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A previous comment on HN went something along the lines of "what is going to happen in the summer when we've built solar/wind/etc to fulfill this winter months needs?"

I started researching energy storage. Creating liquid fuels from electricity would be handy for storage. There are processes, but getting CO2 and H2 to create hydrocarbons is currently very energy intensive. On the CO2 side, I think biogas can help this out. biogas is 25-50% CO2. In biogas upgrading, CO2 is considered a waste product (with purer methane the desired output). CO2 from this source looks noticeably less energy intensive than direct air capture.

I know biogas can be done on the small scale (e.g. homebiogas.com). My research focused especially on liquid fuel creation that could work in someone's backyard. I haven't found it. "High‐Selectivity Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 to Ethanol using a Copper Nanoparticle/N‐Doped Graphene Electrode" [0] was an exciting find, dampened after reading how well ethanol stores.

I mostly became convinced that existing oil, gas, and chemical companies will maintain dominance producing many of the same outputs, from a different (renewable) set of inputs.

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I often say people underestimate the value they get from paying taxes into welfare programs. The class conflict they prevent is invaluable especially if you're a person who owns property in or near a major city.
Obviously the CTWC players are on a whole other level. But for anyone interested in competitive Tetris who has not yet done so, I highly recommend trying Tetris 99 for the Nintendo Switch. It's a free download with a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, although there are some features locked behind a paywall (such as the classic "Marathon" mode). It makes the subscription worthwhile all by itself.

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Not necessarily. If you ask most investors, they usually will boil down an early-stage investment to "I invested in this team".
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I don't think anybody is pro or con "regulation" in the abstract. People disagree over whether specific regulations are good or bad.

Example: I live in DC and there's been recent controversy with the Historic Preservation Review Board essentially thinking solar panels are ugly. It's legit to have regulations regarding the appearance of homes if those neighborhoods want them, but at the same time is short-sighted to block solar panels. I'm sure you're for some regulations and not others, no reason to make this ideological.
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Text rendering is extremely difficult. Even today, Chrome/Firefox are not fully hardware accelerated on this front.

https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/
Hi, I'm a primary maintainer of 'django-stubs'. We're going to release new version with mypy==0.750 and Django 3.0 support soon.
Could you create an issue for your 'client.force_login' problem?

> I also had issues with ‘from django.conf import settings’ not being the correct type so I’d suggest changing that to ‘Any’.

This one also has plugin support, and should be working mostly correct. Fill the issue if you can reproduce, I'd love to help with that.

What's your experience with that whole "plugin has to actually run django.setup() before typecheck" thing?
I work from home one day a week, and honestly, I'm not sure I'd want to do more than a day or two each week. It's my most productive day by far, but the isolation feels unsustainable for me.
If you’re in the hacking mode - what do you think of taking the Django orm and grafting it onto fast api - sort of like a stand-alone sqlalchemy but with all the ease and power or django’s querysets...
If it is a "drop-in replacement" the rust compiler should be able to compile C code - it can't.
Also important was mechanized spinning of thread. https://www.sleuthsayers.org/2013/06/the-3500-shirt-history-... cites making a shirt in the middle ages as 7 hours of hand-sewing, 42 hours of hand-weaving, and 500+ hours of hand-spinning. https://thefreelancehistorywriter.com/2015/10/23/was-medieva... has much higher estimates of spinning rates, but would still result in at least 40 hours of spinning (9000 yards from that first post divided by the 200 m/hr very generous overestimate from the second post; estimates of spinning speed seem to vary _very_ widely).

One difference, of course, is that weaving was much more centralized to start with (spinning needed next to no machinery and a lot less training), so the economic impacts were very different.
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That's quite catchy. But nonetheless, people can "cover" by renting or buying. And in particular, to the degree that mortgage payments are greater than the equivalent rent, one is indeed investing in the real estate market. This is often good, but it can actually turn out much worse than (say) simply parking the money in an index fund.
Still living in the 2000s, I see.
Lmao Intel is completely fucked. The only thing sad about this is that I still can't find a Ryzen 9 3950x anywhere!!!!
Yes it does, and almost everything else will have performance issues except assembly. With web services, chances are that you'll hit other bottlenecks before you hit it. In python you have multiple ways to optimize performance, for example use PyPy, or various libraries like Cython that compile your performance sensitive code.

That's how asyncpg can outperform[1] some libraries that you normally would think was not possible.

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How many lines of code? (old/new)
>Explicit stock OpenVPN support. You kind of do this, but it's still difficult or off-putting for non-technical users to figure out which config to grab and how to install the stock client. On your setup page, make sure you're providing a link to the stock (windows) openvpn client and install instructions for Mac and major linux distros, so that people who don't trust your binary blob installer can use the generic one

I'm going to go on a limb and say that the intersection between "people who don't trust the stock client" and "people who don't know about the stock openvpn client and how to set it up" is very small.
China's growth was the result of uncoordinated market activity of private actors. They switched systems.

I don't think Romania and Hawaii form an apples-to-apples comparison.

Romania: a country in Europe, occupied by the Soviets after World War II, with 16 million people. Neighbors Hungary, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, and the Black Sea.

Hawaii: a U.S. territory for half a century, with 620 thousand people. Noted for its proximity to Johnston atoll (825 miles from Honolulu), Midway Island (1311 miles), and San Francisco (2393 miles).
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> Regardless of the acquiring company's motivation, being acquired is one of the textbook criteria for a successful startup.

Depends on the acquisition price. Acquihires are failures. Investors might get their money back, and everyone else (including founders) walks away with nothing but a job at some company they didn’t necessarily want to work for.
I completely agree, I just don't see in what possible way does Kape help with that.

Even if they start doing more outreach (doubt Kape helps much there but say they do) now the messages are just going to be tainted with 'yeah, dont trust those guys' comments when a user looks into it.
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stylised way of asking how long it took
This has seemed to me to be a key problem for the European tech industry. A few seemingly minor structural differences mean there is very little domestic VC available. Those are:

1. In the U.S., there are many pension funds that put some of their money into venture investment. In general in Europe it is illegal for a pension fund to invest in such risky assets at all.

2. In the U.S. there are many more private foundations and private universities that have large investment funds, and some of this gets put into VC. For a variety of reasons, there aren't many large private foundations and there are few private universities with large endowments.

If I were doing industrial policy in a European country, the first thing I would do is to start to invest a couple percent of the state pension funds into VC like vehicles. Given how underinvested it is, the returns should be great, and the extra economic activity should help the fiscal health of their economies a lot.
To me the word spy and the term ex-intel paint a very different picture of the person being described.
When I realized this guy was just in the 8200 unit I literally giggled at the notion that all those 18 year old nerds are all spooky spies.
The point is that you don't try to cover all bases, just certain broad categories. Any product manufacturer that wants to avoid hassle can just not do shady things in those ways at all and then they don't need to worry about it at all.

The experience with GDPR in the EU so far seems to have been that the clear elements were generally felt to be reasonable, and businesses that weren't doing shady things would already have been in compliance with most of them anyway. The problems with GDPR have more been around ambiguity and the unnecessary and sometimes disproportionate red tape imposed even on "good actors". It was a similar story with the slightly earlier update to EU consumer protection rules.

I don't see why we couldn't learn from experiences like those and develop a reasonable regulatory regime for devices with embedded sensors and/or connectivity.

No external connectivity? Nothing to disclose. External connectivity? Do you use a customer-defined network connection or establish your own (and if so, how)? What's your policy on providing security updates? What guaranteed minimum support period are you offering, and what will happen to the device past the end of that period? Maybe if you or any of your business's officers or controlling interests have been responsible for a serious breach in the past, you also have to disclose that with prominence that reflects the recency and severity of the failure, so being careless about security becomes a sticky and toxic label rather than just a lawsuit that is a cost of doing business.

Not depending on outside services? No need to disclose. Depending on outside services? You need to state a minimum period where you guarantee your device/functionality will keep working, whether each outside service is under your control, what identifiable data is changing hands, what will happen to the device if each external service is changed or discontinued, etc.

Not including any sensors of defined categories (camera, microphone, location, etc.)? No need to disclose. Including sensors? You need to state how to tell whether they are in use, whether you provide a physical switch to disable them that software can't override, what they are used for, whether any data they collect could be transferred off the device, etc.

I don't see anything unreasonable about this, because anyone making such devices is going to be spending considerable time and money to include those sensors, that connectivity, or that use of outside services, so there's no credible claim that they don't (or shouldn't) know exactly what is going on. Requiring a few lines of specific details to be provided in a standardised format under the sorts of specific conditions I mentioned above doesn't seem either unrealistic or disproportionate as we move into a world where more and more devices do come with some or all of these three liabilities.
Personally, I find having a space dedicated to work helps tremendously with this. When I am in my "office" at home, I am working. When I leave the office, I am not working.

Having that separation helps me "leave work" when it is technically at the same location. It does also require a good bit of discipline because it is easy to slip back into work at any point in the day.

Many argue that you should "work when you feel like it" but I personally find that leads to burn out. If I can keep a regiment that I don't deviate much/at all from, I am mentally healthier.
An additional angle is that the state is well and truly out of money and running out of lenders, yet continues to see the number of poor and their related costs increase.

One way to offset growth in welfare expenses might be to permit poor people some way to directly steal with impunity, thus they can still somehow be fed, while simultaneously reducing attendant enforcement costs and prison populations.
Yeah, that is pretty wild.

Bjoern, I saw you're located in Germany — does any of the neobanks help you solve this? I guess switching bank don't solve the problem of getting your old data though, even if it would make it easier to get hold of _future_ records.
>like growing GDP at 1-2% a year, within some few thousand years you've grown bigger than all the resources

Increased GDP does not require consuming more resources. Using them more efficiently adds significantly to GDP, so this argument doesn't provide a rationale to claim infinite GDP growth is impossible.

A good example is many advanced economies have increased per capita GDP significantly while lowering per capita energy consumption at the same time (and lowering many other per capita material consumption areas).
>(because on the contrary, if you could buy bonds yielding 5% why would you hold rental properties that yield less before maintenance?)

Because you're able to get a mortgage for lower interest than that?
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> You think literally millions of people are sneaking across the southwest desert

No, even without the later qualifications; unique illegal border crossers aren't that high, and aren't all “sneaking across the southern desert”. It's not 2000 anymore.
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The pile-on exists largely because one of the founders is a woman and HN is bigoted af.
I don’t think this statement is correct.For example Qt has been doing declarative with QML for years.
When I tried them a year ago, they used "Any" a lot, especially around the ORM code (Django) and the serializers (DRF). Since those are also the parts where type checking would be the most interesting, I didn't find a lot of value in using them.
I don't know about everyone else but I personally read a lot of HN and I probabbly remember a handful of people's names whose articles I have read.
How narcissistic is this?
It's probably what they did with C#, starting from Java. I don't think there will be any compatibility, only high level similarity.
> Once you lose a capability it’s gone forever. That is why countries cling desperately to domestic steel, shipbuilding, arms and other industries. Once the institutional knowledge is gone and the infrastructure is gone it’s never coming back. And other countries whose interests may not align with your own have you over a barrel.

Not exactly: that's only true if you let neoliberal economists set your economic policy.

Countries like China recently gained those industrial capabilities, and the reason for that is not just because they have access to cheaper labor. More importantly, they have industrial policy that prioritizes the development of domestic industry.

Nothing fundamental prevents Western democracies (perhaps collectively) from implementing industrial policies that prioritize industrial development rather than stuff like finance in its ever more byzantine forms [1].

[1] I read somewhere that financial development is only really beneficial up to a point. Past that point, it actually does more harm than good.
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> Bryan was one of the O.G. Sun engineers

From Bryan's linked blog post - he joined Sun in the mid-90's. Sun was founded in 1982, so he was an (excellent) engineer there, but not one the "O.G.s"
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Bryan Cantrill recently interviewed Arthur Whitney, as discussed in another thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671918
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No where on their website can I find what they are about, how their product adds business value, what makes them different from everyone else selling snake oil... basically nothing.. just some flashy graphics, 10$ words and a company name that makes me think of oxidation (literally rust).. this reeks of marketing.
Their customers absorb the costs. Always.
MSBuild assumes you want a 1-to-1 relation between projects and assemblies, so assemblies and projects are interchangeable. There is no hybrid C#/F# compiler than can produce one assembly out of source code from both languages, so you’ll always need at least 2 compilers to be involved, hence the need to have a csproj and an fsproj side by side in your code base.

Regardless, major kudos for your rewrite!
very few linguists are prescriptivists. Grammatical rules have always (only) emerged from use, and language is expected to evolve through the decades.
How were they stopped if bottles were allowed?
Amazon lets doctors record your conversations and put them in your medical files
Netflix famously moved their infrastructure from their own data centres to AWS.