skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clown reporting for duty... yep. My dad was a funny guy, his whole family was funny except his eldest brother who only has darkness. He wasn't as abusive as his dad; we never got the shit kicked out of us, but I grew up dealing with some dad-derived-darkness. I was always class clown, I continually crack jokes, people keep complaining that HN doesn't do humor but jeez, folks, 90% of my karma here comes from pithy observational humor. (truth: HN hates low-hanging fruit of all varieties, and comedians who complain about their audience suck*)

This is something I've been thinking about recently in job-hunting. NASA [1] has looked at clowns to evaluate their utility in teambuilding -- and no surprise to me, a joker** finds their place in high-stress environments. Makes sense to me, because I've lived this dynamic and my release valve being stuck open has been an incredible social lubricant in my life.

Most people don't know how to let go a little bit: they tend to hold it all in until the dam bursts. I don't think I'd have survived my childhood with that approach. Jokers like me enter a stressful situation, and knock the edge off a little, because this is our natural defense to pre-trauma. In a professional environment, members of our audience are often unaware of the process underway -- jokers hold an umbrella against an unseen rain.

But people think they hate comedy! Jokers are seen as unserious, unreliable; add to that this stupid stereotype that women can't be funny -- I can't put this on my resume, despite it being literally my most useful social skill. Yeah, I can knuckle down and write code and fix bugs like anybody else, but what I can do for social cohesion doesn't get measured. I've even defrayed situations between my manager and my skip with a light comment. I'm reluctant to crack jokes in an interview because of humor's negative perception, but in truth that means I only let the good ones slip out.

But what happens after an interview where I have not found a single opportunity for levity? Do I want to work for a manager who I don't feel comfortable making a joke around?

[1] https://roundupreads.jsc.nasa.gov/roundup/1154

* and yes I do mean latter-day Seinfeld

** I do prefer the term joker to clown. I've had friends go to clown school, I've had friends go to comedian school... "joker" doesn't imply any kind of pedigree.
I don't think so.

Check those measures for some example heatpump: https://www.eurovent-certification.com/en/catalog/program/ce...

They are not from the manufacturer but from an independent service that is used by various states that are members of the eu.

As you can see, at -7 degrees celsius, the COP is still almost 4. So even at that temperature, this heatpump is still about twice as afficient as burning gas directly.

Of course, it depends on the correct installation. It's easier to screw up the installation of a heat pump than a gas heating system. But it doesn't invalidate the theoretical bounds.
Not your question, but the National Labs are hiring
https://nationallabs.org/work-here/careers/
> growing 10% a year for probably the last 15+ years

If I were 5x leveraged my net worth on a jackpot like that I'd probably cash out and move to an island to.
What problems do you have with MavLink? I will say I went on a (thankfully successful) goose chase this morning to figure out how to calculate the "CRC extra byte". I found the answer 2 ways: (1) by asking ChatGPT how to do it using the Python lib, and (2) by compiling ArduPilot and diving 10 folders deep into its build folder.

The main issue other than this I've found is it requires 12 bytes of overhead; could be shortened to half this. What problems have you found?

DroneCAN... now that's a hot mess. I think you will be pleasantly surprised with MavLINK after trying to implement that. I can go into details, but it's a more exciting experience if the jump scares aren't ruined!
Do audiobooks count?
There's a very easy explanation, (well two):

1. The commonly known variation of metabolic processes means some people are just more fidgety or have their bodies generating more waste heat. You could reasonably argue this constitutes "calories out", but if it's unconscious, unmeasurable, and varies arbitrarily it doesn't really fit the paradigm of "It's simply a matter of behavioral difference"

2. The part that everyone forgets: human waste contains a non-zero amount of calories, and this varies between people. If your body thinks it doesn't have enough calories (obviously an oversimplification) it will work harder to extract more calories from what you eat. If your body thinks it has enough calories, it'll ignore calories it doesn't want and simply excrete them. The body can tune the amount of calories it gets from food based on its understanding of your environment, and so it's possible to cut down on the amount of calories you ingest and still net more calories from your food than you started with.

Thus, calories in calories out is as much of a fallacy as telling people without money that all they're missing is a simple paradigm of cash in cash out, as if loans can't be adjusted based on the fed's interest rate, their landlord can't decide to charge them more, gas and food can't get more expensive, and they can't lose their job, all outside of their control. This is going to be a poor metaphor, because the human body isn't capable of this, but if a society was super reliant on energy efficiency, tried sticking uranium in a furnace and concluded that it's a poor, useless fuel, they'd be missing that through another process you can get far more energy from uranium. But that's how we look at food: caloric content is measured by literally burning it and measuring how much energy it gives off, as if that's a reasonable analogy for the human body.
Have you named any successful product?
Millions in California could lose their AT&T landlines. Here's why
The question was "do *you* still use TOTP when using passkeys". I answered "no" because *I* don't use TOPT with my passkeys, but I'm not saying it's not possible or that you shouldn't do it. Personally, as my keys are stored on a physical device, and are unlocked using my biometrics, I consider this as two factors. But I can see how others would prefer two different physical devices.
Or other forms of laziness.
aws is even worse yet somehow people love them, maybe because they get to talk to a support "human" to hand-hold them through all the badness
That's not mediocre by any mean, it's highly probable my setup virtually covers more screen area than yours.
Everything we run our workloads on is based on millions of LoCs, whether it's in the OS, in K8S, in is built-in or external kinds. If you decide to run K8S in AWS, you'll be better of using Karpenter, external-secrets and all these things as they will make your life easier in various ways.
> 18% of the U.S. population is functionally illiterate

N.B. This stat appears to pertain to English language literacy, not literacy per se. Some of those 18%ers might be reading Dante in the original Italian or Shakespeare in the original Klingon.
> Prop 13 wasn't passed as a law to help the unfortunate

No, but it was sold to the public that way of course.
Niagara has been my go-to Android launcher for several years now. I would certainly recommend at least giving it a shot!
Right. $15K is about the difference between the rent stabilized price and the market price per month, multiplied by 12 months.
Jamiroquai bassist Derrick McIntyre dies in car crash
Hey if you’re getting the depth of a book, it’s a book no matter the format. My objection is to surface level edutainment formats that feed your brain chicken nuggets but trick you into thinking it was steak.

Lots of surface level books that are the length of a book and the value of a 5min tiktok too.
How to study: Start by actually doing it. I see people spend more time on study planning than on actually learning. Others spend hours trying to determine what will or won't be tested rather than just learning the material. See Arnold Rimmer.
Becoming a dungeon master for an interview
This. I don't even really do Windows or Desktop dev anymore, but if I want to make a GUI desktop app, WinForms is still the first thing I reach for. Making a basic window with a few standard UI elements and some modest amount of code in a reasonable language to drive the actions is dead simple. And you can be confident it will continue to work fine for years, decades even.
Tried feature flags, but it ended up being a mess. Went back to dev/master branches with automated tests between them using standard GitHub workflows.
Sorry, but ‘there was a lot of info about it, trust me’ is not really credible.
Any kind of communication surveillance that goes beyond monitoring for malware and data exhilaration, especially for monitoring performance, would be completely unthinkable at my (German) employer. The employee council would never ever agree to that.

It‘s not at all obvious that the moral perspective you present as obvious actually is.
We left NYC in 2012 due to layoffs, but getting an apartment back then was incredibly difficult. I don’t think people who live in other areas of the US would understand it (except maybe SF folks). Competition for apartments is fierce, and pricing was through the roof even then. We lived in Manhattan for 9 years and then got priced out. A brief move to Sunset park, then further out to Bay Ridge. Bay Ridge was reasonable and not too hard to find a place, but it is an hour from Manhattan via subway.

The situation seems to be much, much worse now 12 years later from what I have read.
Fair enough though there's a lot more behind China's construction boom than just market forces. Property taxes + ease of building still seems like a panacea for the rest of the world to me.
"If, instead of scrolling HN, you talked to me, both our lives would improve."

You haven't talked to me :D
aws api and param names are stupidly long CamelCased and not even consistent half the time like a leaky abstraction over their underlying implementation
AM sound quality can be much better than FM. There are AM pirates that show up once in a while that have absolutely beautiful signals.
Read to your kids!
WB = Warren Buffett, for those wondering (like I was)

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/business/yourmoney/26ever...
Have you tried radiation?

https://hackaday.com/2018/05/12/a-vacuum-tube-and-barbecue-l...
I used to do that, but then I realized that a temporary or permanent loss of memory can happen after an accident or a trauma. I'm still on the fence about this (keep this only in my memory, or have a physical copy somewhere).
I think it is always correct to run away from something 100 times bigger than you!
Perhaps we could call it putting your best self forward to make a good first impression? The advice I've often seen is to treat a date like a job interview - is full honesty expected there? In fact, in a romantic context, is full honesty ever appropriate? If you said something like, we're probably both around 7 on the attractiveness scale, make similar incomes, aren't getting any younger, and probably can't do much better; let's settle for each other - how would that sort of honesty play?
A few KWh battery storage helps no end here. We've shifted all our usage out of peak, even selling energy back at a higher price when we have spare.
This is frickin hilarious. Your awe and wonder at it, your wife's repulsion, and your eulogy hahaha
I used to read quite often, in the days before YouTube and internet. I still read a lot online, but it's not the same experience as getting deeply absorbed in a book for a few hours.

These days I'll often read a book or two on vacation, but not always.
NYC recently tried and failed.
Being friendless has a higher negative impact on lifespan than smoking. It's not a big stretch to link phone use to the huge increase in depression, anxiety, and poor social skills. And just like smoking, phone use in public isn't limited to the person using it. You can't exactly have a conversation with someone who is on their phone. I find myself pulling my phone out whenever my companions also do so.

If this seems a bit heavy-handed, it's because damaging and addictive habits require collective action to stop. No one walks down the street in San Francisco and tries to convince heroin addicts to stop for other peoples' good. No one tries to tell drunks and alcoholics to stop overdoing it.

They are definitely early, and possibly the first place to do this, but they will surely not be the last. Our youth have been ruined by cheap, omnipresent, and never ending social media content. This is a step in the right direction to make public spaces social again.
If we ignore the law of universal gravitation the ambulance can hover over the park.

Rules are a part of how the world works as is the violation of them. Thought problems that deviate so far from reality are more a test of abstract thinking.

Rules implicitly exist for terminal goals (don't kill the grass in the park so people can enjoy it) but get abstracted into actionable decrees that are not necessarily aligned (Becky can't enjoy the grass if she's dead.)
> Housing being seen as this generational I own it forever thing that Americans have doesn’t also square with the American narrative of housing as an investment.

I agree with this part. Viewing it as investment is the wrong choice.
Causal Factor Investing [video]
I think that price point is fine. Self publishing has a lot of variance of course, but I would not categorically say that 50 dollars is too high. We as potential readers just need to do our due diligence, checking reviews etc.
A book not worth 50 USD is not worth 30 or even 20 in my opinion - it is the wanted time spent reading that is the main issue.
> We're paying north of 500K per year in AWS support (which is a highway robbery), and in return you get a "team" of people supposedly dedicated to you, which sounds good in theory but you get a labirinth of irresponsiblity, stalling and frustration in reality.

I’ve found a lot of the time the issues we run into are self-inflicted. When we call support for these, they have to reverse-engineer everything which takes time.

However when we can pinpoint the issue to AWS services, it has been really helpful to have them on the horn to confirm & help us come up with a fix/workaround. These issues come up more rarely, but are extremely frustrating. Support is almost mandated in these cases.

It’s worth mentioning that we operate at a scale where the support cost is a non-issue compared to overall engineering costs. There’s a balance, and we have an internal structure that catches most of the first type of issue nowadays.
Climate Scientist Responds to Sabine Hossenfelder on Climate Sensitivity [video]
> Because Western Europe is, generally, not as shitty as Eastern Europe or Latin America.

> There is some tongue and cheek to that comment, but not much. You generally don't hear about waves of people wanting to emigrate from France or Austria to Poland or Latvia.

Latvian here.

Life is reasonably affordable, most of the services you'd expect are available in the capital or most cities. Internet is pretty good (I pay 15 EUR for 200 Mbps up and down, could get up to 1000 Mbps for twice that, though cheaper with some providers), food is okay, rent isn't too bad in most places, went through university (both Bachelor's and Master's degrees) with no debt, healthcare is pretty good (especially with insurance), salaries kind of suck though across the board. Public transportation is pretty good, both between cities and within the limits of a city, I really don't need a car.

People can be a bit colder, not really that American small talk, but are nice when you get to know them. Except for some kind of harmful cultural stuff (alcoholism, machismo, LOTS of xenophobia but perhaps due to the country's past, some homophobia/transphobia/etc., people being selfish sometimes), also can't really read news site comments here, most are very toxic, like you wouldn't believe.

The weather tends to be okay in the summer, but sucks pretty badly in the winter/autumn and sometimes spring. Cold, windy, lots of overcast clouds, overall a very depressing mood, sort of. Nature is pretty though, especially if you go on a boating trip down the rivers.

I reckon that other parts of Europe are probably better in many respects, but as with most places, there are positives and negatives.
> What makes LotR a "great artistic work"?

That's a great question. It's a mixture of technical skill and intellectual depth.

For example, throughout Scotland placenames are a mixture of old Gaelic, modern Gaelic and Norse, and then there are the Anglicised versions on top. So learning what placenames mean is something I did in school and it's a fascinating subject.

So when Gildor is talking with Frodo, and mentions the "...Branduin, that you call the Brandywine..." (quote from memory; might not be correct), that's exactly what happens with placenames. It's that level of depth (in all aspects, this is just an example) that makes it a great work. You can read more on just the name of a river at https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Baranduin

Enjoyment of art is, as you say, totally subjective, but anyone who's artistic can generally identify when something is a great work even if they don't personally like it.

Edit: if you like this kind of stuff, there are also some cool blog posts on the logistics of the Battle of Gonder: https://acoup.blog/2019/05/10/collections-the-siege-of-gondo...
iPhones were expensive, so iPhones were mostly used by wealthy people. That made it attractive for companies to make iPhone apps: not because of market share, but because it was targeted to those willing to pay. Software developers were happy for the busy-work, and once a company had its own iPhone app they might as well mention it in their marketing. The public saw all this focus on iPhones and concluded that they must be more popular than they actually were (i.e. the only thing more desirable than a status symbol, is a status symbol you think everyone except you already has!). That boosted sales, making it more popular but reducing its correlation to wealth. At that point it was firmly established culturally, technologically, economically, etc. which makes it attractive via the usual market share arguments.
bruce343434 isn’t saying he’s worried the silverfish will sneak into his bed and bite him in his sleep. He’s saying it would be horrifying to live with insects as stealthy and difficult to eradicate as silverfish, but which were also bloodsuckers, like bedbugs. In short, he’s saying bedbugs are horrifying.
> End of the day, landlords don’t deserve more money and I don’t know why anyone here argues for it. It’s like you want bezos to have even more money - it’s super weird.

See, to me, this vitriol is what seems super weird. It seems like you must be talking about some sort of property shark that owns 8+ figures in property and extracts the maximum possible from the poor peons that dare to want a roof over their heads. Maybe with some large company thrown in the mix for good measure.

My father and grandfather are both in rental (well, they did whatever they could to make their way, primarily carpentry; rental is only part of the picture). Both of them started with nothing and managed to bootstrap their way into some properties, fixing them up as they went. They do all the work on their respective properties themselves. There isn’t a management company involved. They aren’t some evil men trying to extort the populace, the goal is just to live, provide for family, etc. Yet by definition, they are landlords - that thing that so many here despise unilaterally with such passion.

Probably there is considerable diversity (or at least two classes of landlords). But laws are going to apply to both groups.
very few things are cli only, most have multiple ways to do things. and they have separate guide reference sections that can easily be found.
compared to aws where your best bet is to hope google indexed the right page for them.
Agreed; I believe the tipping point is where the company becomes so large that you no longer know, or at least are familiar with the people you're working with.

I expect you are much more inclined to try to find a workable solution if the case at hand is Dave in accounting whose kid attends the same soccer practice your kid does than if he's just employee #628481.
What you describe is accurate and terrible, but it isn't slavery. There are actual people in the world today who are treated as literal property. That is modern-day slavery, we need a different word to describe the plight of a free person who is unable to get out of a cycle of poverty.
The property taxes should be placed proportionally towards those who are making money from owning properties and therefore have an ability to pay them.

If grandpa and grandma are just living in their house in Texas and surviving on the last of the pension, they're not even vaguely in the same category as a property owner deciding which of the next condo buildings to buy.
I wrote a(n overly) lengthy response to a different reply, but basically, the human body can tune itself to be more or less efficient with its calories depending on how much of a surplus it thinks it has.

The very simple explanation is that human waste has a non-zero calorie content, and can be higher or lower depending on how interested your body is in extracting every last calorie from your food.

This is of course without getting into satiety and the challenges of people society considers too fat being expected to just be hungry all the time, or the actual science showing that dieting is far more harmful for your body than being "overweight", just a very simple explanation for why calories in and calories out aren't as useful of a measure as everyone (including me, by the way) would love for them to be.
That poster wasn't responding to you, but I'll take this on.

The court case changes things.

You accuse the interviewer of being biased, not understanding that you yourself are so biased you've ignored a crucial piece of evidence, that an independent court agreed that it was wrongful termination.
On its own it sounds like hand-wavy marketing bs to me...

Then again, svelte has a great developer experience, so I would say he's delivering on this.
I hope Boston, NYC, Baltimore, etc. where seawalls may be practical are already designing them...
I'm in the minority but I moved so many times that when I finally got a Kindle I just gave away every book I owned so I didn't have to haul hundreds of pounds of dead tree. Now I manage a calibre server.
A man goes to a doctor. “Doctor, I’m depressed,” the man says; life is harsh, unforgiving, cruel". The doctor lights up. The treatment, after all, is simple. “The great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight,” the doctor says, “Go and see him! That should sort you out. Next!”

The next guy comes in. “Doctor, I have no joy in my life. I'm thinking of ending things,” he says. The doctor tells him: “The great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight,” the doctor says, “Go and see him! That should sort you out. Next!”

Another guy comes in. “Doctor, please help me. I'm on my wit's end. Everything is meaningless since I lost my wife a year ago. I can't get off the bed in the morning. I wish I was dead myself". The doctor doesn't miss a beat: “The great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight,” the doctor says, “Go and see him! That should sort you out. Next!”

And so on. It's now 7pm and the doctor's office has closed its doors. The doctor picks up the phone and dials a number:

"Hello, is Pagliacci there? I'm doctor Greenwald. Tell him the tally is 38 people today. I expect my usual 10% cut".
I hope they go extinct. I don't know how its in the USA but in India is has become a joke. Every news site is owned by a political party.
From what I’ve heard from a friend in AWS, it’s not exactly all roses over there either.
Global loss could be due to expanding FCs. Does not mean it is not a profitable business elsewhere.
Both, I assume. "Git" was already slang for "stupid person," so this is a clever name.