skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
their suicide rates are high, but that is more a problem with the geographic location, i.e. not getting much (or any) sun-light in winter).

That is mostly a myth. While suicide rather in the Nordic countries are slightly above the European average they're not the highest in Europe and below the US. Also the correlation between suicide and not getting enough sun light is at best very weak. If you cluster suicide data on a pr county level in Sweden for example, you'll find a very high correlation with unemployment levels and negative population growth and no correlation with how far north you are.
Do people dislike TOML only because it looks like a Windows INI file? I think it’s nice. Rust chose it in keeping with their penchant for sanity most of the time.
MySafeIp is a web app acting as a trusted IP source for firewalls
> I'm imagining designing a software product around this and presenting it to a C-Level

Alternatively, imagine what the world would be like if we spent less time thinking about what C-suite executives think.
does anyone know if anything similar exists for java ? it should make sense since Testcontainers (https://www.testcontainers.org/) exists
Writing tests is a normal experience for me (just like writing code) as long as the tests make sense. As soon as some manager (or senior engineer) start to ask for X% code coverage, then it all goes to hell and writing tests become a robotic task that adds nothing but a burden to maintain in the future.
You can order prescription lense inserts that lay over the lenses of the VR headset. You don’t have to wear glasses then.
Just to let you know, out of interest, you can have two different keys for a physical lock. It's how master-keying works.
From the day I realised that, I’ve never ceased to be amazed by how many things have come from Next or were derived from it. I find it quite astounding.
> But the overall system becomes a little more brittle, and a little harder to reason about

> minimize the amount of brainpower I needed to understand my code

> weighing it against the larger system.

If you haven't try converting these items into something more measurable, and put these problems in front of the smart engineer and let these be their problem?

Sort of delegating these stuffs as their problem too instead of taking it all your own.
> That means the cost of your system will be approximately double to run what the manufacturers specifications claim.

Wait, seriously? That's (a) disappointing, because I thought heat pumps were pretty great. And (b) you're absolutely right: it's misleading advertising.
I don't know but I'd imagine more than North Korea. I've worked with Nepalise programmers so business travel is certainly a reasonable reason.

But I imagine a lot of tourists from rich countries would enjoy visa free travel to Nepal, and reciprocal rights is a thing.

Maybe that's what explains it? Nepal doesn't grant visa free travel to many countries so not many grant it in return?
Wish the data was available in a downloadable form. Would be interesting to see which combinations of passports gives you the best access together.

For example, if you could hold two arbitrary passports at the same time, which two would give access to most countries (feels like a kind of graph covering problem to calculate).
Awesome, that definitely will be helpful if I add another monitor. Thanks!
Something that should not be needed was just improved.
Isn't this similar to how GAN networks learn? Edit: Yes, there is small chapter in paper comparing it to GAN
This article taught me what a "creative producer" role is in Hollywood.

"The key people working directly with the creative producer are the director, who oversees the creative vision of the film, and the line producer, who oversees the budget. The creative producer is the ultimate form of middle-management who sees the whole picture with the core reason to exist being at the detail-level, focusing solely on a project as a supervisor of the creative."

The author produced hits with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and he also produced Manchester By The Sea. He explains well the impact of streaming on people like himself in the US.

I would just like to add that Netflix was able to fund a lot of projects in other, non-US film industries. A whole bunch of movies and miniseries made in India would never have been funded before Netflix and Amazon came there. I am thankful for that.

The other side of the coin.
‘y_’ is too strict in my opinion. You declare lots of variables like y_1 or y_ans when you write any sort of numerical calculation code (like in games or physics simulations).
And for the curious / Future Me, that image is the one headlining this article:

<https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/15/style/richard-macksey-lib...>

<https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/01/16/fashion/VIRAL-LIB...>

It shows the home library of Johns Hopkins professor Dr. Richard Macksey in Baltimore. The full collection size of 51,000 volumes would be somewhat more, I estimate about 10,000 are visible in the image as composed.

To a rough approximation, that image shows the number of documents that fit on my e-book reader.
similar to andronix to me,a user mode linux basically,need play with it.
It would not be a new idea:

https://time.com/6051754/history-filipino-nurses-us/

The difference this time is “extra” young Filipinos may not be as numerous:

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/PHL/philippines/fertil...

And they might have more preferable work options such as work in IT fields.
The question isn't that much "why don't we accept all travel visas" but "why don't we accept all immigrants".

People are talking about the "risk that they stay" like it's something bad to have too many immigrants. And it ended up like some common sense idea. But what if it's not?

Did California or New York suffer from getting people moving from all the "country side" state? Did the US suffer from their immigration waves when they had open borders, and all you needed to get in was a medical exam on Ellis Island?
What Death Certificates Reveal about Non-Covid Excess Deaths
The standard testing package for the win, and many pull in a light weight assertion library like Testify.

I love testing in Go (and _loath_ testing in Ruby). Our unit and integration tests are mostly great. Tests are just code. No DSL or special anything; just normal code. My favorite test that showed me the light: it would spin up several smtp servers (the system under test), like a dozen or more, get the SMTP conversation to different points and wait for timeouts and ensure that everything behaved. The test ran in under 10ms.

We have tests that ensure logs happened, metrics emitted, timeouts honored, graceful shutdowns work, and error paths are easily validated with test fakes that return canned errors (no mocks). I love testing in Go.
If you need 20kW and you install a 7kW (equivalent) gas boiler you are in just as much trouble.
I realised this is another example of "trees" as first-class citizens in a build system. In my comment above the tree we're passing around is a docker layer; in my LWN article it's an OSTree ref. We use the former for our cloud containers, the latter for our embedded device rootfs and systemd-nspawn containers.

I suppose we could use systemd-nspawn on our cloud servers too, instead of docker, but when we wrote the build system we were already using docker so it was the expedient thing to do at the time.
Even with it being unstable I prefer Zig to C. So many of C's extremely dangerous footguns are solved, it has features built-in that you have to jump through hoops for in C (like file embedding), and it cross compiles easily.

Yeah, the compiler bugs and shifting language are annoying, but at least for me they are a lot less annoying that dealing with C's bullshit.
Funny enough, the countries where legal movement is harder appear to have a lot more problems with illegal overstays. This is because the legal system keeps people in various kinds of limbo which automatically put them in an out of status state. If countries could process legal visas fast enough, illegal movement would drop like a rock since most ineligible people will just take the denial and move to a different place.
Minor thing: Celsius isn’t SI either.
With a 1:1 ratio it's heat energy out = electricity in, minus a small amount of efficiency loss (any heat produced on an external heater)

As to cost wise it depends on the cost per kWh of your electricity vs gas. In the UK gas is far cheaper per kWh.

CO2 wise it depends on the CO2 intensity of your electric source vs a local gas burner.

However that only applies when it's -20C. When it's a more reasonable like now at 7AM in Chicago when it's 2 degrees C, you're generating something like 2.5kWh of heat for every 1kWh of electricity. That may not be financially beneficial if your gas is 5c/kWh and electricity is 30c/kWh, that depends on your various deals.

For me in the UK, my external oil boiler this winter has cost about 10p/kWh. My electricity is 21p/kWh. A heat pump I looked at was a 3.84 ratio, so if that ratio held down as far as typical winter temperatures of 6C (it's currently 11C), that would be 5.5p/kWh, and obviously far less CO2 per unit of heat.
A way to make it more interesting to those is to describe simplicity as something hard to achieve and that needs to be smart.
Being rich, highly educated, low in criminality, low in illegal emigration means that other nations are more willing to welcome you in. Think of who you would welcome into your own home and they map pretty homomorphically to the same set of rules you would set at the national level i.e. probably someone who won't steal your things, is good company, won't break your rules, or overstay their welcome.
1. Terrible kids grow up into terrible adults.

2. You’re among your kindred, which is why you’re now bullied less.
True - but then again, writing an XML config file can be a bit of a pain as it's more verbose.
Could you elaborate a bit? My parents live in a not-very-well insulated wooden house from around 1900, and use a heat pump as their primary means of heating the house. This is Scandinavia, so it might be that this house (despite not even coming close to modern insulation standards) still has better insulation than most British houses, but it would surprise me (older British houses are generally built in brick, which should provide a better base level of insulation than a wooden house, and I'd think Britain isn't warm enough that nobody would build a house without any insulation whatsoever).

Maybe I don't understand what you mean by the word "feasible" – they don't have a goal of getting their living room above 23 C at most in winter, and I guess heat pumps are insufficient in such a house if you desire ambient temperatures above that. However, while other means of heating could plausibly bring the temperatures higher, that would end up being very expensive also because of the poor insulation – it's just harder in general to heat a drafty house and keep the temperature up, and I don't see how heat pumps are a uniquely bad choice for homes like that.

Edit: This is coastal Norway, so the climate in winter is quite similar to somewhere like Edinburgh, with temperatures usually above 0 C in January. The heat pumps would probably be insufficient somewhere the temperatures regularly reach -10 or -20 C, but that's a very infrequent event both here and in the UK.
I don't SMS anymore. I am working on ditching my phone entirely.
You might like J.G. Ballard then.
Why is the UK above Belgium?

Edit: Also how was this constructed? The "factsheet" download link requires giving them your personal details.
Github copilot is pretty good at writing tests
It’s the verbosity for me. Why does everything need a fully spelled out closing tag?
A long time since I read it but I think he gave examples like mithridatism, poisoning yourself to build up resistance. Anti-fragility is about incorporating change as an expectation instead of seeking stability and fearing it.

For software, that would mean practices like Chaos Monkey. If your production system stays up while an external process is constantly killing processes and deliberately corrupting memory and files then you have good confidence of riding through unexpected failures.
The unit here should be meV/k_B instead of mV btw (the latter is proportional to the temperature but doesn't have the unit of a temperature).
Dog Breeds test: social cognition, inhibitory control, spatial problem-solving
Try to simply talk about maintenability, and how they feel about adding more, maybe not always necessary, code in that regard.

I have to assume those engineers are not very experienced, by the way. After a few hard-to-solve bugs introduced by overly smart engineers you really start appreaciating simplicity.
i don't know man it's raining like hell in the netherlands
Only the PRoot method has some overhead, as it hijacks system calls with ptrace(). Linux namespaces or chroot shouldn't have noticable overhead.
English has a subjunctive mood. I wondered, when I read the headline, “when?”.
How the heck should a library author know whether an error is recoverable or not? In many situations that depends entirely on the caller.

Not-so-contrived example: a config options contains a value that leads to a division by zero in some library I'm using. I don't want that to crash my whole program, I want to tell the user "hey this part didn't work" but be able to continue with the other parts.

Without writing a ton of boilerplate code.
Degrees Centigrade is an SI derived unit, just like Joule and Watt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_derived_unit
100% agree. Do what you can with commit hooks (or however you enforce it. Some people argue these checks should only be done before merge), but ultimately the people you work with have to prioritize the team and the longevity/maintainability of the code base above their own desire to be clever or whatever it is they think they're doing. Oftentimes, as you hinted at, these types of people simply can't and won't change so getting rid of them is sometimes the only solution IMO.
Basically any foreign intelligence agency can produce perfect fake passports (except for the chip, but you don't need a functional chip).

Even regular criminals manage to produce good enough documents to travel with, and those guys don't have access to Heidelberg printing presses.
AR, not VR. To clarify - and I should have said this in my original post - I'm envisioning the equivalent of a pair of spectacles, not a huge headset, with the knowledge that it's probably many years off...
From the article:

Although yaml 1.2 is more than 10 years old by now, you would be mistaken to think that it is widely supported: the latest version libyaml at the time of writing (which is used among others by PyYAML) implements yaml 1.1 and parses 22:22 as 1342.
Why then he doesn't pay rent?
It's a good idea to write _what_ something does, especially when the algorithm seems very "generic".

I'll a thousand times rather have

// Create users from id's

userList = theblackmagiconeliner;

Than a 20 line version of it where I'm left having to read through it to determine "oh, it made users from a list of id's" or even just.. having to read through it to find out if there's other stuff plugged in because "it could go there" or even just finding where it ends and actual work starts.

userList = userListFromUserIdList(userIds);

is also perfectly acceptable, but if it's only used once in that file, I'd prefer the blackmagiconeliner..
If it's only used once in the project, I'd also prefer that to having another file just for that function. Just do the work and get on with it.
Not diplomacy or government action, it simply helps if you are the sort of nation whose travelling supporters volunteer to help clean up their mess in stadiums after their matches in international tournaments. Contrast that with away supporters of other nations (looking at you England :D)
It seems to work a lot better on Linux.
Screenshots of both the front page of HN and of this topic: https://imgur.com/a/Armz49a
If you get to -20C a couple of times a year but normally it's -5, it doesn't matter that it's inefficient for 2 or 3 days a year, as it's very efficient for 360 days a year
I banned Automapper from my company.
MS can't expect all their users to use DMARC, and blatantly advising their customers to do so can be dangerous. Not every domain is ready for DMARC and enabling it would cause undeliverable email.

It wouldn't surprise me if MS was being harassed by angry 'experts' for not recommending 'hard' fail, because clearly that would be so much more secure (just look al all the comments in this topic).

So I get it, advising to use a strict failure mode, even at the expense of some undeliverable email is acceptable for MS. But for those who have already adopted DMARC, the SPF 'hard' fail only increases the chance of undeliverable mail, while offering zero security benefits.
I’ve been wondering for a while now if it would be worth coupling a heat pump coils to the heat sinks of a battery, inverter or other building electronics to help offset the diminishing returns at the lower extremes.

The simplest example would be a heat pump with its own built in UPS style battery, but I also see it being built with coupling to a power wall style house battery.
30 working days, with the clear expectation to take all in a given year. In fact, you have to take the legal minimum of 24 days (varies with contractual working hours) per year. Employers insist in taking it all, any carry overs show up as outstanding accounts in balance sheets.

As an example, you want to take of the week Christmas and New Year, the 25th and 26th are bank holidays as is Jan 1st. This year Dec. 26th was a Monday, so whole week required 4 vacation days. Some years bank holidays fabor employees, other years favor employers.
"Adding a touchscreen to the Mac feels like busy work for employees or the company doesn’t know what to spend money on."

Exactly like the Touch Bar. Terrible idea.
> I imagine too what an outrageously high pixel count a VR set would have to have to render a virtual TV with the same resolution as a real one.

Yup. It might take decades to get there, but I think we'll get there.

> And even aside from the above, I really can't see myself putting something on my face and dropping out of my environ for anything more than about 5 or 10 minutes. It's just weird.

I'm envisioning the equivalent of a pair of spectacles. People wear spectacles all day every day without _too_ much issue.
In Memory of Jonathon Fernyhough
I mean, there are other applications for VR that might make sense for spatially limited situation like a flight is. On some planes I couldn't even open my laptop properly. With VR you might have lots of screens.
It's just a minor misunderstanding of "smart".

What they really meant was "smart" for the
manufacturer --- but very dumb for the consumer.

There are still a few "dumb" TVs out there. I own one. And I add my own "smarts" --- that I control.

https://www.komodo.com/overview-562.html
Weighting the access countries by these three factors would be very interesting: Land mass (access to space), GDP per capita (access to human capital), aggregate GDP (access to markets).
At work someone is trying to introduce a system where a bunch of Jinja templates in a repository are used to generate XML which can then be used to generate another XML document which can then be "executed", resulting in an annotated XML document :)
Pretty sure any half-competent intelligence agency should be able to make the chip too, if only by infiltrating the company that makes the passports.
I think there's a point of intelligence where you sort of loop back into stupidity.
I was going to joke that it’s easy to tell who’s over 30 in this thread, but surprisingly the complexity farmers don’t seem to be correlated with age. It seems to be a learned habit that they just never drop. Indeed, they feel it’s a matter of professionalism not to drop it.

I agree with you that there’s not a lot of hope when working with such people. The best you can do is not to engage most of the time, then do some strategic social jujitsu when they’re proposing their astronaut designs in meetings.
We originally launched the Mira Prism in this market in 2017 before pivoting to enterprise. https://www.mirareality.com/

It looks like they have much better software than we had at launch, though.

The experience for phone-based headsets is really pretty good. The issue is that it’s a really hard sell for consumers at that price point for seemingly a piece of plastic, and the price point is necessary for the optics unless you have massive volume. The other issue is of course the bulky form factor.
This somewhat reminds me of a demo from a couple of years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cq8S3jzJiQ

It's a system called Grail, which allows for its users to draw flowcharts and attach logic to the various elements.
What rent?
VR is a different beast and much less comfortable than I envision the (medium to long term) future of AR to look like. I don't love watching movies/TV in VR right now, if only because I find the headset makes my head overheat.
I have a aux heater that kicks in when the heat pump can't keep up, and I have noticed this. When the heat pump is running, the air coming out of the vents is barely warmer than ambient. Definitely less than 70F. When the aux heater kicks in, the air is actually hot.

A side effect is that the heat pump needs to run a lot, because heating a house to 62F takes a long time with air that it 65F.
JSON also borrows (earlier versions of?) JavaScript's "all numbers are doubles", leading to this kind of thing: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/02/03/bits/

Though, in fairness, I think old Perl did that too. It's super convenient until it isn't.

Rachel also doesn't approve of JSON in high-reliability systems for other reasons: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/07/21/reliability/ and point taken, if you're sending data from your service A to your service B and neither is a web browser, nor are they written in JS, then there's far better formats and you almost need a reason not to use protobuf.
This is not a good faith comment
Quite sneaky how the article gives the price of electricity in cents per kWh, then some un-named unit for the price of natural gas (which is very cheap in the USA). The price per kWh is much less than the price of electricity.
I am so tried of all this corruption in the government.
I researched and shopped it pretty hard (the latter to limited effect). Lots of companies do boiler swaps in ~3 hours with one plumber or one plumber and an apprentice/laborer. Only one company would even quote the air-to-water (which has its own dangers now and for 20 years of operation).

Changing from gas to air-to-water heat pump involves electrical work (inside and out), core drilling through structural brick walls, some landscaping work, much more plumbing work (both water and refrigeration), and more and more expensive equipment (way more piping, a buffer tank, a domestic water storage tank, and the indoor and outdoor units), plus the labor to install, inspect, and maintain all that.

Heating load on design day was calculated 78KBTU/hr. (Old boiler was ~60% efficient, 200KBTU/hr input and cycled easily on design days.) I think the true figure is likely just a bit less, but the exact figure turns out to be irrelevant for a gas combi boiler as it’s already sized large enough for the higher domestic water heating load. For a heat pump, sizing to load and using storage tanks is critical.

I really wanted to have the switch make sense. It wasn’t even close, even with several thousand in additional incentives.