skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You left out the context, not only was Andrew walking right behind the coffin, the man was yards away and surrounded by mourners.

Their moment for grief was severely impacted by the protestor.

It's nowhere near as simple as you or other people in this thread are pretending it is. Even though I think Andrew should be stripped of his titles, it's right that guy was arrested.
> I worked for company A, company A got merged with company B since they were both owned by the same mega corp. Company A and Company B were in the same industry but served different needs.

I thought at first that you were talking about Disney Streaming / Hulu
Sure but as immunity (natural and otherwise) becomes common, deaths from covid are way down. It seems likely that covid will end up looking something like the flu: a seasonal virus with significant costs but not warranting lockdowns or mandates.
Full discussion:

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/09/13/secs-gensler-hold...

Apologies, this is the link I meant to submit.
The proposed fix usually amounts to some type of wealth and estate taxes.
This is correct. The first one is a menu option; the second one is in a dialog explaining what you're getting yourself into.
I got COVID just a few months ago and I've had a worse flu but it's definitely comparable. The worst of it was over in a few days but the general feeling of sickness stayed for the next 3 weeks. I'll happily take anything to avoid that again.
Ask HN: How does good graphic design happen?
How are people able to release things that look nice?

Is this stuff being done by solo unicorns (frontend devs with good color + design instincts?). Or more often by teams of at least a few people.

Is it a quick process that's often right the first time, or am I looking at months of design iteration and testing when I see a UX that looks even 'nice'.
This is helpful -- we need to do a better job of guiding folks through a more complex set-up like you're describing. You're right that it's easiest for folks with centrally ducted A/C and furnaces.

If you're choosing 'multi-zone', "Heat pump: Number of units" corresponds to the number of _outdoor_ units, rather than indoor heads. For all other configurations, it maps to both outdoor and indoor (the others are all single zone). So, if you want to go with a multi-zone heat pump, I'd suggest entering 1 or 2 for "Heat pump: Number of units" (or just leaving it untouched, in which case the model will choose automatically based on home size).

> IMO you should just stick to calculate fuel costs for heat with gas, vs heat with electricity, and leave out the installation costs.

Roger that. We started out that way, and the cost-to-install was the number one thing that people asked us in follow-up questions, so we added some high-level guidance. I think the lack of transparency on upfront costs and pricing is a major issue for the transition broadly and a problem that needs to be solved -- that's high on our minds.

> That's really all I want to know: What costs less, heat with gas, or heat with electricity. Or maybe a hybrid.

Helpful! Related to the previous point, we want to make it easier for you, with a proposal from a contractor in hand or existing equipment already installed, to choose that equipment from among what we're analyzing (rather than only seeing cost savings for the most efficient unit that we choose automatically). In your case, you'd then be able to see exactly the cutoff points when your existing fossil fuel equipment is (a) necessary because of reduced heat pump capacity at lower temperatures, or (b) cheaper to run than the heat pump. FWIW, (b) is far rarer than we thought going into this exercise.
No; vaccines continue to be monitored. We still keep track of safety events on vaccines that have been around for decades.

Many years of experience with vaccination gives us useful info on how bodies react to them, which allows us to approve vaccines based on logical criteria.
I am from Germany and I am - like 95% or so of my fellow Germans - vaccinated myself, so what are you talking about?
> Who is the loser here?

When you have big money then you think like big money. What people are angry about is WMF becoming too big and the heads managing this budget becoming independent of the actual foot soldiers. It's not about starving wikipedia, it's about not making it bigger than it needs to be, because the bigger you are, the more problems you have.

> who the F cares that they could have spent that money in a slightly more optimized way?

It's not about optimizing stuff, it's about not growing into a monster.
>Honest question for people who still use Twitter: what keeps you on?

Content. It's the only form of social media I use.

I don't really Tweet, I just consume. Once you follow people who are pros in subjects you enjoy, you can endlessly find content on the subject. No medium can react in real-time like Twitter. Plus, it's super convenient on the phone. As I mentioned in another comment, I hardly even notice any spam.
I understand that there is a demographic shift in urban centers outside of the coasts. I meant: can you point to any policy changes after these demographic shifts which have lead to an up-tick of NIMBY/anti-housing regulations in these areas like what is seen in SF?
Honestly, the death toll of COVID is immense, and the rates of Long COVID are several times that. Even in people who don't develop it, we're finding blood clots and dramatically increased cardiovascular risk in young, healthy, asymptomatic sufferers.

At this rate, several years from now half the population is going to be either disabled or substantially less able than before.

Dismissing COVID as you are doing is a naive and straight up stupid luxury of a young, healthy person buying into the narrative spun by others who'd rather have peace of mind and avoid inconvenience than take this threat seriously.
How about comparing it to the Internet Archive (2019)? 169 employees, $11M salary costs:

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943...

Wikimedia Foundation (2019): 291 employees, $56M salary costs.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200...

Less than twice the US employees, more than five times the salary costs. (Both orgs also have some non-US employees included in the salary costs total, but they are a small minority of the staff.)
Jakarta EE has several profiles, each focusing on different subsets of the overall EE platform. Web Profile is one of those subsets that focuses on the Web aspects of Jakarta EE. For example, Tomcat is more of a Web Profile stack (I don't know it Tomcat officially supports it or not) compared to the full boat EE containers like Glassfish, Websphere, etc.

Jakarta Concurrency (which is essentially portable access to container managed thread pools and other similar resources) was originally part of the full EE specification. Now they've moved it to the Web Profile so it can be used in those containers that do not support the entirety of Jakarta EE.
did the company survive?
I believe those were approved a couple months ago and become available very recently. I was expecting Denmark to resume once that was available (they actually shut down the vaccine problem back in the spring with the plan to restart in the fall with the new booster).
This metaphor is broken. Dogs (and their appetites) don't grow exponentially.
He was sitting right next to me. He was just a control freak, who also projected on other people. His ego took out a whole office. Best layoff I ever had.
Yvon Chouinard transfers 100% Patagonia ownership to environmental trust
I always recommend building a calendar app, or something that deals heavily with dates. Knowing how to work with date and time in any language is critical.
OK, makes sense. I think most "outliner" tools I know of do exactly those adds, with the benefit of also being relatively flush left.

As I help our firm select knowledge management tools, I'm just trying to understand the use cases that differentiate this approach from a fully fledged outliner.

Note that I ask the same thing of people who do outlines in MS Word manually as plain bullet lists instead of using, you know, the outliner. :-)
> On top of the baggage it adds to the repository, it also makes you re-review the same dependencies in multiple projects.

Huh? Why would that be the case? (You're saying storing the code of your dependencies directly in your source tree would require you to reread the code for every project where that dependency is used? Or something else?)

> big dumps will get a careless "LGTM"

Your "will" means "probably will" (i.e., "can"), but when package registries are involved for late-fetching dependencies, that's what goes on, too, every time. You say this, though, as if it's a unique downside to in-tree dependencies.
Sorry, I'm not sure that I follow. Why would it be a bad idea if some IT departments enabled Lockdown Mode (LM) via MDM..?

The article says that in LM, you can't enrol the device in MDM -- I suppose that if you want LM functionalities, it makes some sense that you wouldn't want parts of your device to be remotely controllable by an entreprise (or your MDM profile overriding some of the Lockdown options..?)

But... I don't understand what you mean by it being a bad thing that IT admins would want Lockdown Mode for everyone. Thanks
The title is a little misleading; they're not currently offering a second booster. They're presumably still doing primary vaccination, and the language implies they may offer a booster later.
I love seeing people defend this statement by basically saying “it actually meant nothing”… as if that is a really strong defense.
Corsica railway is missing :(
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemins_de_fer_de_la_Corse
Natural language interfaces are very limited and certainly not the next generation of computing. Granularity of functionality and composable input will always be more efficient as long as the original source is a human. I think the natural language part of your product is the lease interesting and certainly not the most impressive.
> Sounds like they are taking steps to make sure whoever was chosen for layoffs were not chosen for racist reasons.

that would have been illegal either way. Really there are two options here: Either they did something questionable and want to deflect (like being racist against white people. I'm not saying this is the case but it is a possibility), or they want to get a pat on the back for not breaking the law.

It's one of those sentences that immediately puts your mind to why it was placed in there: "[..] so we were particularly focused on ensuring our layoffs – while a business necessity today – were carried out without clubbing any seals."

Why would one say that? Why does one explicitly mention this? To what gain?

Either you want brownie-points for something that should be a given, or you want to get ahead of something.
Don't a lot of the big websites have a lite or basic version?

Reddit doesn't really have that but they're trying really hard to discourage using the site on mobile, they want you on the app. The same with Twitter.
Also, do a barrel roll

https://www.google.com/search?q=do+a+barrel+roll
I'll take a look back at the residential energy consumption survey and the exact distributions.

The Manual J (industry standard approach to load sizing) uses 70 dF for heating and 75 dF for cooling as its defaults, so we could definitely update the defaults to those, too.
Yeah, but there must be a reason they all left.

I suspect that the fault lies in the hiring companies.
Some employers like to see their employees participating in online forums around their particular field of expertise. Mine also, though I've declined to do so for now.
No you can't. How about another analogy.

Many bars pay licensing fees to television providers to show sports and other content to their patrons. When you watch a game in the bar, you usually spend money for drinks, which pays for the bar and pays for the bar owner to pay the television providers. If I walk into that bar, and watch the game, but don't buy anything, I am not stealing anything. Sure, the owner can kick me out, but they can't take me to court or blame me if nobody buys their drinks while watching the game. It's not my responsibility to make sure the bar profits.
Why not? It’s 4 people. If they’re geographically spread out, then it could be an issue, but many families even spread out likely see each other once a year.
The title is not accurate.

Aurora store is not an alternative for Gplay.
Its a proxy, it allows you to use Gplay without an account, using their own google accounts.
WMF is not a tech company, and their value is not in their tech. Their value is in their user created and populated content .
It's been fascinating for the last couple of years to see how these daily armchair epidemiologist threads have transitioned from largely in support of vaccines to now largely against them.

It seems there is some natural filtering at play. People looking for rational informed discussion about covid have realized it's no longer on HN, so they just don't participate anymore. Meanwhile,those who think this is all a giant conspiracy have found fellow travellers with bottomless cynicism, and those people now dominate these threads.
Note: I'm a scientist and work with/talk to medical researchers at top institutions (UCSF) all the time about viruses, vaccines, and other health areas.
My beliefs are a synthesis of what I hear from experts, and my own reading and thinking. I'm not overtly concerned by myocarditis risk - I just see this as reasonable and straightforward decisionmaking based on the data that is available and the unknown details that aren't.
Almost on topic...

When we were kids, my brother studied a railroad atlas any time he wasn't in school or church. This thing was a monster, large book with hundreds of pages of maps. Literally county by county across the Unites States, all railroad lines and yards. I'd go to sleep Friday night while he sat in an overstuffed chair, studying. I'd wake up at 7:30 AM Saturday... he hadn't moved. Still there, a few pages further into the atlas.

As an adult, he worked for the Illinois Central as a hump yard operator. Later the Iowa Pacific, and ultimately found himself doing customer service for a small line in Texas, mainly shipping sand. His job frequently included finding 'lost' cars somewhere in the US, on any line that happened to be in that car's route. He was really good at it.

One notable call had him searching railroad yards in Missouri. He had a strong hunch that the misplaced car was on a spur where that yard stored cars that had lost their way. But he needed to confirm. He could have called that yard, but getting the right person to check logs or go hunt was always a hassle. So... He Googled up the yard, zoomed in on the spur and noted that Google helpfully displayed several businesses in a strip mall backed up to the spur. He dialed up 'Patty's Nail Salon' and the call went something like: "Hi Patty, this is Craig with the Iowa Pacific. I'm tracking down a misplaced car and I have reason to believe it is sitting on the spur outside your back window. Would you mind checking for a car with ID 123876?"

Extended pause....

"I'll be right back!"

Sure enough, there is was.
Going to Comic-Con as an introvert filmmaker [video]
The reasoning provided on the page is that people under 50 are mostly vaccinated and/or have had COVID already.
I think the commenter you're responding to was indicating that we're moving towards COVID as the new influenza, not that we're there yet.

Case numbers and deaths seem to be plateauing at a pretty low rate, especially considering the relaxed restrictions these numbers are occurring under. It seems reasonable to think that we won't suddenly see a more dangerous strain of this particular virus, or that vaccines will lose a significant amount of effectiveness.
How much energy would this save per person? What proportion of their electricity usage is this?

How much energy would be saved if Chrome used only as much energy as Safari?
Its not really an alternative, more like a proxy for GPlay.

You can install apps without logging in, because it uses their own gmail accounts.
End of Covid-19 pandemic is in sight, WHO director-general says
I listen to TWiV, and the prominent virologists there are suggesting that we don't actually know. In some of the latest episodes, they discuss frankly the fact that yearly boosters may or may not actually have any meaningful impact for normal healthy folks. They get into the details of why we know annual influenza boosters are effective, and that we really don't know whether COVID boosters will have the same effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Week_in_Virology

https://youtu.be/hwPhF7v4G4M?t=1240

https://youtu.be/jbPlhaHytm0?t=2449
I think this kind of thinking is negative and an example of the free rider problem.

Wikipedia provides
a good service for the money it charges you. It doesn't charge you anything.

The thing about free things is that they aren't really free, someone is paying for it and the people doing the work to keep Wikipedia online are the best skilled and placed and experienced to decide these kind of spending decisions, not people with no personal investment orwho do not donate and don't even edit or do any work but somehow have opinions how other people should do their job for free.

If you use Wikipedia and getting value from it then you can't really complain, it's not positive.
That's interesting, I wouldn't have made the distinction. I'm not even sure there is a distinction (climate change is by far the greatest threat to the environment). What are your personal views on climate change, if you don't mind me asking?
Could you find any study where vaccines saved healthy adults under 50?
It's entirely possible that home owners are NIMBYing this due to perceived impacts on their house values.

But I'm not sure you're right about developers wanting to just develop a few luxury condos and artificially restrict the number of units they build. It seems like that would only work if there was a near monopoly on who was allowed / able to build in SF.

They make money on building units; not building units is not really benefitting them.

Per the article, the per-unit costs of all the planning / permitting / construction / land / special interest earmarks make the per-door cost to be the $1 million quoted. That already puts that into "luxury condo" price range. It might be that the ROI might be better for the developers if they decide to spend an extra $100k on premium tile so it really is "luxury". It might be that selling them as non-luxury really isn't profitable. After all, if as a customer you're going to need to spend at least $1.05 million on the unit (break even for developer + 5%), wouldn't you rather get a $1.25 million luxury apartment for not that much more? (1mill + 100k tile + 14% profit). For the developer in my made up scenario, they're making 3x the profit, while you're "only" spending 20% more on the more desirable luxury version.

I'm sure if the permitting process were quicker / easier, the barrier to entry for developers of all sizes would be lower. The per-door cost would be lower, and you wouldn't need a massive war chest of cash to ride the 3-year permit process. This would also make the economics on non-luxury units make sense.
Salz: OpenSSL forked to support QUIC. A collaboration of Akamai and Microsoft
That’s a false dichotomy. The percentage of people with bad quality of life is about the same in both places (for westernized Europe) and much worse for eastern Europe.
You won't break anything without some big sticky tires to transmit that power to the ground and that (but for braking) is exactly my point.
My work MacBook Pro had been running hot for months. Whenever I check the app power consumption it would list Chrome, but I felt that was to be expected. Eventually I got curious and looked at the Task Manager within Chrome to see which of the many tabs was actually using a lot of CPU/memory/energy. Turns out this niche Scottish ancestry website, with a mostly-text layout and a 1990s advertising banner was hogging almost an entire core, constantly, in the background. And this had been going on for months!
On the flipside, natural language interfaces have the potential to be extremely easy to use for anyone, including non-experts. Anyone can type a message to the computer, without having to learn the specifics of an interface's custom controls. There are different types of efficiency. I'm assuming you're referring to something like 'operational efficiency', while NLI wins on 'ease of adoption' per se.
Should we cap the benefit at some particular monetary value? Wouldn't that disincentivize building companies past a certain point of success? Is that really what we want?
Why Google cares about website speed? Not only because of user experience but also because of energy usage/env impact.

If you have to crawl & render billions of pages on daily basis - costs are huge (CPU power & energy usage).
I simply don't know enough about all the reasons and philosophies behind the policy decisions to give you an adequate answer.
and so far, every enormously expensive next generation bomber
meant to replace the B52 have not been able to do so.

The B52 Stratofortres was introduced in 1955 qty 744
The B-58 Hustler was introduced in 1960. (not to replace B52). qty 116
The FB-111A / F-111G was introduced in 1968 * qty 76
The B-1 Lancer was introduced in 1986 to replace the B-52. qty 104
The B-2 Spirit was introduced in 1997 to replace the B-52. qty 21
The B-21 Raider to be introduced in 2025 to place the B1 and B52. qty 6 +??

* The FB-111A was a strategic bomber version of the F-111 for the USAF Strategic Air Command. With Air Force's Advanced Manned Strategic Aircraft program proceeding slowly, and concerns of fatigue failures in the B-52 fleet, the service needed an interim bomber quickly
Maybe twitter likes the spam. It gets people like Paul Graham to complain about it on twitter thereby generating more user engagement and ad revenue. Keep up the good work, Paul.
Aurora Store is still the most convenient way to download apps from the Play Store on an Android device that does not use Google Play Services.

If you use and enjoy this app, please consider donating to the developer:

https://auroraoss.com
Google, Meta Find Video App Success in India After TikTok Banned
Writing with personality is great, but if the very first sentence of a work is essentially there to downplay the very topic it talks about, then how does that help the content whatsoever?

It kind of reminds me of people showing you art they've made, or a meal they've cooked, who feel the need to start off by saying "I know it's super bad / don't expect much / I really messed up".

– If the thing is indeed bad, then the comment won't save it. Furthermore, I might question why you're showing this thing to me in the first place if you don't believe in it yourself?

– If the thing is actually good, then I get the impression you're just self-deprecating for no reason… Possibly looking for attention? It could also make me look for flaws where I otherwise wouldn't, just for the sake of it, because you have now convinced me — at least subconsciously — that your creation sucks.

Bottom line being: Let the content speak for itself, and leave it up to the audience to decide whether something is interesting or not.
Obligatory link to "Wikipedia has Cancer:" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... with slightly more historical context than a twitter thread.
Just like when they automatically added the U2 album to everyones phone? Apple isn't immune.
Does anyone think that Lockdown Mode was allowed to roll out without the American security state feeling comfortable that they're able to defeat it by pressing a button?
The results from this are really stunning.