skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most electrical codes only require updates (to bring the system into compliance) when there is work being done. So if you don’t need to add a circuit, your home may still be wired as if it were the 1950s (or earlier!).

This is part of the hidden cost and complexity. For someone like the parent, you’d have to rewire an entire home. How long do you think that will take? If you seriously wanted to move an entire country over to electric heating, you’ll have all sorts of these edge cases. There simply isn’t a way to make a switch like that in a rapid manner.
Nothing, except for well... many investors aren't rational, or at the very least, they operate on other rationale. And because of this, it's entirely possible the stock price doesn't actually double in your scenario. However, if didn't, it at least would work positively towards the value metrics of the stock.
It’s going to be really interesting for epidemiologists to analyze all this data.

“Covid deaths” is an incredibly subjective data point and it’s clear countries don’t all measure it the same.

But deaths are deaths, so comparing “excess mortality” during and after Covid will give a much more objective picture of how different approaches worked.

But it will be important to look at excess mortality for years after Covid. As the article points out, if restrictions limited access to medical care (or just caused people to delay seeking it) the ramifications will take years to show up.
It would be really interesting to see what his attempts with aircraft amounted to. Propeller tip induced turbulence is a non-trivial portion of what makes general aviation (GA) very loud. If we could make the aircraft less loud without significantly reducing their performance perhaps GA would be more amenable (along with other changes like moving eventually to electric power plants). As it stands right now the general public isn't much of a fan of GA and there is always strong push-back to creation of GA airfields which I think is a shame. The joy of flying shouldn't be limited to commercial pilots and yet increasingly here in Australia that is the way it is.

Things are very different in the US because their GA culture is older, more powerful and protected by the FAA and pilots associations.
When did he do that? I think the enthusiast tech press did that if anyone, but don’t really remember it either.
U.S. to announce fusion energy ‘breakthrough’
> We're not even close to bootstraping a cluster of autonomous robots on the moon, taking over the basic functions of base operations. Any humans at current stage is basically on sightseeing duty.

That's not really fair to say that people are there just to observe. For instance, Apollo folks took a lot more of geological samples that Lunokhods did and from a larger variety of places. The difference in mass was about 1000x (almost a ton vs almost a kg), geographical coverage was about 1000x and getting to different features was immensely easier for humans.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample-return_mission
You are stating some of the objections to the argument of whether Holodomor constitutes a genocide, (minus the "there were ukranians in senior party positions," this seems a weak new argument to me, especially considering group 13: there absolutely were Jewish people working with the Gestapo), however I agree with Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term "genocide," and believes the famine was planned by Stalin because he feared Ukrainian independence.

Poke through the wikipedia article on the subject, it's well sourced, and I think anybody can see that though there was famine across the USSR at the time, the situation in Soviet Ukraine was unique for many reasons, including in terms of how hard they were hit by the famine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
"Your dream sounds like a manifestation of your worries and anxieties.

The presence of giant butts everywhere can represent the feeling of being overwhelmed by fear and insecurity."

Indeed.
Activities, workflows, business processes, rule engines, decision tables, state machines, Actor Model / Agent-based Modeling (ABM) / Multi-Agent Systems, RL, etc.
That's the right approach though: any Joule you don't need to produce is one saved and even the most efficient furnace can not fix a leaky house. So the priorities are: economize (because it is free, and assuming you still can), insulate, high efficiency heat (depending on the age of the furnace, anything older than a decade is likely not HE+), self generated power in that order.
Yes: the Uniform Commercial Code which is the standard contract that governs virtually all commercial transactions in the United States.

When you buy something at Wal-Mart, your sales contract is the UCC. When you order something online or by phone, and neither of you specify details of things like form of payment, warranties, shipping... those details are filled in by the UCC. And it's called "uniform" because all of the states have individually codified the same default contract into their state laws.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/table_ucc

This uniform contract is also where several warranties arise that people take as a given precisely because the UCC inserts them into every sale that doesn't disclaim them: the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a purpose. Those are your guarantees that when you buy something from someone, the goods will do the thing they're supposed to do and there's nothing significantly wrong with them. It's why you have a right to a refund/return when the thing you bought is broken, or doesn't do what it says it does.
Never tried it, maybe one day.

I have a Push 2 as well. I know it's meant to work in Bitwig, but I do love the integration of it with Ableton.
My understanding is that you can play tricks with stocks so that you don't really need to realize the gains to benefit from them. They can be used as collateral for loans, directly donated to charities (lowers down your tax bill w/o forcing you to realize the gain), there's also the step-up basis loophole (or was it already closed?). I may be missing some details (and other creative ways to do "tax optimization") though, I'm not a CPA.
Yep, many countries can access the latest chapters for free from official distribution channels and yet Oda of One Piece is estimated to have net worth over 200M.

One Piece has spawned 56 video games, 18 movies, had a themed section in Tokyo Tower and a long tail of licensing on clothes, toys, snacks.

I am not sure there is that kind of verticality on the web toons market yet BUT I have observed that there is an orthogonality to the recent new koreaboos and this wave (spurred by Squid Games, Black Pink, BTS etc) has pretty broad reach so let's see where this goes...
Why don't we have standard examples for terms of service, privacy policy, etc, in the same way we already do for licenses? I understand that more flexibility might be necessary, so maybe a ToS could be composed of standard modules, which would be much easier to digest.
100% of people need housing but well <100% of people can read and fully understand a legal document. Contracts don't bind society, they bind individual people.
Bluetooth on Linux works better than windows. Windows' Bluetooth implementation is the worst on the market, by a lot.

Bluetooth really does work flawlessly on Linux. I've even got a few cheap and nasty Chinese Bluetooth adapters that don't work on windows, but work fine under Linux.
Sounds a bit like Apple.
Medicare supplement policies. Those are rigidly standardized. Insurers hate that, because all they can do is compete on price.
The latest generation (HE+) is a lot better than the ones before it which tended to erode the inner liner of the burner vessel into a nasty aluminum rich sludge that ended up clogging the drain. The newer ones do not have that (much thinner drains too).
Yeah seems like it would _have_ to be storage related but my profiling tools are limited. I've run Doom on this same processor/flash combo and loading assets from the WAD files is on the order of 1ms and I can run Doom smoothly at 70fps. Not very scientific but that's part of the reason I was surprised by how slow SQLite is running.

I wonder if it could be doing multiple small writes on every operation -- I could definitely imagine small writes getting very costly, especially with wear-leveled file systems that might be moving around pages on even small writes.
I'm not a communist, so I have little trouble in denouncing or disliking Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, etc.

I also, however, find these sorts of discussions completely disingenuous, however, in that it is conveniently left unmentioned how many millions might or might not be calculated to have died because of capitalism, cultures that have been destroyed, etc.

No one is actually willing to lay everything on the table for examination.
Fair; but my point is more-so, if there was a Page 27 at the end that inserted some unusual terms, it'd be really obvious because it wouldn't look like all the templated stuff before it, and anyone reasonable would catch it. Its also a lot less tiring to read through those preceding 26 pages because its all templated, and you're really just reading the custom notes and checkboxes and such.

I don't feel its unreasonable to read through a dozen or two pages of contracts for something like a rental lease that will eat up 30% of your income for the next year; and I've never felt that my city/state is in dire need of improving the situation. The problem with online service terms is more-so that: they aren't standardized, they all say different things, they oftentimes claim things that aren't legally enforceable, they're usually a UI afterthought... they're just bad. We do need some kind of legislation for those. I don't feel that requiring a summary is the answer.
The vision behind the Marten web framework
Don't bother. Just ban/declare invalid any surprising clauses, with a regularly updated list of prohibited abusive terms that people try to slip in.

Germany has an explicit rule like that (§ 305c BGB): terms that are so unusual that the counterparty didn't have to expect them are null and void, and any ambiguities are interpreted against the side using reusable T&C's. Terms are further invalid (§ 307 BGB) if they unfairly disadvantage the other party against good faith etc.

The real meat starts in 308 and following, explicitly banning many terms - for example arbitration requirements (309 item 14).
I just went through this pain, and fortunately my gpu just died during the process so I jumped to amd. It's like a breath of fresh air, my computer just works now.

Except now there's a bug and I can't use the integrated Intel graphics at the same time. Great. Works fine otherwise though, and I don't have to fuck around with my drivers ever again
Does the contract stipulate to the satisfaction of the other party? Seems like it's terribly arbitrary if there aren't really specific terms about what paint to use, what color to use, they quality of the surface, etc.
> The minimum value for N is 1 for unsigned types and 2 for signed.

I wonder why they’re disallowing _BitInt(1). It would be a signed integer type with the possible values -1 and 0.
Is your 5us number from experience? Have you run SQLite on embedded before? Just hoping to hear some real world performance numbers for any hardware remotely similar!
They're meant to use monetary policy to maintain price stability and keep the unemployment rate low. Lots of issues come up where monetary policy would need to react. There are many places where fiscal policy might be better (it can be more finely targeted) and we generally don't see it materialize. So we're left with central bank technocrats using monetary policy.
The EU needs to do that anyway given … Russia. Two birds with one stone
Part of why you feel that way I assume is because of how where you live is set up, it probably is unfathomable to operate a family without a car, and you shouldn't be worried about that changing any time soon. But proponents for bike infrastructure are not suggesting you put your kids in a bike trailer and ride 40 miles to school, and they aren't suggesting we remove the highways taking you from suburbia into the city. They are usually suggesting that we need more bike or walk friendly neighborhoods. But we also can't all live in the city, so bike friendly infrastructure is also necessary between suburbia and the necessities like work and shopping.
The linguistics of swearing explain why we substitute darn for damn
> I find that extremely hard to believe

failed harvests around the world and famines killing millions are an absolute certainty.
My Week with ChatGPT
Reminds me me https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... search for "floppy"
I loved Carvana because I bought a car from them for about the same price I’d pay at a dealership but it was all online and I didn’t have to feel like I was getting swindled at any point.

The experience of buying a car at a dealership is a fucking nightmare. It’s awful. It’s the worst customer experience you can have in the United States.

There’s been some serious issues with the used car market fluctuating over COVID but it’s very reductive to now say “oh they were bad the whole time just another unprofitable unicorn”
Anyone who says what "US law" is, regarding property rental contracts, is either generalizing or doesn't know what they're talking about. Landlord/tenant law is one thing that varies quite a bit from state to state and it is mostly out of scope of federal law.

And furthermore, it's a common misconception that something is 'legal' to stipulate just because they've seen it in their contracts before. People put unenforceable crap in contracts all the time because 9/10 people will just believe it's enforceable and go along with it.
My friend that has been a general contractor for around ten years acts like it's not even worth doing his job anymore now that interest rates are going up.
I absolutely agree, but this comment referred to the library size as a major burden.
Yeah that does sound like a nightmare.

The UK direct-debit guarantee includes the provision that you must get a full and immediate refund on error, to prevent this sort of thing, and while I'm sure it doesn't always work as smoothly as you'd want, they are very commonly used and not a great source of complaints.

https://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/businesses/complaints...

That said, fuckups do still happen!
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/07/kent-family...
I felt this cleared up my mind. I know I am obsessing about something small. For me who used to be on top of things in my 20s is now drifting off. I realize life happens but sometimes I can’t help stop my anxieties. I wanted to thank all you took time to answer. Appreciate all answers
Anybody in the fortune telling business is not going to be squeamish about automating the process if it makes them a buck. Probably someone is very hard at work on the execution part of this right now.
Dark mode doesn't work for me, probably due to astigmatism.

But working most of the day in front of the screen causes eye strain. So, I tried `redshift` and that helped. These days I keep it at 3000K all the time. And I found that reading on my big computer screen with redshift is less straining compared to Kindle.
Archive

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Yes, for software people, actually working for long hours during crunch time is normal, most everywhere I've been.

IME, people usually don't burn very long hours at work unless they feel they need to.

(I've also seen places where it was nigh-impossible to get much work done, due to organizational dysfunction. But I don't think that can translate to long hours for very long, since people are already exploding at 40 hrs/wk of sitting through their work sabotaged, minute to minute. They'll tend to fill the hours with a combination of heroic sisyphean efforts, decompressing/timewasting, and bitter gossiping.)

(I recently watched a hilarious deadpan video of a day in the life of influencer intern/junior developer at Facebook, where it seemed only little time was spent on work. But that's not normal.)
How Do Squinches Work?
So germany massively scaled back their renewable rollout and this is bad because they built renewables? Then an unrelated rant about hydrogen.

That definitely convinced me. Good job, champ.
I like dark mode, but possibly more important for me is Night Shift that changes the color temperature I think.
"The Department of Energy plans to announce Tuesday that scientists have been able for the first time to produce a fusion reaction that creates a net energy gain"

Oh, just like this time in 2013, https://www.science.org/content/article/fusion-breakthrough-..., and this one in 2021 https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-a-fusion-rea...

Which definition of breakeven are they using this time? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JurplDfPi3U&t=3s
Stupid question but is this a test that could be "ordered" if a diagnostic lab was told what to look for?
And it's not just about being able to read and understand. It's power dynamics. How often are you in a position to negotiate the boilerplate contract that gets put in front of you when you're doing most normal stuff. It's "sign here and here and here, etc", not "read this over and come back with your edits". I negotiate contracts as part of my job, and we go back and forth and make sure parties agreed and understand. As someone else pointed out, such contracts almost certainly should be enforceable, even with unusual terms, because they were expressly co-written and agreed to. An uneditable document drafted by and in favor of one party is not the same thing at all, regardless of the signer's capacity to understand
It's a "Genie out of the bottle" thing. It can't be stopped. It will eventually be part of people's workflow in the same manner search engines are part of most people's daily life. Banned or not banned people will use it. Arguing about it won't change a thing.

My concern is that it will become a rich person's toy since eventually OpenAI will charge for it.
Not everyone's bodies work the same. Working too long in a brightly lit room makes me extremely tired. The only way I can work long hours is in simulated twilight.
I would like to make a wager
This really explains so much. The it was much easier to find random facts on the "old" internet. Now, to get to a random fact, it needs to be wrapped in a life story explaining why they have a deep personal connection with that fact.
Retrospring: A free, open-source QA-based social network
https://youtu.be/kVk9a5Jcd1k
Corporations are regulation.
TIL that people were using dark mode because of purported health benefits?

black pixels are better than white pixels.
That would probably be more expensive than fiber. It's time to move on from CatN cabling.
https://www.sharrowmarine.com

They still seem to be around. Not rocking the world yet but I'm surprised that they haven't come out with a cheaper model. Might be harder to cast than expected.
I didn't even think those were real. I'd seen pictures, but I thought it was just for show. Like who would actually build that?
Let's see if we can make it generate the script for West Side Story by fuzzing the prompts until the edit distance is minimal. Reverse prompt engineering for beginners.
And before that, E. https://www.crockford.com/ec/
This is also why releasing code without a license is dangerous. Without a license your code defaults to the UGC and thus you become liable for "fit for purpose". Instead even basic open source licenses must disclaim the default clauses if the UGC like warranty and fit for purpose.
He's prolly right.
Nomads survive beyond the Polar Circle
The issue is it's not just the Fed, it's the administrative state as a whole. The President appoints the Fed board and the FCC commissioners and the DoJ and the FDA, and then they make policy though nobody elected them.

The rulemaking role of these agencies should be a subset of the legislature and the Congress should have to vote on their proposals before they become law.
Remember the bad old days of having to dodge hordes of salesmen just to try to buy some computer parts?
That makes no sense. Musical.ly most definitely was available in China.
In Korea, Manhwa tends to refer to printed comics like Manga, whilst Webtoon refers to online digital comics.
Of course, the only reason you need a car for your family is because we built car centric cities that require it. We haven't had that for long, less than 100 years.

I wouldn't suggest someone run a family without a car in a modern American city, but there are still places even in America that didn't get rebuilt around cars and of course plenty of places around the world where you can raise a family without a car.
You could also write the example as a list comprehension, which essentially mimics set-builder notation in math, i.e. "The set of all pairs such that ..."

[(x, y) for x in [1, 2] for y in [7, 8]] // Python (list comprehension)

{(x, y) | x \in {1, 2}, y \in {7, 8}} // math (set-builder notation)
Just wait until we enter the ‘decades long workforce population decline’ period. Once GDP growth decreases by population shrinkage, investing will be fun again!
KDE also does #1, showing web search results when typing in the launcher. Probably just trying to be helpful rather than trying to push bing or edge or data mine my searches. But still it doesn't belong there IMO.

However I'm sure I'll find a setting to turn it off if it annoys me too much. That's what I love about KDE. I don't normally use the launcher much anyway so I haven't really bothered looking for the setting.
> Every apartment I've rented (5 in my city) has used the exact same template.

Given the number of different templates floating around tailored to most individual states, that’s either an extreme coincidence, or there is shared ownership, management, or legal representation between the different apartment complexes.
Tata to Enter Chipmaking in India
Conglomerate to invest $90bn over 5 years, also into other businesses
A tourism analogue could be Antarctica rather than the sea floor.

Antarctica is also an analogue for manned science. Reduce costs enough and it makes sense to put people in space rather than do things remotely. There's a base at the South Pole. The cost to get there would be similar to the cost of getting to LEO, in this few-times-propellant cost scenario. Yet no one talks about automating that base, it just doesn't pencil out.

Lower launch costs will enable much larger satellites to be built, with much larger apertures of antennas and optics, and with higher bandwidth, or with much less focus on expensive mass optimization. We could see satellites in high earth orbit being maintained manually.

At a few tens of dollars per kilogram, space disposal of nuclear waste starts to make sense.
Why did my back button break when going to your website? Is that intentional?
> So it is purpose built to drive 3d multiplayer worlds

How ? I can't see anything in here that makes these worlds any easier to drive.
Ah fair. Though I do think the issue they meant is perhaps the C++‘s STL is not fleshed out enough to be as ergonomic and useful as Python.

Python’s standard library is not without its faults but I’m always so frustrated that the C++ STL stops just short of providing many things, and when it does, it requires writing out so much verbiage.
...but you need to come up with an unambiguous way to represent what was meant in bytes, if you're going to use a secure hash function.