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Why is it not good for heating? I'm sure resistance based electric heating is very efficient. I've lived in very cold places and the heat has almost always been electric or water heated by electric. You just need radiators. Northern European countries for example use that a lot and the temperatures are often as low as -22F. Of course they build to optimize for low temperatures unlike TX.
The Bel part felt deeply in tune with the rest of Paul's life - it's something he did because it was interesting to him and he wanted to.

If anything, Viaweb is the odd thing out, since it was pursued with the explicit intent of making money (though I expect the whole affair was fascinating from the inside anyway).

Not everything has to be evaluated in terms of its popularity, "success" or "impact".
I use it and I pay lower fees. You pay the price you deserve.
In which case, I'm even more confused at your complaint. There are a lot of things I don't like about modern web development, but it is unquestionably, absolutely easier than it was in the past.

I spend less time worrying about browser compatibility, I have better tools now for building things, Javascript is faster. And if I want use the old methods, they still work. You can still deploy a website today using mostly the same methodology that you did in the past.

But very little of that stuff was fun. I remember trying to absolute-position images on the page because CSS didn't reliably support border-radius. That wasn't fun. I remember wondering how to embed Flash into websites because I needed a completely separate language to do something that can be hammered out in a day in a Canvas now. That wasn't fun.

Building a website is way lower friction today than it used to be. It's just that we have higher standards today, many people over-complicate it more than they need to, and our understanding of what is easy and low-friction has evolved and we can more easily see the problems of modern web dev. What was easier to do in the past on the web than it is today. I can set up a static Netlify site to serve images in 5 or 10 minutes, it's drop-dead simple.

In terms of treating computers like tools, this is something I actually do agree with, and do agree that if you stick with mainstream tools you're going to continue to be frustrated in that area. Everyone is different, this is not a universal suggestion. But my minor suggestion is that what you're feeling is the same frustration that has made people like me get progressively more religious about Unix philosophy over the years.

This is maybe not useful advice, but I just spent the weekend configuring the i3 window manager on Linux to integrate with all of my applications and handle modal keybindings, and it is genuinely the most fun I've had on a computer in a while -- it's so well documented and easy to work with and flexible and controllable that it really did feel like just chaining everything together and trying things out and seeing what did and didn't feel good. i3 is an absolute joy to configure.

There are programs out there that don't fall into the data-silos you're frustrated with. Matrix is a fun protocol to build on top of if you're sick of Slack. Image viewers like sxiv are really composable, tmsu is enabling some really powerful workflows for me with how I manage files. I love that when I buy ebooks and load them into Calibre I can edit the layouts and fix typos directly in my ebook manager. There is a world out there of programs that work well together, that are designed to adapt to your preferences and then get out of your way. They're just often not the popular proprietary apps.
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Ahh, I see, power companies have simply failed their customers and certainly will receive their commupance.
Texas grid sucks. Deal with it. Everyone keeps pointing out its failings and you keep trying to defend it. Quit putting your head in the sand snowflake.
Yeah, "rolling outages" is a joke. I went 19 hours without power in GP&L territory yesterday and portions of my house were down below 40F when I went to bed around 9 PM last night. They finally decided to restore power in my neighborhood at 4 AM this morning.
> There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.

A nice prediction – note the frequency with which news organizations list quotes from Twitter in this capacity.
Yeah, this is the “safe” way to do speculative investing: when the asset price goes up, at one point or another you can take out your original investment, and the rest becomes “pure profit”. At that point the worst case scenario is that you break even.
Or just Yes.

That US blackout was completely isolated to the Northeast Power Coordinating Council (NPCC), all other regional grids where unaffected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_power_transmiss.... “The regions are not usually directly connected or synchronized to each other, but there are some HVDC interconnections.”

It’s just a question of cost. Regional grids could have more resiliency internally, but large blackouts are rare enough it’s not considered worth it.
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The documentation generator has recently acquired the ability to recognize Markdown, making it even easier. I was initially skeptical of Markdown, but after using it here and there became a fan.
I don't know why this comment was downvoted into oblivion as you hit the nail on the head. If there is one thing I can think of that separates memeing 20 years ago from memeing today its that todays memes are far more expressive -- as if they are used as a substitute for conversation or discourse -- than funny. It seems they are overwhelmingly trying to express emotions than be lighthearted or funny.

I'm part of several gaming subreddits that hold an overly hostile view of the game's developers, and the number of memes used to stab or jab at said devs outnumbers old-school "funny" memes or even the more contemporary "shared experience" memes practically two-to-one.

Plus, there are all these unwritten social rules about meme templates, and indeed they seem to have their own economy of sorts.

Take everything together and it seems that memes are serious business, which is stupid if you ask me. Memes are supposed to be funny and lighthearted!
That's a failing of gas furnaces. I don't know why you'd design a system without them except to breed dependency.
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I don't think that's even up for debate. As far as I'm concerned they have definitely met their goal.

I find it similar to the fact that, while I am thankful that the operator's manual for my toaster was written at a 4th grade reading level, I find it unlikely that anyone has that task in mind when they say they want to be a writer when they grow up.
Does it? Mine opens when I flip an electric switch, but it's self-powered via a thermopile on the pilot-- no AC connection whatsoever.

Some other models (from the same manufacturer as mine) don't have a standing pilot, but either use a battery as the primary ignition source, or use AC power but take batteries as a backup.
It does, and it creates a floor on the outside temperature where the heat from the stove is overcome by the losses of sucking in the cold air. This depends on the design of the stove. Some wood stoves pull down the firebox air from the outside to avoid this problem, but it is fairly unusual. There is a second heat exchanger with its own fan that circulates the inside air. The problem with this is that you still lose a lot of heat up the chimney.
my guess is because of the parallel startup that systemd does, what would the ctrl-c be stopping if there are multiple services coming up?
Not if they are in the attic. Also, my house has a subfloor. When the furnace and water heater were inside the part of the house you live in, they both had vents on the floor, so air used for combustion came from outside.
That's true to a degree. But I think it goes beyond that for many people. Many people are looking at the history (and present) of governments oppressing and taking military action against dissenting citizens (see Burma today, United States/Britain in the 1700s).

It goes beyond "disagreeable policies". There are real events that lead people to be distrustful of government.

Personally I think that not having trust in government and not allowing for an effective government because of that lack of trust is a critical problem. But it's not adequate to simply ignore the previous bad behavior of governments. There need to be some structural improvement to increase the credibility of trust.
They didn't say or ask if he turned into a misogynist. The question is about what he said. Not what he is.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/b0Ti-gkJiXc
Yeah, living here in Canada, when I read the temperatures I had to rub my eyes in disbelief. Temperatures of -30,-40C are by no means unheard of here but we know it will come every winter. I can't imagine a prolonged, unprepared for infrastructure failure, with houses getting down to minus territory indoors. Sounds terrible.
To clarify, that fan is electric and powered by a peltier (thermoelectric effect) device using heat from the stove.
That doesn't really follow though: the US is very good at restricting rights when it wants to without any need for tracking. You just make whatever it is illegal, make compliance a responsibility of the individual (think taxes), and heavily punish anyone found in breach.

The US could eliminate whole classes of guns today by this simple measure. After the first 100 people are charged with felony possession after open carry demonstrating with their AR-15's, how many do you think you'd really see in public? From people with jobs and mortgages who can't afford a criminal record? When the police departments get given bonus pay per weapon destroyed?

It won't be many.

Making things illegal is easy, and stomping most of them out is easy. The database problem is more to do with positive policies where you're trying to give something to citizens, whether it's money or passage onto an airline.
Markdown is like C and XML: Popular not because it's very easy to write a single-pass parser for, giving it widespread and universal use.
Except that wasn't Voltaire it was the economist Sir William Petty. In fact Voltaire made his fortune on the lottery. He found a exploit in the rules of the particular implementation of the lottery allowing him to guarantee a win and high pay out.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/05/how-voiltair...
GW is a unit of power, it’s not a unit that energy storage capacity can be measured in.
I remember learning AspectJ, and finally deciding it was a query language for your code.
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> But even they understand intuitively that a database is the first step toward any policy that will threaten gun rights.

It's not just, that. Having a database of guns and gun owners is goldmine for would-be thieves looking to score some firearms.
I'm saying that I can't eat french fries everyday, but once in say 15 days isn't so bad. That isn't true of Benzene. Prop 65 would warn you to abstain from many things, many things that need more science.
There are designs that do this or things like it. In the US, though, it seems fireplaces are mostly an aesthetic feature and not a practical one.
Is simulation time continuous or discrete? If there is only 1x forward speed for simulation time, perhaps relativity could continue to work, as that fixed single speed would be discrete (speed of light).

I'm not sure how to postulate this idea further, but I've had it for years.
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I agree, I would not have either. But my present financial philosophy for such things is to always sell half (and only half).
Oh, in Spirit's/Opportunity's case, that was 90 days (if memory serves me). So, they were successful beyond the wildest dreams. Curiosity, too.
Posted by Luke Legate: Texas Public Affairs at G. Fox Consulting. Energy. Pipelines. Small Biz

https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/feb/16/natural-gas-n...

> The numbers show that natural gas plants were the biggest cause of the power shortfall, not wind.

> The state’s grid operator said Feb. 15 that about 34 gigawatts of power were offline. But of that, about 4 gigawatts was due to problems with wind turbines. The rest came mainly from the state’s primary sources, natural gas and coal.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/matt-canavans-faked-wind-meme-is...

> Importantly, Legate’s biography on Twitter says “Texas Public Affairs at G. Fox Consulting. Energy. Pipelines. Small Biz #grassroots.” G Fox Consulting’s clients include industry lobby groups ‘American Natural Gas Alliance’ and the ‘Texas Oil and Gas Association’. Legate himself has been on speaking tours to promote fossil fuels. “Increasingly, more and more, it is more of a challenge representing the benefits of the oil and gas business because there are some people who do not want the oil and gas business. There are a lot of activists and groups and candidates for office all across the country who want to stop all fossil fuels,” he said in 2019.

https://earther.gizmodo.com/viral-image-claiming-to-show-a-h...

> Viral Image Claiming to Show a Helicopter De-Icing Texas Wind Turbines Is From Winter 2014 in Sweden
> Yes, they would. The lottery is about giving up something of little value ($1 or $2) for some entertainment and the chance at a truly life-changing situation.

It is expected that that one or two dollars is more likely to result in a life changing situation if saved and properly invested - this is difficult in the modern world since a lot of large institutions are out to short-change the little guys but it still remains true.

I can easily see the value proposition of regular casino gambling - you're slowly losing money for the experience - but for the lottery your money is being transformed into a ticket that is, essentially, worthless.

I am strongly morally opposed to the lottery as a form of government income supplement since spending on lotteries tends to be weighted toward lower income and is extracting revenue from those less able to bear it. Lotteries are an extremely regressive tax.

That all said I think the EV of a lottery ticket is probably quite a bit higher than Starbucks and those sell gangbusters. A lot of our society is oriented toward exploiting addiction.
In that specific example I can’t think of any good reason for the government to track who has which gun other than to (one day) take them away. And we all know that criminals are the ones that wouldn’t be in there at all.
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This is a very old problem and there are solutions, like the Franklin stove [1]. However, we don’t really use fireplaces as a primary source of heat anymore. Their use is really more decorative. If they were really intended for heat generation, so one of the other posts mentioned, we would use a completely different design.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_stove
I'm not sure this is a truly "black swan" event. Cold fronts that bring snow and cold temperatures to Texas are becoming more and more frequent. This is simply the worst one so far.
>Basically: politics and healthcare scaling are interesting topics but quite irrelevant to the Covid pandemic response.

If politics and healthcare scaling capacity are irrelevant to the covid pandemic response, why are politicians basing their covid pandemic responses on their local healthcare's scaling capacity?
The problem of D GC is it doesn't scale at all

The more pointers you need to scan, the slower it becomes, and it'll stop all threads

It's fine for a compiler or a cli tool, but it's very bad for anything that runs forever and needs to scale (server and games, specially networked games where the world and number of entities is not fixed) you then need to think about managing your memory and working around the GC a lot; then you think about yourself, why use GC at all..

D needs invest more into non GC stuff and making the GC trully optional, make it possible to link the GC away if you don't need it, make the runtime less dependent on GC (ability to statically make GC usages assert such as 'new', rework associative array, and cleanup the runtime from requiring GC, thread, socket etc etc etc)

I use D everyday, i know how to deal with that kind of issue, but new people don't, and they might be turned off the day they need to workaround GC issues
The world needs to move to lifestyles that use less energy, not more, even if that means giving up things some people consider important. I thought that was the purpose of Tesla. Sure, maybe waiting for an electric car to charge isn't as convenient as filling up at a gas station, but it's worth doing for the planet.

Personally, I have purposefully chosen to live in a tiny apartment, in one of the few parts of the US where I'm not required to own a car at all. My iPhone 6S is six years old and I have no plans to replace it, and just yesterday I wrote an email to my building imploring them to turn down our heat, because opening windows in the middle of winter to stay cool is a terrible waste of energy.

I'm not perfect. I'm not a vegetarian, I don't buy carbon offsets, and I make use of Amazon's inefficient two-day shipping. And I'm not asking anyone else to go sell their cars. But would giving up Bitcoin really decrease your quality of life so much?
So value is only a result of demand for USD but when it comes to BTC that doesn't apply?
Show HN: CSV Lint – The easiest yet most secure CSV file validation service
CSV Lint is the easiest / no coding required, yet most secure CSV file validation service on the internet, it specializes in validating large size CSV files against user-defined validation rules / schemas efficiently and securely.

Here's a short video intro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNc8O5b1dfM

The story of CSV Lint.

One of my friend, part of his job in the company, is to receive CSV files from clients, and then import those files into an internal system. Often times, the files he received does not match the requirement, missing columns, or incompatible data types etc, he has to go back and ask his client to redo and re-send the files, he tried using Excel automate the process, but failed cause most of the files are really big (300+Mb with 1M+ rows).

There's few similar services out there, but they all require uploading files to their server, which is a big no no for my friend, no matter how secure those services claim themselves to be. That's also where CSV Lint shins the most, it process files by thunks locally in the browser, nothing goes to the "cloud".

No sign up required, everything can be done at https://csvlint.com/online-validator

Happy building :)

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I create tiny web apps for fun and profile ( hopefully )
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Maybe many under-informed retail investors are chasing 10x growth, sure, but it feels like the larger institutions mentioned here are doing it likely the same reason they invest in any other asset: diversification.
But... why? Doesn’t all this seem needlessly complex? How are users better served by adding complexity to the front end?

Certainly there are complex UIs that require sophisticated front ends, but you probably aren’t building one, even though you’ve convinced yourself it’s necessary.
Most gun violence is gang violence, and the incentive model you are describing doesn't apply to those committing gang violence.
Natural gas doesnt really freeze, so something else is going on here.

Misleading text in linked article:
"We didn’t run out of natural gas, but we ran out of the ability to get natural gas. Pipelines in Texas don’t use cold insulation – so things were freezing."
Many sofas produce toxic formaldehyde.

> There's also the correlation of various VOCs with long-term health risks. Do you think that is just stress as well?

Some VOCs are toxic. Perfumes are not. You can look up their safety data sheets.
Perfect. Thanks for the vote. I’m diving into his blog posts, seems to be a lot there on both the blog/tutorial and con video side.
Resistance heating is 100% efficient and therefore basically the least-efficient method. Heat pumps have coefficients of performance well over 1.0, even when the outside air is below zero degrees.
I remember that. What an awful winter.
Putting art galleries online?
yeah its not, its just still invite only lol

I got on last summer and it worked better in the smaller "club house" style

its just a fireside chat app, or "live podcasting" or whatever

some utility for some

but even back last summer, people had these cringy "I'm a millionaire like everyone else" bio, that didn't make any sense then and doesn't make any sense now
So in this, does the definition of "World" include both West coast and East coast? What about Hawaii and Alaska?
Big Sur is a huge step in the wrong direction. And there were links here on HN to posts that explained it better than I'll ever do. In short: there were many changes that only considered the looks, without ever thinking about actual usability. Then the fact that this overall touch-ification of the UI has now plagued macOS as well just saddens me. If nothing changes, in several years we'll lose the last mainstream OS that had a proper desktop UI made for keyboards and mice.

You know what was the best thing they could've done to the macOS UI? Leave it alone.
>Our DR plan didn’t really account for all of our staff being on the same power grid

Yup. I hear you loud and clear.
cat /proc/iomem on an installed Linux; note how everything is crammed into 32-bit addresses. Also,

http://opensource.rock-chips.com/images/e/ee/Rockchip_RK3399...

Page 13 ("1.1 Address Mapping") - same thing, everything crammed into 32bit.

PCIe Aperture is documented in TRM Part 2:

https://www.t-firefly.com/download/Firefly-RK3399/docs/TRM/R...

Page 711 - and I misremembered, it's 64MB total in 1×32MB + 32×1MB blocks. For comparison, my 6 year old server has 64GB PCI aperture space on each of its 2 sockets, my Laptop has 16GB. (Obviously both >32bit address spaces... which the RK3399 really should be too, but isn't.)

MSI is blacklisted in the Linux kernel somewhere if I remember correctly; it just randomly loses interrupts.

P.S.: Address space doesn't need to make a 32->64bit jump, my laptop CPU has 39bit, my server has 46bit; even 36bit (like old Intel 32bit PAE) would've been sufficient on the RK3399. But 32bit isn't.

P.P.S.: the PCI aperture size is the most obviously a problem when you try to plug in a GPU. E.g.:

0c:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Baffin [Radeon RX 550 640SP / RX 560/560X] [1002:67ff] (rev cf) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
...
Region 0: Memory at 900000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4G]
Region 2: Memory at 880000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=2M]
Region 4: I/O ports at f000 [size=256]
Region 5: Memory at f7e00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
...
Capabilities: [200 v1] Physical Resizable BAR
BAR 0: current size: 4GB, supported: 256MB 512MB 1GB 2GB 4GB

This GPU actually allows you to reduce the size it needs, but the absolute minimum you can set it to is 256MB...

The real problem is that PCI address space is not normally a scarce resource, and some RAID controllers & network cards (particularly high-performance/server ones) use a random bunch of it (>= 128MB) , and that's not even starting on SR-IOV. And these requirements aren't well documented because PCI memory space is not normally a problem. If you're lucky you can google "<card name> lspci", if not you only notice after you bought the card...