skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Closed cell foam will trap moisture underneath it. When sprayed on wood which is naturally moist that water will have nowhere to go. Any delaminations of the foam from the substrate will form pockets where wet will concentrate, and as the foam breaks down it becomes acidic.

If I were to sprayfoam something I would only consider using open cell foam. If I were to use other impervious zero-perm insulation materials like rockwool I'd only do so with dimple board to allow air underneath. The small loss of efficiency is a necessary tradeoff for giving the moisture which will always be there a path to escape.
I've stopped unsubscribing to emails I didn't sign up for and just send to spam. It hurts their "reputation" score and wastes their money (however small amount). I encourage people to stop unsubscribing and just send it to spam.
As I said, a lot of the value I see in python is in its ubiquity. I don't understand why I need to keep repeating this.
I've always been partial to this visual: https://analyticsindiamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/sim...
Somewhere in storage I have a Colecovision and a copy of Zaxxon for it. The graphics in that game feel absolutely mind blowing for the era.
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Aren’t most languages used as a way to protect their cultures by discouraging foreigners?

Viewed in this way, one can understand why not being fluent in a language is often met with rudeness.
Here's not only the IC but an entire development board for $0.95: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805283269799.html
Foam is expensive, and thus for the same profit margin (expressed as a percent) there is more money. Foam thus puts a lot of money into shows like that for advertisement.

Closed cell foam is the best insulation - if it is installed correctly. You should want it as it is the best insulation. However the payoff is several decades vs much cheaper insulation and so most people find it isn't worth the costs.

In general, for most houses, putting in the most cheap insulation you can, and then investing in a heat pump is the most bang for the buck and better for the earth than the most foam you can and then using a much less efficient HVAC system (in a new house this is typically what code requires, but there are a lot of old houses with minimal insulation and a terrible furnace).
B -> Yes, unless the unsubscribe link gets caught by your pi-hole or adguard blocklists :-(
Will keep that in mind if I go that route.

GBFS is just one format of the many supported. This is where we keep all instance data https://github.com/eskerda/pybikes/tree/master/pybikes/data . This is the list of GBFS systems we have https://github.com/eskerda/pybikes/blob/master/pybikes/data/...
I would like to see this taken one step further. Anything you can opt in to should be legally required to be at least as easy to opt out of, whether that's a gym membership, tracking cookies, online subscriptions, you name it. If I can join in a click, but have to send a physical letter to a hidden department in the basement of a now defunct military base then none of that should ever fly.
I use GNU cash [0]and it has support for securities. I’m on my phone now and couldn’t get a direct link to the corresponding man page to work, but you should be able to find it easily if you search for “Security Editor”.

[0]https://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml
This is the norm at big companies.

During your Company Ethics training (when you learn about insider training and not bribing government officials) they also tell you "never comment on the legality of something unless you're a lawyer. But if you do, say it in a meeting and not digitally."
> That’s what the whole “Hillary’s emails” thing was about.

You're not wrong but Hillary was 1 of 1000. Nearly everyone angry about Hillary cared nothing about all the other agency mgmt doing the same.

Because ~0% cared about the the issue in a meaningful way, nothing got done and the practice carried on after she went away.
How Much Cheese Should You Eat?
It's great to see the attention to servo growing - the number of people starring servo on gh just keeps going up! There's a chart on https://toot.cafe/@bkardell/112931971129556513

One big reason to want change is to change the funding model that currently supports the existing browser projects, which isn't great and is threatened too...
I get vastly less spam. Gmail just plain deletes most of it without even dumping it into the spam folder. It's down from thousands a month to dozens.

Companies do subscribe me to mailing lists pretty easily but I really don't mind if they honor the unsubscribe link. And most seem to. (The exception was the Red Cross who I eventually had to mark as spam.)
Welp, we gave 'er a go, wasn't what we thought it was gonna be, but we got some good memes out of it.
Does anyone know if there is a way to host just a few of the tiles in a static way? For example, if I wanted to build a web page which just shows a map at zoom level 6 for a lat/lng point, and then go to zoom level 13. That would require a tiny subset of tiles; is there a simple way to add the tiles plus the JS code in a static way so no external downloads were necessary?
Boston Is Using AI for Good to Fix Stop-and-Go Traffic
It seems to be 0-14 according to the GitHub repo.
It was an event at the Seoul Olympics in 1988, but attempts to have it made a permanent event failed, apparently partly because it requires expensive facilities that aren't always available in poorer countries. Doesn't seem to have been a blocker for sailing or ski jumping...
That would be nice, though modern official architecture (and art) always ends up quite ugly and appalling, so it'd only be nice with proper judges (quite rare apparently).

Architecture and art done on ArtStation alone is superior to anything that is funded by your local government usually.
Couldn't be worse than racewalking or breakdancing
The same you judge the olympic break-dancing competition: with human juges that rate competitors based on a handful of criteria.
This story is about the UK not US.
Senate: Kroger's new AI pricing scheme is 'corporate greed out of control'
You clearly don't understand the article since it's not about clues at all, but entirely about guessing.

Basically, the claim is that based entirely on the pattern of the board (revealed red, blue, and white cards), there are so few legal board configurations (the cards that the spymasters are using), that the field operatives can ignore the hint the spymaster gave, and guess correct cards anyway based on the board's revealed information.

Effectively, a game where the red team uses this strategy might go like this:

Red Team Spymaster: Word unlimited

Red Team Field Operatives: <pick card at random, get white at the lower right>

Blue Team Spymaster: <Real Hint> 2

Blue Team Field Operatives: <pick 2 correct cards at the upper left>

Red Team Spymaster: Word unlimited

Red Team Field Operatives: "Well, there's only one spymaster card with a white card in the lower right and two blue cards in the upper left, so now we know where every card is and can pick all the red cards" <wins>

In a real practical implementation here, the spymaster would probably actually clue "<death card hint> 0" each turn in order to ensure their team can safely pick at random until there's enough information to know which board they're on.

Please point me to the rule that bans this: https://czechgames.com/files/rules/codenames-rules-en.pdf
Perl, it's so confusing most times when written in Perl (perl perl perl)

Perl, why must it fit on one line when written in Perl (perl perl perl)
My car’s radar unfortunately doesn’t work under 28 mph, so stop and go is a nonstarter.

It works well on the interstate, though.
That's essentially what a World Expo is, isn't it?
My point is that the golf cart is likely as deadly to its occupants at 25mph as a full size car is at a much much higher speed, and is mixing in traffic with enormous vehicles.

Creating “the Villages” nationwide where every neighborhood is only trafficked by small low speed vehicles would be great, but people don’t want to invest storage and money into a secondary vehicle of such limited use. Maybe a neighborhood ringed by garages where people store their long distance vehicles, and integrally self driving golf carts putter people around to schools, stores, and cafes? If they need to leave, grab a cart and head to the garage ring?

I love urbanism and spent about half a decade car free (then kids really made that way more difficult), and getting cars off the roads in neighborhoods or even towns would be astounding

Now you would have to worry about delivery trucks, trash collection etc?
You can see this option on Hetzner Cloud by navigating to a cloud server you want to use it on, and then to "ISO Images" in the menu at the top and then navigating through the alphabetized list of images. --Katie (Hetzner Online)
Given housing prices, it seems that the 3500 is merely (potentially) wasteful and (definitely) irritating. It isn't gonna make it impossible to sell a place.
Unsubscribe is one of the best working privacy rules we have.

It’s small, but when you click on it it works.
My parents had a Mark 2 Ford Escort. My mum came home in someone else’s car once, as it looked similar and the key worked in it.

Mazda 323’s used to open each other too, and also Ford Lazers. These problems don’t seem to happen anymore, but at some cost.
Dave Asprey claims that calcium oxalate (abundant in spinach) can cause arthritis.
Cos(x) players are welcome!
I have an interest in metal boats. I read a book written in the 1970s by a British author who went to the netherlands to get up-to-date on the best metal boatbuilding methods used by the world's experts. He enthusiastically championed sprayfoam insulation which was being used nearly universally by the dutch at the time. The boats that got sprayfoamed invariably had short useful lives and horrible corrosion problems. It is no longer considered a good insulation method in boatbuilding.
> turning off the card doesn't actually end the agreement between you and the company

I know of two hedge funds who buy these claims at a discount and pursue them. If you aren’t concerned with your credit score it probably isn’t a problem; I doubt either sues.
Oh? Gil Scott-Heron got it wrong. The revolution not only will be televised, but the ads will go for very high rates.
Yes, if Python was made from scratch, then perhaps function is better (I don't really mind).

But breaking one of the most commonly used statements for what is essentially aesthetics? No thanks. Introduce a function that does the same if you like.

That's precisely my point, this syntax change (and many others) was entirely unnecessary, put people off upgrading, then got them told off for being dinosauric luddites.

Frankly, it's not even that consistent. Is `del dict[key]` necessary when you can call `dict.pop`?

Either way, these would be fine discussions to have, but not when you consider the people upgrading thei codebases.
I'm almost as severe. I look for an unsubscribe button in the email. I click it. If I am not immediately unsubscribed from everything, I mark the email as spam.
Hello thank you for your kind words! Stemming is handled by the corresponding Lucene analyzer which you can configure depending on your language, I'm explaining this a bit here: https://github.com/spapas/doc-parser-searcher/?tab=readme-ov...

i.e I'm using org.apache.lucene.analysis.el for our documents (they are in greek) and for english you should can org.apache.lucene.analysis.en.EnglishAnalyzer instead.

There already are some filters that are indexed for each file and can be applied when searching:

- created/modified/accessed date

- full path

- filename

- extension
Analysis of unicorn startup founders
I suspect if Sailing and Skiing were proposed as events in 1998 and not 1896 and 1936 respectively, they would face similar issues.
> A couple of my favorites are like if I need to remember to do something in the groggy morning, I put either my wallet or keys wrapped around something weird. When I awaken and go to find those items, I am awoken to the specific thing to remember to do or bring.

Oh man I love this technique. I use it all the time. One morning when I was running late and had to fly out the door or else miss the bus, I threw the toothbrush I just finished using in the middle of the floor in front of the door as I ran through through the room. Got home 10 hours later and "why TF is my toothbrush in the middle of the living room? ... Oh yeah I need to pay the eye doctor bill." Works great, I love it.
I find it extra ironic that experian is now pimping a service to aggregate and cancel your subscriptions - but if I want to freeze my children's credit reports I have to have a notarized original of their birth certificate and bring it to committee before they will approve. I'm exaggerating obviously, but not by much.
Why Does Height Matter for Politicians?
I get like 10 Uber mails over the weekend. It's infuriating.

>> Don't you want to go to the airport again this weekend?

>> Do you remember that night out in Austin 3 weeks ago? The same driver is available again.

Sure how about he picks me up 1300 miles from Austin.

>> How about something to eat? You ordered 4 weeks ago from place XYZ.

I gave that place a 2 star rating.
> I still feel that if they did the right testing, they shouldn’t be blamed for everything.

This update crashed 100% of the Windows systems it got installed on, which means either their testing did not involve actually loading it on real world computers at all or that blue screening and boot looping did not cause the test to fail. It is objectively clear that they did not do the right testing. There is no excuse for this update having ever left the earliest stages of a proper test process.

It's not like this is a case of an unexpected interaction with a configuration not found in the test lab.

> It’s pretty standard for IT teams to avoid auto-updates and instead manually review them—especially in critical sectors like healthcare, aviation, and government.

This component was not able to be controlled in this way. Systems that were configured to be delayed on other CrowdStrike updates still got this particular update immediately with no ability for IT departments to control them.

> They mentioned they ran tests which unfortunately returned false positives.

Again, whatever tests they actually ran clearly didn't involve actually loading the update in to the actual driver. Their explanation sounds like they may have validated the formatting of their update or something like that but then just sent it.

> While it’s true they could’ve been more thorough, the affected companies also dropped the ball by not doing their own checks

No they did not because they could not. They may have dropped the ball when installing Crowdstrike in the first place, but the whole reason this was such a widespread thing affecting so many high priority systems is that it wasn't able to be controlled in the ways IT departments would want.
I could see this being the first big challenge to executive branch regulations after Chevron was overturned.
My experience differs from yours. A good friend of mine recently used that word to describe me, and I genuinely took it as a compliment.

I believe that as a single dude who graduated into COVID, works remotely, and moved to a new state where the only person I knew was my roommate, I believe I have a fairly exceptional social life. I met a lot of people through a local maker space. The key is just finding weird people to be weird with.

I would describe myself and many of the people I interact with as being very genuine and true to themselves.
> In June, the Justice Department, referred by the FTC, filed a lawsuit against software maker Adobe and two of its executives

:

> Dana Rao, Adobe’s general counsel, said in an emailed statement that Adobe disagrees with the lawsuit’s characterization of its business and “we will refute the FTC’s claims in court.”

Gross.

But back to topic of the headline — make it easier to click 'unsubscribe'? Why not instead make it harder to click 'subscribe' in the first place?

Thanks internet, for giving us this shitty opt-out world we live in now.
No, 'static' CPU manager policy provides ability to allocate CPUs exclusively to container cgroup. But since Go runtime doesn't read cpugroup information anyway, it still sees all available CPUs.
What is the shopping cart service that follows me around the web, where if I put something in a cart, then walk away I get email about it. Without even signing in, often it’s a new to me retailer, but they use one of those cart nagging checkout services? Can I turn that off?
I have different reasons for not doing it: unsubscribing usually requires opening a website riddled with tracking, thus running potentially dangerous code on your device. Secondly, it confirms that your address is active and that SPAM message was read. Unsubscribing from one garbage can result in being added on several other garbage spam lists.
Yes, I go a little further. If I get more emails than I consider acceptable (even if I signed up originally), I mark it as spam. call me mean, but this is my email address and if you're gonna send me endless spam emails which obviously no one actually wants, then you're spam.
There are two ways to store map tile data like OSM. One is as pre-rendered raster tiles (256x256 png images) and the other is as tiles of vector data that get rendered either on the fly by dedicate rendering middleware or rendered client side by the browser. Vector tiles are anywhere between 20-50% smaller that corresponding raster tiles. Raster tiles was the standard way of doing web maps up until a few years ago, when client side rendering in the browser became feasible and now most people use vector tiles.
Let say that's true. If someone is angry about Fauci but give a pass to the many, many other agency directors doing the same thing - that someone isn't really angry about the issue are they? It's just something to exploit and then forget about.
I don’t understand the argument here if there even is one. He didn’t like the way it was judged and he didn’t understand why raygun was there, so the whole thing should be thrown out? Also — he says the judging is too conservative for such a new sport, so we should in turn be even more conservative and get rid of breaking. This makes no sense.
That's the bigger deal and the target of these TBA proposed rules. Legit (and even not so legit) retailers and mailing lists tend to be pretty easy to unsubscribe from and Gmail files the majority of retailer, etc. mailings in the Promotions tab anyway that I just glance at from time to time unless there's something interesting. (I used to use a separate email account when I ordered things but that became more trouble than it was worth.)

The other thing that used to deluge my work account was mailings as a result of tradeshows which I attended a lot of. I get far fewer on my personal email although that will probably pick up as I use it now for a small consulting business.
I agree, surely a Mechanical Turk worker is going to have a specific psychographic edge that unites nearly all of them to blindly inject a systematic form of bias into all Mechanical Turk survey based studies.
Reference counted objects have deterministic lifetimes, like Rust or C++. Garbage collected languages don't have that. Essentially a reference counter automates some* of the ideas of the borrow checker, with a runtime cost as opposed to a compile time one.

The great thing about automatic reference counting is you can elide the incrementing and decrementing a lot of the time. Stronger guarantees, such as saying "this object is single-threaded" lead to even more optimizations.
Tesla may know batteries --- but they don't know much about design.

https://www.teslaoracle.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2021-...

Running virtually *everything* through a big honkin', center mounted touch screen is just a bad idea from a design, usability and safety perspective.

In many US states, it is illegal to use your touch screen phone while driving due to safety concerns. Tesla's solution is to build the touch screen into the car and *force* it's use. It may be a cute sales gimmick in the showroom --- but it wears thin on the road.

In any case, Tesla is no longer a car company according to Musk. It is now an AI company --- one which has yet to succeed at producing a decent self driving mode after a decade of promises. It seems that most thing's Musk come with a supersized helping of hype.
Playing devil’s advocate, many of the judging criteria for the sports seem pretty subjective.

For example if diving or gymnastics was purely objective, you wouldn’t need multiple judges (or any). Track and field is a lot more straightforward in most cases.

I would even go as far to say the “criteria” the judges are looking for have some analogous counterparts in poetry.

I think breakdancing was a sport for this Olympics, so poetry doesn’t seem like much of a stretch. Maybe it’s just not “exciting” to modern people?
TikTok and ADHD...
A more common idiom is "cowboy builders"

But it's understandable why they haven't used that here, as an insulation installer would rarely be called a builder, just like an electrician or plumber would rarely be called a builder.
Oh man, I completely forgot about that game.

Absolutely loved it as a teen!
I mean, one of the most well known sites in the UK for finding people for all kinds of jobs is literally called "TrustATrader.com":

https://www.trustatrader.com/trades

So no, I don't think that's a regional thing.
I remember a thread, either Twitter or Reddit where quotes from the book Lolita was used as evidence that most/all men are scum and perverts....
Not a silver bullet solution for sure. Gyms especially. But for SAAS services, tv type subscriptions, etc - it works well. Ymmv.
Same - I've given up unsubscribing and sending it straight to spam. Especially if I never signed up for it in the first place.

If I did sign up for it, I do the polite thing and unsubscribe if they make it easy.

But yeah - spam is getting aggravating. I am getting spam text messages now....
I've had trouble getting this to work but I do have one addition that might help people who can make this work or partially work.

I have a closet full of clear plastic shoe boxes with labels on them. Labels like First Aid, Remotes, Ribbons, Pens/Pencils, etc.

When you need to put something away, put it in the shoe box.

Often, someone will say, "Where's the lighter?" and I'll respond, "in the closet". Happens nearly daily now.

The problem I have is that sometimes I'm too tired to put my thing in the holding pen. For keys, we have a key holder. But sometimes I don't realize I have keys in my pocket until bed time and I just empty them onto my night stand. Even walking across the room feels like too much. "I'll put them away tomorrow", I think to myself.

In any case, it's a helpful set of routines, I just find I don't ALWAYS stick to it.
In my experience Hindley Milner type inference is a misfeature. Pyright doesn't use it and its typing system is very good. My only typing complaint with it is that it exactly types dict literals by default, which is usually not what you want.

By that I mean if you do

foo = {"a": 2}
foo["b"] = 3

you will get a type error because the inferred type of foo includes knowledge of the keys. But well written code doesn't use dicts when you know which keys are going to be present - you use a dataclass.

I guess you could argue most Python is not well written, but then most Python developers are too amateur to use Pyright anyway.