skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do have a deep fondness for logging / tracking information in my life, and currently use several disparate tools for the purpose and am trying to consolidate much of it.

On one hand, I have my "lazy trackers", or things that are recorded automatically. Last FM for music history, the health info that gets aggregated into the Apple Health app, etc... These are things that get collected automatically, and I have scripts to automatically back them up to CSV format every so often. The collection tools themselves tend to have all the analysis features I care for, so I haven't done anything major with the CSV backups at this time. I'm generally cool with the automated collection stuff and have no interest in changing that dynamic while those methods remain available. I outsource what I can.

And then there are the things I log manually. The catch-all here is a personal journal that I do with daily markdown files with a timestamp for each time I write something in them. Over time, I have decided to break out specific things into their own markdown files rather than the catch-all journal. These include media notes, where I now capture thoughts on books / movies / games / etc in their own markdown files; and contact notes, where I write down memorable notes on interactions with my friends / loved ones so I can be the best friend / family member I can for those people. Those are all encrypted markdown files. The one spreadsheet I manually keep tracks the hours that I spend playing individual video games over time, which I've always found interesting even though I'm not a huge gamer.

As for the things I have chosen to break out from the catch-all journal, that has come as a result of querying those things so often that I find it easier to make purpose-designated areas for them. That's worked well for me up to this point, but in the future I want to have a catch-all text input area that collates everything into a timestamped "database" and then automatically scripts out appending those things to the appropriate place. I normally wouldn't bother with so much development overhead, and I did start out light; but this is a huge passion in my life that makes it worth the effort.

My current notion is to use the Drafts app for this, since I operate within the Apple ecosystem and that is a fully scriptable cross-platform text notes app within that ecosystem. I can enter whatever input parameters in plain text as a passing note, and that output can be automatically parsed into a master JSON or SQLite file or whatever that can then be parsed to output everything to the appropriate markdown files automatically. This is something I plan to mock up a test version of soon. I want do keep the markdown files up to date like I always have, mainly so that I can reference notes via mobile, which is a major review and consumption platform for me.
Utilities are, by and large, not economically rational actors. In addition to extreme bias in the C-suite towards old tech, they are highly constrained in decision making by public utility commissions, and decision making is often based on information that is 5-10 years old. It takes papers like this getting published, then publicized enough so that they PUC can't ignore it, before info can enter an IRP that plays out over 5-10 years.
They employ you and take all the risk away. If the idea fails, you move to a new one. If it succeeds, you get a large cut of equity.

Think about it more as an alternative to working at FAANG as it sits closer to salaried employment, but with much more tangible benefits should you succeed.

Rather than shotgun every idea that walks in the front door, studios deeply think about what will work and set off to build those ideas and staff them with good teams relevant to the problem domain.
I own two vehicles requiring the cloud for remote start. It's the only useful "cloud" function, too. Very annoying.
If you got $1500 off the price of the vehicle to instead pay $20/mo, would you do it? What features would be reasonable to gate with this IAP? Especially considering you're not paying interest for that $1500, you only lose money via the subscription if you keep the car for 80 months, or 8 more months than a 72 month loan.
Now I wonder about the specifics. Do they compensate business owners for lost customers? Can the owner refuse to serve the protected person?
Heck, I'd just appreciate OBD II data that's complete and standardized. For example, I can't seem to get the odometer on my 2015 Elentra GT.
Guest Scientist makes you sound like a celebrity, that kinda tickles a part of my brain that makes me smile.
Great points, thank you.

I did an undergraduate Master's degree for similar reasons, which is four year vs three years for a Bachelors + 1 year for a seperate Master's degree.

At the time of starting, it was a much easier funding route. The majority of my cohort chose this option
Reminds me of my number theory professor. Open book take home exam, 20 problems and you choose 4 of them to answer. He graded us on how much we were able to do, and not just the answer itself. 6 of the problems were equivalent to the Riemann Hypothesis (unbeknownst to the class).

Fun times.
Did you vote on the policies being carried out by Western governments and institutional apparatuses or is it just a coincidence that you have the same opinion on this issue as the people on TV? :)
I went to the dentist recently and they required me to open a link in a text message they sent me to digitally 'sign' their paperwork. Without a smartphone I would have no way to do it. Yes, our society today expects you to have a smartphone.
The US hasn’t been at war with peer militaries, and it’s been generally losing if you haven’t kept up. Russia is winning, but few in the West are willing to admit that yet. Here’s one who is: https://www.russiamatters.org/analysis/whats-ahead-war-ukrai...
An honours degree is a Bachelor’s degree. It’s a Bachelor’s degree, with honours.
So what?

Does that stop corruption in your city? (hint: The answer is 'No")

Or even abuses? (hint: The answer is "No")

In its final days, even slavery was a "more local" policy.

People should get their mindsets right on democratic vigilance. The problem is not ceding decision making to the federal government. The problem is ceding decision making to any government. That's why we need to not only be able to remove people from power, but actually do so from time to time. So that every one from the local sheriff and judge, all the way up to the president and chief justice never get too comfy.
There's two ways to power your house off your car battery. You could have your car act as a mobile electrical outlet that you can run extension cords off of to plug things into, or you could have it tie in directly with the wiring of the house so all your electrical outlets work.

The former is pretty straightforward. The latter would need a lot of electrical upgrades to the house. (I'd expect you'd need to do about the same thing that people do when they get solar, which is to replace the meter with something that can measure power flows in both directions, and is smart enough to disconnect the solar panels from upstream power when the power goes out, so you don't electrocute people trying to fix the power lines. If you don't have a local battery, that means basically turning the solar system off in a power failure.)

If you aren't planning on selling storage capacity to your local utility, maybe all you really need is an automatic shutoff switch to disconnect your house from the grid when the power goes out.

Either way you'd need some sort of power inverter to convert DC to AC. That could be built into the car, or it could be attached to the house.
So glad I'm not the only one interested in looking at a map to help understand the story. The runway numbers did indeed change, back in 1999: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Washington_Natio...

Agreed that the pilot definitely made a huge, and not really reasonable mistake. Even though it was pre-9/11, I'd expect a pilot who was going to fly in/around DC to know there's going to be restricted airspace and to take the time to understand it.

(if link doesn't work, go to the Wikipedia article for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, and look at the bullets under "Expansion and restrictions")
No conspiracy needed just raise interest rates with this much debt, turn money printing into QT and cause a recession. Thin wedge is the most speculative areas: i.e tech.
> For example, if I was a black man and the teacher was white, my essays about slavery would be not about if I learned the material but my trying to work around determining how racist a teacher might be.

That would be a valid concern regardless or your or professor’s race.

And even if we take into account that people are more biased towards opinions that elevate them, we should also take into account what an average college history teacher believes in. At that point you should probably be worried that your view isn’t Marxist enough.
> How is that represented in lisp (as a list you say?)

I'm only a beginner in lisp too, but it as simple as

(defun add-numbers (a b) (+ a b))

if you look at it as "everything between () is a list" then you'll find the above code is actually:

[word word [word word] [word word word]]

to get it to multiply numbers instead, you'd just get the last item of the list `(+ a b)` -- replace the first item `+` with `*` (using other list functions, etc..) and then re-evaluate the entire list again,

So now your function will multiply values instead of adding them..

The "power" aspect comes from the fact that we use "other list functions" to change the code, ie: code is data that we can manipulate.

note, probable errors, like I said, I'm new
There is a possibly apocryphal story of Heisenberg and the other German a-bomb scientists basically doing this in captivity upon learning of the success of the Manhattan Project (not building a working bomb, but reasoning out how it was done!)
> What agenda would that be?

Modern liberal politics.

> I don't see how someone wishing to be referred to by a specific pronoun should be political. In my mind it's just something I do to be respectful to people I interact with.

Well, ~99% of people don't need to specify the pronouns they wish to be called with because everybody already called them by those pronouns.

So you should ask yourself: why are all these people putting their pronouns on their twitter profiles (or whatever)? It's clearly not to prevent other people from being disrespectful, because they weren't being disrespectful.

So I think you are either being very naive or you are not being honest, because it's clear that the real point of specifying your pronouns is not to communicate to other people of what you wish to be called to prevent someone from being disrespectful (except for a minority of cases where people really do get confused).

And furthermore, I also try to be respectful to the people I interact with. But in my view, respect is much more than calling someone him, her or whatever. In fact, even if someone would make an occasional mistake, it's not (and should not) be a big deal. It would certainly not be due to a lack of respect (assuming it's a genuine mistake).

Note that nobody puts "please don't call me an asshole" in their Twitter bio, even though people are called assholes a lot more than they get their pronouns confused (again, except for a minority of people).

So I'm fine if someone puts their pronouns in their bio if other people get them confused frequently.

But even then, is that really the solution?

Should that person also paint their pronouns in their forehead when they go outside, so that other people aren't disrespectful unintentionally?

Or should they just learn to live with a minor grammatical annoyance?

> Outside of being a word used to put down people/ideas, what other purpose does it serve you? genuinely asking

It's a shorthand to describe modern liberal politics regarding identity politics, social justice, cancel culture, etc.

Mind you, this is not the same liberal politics from a few decades ago. This is on a whole other level.
Luckily, a good number of modern home routers support a one-click easy host-your-own-VPN feature.

I have an Amplifi router, and i simply linked my phone to it once, and now I can toggle a VPN on my phone with just one click whenever I need it (just like any third-party VPN service), and it will route the connection through my home network.

No complicated setup, the entire first-time setup took a grand total of 2 minutes. And no one else besides me (and my dad, sometimes) uses that VPN endpoint, so it is extremely unlikely to get detected as a VPN by TikTok or any other service (unless they all just decide to ban my residential ip address).
Oh, while you're here, I recently started exploring the possibility of starting a small shop. When I looked into Shopify I had absolutely no idea how to get started or how much it cost and your website failed to even come close to answering those things in the few minutes I had to investigate. Whereas with SquareSpace provided those answers in seconds.
> Now I prefer even to "prototype" in static languages because the crossover to when they start providing me net benefit is around a week or so into my development process.

I've moved from Ruby to Crystal as much as I can, and at first I found it painful but now I appreciate the myriad complaints from the type checker. It's eliminated 99% of the specs I used to have to write.
An epitome of this, i think, is Bill Watterson.

He said what he set out to say. And then he stopped. And his work is so much stronger for it.
It passes most (maybe all?) of the Rails test suite. But it can't run a randomly-selected production Rails application.

This was based on my conversations with Chris Seaton before his passing, about 6 months ago.
It's extremely rare. Why else would they add a 2+ month delay? It exists specifically to avoid paying people who are leaving soon.
There is (or was) also a US Army Blues Band. I found this recording on Bandcamp, although when I looked again I couldn't find it. They were darn good.

https://operationcode.org/podcast (intro & outro music)
I actually don't know defstar or alexandria but I'm very rusty on CL (touched it I dunno a decade ago? along with a bit of time off and on with Racket scheme and Clojure at various points).
Probably a moot point for the most part. Most students will have their own data plans on their phones. Maybe in some classrooms that's not possible. Futhermore, TikTok should be banned... (Carthago Delenda Est)
On the bright side, these sort of channels can still be good for topic discovery.
All I remember from Linear Algebra is my lecturer telling us "everybody dies alone".
Its amusing that you both came to the same conclusion on naming :)
Self-Aware Static Methods
A static counterpart to 'this' would be nice.
Correct, my wording was poor. You can go from Bachelor's to PHD but only if you achieve first class honours.

Here honours is an additional year of study as well.
My spite trumps their audacity. If I count one more entity looking to shake my pockets empty every month, I'm gonna start calling these crooks Al Capone. No, I don't want to subscribe -- to anything. Anymore.
The fact that WordPress doesn't run on PHP 8.x is honestly the least of WordPress' problems.

There are MANY reasons to cast shade on WordPress, it's an absolute pile of garbage from top to bottom.

I recently developed a WordPress plugin as a personal project for my blog and it just puts in light how bad this software is, from non-existant documentation (on 10 years old functions?) to practices that were already not recommended in PHP 5.

WordPress as a product is great, but WordPress as a technological piece is absolute garbage, made by grossly incompetent developers.
It's also due to age and perspective. When I was young I voted D. I also had no experience with life, earning money, paying taxes, making choices, and taking care of myself and my family (and eventually my parents). Now I'm old and see my 20-something self as hopelessly naive and idealistic, and I vote R. I am guessing my kids vote D though, because they are young and naive.
I'd say it is worth trying VSCode and Alive, I've enjoyed the little bit I've done with it so far, has hot keys for things like compile file or just compile current form.
I know how double glazing works but if you put a window somewhere then you aren’t putting a wall there. So I’m wondering if having a much higher % window (is less wall and more glass) will cause the building to have an importantly lower thermal mass. But I don’t really know if modern buildings would want a large or small thermal mass.

I’m confused by what you write about stone and concrete being good at transmitting heat. I thought the point was that (a) they act as an accumulator regulating the temperature because they take a lot of energy to heat up and (b) they conduct heat poorly (or worse than a window would be mm of thickness but they are much thicker) which is insulating.

Looking up random values from the web, it seems a the low numbers for a thin concrete wall (single wythe means no cavity insulation) are about 2.5x those of a coated double glazed window. A wall which is thicker or has insulation will perform much better. And this doesn’t count any insulation from plaster or cladding or whatever.

Concrete: 0.8 W/m^2K for 10cm solid dense concrete. https://ncma.org/resource/rvalues-ufactors-of-single-wythe-c...

Window: 2.1 W/m^2K for a coated especially insulating window. https://www.justrite.com.au/products-and-services/double-gla...

I wrote about conductivity here because that’s what your comment seemed to be about. Maybe I misunderstood your comment because it seemed to me that you were implying that windows transmit less heat than eg concrete walls (reading carefully, you don’t write that) and I thought it was a given that they transmit more heat. But my question isn’t about adding windows making a building require more heating but about adding windows making a building’s temperature harder to maintain because there are not a load of big (eg) concrete blocks in the wall releasing their heat into the air after you open the door and let a load of cold air in.
What’s AMO?
> What is it about our current American society that leads to basically a 50-50 split in registered voters?

It's the late stage of a first-past-the-post electoral system. Because FPTP is winner takes all voters cannot make a decision based on their political beliefs, they HAVE to vote tactically to make a vote count. Extreme external factors aside, the system itself is destined to create only two parties with any chance of gaining to power.

FPTP is of a time when local politics mattered far more as people traveled less and knew less about issues outside their local area. What a politician could do for your local town/state was of more importance than what was playing out at the national level.

Now people want to see their their own individual beliefs represented in the federal government because since the internet supercharged communication everything seems like it plays out at a national level.

Two parties cannot represent everyone, but voters are forced into this choice.
I already have a spare but its capacity is much lower. Will probably attempt a battery transplant when the first one gives out.
You know that bright yellow ugly-ass label on the sun visor? I used to rant about those. They’re not removable and… like I said, ugly.

How I wish that was my only complaint. Now the nav scolds me, the seatbelts hector me, my passenger needs to swear some sort of oath that they “are not driving”, etc.

I hate warning labels. For every useful one (e.g. “Pinch Point”, “Not A Step”) there are ten more that believe me to be a hapless infant.
> I'm sure if the professor was great, this strategy is wonderful, but it also relies on a leap of faith in terms of the student.

He was a quality professor who gave full marks to answers that disagreed with what he presented in class, so long as the answers were well justified.

You are right though, these types of exams can easily end up becoming a game of "can I answer how the professor wants me to answer".
Game makers stage mass exodus from Dungeons and Dragons’ “open” license
I really hope that stuff like “the commonest” doesn’t become one of the most common mistakes in HN headlines…
Have another circuit on-chip which is more sensitive to glitches than the CPU.

Whenever that circuit detects a glitch in the clock, the power supply, the reset line, electric fields or magnetic fields, it halts the CPU until the whole system is reset.

Not very hard to build - I don't know why every chip doesn't include it by default. As well as protecting against deliberate attacks, it would also protect against accidentally running a chip out of spec - for example not having decoupling capacitors on the power supply, causing intermittent behaviour.
> Dumbing down a smart phone doesn't fix the size

Ugh, agreed. Pockets aren't getting bigger!
Wyoming is set to BAN sales of new electric vehicles by 2035
1. Tell NewCo your availability date.

2. If they ask for an earlier date, tell them the price, and give them the option.
Replace professor with TA.
But yea, bias on subjective questions is a thing for sure. Racism is probably the big one, though in your scenario, a white student could wonder, if you, a theoretical black student, got a better grade because the professor didn’t want to appear racist. You can drive yourself insane thinking about it.
I don't think we have to accept the idea that "visual media ends after everyone can be an artist." On the contrary: such a scenario may well make visual media even more relevant than it is today. Already we communicate concepts and emotions with gifs, icons, memes...

This can go in any number of fantastical directions. But visual media both as a private/personal medium and salve as well as an enterprise-grade tool of mass entertainment and propoganda? Baby we're just getting started!
Anything that is "constant" is equally trivial to detect statistically.

To hide the fact that you're always lag spiking 100ms when you see an enemy, you'd have to lag spike randomly all the time, quite a lot, and then you're asking for a kick for low ping.
I had a teacher that did that in high school, but they were clearly looking for certain answers to open ended questions. An aspect of the class was determining just what kind of answers the grader would grade highly over other equally valid answers.

At least with other kinds of tests, there's much less room for bias or interpretation, even if it still exists.
I think trying to avoid all apps is unnecessary, just the ones designed to addict you which is almost all social media and a lot of mobile games. My weather app doesn't try to get me to doomscroll :) I have been against social media for a long time, though I do have a FB account I log into once yearly or so. I block ads because I don't like the distractions. I stopped logging in to YT because I didn't like how everything changes to try to draw me farther and farther in. Now I keep a separate list of bookmarks to content owners and decide what I want to watch on my terms.

I don't know how to get others there, though. Things feel so obviously designed to grab my attention and keep me there and I can't stand it, I don't get how others don't seem to care and jump in with both feet.

But then again I can't look a donut in the eye and not fall victim to them. So who am I to talk?
I'd imagine it's relatively easy for the OS to just swap out the memory from the inactive user. Unless they're actually running a task in the background, but how often does that happen?
I think this feature used to be called "not tailgating"
I don't think the Godot foundation is what's meant to handle porting to consoles and integrating with closed source libraries. You're probably thinking of W4 Games, started by the Godot founders:

https://w4games.com/