probably shouldn't use it". Every manufacturer of "flushable" toilet wipes says their wipes don't cause sewer blockages. The blockages happen. Maybe all the other brands are lying except yours?

Here's why they don't really solve the problem, what your dishwasher wants from salt is a source of ions to re-charge its water softener. Sodium Chloride is (if you remember chemistry class) Sodium ions and Chlorine ions, the softener wants the Sodium ions, it will swap them with the ions from the hard water, softening it. But how much softening is needed? With bulk salt in the machine you don't care. Once a month (or even once a quarter) check the salt, if it's low fill it back up, done. But in a capsule there must be enough softener for each load, or else it gradually gets worse.

Now, it can happen you live somewhere that the water is exactly as hard as the capsule manufacturer decided water should typically be, and for you they work perfectly. Most people don't.
From a distance this looks like a no win situation. Be in thrall to your energy source or pay the economic price of energy independence. I would think the latter coupled with energy development efforts is the better solution given Europe’s history.
Good; those stashes will be useful should something happen. Hopefully those “preppers” will cooperate instead of having to be killed outright.
Because someone likes it cooler or warmer than you, they should lose their right to vote. Got it.
> Water can carry heat around a building more efficiently (in power and space terms) than air.

Heat is carried by the refrigerant though? It only gets "converted" to air in the room itself by the indoor unit.

I am talking about European-style systems where you have A/C units in every room, not the American-style with air ducts distributing air from a central unit in the utility room.
According to this article, Near/Byuu's boss confirmed their death https://archive.ph/5xAEv
Pretty sure they're zipping for the encryption, not the compression.

edit: the way I'd solve the rest is just by using a torrent magnet link. The problem with that is that you might have to teach someone how to open a port for UDP traffic, but after they've done it, sending files of any size to them becomes trivial.
The argument is about whether it's "morally" ("ethically"?) right for Cloudflare to terminate services after their public stance. Yeah, I get Cloudflare can do whatever they want, but I want to know if I can trust Cloudflare to not go back on their public positions.

Even as someone who never visited KF before this saga, you must admit that this campaign against KF is coordinated and that you can't expect either side to be completely honest. It's already been documented that Keffal's side has been either dishonest or has strongly exaggerated details during parts of the campaign and her origin story really doesn't help her case. I've also seen some of the rhetoric coming from KF, and it's incredibly toxic and understandable why someone wouldn't want it online.

Cloudflare originally voiced their support (albeit not mentioning KF by name) for offering security services to _any_ customer -- a stance I can understand and can support. But it's difficult for me to keep supporting CF because it took less than 1 week for them to go back on their public stance. It also doesn't help that CF was not more specific about the threat made that made them change their mind. It would help me be more on their side instead of it just looking like a copout.

If I had to choose a bucket, I'd lean more into the neutral category, because this situation is just so incredibly complicated and nuanced if you've looked deeper than the news stories. I don't think a coordinated social media campaign started by a leader with an incredibly dubious history should win outright, and I can completely understand CF's position of not wanting to be affiliated with KF anymore.
The trick is that heat pumps are using energy to move heat. Let's make an example calculation:

When heating your house to burn coal, you release 1 Joule when burning the coal. It's a small plant, so it is not very efficient. You probably get 0.85 J of heating out of it.

If we instead burn coal in a large-scale modern power plant, we release the same 1 Joule, but capture 0.95 J of it in electricity. Let's say we lose 10% transporting it to your home, leaving 0.855 J remaining. Now, we use that energy to move heat from outside into our home, at an efficiency of about 300% - so for every joule we consume, we move 3 joules of energy. This means our house is heated with 2.565 J. But the energy the heat pump consumes doesn't disappear - it becomes heat too. So your house gets a total of 3.42 J hotter!

So 1 J of coal gets you either 0.85 J of heat by burning it directly, or 3.42 J of heat by burning it in a power plant and using a heat pump. And of course don't forget that for climate reasons it is trivial to replace that power plant with a solar farm or wind turbine.

The worst-case scenario for a heat pump is that it is exactly as efficient as burning stuff directly. But in virtually all cases, it is way better.
Making houses less draughty is just one point (convective heat transfer) another point is making walls conduct heat less to reduce conductive heat transfer.

Uninsulated houses often has higher risk to mold because of cold walls. Warmer air has a higher capacity to carry water as humidity. When it hits cold walls the air cools down and the water condensates leading to mold.
Because there is a significant overlap between the user base of both sites.
The Great Barrington declaration did not suggest "going fully uncaring" just that our efforts should have been targeted rather than generalized to the whole. I too wonder what this would of looked like. Children would've absolutely had an easier time of it if we did.
Builders and homeowners tend to functionally enforce the minimum as the maximum.
The county where we live is increasingly moving to unreliable sources of energy and changing their building code to mandate only electric sources. We're worried about a texas like winter grid emergency so we'll probably have to waste some money on a natural gas generator.
Detergent packs in the US seem to be mostly gel packs. In Germany, most tabs are simply hard pressed powder. Gel packs did fail in their cleaning function and the recommendation generally goes for either tabs or powder, where powder can save you money because you set the dosage according to how full your dishwasher is.
> With new builds air to water makes sense as it’s no different to installing any type of central heating system.

But it's the same level of effort than installing indoor A/C units, so why not install those instead? Plus refrigerant pipes can potentially be thinner depending on the max "load" of that room.
Meta’s metaverse hype leads to real-world backlash
At least GOTO is readable to a layperson in terms of what happens after the break. And Python has sprawled to the point where it's important to make things readable by people who have not memorized the entire language.
If I recall correctly, BeOS won an antitrust lawsuit that wasn't able to cover their development expenses.

Fortunately the Department of Justice didn't intervene.
The "convenience" here is that the users literally get paid for this remote control option. The company gives them money, so they can prevent excessive energy use in case of emergency… This is not a convenience compromise, it’s "get paid for inconvenience"
I prefer the price signaling than hard prohibition. In this case the utility company might charge a lot for what they consider unreasonable consumption, and that should spark "voluntary" savings.

We have this where I live for water: under 10 m3 per person monthly is very cheap. The 11th m3 could cost more than bottle water. Technically you can consume as much as you can afford, but almost nobody is watering the grass with potable water.
I really have wondered all these years why anyone who claims to be sane trusts and uses any Apple products.
Ok I knew the situation was confusing but after reading this I am dumbfounded. It seems so much strictly worse than the old world of having different cables with different connectors - yes you had to have a lot of different cables but you couldn’t get it wrong. Now we have all the same complexity and you can’t tell what’s what by just looking at the connector.
Wi-Fi is easier to interface with using any computer, where as those other protocols require a dongle on the computer side.
That feels about right. Depends on age, future earning potential, objectives, circumstances, etc. But it seems like somewhere in the $3-5 million net worth range is where most people would seriously start considering rolling the dice but you could probably imagine it as low as $2m if someone were confident that $1m today wouldn't really be life-changing.
Two nested loops is ugly but tolerable, 3+ is disgusting. Refactor it so you don’t have to go 3 deep.
Its not that it doesn't work at all, but while there are some trial uses of hydrogen in automotive. Its the very extreme minority of cases.

You can buy one of only a few models of car, and those are only sold in absurdly small numbers.

For trucks there are more trials going on but real mass production of hydrogen trucks isn't really a thing for a few more years (and many expect those will be further delayed).

There are many reasons for this. Just something as simple as count how many different sub-systems are required between a BEV and a FCEV. In addition that basic disadvantage, the end to end energy in efficiency is worse, so its more expensive. In addition to that, the infrastructure required is about 10-100x more expensive.

Tesla as one start up rolled out a global (or lets say in the developed world) EV charging infrastructure. The same amount of money invested in hydrogen infrastructure like not even have resulted in enough locations to charge the whole West coast. And because you can't charge at home, you need many more such locations.

So really end to end it makes no sense pretty much from any direction you look at it and has been absolutely destroyed in the market. Some people still have hope for trucks, but there too the trends are pretty clear.
I was hoping to find out if I can use a TB4 hub to connect two computers for super fast networking. Currently I have a cable between two computers, when I plug it in I get the ridiculous fast speeds and it configures the point to point networking in such a way it falls back to wifi if the cable is not present.

I would like to do this with a TB4 hub in the middle. I don't want to connect a GPU (yet) but I do want the speed of networking with no latency that TB4 networking does. I think it is faster than NVMe SSDs.

Does anyone have a TB4 hub and two linux boxes and TB4 cables to see what happens if you connect two computers via a TB4 hub - do you get the networking automatically?
US people call them heat pumps because they have been calling the non-reversible cold-only kind “air conditioner” so they needed a new term.

In Europe most units are reversible cold/heat unit so “air conditioning” means making air both colder and hotter. We would call the ACs the Americans have “air coolers”, if we needed to make the difference.
> will be huge in the NEAR future.

Is what fans of hydrogen have been arguing for 30 years.
This is an internal tool for the rust compiler project, not part of the Rust language. The language has its own lint: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#de...
How fast is the Colab stuff? Is Colab Pro/Pro+ a lot faster too?

I run it locally and can generate images with 50 steps in about 6 seconds per image, would it be faster for me to use Colab Free/Pro/Pro+?
How is this getting downvoted? (currently gray)

The only reasonable expectation is that it will happen, just like the comment said.
This is the sort of post that I find myself wanting to click a button and have it indexed into my personal information system, so that I can find it later without hoping that it doesn’t disappear from the Internet or fall off search indices before I need it.

In lieu of this mythical system, this post on HN.
Do you know: is this tech useful for hot water radiator/boiler systems or is it just for air?
It's not a problem of engineering talent but of politics.

They made the problem harder to solve by choosing architecture that makes congresscritters happy at the expense of making the rocket way more expensive than it needs to be.
Why within the next 6 months ?

Immigration will let you in when they will, no matter what route you try, and it might take longer than that for a myriad different reasons.

Also, do you actually know anything about the country other than what you've seen from outside or experienced visiting for business or a holiday ? In my several decades living in Japan I've seen again and again foreigners hitting a number of walls that were always there and will always be there and getting out swearing never to come back again.

Do you speak the language ? Otherwise you'll be in a bubble.

Are you prepared for living with the constant threat of natural disasters, typhoons, quakes ? ( Forget any lucrative ideas about "property" and "real estate" ... )

And let's not get into the work environment you're going to be in.

Finally, consider that unless you become Japanese ( good luck with that ), you will always be a 'guest', and that's the best case scenario, because you can be unceremoniously told to leave right now, or be prevented from returning if overseas -- as the pandemic has proved, when even "permanent residents" were separated from their homes, jobs, and families with no clue when they would be able to resume their lives, if ever.

If none of this gives you pause, start by trying to transfer temporarily from an overseas company with offices in Japan and see how it goes. Most people I know who did that went back home after a couple of years, but some stayed.

Edit : I assume you're a man. If you are a woman, then I'll just straight up say, better think of Singapore or Taiwan instead.
I doubt NASA paid as good as high finance or MBAs back in the Apollo days
Do you sync that folder across devices? If so, how?
law is usually more specific and has rules about exactly what is a "cause". In the loose sense you've used here such a rule could be invoked for many things. "Cause" and "Effect" typically need more precise language or rules on what context they apply to.
Rescue Buoy
Yep. They just start rolling blackouts.
Boycotting and cancel culture are quite different. At its core, cancel culture involves the isolation of a person or company by forcing their immediate network of friends or other connections. The cancellers force these connections to choose (under duress) between the cancelee and everyone else. If this doesn't work, they attack a connection's connections the same way.

For instance, if they don't like you, they report you to your employer. If your employer defends you, they attack your employer's relationships with their customers, suppliers, and employees.

Basically, cancel culture exploits social networks to force the submission of an opponent.
Samsung Just Had a Data Breach
Must be, it's pretty crazy. No masts and what appears to be a gangplank full of people. What's interesting is that on a small screen it gives just enough of the right type of image to give the feeling needed.
Update: I am amazed and disappointed.
Forbes the Cloud 100 List
And that makes writing a correct and portable C futile. Yes, defined-size types are a thing and I almost exclusively use them, but since the size of `int` itself is unknown and integer promotion depends on that size, the meaning of the code using only defined-size types can still vary across platforms. intN_t etc. are only typedefs and do not form their own type hierarchy, which in my opinion is a huge mistake.
> I'd love for it to have some kind of expiry on it after which I need to fsck it.

There is "git annex expire" (https://git-annex.branchable.com/git-annex-expire/).
I just use a txt file for note-taking, and it rocks
Tom Mullaney, as mentioned in my post, is arguably the global expert on the chinese typewriter and has done a lot of work on chinese printed and digital language technology. His books would be the starting point.