skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> one often hears that EU governance is equal to governance through “unelected bureaucrats”. Although this notion has been debunked many times

Good old academics, boldly stating that a trivial matter of fact has been debunked many times.
EU law can only be made by the EU Commission. Employees report to EU Commissioners. Here's an FAQ on how the process works.

Q: How are Commissioners elected?

A: They aren't. Each country gets to choose one.

Q: How do the countries choose their commissioners?

A: Political appointments, like being an ambassador.

Q: So they represent their country?

A: No, they are given specific policy areas and told that their main loyalty must be to the EU.

Q: But countries can send anyone, so their loyalties could remain at home anyway.

A: By treaty, yes. In practice, the President of the Commission can exercise a veto over Commissioners who they feel are not pro-EU enough. This is illegal, but the EU frequently ignores its own laws.

Q: OK, but they could just lie and still be loyal to their country.

A: The EU pays Commissioners vast bribes. They call these "pensions" but they can be received before retirement, are much larger than any normal pension and can be forfeited if the Commissioner is considered to be disloyal both during and after their employment [1]. For example, criticizing the EU in public counts. They also get many other perks such as not having to pay taxes, which would be illegal in their origin countries.

Q: Who elects the President and how?

A: The heads of each member state decide. The mechanism used is unknown, as the appointment process is secret and they refuse to discuss it.

Q: From where are the candidates drawn?

A: Unknown.

Q: On what platforms do they campaign?

A: They don't.

Q: What about the European Parliament?

A: It's not a Parliament as it can't change the law by itself, nor choose who runs the civil service. They're allowed in theory to vote on the President, but last time they were given a list of candidates with only one name on it.

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This, according to people like the LSE, is "democracy", by which they mean the exercise of power by those as far removed from accountability as possible. Because at some point, someone was chosen by someone else who formed a coalition with some other people who won some votes by not talking about anything EU related, and then told to be loyal to the EU institutions.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/4996440/Lor...
If I understand you correctly, transduces transform something like

(map fn1 (map fn2 (map fn3 collection)))

into

(map (fn [x] (fn1 (fn2 (fn3 x)))) collection); Is that correct?

More idiomatic clojure:

(map (comp fn1 fn2 fn3) collection)
I hope this is mainly for running on your router; the efficency gains still matter there and it is single purpose enough that you would primarally be concerned with whatevere implemented the server.

Having it listening on a workstation containing sensative information I would much prefer an older more isolatable userapace implementation.
True and yet companies will cite costs when they raise their prices, so ignore that marketing BS too.
Question: is there a huge difference based on whether units are placed in windows vs. on roofs?

Obviously for a window unit or split where the compressor is on the building's wall -- those are going to heat the air in the street. Ground level units most of all.

But a lot of buildings place all their compressors on the roofs. And since hot air rises, does that produce any noticeable effect at ground level?
No, cold weather deaths will decrease significantly--by more than heat-related deaths will increase. About five times as many people die from cold each year as from heat. So the overall effect of warming will be to decrease the number of deaths due to extreme weather.
There are way more cold weather deaths than hot, and they would be expected to decrease significantly.

I'll add that I belive we should prioritize reducing atmospheric CO2, but straight up lying about it's impact, and using it for politics, which go togetjer and represent most of the discourse, are both despicable and counterproductive.
Ah greed.

A shame companies started being greedy in 2023.
If Microsoft isn’t winning they quit and give up. they hardly make an effort. If it isn’t easy to win, they don’t want to play at all.
In metric: 53.34m, 73.15m, 82.29m.

All sub-100 meter shots, easily achievable with a scoped rifle with 4x magnification and a bit of practice.
Git Based SDLC
I thought maybe it had to do with all of the people believing JFK is coming back to Dallas
> The recollections of an 88 year old person about an event 60 years ago are simply not credible.

My experience with aging family members is that their memory of old events tends to improve as their short-term memory seems to get worse. I've had family memebers not remember where an object is, and from their nursing home bed, when asked about "what happened to ___?" reply with remarkable accuracy - to the point we were able to find several family heirlooms (photos from WWII that were lost in the 1960s, an old service rifle, old writings, paintings) right where they said it was. I wonder if perhaps that is the case here.
> I would often let potential customers think we already had a feature they wanted and, if they signed, would come back to the team and say “we’ve got to build this before they launch!”

And the takeaway is to make sure your cofounders are OK with this first. Maybe just don't commit fraud? If something is truly a dealbreaker then just be honest and promise to build it out with contract terms giving them an out if you fail?

Do these people use deceptively attractive pictures in their dating profiles? Then expect they'll just hit the gym and/or plastic surgeon if they can convince someone to connect with them?
Post author here. We did work out a repayment plan for some taxes. Payroll taxes are generally "if you have the money in the account, you have to pay immediately" though, so we wrote a large check for those as soon as we discovered the error.
If you're replacing your gas every 2-4 years, something is terribly wrong.
>> France’s Elgin Marbles?

The Louvre has several Parthenon marbles. I don't know where they got them from but I don't understand why nobody is asking that they be returned like the ones looted by Elgin. They absolutely should.

Also, they have the Nike of Samothrace and the Aphrodite of Milos, both of which are Greek archeological treasures that should be returned to Greece. And many more besides from Egypt and mesopotamia (the Lamassu from the palace of Sargon II!) that don't belong in, nor, to France.
You haven't seen many architecture diagrams,
have you?
From experience, this is quite common in enterprise sales. Having been on both sides of such transactions, I’m now quite sceptical of features/functionalities unless I can test drive myself. Some stuff I’ve seen:

- chatbot sales: “see how it recovers here because I misunderstood the question and gave a different answer than expected?”. (Demo was a linear path with this ‘recovery’ hard coded)
- Buy side: “yes absolutely we already integrate with X”. Queue 12 months of delays because they had never integrated with that platform before.

But, I think I get it. The deals are huge and you only sell a few a year. Once an enterprise commits, it is unlikely to switch vendors unless it goes really really bad. So, the salesperson that convincingly lies gets the deal, and surprisingly the downside is relatively limited.

OTOH, not massaging the truth might mean losing that deal. Huge downside, very limited upside. (Yes the buyer might be a bit more happy, but that likely doesn’t outweigh sometimes missing a multi million deal, unless buyer talk a lot with each other).
> Why would you expect the car companies to not collect as much as possible?

Because it is not theirs
> Regardless of the type of healthcare (nationalized, private, etc..) the dental health industry is still getting paid, the only diffference is who is doing it.

No, one difference is who is doing it, another one is the sums being payed. That's why the dental industry in countries with national health care fight to stay out of the general health system. The lucrative compensation of the practitioners lead people to want to go specifically for that. If it were part of national health care it would cease to be sure path to accumulating loads of money, the incentive to become a dentist as well as the power of current practitioner will be similar to that of family doctors or orthopedic specialist. Spoiler alert: in countries with national health care their status is higher then the status of teachers in national school systems, but not by much.
Well if AC is your cutoff line for the amount of energy use and carbon intensity making things worse, I have really bad news for everyone using heating.
Everyone knows that modern stealth aircraft looks like that, but that is not what has been causing the recent furor.
Would it help to have an IR-reflective dish below hot AC units, to reflect more of the heat they put out back into space?
- never promise something that has not already been built.

- never put a timeline on something that has not already been built (#)

- sell what you already have

Software is incredible. you can sell one copy and instantly have another ready to sell. It's the best business in the world - don't make your life more complicated

(#) Oh ok. but give timelines with "cones of confidence" and ensure everyone else upstream and downstream does the same and can adjust their cones. It's kind of like how projects are managed today (hit this date or we panic) but with less wild swings - I am pretty sure there is some feedback-control logic thing there. Percentage confidence of delivering depenandcies enables the people expecting multiple dependencies to manage their panic levels and their resource allocation

(ie project mama gets need to be in every detail or just don't have project managers and have systemic feedback loops)
I think I'm slightly more worried that photonicinduction has actually died when he goes silent for a while, though. I know it's mostly down to career/relationship ups-and-downs, but there's always a chance it's "got turned inside out by a flying washing machine drum".
Honestly? That's just bullshit to try pushing people against A/C.

Cities are hotter than outside because:

- they absorb more heat :: concrete, asphalt absorb much more than grass or trees and disperse far more slowly. Just go walking in a bush, measure temperature at 1.5 m from soil, do the same in grass covered area and the same over a road. You'll see and feel the difference;

- in cities there are MANY ICE vehicles whose engine produce much heat, much more than any electrical motor;

- in cities there is less air circulation than in the open nature due to the high and heat-absorbing buildings;

- in many cities glass coated skyscraper works like any other glass keeping much of Sun IR radiation inside.

These are the reason why cities are hotter. Another proof? They are ALSO hotter in winter, not just in summer. In winter you can count extra heat from badly insulated heated buildings, little cold pushed outside by the so far limited percentage of people heating with some heat pumps that have air on their exterior side, but look at the numbers and you'll see they are more hotter than mere heats spread outside by badly insulated heated buildings.

People should learn two things:

- cities WAS a necessity to evolve in the past, but with the '80 logistic revolution they lost one of their last reasons to exists, manufacturing became cheaper to do far from customers, so far from cities. With the remote work the last remaining reasons vanish as well. As a result dense cities and high rise buildings have NO REASONS TO EXISTS anymore. Try to keep them and sell them as green, good for the future etc is just a push toward intensive human farming to keep people dependent on service they don't own, living to operate them so they can pay them. Since in the modern era cities can't be sustained the push needs to makes people accept bad living condition as a new normal;

- we need to switch from a high density model, too dense for today state of tech and society, climate etc to a new less dense one, that's hard and that's means MANY will be simply "overflowing humans" to be put somewhere, since no one like that role, if told in such a crude way, some try to advertise such role with various "bells and whistles" but that's simply BULLSHIT.

If you try reasoning about the above you'll understand a thing: such move to put aside a significant percentage of humans can't really work, never worked in history. It does work if the set aside cohort is very limited, the poorest, very isolated and very dependent, but at modern scale can't work.
This is part of what I'm complaining about: There often _is_ a technical reason (occasionally even a good technical reason) for why the software is made a certain way, but those reasons are things that should only be relevant to the developer, not to the end user. The end user should not care about the "underlying model" or the "active file format". The software should "just work", and the frontend developer's job is to make the right judgment calls and hide irrelevant underlying nuance and complexity from the user. Great software doesn't "ship the org chart" or "ship the class abstractions".

If there really is an important power user case, provide an Expert Mode for those who care about the underlying model. That way, users who care about the lack of editabilty of PDFs or who actually mentally distinguish between lossless source material and lossy outputs to lose nothing, but other casual users gain a lot when these things are done for them.
You realize the top of the line chips are coming from Asia right now? The US right now does not have the ability to fab top of the line chips. Only Asia does.

I mention this because it's basically one of the biggest hurdles for a boom other than cost which you didn't mention. The US has to exceed Asia in terms of cost AND raw technological prowess if it wants a boom because it is currently behind by a huge margin.
"lean practitioner" probably means the lean startup types. A set of ideas ostensibly based on Lean Manufacturing (aka, Toyota Production System) that, like Lean Manufacturing, are often implemented by imitation rather than by comprehension and serious consideration.
That list appears to be cherry picked to support a narrative.

It doesn't include e.g. Exxon's predictions: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/exxon-clima...
I did a detailed price cost calculation of onprem vs AWS as I worked at a MSP. Our cost of compute and storage including DC construction over 10y was about half the cost of AWS.

We also used cheap supermicro and had no service contracts or warranties we had on site staff. Their salaries were included.

Small DC 2mw.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37412560
Seriously, one has to be a total bolo to not get an award for marksmanship. Everyone walks through the training and if orders are followed and one is not a total klutz, the award is Marksman "on a marksman/sharpshooter/expert scale."

During his Marine Corps service in December 1956, Oswald scored a rating of sharpshooter (twice achieving 48 and 49 out of 50 shots during rapid fire at a stationary target 200 yards [183 m] away using a standard issue M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle), although in May 1959, he qualified as a marksman (a lower classification than that of sharpshooter). [0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination...

While he was at San Diego, Oswald was trained in the use of the M-1 rifle. His practice scores were not very good, but when his company fired for record on December 21, he scored 212, 2 points above the score necessary to qualify as a "sharpshooter" on a marksman/sharpshooter/expert scale. He did not do nearly as well when he fired for record again shortly before he left the Marines. He practiced also with a riot gun and a .45-caliber pistol when he was in the Marines but no scores were recorded. [1]

1. https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-repo...
Yeah that definitely needs some justification! Not saying there can't be one or that it's amazing or anything, I haven't read it, but it's so often recommended (and it's the first time I can remember seeing a recommendation actively against) that it really doesn't go without saying why.
> Can't you do both if you want? Use a design like the one on Liam on Linux' site and make it responsive (where necessary). Actually ... this site is already responsive enough imo.

You can't both enforce a very specific aspect ratio and dimensions and be responsive with any semblance of practicality. The reason the magazine page can look good is because the person designing it knows exactly the size of all the elements, the aspect ratio and dimensions of the page it's being printed to. All of the graphics are placed intentionally, and all of the type is set intentionally to exactly where they want it to be and how they want it to look, with of course the constraint of the content dictating what that will be.

On a webpage you're just doing a lot of guessing of what the viewport might look like for users. You probably could, through media queries, determine if a person's viewport is exactly right for your one desired layout and only show it if that's the case, but that'd be a waste of resources. You could also enforce the layout you want in your css by setting things by pixels and then you'll be sure that it looks exactly as you intend... except then it isn't responsive.

So hypothetically, yes, you could still have it be responsive, but there's just no point, is there, if only the people that happen to meet your very specific requirements ever see it?

That's why good web design is hard and why it's become, in my opinion, kind of boring in terms of layout design. You have to account for all those different devices looking at it and try to make it look as nice as possible while still being useable.
Usability is the ease of completing tasks. Not ability.

You seem very invested in dismissing constructive criticism. And you demanded research but provided none.
> Block Newly Registered Domains (NRDs)

> Enabling this option will block domains registered less than 30 days ago. NRDs are often malicious but may also be used by legitimate websites. Turning this on may cause some false-positives. I'd suggest enabling this unless you work with newly registered domains.

I’ve found this impractical. This article itself seems to be blocked by this feature… if you participate in hacker culture, then you’re likely to often encounter legitimate recently-registered domains.
They were in the same car
As a climate change skeptic

I want a curated list of failed or vague climate predictions

So I can maintain cognitive resonance.
If you insist on nitpicking with a specific definition, you can of course dismiss the points in the OP. But if you try to understand what it's saying on its own terms–it's obviously talking about UI/UX and using the term 'usability' in a colloquial way. All the examples given in there are examples of bad UI/UX. Your point that it's possible to do things now that weren't back in the day, is just completely off on a different tangent than the actual thesis of the OP. I don't even know what to say except that it's a strawman.
> I offer free websites

And I am so glad you do!

Writing my longer reply I realized that early social media is a strong counterpoint — people absolutely loved to share when the barrier to doing so was low, the platforms hadn’t been given over to commercialization, and it was less obvious that those details were going to be ingested into an advertising profile. It sounds like you offer a bit of that without the motive or intent that turned mainstream social media into what it is and I think that’s great!
If you had a specific question I would recommend stating that up front.
No, it doesn't. That is listed as an idiom, not a definition.
> I'd personally rather have the choice than not.

There are browser settings since the invention of cookies to control which sites are allowed to set cookies.
Are there any studies that support that view?
> There would be no DNS configuration at all, all local machines would use anycast DNS for the services and a well known server for Internet addresses.

Assumptions and dragons be here.
Maybe a generation gap? I think the younger folks, who are only barely entering government, tend to take climate and livability much more seriously than the old generations who "got along fine without all that". Times are changing...
Psyonix implemented the vehicles in original Halo game after which they made supersonic acrobatic rocket powered battle cars followed by rocket league.
> Just as important are frequent, honest checkins to see how everyone is feeling on an interpersonal level.

That only becomes meaningful when there is already 100% trust. People learn very quickly (usually the hard way) that honest answers are not always in their best interest.
I wanted to live in Japan after this post LOL
You have data to back that up? How do you know that the death rate from heat won't eventually eclipse the cold weather death rate?
or just trying to pay off the existing student debt for the grandkids
I've found Fusion 360 to be highly mouse-driven with frustratingly few keyboard shortcuts available. It feels borderline unusable without having one hand on the mouse at all times to select various operations, and the faux-pie menus are too contextual to be a great replacement.

Tools like Plasticity CAD¹ or Blender feel way more keyboard-friendly in this space.

[1]: https://www.plasticity.xyz/
People just can't stand the idea that a lone nut could bring down Camelot.
Note that your statistic comes from a study of European cities, and is only true for Europe. By not noting that caveat you're implying world-wide, which is very much not true.

Nobody has studied Africa and India the same way, but it seems quite likely that the increase in heat deaths there will significantly the decrease in cold deaths.
Unfortunately, humanity repeats itself.
I got my Master's at Harvard Extension School. It doesn't feel right to say "Harvard", though I sometimes say "Harvard" if I don't want to get into the usual conversation about what the Extension School is, but only if it's not important to the discussion and there's no harm done. Sometimes random online forms ask what college I attended for no good reason, so I'll just type "Harvard"; if Mark Cuban would ask, I'd always say "Harvard University Extension School" to avoid misleading him.
Interesting. My children seem to be incredibly expensive.
A design system for the federal government
https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/collaboration-tools/E...

I'm still reading but it looks like they're sailor/pilot oriented thanks to their telepresence capabilities. Land lubbers get to stay ashore.
Presumably Google also keeps backups, though, right?
> there are several men who have done so for me

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

> I believe all 4 men were atheists who set out to disprove Jesus

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

> It begins to become disingenuous to suggest that...

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

Indeed fruitless.
May I vote for ellipsis overlaid on one corner of the element?

-------...-
| Primary |
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unobtrusive, "..." indicates more was omitted in every context I can think of, and it can be any number of colors because it's so visually distinct (err, of course, except for the same color as the background, but if someone was that evil, we're right back where we started from in the "I dunno, guess" realm)