skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of these studies may be culturally specific, in that the focus is on the fulfillment of the individual, i.e. the thinking is 'what's best for me' rather than 'what's best for the group'.

Consider that if you're feeling depressed and lonely and otherwise miserable, and seek out the company of others to alleviate your own negative emotional state, then you're essentially treating other people like a drug you take to improve your mood. Others will tend to see you as needy, demanding, a downer, etc.

The solution is to first figure out how to be happy on your own, to improve your mental and emotional state, such that other people find your company pleasant and agreeable - then they'll actually want to share your company. It's a bit like physical hygiene - if you smell bad, people will keep their distance. Mental hygiene is the same concept.

Unfortunately, consumer society is based on exploiting people's negative emotional states to improve sales - go shopping to alleviate loneliness, buy a bottle of pills to improve your mood, etc. It's not a very healthy system, and it's not surprising many people are so alienated.
I collect rainwater in water butts outside for watering the garden. They stink. What are you doing right that I'm doing wrong?
Don't be so smug. This title follows the AP style guide for headlines, which is the norm. So it's not so much that "people that write news titles" need to learn to capitalize words, it's that you need to learn how to read them.
I was legit about to say how are they at minimum not using `checkip.amazonaws.com`
I'm definitely in the completionist group and that keeps me off twitter or other stream sites, (and large slack groups)

I need to read the things in my feed, or maybe skip, or maybe save for later and maybe come back to it.
I have a "hotbin" composter that maintains around 60c and have had success composting animal manure for decorative plants. However, I wouldn't use it for the vegetable garden, personally.
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For just about any commercial or residential building, the only suitable (IMO) use for graywater would be toilets, and it's not particularly suitable for toilets with a tank, so that rules out just about all residential.

The article also uses the term 'purified' which is non-specific. All sorts of things end up in water: soaps, detergents, drain-o, medications, you name it. You can't just distill it, some chemicals are volatile. You can't just filter it, some contaminants will pass through.

On a city-wide scale, it only introduces more problems. Having pressurized gray water would require an entire new set of lines, and hopefully the people installing them don't accidentally connect the lines to the wrong distribution (it will happen inevitably).

So yes, it's a feel-good story, but it's nonsense. No way to capture the economies of scale, and the water isn't suitable for most uses.
Did you have a Stripe account manager? If so, get them on the case – they know you and can advocate for the business and explain the product internally. At the very least they might be able to give you a much more detailed explanation of which precise features are causing issue and how you could resolve those things.

If not, why? Payments are a core part of any SaaS business, and it's important to have trust with important suppliers like that. Getting an account manager and proper business contract go a long way to preventing issues like this. It's somewhat unsurprising that Stripe don't have much trust for companies just signing up for the service as it's generally high risk for abuse.
Would you have read his biography if you’d known he was a normal guy?
> "If our goal was to be recognized as awesome at a certain time by a certain group of developers, we succeeded. A huge number of connections were made, and a huge number of reputations were bolstered."

ROI if there ever was one in my opinion! We started out with the idea that breaking even would be a great success, financially, but touring as the "rock bank you've never heard of" was among the strongest driving factors in this labor of love.

> "I would suggest that while I'm confident that you can hit Google and find someone happy to say the right things and take money to run your event, this is worse than not doing it at all. YC teaches us to not outsource our core competencies, right?"

I don't know what could make throwing a paid event a core-competency other than throwing paid events, and this is why I suggest finding a team to help with that.

For us, our core competency seems to be getting speakers & curating incredible content. Promoting and selling tickets could have used a boost from the pro's. I'm also very proud of the team for how we've managed to pull this off logistically, but again a team that specializes in this could have done at least as good of a job and freed us up to continue working on our main businesses.

I'd liken it to writing great software and selling great software - they are not the same thing and they required distinctly unique skillsets. I know this event will be awesome, which fell into our core competency, but it did not get the reach we had hoped at least in large part because it was our first time trying to do something at this scale (aka outside of our core competency).

Thanks again for your insights and continued participation in the thread!
The mullvad "account number" is not a user id, it's a 16-number secret key. If you have that, you have the account.
It is called Title Case and part of a lot of (American?) news organizations style guides.

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

It confuses me, a non-native English speaker, a lot too. I hate it.
The article is titled correctly per most style guides:

Generally speaking, AP style uses title case for headlines, which means all words are capitalized except for certain short words, such as articles and short prepositions.

In AP style, headlines capitalize the first word, proper names, or proper abbreviations, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs.

Words that should not be capitalized include:

Articles (a, an, the)
Short (fewer than 5 letters)
Coordinating Conjunctions (and, but, for)
Prepositions (at, by, from, etc.)

https://writer.com/blog/a-comprehensive-guide-to-the-ap-styl...
Stripe didn't kill your service, you did by not building it with the ability to switch to a different processor.
This style of capitalisation is called Title Case [1] and is quite common in English print media.

There are quite a few automated tools to convert back and forth, maybe a future site improvement for Dang in the user preferences.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case
If you hated Julius Caesar, then boy howdy are you not going to like most of the other Roman Emperors.
Hulu allows online cancellation, the user was on the correct page already. The webpage probably has a - hopefully temporary - bug.
Lemmy doesn't even have a dedicated app. What a missed opportunity
Stripe is not the only option for payments. Why not switch instead of giving up? Sounds like a neat product.
NACS is dramatically easier to maneuver into the port on the car, and supports higher amperage. CSS requires an extra internal flap on the car side that you have to open and close manually, as well. It’s a seriously underwhelming design.
Data leak at major law firm sets Australia's government and elites scrambling
> You'll be fine with any of the existing technologies of today

I think you're going too far with your statement. OLED/qd-oled and to a lesser degree WOLED all suffer from significant burn-in, which makes them pretty bad for desktop use.

Previous LCD technologies will degrade over the years by losing luminance and color accuracy, but that's a pretty minor issue compared to OLED as far as I'm concerned.
NACS is smaller and lighter than CCS1.

By combining DC and AC onto the same pins, it reduces the part count and weight of bus bars / conductors which run from a car's charging socket and the battery.

NACS is a better user experience for people and significantly so for people with mobility issues, disabilities, etc.

The pre-eminent NACS fast charging network is markedly better than the totality of all CCS1 charging networks.
Suggest to watch the Technology Connections video. TL;DW: it’s fine, it has some advantages and no real disadvantages.

It’s annoying that the US will once again be out of sync with the rest of the world, that’s the main drawback.
I know you want to act like this is nefarious but it is, in fact just a bug.

I was able to cancel just fine just now. Nothing about the process was that bad. No worse than Netflix at least.
There is something that you can only get flying an airplane solo or riding a motorcycle on roads outside of cities and traffic that I've yet to find a substitute for. The adrenaline. The air. The G's (even on small bike or small planes).
Sounds more like an alchemical procedure than what I would've expected from "modern Western science", tbh.
My understanding is that NACS is open: https://www.tesla.com/blog/opening-north-american-charging-s...
Competitive programming is something I’d not put on my resume, unless the position is specifically about optimization.

If you micro-optimize every piece of software you write that will be a problem. First, it’s a tradeoff. You are going to produce code that abuses obscure methods or hard to follow semantics in order to theoretically boost performance. Why theoretically? Because your whole optimization is pointless unless your code runs as a separate application and you already profiled it on the target where it’s supposed to run.

Second, you’re wasting time for a benefit, that’s not accounted for. You are not paid to produce the fastest code known to man. You are paid to implement features. And unless the wins are huge or the optimization is a no-brainer (e.g.: string builder vs string concatenation), you’re delivering the wrong values.

So while we do care about performance (albeit a bit less than we probably should), the performance problems that we have are not solved by micro-optimizing some piece of code like it’s done in coding competitions. You need an understanding about the whole system, how parts interact and what the performance requirement is. Because even if you reduce the time it takes for your code to run by 99%, it’s of no use if the code than needs to wait for a network call anyway, making the whole effort worthless, because the overall time is the same.

So while it’s a nice exercise, it’s not what’s needed in the field. Just make sure you do the obvious optimizations and try to avoid the obvious pessimizations.
I agree that the 2016 predictions were political but the underfunding of USCIS and the insane backlogs have started to have an impact on our R&D pipeline, though none of this is going to other European countries - the talent is returning to India and China instead.

Anecdotally, a very good friend of mine who's an Indian national did his BS and PhD in EE (specifically in VLSI and Semiconductors) from a Tier 1 program (ie. Cal, MIT, Stanford, UIUC) and was working with a major Semiconductor company. His F-1 wasn't converted to H1B (or his O-1 app was messed up) so now he's heading back to India with a chip on his shoulder and 10+ years of experience in a technology we are trying to regain expertise in.

This same story happened with Chinese immigrants 10-15 years ago, with the 2008 recession causing a number of Chinese nationals to lose work sponsorship and thus return to China. A lot of those guys ended up founding major startups, becoming professors at top Chinese institutions, and advisors to the Government there.
In OK the BBB is not allowed to show the public any details on any particular business! Only reports in aggregate. They have been entirely declawed.
NACS is superior to CCS1 (North America) in every way. Size, install base, robustness and more.

CCS2 (Europe) has few (if any) of the drawbacks of CCS1.
Thanks for following up. This article is pretty dissatisfying to me.

https://copyright.gov/docs/zarya-of-the-dawn.pdf is the letter that lays out why they don't think Midjourney is a paintbrush rather than a monkey.

I can't tell that this is a long-standing interpretation, rather than a recent ruling, conceivably a blip.
Having used both, NACS is more compact, so both the port on the car and the end of the cable are significantly smaller than CCS. The cable itself is also lighter and more "usable" than CCS. At least at the newest V3 superchargers, the NACS cable is so much more flexible and easier to manage.

Munro Live took both connectors apart and did an overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmjofPpThWU
This is great news both for EV users and Tesla investors.

Superchargers vs everything else isn't even a contest. Opening up those chargers to more users is a Big Deal.
Although I never used Tcl myself, I've worked in/with teams that need to interface with these EDA tools, and most of the folks there are not SW programmers, but electronics folks who need to write Tcl to get their job done.

Their code sucked like crazy. Usually in such teams you are not evaluated by the quality of code.

Ever since then, any time I'm job hunting and I see a listing for a SW programmer that mentions Tcl, it's always been for EDA tools and I run in the other direction.
Ask dang, probably.
For reference, a friend and I took a machine learning class in college and basically had no idea what we were doing. We were able to build a random forest model that predicted hit songs with over 90% accuracy. The data set included things like tempo and synthetic parameters like "jazziness". This was the million song dataset from the people behind Echonest.

On further examination it turns out that nearly all the "prediction" was based off a single parameter: The song's artist.
Foxconn hedges its bets: US and China will make up, but diversify just in case
This is why we bitcoin
Yes, it is based on Linux, as are many televisions, car radios, phones, and other devices. That's my point re "smart" devices.

Crostini is a VM, and isn't 100% unrestricted. I'd classify it in the same category as WSL or Parallels.
It’s called Title Case, major words are capitalized and minor words aren’t.

https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/capitaliza...
Where is the old plasma displays? I suspect those at least are not being made any more?
Consider the phone network for a moment.

The phone network is a federated service. You can call an ATT customer from Verizon. You can also call them from Joe's Discount Boxes and VoIP sales.

Now, if you start making spammy calls, ATT might block you as a customer (after warning you first). Same for Verizon. But Joe's Discount Boxes and VoIP sales doesn't, because box sales are down and these VoIP margins are so, so juicy.

Spammy customers flock to Joe, because he allows it. Joe keeps letting customers on, without doing due diligence, without caring if they're legit (beyond a valid looking credit card), and eventually gets blocked by FCC order.
(See https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-23-389A1.pdf, for an example).

Now, federation doesn't have an FCC, the various server admins will be filling that role themselves, but there is a reason scummy people will use scummy servers.

Side note: This kind of FCC enforcement is fairly new to the industry, so if you're wondering why you get spam called all the time still, there is some hope this'll change.
Instead of closing your service, may I recommend switching to payplug.com ? Started as a small smartup, now bought by a french main bank chain but has english documentation, very clean API, easy to get support, low fees. Easily handle refunds, payment link, payment page integrated or separate, 3D Secure, subscription/recurring payment, etc etc ...

Been using them for a few companies the past year and a half, and migrated more and more of my stuff over to them, it offers the simplicity and clarity of "stripe at the beginning" while already being backed and owned by a major bank (BPCE, 2nd biggest banking group in France). They don't have all the bells and whistles of current Stripe, but for most projets we don't need that anyway.

And there is no bullshit about random overnight account closure with no recourse.
To be fair, load testing is hard to get right. Plenty of well resourced and smart teams screw it up, and have outages due to scaling issues.

And the team behind Lemmy didn't exactly get much notice either, so they might not have even tried to get stuff to scale well.
Tesla has been the the vertical integration and power supply business for a while now. Or at least has wanted to be. See the Tesla PowerWall and Solar Roof projects.
>did thrice offer him a kingly crown that he did thrice refuse, is this naracism

It's politicking. He already had the power of a king, and knew the title would only harm him. It's why August called himself the "first citizen of Rome" rather than king or emperor. They weren't forgoing the power, just the title.

>The people that killed him got to write history so they made him into a bad guy.

Augustus got to write history on him, and that provided an overly rosy view that wasn't heavily questioned for centuries, likely still providing a rosy view of him two millennia later.
Study referred to in the article: https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/our-impact/our-studies/califor...

> High housing costs and low income left participants vulnerable to homelessness.
In the six months prior to homelessness, the median monthly household income was $960. A high pro- portion had been rent burdened. Approximately one in five participants (19%) entered homelessness from an institution (such as a prison or prolonged jail stay); 49% from a housing situation in which participants didn’t have their name on a lease or mortgage (non-leaseholder), and 32% from a housing situation where they had their name on
a lease or mortgage (leaseholder).

tl;dr Nimby housing policies (and regressive property taxation) have driven this crisis.
Would love to hear fast how charging stations will scale in a way that beats the current price and speed of filling up a car with gasoline.

I mean, even in a small town with, say, three gas stations, there are peak times when all the spots are taken. Average fueling time is probably a few minutes.

How to switch that to an all-electric system?

+ build a significantly higher number of fast electric charges than there are gas pumps. But apparently fast charging stations are rather expensive to build, and that's reflected in prices-- they are higher than current gas prices. There's also the significant increase in the time to fuel the vehicle compared to gas, and that's not going to change any time soon.

+ ramp up at-home charging as well as "at-business" charging for things like landscapers/etc. who use a lot of vehicles. But if you do this at scale electricity costs go through the roof and you're back to the same pricing problem as above.

I'm just thinking of this in terms of a kind of soft-realtime system. You've got something like "blocks" of vehicles all of which need to be fueled on deadlines which can generally get met currently. If there's a massive switch to EV I don't see how those deadlines get met without an enormous increase in charging prices. And without massive subsidies there's no way to build the infrastructure needed to meet the deadlines.

(And let's just assume zero risk of a fast-charger monopoly or cartel...)
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Is there any technical reason you can't build an adapter from NACS to CCS1? We have adapters for Tesla destination chargers (NACS without fast charging??) to J1772 and they work just fine.
i.e. socialize the losses, capitalize the gains.

see also COVID PPP loans
SSGs are almost stereotypical to write thinking 'how hard can it be', and it's impressive to see this. I didn't get from the GitHub writeup though what made it, specifically, very different - other than lightweight compared to Jekyll. Would you mind explaining a bit more? For example, what's the templating language used for, and how?
Yeah well said. But I wonder if the choice would continue to look good to Europeans if the economic consequences continue as in the article I mentioned for another 15, 30, 45 years etc.
Is spyware.
It's both. The latch on CCS1 is particularly prone to breaking, but is responsible for only a small fraction of the CCS1 downtime.
Is it possible to apply a set of tailwind styles to base tags?
Not being advertised for or primarily used for copyright infringement.
People often speak highly of the invention of double entry book keeping. But to me it looks like a half-useful idea that ended up creating a bunch of phantom account categories, just to have somewhere to put many of those second entries. Then it's made even worse because those made up categories get set in stone by tax law and reporting requirements, as if that accidental complexity is the only way to account for things.

Personally I downplay the concept of depreciation as much as I'm able. I don't analyze purchases in terms of cost depletion over some imagined life, expecting virtual savings/profit in the first year. Rather I think in terms of number of years/uses that will be required to break even on the initial purchase, after which it's all a bonus (and/or the new normal).

Having standard accounting customs probably makes more sense as you get further into the business world, with less unilateral decision making plus the general need for standardization. But it's not like overabstracted/overleveraged businesses have great societal effects either.
For those volunteers, that is a great example of doing something to make yourself feel better at the expense of the others you're claiming to help.

It's easy to imagine everyone is 'always loved' if you grew up in a stable, supportive family in a safe neighbourhood, but that is not the experience for everyone.
Can't say that I expected this. Wasn't there some fork that also stopped development years ago (SXEmacs, maybe)? I remember using XEmacs more in my early Linux days, I think it did color syntax highlighting in the terminal earlier than GNUmacs 19.xx…

If surprised come in threes, I'd be hard-pressed what to nominate for the remaining two, especiall now that Duke Nukem ain't a meme anymore. A usable Hurd? A new WordStar? An expandable, consumer level desktop Mac? Perl with built-in OO?
Another distinction that will be helpful is between loneliness and solitude. Spending time with yourself in the forest, reflecting or enjoying your company would be the latter for me.
MVP.css

My go to classless CSS is MVP.css

Note: the link below is built entirely with MVP.css (including multiple columns, which is something most classless frameworks lack)

https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/
It seems that at her company, some people do use Figma for internal documentation. SHM.
Maybe you should accept crypto as payment and keep the service up?
> Technology Connections did a deep dive on CCS and it seems like it's a more flexible connector with a truly open standard.

He did a video on this Connextras channel about this news:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjny4u5THpU

While he thinks the Tesla physical connector is probably better, the CCS communications standard is better (AIUI). So once Telsa adopts that, it will probably be a good system.

Also: he's talking about CCS1, and not CCS2, which can do things like handle three-phase power.
Maybe the easiest and strongest counterargument against this paper is that a 97% accuracy is extremely unlikely because 97% is a near perfect score even though hit songs are distributed according to a power law [1]. If we could predict this power law with 97% accuracy, then we could also predict the next successful CEOs, companies, and soccer players with 97% accuracy. But we can't.

Anyway, it doesn't matter. Science is measured by popularity (citations), and not by truth. With that in mind, it's a nice paper. It has a nice story. It has some complicated graphs. It is difficult for a layman to figure out the problem. So, yes, it's a successful academic paper. It's a great read and very interesting, according to academia.

[1]: https://michaeltauberg.medium.com/power-law-in-popular-media...