skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tanks can be insulated and larger tanks have less surface area per volume so keep heat longer.

My parents 1988 switched their hot water to a plan where it was all heated at night. 6 people making no effort to conserve water ran out twice in all those years. Yes the.water was hotter in the morning. But the last shower of the day still needed to be mixed with some cold or it was too hot.

Tankless is worse than a large tank. Tankless needs a lot more energy now, less over the full day, but when you turn the water on it needs a lot now. A tank easily adjusts to use power when the power company needs it. Sun shining or wind blowing, then heat water to use up whatever is extra. Clouds and no wind, just use the stored energy.

Maybe a battery is more efficient, but tanks are cheap
> Siccing police on landscapers using leaf blowers

Rephrased it in a straightforward, non-melodramatic way: "asking *police* to *police* people who break the law"

What a difference an honest phrasing makes: that's not so outrageous, is it? If we didn't want police to police illegal stuff, we wouldn't have made it their job. If we didn't want the illegal stuff to be illegal, and thus policed, we wouldn't have made it illegal.

Asking the police to do the job they're paid to do is more appropriate than siccing governments on homeowners and siccing homeowners on landscapers without paying any of them.
Yes. As captured by the Big Lez Show:

> Donny: Panaeolus cyanescens, psychadellic.

> Lez: What do they do to ya?

> Sassy: Take you on a journey of self-discovery, you find out who you really are, this and that.

> Donny: Either that or you trip out for four or six hours. But in our current situation this will be really good for us, gunna heighten our senses so we'll be way more in tune with our surroundings.

> Lez: These heighten senses?

> Donny: They heighten senses you didn't even know you had.

> Lez: Have we got more than five?

> Donny: So many.

> Lez: How do I turn them on?

> Sassy: Meditate.

> Donny: Yeah meditation's probably the best way. Or, trip out on some psychedelic mushrooms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPeSVlk6E70
> He was stealing from rich people

Are you sure? My gut says that he mostly damaged not-rich people. I don't know too much about the specific case, but I know enough about the general crypto space to have an opinion, although not sure how to provide data to support it. You don't provide data either, though.
Some reviewers stand up to this kind of stuff (sometimes at great cost). You can choose to follow and support those reviewers. But the general rule is to simply never pre-order stuff.
Testing smarter, not harder: Using LLMs for better unit tests
They work just fine. If anything, the high heat capacity makes the heating more even if your heat source is unstable.
It's better (GPT-4) than you could manage without an external tool or pad. and that's after being severely hampered by tokenization. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02989
> Perfect jobs available for a slacker who just wants to get paid

Unfortunately they're not hiring any software developers :(

All the openings are for senior & leads so it's very clear that they're still building out the skeleton of the organization.
You might be more interested in the Anno series then, of which 1800 is the most recent release: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_1800

It's set in the early industrial era, so a lot of sails and rails and small colonies exporting things all over. I can't remember if there are cars yet, but if there are, it's not a major focus. Some of the levels have you revamping existing towns, while others let you start from scratch.

(Edit: Anno 1800 is actually free to play on Steam this weekend: https://store.steampowered.com/app/916440/Anno_1800/)

An older title, Anno 1404, had a Venice expansion too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_1404#Expansion

All of them are playable on Ubisoft+ for $15/mo (I think?), so it's a pretty low-risk investment if you want to try them. If you don't have the hardware, you can also stream them on GeForce Now and, I think, Amazon Luna.

Games are super accessible these days!
You don't have to store the data on-chain. Simply storing a cryptographically-secure hash of the data is sufficient to attest its existence.
Is it just me or do a whole lot of EA people just love to keep talking but never do anything actually altruistic?

I mean I get the idea of trying to optimize the value of charitable donations. But donating something is infinitely better than chatting all day and donating nothing.

Even on a small scale, the number of times I've seen non-EA people do something nice is way, way more than the number of times I've seen an EA person come out of their "circle" and do something nice.
Under Windows 3.1 it had this feature where it would show you WYSIWYG text, but you could ask it to show you the markup as well. It was wonderful, and MS Word can't do it to this present day!
You've given it the most unflattering interpretation in order to support your preexisting notions. In other words, it's warped.

The supplementary courses were provided by the school system, by the way. I would have taken them, but I was working or otherwise predisposed. If you really cared, you'd be advocating for the same (especially since a large portion of the general failure to attain math competency in America is due to our excessively long summer breaks).
This is a blatant non-sequitor. There are many approaches to actually having a good faith discussion on the societal/economic/moral/humanitarian effects of large-scale AI taking over entire workforces. Being coy and asking loaded questions does nothing to convince anyone of them.
For someone outside the space (like me), what’s the big innovation of Effective Altruism? I assume when the rubber hits the road, most people doing big donations have people to look at the effectiveness of that donation.

I guess I’m just suspicious of any community or movement that labels itself as “effective,” because it is hard to believe that they were the first ones to think of the idea of not being ineffective, haha.
This is why steam reviews are nice. It's fine to review something negative out of the gate and review it more favorably once it's in better shape. This helps other people more than rating it positively.
If you can live with "fits on disk" mmap() is a viable option? Unless you truly need streaming (early handling of early data, like a stream of transactions/operations from a single JSON file?)
sad that el reg is also doing this:
"In Amazon's case, the e-commerce giant used vendors' sales figures to decide which items it should sell, and how much to price products to get an edge over everyone else. The internet behemoth also promoted its own products with its Buy Box feature and it further cut into retailers' margins by charging extra costs if they wanted to use Amazon's Prime delivery services, the CMA said.

Now Amazon has committed to doing less of that. "

less of that -> became stop :(
I really think there should be an app like this, but it also needs to have full context awareness for the rest of your life as well (to-dos, calendar, preferences etc.) in order to accurately make those bookings or orders and to be truly useful. It's possible, just a challenging problem to accomplish at a reasonable price to be a consumer app.

Currently in the early stages of building something like that (https://www.flexibly.ai)
That's correct. Net Neutrality is above solving a problem that doesn't actually exist, even after 12 years and cementing existing internet providers into place by making sure regulations are too costly to allow innovative players into the provider space.
I do 20m as well.
No, the true question is why should we switch to tpms, and what are we giving up if we do.

In my experience, tpms are worse than worthless since they prevent rescuing garddrives from bricked systems. Nontpm luks can be unlocked on any system.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/BilM1
FWIW the benefit tends to come in the long run. Same argument as TypeScript, really. You add some conceptual overhead to get code that fails less in the face of change, better refactoring, etc.
Yeah, I'm just not gullible enough to be fooled by vague terms like "fairness" where whoever's in charge is going to decide what is fair and what isn't based on (most likely) some arbitrary worldview (which is most likely woke).
But I think you didn’t answer my question. How exactly to make it a better product? What is a better product? There are tablets that can do those kinds of work better, but is it a better product?

As an end user, we definitely would be think of “best product for me”, a population of size 1. And even if we expand that to include “people like me”, often the population is still very small. I really wish there’s a market to make things best for this smaller bubble of population around me, but for the product to exist and thriving it has to be commercially successful. Also the smaller the volume the more expensive it is. (Eg like the VR computer that runs Linux which is still in development, that thing is in a price range that many people would have want one don’t think it’s worth that amount of money.)

There’s a lot of complaints on how dumb the iPad is since day 1, but no one has convinced me yet their vision is indeed better than Apple’s (which not only includes features sets, form factor, UX, etc but also how the mass market would adopts that and make the whole ecosystem thriving.)
What do we know about the Switch 2's hardware power?
Oh, yes, you're right. Like the readme says, I didn't test on windows, I just trusted in rusts platform independence. When I found out there is no exec on windows, I figured this was the easiest way, reused existing code, and immediately introduced a bug. I'll fix it ~tomorrow~. Good catch, ty.
So I got "guy who posted on forum" on one side and William MacAskill and Nick Beckstead (and, well, SBF himself - he left CEA voluntarily right?) on the other - which of these would you say has the institutional support?
It’s more likely to reduce the number of cars owned by a family than to allow a single person to avoid owning a car.

However, simply reducing the number of trips makes a significant difference.
Betcha I’ve spontaneously produced code that’s been written before. Who do I owe royalties to?
I heard about city simulator games modelling the number of carparks they'd need before deciding to scrap them instead.

If they left them in, it would have been a fun challenge to minimise them.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/9/4316222/simcity-lead-desig...
It's pretty playable on GeForce Now, for what it's worth. Still a big laggy, but I was able to play for many hours without major issues... just the occasionally annoying but livable stutter.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/jEBXz
It doesn't need to solve everything for everyone if it succeeds in reducing road congestion by being accessible by 95% of the population.

Also strollers are much easier with elevators, but they're not impossible to use with escalators and even can be reasonably lifted for stairs. We've done it plenty. Of course the stroller should be city-sized, not suburban-sized.
And yet, they were still (mis)predicting that each year would be an inflection point on that growth.
If you use a snippet from Stack Overflow that came from a book, is the original publisher entitled to some of your salary?
> The teeth are not the only problem

> this written article from PC Games Hardware (in German) or this video from Gamers Nexus (in Americanese)

Humor and a great blog design, made my day.
Before WFH I took the subway to work every day and didn't need a car for a decade, now I drive daily around the suburbs. Not everyone's experience is the same as yours.
It's a very impressive project with very niche use. I think it's pretty clear that it would be good to have a FOSS system that's compatible with old Windows, especially since we live in a world where Windows XP has become one of those critical legacy techs that never quite go away, like fax machines.

At the same time ReactOS is sometimes disappointing as you say and feels like it's never going to be usable. In late 2023 now, it still rarely runs on real hardware at all, and is missing lots of features you had twenty years ago in XP. USB 2.0 is only supported partially, USB keyboard support is incomplete, wifi only supports WEP authentication, which has been deprecated for the same twenty years, etc.

I admire the project for still continuing with what's an extremely difficult task - they're reimplementing the NT kernel and some major userspace programs like explorer.exe but at this point I don't know if I believe ReactOS will ever reach parity with WinXP. I just checked and they still don't have RW support for NTFS, which was the default file system for XP in 2001. For Linux, ntfs-3g was fully RW in 2007.
> His actions made perfect sense from his utilitarian Effective Altruist worldview. He was stealing from rich people, and giving the money to what he saw as "worthy causes."

Clearly this is a false assumption. He was not stealing from rich people (as if stealing from reach people is a justifiable EA practice), and was not spending the majority of the stolen money on worthy causes (worthy by EA standards). He was buying property for himself and his circle, signing deals with stadiums, covering Alameda Research losses, etc. Even for a deluded man like SBF, don't think it's possible to interpret that as an improvement of the world's conditions.
> Companies will always amorally argue for whatever makes them more money. I

There are no principles involved when companies advocate for or against things. Companies will always amorally argue for whatever makes them more money. They are entirely capable of arguing two opposing viewpoints if in one context viewpoint A makes them money and in another context opposite-viewpoint B makes them money. Being consistent, either logically, morally, ethically, or in principle, is not necessary.

"Copyright is good and necessary when it makes us money, and copyright is bad and wrong when it doesn't make us money" is a mundane and totally expected opinion coming from a corporation.
Some people set filterkeyword to name-of-business, to know who sold them out if they start receiving spam on that address.
So basically, Amazon is not allowed to look at what products are selling well on Amazon before they decide which products to make. However, Amazon is still allowed to sell products, and presumably market research firms are going to give them the same results, more or less. So what did this accomplish, really? It seems like some UK lawmaker is up for reelection and wants a feather in their cap.
I think self-preservation probably plays a role here, too. If you think management will just fire you and hire someone who will claim they can build it in Unity, then maybe you decide this isn’t the hill you want to die on.
For the last time: If I read a book and use an idea in it and you sue me for part of that idea, you will get laughed out of the court room.

If I do it with 100 books you will still get laughed out of the court room.

AI is only different because it can do the same to a million books.
The problem is serious now but the consequences happen in a few decades when current politicians are retired or dead so there is no incentive for them to act now.
Not any of the other common materials for pans. Steel, cast iron, ceramic, none of these become toxic even at 500 C
Does that change the point? Even if not in earnest, he was able to deflect suspicion wearing a cloak of EA. That, in and of itself, is a problem. Nothing is above reproach, no matter how pious or nerdy.
All I see is AI companies poorly justifying their grift that they know they don't want to pay for the content that they are commercializing without permission and pull the fair use excuses.

It is no wonder why OpenAI had to pay Shutterstock for training on their data and Getty suing Stability AI for training on their watermarked images and using it commercially without permission and actors / actresses filing lawsuits against commercial voice cloners which costs them close to nothing, as those companies either take down the cloned voice offering or shutdown.

These weak arguments from these AI folks sound like excuses justifying a newly found grift.
Maybe a rice cooker doesn’t make sense for most westerners but for Asians it is typically a must. I wouldn’t be surprised if many homes in Japan are using their rice cooker more than coffee machine - another one-off kitchen gadget that everyone more or less can agree is a kitchen stable.
Yeah, I don't buy this argument. Or anything similar for analogous questions. They obviously have zero proving strength. Especially if it is only 1 example.

To the question "why professionals use the tool they use instead of a slightly different version of that tool", the answer is either:

- they like it, or
- they don't like it, but they still use it, say for historical reasons

Now you can list various examples to illustrate your point why would they prefer the tool as it is, instead of a hypothetical, slightly different version of said tool. But you can't just point at 1 example and say that this is the reason. That is just a wrong answer. Logically wrong. Lying. Annoying and hurting the readers head. Don't do that.
This is a common optimization in any compiler, not just HotSpot. Although it's more important and more extensive in the JVM where almost everything is a heap allocation, yes. (Although the technical term isn't "escape analysis"; that just covers analysis, not resulting optimization.)

I've noticed Microsoft seems to think ordinary compiler optimizations are deep magic they're very proud of not implementing. Do they just not have good enough compiler people?
UE5 isn't some magic pixie dust and Unity isn't a curse from which it is impossible to recover.

Whilst some of the issues here are potentially the fault of DOTS and HDRP not being production ready (in combination at least) there's plenty of blame to go around.

Elsewhere other people are making gorgeous and performant games in Unity.
he gave away other people’s money to charity, specifically his users’ money that he was entrusted with.
Milton Glaser – on the fear of failure (2011) [video]
That's historically wrong. When Bitcoin was initially launched, it took a long time before it started being used in economic transactions (see the famous 10,000 BTC pizza). It took an even longer time for some merchants to start accepting it directly or through a payment processor. Adoption by merchants was close to zero for a very long time.

Today, you can not only easily trade BTC against other currencies but also spend them at many merchants. There's even a country (El Salvador) that has adopted it as legal tender. These days, the daily transaction volume is in the multibillion dollar range (and that's just counting transactions that are settled "on-chain").

Is your objection that since it is less commonly adopted than USD, it therefore has lower utility than USD? Or that its utility was higher in the past? I am not quite sure I understand your question or argument.
This is a sequel to Cities: Skylines 1, which was also written in Unity. It was probably easier to reuse code (and personnel) for the sequel without switching to a totally different engine?

Maybe for CS:3 :)
Not necessarily, I’ve seen it slapped on all sorts of things, including PET and HDPE bottles and containers that don’t need a plasticiser anyway (BPA is mostly used in polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins, can also be in PVC like phthalates).

But yeah, I avoid anything made of polycarbonate (especially in food contact) for that reason, but with water bottles and things it’s not super common except for some sports water bottles here in Australia.
> interesting when you have a highly effective chemical that vastly improves performance or lifespan of something and it turns out it gives everyone cancer or seriously damages the environment

There might be a causative link. Life is parsimonious. If there is a niche, it will tend to exploit it. That means taking advantage of as many chemical pathways as possible.

Effective materials alter their environment—that is what makes them effective. But when released, uncontrolled, to disrupt the broader status quo, it follows that they are likely—somewhere—to alter a pathway critical to a life form.

The solution is containment. Effective materials should be shielded and reclaimed wherever possible. We know we can do this, because we do for chemicals toxic or very valuable to humans.
A dark theme ruins any look.
Yeah. I think one can fairly clearly make a strong argument against these restrictions, but the organizations that would directly lose in the short term include basically most of the wealthiest companies in the world, so the lobbying effort would be enormous. The whole reason these companies are so wealthy is that IP restrictions very effectively concentrate wealth. This is to the detriment of everyone else, but they will fight hard to keep things this way.
As a general rule, they don't preach to other people. They just pay other people to do it.
You need most of that over capacity anyway. They still keep generators from the 1920s operational just in case a storm cuts off one town from the grid, turn on those generators and let the linemen fix it a week later
The situation with Alameda resembles the Enron scandal more closely than a banking crisis like that of 2008.

Portraying Alameda as a typical borrower, while concurrently implementing a code change that singularly permitted them to maintain a negative account balance, is outright fraud.

Further, it seems like what you’re arguing is that more people should be prosecuted for banking crises, not that SBF shouldn’t be charged. Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive.
What is an extremist with respect to an ethical system? An ethical philosophy is not some scripture you can interpret and misinterpret.

The existence of extremists implies the existence of moderates. What are they? When their moral code says "Fraud, in this particular circumstances, is good", are they the ones that can't shake off the vice of honesty?

Or are they the ones who use motivated reasoning to bring their moral philosophy to conformance with their instinctual moral feelings?
This is what Silicon Valley doesn't understand: The concept of Consent.

If someone posts something to StackOverflow, they're intending to help both the original person and anyone that comes along later with the same question with their coding problem, and that's the extent of it.

An artist making a painting or song has not consented to training algorithms on their copyrighted work. In fact, neither has the StackOverflow person.

Boggles my mind this concept is so absent from the minds of SV folk.
Will was slow to come out against SBF sure, but the majority of people were asking why he was being silent WAY before the arrest. Are you involved in anyway, out of interest? As in, were you there or are you going off of media reports? I don't know many people involved in EA who'd say it was institutionally pro SBF, just that a couple people were silent too long. Interesting if there are some.
Some good comments on this already. The series of posts at [0] probably has more detail than needed. Some quotes from the summary of part 1.

> Most of the cholesterol we eat is not absorbed and is excreted by our gut...

> ...most of the cholesterol in our body was made by our body.

> The process of regulating cholesterol is very complex and multifaceted with multiple layers of control.

> Eating cholesterol has very little impact on the cholesterol levels in your body.

[0] https://peterattiamd.com/the-straight-dope-on-cholesterol-pa...
Yes, recently swapped my hotend and discovered that the PTFE tube in my old hotend extended all the way into the heatbreak and started to disintegrate into brown-ish goo.

I was pretty glad that I run it in a spare room.
Yeah, I love the review score histogram over time feature too, along with the "Overall reviews" vs "Recent reviews" summaries.
SKorea to reimpose stock short-selling ban through June to 'level playing field'