skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thermal mass is great for hot days and cold nights in areas near the equator. Most people live where sometimes they day doesn't get hot enough at least once in the year. Even when day of not enough balance and you either deal with the cold (frozen pipe is the big issues, humans can wear more clothes), and insulation is the only answer. Well you can just turn on the heat, heat but without insulation you need a lot. (Such areas tend to not have modern furnaces, burning tires is common for heat despite the toxic fumes)

In short, thermal mass is overrated.
> I’m not aware of much backlash from immediate residents against new transit projects in their neighborhood

The Geary Bart extension was famously killed by local opposition. Although that was more a reaction to the store closures caused by the market street subway construction, not drug use or crime.
This analogy is no good. Plans have data limits. It is not an all-you-can-eat buffet. Tethering restrictions are an attempt to paywall features which the device can do without harming anyone else on the network.

A better analogy is a gas station which charges more for gas that goes into sports cars than gas that goes into minivans.
> Distributed consensus is necessary if you want high availability and replication for your Merkle tree.

No, distributed consensus is necessary if you're willing to sacrifice correctness for availability.

>> public safety

> So this distributed consensus thing, Byzantine Fault Tolerance,

Show me a blockchain that actually implements BFT. Longest chain wins is not Byzantine Fault Tolerance.
I think it's because human perception of sound isn't linear, so it purports to more closely match human perception rather than actual amplitude
No, it's like using my shower nozzle to fill up my bath tub because I didn't want to pay the water company an extra "soaking" fee.
The comments on this thread are an indication that only a few would be doing it, its because what it is, 'you have to be doing it'. It requires doing work. Most people are imagining a magic pill approach to self help stuff.

In all my reading of self help books, the advice comes along as obvious common sense stuff, except that stuff didn't come naturally to me. First time I read the GTD book from David Allen, all of it did feel revolutionary. After a few weeks it felt so obvious, it was left scratching my head. Why wasn't doing this before? Eat that frog was somewhat similar. If you have finite hours to do a thing, why would you spend it on doing work that wasn't very rewarding to you. Stuff like ruthlessly prioritising your interests above everything else, is pure 'common sense', but rarely do people do this.

Recently books like Atomic Habits have shown many people, stuff like exercise, or cooking a healthy meal should be a life habit in itself. You are better off developing a life long habit of doing a certain set of things that are a long term pay off.

Another book I read a while back, said something very obvious. Like You are 100% responsible for your life. Regardless of whether you wish to take control or not, you are in total ownership of anything situation. You can chose to not take control and act, but you are indeed in control.

This really puts the ownership of time, resources and even the future under your total control, and on a second look, this indeed seems to be the case. Except that when I actually came to realise I definitely think and act more proactively to put life interests above everything else.

As a general rule, I only have positive things to say about some of this advice.
> Why would being in a union make your job love you back?

Or tl;dr, if that wasn't their function, then what are you creating them for? If not for that, then its because you don't have that as a goal. So the question seems tautological under the assumption that you are a participant in a union that is democratically organised (and you don't hate yourself haha).
This article feels like a PG submarine. For what, I am not sure.

There are no citations in the article, but rather quotes from a math teacher and student.

I'm not sure this article is helpful, and believe it dilutes the meaning of "addiction".
It's been stated that FTX can access the wallets of their customers [1], I wonder if employees or other bad actors knowing the ship is sinking have decided to - forgive me for the quip - plunder any remaining assets.

1: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/11/10/ftx-violated-its-...
I used to wear glasses inside my Samsung Odyssey HMD until they started scratching one of the lenses (luckily I noticed before it became visible while using the headset, it was fine for a few months though) then ordered a set of prescription clip-on lenses. The clip-on lenses are great.
Something like that. The point was accuracy, not throughput.
> I get 5-8% interest on it

You know these 'yield' schemes generate money by investing in ponzis right? There is just a slow countdown until your money vanishes. Gemini, in spite of their frequent comparisons with savings accounts, makes no guarantees that your money won't vanish.

I believe previously their yield was through genesis trading --- who just took on huge losses from FTX...
>http://bestbuy will get re-write to .com by firefox

Really? For me Firefox says it couldn't find the site and only asks if I've meant 'www.bestbuy.com'
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Historical natural gas use in Europe from 2014-2020 (Figure 1), by month:

https://www.oxfordenergy.org/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2020/0...

Does seem to track weather fairly closely, i.e. there was a big spike in natural gas demand in Jan 2017 in that figure, correlating with a cold snap:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2017_European_cold_wav...

However, anyone claiming that they can predict European Jan weather based on European Oct weather is not to be trusted. Such long-term weather forecasts are notoriously unreliable, and the noise in the global warming trend is high enough that you really only clearly see the warming trend by taking a 5-10 year running average, depending on location.
Did cloudflare block your website? This shouldn't happen right? Or do you mean that due to traffic all the content was deleted?
Except my stock portfolio is down 30% and if I’d paid my mortgage off instead, I’d have several thousand dollars a month I could use to buy stock while the market is down, potentially realizing an even better return.

But the big thing we miss about these calculations is that if you’re well off enough to be thinking about the difference we’re already doing a lot better than the people who really get hurt in a recession so the biggest lesson is probably to be grateful for what you’ve got and do your best to look out for people who are less fortunate.

I am not a registered church person and this is not spiritual advice.
Love it. Now I can just stare and turn my brain off ;)
People are cheering the crypto scams and ponzis going away. Those are the real threat to the potential benefits, not people being critical on the internet.
Even with large accounts the carriers still impose limits on tethering. If you’re getting unlimited tethering, it’s probably actually a “pool” of data.”

Even there, there’s some differences as prioritization works differently when you are using pool resources.
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I agree with you except on the topic of abstractions.

Everything in software is an abstraction. Source code is an abstract representation of the running program. Functions are abstract representations of various execution that differ only in their parameters. Classes are abstract representations of stateful concepts of various instantiations that vary only in the information each instance contains. Etc.

You cannot "not use" abstractions when you program, you can simply design poor abstractions or design good abstractions. And a lot of people underestimate the second degree impact of even the smallest of abstraction design choices, like what is and isn't factored into its own function, what parameters the function takes and return, what classes we have, how big they become, etc.

And while saying no to new use cases that are almost same but slightly different is a good way to avoid needing to abstract more things (or avoid needing more code in general), and good engineers push back when necessary here, you will eventually have to deliver what the users want, and you cannot always convince them that all users want the same exact behavior as all other users, there will sooner or later be good business justifications for it.

That's when if you don't introduce good abstractions to tackle the problem, you'll end up in an unmaintainable mess which will turn your velocity to a crawl.

But it's important to understand abstractions have to be designed in tandem between product and tech, because how the user feature is exposed is also an abstraction, both the feature abstraction and the tech abstractions have to be well designed and must help each other out to remain manageable and coherent and work well with other features.

In my opinion this is where really great engineers distinguish themselves, it's the ones who can figure out the good way to abstract that delivers that business international expansion where each region has slight variations yet feature parity can be maintained accross region, as an example of when you won't be able to push back and the abstractions will become critical to success. Normal engineers brute force their way through this slowly, each new region taking longer to expand too then the previous took, and with new features being impossible to launch globally anymore. While great engineers figure out the right set of abstractions alongside the product to enable fast expansions with judicious configuration/plugins to handle per-region variations, etc. They invest in tooling, frameworks and platforms that create those kind of abstractions, and just have the good instinct around balancing tradeoffs to deliver simple yet powerful abstractions that actually makes you faster and the system more maintainable.

Bottom line, I find abstractions are critical to success, saying to avoid them I believe is misleading, you cannot avoid them, you need to get good at them instead.
I’m sitting here in America, literally half a mile from one of Philips major research facilities. I know folks who work there - although many are Indian grad students.

Not sure how the whole “German” thing is relevant.

I live near a big tech campus and am surrounded by foreign firms who do massive amounts of R&D in my neighborhood.
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I think Criswell would be more appropriate.
> supplementing your own funds with lots of borrowed money

This is the piece that appears to be missing from the article, or at least from the bank example.
How did you apply a monetary penalty to yourself?
Consulting margins aren’t enormous either. When they pay consultants, they are paying the certified overhead costs + the hourly rate of the consultant and usually a limited percentage fee. A government employee really only saves you that fee which is 10-20%.
But you said:

> Which is good if you are inexperienced, but not so great once you grow and try to become more productive. A more expressive language is a must then or you'll be stuck.

which implies that people who use Go have not grown and become as productive as people that use more expressive languages (because such languages are a "must" to grow in this way). At the very least, you are obviously disparaging Go programmers' productivity.
If your use affects everyone else in the area, it matters. It's like having a bonfire in California in fire season; sure, it's your property, and your firewood, but you can't pretend it can't possibly affect someone else's enjoyment of theirs.
Sure there is. A business is a business, obviously you have to know how bring in experienced people (or not fire the ones that are experienced), that's a basic part of business, any business of a large size.
I love this as a check on zero-rating. I think that Facebook zero-rating in emerging economies will prove to have an abysmal toxic legacy. Anything that can tax the value proposition by e.g. forcing a lot of data through the pipe should be encouraged as a way to generally decrease the prevalence of the practice.
it’s really just an observation about what the market conditions are for a specialised technical position compared to a general project/program manager. i have nothing against my manager specifically or managers in general.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal
Neustar got .neustar and switched the UltraDNS domain to ultradns.neustar. Then they did some sort of corporate split last year and now they’re telling all their customers to switch back to ultradns.com.

Highlights one of the pitfalls to custom TLDs: the corporate sponsor might split or even go bankrupt. Then what happens to all those URLs? Talk about link rot… never thought we would have to worry about TLD rot.
To echo this: in Australia, people with even mediocre tech or data skills can walk into a federal government job as they're desperate for IT and data expertise. You'll get a combined yearly salary and retirement benefits of "only" about $150k AUD (~$100k USD) for a mid-level role. Certainly not big tech money but the hours are good and job security is rock solid. Tech people have it so good - I certainly regret my career choices.
You may be right about the liquefaction, but there is zero chance the crew forgot to shut the cargo holds properly. They knew they were heading into a storm and everyone on that ship understood their lives depended on securing all the hatches.
I think you're trying to use the example of poorly regulated things to show that regulation is bad. I think there's a college word for why that's a bad argument, but I don't know what it is. Anyway, yeah, Prohibition in the U.S. was a bad regulation, but taking lead out of water pipes, gasoline, and paint were good regulations. For any bad regulation you can think of, I can find at least ten good regulations.
Of course, it’s same for us. I just wanted to point out that these technologies cannot replace bare metal installations for every case as of today.
I always thought that the shortest day shouldn't be the first day of winter, but rather the middle, so then winter would begin in late October, and summer would begin in late April.
There is a limited amount of throughput a tower can handle, both on its backhaul and antennas. Depending on what you're doing over that tethered connection, you might be using up 2x-10x the throughput they provisioned for "you"; if enough people tether at once during rush hour, there's going to be a significant drop in speeds for both you and people just trying to use their phones normally.

This is why that, when phones tether, those tethered packets are routed separately so that the cell carrier can throttle them when needed to maintal quality of service for everyone else.

By tethering/tunneling through your normal connection, they can't do this, and if this became an epidemic they would either need to do thorough DPI and heuristics to detect and block the tethering/ban the user, or over-provision their towers to handle the varied traffic volumes of both regular cell phone activity and people watching 4k Netflix on their TV through their phone.
Twitter's potential collapse could wipe out vast swathes of recent human history
notmuch can search gpg encrypted mail, it is superb and seamless. I worked somewhere where all internal e-mail was encrypted by default and notmuch was a godsend for my productivity. It’s like using gmail over encrypted mail.

Admittedly, this is an edge case. But if you happen to do a lot of encrypted emailing I don’t know if anything else like notmuch.
Larry David also predicted this in an ftx super bowl ad:

https://youtu.be/BH5-rSxilxo
Way to Go
That’d be timing the market, which is hard to do. Your ongoing allocation strategy should be based on your overall financial goals, and if your goals or the macro changes, that’s when you pull the sails and adjust your tack.

Being financially independent allows you to do good from a position of power. “Fuck you money” is for the pre enlightened, you want “Do good money”, which means enough wealth to support yourself and then pouring the rest into those in need (if that’s your thing). The wealth, most regrettably, is a necessary evil in the current socioeconomic construct.

(YMMV, n=1)
I just went over the free quota for their kv storage.
Amazingly, I got 6/6 on Haskell despite only dabbling in it a few years ago.

I suppose that says something about the descriptiveness of type signatures, or the generality of Haskell's functions.
From the desk of Harry G. Frankfurt:

The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshitter doesn't care if what they say is true or false, but cares only whether the listener is persuaded.
If you troll the zone files, you’ll see the whole internet is a favorite for a whole variety of things.
Meta Platforms exiting Portal, smartwatch hardware projects
I don't really care whether they're kids of not. I do think it's possible that they step by step ended up in a situation they didn't realize they were getting into. Doesn't mean I think they shouldn't be punished if such a treatment is required.

But again and again, supposedly smart finance folks end up blindsided by retrospectively obvious stuff. There's just too many complicated fabrications on top of one another.

I'm not particularly sanctimonious, I think the average vilain of the day is most of the time just an average person making dumb mistake.
Thanks; the joys of trying to get out two pieces "on deadline" while sleep deprived.
Apple Sued for Allegedly Deceiving Users with Privacy Settings
Hundreds of millions of dollars are now flowing out of FTX wallets
I'm not the person you asked, but if I had to guess, I'd guess [beeminder]: goal-tracking software where if you don't reach your goal, they charge your credit card. Each time you fail, you get charged more. It's really good!

[beeminder]: https://www.beeminder.com/
You could use Slow Scan TV. There’s an iOS app to try it: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sstv-slow-scan-tv/id387910013

Never did IP with it, but i worked with a team that jerry rigged this to transmit some telemetry from a remote location where external data access was cutoff for several weeks using portable radios.
> The recent Sha Tin to Central Link dropped a station in Central to save money, and the new stations were only built to handle 9 cars instead of the rest of the line’s 12 cars to save money.

One speculation is that, it is harder to move 12 cars uphill, than to move 9 cars uphill, after the train crossed the harbor.
Why keep the J1772 connector? Only the data pins are used. I'm sure there's a way to make a connector that's just the CCS part and fudge the data pins into it.

Then supporting the old cars just happens with a dongle.
> No I'm not building that at all

My guess is most devs learn this the hard way. You are liable for bugs in code you write, regardless of project quality and how much you complain to management about it. Apart from the examples you describe, I'd like to also emphasize cognitive load VS size/complexity. After a certain threshold, you shouldn't add more features but become a maintainer/tester of the ones you previously added (until you let go of responsibility/ownership).
We could, but that is a lot less economic. Open pit mines are for bulk commodities and if you put them in the middle of nowhere then the transport costs get extreme. It makes more sense to put them distant but proximate to an existing train line or city. Somewhere like the Pilbara is a bit of an exception because there are 300m high blocks of iron, so sure, we can afford to build a few new tracks.

And Europe/the US/Africa/Asia aren't exactly small places. All the continents are big and an open cut mine is actually pretty small compared to the amount of land we put aside for, say, farming. The Earth isn't short of spare earth.
I'm not sure that is quite correct. From what I recall reading at the time, Microsoft US owned the user's email account and was the service provider providing email service.

To store email, Microsoft US made use of the services of several network storage providers around the world so that they could store email for a given user someplace that had low latency for that user.

Microsoft Ireland was one of those storage providers. Microsoft Ireland was not directly involved with the email user or even aware that they had any data on that user.

To Microsoft Ireland, Microsoft US was just another customer using Microsoft Ireland's storage service.

In particular, Microsoft US had full access to the data anytime they wanted, using the normal APIs that storage customers used.
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the 2008 movie Untraceable.
Well, if you go in on bulk B12 with some friends at $1k/kg, I guess you could limit it to 10¢. In reality, more accessible supplements run me closer to $5/month. I'm fine with that. Risking a deficiency isn't worth $5/month, and I don't have an efficient or viable alternative.
i've done a bunch of dev work at home, ssh'ed & SOCKS5'ed from my main pc into a work laptop right next to it, connected to the same switch via gigabit, and i have to say: I am shocked what an abysmally slow & awful experience it has been. it cannot handle the parallelism of dealing with a lot of requests hardly at all. it's absurdly poorly performing.

it's still my go-to for sharing one system's vpn, but wow oh wow oh wow do i wish i knew some good alternatives. i really want something that works over ssh, but i begin to think that ssh is an inescapably bad starting point for these efforts.
Perhaps a better analogy is showing up to an all-you-can-eat buffet and grabbing 20 brownies to take home. Sure, it doesn't change much, but if everyone did that there'd be a problem and the service provider should probably police it.
For those of us living on the right side of a relatively stable rules based society where we have reasonable expectation of personal property rights, it is not useful.

For those either on the wrong side of the society (eg. Source of income is what the society defines as crime etc) or living in a society where your wealth (possibly acquired through corruption) can be seized without recourse, it is potentially a useful way to store and transfer wealth in a way that is difficult and expensive to interfere with or detect. This is a real use case though possibly not a morally defensible one to most of us.

The other theoriticical use case of having a form of liquidish currency that is not devaluable at whim by governments has not come to pass due to speculation and volatility.

The rest are either speculating OR selling shovels to the gold diggers.
More like being the dipshit who fills his pool with well water and dries out the neighborhood.
> I think you must be doing something very wrong if you measure less than 1 Mpx/s for fjxl. It should reach at least 50 Mpx/s or so,

In case it wasn't clear, the 0.630 fjxl encode speed number in the top level README.md in that commit is after normalization such that QOIR is 1.000. After all, absolute numbers are hardware dependent.

If you look at the doc/full_benchmarks.txt change in the same commit I linked to, fjxl encode speed clocks at 106.48 megapixels per second. It's just that QOIR encode speed clocks at 168.90 megapixels per second (and fpnge at 312.59).
I think I know what you mean but the general public emphatically hasn't cared about open source. They'd rather be surveilled hard.
Hey, Elon's Fun House may not be the same as a public square, but if everyone you care about is there then the masses will be happy.
FYI: Association of sleep behaviour and pattern with the risk of glaucoma: a prospective cohort study in the UK Biobank : https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/11/e063676
This sounds like the ramblings of a schizophrenic to me.