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I disagree with "only". I've been a moderator on a couple of game forums, and my line with people who got too heavily into politics was, "We're here to talk about the game. I'm not here to judge political views, but discussing politics isn't the purpose of this forum. So please take that conversation somewhere more suited for it."

My experience on HN has been much the same. There's a range of ideas here and some are more controversial than others, but they're pretty much always relevant to the interests of the community. I appreciate the relatively tight focus and that's what keeps HN feeling like a high signal-to-noise place to me.
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Obligatory reminder that correlation is not causation - even if you provide data demonstrating a correlation, which you haven't.

To me it looks like the rise in obesity could roughly map to the rise in depression and anxiety, though I have no data on that and I make no assertions on the causality, should they turn out to be correlated.

I comment every time I see the obesity/calories topic come up because it's something I've been deeply researching and experimenting with for years and I can't let misconceptions and falsehoods go without a response.

To avoid letting this get into a lengthy back-and-forth, I'll just state what I understand and move on.

Yes, food/calorie intake and expenditure is partly a choice, but it is a choice that is profoundly complicated by many factors, including but not limited to: diagnosed or undiagnosed illness, pre-exisiting nutritional levels, genetics/epigenetic expression, emotions/hormones/neurological issues, social influence, culture, financial constraints, time constraints and more.

Obviously, letting one's self go is not something that most people freely choose to do or enjoy doing.

Some work harder than others to avoid it. Some succeed, and some fail even if they work hard at it.

Usually when I get into a back-and-forth discussion about this topic, the co-debater will resort to something like "I don't have all the answers but everyone can try harder to cut calories".

We'd all be better off if people simply stuck to the shorter, humbler version: "I don't have the answers."

Anyone who does have answers could contact their nearest metabolic research institution.
This article was frustrating because it danced around my main issue: I'd be worried about getting sick. There was maybe one sentence that acknowledged this:

> I think the fear of contamination and making one’s self sick is the biggest barrier.

This is a big deal, but the article makes light of it, doesn't even give it its own section, and instead presents a bunch of flowery prose about making death a part of life.

As one example of this, how are you supposed to protect these fermented foods from pests? I get the sense you're supposed to leave them out, uncovered, but that assumes you live in an area that allows you to do that.
Why are these illegal?
In my experience using DGPS around 2000, most of the DGPS sources were near the coasts and operated by the Coast Guard. There were a few scattered transmitters here and there, certainly not enough to provide the kind of coverage we now enjoy.
OpenResty looks pretty cool. Have any patterns emerged for building large-ish apps on it?
First of all, although water heaters may be lowest cost to install, they "leak" or bleed off energy in the form of lost heat over time. Obviously super insulating them can cut some of this loss.

2nd, the "bidirectional control" seems a bit misaligned, water heaters as storage devices cannot give back energy into the grid to lessen overall load, they can only be throttled down to lessen load. Perhaps a solution will be obtained from energy storage salts or thermal electric devices to allow for energy harvesting and conversion ?
> I searched "Antarctica" in a signed-out browser with cleared cache and cookies

Are you suggesting Youtube serves content based on IP as well as account and cookies?
So let's say that you have a magic button that will give every person on Earth now living a 10% improvement in their material living conditions for the rest of their lives -- and will completely destroy the world in 150 years.

That gives everyone now living a chance to have children who live full and complete lives. Grand children and great grandchildren maybe not so much.

Is it uncomplicatedly the obvious right thing to do to press the button? If not, I think you and Cowen are expressing similar or the same ideas in different ways.
This article would have been much better without the first section on technology trends. I almost stopped reading when it looked like analyst generated pr (perhaps demonstrating the AI trend with auto generated content).
It sounds disingenuous to call one-way energy sinks 'heat storage'. Calling such a one-way sink a battery is even worse.

On another note, I wonder how resisitve heaters compare to heat-pumps. The article states that heat-pumps can react faster, but are more efficient. What about putting a battery in front of the heat-pump to accelerate the response?
My uncle has implemented version 0.1 of this in his weekend house. Power is cheaper during the night, so he has installed a clock timer that only powers the water heater during the night. It holds enough hot water for two persons to take a shower, and to wash hands during the day. (There is a separate water heater in the kitchen).

Works great. If one should ever run out of hot water, it's simple to remove the clock timer... but we didn't need that when we spent a week there.

With a well-insulated water heater, the idea to use them as energy storage sounds like a great idea.
> It could be that the audience is changing to a less technical audience, or just getting older.

Or, perhaps certain publications like the Guardian, Bloomberg and others have discovered HN as a "guerilla marketing" platform and are posting clickbait-ish articles...
I don't have any social media account anymore, my biggest problems are sites like hackernews where I waste my time.

I would love to ditch my smartphone for a dumb phone, but what I need is WhatsApp, because everyone uses it where I live and a good camera for taking pictures. Maybe one day :)
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It's just some SEO linkbait garbage written by a "Content Marketer". So nothing you are missing out on.
They are illegal above a certain capacity. I assume that's because to large storage is wasteful: heat will leak without being used efficiently.
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That is what I thought until I wrote the benchmark(s) in the post. I was surprised that even though I never called Task.Run, things were being run on 4-10 background threads.

It does use a threadpool scheduler by default for a console app. Yes, I could override that if I wanted to.
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By shadow banning and hide comments. That's how hacker news work today.
The link to the C code:

The C code listing for this application can be found at ED Online 15980 . . .

is a dead link
Oh, now I get it, thanks. Unfortunately, I don't have an answer to your question.
Yup. This or several downvotes even if the flag isn't triggered (though I think it usually is)
Interesting. Maybe try to add longer time windows like http://www.hckrnews.com

Also, I think someone should work on a personalization engine for hn.
this was nice to read, thanks for posting
This is the most informed comment in the topic. Having spent a decade in enterprise software on the engineering side, everything he/she says is true.
That is a great read/translate.
Coders and developers should take a role in politics
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with natural harmonics in a melody. The opening and ending of Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31 uses them, and it sound good to me. Because it's notated as equal temperament, the score is ambiguous, and there are two ways of playing it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxVnSkX4Fco (13th harmonic high note version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkLyK-oSQ7A (14th harmonic high note version)

I suspect that brass players are unusually sensitive to deviations from equal temperament because they have to work so hard to overcome them if they want to play with other instruments (including other brass instruments of different sizes).
Yeah, agreed. User permissions need to become more granular. A web app should not be able to use all CPU power for prolonged amounts of time. Instead the browser should drastically limit computing usage of a web app, till the user gives the explicit permission for more. That way web apps can gain more capabilities but only with the users permission.

On your second point I wholy agree that not every fast food chain or coffee shop needs a native app on their customers phone. Starbucks PWA shows the way.
> If you want to blame Facebook and YouTube for allowing the spread of wild conspiracy theories, it’s hard to also blame calmer forums like Hacker News for moderation.

This. I would love to see more sites experimenting with transparent, interrogable but impactful moderation schemes that actively shape conversation.
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IMO it works because the moderation keeps things civil and polite. It's not just a question of saying things that are true, the tone of how things are said seems to matter. People get tired of debates where there's a lot of sarcasm.

This is actually the only forum I bother with, having tried a few over the years.
The Canadian government sponsored the development of the 5BX program, which is designed to give you a decent fitness level in 11 minutes per day.

Have you ever tried this program?
30s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bocfNOjeBm8

40s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIaxPa2aUDI
Love this article.

I have been doing home sourdough for years. A couple of years ago my partner got kefir grains from a relative, and she's been using it weekly. A few months ago we got a kombucha mother when giving away a rescued kitten, and the second batch (kombucha, not kitten) is in progress. She also started fermenting vegetables (carrots, cabbage, so far), that's great for spicing up salads. Hint: do not throw away mature leaven, keep it in a jar in the fridge, it makes awesome waffles.

Really, every household should be doing fermentations. It's easy, tasty, rewarding, safe and very good for your gut microbiome.
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Yeah, if you want to hide a post you don't like you can just start an interesting and controversial discussion/flamewar in the comment thread - and the post will be deleted right away.
HN threads should be tagged by category... Maybe automatically based on who comments or upvotes, or content.. and threads should be presented to the user based on interests.
Good. Hopefully this will kill crap like React Native and “embedded webview”-type apps for good.
This comment, while adding detail, does nothing to improve upon the original statement, which was perfectly valid, and adds nothing to the discussion. This is irrelevant pedantry that a certain stripe of c pedant delights in bludgeoning the rest of us with.
I don’t think it’s that simple. For many, some of these social network products (ie Facebook or Instagram) have become deeply engrained in their lifestyle. Yes, they can still stop using them, but it is not that easy to because of the immediate consequences. If all of your friends and family use a product and have grown accustomed to communicating with you via that channel, it is difficult to offer alternatives — it’s completely feasible yes, but nevertheless still difficult. There is a psychological ball and chain effect that these networks create, which, in my mind, is one of the biggest dangers. That a corporation has enough leverage over your behavior to make leaving it’s product a psychologically or physically tough decision seems dangerous and wrong.
Apologies for being flip, but: The future isn't hypothetical. It's very real. It just isn't here yet.
In general, the bigger the tank, the better the 'skin to volume ratio'. Hence I'd expect less % per second of loss. The total wattage of loss would still be higher though.
here Stanley Robotics, we are the makers of these robots. You are fully right, and btw this article is clearly not from us. We are careful in communication. Big news, this time by us, are coming in 2 months from now.
The very same robots as the ones for London Gatwick, have already behind them more than 1 year of daily operational experience: at Lyon airport(France). Currently 150 parking spaces, managed by those robots, are managed every day there. This number is increasing rapidly week by week.
Stay tuned, thanks :)
But that's not how heat works. A larger water tank has a higher volume-to-surface-area ratio. This makes larger tanks more efficient than smaller ones, not less.

This is why elephants need such large ears. Their bodies are otherwise incredibly efficient at retaining heat. Those massive, thin, flappy ears provide them with a way to expose their blood to a much larger surface area of skin.
> that's how context works

When people invoke this quote they never examine the context. There's every possibility that this comment was self-deprecating as much as mocking his users, but that possibility is never explored.

People just deliriously portray him as this deeply odious Dr Evil-like villain in the making, and can't actually imagine a goofy 19-year-old saying goofy 19-year-old shit.
A pile of crap written by a marketing goon. Here’s my list:

1. Get rid of the marketing goons. All they will tell you is how to follow the crowd. Making your own path will be harder and slower to success, but eventually more valuable and rewarding.

2. Get out there and live. Dive into an area of expertise. Only once you have achieved genuine proficiency and a depth of specialized knowledge will you understand that part of the universe well enough to think of a truly great innovation.

3. Forget money. Make something that is great and useful to you. Eventually, the money will come. If it doesn’t, it means you weren’t lucky enough, and that’s life. You still made something great, and that’s better than wasting your life chasing money and fame by doing something stupid.

4. Start with the small problems and work your way up. Theranos failed because they tackled a huge problem (low volume blood analysis) before solving all the small problems along the way.

5. Try to do something useful. If you prioritize making money over making something worthwhile, you are just going to accelerate our destruction. Remember, a study recently showed 98% of bugs in a rain forest had gone. If that doesn’t sound like the end of days to you, you need to wake up. A dying planet doesn’t need another way to trade fucking derivatives. If you’re going to destroy the planet to do it, it better be worth it.

6. Remember the big ideas. Curing disease, reversing aging, understanding protein folding, and figuring out what the unknown 95% of the universe is made of. If you spend you life on these problems, it won’t be wasted, even if you are not particularly successful. And you don’t have to chase a big idea to notice clues along the way, or to make the tools that others can use to get further along a meaningful path.
I'd press it only if it wouldn't kill anyone, which would require the unlikely scenario of all humans agreeing to stop breeding. What I reject is the idea that "be fruitful and multiply" is an inherent good. If future humans actually do decide on voluntary extinction, that's their choice and they are doing nothing wrong. If hypothetical future people have rights [edit: I do believe hypothetical future people have rights in the sense of it being wrong to take actions that are reasonably expected to set up a causal chain of event that will kill people who don't yet exist, but I do not believe a future with 100B humans is better than one with 10B humans with the same quality of life], why don't we also ban gay marriage and votes for women etc. because it offends past people?
France has been doing it for the past 40 years.
France has nuclear power running through the night, so electricity is very cheap. We have a special overnight tariff. France is a big user of water heater and electric radiators.
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I'm also german and I want to see a solution for the nuclear waste problem first, before we use nuclear power again. Until we have that solution I'm in favor of nuclear power only on the surface of the sun!
The author’s views on abstractions and developers in general seems absolutist and overly simplistic to me.

Everything in moderation is good rule.

In general I find a lack of abstractions a sign of lacking maturity, but so do I for overuse of abstractions (“defensively abstracting”).

Getting the balance right takes experience, and you gain that experience by making both of the above mistakes, and typically in that order.

The problem with abstractions is that you don’t really notice good or working abstractions. You only notice the bad ones.

Thus the false developer-meme that abstractions themselves are a bad thing.
A major pet peeve are downvotes on perfectly polite comments from people who have different opinions about the topic you are commenting on. If downvotes were merely used to order comments, I could understand trying to deprioritize unpopular or factually incorrect views.

But if downvoted comments are effectively hidden away, a downvote becomes a tool of censorship, a political weapon to punish and banish opposing views. It turns the community to an echo chamber and discourage me to contribute any view that might offend the mainstream groupthink - which is not a unique emergent spirit of the community, but heavily influenced by the demographics of the site.

Many of my votes are upvotes to unfairly downvoted, high effort comments.
> there are a lot of industrial companies that couldn't possibly cover the damage if something goes badly wrong (eg, explosives supplier flattens a major port, 3rd world mining accident, electrical utility causes wildfire, most mid-sized building companies if a skyscraper collapses, etc)

Of course this is why in developed countries they are required to buy insurance. Insurance companies exist which can take on extremely large liabilities for industry, the point is that Nuclear has never been able to afford the size of premiums which would make the full risk of its liabilities profitable to cover.

Fukushima was by no stretch an example of the worst nuclear event liable to occur. A bad accident or attack on any one of the worlds hundreds of nuclear plants CAN seriously irradiate many thousands, even millions of people in some locations, poison water tables and make land unlivable for decades - continuing harm to many creatures even if people are able to avoid it.

After each disaster like Chernobyl or Fukushima we don't just have a new "rate of deaths so far" line to work with, that average line is a one dimensional extremely simplistic measurement. Scientists and engineers who have taken it and as a valid summary of hazard should really know better.
The goal is not to convince people "China's economy is collapsing 25 question marks". The goal varies from article to article. This article is only trying to convince people that some companies are moving away from China for various reasons and trying to explain the reasons why. Whether you think it's correct is a different story.
To me it's all about putting related stuff together. LoC doesn't matter much, to me either way. Here's some more of my thoughts on the matter: https://nixpulvis.com/ramblings/2019-01-05-splitting-cats-an...
Ye. Service vehicles usually are exempted from the actual parking rules in practice. A sewage utility vehicle wont get ticketed if it has a pipe going down a adjacent drain and has the wheels on the sidewalk etc.

Walking from a free parking spot to the delivery location is not included in the price. Unless all delivery companies are forced to follow the parking laws (for real) at the same time they will just go out of business.

The problem is that the end user don't know what quality of delivery they will get, so they choose the cheapest, and there is a race to the bottom, like flight tickets.

When comparing prices the end user doesn't know that they might be beaten off the plane by security to make room for a business class late arrival end user, so the risk is not priced in correctly ...
In Korea, it is common to use refrigerators (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimchi_refrigerator) to make Kimchi, precisely because the cold is actually good for fermenting cabbage!
If you reject free will from a philosophical point of view (regardless of whether it's "real" or not in any other sense), then morality becomes nonsense. If you say that the hypothetical future people are actually already there in 4D spacetime, then nothing can be right or wrong because it's all fated. Morality assumes humans are able to alter the future.
Assuming today’s typical use of “politically correct”, it really works in the opposite. I. e. stories about racism or sexism in the tech industry have almost no chance of reaching this audience, that could actually have the power to effect change. Meanwhile, stories and comments cynically portaying all of the “mainstream media” as corrupt, biased, and incompetent routinely rise to the top because that POV is now almost universally seen as uncontroversial fact.

Explicit right-wing drivel like overt racism have no chance, thankfully. But having written a tech & politics column for 15 years in my native country, I can read my old stuff and see how my politics have developed. And while I have moved a bit on issues like diversity, I feel the tech community has moved somewhat in the opposite direction, or perhaps towards a sort of cynical, self-focused sort of populism.

To use one example that’s almost purely about technology: the GPL used to have many proponents in the slashdot era. These days, anything not MIT licensed is quickly derided as “socialism” or “against freedom”. The general understanding of issues also seems to have gone downhill. It appears, for example, that very people even understand the motivation behind GPL 3.0.
I believe it's less than people would think but from previous discussions on PWAs it seems to me, that mobile developers just dislike JavaScript and it's ecosystem, rather than PWAs in general.

And fair enough, I'm all for developers not being tied to a single language to develope apps. If my understanding is correct than WASM and WebGPU will allow for development of apps with any language of your liking and performance will only depend on how close to metal you can develop with said language.

I'm more of a JavaScript developer but I would be very interested in how developing web apps with Rust and WebGL would look like.
True, but those software engineers exist, and FAANG and FAANG-adjacent companies offer the work opportunities, prestige and salaries to attract those "twofer" engineers.
Here, we do all fermentations indoors.

Leaven is happy in a small jar, just let the cover on top, unscrewed to prevent pressure buildup. When stored in the fridge, you can screw the cover, only not too tightly.

Vegetable pickles are happy in a mason jar (or Le Parfait jar, in France), just open carefully a few times at the start of the fermentation to let the gas out.

We ferment kefir and kombucha for several days (kefir) or weeks (kombucha) at ambient temperature in a large (~2 litres) jar, covered in gauze to stop airborne contamination and flies.

I imagine fermenting things outdoors would be a bit more tricky, mainly because you need stop things bigger and smarter than fruit flies.
There's so much fear in the US of A :( And you don't have to be Yoda to realise what fear leads to...
we understand your point, please see also our comment above. we are extremely serious and cautious people, and have not even started communicating ourselves regarding the Gatwick project. Our robots are very real, and impressive according to the professionals & users knowing them. Kind regards, Stanley Robotics